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@Cysx You're right, they are using bows while in the thief's battalion. Maybe they're generic troops or something. They also appear in Petra's battalion and wield swords, so they appear to be capable of using multiple types of weapons.
The mystery class we saw for a few seconds and were theorizing about actually appears to be a palette swap of the troops in Bernadetta's battalion and the enemy that Petra faced off against.
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They wield bows when they're with Bernadetta, and the enemy wields a sword. They're probably not an advanced class like I thought if Bernadetta can use them. (Though why are Bernadetta's red and Byleth's red + white? )
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5 hours ago, Cysx said:
You're right, we did see them before... it's interesting. I wonder if it's because out of all the characters we've seen, Byleth is the only one that's probably not a Noble/Trainee, resulting in his troops looking a bit more advanced. The females could pass as myrmidons for sure, though the males are a bit too bulky, so... maybe mercenaries instead?
I don't think they're mercenaries. I think the guy to the right of Dimitri is a mercenary. (Though I'm judging pretty much solely on the fact that they have a metal headband like the generic mercenaries did in the 3ds games. They also wield swords like the class in Byleth's battalion.).
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@Cysx Good catch! It definitely looks like the same map. I'm guessing that the troops that Byleth uses are, in fact, low level troops, since I went back and managed to spot them in the previous trailer where Linhardt heals Byleth:
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They're a presumably low-level class, not a mercenary, and use swords... Are these the myrmidons of the game? Though they could also be a promoted class like a Hero and Byleth just gets access to them early, or they're being used as a placeholder.
2 hours ago, RexBolt said:Maybe Linhardt is green because of a status? Stone maybe?
I think the green coating might signal that he's on a healing tile. The map looks to be too early for him to have gotten a status effect.
Also, I just noticed that there are triangles next to Byleth, Edelgard, and green guy. In the last trailer, in the map where the Black Eagles were fighting the bandits, every character but Dorothea had a triangle next to them. Could this be slightly earlier in the game, where not everyone has access to it yet? (Though considering Bernadetta the triangle icon at level 2, I doubt that they'll not have it for long).
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Some stuff I noticed:
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You can see a promoted-looking(?) class used in Byleth's battalion. They appear to use swords. Also, the female version is missing a pant leg, which reminds me of the female version of the archer that we've already seen in Bernadetta's battalion in the last trailer. I wonder if it's a reoccurring thing.
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In the image, we can see
eightnine playable characters: M!Byleth, down in the bottom left, Edelgard above him, another student close to the enemy(which I think is Ferdinand), Dorothea below him, Bernadetta right above the green statue, the unnamed Black Eagle guy parallel to Ferdinand, Caspar to the right of the green statue, and Petra at the upper left.What's interesting is that Linhardt is nowhere in sight. This may ultimately mean nothing, as he could just be out of sight somewhere else on the map, or maybe he died earlier, or the map only allows for eight characters, but it could mean that he joins a bit later than the rest of the class.Edit: Actually, looking closer, the "green statue" is probably Linhardt. If I looked closer I would have seen that he has a blue circle around his feet, marking him as a character. I don't know why he's green.
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There's not much footage, just a few seconds of Byleth using a gambit attack and the player selecting Dorothea to attack an enemy, but it does confirm that Byleth will be voiced, at least during battle.
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Isn't this thread basically the same as this one? I don't really think we need a new poll since we don't have any new information.
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@whase Possibly, but we can see in the trailer that Dorothea's "Growth Goals" has a focus on swords and reason, both of which are strengths, which means she grows faster in those areas. However, the stars are next to Faith, which has a weakness sign next to it, suggesting that it will be slower to grow. It doesn't really seem likely that she'd have a strength and a weakness in the same subject at the same time.
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Yeah, not really a fan of the colors/composition of the cover. I hope that the NA cover uses the artwork from the special edition instead, which is actually pretty nice. The colors look better when they're more muted, vs. the cover's art which looks kind of garish in comparison.
Also, I prefer the NA steelbook over the JP one.
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You know what? I completely forgot about one of my wishes with regards to supports: the existence of completely nonromantic m/f supports. I'd like it if not every single support between a man and a woman ended in romance. And hey, if they get rid of children (which I'm really hoping they do) then there's no need for every m/f support to end in marriage/romance.
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March 5, 143 days to go.
