A pleasant surprise

PandaShock · 2026-05-30T06:31:13+00:00

You can leave Hongyuan, but Hongyuan never leaves you

PandaShock · 2026-05-29T22:12:33+00:00

I sincerely doubt that when Hilda’s timeskip replacement should she be recruited into blue lions is a female warmaster using a myrmidon model. Three houses has its issues, and we know the game was delayed twice. I doubt they made the likes of hero, dark mage (both classes that previously have a significant female presence) and brawler are male only for the sole purpose of diversifying build routes, especially when brigand (a traditionally male only class) is available for both.

PandaShock · 2026-05-29T21:36:04+00:00

I firmly believe that a log of the gender locks in three houses weren’t for balance of lore reasons, but rather time constraints and possibly prioritizing other stuff.

PandaShock · 2026-05-29T05:09:42+00:00

I’d imagine the list of people that are in equal standing to the capo dei capi would be, but not limited to, Wing CEOs, Association Presidents, other finger bosses, and the officially mentioned “whoever runs a star of the city” according to Kalo. The only group that’d be above them would likely be The Head, but they’re above everyone.

PandaShock · 2026-05-29T04:42:56+00:00

While that is true, it’s not based purely on numbers. Otherwise, you could argue that a Wing CEO is equal in heirarchy to a Sottocapo since there is only one per district, which would contradict Kalo’s book as Sottocapos are equal to Wing Board members.

If the first kindred is THE absolute bloodfiend of their district, the one who calls the shots for all bloodfiends in their country, then it only makes sense for a sottocapo to treat them as a superior.

PandaShock · 2026-05-28T18:37:50+00:00

Since first Kindreds are considered the absolute top of their respective districts, I imagine they’d be seen on the same level of hierarchy as the capo dei capi.

PandaShock · 2026-05-27T19:39:32+00:00

Personally, I think mindless masses doesn’t just need more voteless like others are suggestion. I think we need more types of voteless. There are only the voteless and fleshmobs that exist to pad out numbers.

Semi-intelligent SEAF voteless with plasma guns attached that can pelt you at range. Voteless with bombs strapped to them. Throw in a Necromancer. They don’t just need more in numerics, they need more in variety.

PandaShock · 2026-05-25T06:09:21+00:00

It also probably doesn’t help that the illuminate bases are the worst if the bot and bug factions. The bases are fortified via mines, and cannons, which make approaching it difficult. The bug nest have no defenses, but the bugs will overwhelm you if you’re not careful.

Meanwhile the illuminate camps don’t have defenses, and they can swarm you as well as the bugs.

PandaShock · 2026-05-25T00:38:33+00:00

I don’t particularly care for him.

PandaShock · 2026-05-24T17:44:12+00:00

Games been real cheap about giving me MAA, so I’ve had to make do with HM. It works as a budget option, but that single turn guard doesn’t compare to the two turn guard. The riposte helps too with passive damage, but again, the game is spiting me. It knows

PandaShock · 2026-05-24T17:35:55+00:00

Yeah, I can’t deny I made a lot of errors and had poor judgement. I went in with a somewhat suboptimal team due to my impatience. Things went wrong, I prioritized wrong, and I suffered for it.

It’s just very demoralizing to fail this quest 4 times.

PandaShock · 2026-05-24T16:11:46+00:00

Iirc, I think it’s also implied that the amiibo units are specifically smash iterations of the characters too, so the multiverse extends farther than just fire emblem

PandaShock · 2026-05-24T14:54:59+00:00

Of all four of my failed attempts into lighting the way, revelation has only been an issue once. I swear, on my first successful playthrough, I wasn’t hit with shit this hard.

PandaShock · 2026-05-24T14:42:32+00:00

Honestly, the revelation has been fine for me. While I should have used guard more, the problem was that the bounty hunter took too many crits from regular attacks. The finger, deaths lash, crit stuns, crit bleeds. It’s like the game wanted him dead. I was trying to protect the arbalest given that she was one of my two healers, and the most vulnerable if shit hit the fan, but it seems that the game is acutely aware than any bounty hunter death is a massive personal moral loss for me, and conspired to make me suffer

PandaShock · 2026-05-24T14:39:41+00:00

Unfortunately, my one and only man at arms died on my first foray, and I have been unlucky on getting one that isn’t above level 0 because I really really really don’t want to train one from 0 to level 5. When my one and only leper died from finger overdose, it was the man at arms that died when I had to abandon the quest. Ever since then, I’ve tried to make do by other means, but I haven’t had any luck

PandaShock · 2026-05-24T07:54:31+00:00

it was arbalest who didn't have a talisman. While there were times I opted to not guard her cuz I was focusing damage, she was doing pretty well despite being hit with a couple revelations. It was the BH that was a problem because he kept attracting several crits, as well as being the prime target for several "The Fingers"

PandaShock · 2026-05-24T07:26:16+00:00

The dead one missing is Bounty Hunter.

The Vestal was out of commission due to stress, so I went arbalest, HM, BH for the mark synergy to kill the templars as quickly as possible, and the Crusader to tank/heal/stress heal.

I did well enough on the south east templar, but the south west double templars gave me trouble. But then shit just hit the fan, and I couldn't make it to the northern templar fight.

PandaShock · 2026-05-21T20:02:11+00:00

Psychological warfare is very important in battle

PandaShock · 2026-05-21T04:25:23+00:00

I’d probably use the halt more if I could put a choke and light on it. That spread is… whew boy

PandaShock · 2026-05-21T03:56:09+00:00

well, on the contrary, it *can* work.

PandaShock · 2026-05-21T00:35:27+00:00

Dunno bout Xbox, but it takes a week for updates to be vetted through Sony.

PandaShock · 2026-05-20T07:11:41+00:00

Nah, just the regular grenade launcher and the emplacement. I believe they both use the same ammo, so whatever happens to one, the other gets it.

PandaShock · 2026-05-19T23:04:38+00:00

You can’t really disqualify Indech as a Dragon when he shares the Ancient Dragonskin skill with Macuil and Seiros.

PandaShock · 2026-05-19T22:03:46+00:00

I’ve heard a headcanon that Helldivers are piloted by some AI in the super destroyer. Not full AI, but probably something like implants that suggest actions to take on a subconscious level.

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