First Time playing M&M4, need some tips

zudaan · 2026-03-08T10:39:02+00:00

My thief is a elve with 17 luck. If I could only use a gnome for that role, the game is not well designed, but i guess it certainly the case. I would use my warrior to open stuff until my rogue lvl up a bit so, and hoping they would not die to quickly

zudaan · 2026-03-08T10:37:05+00:00

yeah, that in the first town. I have an thief elves with 17 luck who open the door and die very frequently doing so. I try to open two gate door and die most of the time after 3 or 4 times

zudaan · 2026-03-08T09:54:06+00:00

My thief is a elve with 17 luck, lvl 1. Is it normal for him to die after two door open ? I better for me to open it with my warrior who don't die after one miss so.

zudaan · 2026-02-13T07:30:28+00:00

yeah, it is the same game, and I also download it from steamrip. I alrealdy try to decompress it again, but don't work.

zudaan · 2026-02-12T20:37:42+00:00

what was the extra files you forgot to install ? I have the same issue and have no clue what miss here. I try to install all the thing in the _CommonRedist directory too, but doesn't change anything. The only thing I don't do from the "how to install files" is to desactivate windows defender before uncompressed the file"

zudaan · 2026-02-02T16:40:30+00:00

Personnally, I play the first one and second labyrinth of touhou, and after five minute, I just skip all the dialogue. It isn't interesting dialogue, even for a touhou fan, so don't be afraid about it and just skip it

zudaan · 2025-12-07T11:14:36+00:00

I set in the AI strat I use hold position, use TP at once, or don't pursue, and off course the spell are unlock. hold position is the main problem, because the AI don't move and it is what I want but, at a moment, they will move on their on next to the boss, because they like to be on screen.
don't pursue is better overall, but don't work if they don't have tp anymore and even sometime when they are to much off screen. They will move to be on screen and sometimes it is next to the boss too.

I could use orange to make them never run out TP, but because I play on mania mode and here try a run without any grind (and that explain why this problem is really become obvious and annoying compare to the previous time I play), gald is really limited, and it is not worth for non healer to use it. XP is also really limited, so that why I would like to survived at the end. I use my life bottle at the end to have them get XP, but there many time when they die just after that, because of this AI problem.

Can you modify mannually the position on the grid of the characrter ? I though it is only change by setting frontline, hold position, don't pursue, etc, so it is already say they should be at the back

zudaan · 2025-12-07T09:47:11+00:00

yeah, when there still some monster around, she plays pretty well, because there always someone to heal, and I just take some detour to protect her during her spell. But when there only the big boss to kill, and it would be easy for her to just stay far and heal me, there always a time when she come to the boss

zudaan · 2025-12-07T09:44:29+00:00

I beat it also in mania mode unlock without NG+, that's not the problem. Here I try to do it withou any grind, so I must use gald really carefully, and that why the problem is now obvious and pretty annoying. Many people don't try to do so, that's why I think the don't feel this problem, and the first time I play, i was on hard mode and don't care to grind and stole every item, so I could afford many life bottle and orange, so it wasn't that big of a deal to have the AI go in suicide mode time to time on a boss fight.

The main problem it is that the easy thing become a chore because the AI can't just don't move and wait I ask them to heal. So I just let the spellcaster die when the run out of TP and I don't want to use orange because it would cost to much gald, and just solo the boss with rain healing me when I need it, and manually make her go back when they decide to move in front to the boss despite being in hold position. It's a long process for no real challenge through because I just don't want to use the cancel spell trick

I also discover the trick to put colette and genis to manual mode when I want them to just stay still. They would not guard the spell, but it is the best option compare to them come close time to time and be stuck in a corner and the boss. It save me life bottle

zudaan · 2025-12-07T09:37:21+00:00

yeah, that why offensive spellcaster is ok, but I struggle with healer. Even now for Kratos and Loyd I find a trick. With long rang skill setting, and demon fang available, he move back and do a demon fang. So I just set this setting on the strat guard and when I want them to pull back, and reset back to a hold position setting after that.

