Thread 2097993

Is there a more powerful or ferocious creature?
No, of course not, and you would be foolish to think otherwise.

>>2097993 (OP)
How do you get into this game as a total newcomer? It seems like a massive wall to climb to actually know what the fuck is going on and what you are supposed to do.

>>2098027
Move dudes on a grid
Kill enemies
Don't melee enemies with Fire Veil

>>2098027
for most of the game there are few problems that can't be solved by just grinding more
use what masteries you have, if the masteries you have suck either grind more or progress the story and then grind more

>>2098060
>grinding
Low ESP post

First time in Monke Hell. It's kinda... not difficult. I actually lost more people in the blue monkey mission. I'm playing on Normal thoughever.

>>2098494
Bump it up to at least Hard so Mungo King spawns and then you'll understand. He's got a way more powerful mastery board than he did during the story mission.

>>2098498
Hard is for a second playthrough. Bur if Bianca's plushy mutation works on him, it's over for him regardless.

>>2098501
I think you're badly underestimating how much trouble he causes on that map

>>2098051
>Don't melee enemies with Fire Veil
You are weak. Melee them all day every day and cause all enemies nearby to get AT raped and possibly stunned as well when they die.

>>2098494
>I am playing on baby mode how is this mission challenging
It is a mystery.

>>2098787
ESP and other ranged attacks let you do that without AT delaying or burning yourself in the process

>>2098494
>normal
hahahahaha
try it on cruel with every difficulty modifier active and you will learn why anons fucking hate mungo king

>>2098494
I played it on hard first playthrough, I cheesed everything with Misty but even while doing that the Mungo King instantly btfo'd like four of my units since they were clumped together.

>ok, 3 more pistol monkeys and the perfect run is done
>rogue is the last boss left
>standing in an ice sac smokescreen, so I've around 4% hit chance, shouldn't hit so it's alri–
>hits
>instakills
Suffering from success...

>>2099151
Why didn't you just choose to kill the remaining enemies?

>>2099262
Alisa by herself can't reach one of the monkeys on a balcony - there aren't any stairs and it's way too far for jump attacks to land. Picking 'finishing off remaining enemies' without any bosses left essentially softlocks the mission in that specific scenario. Maybe grenades could be used, but I doubt even three of those can get a kill at cruel/challenge/high risk.

>>2098027
>find trouble
>shoot it
Simple as

>>2099286
>start the game
>don't have a gun user yet
>can't shoot the trouble, only slice it
>game over
Fuckass game.

>>2099293
Bro, your ESP?

>>2098494
Now this is brutal.
100+% dodge Misty died right away, and then it was frontal assault on sniper towers time.

>>2099307
>100% dodge misty
rookie numbers, you can easily get her to 200% and above

>>2099477
And the snipers will still hit her every time

>>2099487
>gives her the set that prevents auto-crits from thief masteries
>she never gets hit by punishing shot
problem red sandniggers?

>>2099488
They don't have auto-crits, they just have unfair amounts of accuracy + Prior Planning

>>2099490
there is some kind of weird fuckery going on with preventing crits in the code. Every time I see that set pop she dodges the attack, which is weird since preventing the crit shouldnt prevent the hit itself I would assume

>>2098027
>It seems like a massive wall to climb to actually know what the fuck is going on
Not really, it's all pretty intuitive since the game basically holds your hand for the first couple of missions.

>>2099286
>trouble shoots you back
ok what now smart guy

>>2099849
Abandon some children

>>2100057
I want to take care of misty in a non sexual way till she is 13.

>>2100175
>till she is 13
And after that you'll abandon the child?

>>2100180
No i will ask her to marry me.

>>2100183
I'm not sure marriage at 13 is legal in Valhalla.

>>2100187
Are you telling me i need to impregnate her to have a forced marriage? Oh well...

>>2100180
banish, even

>>2100183
>>2100191
perish from this world

>>2100384
Misty needs love. I can fix her.

