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  1. There's one thing that doesn't seem to be mentioned: Byleth doesn't get as much support points on battlefield compared to others, so adjutant grinding should be reserved for others and Byleth should focus on spamming gifts and sharing meals.

    Also, on the topic of gifts, note that only one of each gift items can be bought per month, and they do not accumulate (i.e. you cannot buy 2 of the same gift just because you didn't buy it the last month).

  2. My initial reaction was "oh, yeah, the Hero class. I completely forgot."

    One big reason is that I'm very skewed towards magic users, but in cases where I do want to raise on-foot physical units, I'd just go for Brigand/Warrior for axe users, and Assassin for sword users. I also don't recall anyone ever retaining their original character models when reclassing to Hero.

  3. I like it, mostly because I like mages. Having each of them function differently and having replenishable spells really makes me welcome them even more. And totally not because their range can be increased to up to 5

    That said, I think there are still merits for having tomes as exchangeable items like in most other games. One problem mages have is that spells have rather low durability, which introduces slight problems in longer battles like the final chapters.

  4. On 9/28/2019 at 10:20 AM, Sentinel07 said:

    I'm not sure if this really counts but one of my favorite moments in the game is one of the rare times Bernadetta isn't in her room, and is in fact at the cemetery

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    following Jeralt's death.

    All the other characters are going about their usual routine for the most part and here is the little recluse actually going out to put some flowers. Honestly, it's one of those moments that put her even higher on my list of favorite characters.

    Speaking of Bernadetta, she isn't in her room for the whole Crimson Flower route (except the first month? I don't remember). I think this is because in that route, the Empire always has the monastery, so she would have plenty of time in her room, and she's probably less afraid to go outside. In other routes, she was glad to have returned to her room after five years of missing it, and spent notably more time inside. Nice detail there.

  5. I have a hard time saying what what's my favourite game. Every single Fire Emblem has to do something that makes it feel imperfect.

    In each individual aspect, Three Houses always falls short of something. Limited class options, greatly changing what weapon ranks are for (there are no S weapons, and you learn weapon types before changing class, not after), inheriting a significant portion of that good old Gaiden weirdness, and so on. I enjoy the worldbuilding, but I'm not a fan of that "you can't save everyone no matter how hard you try" helplessness (that's also in Fates), even though it's sensible given the background story.

    But on the other hand, I do like how characters feel much less single-trait compared to Awakening and Fates and even the older games, how voice acting and (very limited) character model animations improve the support conversations (but seriously, what's with that outdated graphics?), and in terms of personal preference, I can make mages and archers completely dominate over everything again, and they're even more broken than in Echoes. Everything is also pretty well-put together, and it's relatively easy to "complete" (getting all parent-child combinations for support in Fates was a huge nightmare).

    Overall, I'd say this is almost my favourite main series Fire Emblem. I still like Radiant Dawn and probably The Sacred Stones more, but it's very high in my books, even though it has all kinds of imperfections (but all FE games do).

    17 hours ago, Fire Brand said:

    Yes, that's exactly how it feels. Everyone else is enjoying the game, and I just feel like a killjoy over here, haha. I even got a switch to play 3H, as it got hyped so much as the lovechild of Tellius and FE4. 

    I see very little Tellius in this one. Gameplay-wise, it resembles Echoes the most. Combat arts are back, promotion paths are unequal (Gaiden hates mages, while Three Houses has too few on-foot options), we get long-range bows and magic again, and magic even works like Gaiden, minus the HP consumption part (which makes everything more broken). Thematically, I see next to nothing in common between Fódlan and Tellius.

  6. 4 hours ago, Okigen said:

    So I recruited Shamir a few chapters after Cyril and she is 1 level lower than him but beated him in most stats with an A rank bow to boot.

    I'm so salty. I thought my Cyril was rgn blessed when he had 6 stats increased every level, but apparently that base is hard to salvage...

    Anyway, I've never used Cyril before this run so just wanted to ask if it's worth keeping him in the long run? 

    In my case, I dropped him pretty quickly in my first (Azure Moon) run because I became more interested in the students. He wasn't exactly good stat-wise; at least, that was my impression after trying him for a few chapters before deciding to drop him.

    Not a fan of Aptitude characters to begin with, since they could have just given them good growths without wasting that personal skill slot.

  7. I'm going to say that Leonie actually makes sense in BE. If recruited, she'd say in Chapter 12 that she's aware of Jeralt's distrust in the church.

