'The Diofield Chronicle' Demo Thread | Press Impressions Today, Public Demo Aug 10th (First Full Chapter, Progress Carries to Full Release)
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Was wondering about Switch impressions after seeing mention of "concerning" performance on PS5.
Plays great with mouse and keyboard. The menus aren't slow at all, same with loading times and overall gameplay style, I don't feel like I'm playing a traditional JRPG in the good sense of the phrase. The story looks interesting although I'm confused, but I imagine that is normal with the set-up it has. Great combat as well. Might play it on PC, might play it on Switch if it looks good there and there's a physical version, it depends.
I found a ps5 physical version online, although not from my own country. Seems like it's not physical everywhere. And maybe not every platform either?
I think I'm going to enjoy the game a great deal. Hopefully the utterly generic setup gives way to an interesting story, but at least the characters show promise and the gameplay is fun.
Biggest gripe so far? The brief audio clips they pair with text are often hopelessly inappropriate. Waltaquin saying "tee hee hee hee" as she talks about getting a signed death warrant? Ummm. Either she's a really broken individual or they just didn't care what went with what. There have been plenty of immersion-breaking examples elsewhere, too. "No no no no!" exclaims the individual who is agreeing with you, and so forth. It's ... bizarre.
Biggest gripe so far? The brief audio clips they pair with text are often hopelessly inappropriate. Waltaquin saying "tee hee hee hee" as she talks about getting a signed death warrant? Ummm. Either she's a really broken individual or they just didn't care what went with what. There have been plenty of immersion-breaking examples elsewhere, too. "No no no no!" exclaims the individual who is agreeing with you, and so forth. It's ... bizarre.
This bothered me at one point two. Was talking to a dude with a plague mask and every box of dialog had him saying something but it wasn't what the dialog box said at all. It was really throwing me off since it was more than just the usual throw away noise.
Someone yesterday said the KBM controls are not good... strongly disagree. I played through the demo on PS5 yesterday and enjoyed it quite a bit, and I'm trying it on PC now, and the KBM controls are exactly what I want. Real mouse support, with dragging and clicking. Some of the default binds are a bit strange, but they are all changeable in the menu. Having units on the numkeys is wonderful, as well.
Played a bit on PC:
- No wonder the Deck suffers with the first cutscene, because i had 100% gpu utilization on my desktop.
- The resolution is locked to your desktop resolution (1080p for me), so no supersampling for me. I only could change it in windowed mode, and only to 720p.
- There isn't a CA option, but the config file can be edited so not a big deal. I also disabled dof in the same config file.
(These screenshots look blurry because i used TAA)
Funny that i just noticed that the game rendered at 2160x1080 (i have a 2560x1080 monitor).
- No wonder the Deck suffers with the first cutscene, because i had 100% gpu utilization on my desktop.
- The resolution is locked to your desktop resolution (1080p for me), so no supersampling for me. I only could change it in windowed mode, and only to 720p.
- There isn't a CA option, but the config file can be edited so not a big deal. I also disabled dof in the same config file.
(These screenshots look blurry because i used TAA)
Funny that i just noticed that the game rendered at 2160x1080 (i have a 2560x1080 monitor).
I have the same problem (on pc, that is).
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I liked it.
Took me quite a few restarts to get the game running at 4k. It doesn't seem to behave well with the overclock mode of my monitor, same as Valorant which is also a UE4 game.
The initial cutscenes drops to 50fps in my 3070, gameplay is 90fps and the first area in which you control the character outside battle 120fps. 4k maxed minus RT, no FSR. It's a DX12 game and it seems to have shader stutter.
Took me quite a few restarts to get the game running at 4k. It doesn't seem to behave well with the overclock mode of my monitor, same as Valorant which is also a UE4 game.
The initial cutscenes drops to 50fps in my 3070, gameplay is 90fps and the first area in which you control the character outside battle 120fps. 4k maxed minus RT, no FSR. It's a DX12 game and it seems to have shader stutter.
Level 15 is the cap for the demo.
You can play the entire Chapter 1. The demo will ask you to save once you finish it. At this point, if you load up this save, you won't be able to continue until the full game. Instead, an auto save is made during the last fight. Loading this up, you can exit the fight and go back to base. Then, you can do whatever else you want to do. Just remember to finish whatever grinding you wanna do before the last fight if you're trying to be extra prepared for the full game.
The skill tree doesn't unlock new skills but rather, you level up the skills you have on your weapons.
AP points, (used to unlock character abilities) are earned when leveling up. 10 AP is the max you can earn in the demo. Costs 5,000 G to reset and refund points.
SP points (used for the Skill Tree) are earned after a mission if you complete certain objectives or as unit rank rewards. Costs 10,000 G to reset and refund points.
Someone can confirm but I think each character gets the full amount of XP after a battle? Only the secondary character in a pairing gets lower XP.
Things to do in the demo?
-Level up everyone.
-Grind for Gold to reset your skill tree/abilities (if you wanna try different things out), buy different pieces of equipment or just stockpile a bunch of gold for the main game. (Just an fyi, the most a mission will give you is 800G.)
-Do each Practice Battle and complete each objective.
Speaking of Practice Battles, I wish you could skip all the cutscenes/text right away. Annoying to go through it each and every time. I also wish you can speed up battles a little more.