>>2100384
Anne should've learned about responsible use of firearms from Heixing bro and unlocked gunman classes

>>2101808
Yeah anne gunslinger is a wet dream since release probably.

>>2097993 (OP)
If irene threatened you like that you would shit your pants istantly.
Me? I would wait or ask her to kick me in the balls.

>>2098027
>massive wall to climb
It's not more difficult than your average turn based. You get the characters one by one and you have a lot of time to experiment. The very complex shit is when you up the difficult level to very hard fuck my shit up hexing must die.
I bought the game because, of course, it has a pretty girl on the cover and more pretty girls inside. I had to check a couple of time internet because i didn't get some masteries, sure, but it's not something this strange.
>actually know what the fuck is going on
That's korea baby but nonetheless the story is pretty much explained in the fullest.

is an all-in Spirit build playable on anyone? i remember a screenshot of a Kylie "spirit shredder" build a few threads back but no further discussion

>>2104322
It works pretty well on Kylie and Ray, and decently on Alisa. I've never tried it on Heixing or Giselle. The effects are hard to comprehend just by reading the masteries because so much of it looks like conditional nonsense, but in practice a build like that ends up evasive as fuck with insane accuracy and speed, and pretty good damage and HP. With postgame masteries they also spam buffs on themselves like nobody's business.

Okay, first playthrough done, have a meme.
The last mission took 2 tries. On the first one I only had Misty and Heixing left against the tankiest destron and they weren't gonna even scratch him, so I cheesed him by running away in circles until he ran out of fuel. On the second try I killed them fairly. 60V is much easier.

>>2106452
congrats anon
now turn on cruel + challenge + high risk/high return and play the game on the intended difficulty

>>2106452
the tankiest destron is such a nigger lol. Idek what the intended strat is vs him since even with 5x armor break he still takes single digit damage from ranger heixing with an anti-robot setup. I do know drones for some fucking reason can shove like 1.2k crit damage through its bullshit resistances somehow.

>>2106789
Sweeperchads, we win again

>>2106811
>sweeperchads
no such thing

>>2106811
>level up screen enabled
literally why

>>2107094
Numbers go up = happy anon

>>2107094
Because you earn those big numbers.

>>2106789
The intended strat is to kill them all from stealth with Misty, undetected

Is it technically possible to wait out the Destrons, so they run out of fuel?

>>2107094
You can turn it off? That could've saved hours of my life.

>>2106811
True. Awaken with Everything Needs A Slice Of Luck is grandiose indeed, and is a reliable way to kill any of the Destrons on command in that mission with Heixing.

>>2107094
>turn off the good boy dopamine hit screen
Literally why?

Which character in the game would be the most likely to actually play Troubleshooter?

>>2108419
Misty, but that's too easy. Other than her...Heixing I guess.

Anyone else play other games, read the writing, and wonder how the hell Troubleshooter is the poster child for bad writing? Yes, Troubleshooter has its issues, but so many games are so much worse, and few are actually better.

>>2108804
Who said Troubleshooter has bad writing?
I could understand thinking the prose is bad because it's an awkward translation, so sometimes the sentences sound weird. But the plot and characterization is pretty good I think.

I appreciated how most of the characters felt more "realistic" than your typical anime-style game. Most of the time each character has an assigned trope, a backstory if they're lucky, and that's their character. Especially in strategy games with a big roster. Fire Emblem is the worst for this.
In Troubleshooter they felt more like real people to me. Especially the characters from Alley. Irene is probably the silliest, and if she's all the way on that end of the spectrum then that shows how down-to-earth the characters are overall.

>>2108804
The main issue with Troubleshooter's writing is that the translation is noticeably subpar. Some people wildly exaggerate how bad it is, especially since most of the really bad lines have been fixed ages ago, but it's still not great by any measure. Aside from that, I'd say the story itself is decidedly above-average for a video game. Not zOMG TEH BEST but quite good nonetheless. Despite being an entirely unrealistic setting it feels grounded in-context, and it has just enough complexity to give it some appeal beyond the immediate face value. Maybe it could do with fewer flashbacks and side-stories, but at the same time those do add some extra depth and flavor to the setting in a way you wouldn't get from a purely linear single-perspective story.