    Not sure about Lysithea before the timeskip, since while she and Edelgard have similar backstories, they take completely different approaches in life after the incidents. One is hell bent on destroying everything crests stand for even at the cost of other people's and her own lives, while the other is determined to live life to the fullest and is generally forgiving to those who offend her out of ignorance (see her B+ with Lorenz, for example). It makes sense to recruit her after the timeskip, given that Claude told her to surrender.

  8. Don't know if I can ask story questions here or if it's been asked before, but here goes:

    In New Game+, if I visit the Holy Tomb via amiibo Gazebo in Chapter 11, I'd encounter 

    Spoiler

    Byleth

    there. Is there any (either explicit or implied) story reason for this? I doubt it, seeing how New Game+ also has Byleth's Journal and the Crest items.

    (My headcanon explanation is that all these involve off-screen alternae timeline travel, Atelier Lulua-style.)

  9. I don't know how would OP count it, but:

    • Remove Range+1 class skill for Archer
    • Remove Range+1 class skill for Sniper
    • Remove Range+2 class skill for Bow Knight

    ...I personally don't want to actually do these since I love being overpowered, but OP is asking for balance changes.

    Actually, if I'm to make the game more balanced, I'd also remove the range+1 skills for reaching S in faith and reason (or at least move them to S+ and give faire to S instead), and rework both range-up staves to some other effects. Being able to hit from afar really makes any risks magic and bow users have much less pronounced. I'd still remove the class skills first, since reaching S weapon rank isn't exactly easy.

    Not that I'd really complain; bow and magic users are my favourite type of units.

  10. I'm fine with Part 1 staying mostly the same. I wish they introduce more variations, like being given different assignments to discover different things; but even without those, just the fact that you're talking to different students is enough to drive me to try other routes. I do wish the church route isn't branched from Black Eagles, though, since in that case you really are repeating 11 chapters.

    I do wish Part 2 was longer. It's much shorter despite being a major war, with lots of implied battles not played out. It also feels weird to spend a year training, and then just 8 months to conquer the entire Fódlan. Like how does that even work?

  11. I got someone not mentioned here!

    Quote

    What is your biggest fear?

     Never being able to reach your own standards
     Living a dull, boring and uneventful life
     Being hated by someone you love
     Being forgotten after death

    Well, I fear none of these, so what should I pick? (I picked the third)

    I got:

    Ashe

    You’re kind, free-spirited, and though not exactly a social butterfly, you’re not introverted either. People often say talking to you isn’t tiring, which attracts people to you — whether introvert or extrovert. You take pleasure in routine and the simple things in life — reading, gardening, walks in the parks. You’re probably a dummy romantic too, and fantasise about someone holding your hand on a dinner date. Regardless, people rarely say bad things about you because you don’t about them, and you’re always happy to help on a rainy day.

    I don't think this sounds like me at all…

     

  12. 2 hours ago, Hauke said:

    I like how every one here completelly ignores the profiles which means technically we have more than 5 slots... even if it was already mentioned. We have 5 slots per player/profil. In Fates we had 9 safe slots for everyone who uses the cartridge. So if you have a sibling or wife/husband everyone will only have 4,5 safe slots. If you have two other people everyone will only have three slots.

    Not really ignoring it, but rather this isn't useful as far as I am concerned, since I use save files to jump to different playthroughs rather than as a means to share the game with other people. Saves aren't transferrable between users, nor do different users' saves affect the Extras menu like support conversation viewer and the event viewer.

    Also, the extra save slots in Fates are saved to the 3DS's SD card, not the game card itself. I don't know what would happen if I try to start Fates in a different 3DS system.

    17 minutes ago, link16hit said:

    because dev are lazy.

    I mean look at pokémon, they never did more than 1 save slot

    But there was a reason. in the NES era, games data was little as like 1MB or less (mario was 40KB IIRC?) and it was costy to get more data.

    FE2 had 2 save slots IIRC, FE3 had 3, FE4 had 4, FE5 is 3 until path of radiance 5, Radiant dawn 6, THEN on DS 3...Fates is 9 max (3 per route?). Then TH brings back 5 + autosave

    I think FE1 had 2 slots too?

    I think 3 saves is just enough for single-timeline games (which is most of them), but for games with branches (Sacred Stones, Fates, Three Houses), they really should have gone the route of 3 saves per route. And only Fates did so.

  13. I don't really have a particularly strong opinion on the music of this game. I generally like it, but I have a hard time pronouncing this my favourite Fire Emblem in terms of music. Echoes is a strong contender.

    I'd say Chasing Daybreak the best, among map themes. The Apex of the World is also great. And in all cases, I actually like the map themes more than the battle themes, because the battle themes actually remove the melody this time.