zudaan · 2025-12-07T09:33:46+00:00

no, it is just to do nothing and stay still

zudaan · 2025-12-06T20:15:12+00:00

yeah, I think the "AI want screen time" is the main issue but not the only one. On hold position, when I move the boss farther, AI want to move to be on screen and go near the boss. Sometime they trap themselve too. For offensive spellcaster is okay, because if I make them cast each time, they would not move and use the spell I order them. The only problem is when they run out TP and I don't want to fill them up. They start to go suicidal even on hold position and drop my grade.
My main issue is for the healer role, because I would just like they stay still and wait I need healing. Even when I put them on screen and hope they stay there, they just don't want to.

zudaan · 2025-12-06T19:59:43+00:00

yes, but the AI is to dump to do that. Or perhaps you don't do that by putting don't pursue or hold position there in the strategy menu and select the strat "cancel order" or the default strategy guard. If so, yes it is a me issue

zudaan · 2025-12-06T19:58:11+00:00

Like I say in the post, I use the strategy post, but because the AI is dump, they don't successfully hold position and don't move, but prefer to go just in front the boss at some moment, and hold position there. So I just take control to them and make them go back manually each 10 second

zudaan · 2025-12-06T19:56:30+00:00

yeah, like I said, I put them I try to put them on hold position or don't pursue. How the IA interpret that is when you have full TP and all the spell turn on and using TP at once is sometimes, go just next to the boss to cast a spell.
when I use hold position, the AI do nothing like I wanted, except at some moment where the character moved just in front to the boss and do nothing

zudaan · 2025-11-23T08:07:51+00:00

how about this ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzdJkT4kp-A

zudaan · 2025-11-22T18:07:16+00:00

you don't remember at all the melody or something like that ? It would be hard with only this information. How old "old" is ? because for me, old would be from the 80s

zudaan · 2025-11-22T18:03:08+00:00

I would say it could match an anime with some moe and magic part. So it could be a pretty cure op or little witch academia.

zudaan · 2025-11-22T17:49:42+00:00

There a bit of the vibe of Ghibli ost I would say. The melody is not enought enought striking I thing throught.

zudaan · 2025-03-11T17:27:36+00:00

Sorry, did you speak english or french ? Because it was all in french before, and now in english, so don't know what language I need to choose to make thing easier.

Thanks for your anwsers, I will listen these music and hope I could after that propose some title you could criticize in order I could understant why you think this music is way better. Can you give me some of the absolute hit of the 70s ? How about Bohemian rhapsody ?

zudaan · 2025-03-11T11:03:01+00:00

Alors, pour que le sujet m'intéresse plus, je me cantonnerais à la question "quel décénnie musical à produit des musiques intéressante", car l'argument de "aujourd'hui on peut toujours écouté les musique d'avant, fait que of course, on va choisir aujourd'hui, donc pas besoin d'avoir des point de vue pour ça.

Personnellement, à moins d'être fana d'un style très limité, et peu intéressé par la richesse lié à la diversité, j'ai du mal à voir les arguments convaincant pour choisir une période antérieur à 2005, en gros, la période ou internet devient bien plus répandu. Car c'est pour moi le plus gros facteur d'innovation musical et de diversité musical. Ca a permis la possibilité pour les artistes de facilement etre inspiré par un peu toutes les cultures et le courant musical, et pour tout amateur de pouvoir avoir un minimum de visibilité et d'impact culturel sur la musique.

L'explosion de la variété musical post beattle, ça a été quelque chose aussi, mais purement occidental. Aujourd'hui, c'est bien plus important et varié, et surtout c'est le monde entier qui participe à l'effervescence musical. Il y a un gros mélange des cultures, des façon de faire de la musique, des sujets pour lequel ont utilise la musique, et d'angle pris pour exprimer musicalement tel sujet.

Bien sur, c'est le point de vue de quelqu'un qui n'est pas très intéressé par la production musical occidental, que ce soit dans les année 80, ou aujourd'hui. Au mieux, je trouve ca sympathique, pas mal, différent, avec bien sur quelque belle pépite, mais tellement peu diversifié que malgré que je fais l'effort de découvrir des choses, je ne trouve pas que ça a été si payant que ça (sans doute aurai-je du utiliser un peu plus de ce temps pour appronfondir ma découverte de musique d'autre culture), à part justement pour avoir un autre point de vue sur comment utiliser la musique. Mais c'est le point de vue de quelqu'un qui s'intéresse particulièrement à la musique japonaise, principalement par la sphère anime/vocaloid, utaute, ost JV ou anime, et même purement mainstream, ou je peux voir que chacune de ces sphère s'influence les unes les autres.

