Imuabicus der Fertige
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Re: inventory... yeah it´s getting pretty bad with scrolls, potions, items that seem important but I got no clue about them... would be pretty cool if 1) we could autodesignate containers for certain things and 2) the autostacking worked properly.
missing a roll in this game makes me relive Darkest Dungeon pains I had forgotten
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Guidelines:
2.1.) mention the diffculty on which you rate the unit
2.2.) what classes your unit went through, what skills they had and so on; don´t consider obviously suboptimal builds.
2.3.) no DLC rings, no non-unit DLC bonuses
2.4.) no grinding in skirmishes
2.5.) no rng abuse (no resetting for bond rings)
2.6.) cooking is allowed
2.7.) ratings to be given in the format X/10
2.8.) if it isn´t mentioned above, it´s fair game
2.9.) no "Kagetsu exists and obsoletes Lapis, 0/10", explain your rating
Unit: Fogado
Class: Sentinel(Promotes to Cupido, with PS: When countering, unit may deal extra damage = half of damage taken. Trigger %=Dex.)
Lvl HP STR MAG DEX SPD DEF RES LCK BLD
Bases: 17 33 12 7 17 18 10 11 8 8
T. Bases: 17 12 7 6 8 11 6 8 6 2
Growths: / 60 30 25 30 55 30 35 25 10
Personal Skill: During combat with a foe who was also unit’s most recent opponent, inflicts Crit-10 on that foe.
Innate Proficiency: Bow
SP: 1200
Support Bonuses:
C Hit+10, Avoid+5
B Hit+10, Critical+3, Avoid+5
A Hit+10, Critical+3, Avoid+10
S Hit+10, Critical+3, Avoid+20Tools and mo stats:
Engage Numbers - Google Tabellen
Average Stats - Fire Emblem: Engage (FE17) (triangleattack.com)
Rating: 7.1
Next unit on Monday
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11 hours ago, lenticular said:
Stuff like inventory management is a frustrating chore,
I´m using backpacks and the like to group items together to help a bit with that. It´s probably way worse with 4 characters though.
11 hours ago, lenticular said:Or the overall balance seems off; without much (any?) disincentive from taking long rests whenever you like, a lot of resource management from the original DnD rules just isn't there, and it can feel weird sometimes.
I´m not familiar with either BG or DnD but so far I haven´t seen a reason for resting, but that´s probably more important for spellcasters.
My character is constanly saying they´re tired, but like the show must go on.
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...or so he says, the game having been in EA since... 2020?
Granted I haven´t touched the game since... patch 6 I think and I haven´t gotten very far thanks to an unholy download (still in druid cave) but how´s the game treat you all so far and what are you playing if you don´t mind sharing? I´m playing a basic human ranger, though solo.
I will say it looks a lot less... glitchy, especially the cutscenes but the game still feels kinda wonky with the transitions between gameplay-cutscenes and I just had a Bugbear t-pose on me for the entire fight.
I also made the mistake of glancing at the steam forum... naw.
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13 hours ago, Integrity said:
It used to be basically-impossible - when the studio was solvent, one of the achievements was to have a beer with the devs in real life and give them your Steam profile so they could award it to you.
lifehack for free beer tho
5d chess move, tbh
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7 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
You think that's bad? Check this out. Took this photo at the supermarket a few weeks ago and never got around to sharing it.
Austrian confectioneries: observe
Mohr (moor) being the og term for the muslims of iberia as I understand. Today not so much.
17 minutes ago, BrightBow said:It's not as bad as "Gift" meaning "poison.
I tried looking it up, gift in medieval german still means both poison and gift ("something you give").
It apparently also means the date on which a document was signed? That I don´t get.
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Guidelines:
2.1.) mention the diffculty on which you rate the unit
2.2.) what classes your unit went through, what skills they had and so on; don´t consider obviously suboptimal builds.
2.3.) no DLC rings, no non-unit DLC bonuses
2.4.) no grinding in skirmishes
2.5.) no rng abuse (no resetting for bond rings)
2.6.) cooking is allowed
2.7.) ratings to be given in the format X/10
2.8.) if it isn´t mentioned above, it´s fair game
2.9.) no "Kagetsu exists and obsoletes Lapis, 0/10", explain your rating
Unit: Zelkov
Class: Thief
Lvl HP STR MAG DEX SPD DEF RES LCK BLD
Bases: 17 35 15 3 19 19 14 5 7 9
T. Bases: 17 13 10 3 9 9 8 3 5 5
Growths: / 65 35 15 40 35 35 15 25 10
Personal Skill: If foe initiates combat, inflicts Hit-10 on that foe during combat.