>>2108994
>Some people wildly exaggerate how bad it is, especially since most of the really bad lines have been fixed ages ago, but it's still not great by any measure
you can see this a lot especially around the Joel flashback parts. I cant remember what cutscene it was in particular but I could tell that the original text was clearly attempting to phrase things in several ways but was directly translated in a way where characters just kept repeating themselves.

>>2108804
The writing is fine. That mega faggot on RPGCodex who wrote that it's "badly written" was just doing so to keep his credentials intact on a site that notoriously hates anything anime related and dismisses all games containing anything resembling it out of hand, no matter how good the actual gameplay and content is. So the guy writing the review just dismisses all the aesthetic and storytelling elements because the gameplay is so awesome he still wants to play it and get other people on that godforsaken site to play it, so he hyper focuses on it in his review. The game is actually pretty damn good writing wise, it explores its themes and sets up its characters and world quite well.

Every single major protagonist is dealing with abandonment in some form and I felt the game did a good job differentiating in how each one handled it. And Pascal was the perfect final villain for the game, as the world had utterly abandoned him altogether and his response was to become an absolute monster that betrayed everything he stood for, which contrasted him quite nicely with the heroes who handled the same rejection in better ways. Except Albus, of course, who will one day cause Ragnarok.

>>2108804
honestly anything even tangentially anime related gets religiously shat on by faggots that want to seem mature and cultured. The best example of this is how hard disco elysium gets sucked off despite having similar overall level of quality to an eastern VN.

nyoom

>>2108804
>Troubleshooter is the poster child for bad writing?
Is it? The story and setting were what gripped me the most on my first playthrough.
I don't think that it's bad at all.

>>2109053
>Except Albus, of course, who will one day cause Ragnarok.
His downfall is the one thing I'm looking forward to the most.

>>2109224
hah i never noticed the spoon statues flanking the altar before
cute

>>2108804
reviews are the poster child for bad writing, dandy could be nobel winners in comparison ^^

>>2109224
Albus will tear down the corrupt and the wicked by becoming the greatest villain the world has ever known, and after he destroys it all the entire series will end with a final 1v1 between him and Irene, with a throwback to her asking him if he's a villain.

>>2109410
Albus will take the mask of a spoonist.

>>2109224
He's literally talking about himself

>>2109435
>He's literally talking about himself
I'm glad someone else pointed this out, although I think doesn't refer to just one person. It refers to Sharky, and Albus, and Valhalla in a metaphorical way. It's a good line, it says something about both the speaker and the target, is relevant to the game's themes, and gives nuance to the game's conflicts. One of many examples of why I think this game's writing is very underrated.

>>2109435
He's comparing Albus to himself; his statement applies to both of them equally.

Sharky:
>leader of the spoonists
>well respected figurehead among his kind who supports those who've been abandoned by everyone else
>was planted into the role by Edward and replaced the original Sharky
>falls to Carter who in turn takes over his mask and replaces him

Albus:
>leader of [Your Company]
>well respected Troublehooter hailed as a hero after the subjugation of White Tiger
>deliberately and almost exclusively takes on dangerous cases that accelerate his climb through the ranks in order to gain access to government files about the catastrophe from 10 years ago
>hides a cold and calculating personality beneath his nice guy mask

They couldn't have made the connection any more apparent.

>>2108804
writing's alright, ESPECIALLY for an anime-esque strategy. those always tend to have absolutely abhorrent writing

>>2097993 (OP)
>Wow the valhalla government is evil
>Look outside
Why are all the fictional dystopias better than real life?

>>2110859
Nobody would believe such a retarded world if it wasn't real

Wont Yuri use his normal Cat and Dog in the sequel? Think they are going to get completely unique mastery boards?

