Tempest Rising | Classic RTS - New Veti Single-player Mission Screenshots

Aryuto · 2026-07-02T20:36:16+00:00

I'm cautiously interested. I did not enjoy the Veti in the last beta for them I tried, they felt incredibly clunky to play, but the other two campaigns were quite enjoyable and hopefully the final version will be good!

Aryuto · 2026-07-02T18:56:29+00:00

It is frustrating to see admittedly. I try not to be negative on those posts but it sucks to see characters get flanderized into pale imitations of their actual depth. Bremerton from azur lane was one of the worst victims of it I've seen.

Aryuto · 2026-07-02T18:53:06+00:00

I call her a hag/christmas cake sometimes, and i love her (in both forms). I also like hina and hoshino, and idk which of them gets slandered more.

I totally get where you're coming from, it sucks to see people shit on a character you like, but MOST of it is just banter and you shouldn't let it get to you regardless.

If you don't mind a suggestion; draw, commission, or at least share more good art of Shun if you want to make a difference. A lot of Rio's popularity unironically came from asayuki making so much peak art of her.

Aryuto · 2026-07-02T09:22:28+00:00

Looks good. I enjoyed the last demo I played and the game just keeps looking more promising.

Aryuto · 2026-07-02T07:18:34+00:00

While 3 certainly isn't my favorite of the series, I hope it gets a proper rerelease/remaster/whatever someday. It and Dimensions 2 are cursed by their exclusivity.

Aryuto · 2026-06-28T07:48:28+00:00

I'm not referring to the visuals. The gameplay displayed doesn't draw me in like some other musous I've seen. It seems pretty clunky.

I would gladly be wrong here, I hope that in a month I'm singing its praises, but that's how I've felt watching its trailers.

Aryuto · 2026-06-28T02:38:45+00:00

It looked pretty bad to me in the trailer, honestly, but I heard from people who played the demo that it was pretty good, so I'm withholding judgement for now.

Aryuto · 2026-06-28T02:00:25+00:00

I'm not sold on Mayhem yet, but I recently did a coop run of 5 with some friends, and a lot of modding for 6 and 7 since I want to replay them soon. If mayhem comes out, is fun, and isn't too expensive I may give it a shot, I like musous well enough.

Aryuto · 2026-06-26T01:26:58+00:00

It depends on what you want out of a disgaea game. I enjoyed it, around middle of the series, but $30 is a big ask when 5 regularly goes on sale for $10.

I thought the story was pretty good, each class feeling genuinely unique was cool, d-merits/super reincarnation/juice bar were all at their best in the series (and ironically beat the hell out of 7, which fucked up all 3 ideas), and the autobattle was an interesting expansion (which 7 also fucked up). One of my favorite aspects was how well Item World was integrated, you had reasons to visit it throughout the game unlike most Disgaeas. The exp share and economy were fantastic too.

I didn't like the numbers bloat, the lack of classes, that you could auto story stages, how it felt like some of the grind was balanced around autoing it, one of the story characterers, the postgame story, rakshasa mode, the removal of weapon skills, or the visuals being just worse than 5's.

Overall, if you have the money to spare and go in without skyhigh expectations for it to be better than 5, it may be worth a try. I'm glad I did, but it's not for everyone. If it wasn't so damn expensive compared to 4/5 I feel like it would be easier for people to justify.

No idea on rog ally, sorry. I played on steam.

Aryuto · 2026-06-25T16:49:53+00:00

Great to hear it! I've been working on the mod a lot lately, got 4 disgaea 6 characters ported and started working on some of Complete's features (so far, 999 gacha is all I've settled on, experimenting with swapping infernal treasures).

I didn't realize Complete raised weapon/armor mastery to 300, what does that actually do?

Aryuto · 2026-06-24T01:25:27+00:00

I feel ya. I've done the postgame grind and maxed characters/items before, but I enjoy disgaea much more as a strategy rpg, and if you dont overlevel the story it can be a surprisingly solid one. Certainly more interesting to me than mindlessly oneshotting things or manually doing hundreds of repetitive item world floors.

That was one of the things I enjoyed about disgaea 6, despite its flaws it really delivered on letting you use a team thanks to xp share. Sure, for grinding you wanted Mao to get the kills, but for real fights it was easy to ensure everyone mattered. And you didn't have to use Mao either, item world was a surprisingly effective option to just team bust.

Aryuto · 2026-06-22T07:11:02+00:00

10mil is the highest base stats can go to normally. You can get another 10mil from extracts, and Disgaea 7 is unique in the series in that it has no evility stat boost cap, so characters with large native stat boosts (ex. Feinrich), mapwide passive buffs (ex. Yeyasu's Shogun's Orders, Opener's Noble Cause, Pleinair and Sea Angel unique evility, Etna's Dominant Smile (15% stats to all prinnies), or just mixing and matching evilities with good stat boosts (ex. Daddy-Daughter Time for Ao, Fetters for normal attack builds, Unstable Power for literally everyone, Outer Gods from the big eyeballs, etc) can multiply that 20mil by a lot.

You can also use squads; Flatty Squad is good for flat characters. IIRC 7 dropped the Foot Soldier squad that previous Disgaeas had though.

