It's a game of such depth and scope that I always have questions about it. I know magic radius is mostly Men/Int threshhold plus terrain you're standing on, have not experimented to findout which terrain stats (the ground has stats) affect it.
But also, who should wear what armour? Since luct.tacticsogre.com only says that 'if its not a warrior class you may not want full body armour', well wtf? Should archers wear Balder robes? Should ninjas? Valkyries???? Fucked if I know.
Also I can't really figure out how to raise(or lower) Loyalty reliably. Leveling up your guys in real battles is meant to do it, but my knight Isetan keeps spamming the "I dont have the confidence to follow u........" message that displays at 5 Loyalty, every battle. That means his Loyalty is going up and then down every battle, why? What affects that? He even say this when I don't bring him?? Also the game has crashed on the Disaffection message a few times so that's unhelpful.
Friendly fire is really unpredictable, is it literally RNG? Sometimes it seems like archers or hawk men will make really tight shots past several allies densely packed, and sometimes it seems like they should cleanly arc their arrows over one buddy but thwap 70 damage. Is it height related??
Sometimes whenever I'm throwing rocks to powerlevel a new soldier or amazon in training, that unit will just lose health, appropos of nothing. Wtf is that about, does throwing rocks really hurt for 1/4 of your HP???
Why are the Tactics Ogre soundtracks not stored as Compact Disc Digital Audio? Like 99% of Playstation games have CDDA you can rip, but Tactics Ogre (on both PS1 and Saturn) seems to play its music in realtime with low-sampling-rate PCM samples, a la the Past tracks in Sonic CD. Literally why.
You're all gonna have to tolerate this Ogre posting until I find somewhere or someone to talk about TO with. Also if anyone has the Prima guide for the Playstation game please hit me up, cannot find a scan ❤
Yeah I haven't played FFT yet but I love Tactics Ogre too lol. Was fighting through the Wyoburi mountains and holy shit if archers have the high ground, everyone else may as well give up :D Also they're called "terrorknights" cause I shit myself when they do 180 damage lol
I kinda like the idea of FFT not being a ballbuster, like FFT is small squad action and TO is larger scale, and FFT is easier and more customisable where TO is more restrictive and difficult. Sounds like a good pairing.
The prerequisite for terror knight is so metal. Swordmasters are cool, too.
And yeah, I love FFT. But, despite the fact that I grew up playing FFT and have nostalgia for it, and I didn't play TO until my 20's some time, TO still left a greater impact on me
Also, FFT's story borrows very heavily from TO, so that makes it kind of weaker to me in retrospect.
Okay can swordmasters not suck though??? I went thru all the fuss to get Harborym and brought him to Rime, man took like 140 damage from one crossbow bolt and almost died. He also couldn't do much more than 11 damage per hit to dragons of the same level. Mans's bad
Oh no that's gonna suck, maybe I shoulda played FFT first? I desire to enjoy "Animals have no god!" to the fullest...
Hm, I don't remember the exact mechanics, but I feel like my swordmaster kicked ass. As I recall, their debuff/CC spells have a very high accuracy because of their high dex.
FFT is still definitely worth playing. The story beats are very similar, but it could be argued the characterization is better.
Petrify and Charm do go hard but I'm like, could I run a witch for those instead? Being made of glass doesn't go hard, also I manage to miss 70% chance Petrify spells
I'm lookin forward to it and Knight of Lodis and both Orge Battle games, Matsuno gang.