  14. 2 hours ago, Humanoid said:

    Probably simple inertia. A lot of what Nintendo (and particularly the FE franchise) does seems to be because of a "that's how we've always done it" attitude.

    God, I remember playing early Microprose games like Civilization and Railroad Tycoon and they only had four save slots on the hard drive. Buuuuut, it also had a drive selector so you could use any number of floppy disks and save four games to each of them. Maybe one day Nintendo will discover the wondrous benefits of this type of technology.

    Look at the Paper Mario series. Went from 4 save files in the old games to... 1 in Color Splash. Ugh.

    Nintendo is being way too stubborn with this kind of stuff. With the exception of GameCube and Wii (and even so, not all games), they don't even allow save data backup to offline media.

    4 hours ago, Mjolnir said:

    I know that older school FEs had very few save slots (the last one I played was 776 which had two), but IIRC some newer ones had more. My memory is terrible when it comes to stuff like this so I could very well be wrong. Precedent notwithstanding, there's no technical reason to limit the player to 5 slots is there? So why do so?

    I find this very limiting since I like to keep many saves for various reasons. Thankfully you can save your endgame data over the old ones and the playthroughs still stack, but it would be nicer to have at least 10 if not 20 slots.

    Is it theoretically possible that the number of slots could be increased in a future update?

    From what I believe, yes. On Nintendo Switch, version information is saved to the save data, preventing players from loading save data from a newer version of the game.

    A lot of games offer a large number of save data slots. The Atelier series and Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE come to mind. It's weird to see only 5 slots in Three Houses, especially since Fire Emblem Fates provided 3 slots per route. Following this logic, shouldn't Three Houses give 12?

  15. 13 hours ago, Soulless Curve said:

    Okay so I need an answer about NG++. So when I finish my current new game plus playthrough, will I be able to use my renown to buy support for the house member from my original playthrough even if I did not recruit them in new game plus? Like can I start a new game plus file off of my new game plus file and everything pretty much carries over from my first two playthroughs to my third?

    Yes. You get to unlock all supports (and skill ranks / class mastery) that you have previously unlocked, regardless of which playthrough it is. You can get something naturally in a 1st playthrough and buy it with renown in the 3rd.

  16. I believe for games published by Nintendo in all regions (which Fire Emblem: Three Houses is), the game itself is the same. What is dependent on your region is your Nintendo account. If you have a UK account, you'll be accessing the UK eShop and paying in UK prices. The downloaded item should still work with any version of system and game.

    Note that Lunatic will be added in a future update, which has nothing to do with the paid DLC.

  17. I'd prefer male Byleth because the story seems to be written with a male Byleth in mind. I also like his design better. (Side note, I prefer female Robin and male Corrin, because of their children's names.)

    Personally, I wish S support is available for everyone, as far as its use as a game mechanic is concerned. It can be used for overriding the paired endings of the character concerned, and non-romantic S supports are a thing anyway.

    37 minutes ago, eclipse said:

    Male Byleth gets better marriage options IMO.  I refuse to marry the students on principle, which doesn't leave female Byleth with many choices (no I'm not touching Alois, he's married).

    Can you even marry Alois? He's already married, and he shows no sign of ever wanting to change that fact.

  18. This is very useful, thanks!

    Good to know what I don't have to avoid viewing A/A+ altogether for pairings other than the ones I want to see endings of.

    6 hours ago, MrPerson0 said:

    As for how many support points is raised with non-Byleth pairs, it's hard to say. I'm guessing somewhere between 8 to 12 per action in battle (for Byleth pairs, I believe it's 1), but I have yet to do testing on that. With sharing meals, it's likely much higher since it's higher for Byleth.

    I'm under the impression that sharing meals is an effective way to raise supports. I got a few non-Byleth A supports without ever bringing them to battles.

     

  19. My reaction to bad level ups is the same as what I did in Echoes: If there aren't many enemies left, turn back time, don't use that unit for the rest of the battle, and try again in the next battle. If I'm in turn 1, reset the game (L+R+Start+Select comes in handy; huge thanks to whoever decided to bring this shortcut back) for a new RNG seed. I accept the level up whenever she gets at least 3 stats total or at least 1 defensive stat (HP, Def, Res).

    I never had much problem with using Lysithea, who I didn't even recruit until part 2 and didn't really use until I realized she's this game's magical cannon two chapters later. I still got her to a respectable 32 Res (I think) and 55 Mag at level 50. Other units I actively use are at level 47.

    My only complaints gameplay-wise are that she has no Thoron or long-ranged magic, and that dark spells in general have very limited durability.

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