Innate Proficiency: Knife
SP: 1000
Support Bonuses:
C Hit+15
B Hit+15, Avoid+5
A Hit+20, Avoid+5
S Hit+30, Avoid+5Tools and mo stats:
Engage Numbers - Google Tabellen
Average Stats - Fire Emblem: Engage (FE17) (triangleattack.com)
Rating: 5.375
Next unit on Thursday
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7 hours ago, Dark Holy Elf said:
I was inspired to catch up with all the ratings I've missed. If these ratings are too late to "count" that's fine, but I figure in case they are still being counted, it'd be better to put them all in one place than post a separate rating in each thread. So with apologies for the wall of text:
I do update the beginning post and was thinking of doing the unthinkable and necro it when done, but I don´t include ratings given after the day the next unit is posted.
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I only got 2 games to 100%, that being Brotato and Thronefall
Thronefall ( 12.2 hours, Grizzly Games)
The name of the game is short and sweet, you control a king and build your castle and defend it from preset waves of enemies of differing varieties of speed, damage, range and HP. By playing and scoring you get further unlocks, those being 2 additional weapons, a bunch of meta-perks chosen pre-map as well as enemy modifiers, which affect total score and upgrade paths for your buildings on map. There´s some fun stuff in there, like trampling the enemy under the hooves of your horse.
You don´t chose what to build where, that´s preset, but you do chose what to build when and that boils down to more money sooner, everything else leads to pain. There´s 4 maps, one being a preset tutorial map, every other map you can choose what you wanna do; however each map has some quests, challenging the player to play through it with certain enemy modifiers and sometimes specific weapons or reaching a ceratin score.
Fuck the enemy HP modifier, all my homies hate the HP modifier.
There´s 9 achievements, starting with kill a man, win every maps quest and ending with win everything. The achievments come quite naturally when playing.
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On 8/8/2023 at 8:48 AM, Eltosian Kadath said:On 8/7/2023 at 11:31 AM, Imuabicus der Fertige said:
how macabre
see, the more you hold yourself to what´s being told instead of headcanoning what you want, the better, because you wouldn´t come up with these takes
I got that take entirely from you, in the OP
On 7/24/2023 at 7:49 PM, Imuabicus der Fertige said:instead of having to deal with scavenging of your favorite units corpse.
the macabre was referencing your comparison of cutting scavenging to cutting before copious amounts of sex, a worrying comparison
do not worry, your tendencies are safe with me 🤫
On 8/8/2023 at 8:48 AM, Eltosian Kadath said:Gameplay is a form/part of storytelling, the same way text is, the same way video is, the same way music is, the same way voice acting is, etc. I have tries to point out how obvious it is that there are massive story holes in these games if you pretend gameplay is incapable of telling a story. Take the example I used just a moment ago of Path of Radiance, where there is no fancy cutscene for Ashnard's death, or lines in later dialogues pointlessly confirming his death, even his death quote doesn't make clear his death, he only dies in the gameplay; are you really trying to contend that this means Ashnard doesn't die at the end of Path of Radiance's story? Who even killed Ashnard in "the story", if you ignore the story told by the gameplay? As I said before, if you actually believed this, videogames would be a terrible medium for storytelling, but you do present yourself like you are capable of understanding the stories gameplay is telling, despite these claims.
What do you mean Ashnards death isn´t confirmed? Ashnard has a death quote on his map, death officiated, story told. Haven´t witnessed the after battle dialogs I suppose? What, the player army holding a fucken speech in the enemies castle isn´t reason to think so? These are things the writers directly tell you through dialog.
Who killed Frederick II. of Babenberg he asks and who killed Ottokar II. of Bohemia he wonders. Answers he will find, not.
If gameplay tells stories, then what story does it tell when I dodge in a souls-like? What story does it tell, when Corrin takes with them a Vulnerary?
On 8/8/2023 at 8:48 AM, Eltosian Kadath said:Your OP indicates you know what stories are being told by permadeath, despite your nonsensical claims about gameplay being physically incapable of telling story. Plus, I already pointed out a handful of instances where the story outside of gameplay already does engage with permadeath in my earlier post, you just didn't actually care about that, and doing the research for a multipage long list seems like a real waste of time, especially with how insistent you are in burying your head in the sand.
