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Title: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 12, 2019, 09:13:48 PM
Two weeks until this comes out and pretty much all initial impressions of it are positive. Game looks to have it all: dat combat, dat Persona school week social rank building, but from the teacher's perspective this time and set in Knight land Hogwart's, animu dumbness, and of course Waifus for all of you fucking perverts out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwkVA8GlMgE

Who is that beefy dude and why does he have Ivy Valentine's sword? IT IS A FUCKING MYSTERY MY DUDES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hdJSCsKOQg

But seriously, I am hype for this game. Early unplayed completely spurious internet review: 14 boners out of 10, buy it or you hate freedom.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Himu on July 12, 2019, 09:17:11 PM
Game looks fantastic and molding of classic SMT-isms with Fire Emblem sounds genius. Story looks dark af. Unfortunately I don’t have a switch yet. Might get it at release despite that.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 12, 2019, 10:22:19 PM
I haven't played Fire Emblem much ever except for a little bit of that recent one on 3DS but imma get this.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: kingv on July 12, 2019, 10:48:48 PM
Hard to know which waifu is best yet :-/
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: demi on July 12, 2019, 11:28:15 PM
This and MUA3 will give me a reason to turn on switch since playing that turd octopath
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Himu on July 12, 2019, 11:49:37 PM
Hard to know which waifu is best yet :-/

So far, Demitri. But I'm waiting to experience the story to tell. Seems very SMT inspired with the chaotic/neutral/lawful system put into FE. So it's best to way for the story.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 13, 2019, 12:36:35 AM
I mean, obvs for those of us that like women, the "given" choice seems to be Edelgard since she's a house leader. But that teacher Manuela is there if you don't wanna hook up with one of your students (or former students, since apparently there's a time jump)

(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/fireemblem/images/4/47/Manuela_Portrait.png/revision/latest?cb=20190513151137)

I haven't played Fire Emblem much ever except for a little bit of that recent one on 3DS but imma get this.

Path of Radiance on Gamecube is legit great, Radiant Dawn on Weeeeeeeeeee less so but still worth playing
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Himu on July 13, 2019, 02:13:35 AM
She's hot.

What fascinated me about this one is that it doesn't use weapon triangle. First one since 3 to go that route. This game seems really inspired by 4 from what I've seen despite the lack of triangle.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 13, 2019, 11:37:02 AM
I think that it's trying to do its own thing by and large, which is a nice departure. I mean it's a big pastiche of different aspects of different games but from all appearances and impressions, it succeeds at mixing it all together to be its own unique thing.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 13, 2019, 12:51:53 PM
Also apparently there are some characters that are open to same sex relationships in this installment, not sure if there's been a FE that's done that before or not
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Himu on July 13, 2019, 01:57:06 PM
This game just sounds great. Was skeptical at first but they've sold me.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on July 13, 2019, 03:18:50 PM
I will recruit every waifu in the game to march with Edelgard  :heart
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 13, 2019, 08:38:09 PM
The Black Eagles have Edelgard, Dorothea, and Petra. That's a murderer's row of waifus.  :whew
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: BIONIC on July 14, 2019, 02:39:55 AM
Got this and Astral Chain preloaded using my NSO vouchers :miyamoto

spoiler (click to show/hide)
:nintendo
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Cryo on July 14, 2019, 06:27:58 PM
I’m a bit worried about that “80 hours to finish 1 campaign” statement - I played through all of Fates:Birthright and burned out halfway through Conquest, never even making it to the third campaign. I haven’t been keeping up with the story or content in this game really, but how likely is it something similar will happen to me here?
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Akala on July 14, 2019, 07:31:33 PM
That's a murderer's row of waifus.

newsfeed
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: kingv on July 14, 2019, 08:50:39 PM
Got this and Astral Chain preloaded using my NSO vouchers :miyamoto

spoiler (click to show/hide)
:nintendo
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Those vouchers are a pretty solid deal in a GCU-less world.

Thinking about getting two more, but already have astral chain on preorder at amazon for $48. Going to wait for reviews on Ultimate Alliance 3 first.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Trent Dole on July 14, 2019, 10:02:20 PM
I’m a bit worried about that “80 hours to finish 1 campaign” statement - I played through all of Fates:Birthright and burned out halfway through Conquest, never even making it to the third campaign. I haven’t been keeping up with the story or content in this game really, but how likely is it something similar will happen to me here?
Companies always inflate playthrough times.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: kingv on July 14, 2019, 10:31:44 PM
Also curious about the three houses. I wonder if they are more similar than in birthrights since they don’t cost extra.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Let's Cyber on July 15, 2019, 12:36:25 PM
Day one. My Switch will be putting in work this summer between this and Astral Chain.

 :aah
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Himu on July 15, 2019, 03:31:34 PM
https://www.usgamer.net/articles/axe-of-the-blood-god-fire-emblem-impressions
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Himu on July 15, 2019, 09:26:04 PM
I don't trust western journalists when they say an rpg requires grinding. Reminds me of gfaqs players who will make an faq in a Dragon Quest game and they're literally 10-20 levels above me and I'm wrecking shit with a simple thing called strategy and resource management. Many players typically eschew rpg fundamentals for grinding so I will refuse to believe till I see it.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 15, 2019, 10:14:26 PM
Pfft, that person sounds like they don't know wtf they're talking about.

https://kotaku.com/the-fire-emblem-three-houses-battle-system-is-elegant-1836387165

Quote
It is within abilities that you’ll find the familiar Fire Emblem concept of the weapons triangle, which is a rock/paper/scissors-esque delineation of which weapons are strong or weak against others. As characters gain mastery at certain types of weapons, they’ll sometimes earn abilities that make them stronger against particular weapons. If your axe-wielding character has learned the ability Lancebreaker, it’s probably a good idea to equip that before any battle where you know there will be a lot of enemy lance users.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 15, 2019, 10:30:51 PM
Or just grind until you're OP and then complain about it on the internet.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Himu on July 15, 2019, 11:21:49 PM
Pfft, that person sounds like they don't know wtf they're talking about.

https://kotaku.com/the-fire-emblem-three-houses-battle-system-is-elegant-1836387165

Quote
It is within abilities that you’ll find the familiar Fire Emblem concept of the weapons triangle, which is a rock/paper/scissors-esque delineation of which weapons are strong or weak against others. As characters gain mastery at certain types of weapons, they’ll sometimes earn abilities that make them stronger against particular weapons. If your axe-wielding character has learned the ability Lancebreaker, it’s probably a good idea to equip that before any battle where you know there will be a lot of enemy lance users.

Knew it.

How do I plei stratagem gaim?
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Trent Dole on July 16, 2019, 06:02:58 PM
Kotaku is braindead af, it is known.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 18, 2019, 01:45:14 PM
Frothing demand increases, etc etc

https://mynintendonews.com/2019/07/17/famitsu-awards-fire-emblem-three-houses-37-40/
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 18, 2019, 04:36:26 PM
There's plenty of youtube videos of people that have put dozens of hours into the game and they're all pretty universal in their praise for the actual gameplay, with some minor graphical complaints (so, basically- a Fire Emblem game)
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Himu on July 18, 2019, 04:52:47 PM
Gameplay was a given. What about the story?
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Himu on July 18, 2019, 06:51:05 PM
But FE Fates: Conquest apparently had great gameplay and maps right? It seemed to me from backlash that the game had incredible gameplay everyone loved with great maps but people hated the story.

So I haven't been worried too much about gameplay after watching the Treehouse demo.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: HardcoreRetro on July 25, 2019, 10:05:28 AM
Just got the game in the mail. Hope it's good.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 25, 2019, 10:36:34 AM
My copy left Columbus Ohio at 4:30ish this morning, so it better fuckin be here by the time I get off work tomorrow at 8.

Reviews are coming in, I paid attention to this first 3 minutes of this as I ate breakfast, and the score.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MPV_i7OeIU
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: bork on July 25, 2019, 11:54:38 AM
Which house has the best waifus?

This is important

 :hmm
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 25, 2019, 02:24:37 PM
Which house has the best waifus?

This is important

 :hmm

youtube got you covered fam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x5nGrIHxyw

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Black Eagles
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 25, 2019, 03:22:22 PM
Which house has the best waifus?

This is important

 :hmm

The Black Eagles have Edelgard, Dorothea, and Petra. That's a murderer's row of waifus.  :whew
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: HardcoreRetro on July 25, 2019, 04:32:38 PM
I'm just going for the one with the nazi colour scheme. I'll fuck whoever.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 25, 2019, 10:55:48 PM
Growth rates, etc are up on Serenes Forest
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: kingv on July 26, 2019, 12:16:04 AM
I'm just going for the one with the nazi colour scheme. I'll fuck whoever.

Speaking of, are there any husbandos you can turn into a sissy?
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 26, 2019, 12:23:11 AM
I'm just going for the one with the nazi colour scheme. I'll fuck whoever.

Speaking of, are there any husbandos you can turn into a sissy?

There are 3 gay husbando options
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Cryo on July 26, 2019, 12:43:05 AM
On the fence but all my friends are buying this  :-\

Isn’t there a giant resetera thread about the lack of male husbandos?
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 26, 2019, 12:56:45 AM
On the fence but all my friends are buying this  :-\

Isn’t there a giant resetera thread about the lack of male husbandos?

idk I don't fucking read reeeeeeeee

There are 3 dude options if that's what you're into and you pick the dude avatar. I REPORT, YOU DECIDE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRSN_VPLEZk

Apparently they're not really "romance" options? Lame if so.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Himu on July 26, 2019, 01:02:48 AM
please tell me this thread won't be full of husbando/waifu talk :stahp
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on July 26, 2019, 07:22:32 AM
The creators aren't sure why this series is now popular.

Should someone tell them?

 :kermit
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: HardcoreRetro on July 26, 2019, 07:47:27 AM
please tell me this thread won't be full of husbando/waifu talk :stahp

You're just angry your waifu won't be as hot as mine.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 26, 2019, 10:24:05 AM
please tell me this thread won't be full of husbando/waifu talk :stahp

I mean, I'm going to be talking about the game a lot, and I can't see myself talking about the waifu shit hardly at all.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: bork on July 26, 2019, 01:33:24 PM
Got the game.  No point in buying the season pass right now, I see- you get a uniform now and then nothing else drops until October.

Not sure if I'm going to try this out now or wait until I'm done with Ultimate Alliance 3 first.

please tell me this thread won't be full of husbando/waifu talk :stahp

You're just angry your waifu won't be as hot as mine.

DON'T YOU TALK ABOUT MY WAIFU
:rage :bolo
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: HardcoreRetro on July 26, 2019, 01:38:32 PM
The introverted wacko isn't even a girl my female main character can scissor. Might as well throw the game in the trash.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on July 26, 2019, 05:59:47 PM
Started this.

So far so good. Fire Emblem with production values even beyond what Echoes had.
The voice acting is pretty good compared to what I'm used to from the series.

I was worried the students thing would suck but it's actually pretty fun.
House Edelgard routed the other houses in the first battle  8)
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Coffee Dog on July 27, 2019, 09:59:33 AM
Yeah, go fucking figure that I read everyone's impressions of this and everybody talks about the so far non existent story and everybody talks about which high school kid theyre gonna rail but nobody mentions that the game now tells you when your units are going to be attacked and which enemy unit is going to be doing the attacking.

No wonder everyone says "well the game is a bit easy", I'm like four hours in and the first two fights basically played themselves. Just keep your units out of the big red no no zone and you're perfectly safe because the game accounts for everything else without my input. It would not feel at all out place for the game to have a popup that says "you are going to kill that unit with this move. Are you sure you want to do that? Y/N"

The risk of engaging safely is such a big part of Fire Emblem and it hasn't added anything else so far to make up for what is now a nonmechanic aside from gambits. It annihilates any sense of advancing strategy when the best option in literally all scenarios is "line up your soldiers so they split up the aggro". Theres no nail biting moment where you hope your strategy works or you take a desperate risk. You just safely split the damage by fucking around with the red no no lines untio they are a configuration you want, then the enemy phase is a relaxing few seconds as the game simply acts out what its already told you it'll hit you with.

I cant believe i read all these fan impressions and nobody mentioned this. Nobody plays these fucking things for the gameplay at all or somebody would give a shit. Christ.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 27, 2019, 10:16:00 AM
You can't romance Edelgard unless you pick House Blue Lions. :notlikethis
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: demi on July 27, 2019, 10:44:02 AM
Yeah, go fucking figure that I read everyone's impressions of this and everybody talks about the so far non existent story and everybody talks about which high school kid theyre gonna rail but nobody mentions that the game now tells you when your units are going to be attacked and which enemy unit is going to be doing the attacking.

No wonder everyone says "well the game is a bit easy", I'm like four hours in and the first two fights basically played themselves. Just keep your units out of the big red no no zone and you're perfectly safe because the game accounts for everything else without my input. It would not feel at all out place for the game to have a popup that says "you are going to kill that unit with this move. Are you sure you want to do that? Y/N"

The risk of engaging safely is such a big part of Fire Emblem and it hasn't added anything else so far to make up for what is now a nonmechanic aside from gambits. It annihilates any sense of advancing strategy when the best option in literally all scenarios is "line up your soldiers so they split up the aggro". Theres no nail biting moment where you hope your strategy works or you take a desperate risk. You just safely split the damage by fucking around with the red no no lines untio they are a configuration you want, then the enemy phase is a relaxing few seconds as the game simply acts out what its already told you it'll hit you with.

I cant believe i read all these fan impressions and nobody mentioned this. Nobody plays these fucking things for the gameplay at all or somebody would give a shit. Christ.

more importantly where are the fat dudes in these games. what the fuck man.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on July 27, 2019, 10:57:03 AM
Yeah, go fucking figure that I read everyone's impressions of this and everybody talks about the so far non existent story and everybody talks about which high school kid theyre gonna rail but nobody mentions that the game now tells you when your units are going to be attacked and which enemy unit is going to be doing the attacking.

No wonder everyone says "well the game is a bit easy", I'm like four hours in and the first two fights basically played themselves. Just keep your units out of the big red no no zone and you're perfectly safe because the game accounts for everything else without my input. It would not feel at all out place for the game to have a popup that says "you are going to kill that unit with this move. Are you sure you want to do that? Y/N"

The risk of engaging safely is such a big part of Fire Emblem and it hasn't added anything else so far to make up for what is now a nonmechanic aside from gambits. It annihilates any sense of advancing strategy when the best option in literally all scenarios is "line up your soldiers so they split up the aggro". Theres no nail biting moment where you hope your strategy works or you take a desperate risk. You just safely split the damage by fucking around with the red no no lines untio they are a configuration you want, then the enemy phase is a relaxing few seconds as the game simply acts out what its already told you it'll hit you with.

