Thread 712823431

Launching this now for the first time. Never played a FE game before.
What am I in for? Anything to know except play on Ironman mode? I know I'm picking the Red team because she's pretty, that's about it.

>>712823431 (OP)
8/10 bait replies guaranteed

>>712823574
Because of the Red team comment? Didn't know it was that fucked. I've seen her posted on /v/ for years.

Intro cutscene was cool btw

>>712823431 (OP)
-Play on the highest difficulty, it gets too easy otherwise
-You need 5 more Attack Speed to double a foe. Attack Speed = Speed - (Weapon Weight - Strength/5)
-You can unequip your weapon to bait an enemy into attacking you without speed loss from heavy weapons
-It's almost never worth it to Rest or do a Seminar. If you're going to Explore, make sure you feed your students for Tutoring
-Prioritize upgrading statues when you're able to. You want the double Class EXP perk
-Master your Basic class before moving onto an Intermediate class. Positionals are good. Mage and Brigand both give really good skills for maxing them out
-It doesn't cost any Activity Points to go fishing. You can buy bait from some guys by the merchant shops after a few chapters
-Early game, you're going to want to cook for temporary stat gains. On the highest difficulty, those stats go a long way
-You can recruit almost anyone to any house. If you're going with the Black Eagles, you cannot recruit Hilda, Catherine, or Dedue. Get a support rank with that person to make it easier to recruit them (recruiting is based on having a high stat or weapon level in something they're asking for, Support Levels decrease the amount needed)
-Have fun :^)

>>712824389
If you do play on hardest difficulty know that every single fire emblem game is always hardest at the beginning and a joke by the end. This applies to every difficulty, but is most noticeable on the hardest difficulty. The first 5 encounters are always the hardest. The last 5 are free wins.

>>712826182
Three Houses and Engage at least had a mid game difficulty ramp-up, but ultimately yeah the last 5 ended up being easy

>>712823431 (OP)
>Never played a FE game before
Playing this won't change that

>>712826182
Three Houses is arguably worse in that due to having no crutch character.

Though, at least, narratively it does kind of make sense. Entire game is you playing a teacher and trying to turn these kids into wargods.

>>712826182
>Clash!
>Night Breaks Through

>>712823431 (OP)
Every chapter, characters you haven't recruited will level up and sometimes change their class.
Some characters are much stronger when recruited during certain chapters; for example Ingrid receives a gargantuan +4 Def and +4 Res when she autolevels from level 9 to 11
It's often worth it to not recruit characters until a certain point so their starting stats are better than if you trained them up yourself.

>>712823431 (OP)
>Anything to know except play on Ironman mode?
If you are going to do this, I would honestly recommend you commit to it. If the MC dies, the game is over and you have to restart from the beginning. At least, that's how it tends to work for me.

>I know I'm picking the Red team because she's pretty, that's about it.
Get the Loli girl from yellow team asap.

>>712823431 (OP)
An unfinished game that copypastes the first half of the game and rushes the second half of the game

>>712823431 (OP)
Don't play the blue route first. It's the best one and will sour the other routes irreparably.

>>712827847
>Playing this won't change that
its DLC play almost like classical FE though

>>712828246
>first

>>712823431 (OP)
Enjoy your chores again /feg/ troon

How is the remake going to make him more popular?

Besides playing up his status as harem lord.

>>712824168
the red route is a lot shorter than the other ones and rewrites every character's personalities

>>712823431 (OP)
Here's some stuff the game never properly explains
>Recruiting characters to your class is not dependant only on the stats they ask from you, but also on supports. In other words, building support points between Byleth and out of house characters speeds up recruitment a bunch.
>The garden is far more convoluted than the game makes it seem, and it can give out statboosters+gifts that are useful for easily maxing out motivation and stats. I suggest looking up some basic online explanation for it and to experiment.
>Every character has a unique spellist, so some characters are simply better at magic than others due to what they can cast.
>The game tries really hard to associate Hero Relics to their corresponding crest user, but there's nothing stopping you from giving it to any other character other than losing out on a combat art and/or getting a lower bonus effect from them. Even non-crest characters can use them well as long as you keep the 10hp penalty in mind when using this kind of equipment with them.
>Growth rates, aka the chance that a character improves in certain stats each level up, are both preset for characters and modified further by the class they're in.

>>712828091
I remember the game having some kind of rewind feature so isn't it more like
>Ironman but not really lol let me do that move over
?
MC dying does sound brutal though depending on how long a campaign is. My retarded ass better make sure that doesn't happen then

>>712823431 (OP)
Certain Battalions are busted. Certain combat arts are busted. Abuse them.

