Incline Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children - isometric tactical Korean SRPG

[Grunker]

Why not just restart the mission with Albus..?

 

[Sykar]

Wanted to see if I can still do it though a little luck was needed.

 

[Zumbabul]

This mission has different rewards for each character you choose. For Irene, Sion, Ray, and Anne, you will get unique masteries. I would advise finishing all the routes. Same for the next mission.

 

[Grunker]

What is actually kind of dumb though is that you can fail violent missions after playing one for 1½ hours if you miss like 3 melee dudes in these huge-ass maps and they get to the defensive line. At least the checkpoint system is farily decent

 

[Sykar]

This mission has different rewards for each character you choose. For Irene, Sion, Ray, and Anne, you will get unique masteries. I would advise finishing all the routes. Same for the next mission.

Right away? Are those masteries that valuable? Also replay them via story mode thingie in your office?

 

[Zumbabul]

This mission has different rewards for each character you choose. For Irene, Sion, Ray, and Anne, you will get unique masteries. I would advise finishing all the routes. Same for the next mission.

Right away? Are those masteries that valuable? Also replay them via story mode thingie in your office?

Yes, you need to replay them from the office ('case records'). The masteries you get from Sion and Ray routes are essential. They let you have extra TP (ray) and convert basic slot to attack or defense (sion). Same for the next mission: all three routes will give you masteries that are needed for build tetris.

 

[Grunker]

Sykar you could always play through those scenarios on Easy just to unlock the materia masteries. It's nok like you need the Cruel/Challenge-mode rewards from those story missions and it's not like it's that exciting replaying the same mission 8 times

 

[Sykar]

Not really interested in Cruel/Challenge. I want to have fun and the missions already take long enough on hard.

WHAT
THE
FUCK

Sion just annihalated my entire team from the backline having turns like every 20 AT.

Wow just wow, I thought that synergy would help against the enemy but this is complete and utter BS.

 

[Grunker]

I want to have fun

I generally have more fun when a game is challenging, but my point was you can clear these replay-missions fast if you just go on Easy and get them over with

 

[Grunker]

Where do I spend Valkyerie Coins? Google says Shooter district but I can't find any place that takes them

EDIT: Lol Zed Duke of Banville I just got to the part of the game where you screenshotted your evidence that Albus grew out of his cuckness. He literally cucks himself during that conversation - here's your milf teacher coming to town to hit on you in like a cool "hey old pal"-way and what's your response? "WHY DID YOU SHOOT AT ME OMG"

 

[Sykar]

I want to have fun

I generally have more fun when a game is challenging, but my point was you can clear these replay-missions fast if you just go on Easy and get them over with

It is challenging enough. Cruel/Challenge seems like unfun busywork just like the retarded Unfair in Pathfinder:Kingmaker or Dominating in Underrail.
I got the sentiment about lowering the difficulty I just wanted to point out not everyone is interested in the highest difficulty levels. Not like hard is a walk in the park either.

 

[Sykar]

This mission has different rewards for each character you choose. For Irene, Sion, Ray, and Anne, you will get unique masteries. I would advise finishing all the routes. Same for the next mission.

Right away? Are those masteries that valuable? Also replay them via story mode thingie in your office?

Yes, you need to replay them from the office ('case records'). The masteries you get from Sion and Ray routes are essential. They let you have extra TP (ray) and convert basic slot to attack or defense (sion). Same for the next mission: all three routes will give you masteries that are needed for build tetris.

Any more story missions that warrant repeated playthroughs?

 

[Grunker]

Hard disagree. It's very well-balanced. Obviously like any RPG you could cheese it, but play Cruel/Challenge honestly and it has a really good balance. The game even prevents many of my previous criticisms. Can't deal with a violent mission? You can always end it after the primary objective. Tired of getting one-shotted by random crits? Just go Impulse Fields. Think missions are taking too long? If you actually adjust every time-saving option turns go by very fast. And so on.

Basically the only problem I have left with the gameplay is some minor criticism of the strategic layer (like motivation being a completely useless system), the itemization being pretty meh and that a few of the objectives don't work that well in practice - chiefly it's seldom clear what states causes enemies to change behaviour.

My biggest criticism at this point are two things:

1) Opening chests still takes waaaaaaay two long.

2) This is the big one: bosses absolutely SUCK. In a game with some many beautiful systems that plays so well despite the awe-inspiring complexity (unlike say something like Pathfinder where gameplay often devolves completely when the complexity gets big enough) it's so sad that boss encounters are so underwhelming. All too often it boils down to "this enemy has a higher chance to one-shot you if you don't have impulse fields, and you have a lower chance to one-shot it."