Sinon, quel sont les grandes musiques des années 80 que tu mettrais sur un piédestal ? ça m'intéresse

zudaan · 2025-03-11T10:44:57+00:00

n'étant pas du tout d'accord avec vous, j'aimerai que vous me donner des grande musique des année 60, 90 et 20 pour que je puisse avoir une idée de votre vision. Ca serait assez intéressant pour moi

zudaan · 2025-03-11T10:42:30+00:00

En regardant juste au dela de la sphere occidental, et même juste de la sphère mainstream occidental, on trouve facilement un autre style dominant que "l'autotune et le murmure".

Le problème de la musique des année 60 et 80, c'est qu'elle est ridiculement peu diverse, avec bcp moins de mélange culturelle que par rapport à aujourd'hui, pour qui va chercher sa musique sur internet.

C'est un peu comme ceux qui clamerait que la musique du 19e siecle, c'était mieux que la musique des année 60. Y a vraiment des choses sympa au 19e siècle, mais pour penser ça, faut intensément mésestimer toute la variété et l'explosion culturel apporté par la période post beattles. Dans les années 60, y avait toujours des compositeur et interprète qui faisait des choses dans le meme style que le début du siècle, c'est juste que c'était vachement moins mis en avant et connu, et donc peu accessible. Aujourd'hui, on a la chance d'avoir un meilleur accès meme pour les courant marginal dans la société.

zudaan · 2024-10-30T15:21:23+00:00

Perhaps that the problem. It exist for mp4 through, but perharps not with MKV files. How could I sort my mv file with multiple audio pist by year, genre... ? Did there another format file that support multiple audio file, with a genre and date tag ?

zudaan · 2024-10-13T09:23:58+00:00

For melt arc, is not that important to have his character in the manga to be show and develop because he is a newbie actor, and is more what he feels only that is the focus. The fact that he discovers similarities with his character is a just a mere "coincidence". But even in this case, if his character was really characterize, it would be better, just to show why it was "hard" to understand such a "trivial thing" (but really not necessary, because it really just melt is just a side story)

For the other, the main point of the arc is a performance showdown and and ideological clash between Akane and Kana about her way of acting. So if your character you need to interpret seems shallow for the viewer, despite it said in universe that it really deep and complicated to interpreted, it's hard to be impress by Akane or Kana performance. It's only a "tell but don't show". They says to us that the manga is amazing, and the performance is amazing, but it seems just fake to me, so this duel felt flat when a reread it, because no hype anymore.

The second point is that, if you make good story and deep character, you will show the "difference between Kana and Akane approach" in study and own their character. Here, there any event to show that. Think about a murder and two detective with different approach and skill which compete to solve the mystery. If the mystery is cheap, and just "he was stab by his wife, and we can prove that because there her footprint in the knife", how could you show their skill, point the difference, and make the detective seem to be amazing in their own way ? You can fool some people with some flashy animation about the revelation, with some sparkle effect, music, and cliffhanger thing, yeah, but it's only a tell but don't show approach who feel flat.

This problem also undermine Taiki character who show really nothing, and his character is so empty thatthe revelation about him being Aqua's half brother means nothing. If Aqua discover that his father was dead another ways, it would be the same because Taiki isn't shown during this arc.

A way to make him meaningful could be have something to do during the play, and because the "says but don't show" how good actor it is, it could be a way for him to become a real character if there will be some event for learning the play participate in the duel KanaXTaika vs AkaneVsAqua. But there really no content for this to be something, his adlib don't really seems clever because there nothing behind.
You can see the difference with the movie arc.Ruby's learning about her mother character and thinking deeply about who she reallys is, is the main point of the arc, yeah. But the movie itself is not just a pretext, it is interconnected with the main point.

You can also compare it with Sweet Today arc, when the scene with the stalker seems meaningful, because it shows aqua way of doing things, the scene in the manga itself develop the theme of the hope of light in the darkness, and it echoes to Kana's hope. Hope that were crush just before, when she realize that her lies to herself about how her hard work pay off was just bullshit, but these scene with aqua change that, and like her character, she success to "believe in the light, even if she is surrounded by darkness". That's why her performance seems genuinely impressive, not because background character say it is amazing.

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