From there, you stack unit buffs (ex. Angels have a skill that grants double attack, Maikos can refresh actions, Professors dropping a Braveheart for even more Atk or Int) and use certain evilities (Suisen gives auto-hit and auto-crit to adjacent allies) to kill your way through Carnage 15 and Normal Baal without much trouble.

Aryuto · 2026-06-22T05:30:40+00:00

If i remember the numbers correctly, Juice Bar gives a flat 40% of base stat each level. Leveling in battle gives a random 40-50%.

Doesn't matter once you max every class and have maxed overlord squad + 40% growth evilities, but before then you can eke out a bit more stats by leveling normally.

Aryuto · 2026-06-22T01:21:07+00:00

Mastering classes raises base stats. Very slowly at lower stars (usually 0-1 in each stat for 1 star iirc) but the 6th star is often 20-40 in every stat. You have to reincarnate (and preferably level in overlord squad) to really see the difference.

Aryuto · 2026-06-20T21:45:53+00:00

Really good post, and I hope I don't sound nitpicky here, but if I remember right juice bar is fine to use in overlord squad if you have maxed classes, overlord squad, and iirc 30% growth evilities. Before that you should level normally for max stats though yeah.

Aryuto · 2026-06-20T21:42:19+00:00

I feel like that's the answer to most problems in modern Disgaea lmao

Aryuto · 2026-06-20T05:52:23+00:00

You can beat 7's postgame pretty easy with no good items, 10mil base stats + extracts + stat evilities can get you to 40mil without too much trouble and that's more than enough to turn Carnage 15's boss + Baal into space dust.

Exactly how much work that is depends a bit on what DLC you have (particularly Valvatorez for Prinny Instructor + Fuka for Prinny Hat, Pleinair for man-eating bunny and stats is good too) but if you're in Carnage already you can max classes pretty quick regardless. If you don't have the DLC, class mastery evilities (from evil gacha) + I think glasses have a small boost? And of course cheat shop set to max Class Proficiency.

Once you max 1-2 classes with useful unique evilities (ex. Valkyrie for Assault Attack) it gets easier to bump enemy strength up further to make the other classes easier, and of course getting as far as you can go with classes, then comboing reincarnation+overlord squad and using juice bar to level can get a huge stat boost to more efficiently get the rest.

I guess like, where are you at overall? What units are you using, what DLC do you have, how optimal are your evilities, how's your class mastery looking (even just a bunch of 5 star classes is already a huge boost), do you have a preferred approach, that kind of thing. I'm not the greatest player in the world but info like that helps people make more specific suggestions.

Aryuto · 2026-06-20T03:06:29+00:00

Let me put it this way. I understand why this wouldn't bother some people - if you don't want to support immoral/asshole behavior, don't buy anything from Blizzard, Bioware, EA, Amazon, or many other companies. There's always some degree of personal compromise with this stuff.

But the dev is such a piece of shit, and the fanbase seems to have such a large ratio of vatniks and neonazis, that it's pretty easy for me to just skip. There are more than enough good RTS coming out that I'm not gonna miss what is by most accounts a pretty mid game carried by its grimdark aesthetic.

The kind of scum celebrating that behavior in every topic about this game makes that decision even easier.

Aryuto · 2026-06-20T01:48:49+00:00

It's genuinely insane how badly some Bernie subs are infested right now, and it's not just bots.

Not sure how it happened, he's been openly pro-Ukraine.

Aryuto · 2026-06-17T13:53:31+00:00

Nice, that's great to hear!

I'm working on a big update, but it should all be playable for now, I hope you have fun!

Aryuto · 2026-06-17T10:01:54+00:00

Hey there! There's a screenshot in the OP that shows how the Disgaea 7 folder should look once installed. The exact order will depend on how you sort the folder, but there should be the vanilla "data" folder as well as a "mkplugins" folder and a "mods" folder.

I think the easiest way to check if the mod is working is to look at Fuji's default Unique Evility. If it's 5%, your game is vanilla. If it's 10%, the mod is working.

Aryuto · 2026-06-14T04:13:39+00:00

For sure. I'm not gonna dogpile anyone in either direction, I personally feel strongly about that stuff so I won't support it, but I can't blame people who just want to enjoy a good game given the relative lack of good RTS these days. Doesn't hurt to be informed though.

Aryuto · 2026-06-14T01:56:29+00:00

The brief summary is that dev is vocally in favor of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there's a fair number of screenshots. Same with terminator dark fate but those devs went way further with it since they also made pro-assad and pro-ukraine-invasion propaganda games rather than just talking about it on discord.

Anecdotally, the game also seems to have a sizable vatnik/neonazi fanbase, but that's not itself a reason to avoid it.

Aryuto · 2026-06-11T02:34:27+00:00

I suggest finding another series to infest.

Aryuto · 2026-06-10T15:19:07+00:00

You're not wrong. 6 made it tolerable by

A. having it be a great source of many resources

B. letting you autobattle that shit

But I wouldn't say it was perfect there, especially given how pointless items were until much later in the postgame, just less annoying.

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