[zombero]

Cheating?! For shame Good to see you were able to catch your units up. As of 1.044b, hopefully there won't be any catching up to do on new playthroughs. Hows that Weretiger holding up?

[zombero]

Is the Titan unit going to have an Octopus also?

[Efrate]

I just cheated to save time since apparently neutrals don't like to show up for me. Weretiger is good so far, not broken by any means but solid. Plus I wanted to get an actual video done and I wouldn't have had one if I just did randoms. Pogrom was grindy but not terribly hard, once levels caught up denebs garden was significantly easier than I remember, again it could be do to having everyone caught up. I'll get zenobia done and hopefully up by tomorrow, I just know that'll take a while and I'll have to splice it from 2 or 3 videos.

[Far Horizon]

Right now the giant unit is the same as last stage - Giant + Cleric + 2x Valkyrie. I suppose I could go Giant + Octopus + Cleric.

[Far Horizon]

And here's stage 4. The start was a pain, because I did a ton of fights on land, but once I was able to camp the central water area, it was quite reasonable. There were a few units with multiple lightning attackers that made things a bit difficult though!

[zombero]

Another thing that would help with the 6 backrow lightning attacks is Tarot cards, but good work sticking to your guns there

The popularity of valks in the first 4 stages is really unlucky for Octopi. Though early game is when terrain matters most, so at least they are gods on water. Sirius could maybe use some buffing to reflect WW's improved growth and to compensate for the Infected reduced resistances. It's really hard to care about the early bosses, though, heh. I'll throw some stat points his way, though. Pretty much the trouble with bosses in the first half of the game is half of them join you, and join you with the same stats as they have when you fight them, so I just generally don't make bosses in that segment of the game too tough.

[Far Horizon]

Yes, this stage convinced me that I must, must stick to the water early in the game/stage. I just started stage 5 & I plan to camp the river around the first temple there. I will probably give up a ton of bonus Goth, since it will take a long time to kill all the enemies, but the fights will go much easier that way.

I do agree that harder bosses earlier on would be good (at least for ones that don't join up): it'd be less of a surprise when players run into Gares or such later, IMO, if the early boss fights were ramped up more. Though Deneb can certainly be very challenging with the Witch change, even with the previous version.

[Efrate]

I never had an issue with deneb, but granted it was before change. Regardless. Slums of Zenobia is done and rendering, it'll be up sometime tonight, took me less time than expected. Also a weird bug, Ashe's firegiant lost some stats and gained othesr after the stage. He had 201 hp, 101 str, 74 agil, and 76 int when I got him. After the stage, I wanted to put him into my unit with a giant because he should have superior stats do to the fact that he should be treated as all 9 levels or whatever as firegiant. Well, after I switched them, I noticed he had lost 2 str and gained 2 int. I thought it was more pronounced than that originally, but it stuck me as odd.

I thought of compatability, but that only effects gains at level not stats while in unit right? Also losing str and gaining int was weird. Especailly since it was an equal amount. Debonair was a fucking pain BTW. Warren as a Sorcerer only hit him 1 out of like 8 times and that for 15 damage with phantom, whereas my lord's swath did more and hit more frequently. But I eroded him away eventually. Vid up as soon as rendering and upload is done, so fire on it being this evening since it'll take an hour or so to render and 8-10 to upload, maybe more.

[zombero]

Compatibility effects current stats, not level up gains, but to my knowledge it shouldn't ever raise one stat and lower another. They should both raise or both lower.

[Efrate]

yeah thought it was weird. Oh well. Nothing major. Uploading now, but it will be ages until it gets up. Yaay DSL for making this take forever, by tomorrow morning it'll be up. Maybe tonight.

[zombero]

OH WAIT. Leadership bonus. If the stats between the char and the leader are significantly different, you get a bonus or penalty to that stat. So high Int leaders boost your squad's int, high str leaders boost str.

[Far Horizon]

Stage 5 Up. I lowered my rep to complete the censer quest, but then found a world card .. so I went ahead and bottomed it out collecting more tarots and advancing my troops up to around level 7-9.



I received a stone of dragos this stage, so I promoted my starting Diana to Dragoner. I still need an undead staff to go with my undead ring though - an early lich will be key. I have to troll Pogrom to fix some alignment issues anyway .. so here's hoping.

[Efrate]

and 14 hours later I just finished uploading holy hell.

[Far Horizon]

Stage 6 highlights up!



My undead did well, but this stage only has 2 enemy groups with white magic (both clerics).

[zombero]

Undead are pretty disgusting when used at the proper times...

[Far Horizon]

Stage 7 up.

edit: Changed to two videos due to some trouble with corrupted files for the boss fights.

Normal Fights



Boss Fights

[Far Horizon]

Stage 8 part 1 is up, with everything but the boss fight sequence.



I sadly had my mic muted for the boss sequence, so I had to narrate it after the fact. It should finish uploading in 30 minutes or so, but here's the link as I head to sleep.

[Far Horizon]

Stage 9 highlights are up. The boss fight was only eight minutes this time, so I went ahead and combined it with the rest of the stage.

[zombero]

Far Horizon, on 28 July 2012 - 05:00 AM, said:

Stage 9 highlights are up. The boss fight was only eight minutes this time, so I went ahead and combined it with the rest of the stage.

Unfortunately, Pumpkins really aren't built to be up front until they become halloweens. Maybe they could use a little help in their Pumpkin form.

Also, maybe enemy Krakens could use a little buffing...

[Far Horizon]

I didn't expect the pumpkins to do that great, but I also didn't plan it very well .. I just kind of tossed them in there I'll definitely try to get some clean up kills with that unit to try and get them caught up.

I'll be very interested to see the Pumpkin & Kraken changes.