I cant believe i read all these fan impressions and nobody mentioned this. Nobody plays these fucking things for the gameplay at all or somebody would give a shit. Christ.
How is that different from the previous games?

Fire Emblem is always: Press A on enemies, watch their area of attack, position your units outside of the borders, pound them with archers, spray them with magic, send in the lances and swords to finish the job.
Later on the difficulty increases I suppose.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 27, 2019, 11:14:22 AM
Yeah, go fucking figure that I read everyone's impressions of this and everybody talks about the so far non existent story and everybody talks about which high school kid theyre gonna rail but nobody mentions that the game now tells you when your units are going to be attacked and which enemy unit is going to be doing the attacking.

No wonder everyone says "well the game is a bit easy", I'm like four hours in and the first two fights basically played themselves. Just keep your units out of the big red no no zone and you're perfectly safe because the game accounts for everything else without my input. It would not feel at all out place for the game to have a popup that says "you are going to kill that unit with this move. Are you sure you want to do that? Y/N"

The risk of engaging safely is such a big part of Fire Emblem and it hasn't added anything else so far to make up for what is now a nonmechanic aside from gambits. It annihilates any sense of advancing strategy when the best option in literally all scenarios is "line up your soldiers so they split up the aggro". Theres no nail biting moment where you hope your strategy works or you take a desperate risk. You just safely split the damage by fucking around with the red no no lines untio they are a configuration you want, then the enemy phase is a relaxing few seconds as the game simply acts out what its already told you it'll hit you with.

I cant believe i read all these fan impressions and nobody mentioned this. Nobody plays these fucking things for the gameplay at all or somebody would give a shit. Christ.
How is that different from the previous games?

Fire Emblem is always: Press A on enemies, watch their area of attack, position your units outside of the borders, pound them with archers, spray them with magic, send in the lances and swords to finish the job.
Later on the difficulty increases I suppose.

It's basically just streamlined; I do wish they'd not show which units are getting attacked by which enemy units. But otherwise it's fine. Not sure but to me the AI feels very much more "I know I'm not going to beat you so let's just try n kill your units lol" but I'm playing on normal for first playthrough, so.

Stayed up until 4 am. There's a lot of good gameplay improvements they've made, magic chief among them: your magic users are now basically D&D style, and their spells/heals replenish between battles, so no need to keep buying tomes and staves for them. The game is also very good about ALWAYS GIVING YOU SOME KIND OF PROGRESSION each week for all your characters with the school shit.

Raise your professor level as quickly as you can.

The Black Eagles are honestly probably the trickiest house to play early on because you have so many magic users, and one of them's growths (Dorothea, aka hat girl) suck so unless you get lucky she's probably gonna end up being a dancer much later on in the game. My progression was fucking weird- Dorothea's progressed great, Caspar and Ferdinand (two of my frontline options) sucked and I had to carefully babysit them until level 6 or so. They juuuuuuust started being useful last battle. I keep training my avatar in heavy armor so I can eventually recruit Raphael's burly ass to tank for me, but I think it's gonna be a while.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Coffee Dog on July 27, 2019, 11:54:01 AM
Yeah, go fucking figure that I read everyone's impressions of this and everybody talks about the so far non existent story and everybody talks about which high school kid theyre gonna rail but nobody mentions that the game now tells you when your units are going to be attacked and which enemy unit is going to be doing the attacking.

No wonder everyone says "well the game is a bit easy", I'm like four hours in and the first two fights basically played themselves. Just keep your units out of the big red no no zone and you're perfectly safe because the game accounts for everything else without my input. It would not feel at all out place for the game to have a popup that says "you are going to kill that unit with this move. Are you sure you want to do that? Y/N"

The risk of engaging safely is such a big part of Fire Emblem and it hasn't added anything else so far to make up for what is now a nonmechanic aside from gambits. It annihilates any sense of advancing strategy when the best option in literally all scenarios is "line up your soldiers so they split up the aggro". Theres no nail biting moment where you hope your strategy works or you take a desperate risk. You just safely split the damage by fucking around with the red no no lines untio they are a configuration you want, then the enemy phase is a relaxing few seconds as the game simply acts out what its already told you it'll hit you with.

I cant believe i read all these fan impressions and nobody mentioned this. Nobody plays these fucking things for the gameplay at all or somebody would give a shit. Christ.
How is that different from the previous games?

Fire Emblem is always: Press A on enemies, watch their area of attack, position your units outside of the borders, pound them with archers, spray them with magic, send in the lances and swords to finish the job.
Later on the difficulty increases I suppose.

It's not different assuming you play well and make no mistakes, but like, making a mistake on your turn is how you lose at Fire Emblem at all. If the game is going to tell me whenever I'm making a bad move I'm not going to do anything unsafe. I'll see how the game unfolds when I get home to play it some more, but I cant see how the enemy literally telling me their future moves during my turn does anything but make turtling more efficient.

And considering they already left a bad impression during the mock battle by not having the other two houses attack each other at all even if you draw out the battle (they just team up and attack you) I dont have too much faith in the map objectives being anything other than the same turtle up and rout the enemy that I'm used to.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on July 27, 2019, 12:56:20 PM
Yeah, go fucking figure that I read everyone's impressions of this and everybody talks about the so far non existent story and everybody talks about which high school kid theyre gonna rail but nobody mentions that the game now tells you when your units are going to be attacked and which enemy unit is going to be doing the attacking.

No wonder everyone says "well the game is a bit easy", I'm like four hours in and the first two fights basically played themselves. Just keep your units out of the big red no no zone and you're perfectly safe because the game accounts for everything else without my input. It would not feel at all out place for the game to have a popup that says "you are going to kill that unit with this move. Are you sure you want to do that? Y/N"

The risk of engaging safely is such a big part of Fire Emblem and it hasn't added anything else so far to make up for what is now a nonmechanic aside from gambits. It annihilates any sense of advancing strategy when the best option in literally all scenarios is "line up your soldiers so they split up the aggro". Theres no nail biting moment where you hope your strategy works or you take a desperate risk. You just safely split the damage by fucking around with the red no no lines untio they are a configuration you want, then the enemy phase is a relaxing few seconds as the game simply acts out what its already told you it'll hit you with.

I cant believe i read all these fan impressions and nobody mentioned this. Nobody plays these fucking things for the gameplay at all or somebody would give a shit. Christ.
How is that different from the previous games?

Fire Emblem is always: Press A on enemies, watch their area of attack, position your units outside of the borders, pound them with archers, spray them with magic, send in the lances and swords to finish the job.
Later on the difficulty increases I suppose.

It's basically just streamlined; I do wish they'd not show which units are getting attacked by which enemy units. But otherwise it's fine. Not sure but to me the AI feels very much more "I know I'm not going to beat you so let's just try n kill your units lol" but I'm playing on normal for first playthrough, so.

Stayed up until 4 am. There's a lot of good gameplay improvements they've made, magic chief among them: your magic users are now basically D&D style, and their spells/heals replenish between battles, so no need to keep buying tomes and staves for them. The game is also very good about ALWAYS GIVING YOU SOME KIND OF PROGRESSION each week for all your characters with the school shit.

Raise your professor level as quickly as you can.

The Black Eagles are honestly probably the trickiest house to play early on because you have so many magic users, and one of them's growths (Dorothea, aka hat girl) suck so unless you get lucky she's probably gonna end up being a dancer much later on in the game. My progression was fucking weird- Dorothea's progressed great, Caspar and Ferdinand (two of my frontline options) sucked and I had to carefully babysit them until level 6 or so. They juuuuuuust started being useful last battle. I keep training my avatar in heavy armor so I can eventually recruit Raphael's burly ass to tank for me, but I think it's gonna be a while.
My Ferdinand is great however, the first 5 they recommend you to deploy are not your best options.
Indeed get Dorothea out there early. But also the archer, she's pretty good and having someone that can attack from a distance always comes in handy.

From what I'm gathering online it does seem that for the start at least, Claude is easy mode, Dimitiri normal and Edelgard hard.
She specifically mentions how her empire is not what it used to be when she asks if you want to join to make it great again.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Mr Gilhaney on July 27, 2019, 06:23:51 PM
Ordered a switch jig to play this  8)
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on July 27, 2019, 06:29:18 PM
(https://media1.tenor.com/images/4f9ff052d8ea51d036483d1a1f88aa68/tenor.gif?itemid=11469588)
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Mr Gilhaney on July 27, 2019, 07:36:48 PM
i meant the jig thing to crack it.

i've had a switch for a long time  :-\
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 27, 2019, 08:34:28 PM
I'm playing on normal/casual. Don't @ me.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: demi on July 27, 2019, 09:14:18 PM
no need to associate with lower form of people
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: curly on July 27, 2019, 09:32:26 PM
Also, it's hilarious that "most deployed units" are just all Adelgard. The other two personalities are fucking weird.

Blue guy is this comical SMT Law dude, but before you pick him everyone's all "he's got darkness hidden in him" and he actively tells you that he's hiding his past from you when you dialogue with him. Really corny.

Claude (yellow guy) is annoying af and has some elitist comments which are weird for his character type.

Edelgard's kingdom history makes you think they're pro-status quo/historical weirdos, but she's cool and the only self-aware & accepting one of the bunch.

Blue Lion's roster also seemed super uptight and boring to be around for an entire playthrough.

how about you go to hell
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 27, 2019, 09:53:22 PM
I'm playing on normal/casual. Don't @ me.

:jeanluc

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I'm playing normal/classic for my first playthrough, I'll go up to hard on my next one tho
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: BIONIC on July 28, 2019, 03:22:35 AM
Game is so good :lawd

Playing on Normal/Classic.

Chose to spend one of the days battling, and was basically able to freely grind the “freebie” / 0 cost battles as many times as I want. They just kept popping up, until I got bored after 5 wins and felt I would be way OP if I kept going, and just did the battle that cost one point to end the day.

Feels like a weird oversight from the devs. Did this happen to anyone else? The first time I did a battle day, they only gave one freebie before you had to spend a battle point.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on July 28, 2019, 06:18:23 AM
My Byleth(F) is basically Lord Baelish disguised as a thot scheming to destroy the other houses.
If I recruit Ingrid and other blue lion waifu's to the Black Eagles they won't ever have a suitable queen or heir.  8)

Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: bork on July 28, 2019, 01:37:30 PM
Interesting thing about the game's development- it was primarily handled by Koei-Tecmo.  Specifically the team who makes the Romance Of The Three Kingdoms games and the story is from the team who worked on Fire Emblem Warriors.



https://nintendoeverything.com/fire-emblem-three-houses-devs-on-the-games-origins-working-with-koei-tecmo-japanese-title-expansion-pass-more/
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on July 28, 2019, 02:10:50 PM
This game is such a time sink.

There's just so much to do and tune if you make every decision yourself.
No longer being limited to certain classes for each character opens up a lot more opportunities.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: kingv on July 28, 2019, 02:36:07 PM
The changes imo make it primarily a strategy game as opposed to primarily a tactics game.... hot take after two months.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 28, 2019, 02:42:28 PM
Pretty hilarious that the meat of the Season Pass doesn't even come out until flipping April, wtf. I nope no one besides bork bought that. :lol

Game's awesome, tho.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: bork on July 28, 2019, 04:40:28 PM
Pretty hilarious that the meat of the Season Pass doesn't even come out until flipping April, wtf. I nope no one besides bork bought that. :lol

Game's awesome, tho.

I didn't buy that either.
 :umad

Guess it means plenty of content to come?
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 28, 2019, 06:09:18 PM
Pretty hilarious that the meat of the Season Pass doesn't even come out until flipping April, wtf. I nope no one besides bork bought that. :lol

Game's awesome, tho.

I didn't buy that either.
 :umad

Guess it means plenty of content to come?

Sounds like snooze-city until the story DLC in April. The rest is just costumes, auxiliary maps, and crap.

July 26, 2019   
Officer's Academy Outfits
(for male and female Byleth)

October 31, 2019
Additional Auxiliary Battle Maps   These auxiliary battle maps will feature an increased number of enemies that drop items
Additional Helpful In-Game Support Items   Details TBC

December 20, 2019
Additional Quests   Details TBC
New Costumes   Details TBC

April 30, 2020
New Story Contents   A completely new story which will introduce new characters, new locations, and new chapters including battle maps.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: curly on July 28, 2019, 10:28:25 PM
Bernadette  :rejoice
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on July 29, 2019, 03:23:32 AM
Bought this even though I still haven’t played Awakenings or Fates which are in my backlog. But I need something fresh and new that’s all current hotness to motivate me to like gaming right now after FF14 burnout.

Just finished the download. Hope it’s good!
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on July 29, 2019, 04:09:13 AM
It begins
https://twitter.com/maridahdotcom/status/1155586811168731137 (https://twitter.com/maridahdotcom/status/1155586811168731137)

They wasted all this dev time on the other two soy boy houses while everyone is playing as Edelgard.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 29, 2019, 07:54:02 AM
True facts, every time I log in the "most deployed" units are all the starting 8 Black Eagles

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... of course I chose Black Eagles for my 1st playthrough
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PRETTY SURE MASSIVE SPOILER AHEAD
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SRSLY DON'T CLICK IF YOU DON'T WANT IT SPOILED
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Wonder how the virtuous weeb brigade is gonna react to Edelgard being the flame emperor since they've made it ABUNDANTLY CLEAR through the game
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 29, 2019, 08:50:56 AM
True facts, every time I log in the "most deployed" units are all the starting 8 Black Eagles

spoiler (click to show/hide)
... of course I chose Black Eagles for my 1st playthrough
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PRETTY SURE MASSIVE SPOILER AHEAD
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SRSLY DON'T CLICK IF YOU DON'T WANT IT SPOILED
spoiler (click to show/hide)
Wonder how the virtuous weeb brigade is gonna react to Edelgard being the flame emperor since they've made it ABUNDANTLY CLEAR through the game
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I think the only correct reaction is

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YAAS QUEEN SLAY!!! :noah
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 29, 2019, 09:13:10 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/NSHofsw.png)
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 29, 2019, 09:54:50 AM
The Garreg Mach Monastery has gotta be the most lax school ever, fam.

"Oh wow, our religious institution is overrun with problems all over the continent and we're low on personnel, who's gonna kill these pirates?"