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1 hour ago, Jayvee94 said:
In Archanaea, there are Archers and Hunters. They are both BOW FIGHTERS, yet the promote to different classes, SNIPER and HORSEMAN, respectively. When branched promotions are introduced, these separate classes are merged. Axe Fighters and Brigands still have different classes they can promote to so they remain separate classes.
Considering the new class system these will likely be merged: Fighters and Brigands; Mercenaries and Myrmidons. It will depend on the unit's strength on which promoted class they will gravitate to. Edelgard for example may naturally fall into the Brigand -> Hero path.
I don't know about axe fighters and brigands, but I really, really doubt that they'll merge myrmidons and mercenaries.
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17 hours ago, Cysx said:
Yeah, I'm seeing an axe too. Though about the visual differences, it bears mentioning that since Petra is accompanied by "Empire Infantry" as a member of the black eagles, there's a pretty decent chance that each house will get their own soldiers, Advance Wars style, and Caspar's and Claude's would consequently not look the same. Or maybe that's just a cgi thing.
And well, perhaps Edelgard gets a non-generic brigand garb since it looks like a pretty natural class choice for her and she's a main character.
Yeah, I think each house will get their own soldiers, so Claude could have Alliance Infantry and so on, but I think they'll all have access to more or less the same types of troops (depending on whether or not there are route-exclusive classes or not), just with a different color palette depending on the house.
Like in the trailer, we can see that Petra's Empire Infantry look like mercenaries, and Bernadetta's unnamed troops look like archers. Further along in the trailer, Edelgard is shown using spear-wielding cavalry troops, so it looks like troops will be based off of pre-existing classes, and there are different types of troops.
It's entirely possible that Edelgard just gets a special design. I'd be a little disappointed, because her brigand outfit looks great, but it would make sense. I just hope that that isn't the case, and it's a different class. Maybe a fighter? I don't know if having brigand as a playable class would make it obsolete or not. Myrmidons and mercenaries have different roles, so there is precedent...
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17 hours ago, Cysx said:
As for that other girl, they do look similar, but her hair is considerably shorter and their outfits are slightly different, so I don't think they're one and the same.
Her hair does look a little bit shorter in my pic, but otherwise they look really similar to me. Though I guess if they're generic students it'd make sense to reuse models.
Also, I wouldn't be surprised if they just reused the same room structure for each classroom.
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Anyone have any clue what class this unit could be?:
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At first I thought she might a female mercenary due to the headgear, but the female mercenary seen in Claude's army looks pretty different:
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She doesn't look armored enough for her to be a knight, so maybe unarmored infantry lance units are making a return?
Edit: Actually, looking through the video, that "spear" may just be an axe at an angle. So she might just be a female brigand, but even so she still looks pretty different from Edelgard as a Brigand.
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Yeah, I definitely don't think we only get eight students in each house. I think we'll start off with 8 students, but we'll get a few more over our time at the academy. Some mid-semester transfer students wouldn't feel out of place.
Also, I went through the trailers again and took note of some more stuff:
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First, we have Ashe and one of the guys Dimitri was fighting in the Blue Lions classroom, pretty much confirming that we'll meet them both early on. They're visible when Byleth talks to Sylvain.
Next, another background character in the Blue Lions classroom. I'm currently unsure if he is a generic or not. Also worth noting that in the JP trailer, it's more noticeable that the Blue Lion girls are all wearing dark blue pants/tights as part of their uniform. Which is important because...
This girl, who we see in the JP trailer in the Golden Deer's classroom. As you can see, she's wearing the distinctive blue tights/pants of the Blue Lions. So what is she doing in the Golden Deer's classroom? Considering that the English trailer was using a later build, she may have been moved out of the classroom, considering she's not visible (or maybe Byleth's head was just blocking her). I'm guessing that she's the same girl that Cysx noticed in the Blue Lions classroom. The question still remains: is she playable or a generic?
Also, it's worth noting that I was unable to find the other guy Dimitri was fighting with in any other shots (which doesn't mean much), or any other possible generic students. Assuming that everyone we see in the Blue Lions classroom is playable right away, and sword guy comes along later, we'd still have 9 starting students, which is pretty weird.
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7 hours ago, zuibangde said:
I wonder how they choose who gets a month in the calendar. There’s only 12 months and it seems that each month only fits one character. You’d think that they’ll put the 12 most plot relevant characters...so either Blue Lion girl is important to the plot or they just randomly selected 12 characters to put in.
