Miklan also moves in Hard but I don't know that triggers it
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Fire Emblem: Three Houses DLC Wave 2 Available Now (Maddening Difficulty, New Outfit for Students, Glasses for Byleth, Male Byleth's Voice Changed)
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In the golden route the future of Fodlan is decided in a tournament of basketball. We sports anime now.
Yes! So happy that the new difficulty is out. I started my second play through (Blue Lions) on maddening this morning. I'm a bit confused about new game+ though. Does it not apply if you choose a new difficulty? I noticed that my teacher level is back to E.
You have to go to your desk in your room and use renown to buy the levels.
The journal on your desk allows you to increase your level manually, along with any supports you did before, weapon ranks, etc.
Ahh, nice. Thank you! I didn't even know that your desk was a thing. Hmm, now I'll have to decide if i even want to this, it maybe feels like cheating, given that I've come to the new difficulty looking for a challenge.
Can I change to Maddening midplaythrough? I stopped my NG+ Blue Lions run at 8 ch. a few weeks ago cuz it was way too easy, never actually considered if It would be locked to only new playthroughs. Just remembered hearing that if you start normal you couldn't switch to hard, so now I'm worried.
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If you really want the challenge, you should start a NG run (not NG+), since apparently there's some change to the title screen if you clear Maddening on NG.
You can't go from Hard to Maddening. I was at the same spot in my BL run and I think I'm just going to bite the bullet and start over.
Yeah, shit. I guess I have to start over again. :( Thankfully I wasn't that far in yet.
What are the changes to the title screen? I'm inclined to start NG+ on Maddening because renown lets me have more freedom on customization and shit, but I know it would make it easier in the process which kinda defeats the purpose of a harder difficulty setting.
No idea what changes, it's just mentioned in the patch notes.
I'm very curious if Maddening is mostly balanced towards NG+ or not. (And if that fourth difficulty in the game files will ever be finished and released.)
Not sure I get the joke. They messed up with the video files?
If so that's a bummer.
Dude, the point of Maddening is the game cheating at you, hahaha.
Yeah, I believe they're based on the paralogue maps. Definitely disappointed me.
Now it really lools like im playing quidditch world cup again lolForget saving the world, it's time to play some fucking basketball
For anyone interested, here is the altered menu background for completing Maddening on NG:
For anyone interested, here is the altered menu background for completing Maddening on NG:
Didn't Maddening drop like less than 12 hours ago?!
Might be me, but it doesn't look that different from the regular ng+ background to me?For anyone interested, here is the altered menu background for completing Maddening on NG:
I believe this is from a hacker that already completed a save with the new difficulty
Ah, okay. Their wording ("I managed to do it" etc) had me thinking they blitzed the whole way through already!
Sadly, no, not new.
I'm bummed that I can't afford the expansion pass for a couple more weeks but the sting is certainly lessened by that fact. I <3 the Lake Teutates map, for example, but I was definitely hoping for something truly... new.
Thats... kind of disappointing lol.For anyone interested, here is the altered menu background for completing Maddening on NG:
Does anyone have the link of the new soundtrack?
Meh, I feel that the game would greatly benefit from 5-10 more maps added to the current optional battles rotation.
It would. Definitely one of my few truly substantial complaints.
Shit I should have waited with my second play through. Doing Edelgard run and it is a slog due to how easy hard is. Glad that maddening difficulty is not costing anything.
So far nothing really interesting to me, guess I will decide after wave 4 if I get the season pass.
The map variaty in Three Houses is definitely lacking. I'm current playing through Path of Radiance and I feel that I've already seen more, and way more interesting, maps than in 3H.
Probably less dramatic to say the difficulty is maddening than calling you a lunatic for trying it.
Should've just called it the Madman difficulty for all the Gazzers out there
There are always ways to read such things in a negative way. "Maddening" as in "it'll make you mad" can also easily be read as referring to madness as a mental disorder.
I don't really care what's it's called, but keeping a consistent naming convention helps players know what they're getting into.
Also we'll need to have more reports of later game Maddening difficulty, but I wish Normal was called Easy, Hard was called Normal, and we would have had a proper "Hard" difficulty between "Normal" and "Utter Suffering".
I'm happy for those who like those brutally hard modes, but Hard isn't even remotely Hard, so you basically have the choice between "Normal" difficulty and "Super Hard" difficulty, with nothing in-between.
Which path? I only played as golden deer and that last map sucked on hard!
Early game Maddening is very challenging. I completed chapter 2 last night and the lack of experience has you putting your level 1-2 characters (Byleth and Claude might be higher by a level or two) against level 9 characters that actually have good abilities. Thieves have pass, archers have +1 range (meaning they can counter curved shot which is really bad) and poison touch. Being higher leveled means that they will almost always double your characters and many can just 1 shot mages/archers and everyone else just barely survives. Oh the boss also moves now when you get within range. My strongest character was Byleth at level 5 at the very end of this map (going very, very slowly) and the boss doubled him and brought him down to 1 HP, he would've easily killed anyone else and I had to use Byleth to draw him out.
Also had to use all 3 Divine Pulses at this point. I think you normally start with 4 on hard and jesus do they feel needed here.
The level disparity also means you are doing really low damage so you need to use special attacks which means you also end up running out of durability a lot faster. I had 3 or 4 broken weapons at the end of the battle.
Also had to use all 3 Divine Pulses at this point. I think you normally start with 4 on hard and jesus do they feel needed here.
The level disparity also means you are doing really low damage so you need to use special attacks which means you also end up running out of durability a lot faster. I had 3 or 4 broken weapons at the end of the battle.