"lol idk send these students and their barely older than them teacher who we don't even know"
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 29, 2019, 10:00:28 AM
You gotta make sure those kids learn early that the best way to deal with a problem is just to kill as many people as possible.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: curly on July 29, 2019, 11:52:49 AM
more like edelgarbage
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on July 29, 2019, 12:18:27 PM
Working for the Monastery is a roller coaster of "Are we the baddies" moments.

"THEY MUST BE PUNISHED AND KILLED BECAUSE THEY DEFY THE CHURCH!"

Yes, crazy lady with green hair. We will murder your enemies and collect their skulls.*

*
After tea time with Edelgard  :heart
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: kingv on July 29, 2019, 01:17:44 PM
Waifu review:
Edelgard: beautiful, but likes pegging and is very demanding
Bernadette: sexually inexperienced, has a stinky hairy bush
Petra: down for some freaky shit that’s normal in her country. Has a dumb tattoo but a cute accent.
Dorothea: open to threesomes with other women. Insists on wearing a dumb hat in public. Might leave you for another woman.
Linhardt: most beautiful of all. Sleeps peacefully.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on July 29, 2019, 01:24:54 PM
It begins
https://twitter.com/maridahdotcom/status/1155586811168731137 (https://twitter.com/maridahdotcom/status/1155586811168731137)

They wasted all this dev time on the other two soy boy houses while everyone is playing as Edelgard.

I picked the noble alliance

Waifus -  :kobeyuck

Boring richboys -  :larry

Keeping it real boys -  :jawalrus
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: bork on July 29, 2019, 01:29:59 PM

Waifus -  :kobeyuck


(http://giphygifs.s3.amazonaws.com/media/9Tp0jnk1p9KzC/giphy.gif)
(https://img.fireden.net/vg/image/1486/27/1486277746425.png)
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 29, 2019, 01:30:57 PM
You should be able to recruit Dorothea pretty easily, Byleth has good CHA growth rates, just focus on raising your Authority (hint: assign a battalion ASAP, that will help raise authority)

Also, you know, she's pretty useful for the Alliance as she's another magic user (and can even unlock a hidden talent for learning faith magic if you instruct her in it, she's also a unit that will learn Physic so that's super useful)

(https://twinfinite.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Fire-Emblem-Three-Houses-1-5.jpg)

Prime waifu material

 :uguu
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 29, 2019, 01:35:08 PM
I'm upset that the only viable gay romance for Fem-Byleth outside of Black Eagles is Mercedes [and Lady Rhea, lmao]. I mean, she's okay, but her mom energy is a bit too strong. No gay lesbian romance with Catherine or Shamir is dang shame.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 29, 2019, 01:38:14 PM
Apparently you can hook up with Rhea? Dunno. [insert joke about Church figures and underage students here]
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 29, 2019, 01:48:41 PM
She has an S-link, so I assume so.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on July 29, 2019, 05:34:55 PM
Is it just me or is recruiting from other houses rather difficult.

"Flying and Dex, Magic and Faith"

My Byleth is a sword fighting leader and I don't feel like wasting all my activity points studying bible class with Rhea.
With that said, I also have no idea how long university lasts before shit gets real and I may lose the opportunity to recruit students. :thinking

You should be able to recruit Dorothea pretty easily, Byleth has good CHA growth rates, just focus on raising your Authority (hint: assign a battalion ASAP, that will help raise authority)

Also, you know, she's pretty useful for the Alliance as she's another magic user (and can even unlock a hidden talent for learning faith magic if you instruct her in it, she's also a unit that will learn Physic so that's super useful)

(https://twinfinite.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Fire-Emblem-Three-Houses-1-5.jpg)

Prime waifu material

 :uguu
Plus Dorothea is open to finding a suitable partner at the university and hooking up with a different knight every day of the week.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 30, 2019, 01:12:24 AM
GOTY
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 30, 2019, 02:01:32 AM
I put a lot of effort into recruiting Raphael, whenever I was exploring the monastery I'd always end the day with a meal and I'd invite Raphael plus one of my students that needed a motivation boost before classes. If you can manage to get a C support rank that will help make it easier to recruit them, you can also make sure to give whoever you want to recruit their missing items or gifts they'd like to boost the support rank too. The speculation is that you need a score of around 20 for the stat, and around C for the skill rank in order to recruit them, with any sort of support rank making that easier.

After that I decided to target Felix for recruitment, since he favors high speed and swords and duh, unless you try to do anything special your Byleth is probably gonna go that route. The last chapter before [insert calamitous plot development here] I managed to recruit Felix, Ignatz, Leonie, and Ashe. Ignatz and Leonie I knew were possibilities because Ignatz was Dex and Authority, Leonie was Strength and Lance skill level. Ashe was completely random, I had just gotten into the habit on my exploration days the last few months of asking everyone to see what their responses were. Ashe's were Charm and Lance, so there you go.

You're going to boost your main stats pretty much without trying, except for Magic, which I think Byleth does have a decent but not great natural growth rate in. If you DO want to recruit magic users, class into Mage as soon as you can, it adds 10 to your base growth rate of 35%. But if you want a lot of mages, play Black Eagles. (everyone is playing Black Eagles)

Game owns.

Also! At a certain point in the story, you will be able to recruit other professors and certain knights. Always, always talk to everyone on your exploration days and see if it's possible to recruit them. If you can, you should, even if you think they're dumb.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: BIONIC on July 30, 2019, 02:40:53 AM
So far I just invite people to meals in order to grind professor points and support levels (not to mention motivation). I only ever do anything else if it’s required by a quest.

Seminars or faculty training just seems to be there for people who want to skip the life sim stuff, and boost their units. Generally useless otherwise.

Should’ve made it so that you get professor points for everything in order to encourage variety.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 30, 2019, 02:58:34 AM
Apparently you get professor points for fishing and it doesn't take an activity point  :doge Gardening too but meh.

Early on when you only have so much free time, lessons with professors is a scam, but mid game onwards it starts to make more sense, especially if you want to recruit somebody that you don't have a high rating in a skill, lessons can help boost you pretty quick. I'd do heavy armor lessons whenever I could spare it to lure Raphael. Focusing on lance lessons right before [insert calamitous story event here] let me recruit Leonie and Ashe as a bonus too.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: BIONIC on July 30, 2019, 06:44:32 AM
Answering notes at the cathedral also doesn’t take any activity points, but it doesn’t give any professor points either.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: kingv on July 30, 2019, 07:25:02 AM
Huh. Was wondering what to partake in.

I’ve been doing the faculty lessons, but wasn’t really sure if that was the best route.

Also... how do you get to the training room? I have a quest there, but the route seems to be blocked.

I go up the stairs by it on the map where I’m pretty sure it is and then there are boxes that are blocking the routes around the building. Do you go around another way or get there via some stairs?
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 30, 2019, 08:58:31 AM
There's a big set of doors facing north just to the right of the bottom of the stairs.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Tasty on July 30, 2019, 09:14:22 AM
IMO, I found all the seminars and faculty training sessions to be (mostly) scams.

:isthis is this real life?
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 30, 2019, 10:49:01 AM
Apparently you get professor points for fishing and it doesn't take an activity point  :doge Gardening too but meh.

I used up all my lures, and then didn’t have any left for golden fish day, fml. I thought you could just always find them or buy them, but you can’t buy them and it seems like you can only find them once a month.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 30, 2019, 02:00:17 PM
Apparently you get professor points for fishing and it doesn't take an activity point  :doge Gardening too but meh.

I used up all my lures, and then didn’t have any left for golden fish day, fml. I thought you could just always find them or buy them, but you can’t buy them and it seems like you can only find them once a month.

The glowing blue spots only refill at the beginning of the month, yeah. There's some extra quest or battle you can do that will lure more merchants to the marketplace, and the two that show up sell lures, seeds, food ingredients, teas, and gifts. So it's worth doing.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 30, 2019, 02:22:52 PM
https://twitter.com/pcgamer/status/1156207828622876672

Master Race annihilated  :crowdlaff
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 30, 2019, 02:27:42 PM
Apparently you get professor points for fishing and it doesn't take an activity point  :doge Gardening too but meh.

I used up all my lures, and then didn’t have any left for golden fish day, fml. I thought you could just always find them or buy them, but you can’t buy them and it seems like you can only find them once a month.

The glowing blue spots only refill at the beginning of the month, yeah. There's some extra quest or battle you can do that will lure more merchants to the marketplace, and the two that show up sell lures, seeds, food ingredients, teas, and gifts. So it's worth doing.

I’m doing all the side quests, but I’m still pretty early in the game. I just now unlocked tea parties.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 30, 2019, 03:25:19 PM
The game is great but I honestly feel like on normal, it's a little too easy, especially since you can just grind extra battles. Of course, a lot of this is likely due to me having played an infinite amount of fucking Fire Emblem games.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 30, 2019, 03:28:12 PM
Apparently you get professor points for fishing and it doesn't take an activity point  :doge Gardening too but meh.

I used up all my lures, and then didn’t have any left for golden fish day, fml. I thought you could just always find them or buy them, but you can’t buy them and it seems like you can only find them once a month.

The glowing blue spots only refill at the beginning of the month, yeah. There's some extra quest or battle you can do that will lure more merchants to the marketplace, and the two that show up sell lures, seeds, food ingredients, teas, and gifts. So it's worth doing.

I’m doing all the side quests, but I’m still pretty early in the game. I just now unlocked tea parties.

Yeah tea parties is Ch 3, the quest I'm thinking of is Ch 5
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 30, 2019, 05:16:29 PM
When you're trying to play on Permadeath mode, but the loli lets you rewind time. :noah
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Tasty on July 30, 2019, 08:01:44 PM
The game is great but I honestly feel like on normal, it's a little too easy, especially since you can just grind extra battles. Of course, a lot of this is likely due to me having played an infinite amount of fucking Fire Emblem games.

...if you've played FE so much why start on normal?? :confused
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 30, 2019, 08:22:04 PM
The game is great but I honestly feel like on normal, it's a little too easy, especially since you can just grind extra battles. Of course, a lot of this is likely due to me having played an infinite amount of fucking Fire Emblem games.

...if you've played FE so much why start on normal?? :confused

1. Because I'm lazy and different FE games different relative difficulties (which you would know if you'd ever played any :smug) so if this was a more difficult one, then that would make sense

2. Because I'm going to play it AT LEAST 3 times through so I can go through each house's storyline and see how they're different, so I can play it on Hard or Lunatic or dickpunch mode later

3. Because fuck you, that's why
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 30, 2019, 09:01:44 PM
A small quibble: playing in handheld mode kinda sucks because lawd some of that text is small af

(granted, 42 year old eyes here but still)
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Rufus on July 30, 2019, 09:24:40 PM
https://twitter.com/pcgamer/status/1156207828622876672

Master Race annihilated  :crowdlaff
Yuzu and/or Ryuujinx will run it before long. Mustard prevails. :smug
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Akala on July 30, 2019, 09:52:11 PM
A small quibble: playing in handheld mode kinda sucks because lawd some of that text is small af

(granted, 42 year old eyes here but still)

I just ordered it and this is what I’m worried about.  :(
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 30, 2019, 10:35:00 PM
A small quibble: playing in handheld mode kinda sucks because lawd some of that text is small af

(granted, 42 year old eyes here but still)

I just ordered it and this is what I’m worried about.  :(

If you play actually hand held it's bad but not as bad as what I do when I'm "working" which is use the kick stand on my desk and use the joycons in the controller shell. That's downright awful.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 30, 2019, 10:49:03 PM
I'd almost forgotten that I have a Chrom amiibo that I bought for reasons I can't even fathom anymore, now I'm finally able to put it to work getting me mad seeds. :money
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 31, 2019, 10:48:20 AM
Armored Knight Edelgard has got me feeling some type of way.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 31, 2019, 10:53:34 AM
I honestly wonder if the other lords are as OP as Edelgard, her high resistance growth means she can almost solo maps by herself later in the game
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 31, 2019, 11:46:30 AM
The eternal FE struggle of wanting to steamroll with your OP units vs. wanting to level up your stragglers.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on July 31, 2019, 12:52:28 PM
The eternal FE struggle of wanting to steamroll with your OP units vs. wanting to level up your stragglers.

Pretty much any game with multiple chars
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on July 31, 2019, 01:19:07 PM
Edelgard is so OP once you upgrade her to "Lord" and give her a Steel Sword+ :lawd
Pro-tip: equip her with a set of Royal Archers to have OP ranged combat as well :lol

I usually send Edelgard to cover one flank and the rest of the team to cover the other flank.
Even Byleth is pretty much a side show compared to Edie  :heart
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: kingv on July 31, 2019, 01:21:00 PM
So does anyone know exactly how all the classes affect character growth?

For example, I assigned Byleth (she’s bi) as a thief, because I tend to like those high dex , speedy, high crit characters in FE.

What I don’t understand is if this will actually affect how her stats grow or how she gains affinity to weapons.

Like my Petra is also a thief, but she mostly uses a bow, because she’s actually quite good with one.

I have Edelgard as an armored knight. She’s pretty good in thst role too.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 31, 2019, 01:29:58 PM
So does anyone know exactly how all the classes affect character growth?

For example, I assigned Byleth (she’s bi) as a thief, because I tend to like those high dex , speedy, high crit characters in FE.

What I don’t understand is if this will actually affect how her stats grow or how she gains affinity to weapons.

Like my Petra is also a thief, but she mostly uses a bow, because she’s actually quite good with one.

I have Edelgard as an armored knight. She’s pretty good in thst role too.

In general for all your FE needs:

https://serenesforest.net/three-houses/

Specifically to your questions:

Character base growth rates:

https://serenesforest.net/three-houses/characters/growth-rates/

Class growth rate modifiers (add or subtract to base growth rates as specified):

https://serenesforest.net/three-houses/classes/growth-rates/
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 31, 2019, 01:40:57 PM
https://twitter.com/JoeMolotov/status/1156620463449096192
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: kingv on July 31, 2019, 03:22:02 PM
I’ll be shocked if he’s not a villain at the end. Just look at him.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 31, 2019, 03:45:49 PM
I’ll be shocked if he’s not a villain at the end. Just look at him.

Greatness, at any cost.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
(https://i.imgur.com/MapXVkn.jpg)
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on July 31, 2019, 05:09:11 PM
So does anyone know exactly how all the classes affect character growth?

For example, I assigned Byleth (she’s bi) as a thief, because I tend to like those high dex , speedy, high crit characters in FE.

What I don’t understand is if this will actually affect how her stats grow or how she gains affinity to weapons.