>>2111405
They'll probably just be part of his character like Mono and Vivi are for Kylie

I just want to say i love big girls with big tiddies. That's all.

>>2111405
maybe we'll get a fun cutscene of them pilfering Sion's snacks

No one posted this yet? Alright
https://x.com/BraveDandyLion/status/1951974412023992787
"Many envy Lumi’s rapid rise under her Public Security Chief father. But none can meet the glare behind her red uniform, flowing blonde hair, and dark eyeshadow. At home, she tosses the wig and wipes it all away—just a woman shedding her armor."

Looks like we have Lumi redesign. Not really feeling it desu, the green lipstick's not doing it for me

>>2111606
>Not really feeling it desu, the green lipstick's not doing it for me
Yeah, it's not good. I know some here already were not digging the new character designs, but imo, this is the first actively bad design Dandy's put out, which makes it surprising. Maybe pushback will make them tone it down, there's still time.

>>2111606
I like left, but right is a pretty big downgrade from her concept art

>>2111606
It's over.

>>2111562
oh hey, I recorded that
>>2111606
right would be a 1000 times better if the eyes and lipstick were any other color. christ, what were they thinking?

>>2111606
uuhhhhhh
how did Lumi go from best design to worst

>>2111606
dandy either designs great shit like bianca or straight ass like leton. Looks like the coin landed on the leton side this time

>>2111606
Man... that's, uh, something.

>>2111606
That's a downgrade.

>>2111606
Thats a serious downgrade from the concept art.
I dont even really dislike the lipstick and contact lenses as an idea, but the color just clashes too much with her uniform. I would rather Dandy picked a color that matched with her, and maybe gave her a more controlled haircut/wig.

>>2111562
But that's a womanlet with big tiddies.

>>2111987
It's both the neon green color + her mouth is too wide with the lipstick. It makes it look like she applied it wrong and she's the Joker or something. Blue eyes + red lipstick goes better with her color scheme, and her mouth could be drawn smaller like this to emphasize the parts of her lips that have the lipstick on.

>>2112023
This looks way better, but I still don't get why they turned the hot soldier chick into a girl that uses contact lenses, a wig and makeup to attend to her military duties.

>>2111606
Actually hideous. First design I have actively, completely hated with every fiber of my being. She looks like a burnt out crack whore hitting her late 30s. Her original look was way, way better than that. What the fuck are they thinking?

>>2112023
Still looks terrible. Also really hate the whole "I wear a wig and colored contacts when engaging in battle", it's beyond retarded. This design is bad enough that it's making me have reservations about the game as a whole.

Noticed her fringe's brown, makes me think they originally planned her to have dyed her hair blonde. No clue why they went the wig thing, it's a pretty odd design choice.
Really curious that she went through such a drastic redesign, the first draft we got of her was already fully rendered.

>>2112523
I miss her already.

>>2112523
It wouldn't make sense for her to dye her hair then un-dye it at home and re-dye it the next day.
They should just have the new casual outfit turn into this one but without the brown fringe. They both look good, it's the new uniformed look that's a problem.
If they don't match that's even better, it'd exaggerate how she's becoming a different person when she puts on her "armor".

>>2112523
This looks so much better than the final draft it's unreal.

>>2112523
>pissy bitch thats weak to anal
>>2112023
>insane clown bitch
jfc what a downgrade

>>2112523
This one was my favourite out of new cast. I wouldn't call redisgn bad. But yeah. It's much worse. At least keep short hair. Please.

>>2113417
>I wouldn't call the redesign bad
Yeah it's far beyond that, it's actively horrendous and repulsive.

>>2113417
The casual redesign is fine but the military outfit is wtf tier

If you guys could pick one new game in a whole other genre, said in the Troubleshooter Universe, what would that game be?
Hardmode is no datingsim.

>>2115982
Yakuza style arpg.

>>2115982
>Hardmode is no datingsim.
a porn game then

>>2115982
A strategy game about the 3-sided war that ended with Valhalla's creation.