 

[Grunker]

This mission has different rewards for each character you choose. For Irene, Sion, Ray, and Anne, you will get unique masteries. I would advise finishing all the routes. Same for the next mission.

Right away? Are those masteries that valuable? Also replay them via story mode thingie in your office?

Yes, you need to replay them from the office ('case records'). The masteries you get from Sion and Ray routes are essential. They let you have extra TP (ray) and convert basic slot to attack or defense (sion). Same for the next mission: all three routes will give you masteries that are needed for build tetris.

Any more story missions that warrant repeated playthroughs?

You can actually see the important ones in the Case Record screen. Scent of the Past says "You will be rewarded for every choice you make throughout the mission in this mission."

Note that this doesn't seem universal - some of the minor choices in previous missions don't get this treatment.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I want to have fun

I generally have more fun when a game is challenging, but my point was you can clear these replay-missions fast if you just go on Easy and get them over with

It is challenging enough. Cruel/Challenge seems like unfun busywork just like the retarded Unfair in Pathfinder:Kingmaker or Dominating in Underrail.
I got the sentiment about lowering the difficulty I just wanted to point out not everyone is interested in the highest difficulty levels. Not like hard is a walk in the park either.

have you tried

Spoiler

gitting gud?

 

[Zumbabul]

This mission has different rewards for each character you choose. For Irene, Sion, Ray, and Anne, you will get unique masteries. I would advise finishing all the routes. Same for the next mission.

Right away? Are those masteries that valuable? Also replay them via story mode thingie in your office?

Yes, you need to replay them from the office ('case records'). The masteries you get from Sion and Ray routes are essential. They let you have extra TP (ray) and convert basic slot to attack or defense (sion). Same for the next mission: all three routes will give you masteries that are needed for build tetris.

Any more story missions that warrant repeated playthroughs?

-First fight Heixing vs Carter(3.5). If you win you will get 'Breakthrough'
-Scent of the Past (park mission): Irene, Sion, Anne, Ray routes give masteries
-The next mission (police training): all three options give masteries.

Now, I need to be cryptic to not spoil stuff for you.

-In a cold mission, where you need to rescue someone from beasts, you have an option to fix something or run away. Fixing raises your self-esteem, running away gives you mastery.
-In a train mission that involves a bottle of wine, both routes give masteries.
-In a mission where naked man duels in the ruins, if you win you will get a mastery.

Hope, I did not spoil you anything)

 

[Grunker]

I actually thought about just recommending Impulse Fields to you when you complained about the Forestallment guy. I know it's a heavy cost and not strictly optimal but having it on anyone with less that 800 health just let's you screw up more and protects you from those bullshit moments. It's also why I keep Anne as a White Mage - I think damage route or even tank would probably be better, but having her with Blessing of Regeneration just means I can be a bit more careless during missions.

 

[Sykar]

I want to have fun

I generally have more fun when a game is challenging, but my point was you can clear these replay-missions fast if you just go on Easy and get them over with

It is challenging enough. Cruel/Challenge seems like unfun busywork just like the retarded Unfair in Pathfinder:Kingmaker or Dominating in Underrail.
I got the sentiment about lowering the difficulty I just wanted to point out not everyone is interested in the highest difficulty levels. Not like hard is a walk in the park either.

have you tried

Spoiler

gitting gud?

Have you tried to accept that different people have different ideas of what is fun, dumbfuck?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I want to have fun

I generally have more fun when a game is challenging, but my point was you can clear these replay-missions fast if you just go on Easy and get them over with

It is challenging enough. Cruel/Challenge seems like unfun busywork just like the retarded Unfair in Pathfinder:Kingmaker or Dominating in Underrail.
I got the sentiment about lowering the difficulty I just wanted to point out not everyone is interested in the highest difficulty levels. Not like hard is a walk in the park either.

have you tried

Spoiler

gitting gud?

Have you tried to accept that different people have different ideas of what is fun, dumbfuck?

fun is objective

 

[Sykar]

This mission has different rewards for each character you choose. For Irene, Sion, Ray, and Anne, you will get unique masteries. I would advise finishing all the routes. Same for the next mission.

Right away? Are those masteries that valuable? Also replay them via story mode thingie in your office?