Like my Petra is also a thief, but she mostly uses a bow, because she’s actually quite good with one.

I have Edelgard as an armored knight. She’s pretty good in thst role too.
Reclass Edie as a lord now. That's her best class. I mean, fully armored dude, mage, cavalry one attack, DEAD.

As for Hubert. The entire black eagle clan is secretly 'evil'. It always comes up in these support conversations.

"Oh Hi Caspar, you're doing great I really appreciate you!"
"Thank you Edelgard!  :heart"

"NOW IF I WERE TO ASK YOU TO KILL YOUR OWN FAMILY BECAUSE THEY BETRAYED ME WOULD YOU DO IT?"


The only naively good person is Dorothea but she hates Ferdie and is just thirsty all the time.
Lindhart and Bernadetta know what's going on but are clearly picking the "Wir haben das nicht gewusst" strategy.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 31, 2019, 05:40:45 PM
As for Hubert. The entire black eagle clan is secretly 'evil'. It always comes up in these support conversations.

Eventually everyone will join the Dark Side.

(Chapter 5)
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I recruited Sylvain and made him strike down his brother.  :delicious
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on July 31, 2019, 05:42:39 PM
Sylvain was the easiest to recruit. I walked up to him, said: "Wanna join" after all the Waifu's said no. and he was like: "Sure whatevs"  :doge
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 31, 2019, 05:44:23 PM
Yeah, he was my first recruit.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 31, 2019, 06:22:32 PM
I never bothered to level my avatar's reason early in the game, but I really should have, so I never recruited Sylvain.

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I'm sure I'll have to kill him next chapter or two, I'm finally fighting the Alliance and this chapter will be the end of Lysithea, Hilda, and Claude.
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Trent Dole on July 31, 2019, 07:35:28 PM
https://twitter.com/IanWhyNot/status/1156385852789907456
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 31, 2019, 10:01:21 PM
Edelgard :jeb
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: curly on July 31, 2019, 11:56:05 PM
I honestly wonder if the other lords are as OP as Edelgard, her high resistance growth means she can almost solo maps by herself later in the game

On normal/classic dimitri is pretty op, even more than felix who's ridiculous. Shamir falls off hard  :(
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 01, 2019, 09:07:39 PM
Chapter 15 just keeps feeding me more battles that don't cost a battle point after I finish one, so I'm just basically almost solo grinding them with my avatar to level up his Reason so i can make him a Mortal Savant.

Looks like I'm gonna retire Shamir and Bernadetta, unfortunately. Their stat growths just didn't work out. Same thing happened to Ferdinand in favor of Leonie a while ago. Say hello to the prime time, Felix and Lysithea. (Although goddamn I wish they didn't feel the need to put a loli in as fanservice, sigh. So gross.)
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 01, 2019, 10:54:26 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/makeinuencore/status/1155853823031689216
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: curly on August 02, 2019, 05:20:32 AM
I think I've failed like...six straight class promotions that were supposedly 73% chance of success? Doesn't seem right
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 02, 2019, 11:29:07 AM
I think I've failed like...six straight class promotions that were supposedly 73% chance of success? Doesn't seem right

I think I've failed every one that wasn't 100%.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 02, 2019, 11:56:19 AM
I haven't bothered trying any for less than 66%, and I've hit more than I've missed, but man does failing a 70something% chance suck. And it does seem like it happens way too often.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 02, 2019, 12:22:46 PM
Got one for Edie at like 55% and Byleth at 60%.

Other characters I've seen fail up to 90%.  :doge
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: TakingBackSunday on August 02, 2019, 04:49:13 PM
so like how unbearably weeb is this game

should I play it
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 02, 2019, 05:12:19 PM
so like how unbearably weeb is this game

should I play it

Like, not as weeb as Persona or Xenosaga (shudders) but moderately weeb.

Yes you should play it, duh
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Great Rumbler on August 02, 2019, 05:18:24 PM
It doesn't have any pantsu, if that's what you're worried about.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: TakingBackSunday on August 02, 2019, 05:28:36 PM
Will my girlfriend judge me if I play it

moreso than usual that is
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 02, 2019, 05:37:28 PM
Will my girlfriend judge me if I play it

moreso than usual that is

I can't imagine your gf isn't already pegging you so who cares
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 02, 2019, 06:02:27 PM
*drinks tea with animu waifu's*

"Yep, this is not weeb at all"


Anyway leveling is going good. Got most of my bois and girls on at least a B on one of their skills.
I must say I'm surprised at how well they executed the being a professor thing with counselling, teaching and having to learn what makes all these characters tick to motivate them.  :doge

I think there's some hidden mechanics at play as well. Because I wanted to train some of my low level characters I didn't deploy Edelgard and opted for some tea time and a tournament earlier in the month instead.
Her motivation for the classes instantly dropped to 0.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 02, 2019, 06:54:13 PM
When I was trying to recruit Raphael (he makes the best tank in the game, for the record) I kept inviting him to tea parties to build support, so that was pretty hilarious to witness, this big huge dude drinking tea

:phil
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: kingv on August 02, 2019, 06:57:34 PM
It doesn't have any pantsu, if that's what you're worried about.

So yes you’re girlfriend will probably suspect you are gay.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 02, 2019, 10:32:35 PM
so like how unbearably weeb is this game

should I play it

yes

yes
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 03, 2019, 10:52:58 PM
I'm regretting playing this on Normal, I'm face-rolling everything. Do the battles ever get harder? I finished a Chapter 10 side quest battle in two turns and took 2hp of damage (!) total on the entire map. I'm trying to avoid doing any unnecessary battles but I'm a simple man, I see Side Quest or Paralogue battles and I do them.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 04, 2019, 12:02:12 AM
I'm regretting playing this on Normal, I'm face-rolling everything. Do the battles ever get harder? I finished a Chapter 10 side quest battle in two turns and took 2hp of damage (!) total on the entire map. I'm trying to avoid doing any unnecessary battles but I'm a simple man, I see Side Quest or Paralogue battles and I do them.

Nah, sadly I'm on Ch 16 and am just facerolling everything. This is just an easier FE game. Next playthrough I'll play on hard and see how it is.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 04, 2019, 06:23:08 AM
I'm steamrolling everything also.
Which only seems just  :phil
Ferdie, Hubie, Dorothea and Byleth are murdering everyone for their queen :salute

Hubert is one scary psychopath though. Not sure how he managed to get into these classes and basically gets away with threatening everyone.  :doge
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 04, 2019, 10:48:17 AM
I'm gonna beat the game today I think. Or my first playthrough of it anyway.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 04, 2019, 12:32:29 PM
https://twitter.com/mpwhitten/status/1157547996159963136
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 04, 2019, 03:47:21 PM
There's a pretty steep difficulty jump in the Ch 17 story battle :doge
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 04, 2019, 04:57:44 PM
Kinda dumb that talking to Edelgard in February
spoiler (click to show/hide)
forces you to immediately decide whether to YASS QUEEN or not, and if you do, it basically just skips the rest of the month. It's not a big deal since you probably will have saved right before that, but they could have easily put an "I'm not ready yet" answer to let you back out and finish up other stuff first.
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 04, 2019, 05:26:57 PM
Kinda dumb that talking to Edelgard in February
spoiler (click to show/hide)
forces you to immediately decide whether to YASS QUEEN or not, and if you do, it basically just skips the rest of the month. It's not a big deal since you probably will have saved right before that, but they could have easily put an "I'm not ready yet" answer to let you back out and finish up other stuff first.
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Yeah fortunately I had saved right before that so I could reload and then wait to talk to her until the end of the month
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Black Eagles playthrough done

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Apparently if you get teammates to A support ranks they'll get married in the epilogue. Linhardt and Petra went back to Brigid and rapidly industrialized the country thanks to his nerd ass. Hubert and Bernadetta got married weirdly enough. I waifu'd Dorothea cause Edelgard is married to her job, fuck a bunch of that. Felix and Leonie started their own mercenary company after the war.

I expected there to be another chapter or two after what ended up being the final battle to clean up Those Who Slither in the Dark (dumbest name ever) but they just said there was a long battle to wipe them out in the epilogue. Maybe DLC? Interested to see how everything looks from the other house's perspectives and how shit plays out.

Game is pretty fuckin great, I wish you could turn off the feature that shows where enemy units will attack and that it was a little bit harder before the last two battles. Otherwise they absolutely knocked it all out of the park.
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Time for a Blue Lions playthrough I guess.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 04, 2019, 07:02:56 PM
Apparently there’s four more chapters if you
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oppose Edelgard?
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on August 04, 2019, 07:09:08 PM
So I sat down and went through the school tutorials and got to the mock battle and past it and I've got some questions:

1. When do the crest things with the old-school triangle open up? Because that first battle was basically level up your main guy and steam roll everyone with 1-2 characters.

2. What do the beginner classes do? It looks like changing from commoner/noble added like 1 point of str or something really minor. Is there any major change going into a class?

3. Any way to repair weapons at the school since they keep their degradation? Or are you just supposed to keep buying new weapons to replace them.

4. Does it matter if you skip most of the school, sidequests and relationship building stuff because I don't like school in my videogames outside Persona. I just want to pre-battle setup -> story -> battle -> repeat.

Non-questions thoughts:

-Man that framerate is rough in the school. Almost gives me a headache. Feels like it was made for a different system and ported down instead of made from ground up.

-So by mid-battle in the first mock battle I'm already really missing the hard saves available in most modern srpgs. With all the handholding stuff they've put in FE I'm surprised they still have the age old bullshit of delete your battle saves when you load them. SRPG fights are long and I don't have the patience to redo them from scratch these days. Any way to cheese the save system in this? Yeah I know there is a rewind option unlocked at some point but like in the mock battle I was near the end with one school down when 2 enemies double-teamed by Noble house leader bow guy and instant killed him from full HP and game over'd the whole map. I imagine if you run into instant fail-conditions you can't rewind because it's already game over? Or does the game let you rewind from the game over screen? I might be ok with the rewind system if the latter works.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 04, 2019, 11:26:22 PM
1. Are you talking about getting abilities to take advantage of the concept of the weapon triangle? Maybe 1/2 to 2/3 of the way through the game. They're advanced skills.

2. You're not going to be in the beginner's classes for long. They affect growth rates a little bit on top of your characters specific growth rates. I'll put a link below. Once you get into intermediate classes, then you'll start getting class skills specific to certain classes.

https://serenesforest.net/three-houses/classes/growth-rates/

3. Yes, you will unlock a blacksmith later in the game. Patience, young padawan.

4. Not really, but doing sidequests gets you renown, which you can use to improve your characters/professor. Not doing anything to improve your students motivation will result in generally unmotivated students that learn at a slower pace. Not specifically setting their goals will result in less useful units. You can just use the default goals and auto-instruct, but you will have better characters if you do it yourself and take the time to learn it. In a week, you are going to make a post where you're like "ugh got destroyed on this chapter, why does my team suck?" and the answer is going to be "you didn't want to take the time and effort to shape your team." That's like the most predictable Bebpo-related shit ever. ::)

re: the save system- don't be a wuss. Once you unlock rewinds you can use them, and yes, if you encounter a situation where your lord or chapter specific character dies, you can use a rewind if you have any remaining.

Jesus I can already tell I'm going to be vexed with you.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on August 04, 2019, 11:42:31 PM
Yeah on the first one I mean the weapon triangle, aka a reason to not just have my MC with a sword run up and kill everyone while being healed.

Jesus I can already tell I'm going to be vexed with you.

Wouldn't have it any other way ;)
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: curly on August 04, 2019, 11:43:03 PM
On normal difficulty the tensest moments happen in the school portions. Going for a perfect teatime with Marianne :whew
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 04, 2019, 11:47:51 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/makeinuencore/status/1155853823031689216

While you were trying to figure out who the fuck gets this fucking tea set, I was practicing the blade
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 05, 2019, 09:48:23 AM
Haven't beat the game yet, but I'm already getting hyped for New Game+. Spending Renown to buy back your skills/ranks/s-links seems like a decent balance between not everything and not being killing the entire map with one attack.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: kingv on August 05, 2019, 11:53:18 AM
Crazy how unfinished this game is;

- no mode where I can stroke they faces
- no hot springs to bathe in with my hoes
- no mode where I can put them in bathing suits and have them pose for pictures
- no mode where I can spray milk and or lemonade on them with a water gun

It’s basically mass effect andromeda 2.0.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 05, 2019, 03:05:16 PM
There's a sauna in the game that you can't go in. Clearly DLC shenanigans are afoot.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 05, 2019, 03:22:28 PM
There's a sauna in the game that you can't go in. Clearly DLC shenanigans are afoot.

:phil
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 05, 2019, 06:56:34 PM
Did a fun side mission today

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Dorothea prevented Ingrid from marrying a bad dude who sent rogues after us. Dorothea seems to have dated the entire Fire Emblem: Three Houses universe.
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 06, 2019, 03:51:06 PM
https://www.polygon.com/2019/8/6/20756915/fire-emblem-three-houses-white-heron-cup-dancer-class

https://twitter.com/acosmos/status/1157873011363418112

:uguu
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 06, 2019, 07:50:09 PM
All the tea time with Marianne paid off. She joined the Black Eagles.  8)
Ingrid and Mercedes are also slowly turning towards the dark side

:kermit
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: curly on August 06, 2019, 08:19:01 PM
Were you giving gifts to them and doing the lost item stuff? Kinda dumb you can recruit almost entire houses AND their teachers too :lol
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 06, 2019, 08:45:25 PM
You should be able to recruit lots of faculty staff and knights without doing anything other than hitting level 15
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Rahxephon91 on August 07, 2019, 12:43:58 AM
Got this for my trip at the end of the month. Not really into FE, hope this is good.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on August 07, 2019, 03:23:36 AM
So basically you only need to do the school exploring once a month because there’s no new quests, dialogue interactions after that? So is it best to just battle every weekend after the first one and grind up your levels and skills?

In chapter 3 and units starting to get to lvl.10 and open up intermediate classes.

I still wish I could save mid-battle, I know there’s rewind and I’ve haven’t needed to use it yet but these days the more mins between saves in games the more stressful I find them because if die it means having to waste all that time again. Especially because you can easily have a unit get one shotted and with perm death and trying to do a no death run, normal saves would be helpful. I like how Super Robot Wars does it where you get one mid-battle save slot so you have to commit to what you’ve done so far but it also gives you a big lenience because if you fuck up you can just resume from the last save and try a different approach. I don’t remember, do FFT & TO have perm saves during battle?