>>2115982
A Hired Gun like FPS. Since it focuses a lot on movement and killing gangers. It even had a summonable dog.

>>2115982
Something akin to Dishonored or Thief, where you play as an assassin or criminal. Make it so civilians can call for the police and troubleshooters to hunt you down if you get seen attacking someone. And then make the world change for the worse with the amount of police officers and troubleshooters you kill, while the killed criminals have no real drawback.
The powers in Troubleshooter already works well both for movements and giving a player solid tools to play with.

>>2115982
Fishing game

>>2115982
pokemans, ez

>>2116053
>can call for the police and troubleshooters to hunt you down
I just laughed thinking a civilian sees you, calls the troubleshooters and you get insta death by a sion gigaray from the other side of the city filling all your screen.

>>2115982
Spoonism tactical\gestional. You have to engulf the city with the flames of spoonism, recruit personel, sabotage, kill or recruit troubleshooters, act in the shadow. Kinda phantom doctrine but with the spoons.

>>2116708
The odds of Misty being in stealth right behind you is low, but never zero.

>>2115982
Sim City Valhalla.

>>2116770
>there is a non-zero chance she watches me jerk off
hot

>>2116712
...that actually sounds breddy gud

>>2116835
And you never check what happens to the cum stained tissue when you throw them away.

>>2104322
It works on everybody but you don't have the particularly interesting synergies for a full board until the end of base game and the DLC. Main niceties:
>tons of Vigor and recovery for it, Heixing and Giselle love this
>Professionalism/Vocation is an absurd amount of Speed
>buffs last forever and mental debuff immunity
>powerful effects on missing which works great with reaction attacks like -AT and buff roulette, Kylie gets it for free with Reactive Matrix, Giselle and Heixing lessen the sting of missing with their reaction attacks that cost AT and even Alisa sees some benefit with Anger Strike/Forestallment
>ignores a lot of Block/Dodge with Sharp Spirit and you also ignore a large portion of Block's damage resistance anyway with Ebullient
>Vocation + Green Old Age is a potent buff to all your skills damage
>The Will Beyond Extreme Will for dealing with reaction attack spam
>one person can run the Commander's Spirit buff stuff, or Renowned Commander
>actually find the +Overcharge stuff very restrictive with the rest of the board, but 50% damage reduction in Overcharge is one of the stronger effects, Alisa can do great things with it
Here's a couple builds, these ones I think I could figure out working outside of Limit Break, and my Ray too since it just uses Vocation, but my Alisa is engineered within an inch of her life even with LB.

>>2116979
Some other fun things:
>That Giselle killed the DLC2 mission with just her and one other person before my teammates even arrived, normally Vigor would be a problem for that but the board sustains her by itself
>That Heixing is great with an Anne White Mage backpack fueling his Impulse Fields and giving him more turns, the entire point is he gets his turn back off the reaction attacks which lets him spam Fixed Stance Sweeping Fire off of Re Mop-Up, very fun build

>>2116979
you absolute madman, much appreciated
might be time for an all-in ESP/Spirit playthrough
feels uncanny to see you post builds without Tough Spirit :DD

>>2118194
ESP builds are strong on nearly everybody. I'd carve out some caveats for Wind Albus outside of Limit Break, and I haven't played around with Ice Leton much. I've made strong and fun builds for everybody else.
>no Tough Spirit
Panic/Confusion are mental debuffs, right? Diligent Worker's immunity to those covers that. I find those effects to rarely be a problem even without it, situationally relevant for sure but I'm always hungry for fun synergies and I really like Bounding Stride too.

>>2118200
Confusion's not classified as a mental debuff, but almost no enemies inflict it so it doesn't matter. The main reason to run Tough Spirit or mental immunity is so you don't get Surprised/Contraction'd by Mungos.

nyoom 2: nyoom harder
this is not the limit

>>2118335
S-she's fast!

>>2118335
I really need her to kick me in the balls.