Yes, you need to replay them from the office ('case records'). The masteries you get from Sion and Ray routes are essential. They let you have extra TP (ray) and convert basic slot to attack or defense (sion). Same for the next mission: all three routes will give you masteries that are needed for build tetris.

Any more story missions that warrant repeated playthroughs?

-First fight Heixing vs Carter(3.5). If you win you will get 'Breakthrough'
-Scent of the Past (park mission): Irene, Sion, Anne, Ray routes give masteries
-The next mission (police training): all three options give masteries.

Now, I need to be cryptic to not spoil stuff for you.

-In a cold mission, where you need to rescue someone from beasts, you have an option to fix something or run away. Fixing raises your self-esteem, running away gives you mastery.
-In a train mission that involves a bottle of wine, both routes give masteries.
-In a mission where naked man duels in the ruins, if you win you will get a mastery.

Hope, I did not spoil you anything)

Does Heixing and the others give any masteries for "Scent of the Past" when you reach later chapters?

 

[Zumbabul]

This mission has different rewards for each character you choose. For Irene, Sion, Ray, and Anne, you will get unique masteries. I would advise finishing all the routes. Same for the next mission.

Right away? Are those masteries that valuable? Also replay them via story mode thingie in your office?

Yes, you need to replay them from the office ('case records'). The masteries you get from Sion and Ray routes are essential. They let you have extra TP (ray) and convert basic slot to attack or defense (sion). Same for the next mission: all three routes will give you masteries that are needed for build tetris.

Any more story missions that warrant repeated playthroughs?

-First fight Heixing vs Carter(3.5). If you win you will get 'Breakthrough'
-Scent of the Past (park mission): Irene, Sion, Anne, Ray routes give masteries
-The next mission (police training): all three options give masteries.

Now, I need to be cryptic to not spoil stuff for you.

-In a cold mission, where you need to rescue someone from beasts, you have an option to fix something or run away. Fixing raises your self-esteem, running away gives you mastery.
-In a train mission that involves a bottle of wine, both routes give masteries.
-In a mission where naked man duels in the ruins, if you win you will get a mastery.

Hope, I did not spoil you anything)

Does Heixing and the others give any masteries for "Scent of the Past" when you reach later chapters?

No, Heixing and Albus routes do not give you masteries. Heixing and Ray routes give some cutscenes about their past. Albus route gives a little piece of story and a nice duel.

 

[Grunker]

Where do I spend Valkyerie Coins? Google says Shooter district but I can't find any place that takes them

bump motherfuckers

 

[Zumbabul]

Some quests give you 'farming gear'. Other quests give you recipes to farm this gear. If you did not take the recipe as a reward, you can buy them from the quest givers with coins. If you took the recipe, you cannot spend coins to buy it.

Other than this, you can spend coins to buy additional mastery boards or an extra equipment board.This is a primary use for the coins.

 

[Sykar]

Where do I spend Valkyerie Coins? Google says Shooter district but I can't find any place that takes them

bump motherfuckers

I only found out about extra mastery boards costing 2 Valkyrie coins so far.

Ok I just re-read the description of "Wrathful Vengeance" bonding mastery and it explicitly states "enemies" not "anyone" or some such. Either this is bugged or the description is very misleading. I knew I could not have been that stupid to overlook such an important detail.

Edit: Argh it is under the Rampage "buff" not up there at the description of the mastery . So on the one hand it says "enemies" only to later say "anyone". Make up your damn minds.

For a Sion/Irene bonding this is terrible unless Sion is super tanky and like Lonely Hero Irene among enemies all the damn time, alone. <.<

Now how can I change a bonding mastery I wonder.

 

[Zumbabul]

Where do I spend Valkyerie Coins? Google says Shooter district but I can't find any place that takes them

bump motherfuckers

I only found out about extra mastery boards costing 2 Valkyrie coins so far.

Ok I just re-read the description of "Wrathful Vengeance" bonding mastery and it explicitly states "enemies" not "anyone" or some such. Either this is bugged or the description is very misleading. I knew I could not have been that stupid to overlook such an important detail.

Edit: Argh it is under the Rampage "buff" not up there at the description of the mastery . So on the one hand it says "enemies" only to later say "anyone". Make up your damn minds.

For a Sion/Irene bonding this is terrible unless Sion is super tanky and like Lonely Hero Irene among enemies all the damn time, alone. <.<

Now how can I change a bonding mastery I wonder.

You can cancel the bond and then make it again. There is a 'tough spirit' mastery, which makes that in a rampage state your character attacks only enemies.