From a gameplay perspective you miss the key point that units, even in the same role, are not simply worse, but generally have other difference between them. Almost always they have stats, or weapon ranks, or personal skills, or classes, etc. that give them a slightly different spin on the role, so permadeath forces you out of your comfort zone to explore the differences between units. Additionally you might get into situations where you really don't have someone that can fill the role you lost and instead have to use a unit that fills a completely different role (or you chose to use someone that fills a different role for other reasons), which then changes up your strategy going forward.
Underlined: I accounted for this in my second paragraph, the very same paragragh you dismissed with "uhm, akschually itsh shuper hard to softlock", which naturally your argument didn´t extend beyond the games that involved fails safe such as Athos, Shadow Dragon, designed to prevent or alleviate such scenarios.
Your inability to comprehend that I have not made an absolute statement, outside of gameplay is not story, in this regard and your insistence to make my own story, in essence telling me I may as well just take a couple dirt piles, give em names and shove em around and see that as a story, something I tried to tell you I wasn´t interested in as they are my stories which I know and not other peoples stories, which I don´t know and are thus of interest to me, has seemingly severly hindered your ability to engage with the question I loosely defined and posed to this forum. That being the question of how much, if at all, unit death in both story (death quotes, changes in supports) and gameplay (unit loss, inventory loss, inability to access events) are used in combination to create yet a new path (as told by the writers behind the game) in both story (one example could be actual events of mourning such as burials) and gameplay (classes, skills, weapon ranks, scavenging your prized equipment reminiscent of SD 24x) the answer to which was a mix of not really, an example of this stance being Integritys answer and well it does have changing supports and then there were AnonymousSpeed and you with answers that boil down to "just don´t reset bro" and "DIY storytelling", which is a reduction of what has been asked to such a degree, that in hindsight it has me stumped as to how these are conclusions you two could have reached, because these so clearly miss the point.
And you are right, I did not give any and all examples of FE scripts changing with a units deaths, because firstly that goes simply beyond the scope of what I am willing to invest in terms of time, secondly it would probably drive away people otherwise willing to engage with the thread and thirdly I would have assumed and from my experience with interacting with the members of SF and outside of select examples, that the good people of this forum would generally have the intelligence and awareness to understand from what has been posted over the course of this thread beginning with my OP and having pretty large scale answers within the next 6 posts. I did not think that a discussion like this, fueled primarily by my curiousity what other people think and written up in the span of an hour, would need this sort of 100k signs with quotes and receipts kind of effort.
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Guidelines:
2.1.) mention the diffculty on which you rate the unit
2.2.) what classes your unit went through, what skills they had and so on; don´t consider obviously suboptimal builds.
2.3.) no DLC rings, no non-unit DLC bonuses
2.4.) no grinding in skirmishes
2.5.) no rng abuse (no resetting for bond rings)
2.6.) cooking is allowed
2.7.) ratings to be given in the format X/10
2.8.) if it isn´t mentioned above, it´s fair game
2.9.) no "Kagetsu exists and obsoletes Lapis, 0/10", explain your rating
Unit: Kagetsu
Class: Swordmaster
Lvl HP STR MAG DEX SPD DEF RES LCK BLD
Bases: 1 35 17 5 22 22 14 10 17 9
T. Bases: 16 14 11 4 13 11 10 7 13 3
Growths: / 60 30 15 50 50 40 25 40 10
Personal Skill: If unit initiates combat, inflicts Avo-10 on foe during combat.
Innate Proficiency: Sword
SP: 1000
Support Bonuses:
C Hit+10, Avoid+5
B Hit+10, Critical+3, Avoid+5
A Hit+10, Critical+3, Avoid+5, Dodge+5
S Hit+10, Critical+6, Avoid+5, Dodge+5Tools and mo stats:
Average Stats - Fire Emblem: Engage (FE17) (triangleattack.com)
Engage Numbers - Google Tabellen
Rating: 8.58
Next unit on Monday
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Easy, just give the enemies 0 dmg so noone can die.
I don´t see why Marth dying should be the end of the story. It´s the story of the war against the Shadow Dragon and not of Fire Emblem: blue-haired-boy-who-lost-his-kingdom-goes-to-another-kingdom-finds-allies-and-acquires-the-means-of-dragon-slaying and unless I´m misremembering the Falchion is by no means an Anri-family exclusive. Hurr-durr, Tiki and Naga being more failsafes. Malledus is still there, Jeigan too, Caeda, Hardin, Nyna, Minerva once her lil sis is safe... the show can go on.