>>2118335
2 fast 2 dodge

>>2118335
Albus stands no chance on their next run together.

>>2118335
Impregnation.

>>2122223
infinite bloodbath turns > 322 speed

>>2122294
I dont think using infinite bloodbath is common practice when it comes to friendly jogs.

>>2122294
this is a barb, most of her running comes from when it's NOT her turn

>>2122230
>Impregnation.
*Repeated impregnation.
You can't just stop at one with a woman like that

>>2122334
>he doesn't double stab people while running to recharge his batteries
NGMI

>>2122874
>Implying is a decision *you* get to make.

>alisa is 7 years older than albus
why is this old hag flirting with a guy in his early 20s?

>>2122915
A dozen is a small army, nobody can handle that many!
>>2122961
This boy completely spills his spaghetti in front of her several times. It's only natural she teases him a little bit.

>>2122888
I exclusively build up speed by chasing women.

>>2123142
>>2123163
Fuck off both of you i am dying.

If you guys could pick one ESP type to have in real life, what would it be? I would probably pick water since it seems the most versatile and immediately useful.

>>2123589
>water
>all sorts of poison fart buffs
I'd pick Fire since it seems to be the most useful in everyday life without immediately giving you away as an esper freak (or causing terminal blood cancer).
Makes you virtually immortal too.

>>2123589
Definitely Earth.

>>2123589
I'd probably go for Water as well
I think in general the more defensive ESP types would be the best to have. Being able to clear debuffs in real life would be sick.

>>2123589
>>2123680 (me)
On the other hand, Fire would be incredibly useful
>has the same debuff clear as Water
>can make fires on demand in the wilderness, which is practical as fuck
>Phoenix can save you from misadventure (though in the lore, not all Fire ESP users can use Phoenix)

>>2123589
wind bros where we at
>Second Wind
>Second Wind
>Second Wind
run like a kenyan

>>2124367
You'll race against actual Kenyans and it'll be a tie and you'll be deported back to Kenya.

Energy Conversion
Flash
Energy Conversion
Flash
Energy Conversion
Energy Condenser
More flash than YOUR BODY HAS ROOM FOR

>>2125098
*Wind Walks behind you*

>>2123589
wasn't there a steam post by dandy saying that teenage esp users would their wind power to do mischievous shit like flaring up girls' skirt or something like that

>>2126755
>using wind esp to pull out bianca's anal beads in public

>>2127144
You underestimate her sphincter.

>>2127161
it would be like pulling excalibur from the stone

>>2127144
how did bianca get associated with anal?
and what are the other girls' fetishes?

>>2127267
It's not just her, the entire ojousama archetype is associated with anal. No idea what started it but at this point it just feels natural.

>>2127316
>tomboys are for anal
>villainesses are for anal
>ojousamas are for anal
who isn't at this point

>>2126755
Yeah
https://steamcommunity.com/app/470310/discussions/0/2949168687326265151/?ctp=194#c3600093929964332805

>>2127325
Tomboys are for gentle breeding in the missionary position while holding hands.

>>2127411
>play silly prank at at school
>school calls in paramilitary to kick you in the balls and call you a villain
fugggg :DD:D

>>2127452
>Tomboys are for gentle anal in the missionary position while holding hands.
Ftfy

>>2127267
She hits all the buttslut types
>tsundere
>very bitchy
>rich girl
>goth
>massive daddy issues
>hime cut
>strict home life
Only way she could be more anal coded is if dandy revealed that she was raised super christian

>>2127411
You can use as many ESP suppressants as you want in your school, But it wont stop a determined Spirit user from creating a black hole in the middle of the cafeteria.

>>2127515
>we're getting TS2 instead of draki high school
Isn't fair!

>>2127515
I don't think kids have the training to use Spirit yet, especially not to such a crazy degree. Even adult VHPD Suppressors can't use Spirit.

Does the anon who manages the /troubleshooter/ divegrass team lurk here?