>>712829078
>rewrites every character's personalities
Hyper copium

>>712829196
Yes, but you only get limited amount of rewinds. You probably want to think carefully about when to use them. And yes, you could argue it makes Ironman runs less Ironman. But, frankly, I just view it as a way to not have your entire campaign fucked up by a simple misclicks like in other games.

>MC dying does sound brutal though depending on how long a campaign is
I would say it's about as long as an X-Com campaign(Not sure if that's a good reference). Probably slightly longer, though nowhere near as long as a Long War campaign. I'll freely admit that Three Houses is probably one of the less good games to do a hardcore Ironman run like this because of some quirks with the structure. With that said though, one advantage is that the MC is actually really freaking strong. Depending on the difficulty, really all you need is the MC to be strong enough and you can probably do reasonably well unless pretty much everybody else dies. It helps that, at least in Three Houses, you can use the rewind feature in case the enemy just gets a lucky crit on them.

Most people tend to just reload the game when they lose an character. I would argue Ironman, especially for your first run, is more fun but it's a acquired taste. You could also reload if the MC dies but not if minor characters die, it's really up to you. It never worked for me, but I'm also badshit crazy.

>>712830316
>It helps that, at least in Three Houses, you can use the rewind feature in case the enemy just gets a lucky crit on them.
That's pretty much what I figured. Not X-com style where you get molested and in turn flip your desk over.

I might consider reloading like you said if the MC dies 20 hours in. But according to other posters in the thread by that time I'll be really strong and less likely to get touched anyway. But other than the MC I consider everyone a target.

>>712829661
That's how I play every game. So if I find something I'll be sure to abuse it.

>>712831746
>But according to other posters in the thread by that time I'll be really strong and less likely to get touched anyway.
It probably depends on what difficulty you are playing at. Granted, I'm pretty sure even on higher difficulties it's very unlikely he'll get one shot. As long as you don't put him on the front line and expect him to fight off the entire enemy army you should PROBABLY be fine. Even crits are survivable as long as you are aware of them.

Main, or lord as they are typically called, characters in Fire emblem games are typically all over the place. Ranging from insanely strong to very weak. The obvious advantage to having a strong lord is that the unit you have to deploy can generally hold his own and that if you build him properly he can probably solo the end game. The main downside is that you have to balance your desire to use this strong unit vs your desire to not restart the entire game (Which is why I tend to be rather strict about Ironman runs personally, as otherwise I tend to just massively overuse the lord). Byleth is honestly pretty comfortable in that regard, specially combined with the rewind feature. Doing both hardcore and higher difficulty though does seem pretty unwise, but it's really up to you. Fire Emblem games tend to be kind of weird when it comes to difficulty.

>>712832615
summarize this in one sentence

>>712833232
This 4chan post discusses the varying strength of "lord" characters in Fire Emblem games, noting that while a strong lord can potentially solo the endgame, over-relying on them on higher difficulties or during an "Ironman" run (where losing a unit means they're gone forever) can be risky, though features like Byleth's "rewind" ability can mitigate this.

>>712823431 (OP)
Just go into it blind and have fun. Pick any house/route you want to, there's no "right" choice.
Btw there are some SERIOUS schizos here so take everything with a grain of salt. The routes all diverge pretty seriously and autismos like to fight over which route is "right" even though they're pretty clearly written to make the route you chose look better than the ones you didn't for each route.

If you play maddening you will softlock in chapter 1 or 2 lol.

>>712823431 (OP)
If you're only playing one route, play Blue Lions
Red team is the worst route.

>>712823431 (OP)
>What am I in for?
An extremely poorly designed game, in my opinion. I had never played anything in the series before, except the old games for a few minutes on emulators.
The problem with FE 3 houses is the part between battles. All of that could have been easily replaced by a quick 2D interface where you immediately choose what you want to do between battles, but apparently that has no appeal to modern players, so you have to walk around like an idiot in those poorly made environments with low-quality assets and textures, wasting time on stupid tasks.

>>712837917
>All of that could have been easily replaced by a quick 2D interface where you immediately choose what you want to do between battles, but apparently that has no appeal to modern players
Being able to chat with every NPC and see what they have to say regarding current events is fun. Nothing of it is mandatory.