Permadeath would be meaningful if there was a game over ending and not just a screen telling you to not pass go.
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41 minutes ago, Acacia Sgt said:
This reminds me, we were also like the only country that protested quite strongly at the Anschluss.
... which, I actually don't know why.
Just the general principle of respecting a country's sovereignty? Lingering guilt over the Maximiliam thing?
I don't know...
Some reasons I found:
-) Mexico saw itself as some sort of solidarity with the oppressed state and pürotesting against something that happens on another continent... free prestige I guess
-) Mexico apparently had some weapons/ammunitions deals with Austria, which apparently these weapons then went to Spain, but I can´t really find much more than short notes on the side.
-) The protest note was delivered the day after some foreign oil refineries or similar was nationalized and intended as a stay in yo lane to the US of A.
Funnily enough, Mexico protested at the UN in French:
Spoiler
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Got any interest in Thronefall, EA as it is?
Looks a wee bit like Bad North, but more limited in scope.
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On 8/7/2023 at 2:53 PM, Alastor15243 said:
So the march ring?
oh yeah, that exists; I think it´d be better if the boots removed some of the terrain penalties in addition, better marching and all
On 8/7/2023 at 4:10 PM, Shanty Pete's 1st Mate said:Hm... well, maybe we don't need items that give cavalry and fliers higher movement stats. Since they're already very mobile.
The flier thing was a joke, i generally think it´d be better if fliers had infantry movement range but ignore terrain, so the unit types feel less like a natural upgrade path.
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On 8/4/2023 at 3:44 AM, AnonymousSpeed said:
Caeda obviously could have convinced Camus- to die! Forged Wing Spear baby, let's go!
Rename to Maidenless for x10 effective damage.
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Gonna repost my comment from the Citrinne one since it already came up:
QuoteI´ll assume no lvl ups in join chapter to make matters easy for myself:
Available after chapter 7:
1/10 Sage Citrinne: 26 HP / 2 STR / 17 MAG / 15 DEX / 11 SPD / 5 DEF / 14 RES / 11 LCK / 5 BLD
Available after chapter 11:
Base Wing Tamer Ivy: 32 HP / 7 STR / 17 MAG / 15 DEX / 13 SPD / 12 DEF / 15 RES / 4 LCK / 7 BLD
1/17 Lindwurm Ivy: 34 HP / 8 STR / 19 MAG / 16 DEX / 14 SPD / 14 DEF / 16 RES / 4 LCK / 8 BLD
and add: HP STR MAG SKL SPD DEF RES LCK BLD
20/10 Citrinne: 35 4 30 20 17 9 27 18 6
20/17 Ivy : 45 13 29 21 22 22 27 7 10
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Gonna go ahead and say CF is fine and the other routes need some cuts. More asswhooping/map and not the Grand Sightseeing Of Fodlan Kill Boss Map Number 23 That We´ve Been On Before Because Paralogues.
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Boots should be a TH-style equippable item (like shields) exclusive for infantry and horseshoes for cavalry.
Fliers get uh.... jet engines? Maybe rockets?
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8 hours ago, Eltosian Kadath said:
What are you talking about, you literally watch the game play out these plot points before your very eyes. Does it only count as story if characters that personally witnessed the events tell other characters that also personally witnessed the event about it for the questionable benefit of pedants that also personally witnessed the events being discussed? Did Ashnard not actually die because the game never repeated that explicit fact after his death quote, and merely implied it? Also why ignore implicit acknowledgments of perma-death, like not being able to deploy, or gain supports with the dead people.
gameplay and story are two different things, i don´t know what´s so confusing for you
Fat: once you read the OP, you´ll notice that a pretty big part of my initial criticism of permadeath, if not to say the entire fucken reason behind this thread, is wondering if that´s as far as permadeath goes and as per Kaga´s original intention, exemplified in a quote I gave somehwere in this thread and it´s variations over the years since his departure, permadeath neither for the purpose of story telling nor a gameplay mechanic is used to any meaningful extent (and asking people what they think about that).
8 hours ago, Eltosian Kadath said:Cutting out the grave robbing is about on par with the cut to black we get before two characters have gratuitous amounts of sex.
...That does make me wonder, do you think Supports aren't part of the story? A lot of the circular logic you keep using here would work just as well against that mechanic.
how macabre
see, the more you hold yourself to what´s being told instead of headcanoning what you want, the better, because you wouldn´t come up with these takes
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Guidelines:
2.1.) mention the diffculty on which you rate the unit
2.2.) what classes your unit went through, what skills they had and so on; don´t consider obviously suboptimal builds.