>>2127603
>more or less immortal
>i hunger
>heroic autism
sensible_chuckle.png

>>2127603
>/troubleshooter/ divegrass team
What's that?

>>2127767
Divegrass AKA football is something that's been going on for almost 15 years on 4chan where people make teams of AI players that compete against each other. The main competition has teams based on board culture (which /vst/ has one), but there are invitationals where people make teams about whatever they want. Some anon made a really neat Troubleshooter team which is in that webm playing against a Kingdom Hearts team.

>>2127603
>>2127949
I knew about divegrass, but not that there's a /vst/ league let alone a Troubleshooter team. It even uses the in-game models, that's nice.
When do they play?

>>2127954
It's not a /vst/ league, it looks like the team has only been used for the Divegrass Before Christmas invitationals which are every December according to their wiki page https://implyingrigged.info/wiki//troubleshooter/

>>2127955
>Giselle
>Made for Negoori Tongues
kek

>>2118335
>speed
>base attack power
What's the limit anon, I wish to know

I'm thinking of getting this game while it's on sale. Never played Xcom or any Xcom-likes but I am a fan of both strategy and RPG games. Any reason why I wouldn't like this?

>>2130539
>Any reason why I wouldn't like this?
It's much more story- and character-based than similar games, with lots of cutscenes and flashbacks and stuff like that. Plus it's super linear. You can always go back and replay missions as much as you want, and some missions have alternate paths, but the main narrative is 100% on-rails. The start of the game is also arguably the worst part of the game, since the story takes a while to get going, lots of mechanics don't open up until later, and you've got a tiny squad so you get lots of missions with shitty generic police units filling out your team, which just isn't much fun IMO.

If none of that is a dealbreaker for you it's definitely worth playing.

>>2130573
>"We need to hire someone"
>"You're right, Albus"
>next mission has them workig with a cute autistic girl
>after the mission she just leaves
>"We need to hire someone"
>"You're right, Albus"

>>2130573
Some of that stuff does seem like it would annoy me but if the rest of the game is fun I can put up with it. I'll check it out, then. Thanks for the response anon

>>2130628
If it gets on your nerves you can always just switch difficulty down and trivially shitstomp missions until you've got the first five or six characters. I also recommend looking into the settings and switching off various notifications and confirmations in combat. Streamlines the experience a lot.

>>2115982
Isometric roguelite similar to SYNTHETIK, you get gear and build your mastery board as your run goes

>>2130573
>he doesn't enjoy larping as a vhpd doorkicker
sad
>target is resisting fiercely!
>target neutralised!
you can even get DSE from a striker spamming counterattack

>>2130539
>>2130573
>>2131002
I boughted the game and I've been enjoying it so far but you all were right about it having a slow start. It seems like every time Irene is about to join the party, she just kinda leaves.
I don't mind the generic police units, it's nice to have some consistent ranged damage when most of the name units are melee or rely on abilities for range and I don't feel bad about sacrificing them. Also they look cool and it's fun to do what >>2131422 says and play like it's a tacticool swat team instead of capeshit but korean.

>>2133920
You get access to more than just cops with guns. You also get riot shield cops, and Payday 2 Cloakers. Plus a named police unit that helps in a fair amount of missions.

>>2133920
eventually you get the only female NPC in the game as swat members. They suck ass though because their death screams are too erotic so you start suiciding them into enemies to hear it

>>2133982
>not using the strikers to knee Houcheng in the balls until he fucking dies
pathetic

>>2130539
>Any reason why I wouldn't like this?
None.

>>2133982
>They suck ass though
ENTER

>>2134175
Midgame VHPD are such chads. Once the Suppressors promote to Rangers they get Cover Move which you'd never notice without reading their board since they lack Base Defence, but if you have them conceal against cover it works. It's extremely cheesy on the sniper defence training map because pretty much everyone except the Strikers and Guardians will try to range them and fail.

>>2134175
Hag threesome with Jane and Giselle!