Also I have no interest in recruiting anyone beyond my starting class of 9, so is there any point to taking to all the students and building up rep with them? I feel like from a story perspective the starting class I pick is my team and fuck these other teams that are my rivals, I don’t want to have anything to do with their students.

I’m also just using auto-instruct for the lectures? Seems good enough?
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 07, 2019, 10:35:18 AM
If you stick with your starting house + professor, statistically speaking 2-3 of your units will be endgame liabilities, just from RNG stat progression, not even counting any dumb choices you make like not having a tank or whatever. (Edelgard makes a fine tank if you do nothing and just let her level, fyi)

If you look at what Advanced/Mastery classes you want your characters to be and set their goals to get there, you can auto-instruct. You should DEFINITELY set two people to do a chore each week to help with that, it's a good way to train them in Flying, Heavy Armor, or Riding. There's literally no downside.

You can battle every weekend except for one if you want but it's the dumb way of going about the game. Do everything you can to raise your professor level as fast as you can is the smart way. That means gardening every week you explore, fishing whenever you have bait, answering letters in the chapel- those things cost no activity points and raise your professor level and/or build supports. If you ARE battling every Sunday except one, be sure that you look at the calendar and make sure that the following Monday after you explore has a green check mark for instruction. Because yes, YOU NEED TO FUCKING MOTIVATE YOUR STUDENTS. I don't know how many times I have to tell you, Bebpo. If you're auto-instructing them and they have no motivation they're not learning anything extra. If you don't like the dumb life sim parts of the game, well, this wasn't the game for you. Go sell it and quit complaining.

As far as recruiting, you can not recruit any other students but I really, really recommend you get the teachers/knights that are available at Lv 15. If you're Black Eagles, you are actually mostly ok as the game progresses as far as party composition as long as you get both Linhardt and Dorothea to rank C in Faith so you have two Physic users. Being able to heal from a distance with two units is pretty much a luxury you don't want to be without just in case. As for the rest of your team- they're adequate now but keep in mind you're 1/6 of the way through the game. By the 2/3 mark, my Ferdinand and Bernadetta were not really useful as battle units anymore, and Caspar had been useless since about where you're at. (I hate glass cannon units in FE though.) Petra also gets less useful as the game wears on because her STR growth sucks and she's just not doing damage anymore.

Felix- just better than Petra
Leonie- just better than Ferdinand
Alois- just better than Caspar
Shamir, Manuela, and maybe even Hanneman are likely better than Bernadetta depending on growth rates as a ranged option.

If you stop using your starting house units in battle they still show up in cut scenes as long as they're alive, though. If that matters to you.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 07, 2019, 10:50:57 AM
You could just sleep everyday for motivation, lul. #LindhartDidNothingWrong
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 07, 2019, 11:31:10 AM
Do this a lot
 :kermit

I'm wondering when the difficulty picks up.
Wyvern Moon
I just did the Battle of the Eagle and the Lion. I aced it, as my bois and waifu's are level 15 - 22 and the enemies all level 10 - 15.
The music was great and I liked how unlike in the mock battles it is a proper three way battle.

It was surprisingly easy after all that hyping though so I hope the games picks up the pace from here on out.
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My exploration time usually looks like this:
- Plant/Harvest/Fish/Council/Pick-up Amiibo loot
- Talk to everyone (and return lost items)
- Do the side quests (if any)
- Repair/buy gear/battalions/gifts
- Spend renown
- Tournament (if available)
- Faculty training
- Choir practice
- Tea time
- Watch all the new support scenes
- Try to recruit more waifu's
- Dinner
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: kingv on August 07, 2019, 12:45:37 PM
I haven’t really been able to recruit anybody and am not sure the best way to go about it.

Do you do the faculty training to raise your non-primary skills?

I’m outchea pwning noobs with my sword and battalions, so I’m not exactly getting a lot of riding experience.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 07, 2019, 01:03:37 PM
I haven’t really been able to recruit anybody and am not sure the best way to go about it.

Do you do the faculty training to raise your non-primary skills?

I’m outchea pwning noobs with my sword and battalions, so I’m not exactly getting a lot of riding experience.
A lot of the waifu's prefer some form of magic, so doing some leveling on Reason and Faith seems to be a good strategy overall.
However, the most important part is interacting with them.

- Hand them gifts (each character description actually shows what they prefer but any 3 star gift will do)
- Have them do 'mission assistance' and keep them close to your own character so the bond builds
- Say 'yes' every time Byleth wants to check in on them
- Do tea time once that opens up (usually after a gift or 2)

For dinner I also pick one from my house and one from another house.
The skills don't matter as much as the bonding and the professor level (granted you don't completely neglect your training or leveling Byleth (which seems almost impossible)).
Some characters can also be recruited by talking to them at the right time. Shamir for example is easy to recruit.

Some characters you can recruit by just doing their (side)quests.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 07, 2019, 01:09:54 PM
Basically what Nintex said. I would add that on your first playthrough, you probably shouldn't expect to recruit a bunch of people unless you make it a priority. I ended up recruiting 5 before the timeskip, but 4 of them were on the very last chapter of availability. The 1 I recruited earlier was Raphael, and I made it a priority to get him- returned lost items, invited him to dinners, gave gifts, specifically trained in heavy armor to a D rank via faculty instruction (which is harder than most other skills because I think the only ones that offer to teach it are Alois and Gilbert)

Any faculty and knights that are available for you to recruit (it varies by house) will become available at level 15 supposedly. There are some other characters that will join via story events depending on your house and major event choices apparently.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 07, 2019, 01:46:05 PM
I didn’t focus on any secondary stats, and I ended up only being able to recruit two students to my class (Sylvain and Felix), even after returning most of the lost items and doing a bunch of tea time and meals.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on August 07, 2019, 02:47:29 PM
Ok, some good info there.

I think my problem is that I haven't played FE in 15 years and I don't remember what the point of any of this stuff is. Like why do I want flying or cavalry units? What is the point of Spear users? etc...
My memory of GBA era FE was like you had a set group of characters with set classes and weapons and you watched a cutscene and then were dropped into a map with a set group of pre-set characters & classes and you used strategy to beat the bad guys using your team. I don't remember much micro-managing between.

This seems way more complicated and I'm wondering since there's so many team build choices if you can end up 40 hours into the game with a bad team and be fucked and have to restart the whole game over? Maybe I should restart now since I'm only 5 hours in. So far I'm just having people continue in their starting weapon. So if you're a bow guy you're gonna be an archer, my MC's a sword guy so he'll be a sword tank, magic attacker -> be a magic attacker, magic healer -> be a magic healer, etc...

Again, I'm using the noble alliance gold kids which consist of my team of:

-2 bows
-2 spears
-1 axe
-1 fists
-1 magic atk
-1 magic hlr

and my sword MC. I'm also "borrowing" Dorothy for another magic attacker since y'all recommended her. So far the toughest part of the early battles are tanking since not a lot of good DEF and HP people in there. Fists dude is a good tank and my MC is a good tank and the spear/archers have pretty good dodge thankfully.


Also battalions seem like they make a pretty big stat difference especially after a few levels so I feel like I need to look into getting the right battalion for the right character more. Also equipment since I'm just using starting weapons and stuff I've picked up on the map.

My exploration time usually looks like this:
- Plant/Harvest/Fish/Council/Pick-up Amiibo loot
- Talk to everyone (and return lost items)
- Do the side quests (if any)
- Repair/buy gear/battalions/gifts
- Spend renown
- Tournament (if available)
- Faculty training
- Choir practice
- Tea time
- Watch all the new support scenes
- Try to recruit more waifu's
- Dinner

This is helpful, I've just been doing the sidequests, talking to a few people and then doing faculty training or dinner or something to use my activity points.

What's the point of all the food items you get from quests and harvesting?
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 07, 2019, 04:26:38 PM
Without spoiling anything, there's an event that will no longer allow you to borrow people about half way through. So, it would behoove you to recruit Dorothea at least. Borrowing her has probably already started building supports, so just level your authority and your charm has a decent growth rate and you'll get her eventually.

On paper you won't need her because you have 3(!) characters that can learn physic in their white magic progression, but only one of them is a realistic choice for a healer. Also, with your healer AND black magic user, you want to have both of them study faith and reason. You COULD teach Leonie faith magic with the end goal of having her be a Master class Holy Knight but that would suck because she won't have access to casting magic in her more useful function as an attacker until super late game when you can finally make her a holy knight. Make Raphael an armored knight asap. He can use axes and fist weapons, but he's so good with heavy armor.

This IS way more complicated than previous FE games. You have way more choice in how to craft your party, which classes they can be, etc. Generally speaking, using what they seem to be funneling you into naturally is not a bad idea, it will serve you fine. As far as flying or cavalry units, they can move farther than other units.

You shouldn't have to restart. If you feel like you fucked up with a class choice, you can just teach new skills and reclass. Yes it will consume time but less than restarting.

Battalions are OP. Use your gambits. Stride is busted.

The food you grow in the greenhouse and pick up randomly can be used in the dining hall to cook more meals. More meals = more options = more characters that you can boost motivations and supports with. Also flowers can be given as gifts to raise support.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: curly on August 07, 2019, 04:39:09 PM
I'm pretty close to the end I think and on normal difficulty this game is pretty easy. Even if you fuck up unit progression you can probably just steamroll late game with your character and your house leader.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 07, 2019, 04:53:30 PM
The last two maps have a pretty steep spike in difficulty. But you're pretty much right, this is among the easier FE games on normal.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on August 07, 2019, 05:05:16 PM
Without spoiling anything, there's an event that will no longer allow you to borrow people about half way through. So, it would behoove you to recruit Dorothea at least. Borrowing her has probably already started building supports, so just level your authority and your charm has a decent growth rate and you'll get her eventually.

On paper you won't need her because you have 3(!) characters that can learn physic in their white magic progression, but only one of them is a realistic choice for a healer. Also, with your healer AND black magic user, you want to have both of them study faith and reason. You COULD teach Leonie faith magic with the end goal of having her be a Master class Holy Knight but that would suck because she won't have access to casting magic in her more useful function as an attacker until super late game when you can finally make her a holy knight. Make Raphael an armored knight asap. He can use axes and fist weapons, but he's so good with heavy armor.

This IS way more complicated than previous FE games. You have way more choice in how to craft your party, which classes they can be, etc. Generally speaking, using what they seem to be funneling you into naturally is not a bad idea, it will serve you fine. As far as flying or cavalry units, they can move farther than other units.

You shouldn't have to restart. If you feel like you fucked up with a class choice, you can just teach new skills and reclass. Yes it will consume time but less than restarting.

Battalions are OP. Use your gambits. Stride is busted.

The food you grow in the greenhouse and pick up randomly can be used in the dining hall to cook more meals. More meals = more options = more characters that you can boost motivations and supports with. Also flowers can be given as gifts to raise support.

So my healer girl (blue hair) asked to study faith only be a white mage or something
and my attack magic girl (white hair) asked to study the other one and be a warlock

I ok'd both and only have 1 healer right now. Should I change attack girl back to dual-speccing both to have another healer? Who should be the 3rd healer? Dorothea only seems to have Thunder right now and one of my spear guys (purple hair) has Fire. I've been using Vuln items to heal outside blue hair girl's healing.

And yeah the only battalion I'm using for a command gambit is stride, rest I'm just using for extra stats like avoid and hit and physical attack, magic attack boosters.

I'm pretty close to the end I think and on normal difficulty this game is pretty easy. Even if you fuck up unit progression you can probably just steamroll late game with your character and your house leader.

That's good. Having not played FE in forever and mostly being used to Super Robot Wars and maybe some FFT/TO as my go to srpgs I'm finding it challenging in the early maps because I have no tank and enemies can one shot and there's no revive skill and perm death so I don't want anyone to die. I think it'll get easier once I have a couple people with enough DEF/HP to tank some hits and protect the lower DEF/HP crew.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 07, 2019, 05:20:09 PM
Yes, there is no drawback to telling them no and setting a custom goal from what I've been able to tell. Not even a missed boost in motivation/support or losing out on professor points. Since they're both going to have super high magic stats, they might as well have access to as much magic as they possibly can, and women magic users can master class into Gremory which will DOUBLE all their magic uses per battle. This is why you don't want to just do whatever the game tells you to do sometimes :P

Dorothea once you recruit her, you will have to put effort into getting her faith skill up with lessons, so it will be important to motivate her each week you can. She starts out with a negative modifier on her faith skill, which means she'll learn it slower. BUT, she also has a hidden talent in it, so if you instruct her enough not only can you remove the negative modifier but it will turn into a strength and she'll get a bonus to learning faith.

Without spoiling anything, you also want to raise Dorothea's CHA score up as much as you can via tea parties and any items you get that can do so. There's a special event that will unlock a very useful class for ONE CHARACTER ONLY later in the game, but only if they have a very high CHA stat. (I didn't know the "one character only" part on my first playthrough and had Edelgard do it, and while she won, she was more useful as a tank than as the other class, so I lost out)
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 07, 2019, 06:26:07 PM
Hanneman and Manuela joined me on a whim.

Just keep talking to people and collect their shit while you level. Occasionally bring everyone some flowers.
99% of the characters like flowers.

Also, the church really needs to work on their hiring practices.

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Even the library dude was 'actually' evil  :lol
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 07, 2019, 11:15:12 PM
Made it to the final battle.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on August 08, 2019, 04:11:23 AM
Well tonight the game’s systems clicked and unlocking advanced classes was like oh so this is why focus matters which led to oh so this is how motivation actually works which led to ok you want to explore on the weekends before seminars to build motivation to increase weapon skills to qualify for the classes you want for the unit.

Also getting that authority ties into which battalions you can use.

About to do the end story mission for chapter 3. In the end I probably didn’t fuck up the first month real bad but I definitely wasn’t min/maxing efficiency, but I should be able to do it for the rest of the months. Enjoying the game a lot more now that I get the loop. The support cutscenes are pretty good for developing the cast. I kinda like how just sticking to one house it’s a pretty small cast so you’re starting to get to know them.

I am kinda annoyed that heavy armor class is axe only since my best tank Raphael is a fist fighter so far. Want to do fists and heavy armor but game seems very rigid on classes and so it seems like it’s better to just figure out the end classes for your team units and then just follow the strict skill progression to get there.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 08, 2019, 07:44:18 AM
Well tonight the game’s systems clicked and unlocking advanced classes was like oh so this is why focus matters which led to oh so this is how motivation actually works which led to ok you want to explore on the weekends before seminars to build motivation to increase weapon skills to qualify for the classes you want for the unit.

