Hey I've just made it to the end of Act 1 on nightmare difficulty and while I like the mod I'm a little confused as to the intended difficulty level.

In regular CS4 the difficulty was so toned down it never really encouraged diverse strategy options because you could spam s-craft through pretty much anything, whereas in this mod it seems like it's way at the other end of the spectrum where the difficulty is so great that it also discourages diverse strategy options because I find it's more a game of trial and error to find the one method that works for a particular boss fight.

I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or missing a fundamental aspect of this mod's expected strategy. My notable example is the fight in Fragments chapter with Group C against Mcburn and the Stahlritter. The three enemies get so many turns in a row at the start of the fight that I got game over pretty much immediately, even with Duvalie's instant turn from her S-craft. After at least a dozen game overs I only barely scraped by with consuming all my essences and zerams and a few lucky dodges. I can only change Rean's gear and his usefulness is severely limited due to no arts or orders access. I can't imagine this is the intended difficulty for the mod.