>>2134362
How many teen male troubleshooters has jane "kept on custody" for some steamy interrogatory room sex and molestation?

>>2134428
she no longer rapes teens after she met albus
now he is jane and giselle's weekend stress relief
see this cutscene cg? Yeah that's from albus' perspective

>>2134534
Bianca is on the other side of that glass, screeching like a cat wanting to be let in.

>>2134911
All the sparkly drops on the glass are actually splashback from the waterfall in her pants that occurs when she's near Miss Giselle

>>2134534
Seeing jane's arm i tought albus was under the table.

>>2127480
Making fires in school = arson
Lifting girl's skirts in school = sexual harassment
both of those are serious criminal acts deserving of paramilitary ball-kicking

>>2135705
God you have no idea how much i want irene to kick me in the balls till i fucking die.

>>2135705
Sex with female ESP users

>>2135705
Arson is based and heroic when Irene commits it.
Also you cant convince me that Bianca doesnt use her wind ESP to try and lift Giselle's dress up on the daily.

>>2135268
He is. But that is simply because he is hiding from the IRS.

Anne Wayne Macy

I can't stop thinking about Kylie in her daisy dukes

>>2137166
Accessing that butt.

the difficulty in this game feels so inconsistent
there are times when i've started scenario missions underleveled and cleared them without taking a single casualty, then there are times where i'm overleveled but end up getting half my team wiped by a single guy

DUDE
FOOD

>>2140304
For Human units there's a very small difference in power from levels alone. Mostly it just means you can equip more masteries, so if your build is good it doesn't matter if you're a lower level. Same thing applies to bosses and lategame enemies once even the scrubs start getting full builds.

>>2140304
difficulty is inconsistant because some enemies dick down specific builds while others job hard against the same build. Essentially if an enemy feels super easy you just lucked out by playing the strategy that best counters them. This becomes more apparent in DLC2 with red sand/mungo which predate on two different playstyles so one faction is usually pretty easy while the other is super hard.

>>2140304
did you get wiped by Ryo?

>>2140316
Awww he is so cute. He's like a little hungry doggie.

>>2140612
no I keep getting fucked by spoonist drones and those guys with like 127% block chance and the occasional sniper
Ryo did kill a lot of my guys during the port mission but I figured out pretty quickly that I just had to kite him around and use action time abilities so he couldn't do anything until the timer ran out
I'm going to take advice from >>2140441 and try changing up my builds a little bit and see if that makes any difference

>>2140742
>those guys with like 127% block chance
The trick with those guys is to use knockbacks to stun them. You can push them into adjacent units if there aren't any walls nearby.

>>2140742
Drones are pain in the ass early on since you don't have anything to counter them and machines designed to resist basically everything and there is so many of them. Sion with his bouncing lightning is very good here. Or any form of an AOE. Armorbreak works too, but it's better aganist more advanced late game robots.
>guys with like 127% block chance
Beyond just stun-push. Crits ignore block, IRC Irene has move that also outright ignores it.

>>2140781
>Crits ignore block
That's not true, it has to first pass the block check to crit at all. You probably meant autocrits like Sen no Sen, which do ignore block.

>>2140796
Just looked it up. Yeah you right. I always was under impression that all crits will ignore block. With some exceptions.

Offensive Anne is also good against robots since they don't have Earthform. I think.

>>2141378
Yeah they don't have defence against Earth so she's decent at killing small/remodelled Bicrons, but she suffers a bit once Damage Absorbing + Emergency Drive comes into play

>>2140742
ah rip
Piercing Strike / Breakthrough masteries are very handy there, or GS Albus, or Irene's Front Breakthrough
go back and kill Ryo when you can too, he drops some useful stuff

>>2140742
I recommend greatsword albus, he can get his block really high to cuck robitch damage and he has plenty of masteries for fucking up high damage enemies. Robots also suffer super hard from destroy armor/weapon since all their stats are from items that make up their build vs masteries and great swordsman inflicts it all the time.