>>712833919
thanks that's why I love you

Janny is mad again

Marriage with Marianne!

should i play binding blade or tear ring saga after thracia

>>712838974
Play fire emblem fates birthright

I had a long response typed up but all I'm going to say now is bananalise and move on

>>712838974
Play Berwick instead
or VS

>>712839069
already did, let's stick to binding blade or tear ring saga
>>712839125
those come after tear ring saga. by the way, any word on if they plan to localize the vestaria saga 1 remake or no

>>712838804
Manlet Red Emperor looks cool
I'd like Edelgard if he was a man instead

>>712839207
hopefully not and they move straight to VS3. if they do they need to fix the crashes though. make sure to save every 5 turns in VS or else you will hate yourself.

>>712839216
ur not gonna believe this bro

>>712839207
>those come after tear ring saga
I suggested those because I found Tear Ring to be kind of a slog. It burnt me out of FE-like games for a while
>any word on if they plan to localize the vestaria saga 1 remake or no
None that I heard of. I even tried to play it in nip but it's impossible

>>712839354
>hopefully not and they move straight to VS3.
The people who might translate VS1 Remake are not the same people possibly making VS3

>>712839418
>I suggested those because I found Tear Ring to be kind of a slog
i played all four routes of three houses and both tellius games with animations on, i'll be fine

>>712838804
Too much time without a "new" discussion of 3H vs Engage, I guess?

>>712839395
Arvis is not a manlet though

>>712823431 (OP)
If you do intend to recruit Ingrid, save it for after she promotes into a Pegasus Knight on her own. Ingrid turns into a monster as she auto-levels as the NPC Pegasus Knight, which is much stronger than playable Pegasus Knights.

>>712839395
>cucked of his shitty ambitions by his own son
kwab

>>712838082
expect if you don't do some side quest you will softlock not that you care hard/casual player.

>>712836168
i dont think it is possible to softlock by then

Here is a list of a coupled planned but not finished supports in fe9.

>>712840854
Not really all she gets is spd and she is still easily capeable to doubling in maddening.

Edelgard’s tights.

wheres the actual bread

What was wrong with this thread? Are people not allowed to talk about games they're playing?

>>712843717
How did they not finish them wouldn't it have taken one guy one day in the PoR format

>>712845882
What are you playing, anon?

>>712846280
tellius was low effort slop. fe was the 1st year intern project back then

>>712845882
this was a normalchad's thread and not the intended FE general

>>712845882
I'm playing fire emblem fates conquest.
I'm going to do the mozu chapter now.

>>712848495
the plan is to waste as little exp killing these things with what are now overleveled characters as possible. camilla will rush for mozu.

>>712849413
just got concerned and realized that only Sylveon can talk to mozu. lucky i realized this before i shoved a character not holding Sylveon over there.

>>712849692
you know if you want someone to relay with you you could just make a thread on /vrpg/ which is so slow that you'd not archive for weeks but the posters here are too prideful for that

>>712849692
if anyone cared about this run someone would seethe over this
>>712850120
at a certain point this became about me and my own stubornness.

>>712850196
dropping off Sylveon at the bottom because she's not going to die to level 6 enemies, right?

>>712823431 (OP)
You can recruit units from other teams
In fact, the game is generous enough with your time that if you min-max, you can recruit almost everyone.

I recommend not doing this. there's content in the second half of the game that you only see if you leave students unrecruited. You can either recruit or not recruit staff, but I strongly recommend only recruiting 1-2 students from other houses on your first playthrough for the best experience

>>712850726
>the game is generous enough with your time that if you min-max
You can buy flowers and do it easily

>>712850515
rescued Sylveon from the bottom, mostly not for her own safety but simply so that she steals less kills.

>>712823431 (OP)
SEX with DIMITRI

>>712850943
when you stack all the attack buffs on the weakest character they can kill +5 level enemies (given two turns)

>>712851232
after a bunch of jostling units i found a way to wall properly. first level hp speed skill

>>712851751
mozu bros...

>>712851952
remake your AGP meme and put the E on the bottom sister

>>712851860
never ask a scrimblo gooner his turn count on an easy as fuck chapter

>>712852295
>mozu got 4 speed levels in a row
fucking myrmidon bitch.

Blue Lions is canon, the other routes seem like afterthoughts.

>>712852598
just boringly moving people arould slowly. neither mozu or the others were even in any danger.

Fe9 draft race anyone?

>>712853305
58 turns of scrimblo gooning.

I never finished the game but Edelgard’s route is the canon ending, so do that first. Then you can play the fanfic routes.

>>712853413
okay. level 8 mozu. maybe next we do the level 10 invasion for more mozu gooning?
save: https://files.catbox.moe/mk25vy

>>712854873
Yes we. You all provide valuable emotional support. And if you're really feeling it you can help in an even better way by playing a chapter.