2.3.) no DLC rings, no non-unit DLC bonuses
2.4.) no grinding in skirmishes
2.5.) no rng abuse (no resetting for bond rings)
2.6.) cooking is allowed
2.7.) ratings to be given in the format X/10
2.8.) if it isn´t mentioned above, it´s fair game
2.9.) no "Kagetsu exists and obsoletes Lapis, 0/10", explain your rating
Unit: Ivy
Class: Wing Tamer (promotes to Lindwurm with unique Class Skill: When attacking with a tome, unit may deal extra damage = half of foe’s Mag. Trigger %=Dex.)
Lvl HP STR MAG DEX SPD DEF RES LCK BLD
Bases: 17 32 7 17 15 13 12 15 4 7
T. Bases: 17 12 6 9 11 9 6 7 3 2
Growths: / 55 25 30 25 40 30 35 15 10
Personal Skill: During combat with a foe who was also unit’s most recent opponent, grants Hit+20.
Innate Proficiency: Tome
SP: 1000
Support Bonuses:
C Hit+10, Dodge+5
B Hit+15, Dodge+5
A Hit+15, Dodge+10
S Hit+15, Dodge+20Tools and mo stats:
Average Stats - Fire Emblem: Engage (FE17) (triangleattack.com)
Engage Numbers - Google Tabellen
Rating: 9
Next unit on Thursday
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On 7/28/2023 at 12:57 PM, Eltosian Kadath said:
The story isn't just that Edelgard declared war, and immediately jump cuts to her killing Rhea with Aymr; HOW she took down Rhea's armies, and finally defeated her are a part of the story as well. In this case. it sounds like Edelgard getting the Brave Axe, moving over Rhea, and hitting her with that brave axe are all part of the story of how she defeated Rhea. A story is more than just the cliffs notes, those middle parts between, with all the conflict, trials, and tribulation, are also an important part of the story.
lemme see if any of that is ever acknowledged in game
naw, so not story
On 7/28/2023 at 12:57 PM, Eltosian Kadath said:and a lot of Fire Emblem games just send the equipment of dead troops straight to the convoy
And we circled back to the OP. Excellent.
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On 8/3/2023 at 4:58 PM, Shanty Pete's 1st Mate said:
Still kinda frustrated that Fire remains the "boring" magic subtype. Hm... perhaps it could get an AoE effect, where it also applies damage to enemies adjacent to the target? It would be reduced, kind of like a gambit. Alternatively (additionally?), Fire spells could impact the terrain, creating "Burning Ground" that damages whoever is standing on it.
Unit hit by Fire can´t be healed above remaining HP (in map).
Get cauterized, bitch.
Maybe a special consumable to restore burn wounds?
On that not: Wind tomes move enemies, fire tomes see above, thunder tomes inhibit movement, dark tomes with wacky "sap-" elements (drain HP, drain stats, drain enemy turn -> galeforce in the shape of a weapon), light magic always heals user
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On 8/2/2023 at 8:50 AM, Jotari said:
There is something of a struggle to make each magic type meaningfully distinct. The main dynamic in Fire Emblem is a trade off between power and accuracy, but magic already kind of does that with dark and light (tellingly, most of these games also ignore dark magic in any practical sense due to the abundance of magic types). Tellius's approach was to make each different type effective against a different Laguz family, which only worked in relation to how many varied types of Laguz you fought.
Eh, at this point you could also differentiate it with avoit, range, crit, other special effects - brave effects, effective damage (fire vs wyverns, air vs pegasi, lightning doubles, light against all that which is dead, dark vs "living" things) and other effects, like the one with Subakis Pike but based on Mag.
my question is... why fire, lightning and wind to begin with? where´s the earth ´n water at?
I only just now realized the Fates Brave tome is called Lightning.... because lightning strikes twice? goddamit
So Baldurs Gate 3 is out...
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Eh, I gave up playing solo... planning the perfect ambush is too much fun and i wouldn´t know how to do some fights solo anyway.
What squad is everyone running? I reclassed Shoadowheart to a Life Cleric for more dakka everyone else (Lae´zel, Wyll) remains the same.
I messed around with a Dark Urge Lolth-Sworn Drow Bard and the dialogue options feel like they pull you in 5 different directions all the time: kill, insult, (racially) discriminate, use brainbug, bardthings.