Also getting that authority ties into which battalions you can use.

About to do the end story mission for chapter 3. In the end I probably didn’t fuck up the first month real bad but I definitely wasn’t min/maxing efficiency, but I should be able to do it for the rest of the months. Enjoying the game a lot more now that I get the loop. The support cutscenes are pretty good for developing the cast. I kinda like how just sticking to one house it’s a pretty small cast so you’re starting to get to know them.

I am kinda annoyed that heavy armor class is axe only since my best tank Raphael is a fist fighter so far. Want to do fists and heavy armor but game seems very rigid on classes and so it seems like it’s better to just figure out the end classes for your team units and then just follow the strict skill progression to get there.
Yeah, for me it was much the same. It'll click eventually, the game has some great: "Oh that's how that works!" moments, without outright telling you the best approach.

The thing they could've done better is to make it clear how long the school stuff lasts so you know how long you have to recruit and mess around.
I guess it is more of an issue for veteran players, who remember that in Echoes and the likes you had some very small and specific windows to recruit.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Cryo on August 08, 2019, 09:58:03 AM
Have previous games increased your base stats when you reclass? Was debating needing to drop Marianne from the team because her strength was butt ass but she got +8 from becoming a falcon knight :rejoice
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 08, 2019, 10:08:59 AM
Lysterine got a +9 def buff when I classes her into a warlock, which doesn’t even make sense but I l’m not going to complain because her defense was 4 and she could get killed by a stiff breeze.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 08, 2019, 02:01:22 PM
Oh dear things are getting serious and just after I recruit Mercedes too....  :'(

make Marianne useful
Make her do the dance thing (I assume most pick Dorothea instead). She has an insane charm score.
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chapter 9
Nooo, not Jeralt.

I will bathe in the blood of thine enemies lady Edelgard.
But why did you trust Monica (and who in the monastery isn't actually evil or a treasonous asshole outside of the students  :lol ).
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on August 08, 2019, 04:20:48 PM
So I’m way overleveled. I did a lot of battling that first month and was fighting lvl.9 maps, my team lvls range from like 7-12 with the big hitters being 11/12.

Did that story mission at the end of the month and the enemies were lvl...4, with a lvl.6 boss.


So basically are the optional battle missions gonna be higher level than the story missions so if you do then you’re gonna be overleveled for story maps? Was way too easy when 5 levels above the enemy. Barely take any damage so can just rush them.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 08, 2019, 04:43:17 PM
Usually the optional battles are lower than the story battles, but it varies. Game is pretty easy even when you’re appropriately leveled, though.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 08, 2019, 10:21:32 PM
Beat it.

Total Time: 47:31

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I married Edie (although I was tempted to pick Sothis just to fully embrace the wokeness of the first game to allow you to romance a headmate  :brain). Hubert and Petra, Ferdinand and Bernadetta, and Sylvain and Dorothea also got married. The epilogue reassured us that Hubie and Petra had tons of sex and popped out like a dozen kids.
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Immediately started New Game+ and bought my way back to Professor Level A-tier. :lawd
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on August 08, 2019, 10:52:11 PM
How do you spend renown? Has it just not opened up yet in Ch.4?

If you have 3 weekends in a month, what’s the recommended way to go for efficiency? 1 explore, 1 battle, 1 ???
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 08, 2019, 11:00:07 PM
How do you spend renown? Has it just not opened up yet in Ch.4?

If you have 3 weekends in a month, what’s the recommended way to go for efficiency? 1 explore, 1 battle, 1 ???

I think you're able to spend renown in Chapter 5. There are four statues in the far-right corner of the Cathedral and a guy that improves them for renown.

Explore the first week, battle the second week, then on the third week battle if you have any side-quest battles or paralogue battles left undone, otherwise explore again. I never rested and did a Seminar maybe three times total.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 08, 2019, 11:01:00 PM
How do you spend renown? Has it just not opened up yet in Ch.4?

If you have 3 weekends in a month, what’s the recommended way to go for efficiency? 1 explore, 1 battle, 1 ???

You can unlock renown spending in a side quest in Ch 5

I would do 1 battle weekend (do it on a Sunday where the calendar shows you won't be having class the next Monday so you don't miss out on motivating anyone via gifts, items, etc) per month and the rest explores. Seminars may make sense early on before you get your professor level up to the point where you can do a bunch of different things (tournaments, dinners, tea times, faculty instruction, etc) during your exploration
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on August 08, 2019, 11:28:04 PM
I feel like battles can be pretty motivating. I did a battle for 2nd weekend and the seminar the next day had almost everyone at max motivation (1 person was orange). Plus in battles I feel like you gain a lot of skill xp (maybe as much as a seminar?) by using the skills and gain a lot of support points by keeping people close together so you get a bunch of hearts every attack.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Cryo on August 09, 2019, 12:42:17 AM
If you obtain a mastered ability or art from a class, are you able to use them on other classes?
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: kingv on August 09, 2019, 12:45:17 AM
Oh, does using skills generate more skill so than just an attack? I didn’t know that.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on August 09, 2019, 01:17:20 AM
No idea, I meant skill xp by like if you attack with a sword you get sword skill xp.


Got to Ch.5, story & characters are pretty good. Seems like there’s a ton of interaction cutscenes for each character which is impressive given that there’s probably 30-40 characters. Decided I’m gonna try to waifu Claude because none of the gals in this are appealing to me. The professor that dresses like she’s clubbing is alright too.

Tea time is fricken hard and wtf is the zoom around shit if you beat it. That was weird.

I guess should go for tea time every birthday for the chance to increase charisma stat. I’m kinda surprised my authority stat sucks, being the teacher and all. Need to get that and Cha up to recruit Dorothea.

My only real complaint is that a couple chapters in and the gameplay loop already feels pretty repetitive. Feels like just running a bunch of chores (including auxiliary battles) over and over between cutscenes and main story bits. Luckily there are lots of character cutscenes scattered between and growing your stats and getting stronger is fun even if it feels kinda same-y.

Also I can see how the game is pretty replayable since half the story are the support cutscenes character stories for your house and each house has it’s own. That being said I doubt I’d replay it since the other half is the same story. But maybe in NG+ just rest every weekend and auto-instruct to blow through the story and watch support cutscenes.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 09, 2019, 01:43:45 AM
In my 2nd playthrough on ch 7 and I've already recruited 6 of the Golden Deer students to join, lol
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: curly on August 09, 2019, 06:33:37 AM
Finished my first play through and feel like I missed half the plot
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 09, 2019, 10:37:14 AM
My understanding of the plot is:

F/M/K
Claude/Edelgard/Dimitri
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Great Rumbler on August 09, 2019, 01:55:06 PM
lol dimitri
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 09, 2019, 07:29:17 PM
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https://i.imgur.com/eIOFNGV.jpg
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: curly on August 09, 2019, 08:05:17 PM
Starting a Golden Deer playthrough. Claude :noah
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on August 09, 2019, 09:11:48 PM
Starting a Golden Deer playthrough. Claude :noah

Yeah, I wasn't paying attention to the whole LGBT outrage going on in this, but I read today you can't fuck Claude as a guy and can only fuck an old man or something and that was pretty odd considering out of all the guys I've met so far Claude comes across as the most bi-dude in the school.

Gonna have to settle for my tea times with Claude  :goty2
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: kingv on August 11, 2019, 11:27:23 AM
I been playing with bae’s house and was going to go off with bae and say fuck the church, but it seems I missed some event and didn’t get the option.

I hope that the other houses have different missions the whole way through... but I half expect that they all end up in the same set of missions after the time skip.

Edit: in some ways this is one of the better fire emblem stories, but man the writing is really flat which brings it down a notch.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 11, 2019, 02:09:39 PM
The school chapter is wrapping up now I think because they are mentioning the graduation. I recruited nearly everyone I want except Leonie.
Showered her with flowers and other gifts, hopefully she comes around before this month is over. I don't care much for Raphael, Lorentz and Ashe.

Other than that I recruited pretty much everyone from all the houses.
From the Church set I didn't get Seteth and Catherine yet. Not sure if Catherine is recruitable anymore at this point.
I don't trust these Church people though so I don't care much about missing Seteth. Not spending any time on leveling Flayn either when I have Marianne dancing and healing everyone  :heart.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 12, 2019, 11:03:28 AM
Fuck yeah I made the right decisions before the time skip  :hyper

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Teaming up with Hubert and Edelgard to destroy the Church of Seiros felt so good.
The only character I regret having to fight is Catheryn. I'm glad Rhea's little slave is dead. Such idiots for sticking with her.

But I could see that what the Church was doing was wrong and in the end she was just some monster pretending to be a person.
Still, it was sort of weird that you would go a school and then declare war on it just before your graduation.

It does make me curious about the other paths. Dimitri is pretty clear cut, you will have to fight for the Kingdom against the Empire.
Claude I'm not so sure about. Maybe he also sticks with the church. In this 'path' he's 'neutral' and there's infighting the Alliance that Edelgard can take advantage of.
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Great Rumbler on August 12, 2019, 03:52:58 PM
The Blue Lions storyline sounds like such a snooze-fest. 

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"I must get revenge for my family! Wait, actually revenge is wrong, let's forgive them instead and be friends." :snore
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: curly on August 13, 2019, 05:57:38 AM
Every golden deer is a dumber version of a blue lion
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 13, 2019, 11:12:28 AM
It stings a bit that...

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The first enemy I had to kill was Leonie. Poor soul didn't understand that I wanted her to join me despite showering her with gifts and now she's dead.
Alas, other students are also wondering about their choice to murder everyone and put Edelgard in power but I motivate them to keep going.

The battles are more tense and difficult now. Next up on the list our queen wants us to slay is Claude.
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 13, 2019, 11:30:44 AM
Betrayal can never be forgiven.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 14, 2019, 11:17:19 AM
On that note
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I spared Claude, he was merely a Neutral country standing in the way of me and Edie's conquest. You could say he was like Holland, an aquatic capital and literally 2 days of fighting.
He was also sad Hilda and Leonie didn't retreat. It seems like if they survive the battle he tells the remaining Golden Deer that are still alive to join you.
In my case I had already recruited most of his house like Marianne (great as a Dancer btw) and Lysethia during the earlier chapters.

Now we march on the Kingdom to slay King Goth Emo and the deep state.
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Hubert is such an evil dude, I wonder how he was even allowed into the officers academy in the first place.  :doge
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 14, 2019, 12:46:18 PM
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I spared Claude, but Leonie still fought me in the last chapter, so I killed her dumb ass. Her dad got enraged and rushed at me, but his pathfinding was shit so he just kept running back and forth through the fire 😂
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Great Rumbler on August 14, 2019, 12:59:44 PM
Hubert is such an evil dude, I wonder how he was even allowed into the officers academy in the first place.  :doge

HUBERT DID NOTHING WRONG
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 14, 2019, 05:02:57 PM
Things are moving fast now
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Flayn and Seteth are dead. Rhea lost her shit and now even the monks are defecting, LMAO

Edie is painting pictures of Byleth locked up in her room. Always a good sign when the leader does that.

Dorothea is way to worried about the war and not as fun to be around anymore.

Ingrid, Shamir etc. are surprisingly psyched to fight their old allies.

I think Hubert pleasures himself when he counts the dead but I haven't caught him doing it yet.
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: kingv on August 14, 2019, 05:17:05 PM
Things are moving fast now
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Flayn and Seteth are dead. Rhea lost her shit and now even the monks are defecting, LMAO

Edie is painting pictures of Byleth locked up in her room. Always a good sign when the leader does that.

Dorothea is way to worried about the war and not as fun to be around anymore.

Ingrid, Shamir etc. are surprisingly psyched to fight their old allies.

I think Hubert pleasures himself when he counts the dead but I haven't caught him doing it yet.[/spoilers]
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That’s only in “End of Fire Emblem 3.1: You are (not) a Weeb”
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on August 15, 2019, 04:54:00 AM
Finished ch.5 with the beast fight, onto ch.6 now. I like the game and the story being interesting w/a solid cast is basically what's gonna get me to stick with this through the end given the fairly lengthy size of the campaign. For me the game is about an 8/10 at this point. It's repetitive in a Persona 3-5 way but story/characters/dungeons/combat isn't as good so the repetition sticks out more. The battles are ok, but feels weaker and less interesting than the battles I remember from the FE games I played on GBA and GC and general srpg tactics games like Matsuno stuff. My MC and Claude are like 2x the levels of all the enemies and the rest of my team is like 1-1.5x the levels so I can pretty much just run around one-shotting everyone on normal/classic. I recruited a few people already like Dorothea and Thunderbird sword professor, the latter which combined with my MC and Claude are all crazy OP.

But the battle maps are fun even if still pretty repetitive. My vague memory of old-school FE was maps were full of interesting things like chests and doors and people to talk regularly to break up the run up to guys and whack them gameplay. Here feels like bigger maps, more enemies, slower pace and they throw in one door or one chest sometimes.

Also I don't like that the map doesn't have a save when you beat it and go to a beast fight since for Ch.5 I think the map took about an hour and I was like what if I fuck up in the beast fight and have to do this again?

The teaching is fine but again it's just repetitive once you get the hang of it and assign goals and up motivation and instruct them. The school exploration bit is fun each month, but the sidequests are incredibly shallow just talk to one person and then talk to another and it's done usually.

There's a lot of complexity to the various jobs and building up your roster in skills and which characters to use in battle, but most of the actual game outside team construction is a bit shallower than I'd like which is why it's feeling more an enjoyable 8/10 than an exciting can't put down great srpg that I'd score higher. Since I skipped Awakenings & Fates, I wonder if I should go back to Awakenings after this (Fates doesn't look my kinda thing). I also skipped the Wii Radiant Dawn and the 3DS Remakes of FE1/2. Like I said I've been out of the FE game for a while now. I tried going back to RD but man that game is slow and ugly these days so I don't think I could do it.

Also the UI for inventory management is kinda bad. Is there seriously no sort button? Going through the item shop, armory, blacksmith, battalion shop all separately is kinda tedious.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 15, 2019, 07:03:05 AM
They could've streamlined this game for sure. There is no reason to walk around the monastery as many times as we have to. And although fast travel helps a bit it feels like 90% wasted space.
Instead, having just 3 classrooms with the students and a hallway and some doors/objects that start the fishing, shopping, tournaments etc. would've been enough.


Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 15, 2019, 10:41:41 AM
Bebpo: "I've played less than 1/3 of the maps in the game, here are my complaints because obviously nothing will be different in the rest of the game"  :doge

Also, remember when you were battling every weekend and I told you that you should be exploring more? Yup, that's why you're overleveled and what's already an easy game is trivial in difficulty right now. BUT LET'S KEEP IGNORING EVERYTHING I TELL YOU BECAUSE IT'S MORE FUN THIS WAY.

I feel like if they'd kept the monastery as small as you're saying, Nintex, people would have bitched about there not being enough exploration. Persona 3 and 5 for sure (haven't played 4 in forever so not sure) have way more areas to go around to. Although, in their defense, it's not all schools in that case- there's town exploration too. Maybe they should have cut the monastery down a bit and given us a town to explore, that's a valid criticism.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on August 15, 2019, 12:09:03 PM
Bebpo: "I've played less than 1/3 of the maps in the game, here are my complaints because obviously nothing will be different in the rest of the game"  :doge

To be fair, most games don't change much after the first 1/3rd.

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Also, remember when you were battling every weekend and I told you that you should be exploring more? Yup, that's why you're overleveled and what's already an easy game is trivial in difficulty right now. BUT LET'S KEEP IGNORING EVERYTHING I TELL YOU BECAUSE IT'S MORE FUN THIS WAY.

Eh, I only did a couple more battles in the first chapter or two than your average player going by the %s. Like Ch.5 had 2 quests that were battle maps so I did both of those. Also I hardly gain xp in battle maps because they're like lvl.7 and my main MCs are lvl.16. Plus the characters I recruited later like thunderbird sword gal and dorothea are still really good and the former one-shots everything and I haven't done any optional battles with them.

It's easy to be overleveled because when you have a strong character it snowballs because you send them out and they kill everything and keep gaining more xp than the rest of your party. My MC being a standard swordguy + claude being a huge range bow guy is combo that basically takes everyone out, especially with stride cast on them and rally skills and stuff.

But yeah I should've played on hard

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that way tougher but if I lose someone on a bad roll, no big deal story-wise
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I feel like if they'd kept the monastery as small as you're saying, Nintex, people would have bitched about there not being enough exploration. Persona 3 and 5 for sure (haven't played 4 in forever so not sure) have way more areas to go around to. Although, in their defense, it's not all schools in that case- there's town exploration too. Maybe they should have cut the monastery down a bit and given us a town to explore, that's a valid criticism.

I don't mind the size as much as there isn't a ton to do. Not really sure how the exploration days could be improved. They remind me a lot of Trails of Cold Steel 1/3, Tokyo Xanadu where you spend a lot of time just going through the same school hallways/rooms talking to everyone. Persona 3-5 imo is way smaller and more streamlined (hell P3P is menu-based) and you just pick and watch a couple events and it takes like 5-10 mins and then you're back at dungeon/battle/cutscenes which I just prefer for pacing reasons to spending 30-60 mins each school section in FE and Cold Steel/Xanadu.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 15, 2019, 01:25:33 PM
In my route there's not a lot to do anymore in the monastery except collect vegetables for good boi Hubert.
The only two 'new' quests that popped up over the last 4 months that had any effect on the hub area were finding a lost item for Anna so she could set-up shop and unlocking Hubert's merchant friend.

I still went through the whole thing at least once a month to get all the conversations and shower my waifu's with gifts and drink tea but it feels redundant in this phase of the game.
It sorta feels weird to have all these activity points and no activities except for skill training unlocked on every character. But there is no one to recruit anymore, so there's no benefit in leveling unused skills.

Still really enjoying it but there's plenty of room for improvement and polish in the sequel.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 16, 2019, 12:54:57 PM
So...
endgame spoilers
Is route 4 made so you feel bad about helping the Church in the other 3 routes? (at least, I assume that's what you do in those routes).
They've just set fire to the capital city before the final battle. With each act Edelgard seems more compassionate and the Church more evil.

Anyhow if I'm reading these conversations right Hubie will end up with Dorothea and Edie with Byleth  :heart
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 16, 2019, 03:39:27 PM
Completed the Black Eagles route

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In the end
- Bernadetta :heart Hubert (seriously)
- Dorothea :heart Ferdinand (totally forgot this happened)
- Byleth :heart Edelgard

Shamir, Felix etc. all became killers/loners/incels.
Ignatz a painter, Mercedes runs an orphanage.
Petra went to back to Brigid an experienced ruler
Ingrid took over a nice piece of land
Edie made Casper her minister of military affairs

Saddest was Lysethia, she just vanished into obscurity.

Also pretty shitty from Nintendo to not give Koei Tecmo much credit prior to release for developing basically the entire game.  :lol
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: kingv on August 16, 2019, 04:58:24 PM
So...
endgame spoilers
Is route 4 made so you feel bad about helping the Church in the other 3 routes? (at least, I assume that's what you do in those routes).
They've just set fire to the capital city before the final battle. With each act Edelgard seems more compassionate and the Church more evil.

Anyhow if I'm reading these conversations right Hubie will end up with Dorothea and Edie with Byleth  :heart
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I haven’t beaten route 3 yet, but I kind of expect you never play on the bad guy team... or if you do, you reroll obviously tricked into it and change teams near the end.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 16, 2019, 05:33:23 PM
From what I've gathered there are 4 outcomes and the paths greatly differ in terms of who you fight and what the bosses are.
Each path has about 10 chapters, except Crimson Flower(Edelgard), which has 6.

In Edelgard's path you don't actually get to fight the 'real' bad guys. That happens in the epilogue.
Not sure if they ran out development time or it was difficult to integrate in that path.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on August 16, 2019, 06:08:07 PM
Oh wait, it's 10 chapters? Oh, this game is a lot shorter than I thought if you're just doing one path. I googled how many chapters there were in a route and google told me 22 chapters which is why I felt like this gameplay loop was already getting repetitive when there's still another 18 chapters to go from ch.6. 10 sounds good to me.

Also I thought the
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Was gonna happen like midway, but I'm basically midway already, hmmm...

Also I'm only like 12 hours gametime. So is each route only like 25 hours? I thought they said 80 per route pre-release which is why 22 sounded right.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 16, 2019, 06:19:32 PM
Oh wait, it's 10 chapters? Oh, this game is a lot shorter than I thought if you're just doing one path. I googled how many chapters there were in a route and google told me 22 chapters which is why I felt like this gameplay loop was already getting repetitive when there's still another 18 chapters to go from ch.6. 10 sounds good to me.

Also I thought the
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Was gonna happen like midway, but I'm basically midway already, hmmm...

Also I'm only like 12 hours gametime. So is each route only like 25 hours? I thought they said 80 per route pre-release which is why 22 sounded right.
I only counted the chapters post time-skip.

The school bit is 12 chapters I think, so the 22 chapters is spot on.
I finished the Edelgard route in about 50 hours, including all paralogue battles and sidequests and spending quite some time drinking tea.

If you have yet to experience the time skip than you haven't seen any real battles yet.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 16, 2019, 06:21:22 PM
Benji got a shoutout from a youtuber, bless up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsP7LsegKx8
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on August 16, 2019, 06:44:49 PM
Oh wait, it's 10 chapters? Oh, this game is a lot shorter than I thought if you're just doing one path. I googled how many chapters there were in a route and google told me 22 chapters which is why I felt like this gameplay loop was already getting repetitive when there's still another 18 chapters to go from ch.6. 10 sounds good to me.

Also I thought the
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timeskip
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Was gonna happen like midway, but I'm basically midway already, hmmm...

Also I'm only like 12 hours gametime. So is each route only like 25 hours? I thought they said 80 per route pre-release which is why 22 sounded right.
I only counted the chapters post time-skip.

The school bit is 12 chapters I think, so the 22 chapters is spot on.
I finished the Edelgard route in about 50 hours, including all paralogue battles and sidequests and spending quite some time drinking tea.

If you have yet to experience the time skip than you haven't seen any real battles yet.

Ok, cool. Sounds good.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on August 17, 2019, 03:09:48 PM
So rare monsters give special items if you break all 4 tiles.
But what do you do when you’re too strong and your attacks kill the monster in less than 4 attacks? Did an optional rare monster sighting battle and it died on the 3rd attack since it only had 2 lifebars as opposed to 3 with the Ch.5 boss monster?
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 17, 2019, 05:10:34 PM
So rare monsters give special items if you break all 4 tiles.
But what do you do when you’re too strong and your attacks kill the monster in less than 4 attacks? Did an optional rare monster sighting battle and it died on the 3rd attack since it only had 2 lifebars as opposed to 3 with the Ch.5 boss monster?

Use training weapons and combat arts, which only hit once so you don't double up on attacks. Avoid using characters with high crit chance if they don't have the crit shield thing/abilitly.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 17, 2019, 07:26:04 PM
Use battalions as well. Most gambits don't do enough damage to kill the monsters but will destroy a tile.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 17, 2019, 08:38:04 PM
Although if you're that OP, you don't really need the items anyway. They just let your repair/forge your already OP crest weapons.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 17, 2019, 11:10:33 PM
Although if you're that OP, you don't really need the items anyway. They just let your repair/forge your already OP crest weapons.

You need Mythril to forge dem special rusted weapons tho

:bolo
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: BIONIC on August 18, 2019, 04:38:59 AM
Dude, I’m 50 hours in, and only on Ch. 9  :doge

How the hell are people beating the whole game in that time :confused

Does the game just fly post time skip?
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 18, 2019, 06:57:46 AM
I've played a ton of Fire Emblem including Echoes so I could do most battles in 5 - 10 turns and some in 3.
Next up is a hardcore Blue Lion run. The best thing about 3 Houses is that you get 4 Fire Emblem games.  :aah

My strategy was pretty much:
- Bernadette / Shamir with the longbow to take out any horses or flyers
- Dorothea with the meteor on the archers
- Ferdinand / Silvain / Ingrid storming in on horses/pegasus
- Byleth / Petra / Felix / Edelgard on the front lines with axes and swords (feeding Edelgard/Byleth with speed fruit and equipping speed rings so they could cover more distance)
- Hubert / Casper for the clean-up
- Lindhart and later Marianne for healing, and once Marianne was a Dancer Edelgard could kill 5 dudes in 2 turns. (2 attacks with the hand axe and 3 counters of enemies dumb enough to attack her)
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: curly on August 19, 2019, 05:16:39 PM
broke: edelgard did nothing wrong

woke: rhea did nothing wrong

bespoke: rhea dummy thicc
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 19, 2019, 05:18:33 PM
Dem thighs make me wanna sin

:lawd
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 19, 2019, 06:41:24 PM
I'm going to fash it up for my 2nd playthrough, joining the Blue Lions and s-ranking Rhea.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 19, 2019, 06:43:14 PM
I'm about two chapters after the timeskip and I knew the story would be different but man, it's a pretty sizable difference.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on August 21, 2019, 01:46:19 AM
I just discovered the joy that is turning battle animations off. Holy shit this is a game changer. I’d been spending like 30-45 mins a map and now it’s like 5-10. Makes these paralogues and quest optional battles go by so quick.

This definitely improves my enjoying of this game. At the last day of Ch.7 now.

Also is there any way to tell what abilities a class can use? Like Flayn is a priest with heal but I made her a flying unit thinking she could fly around and heal but she gets locked out of all her magic in that class :(

Also I’ve been dual leveling all my mages like you guys suggested so they all have light/dark magic but why is no one learning physic besides blue hair girl? I’m up to B in Faith with Dorothea, Lystheia and some others and no one else can distance heal which is annoying. I don’t understand how skills work in this game and different characters in the same class with faith at the same level learn different magics wtf
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: curly on August 21, 2019, 01:55:00 AM
Yeah I don't really get how the skills system works. Dorothea has physic in my game tho so she can definitely learn it.

Certain classes can't use specific weapons/spells but that opens up a lot once you get to master level classes.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: curly on August 21, 2019, 02:04:15 AM
Also Lindhart can't be the magic-specialist master class despite being a magic specialist  ???
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 21, 2019, 02:27:37 AM
Different characters have access to different spells within reason/faith, which I mentioned pages ago, and you can check it out on serenes forest... which I mentioned pages ago... which is why I specifically recommended Dorothea as someone to recruit, as she gets physic, again... pages ago.

(you are failing school btw)

https://serenesforest.net/three-houses/characters/learned-spells/

Lots of characters are able to learn Physic but there are realistically only a few that are going to be able to grow their magic stat at a rate for it to be useful (why the fuck do you want to have units with a 20-25% chance to level up magic as your healers? HERP A DERP. This at least is a valid criticism of replacing tomes and staves with learned spells- if not every unit can learn the same spells it kinda sucks even if it does give some differentiation between units)

Characters that can learn Physic and don't suck at casting spells:
Dorothea, Lindhardt, Mercedes, and Marianne. 2 in the Black Eagles, 1 in each of the other houses. The ONLY character in all of the church/knights that can learn Physic is... Shamir. :doge Who has a 20% magic growth rate. :doge IS PLZ

And yes the only units that can master class as a dual reason/faith super class are women, sucks to be Linhardt. You should obviously still train him in both, though.

The best healer in the game is Mercedes, as she gets physic AND fortify, which can heal multiple people within an area (smaller than Physic and centered around her, but still super useful.) Too bad she's also probably the MOST ANNOYING VOICE in the game.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on August 21, 2019, 03:06:26 AM
That link is helpful and I guess Ignatz & Dorothea aren’t at C cause they don’t have it (thought they were).
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on August 21, 2019, 06:26:56 AM
Never found healing a problem in this game. A bunch of characters learn heal and potions are all over the place.
On top of that there's rings and weapons that give HP back and Felix has a 'focus health' skill to heal himself.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: kingv on August 21, 2019, 10:27:12 AM
Now that I’m a few past the time skip this game is really starting to drag... especially the school parts.

There doesn’t seem to be any purpose to go roam the grounds anymore. I’m not sure I’ll be able to do a second playthrough right away.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on August 21, 2019, 11:34:07 AM
Never found healing a problem in this game. A bunch of characters learn heal and potions are all over the place.
On top of that there's rings and weapons that give HP back and Felix has a 'focus health' skill to heal himself.

Yeah, I'm not having any issues with the actual healing. Characters barely take any damage anymore outside armored units getting magicked or flying units getting arrowed.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Let's Cyber on August 21, 2019, 05:41:54 PM
This might be GotY.