That's actually a pretty good point... Maybe the blonde girl is Dimitri's sister? They do have the same hair color. Or the characters could have just been chosen randomly.
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Someone on reddit found a couple of new (kinda obscured) portraits from the Australian limited edition:
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One of them is of the guy that appears in the new trailer at 2:04 next to the church lady, and the other looks like the unnamed blonde Blue Lion girl.
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I only want Anna to return, no one else.
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Kinda off-topic, but when does everyone think we'll get our next batch of information, considering the game's supposed to release about five months from now?
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@VincentASM wouldn't assuming that there are up to A+ in weapon ranks mean that there'd be 10+ ranks total, not 12+?
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6 minutes ago, Lewyn said:
Sure, but the way these marry and have kids are, the parents pass on their genes (stats, skills, physical traits). Two males can't pass on their genes to one child, nor can two females. I just used real world stats to show they aren't underrepresented. That doesn't mean they can't have more representation than that, but I think much more important is having good representation. The other part of my comment is the gay characters in Fire Emblem have not been created for homosexuals but for straight people which is why they are so badly designed.
Fire Emblem is not, and has never been, an accurate representation of genetics. If I'm really good at stabbing people with a sword and have kids, my kids aren't going to automatically inherit that skill from me. Stats and skills don't exist in real life. If a children mechanic exists in some future fire emblem game, there's no reason why gay characters couldn't adopt a kid together and pass down their skills to their kid via training them.
And more representation generally means better representation, because gay people have a variety of personalities and lived experiences, just like everyone else. Having more gay characters would prevent them from inadvertently pigeonholing us into one personality type.
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Theory: In between plot-related chapters, you'll have to go out on a couple of non-plot related missions (field trips?), like exterminating a group of bandits/protecting villagers/etc. A bit like in the DS Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games. It would fit with the increased amounts of experience we seem to need to both level up and increase weapon rank.
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4 hours ago, EJ107 said:
I think that the identity of Byleth's mother will be important. I don't think it's a coincidence that Sothis, the head of the church and Byleth all have green hair and green eyes.
I have a feeling that Sothis and Byleth are related in some way through the head of the church, and that is why he is able to see and interact with her. Or, if they want to go a slightly more unexpected route, maybe Sothis herself is Byleths mother.
But Byleth's eyes and hair are blue. When you compare Byleth (here) and Sothis (here), they don't really look that much alike. That doesn't mean that they can't be connected/related in some way, since avatars tend to look nothing like their parents, but I don't feel they look enough alike.
I do wonder if Byleth's mother will be important to the narrative at all, since Byleth looks nothing like Jeralt. Why make them look nothing alike if you have a set appearance? Or Byleth could be adopted, though I hope they don't go for the super-secret special heritage again after fates.
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1 hour ago, NegativeExponents- said:
Secondly, I want more than just a token LGBT+ character. There’s three reasons for this: 1. Gives LGBT+ players more than one option instead treating them like an afterthought. 2. Giving the LGBT+ characters a romance life outside of the Avatar. 3. More positive representation is never a bad thing as it’ll allow the game to appeal to a wider audience.
Lastly, I don’t want none of that “I’m only gay/lesbian if it’s with you” bullshit that writers love to use (screw Rhajat) and similarly, don’t throw that fricking homophobic “girls only date other girls to prepare themselves for real relationships” stereotype that Soleil pretty much had. Basically, don’t do anything to dismiss the characters sexuality in an attempt to... well I don’t even know what possesses a writer to do that. In an attempt to make them likable to bigots? Idk but just don’t do it.
Zero, Niles (yes, I consider them different), and Leon were good imo (I know there’s some who have problems with them) so I know IS isn’t incapable of writing interesting LGBT+ characters (or at least ones that aren’t offensive) they just need to work on it more and ditch those negative stereotypes.
Yup, if romance is back, I really hope there's more than one option this time. I'd like to play as a girl and romance other girls, but if the one character they offer isn't my type (Rhajat), what's the point? And hard agree with them cutting out all that stuff to dismiss character's sexuality.
I just really hope we get a good lesbian character this time around (mainly to make up for the disaster that was Soleil).
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I'd like to see the next trailer focus on F!Byleth and the Blue Lions/Golden Deer. Or maybe have it address how different the routes are, and go over the personalities of the house leaders. Or talk about gambits and other new mechanics.