I loved Awakenings but this blows that out of the water.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on August 21, 2019, 06:48:22 PM
One thing that really is nice is I expected animations off to be like to boxes ramming each other and some number display. But they actually have smooth move animations to the point where if you didn't know the game had separate battle animations you'd just think this is how the game animates.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: demi on August 23, 2019, 11:07:59 PM
is this game intentionally obtuse with its menus? i've literally done one training battle (story related?) and now i have to do menus on menus on menus on menus just to move on. where is the fire emblem at
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: demi on August 24, 2019, 12:31:16 AM
So its intentionally obtuse when you can just ignore it
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Let's Cyber on August 25, 2019, 11:39:14 AM
:bow :bow Bow Knight :bow2 :bow2
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 27, 2019, 04:21:34 PM
I'm sure as the story progresses through the Golden Deer branch of the game, things will get more grimdark and serious, but man is it a relief having saved this one for last after the "let's do some fascism" of the Black Eagles and "ALL CONSUMING EMO VENGEANCE" of Dmitri and the Blue Lions.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on September 03, 2019, 02:04:28 PM
So I'm still really liking this, about to finish ch.9 December, on the mission of the month.

But sometimes this game fucks you. Was doing a Paralogue in the mist (mist is shit btw, 2nd to only NO MOVEMENT SAND fuckyou), and killed every enemy there was but the map wouldn't end so I ran my horses to every corner of the map in case there was 1 guy left and I'm getting near the bottom right corner with Lorenz on a horse and then instead of skipping enemy turn like it had been doing, the 1 remaining enemy was a mage boss hidden just out of the fog and Lorenz is now in range and he ONE SHOTS full HP Lorenz and then his turn ends and the map INSTANTLY ENDS because I guess that was the final turn or something and couldn't hit rewind and had to quit and reload the pre-battle save and lose 30 mins of progress :( That was some shitty ass luck.

For as easy ass as this game is with a billion divine pulses that you never use anyhow, just let me pick casual bullshit option which lets me do regularly saves mid-battle. The game is already casual as fuck anyways with all the divine pulses. When I play Super Robot Wars I save at the start of every.single.turn just because you never know when something is gonna fuck up outta nowhere and it's nice not losing more than 5 mins from your last save.

:bow :bow Bow Knight :bow2 :bow2

Yeah, once I figured out that horses, with the most movement, can't use spells (until endgame jobs), but anyone on a horse can shoot a bow from the start...pretty much game over for enemies.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on September 03, 2019, 08:02:06 PM
Anyhow, best part of this game is the writing. I'm really not used to Nintendo games having good writing outside some comedy bits in like Paper Mario, but some of the stuff, like all of Claude's support scenes are really great. Discussions of atheism & religion and stuff isn't stuff I expect in a first party Nintendo game.

Character models, Japan VA and music are very good too.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on September 18, 2019, 04:25:44 AM
Got distracted for a while with Monster Hunter but finally got back and did the

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Pretty entertaining stuff. So my question is when you play as the other houses does it swap who the bad guys are in the first half or

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Is Edelgard always the masked bad guy and attacking the monestary?

I'm guessing it takes the easy route and swaps another house and plays out the same between all 3.

If it doesn't though and playing as Edelgard means you are the empire attacking the monestary...that would certainly be interesting and I'd replay the game for that route.
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 18, 2019, 08:38:45 AM
Got distracted for a while with Monster Hunter but finally got back and did the

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Pretty entertaining stuff. So my question is when you play as the other houses does it swap who the bad guys are in the first half or

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Is Edelgard always the masked bad guy and attacking the monestary?

I'm guessing it takes the easy route and swaps another house and plays out the same between all 3.

If it doesn't though and playing as Edelgard means you are the empire attacking the monestary...that would certainly be interesting and I'd replay the game for that route.
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The three [actually four] routes play out very differently.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: demi on September 18, 2019, 09:10:30 AM
imagine wanting to play the other trash (that aren't at all radically different btw) stories after fighting dubstep goths. also this game still sucks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7sKs-pxeB4
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 18, 2019, 10:44:07 AM
Bebpo:

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Edelgard is always the Flame Emperor.
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on September 18, 2019, 05:05:52 PM
Bebpo:

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Edelgard is always the Flame Emperor.
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That's cool. Definitely feels like a script that takes some risks letting you play that route.

imagine wanting to play the other trash (that aren't at all radically different btw) stories after fighting dubstep goths. also this game still sucks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7sKs-pxeB4

I still like the game a lot overall and it's going to be one of my favorite FEs, but I'll agree the gameplay is kinda bad. I've been talking with friends who beat the game on hard (I'm playing on normal, was a big mistake) and they told me even on hard by about midway the MC becomes invincible and can just one-shot everyone and dodge everything steamroll outside the last 2 maps because artillery.

My entire team one-shots every enemy they attack and dodges, blocks every incoming attack and never takes any damage on normal. Like I'm still just using steel weapons because why bother using any of these more unique situation weapons when steel still one shots everyone.

I remember playing the GBA FEs and GC FE and them being tough, challenging and satisfying strategy games. They got me into hardcore hexagon stuff like Berwick Saga.

This FE feels broken and unbalanced and easy to the point the game feels better approached as a visual novel/adventure game. I keep animations off and everything on fast and just blow through the battles quickly since they're more like filler and then enjoy the story/character sub-stories.

If the next FE can have this level of writing/story/characters but fix the gameplay to be more like the old FEs and hard and challenging and not have a broken god-tier MC, it'd be pretty amazing. But I still really like this FE so far and give if it an enthusiastic thumbs up, but yeah everyone I know whose beat it didn't do more than 1 route because they were bored of the battles and didn't want to go through them again.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 18, 2019, 07:22:21 PM
Uh I'm like 2.5 times through it so obviously you know someone that did want to go through it multiple times

The game is largely different after the timeskip depending on if you went with Black Eagles vs the other houses. There's some similarities in the Blue Lions and Golden Deer playthroughs but the story beats are pretty different (Dmitri is LORD GRIMDARK, Claude is a happy dude)

That said, the shitty difficulty is a serious issue. They released maddening on the last patch, haven't played it yet but hopeful that it will be a challenge. We'll see. If it is, no clue why it wasn't available at launch.

Hard might have been more challenging if I'd done it initially without having the benefit of carrying over all that new game+ renown and statue levels.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: curly on September 18, 2019, 09:07:54 PM
Occasionally there are tough moments in hard mode that require actual strategic planning, but usually it's because you were auto-piloting and did something dumb a while back.

Although I shudder to think how long a playthrough would take if the game was really difficult.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on September 29, 2019, 06:58:21 PM
Finished Ch.17 Blood of Eagle/Lion with Alliance route.

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Kinda left a bad taste that when you finally meet post-time skip dimitri you're forced to fight him for no reason (map won't end until both him and Edelgard are down) and then in the post-map cutscene he gets killed off-screen so you never get to interact with him. Pretty lame.

Don't really see why him and his resistance force wouldn't team up with the alliance team since they have a common enemy.
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on October 01, 2019, 02:01:06 AM
In these last few chapters I don’t see any reason to not just rest every week and speed to the actual story map. I mean I explore once to talk to people for their comments on the latest story developments. But professor level is maxed, support cutscenes are all unlocked within my team and I’m out of ingredients for most dishes anyhow and there’s no new quests or paralogues.

Which is fine, since now that the story is moving it doesn’t really make a lot of sense to dilly dally. Should finish it soon at this rate.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on October 01, 2019, 09:15:18 PM
Ok, on the final 2 maps and the way they handled the split route thing definitely hurts the narrative. The way they completely ignore ANY story related to the other house leads so they are just like "IF YOU ONLY KNEW WHY I WAS DOING THIS AND WHY WE HAVE TO FIGHT" and then die, is just bad story-telling. I'm not one for extensive narrative exposition, but this is the most polar opposite I've ever seen. Makes everything related to the other house leaders feel flat. I get they did this because they want you to "play the other side to see why they were doing what they were doing" but they could've still had that while also still at least give the other house leaders some motivational support stories for their sides as they clashed with your house.

First thing I'm doing after I beat it is reading the summary of the other routes because I'm not going to play another 30-40 hour route just to answer some plot questions that the game didn't bother explaining in my route.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Bebpo on October 02, 2019, 05:25:44 AM
Ok, beat it. Was fun. Last map was pretty good. The ones before it I totally cheesed using warp spell to send MC all the way to the boss commander and have him kill them in 1 hit on round 2 or 3. Warp is so OP just like MC. My Claude was just as OP as MC with his flying archer dragon, last map was basically Claude flying around counter-killing more people than MC could do on foot.

Liked the ending slides. The main story was ok in the last 1/3rd, way too rushed and underexplained and then exposition dump in the last chapter. I think the most exciting part of the ending for Golden Deer was

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Seeing who Lorenz ended up marrying. His character story/interactions were pretty likable in the second half after being annoying in the first half.
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The support scenes of which there are like a billion between all the routes is probably the best part of the game. Would be neat to just watch them all on youtube at some point. But then they'd probably be the dub voices and blargh. JP cast is real good in this.

I found it funny that none of the special attacks ended up mattering in the end because almost all your good characters would do 2x hit on a normal attack which would be way more damage than using a special attack.


Was a very good game. Not a ton of strategy, but a good Persona-ish rpg/social sim game. Nice visuals and solid music and great writing. Probably won't go back and play the 3DS ones I missed, but will probably be on board and pick up the next one they make from the goodwill of this one.


Oh and I saw there's actually 4 routes. How do you get the Knights route?
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 02, 2019, 08:11:53 AM
Oh and I saw there's actually 4 routes. How do you get the Knights route?

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During the Golden Eagles route, you'll have to make a couple choices in a row to support either the rebels or the church. Stick with the church for the church/knights route.
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 14, 2019, 02:06:23 AM
Maddening mode is an actual challenge, brehs

:aah

Just think of it like so:

"Normal" mode is easy

"Hard" is actually normal

"Maddening" is hard

The first battle with the bandits still isn't that bad, but the mock battle with the other two houses I got wrecked. I didn't bother to check the levels of the enemy units, they were all level 7 and there were 10 of them going up against my lv 2 Byleth and Edelgard and 3 lv 1 scrubs. I restarted and actually used my brain to win the level carefully, which I had done all of once previously on the final battle of my first playthrough.

Gotta say, if I hadn't loaded a new game+ or hadn't picked black eagles I might be getting wrecked even worse- at least I have access to all my old battalions, renown statue levels, and I immediately cheesed it by buying Byleth enough levels in faith to get her healing. This way I had access to multiple healers. The real REAL challenge is gonna be maddening with no new game+ data saving your ass.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Let's Cyber on November 23, 2019, 04:06:20 PM
How does maddening hold up in the second half?

Hard mode after a certain point more or less feels like normal anyway so I'm curious how the new modes are different. Considering a 3rd run for my last house.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Fifstar on February 08, 2020, 07:48:02 AM
So, just started this. Which difficulty should I play this on? It's my second FE, and I only beat half of Path of Radiance.

From what I've heard Normal is really easy and imo there's not much point in playing a srpg if you just can steamroll anything even playing careless. So I started the game on hard,

On the other hand I had to restart the first battle (the mock battle against the two other houses) two times. Went the right way and aggroed both other teams so I was quickly outnumbered. On my third try things went fine and i beat it with relative ease without loosing any team member. Basically took care of aggroing as little enemies as possible, thought more about positioning and resistance and used the tools to view move and attack range of enemies more.

However, if the difficulty escalates from this fight, maybe normal is better for me. Or is it one of those games where the first couple of battles are hard and then it becomes easier due to new abilities and stats?

Btw. what's the meaning of the arrow/target symbol? Does this predict which unit is gonna be attacked in the next turn? Because that would be kinda lame.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on February 08, 2020, 08:06:42 AM
It will definitely get easier on hard the further you progress. I just finished a Maddening playthrough with no NG+ data and that was ACTUALLY PRETTY DIFFICULT.

Yes the arrows indicate where they're attacking next turn. Can't turn it off as far as I know. It is kind of lame.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Fifstar on February 10, 2020, 05:18:22 AM
Okay, gonna stay with hard for now, next fight was easy peasy.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on February 10, 2020, 12:13:59 PM
You can make the opening mock battle fight kinda hard on any difficulty if you do what you did in aggro-ing both of the other houses and end up getting attacked by basically Dmitri and any other unit or two at the same time. Dmitri ain't fuckin around. It immediately gets easier as long as you're not on maddening, though. On maddening that next Ch 2 battle has about 1/3 of the units with the pass ability, which means they can walk through your units (and ignore terrain slowing them down) to get past your front line and easily slaughter your squishy units in the back.

Also, the final DLC comes out this week if anyone besides me bought it, adds 4 new characters and classes and a new play mode with several new chapters worth of battles to play through.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Fifstar on February 11, 2020, 06:02:58 AM
The aggroing was a bit weird in the second battle. I thought I was outside of the Lions move/attack radius but they still went in. Maybe another invisible line you can not cross?

As far as the DLC goes, I'll probably skip it for now. Seems like the main game already has so much content that it's just not worth it for me right now, I'm happy if I find the time to beat the game with one house.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: curly on February 12, 2020, 10:25:04 PM
you can invite lady rhea to tea time now :drool
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 13, 2020, 09:47:55 AM
hot tea mode
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Nintex on February 15, 2020, 10:29:54 AM
PSA your waifu might be underage

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQzBhpPWsAIPazC?format=jpg)
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 15, 2020, 10:31:35 AM
Mine's not. :trumps
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on February 15, 2020, 10:57:43 AM
Um excuse me sir, you don't ACTUALLY marry them until after the 5 year timeskip, EVERYONE THAT HAS ACTUALLY PLAYED THE GAME KNOWS THIS

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Yes it's still gross and I wish the waifu shit wasn't in the games but the pervs demand it and they spend a lot of money
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Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 16, 2020, 01:55:23 PM
Lady Rhea is like 9000 years old or something. I'm the child, she's the pedophile.
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Huff on February 20, 2020, 09:45:35 PM
So I just made it post time skip. Recruited like 80% of the cast

Now I’m in the scenario of wanting to level everyone and can’t figure out who is best  and why do I do this to myself
Title: Re: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hogsona thread of pick your waifu
Post by: Human Snorenado on February 20, 2020, 10:42:24 PM
GAWD TIER: the 3 lords (Claude, Dmitri, Edelgard) and Lysithea
A tier: Byleth (fem Byleth is slightly better, she gets access to pegasus knight and darting blow) Leonie, Ingrid, Petra, Catherine, Hilda, Lindhart, Seteth, Felix
B tier: Sylvain, Ferdinand, Annette, Mercedes, blah blah blah

Honestly it really doesn't matter unless you're playing on maddening. On normal you could force everyone to be priests and still beat the game.