Overall, really really impressed with this game. Got a good 3 and a half hours out of it. Definitely there day 1!
You can play the entire Chapter 1. The demo will ask you to save once you finish it. At this point, if you load up this save, you won't be able to continue until the full game. Instead, an auto save is made during the last fight. Loading this up, you can exit the fight and go back to base. Then, you can do whatever else you want to do. Just remember to finish whatever grinding you wanna do before the last fight if you're trying to be extra prepared for the full game.
The skill tree doesn't unlock new skills but rather, you level up the skills you have on your weapons.
AP points, (used to unlock character abilities) are earned when leveling up. 10 AP is the max you can earn in the demo. Costs 5,000 G to reset and refund points.
SP points (used for the Skill Tree) are earned after a mission if you complete certain objectives or as unit rank rewards. Costs 10,000 G to reset and refund points.
Someone can confirm but I think each character gets the full amount of XP after a battle? Only the secondary character in a pairing gets lower XP.
Things to do in the demo?
-Level up everyone.
-Grind for Gold to reset your skill tree/abilities (if you wanna try different things out), buy different pieces of equipment or just stockpile a bunch of gold for the main game. (Just an fyi, the most a mission will give you is 800G.)
-Do each Practice Battle and complete each objective.
Speaking of Practice Battles, I wish you could skip all the cutscenes/text right away. Annoying to go through it each and every time. I also wish you can speed up battles a little more.
Overall, really really impressed with this game. Got a good 3 and a half hours out of it. Definitely there day 1!
I love the Mouse and Keyboard controls, but I definitely feel the game LOOKS better on PS5. Menu assets were sharper and more vibrant, and the PC version for me keeps having this weird shadow-ish effect on hair in cutscenes that is really distracting (With everything maxed out and RT turned off).
Got a freeze move for the healer and then used the archers formation move and unloaded
Some pretty cool combos already
Some pretty cool combos already
KB/M controls are good. someone said it wasn't? IDK if they they are used to it but it felt
intuitive. Doesn't feel clunky.
intuitive. Doesn't feel clunky.
nope. but im also running 516.94
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This wasn't on my radar until today. Tried the demo on the Switch and was pleasantly surprised. From the opening cutscene I thought I was getting into a Fire Emblem clone, then it sharply diverges into something else entirely. The tone and pace of the story has also garnered my attention so far, so this is looking like a day 1.
Where's the config file located in the game directory?Played a bit on PC:
- No wonder the Deck suffers with the first cutscene, because i had 100% gpu utilization on my desktop.
- The resolution is locked to your desktop resolution (1080p for me), so no supersampling for me. I only could change it in windowed mode, and only to 720p.
- There isn't a CA option, but the config file can be edited so not a big deal. I also disabled dof in the same config file.
(These screenshots look blurry because i used TAA)
Funny that i just noticed that the game rendered at 2160x1080 (i have a 2560x1080 monitor).
I have the same problem (on pc, that is).
Annoying that the resolution locks to your native. Really wish more games would let me super sample without any tinkering.
How to remove chromatic aberration and depth of field on PC
<User>\AppData\Local\DFC\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor
If you want to remove the chromatic aberration and the depth of field add these lines to Engine.ini:
[SystemSettings]
r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0
r.DepthOfFieldQuality=0
And i dont really know if it locks to your desktop or just 1080p, but yeah, you can't change it.
Played for about two and a half hours. The combat is pretty good and the battle environments are nice. Characters and story aren't landing for me so far though. It all just feels like it's retreading ground from other games rather than being its own thing. There isn't any hook so far that's reeling me in. It really just feels like Fire Emblem Three Houses with faster paced combat, which will be appealing for some people but personally it just feels a little too familiar but without the interesting assortment of characters that Fire Emblem has. The combat in this is fun though, and there seems to be quite a bit of depth to it. You can see how chaotic and quick battles will get towards the final few missions of the chapter. Seems like it'll be a decent game to pick up later on sale but I wouldn't get it day one.
Thanks! It locks me to 1440p too so yeah, just locks to whatever resolution your desktop is set to I guess.
Anyone else getting some weird hair shimmering specifically in cutscenes in the briefing room?
Yeah. Other than supersampling, try with TAA, but drop the quality a little bit, because TAA tends to blur the image.
EDIT: You can also add some sharpening to the image by adding this to the same file as before:
r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=1
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Nvidia folks don't forget you can Alt-F3 and use the nvidia sharpener and get even more granularity with the level of sharpness.
The name of your archer: Iscarion Colchester
The name of your tank: Izelair Wigen
The name of your gold: guld
lol I hate this
The name of your tank: Izelair Wigen
The name of your gold: guld
lol I hate this
Played an hour, game is great. They bombard you with story, but the gamplay is awesome. A weird JRPG RTS I never knew I wanted. And it's really stylish considering the clearly low budget they had to work with (even though the overdid it with the chromatic abberation).
Dumb question, but should this game really be using 99% of a 3080 at 4K?
Dumb question, but should this game really be using 99% of a 3080 at 4K?
Yeaaaaaaah, this game is really fun. Weird combination of Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy Tactics, but everything is in real time. Beat a bunch of levels, had a good time. Will keep an eye on this one.
This game is a banger. I wasn't impressed by the reveal, but it's actually pretty fun. I can't wait to see how the full game turns out.
I do echo the sentiment that the plot is so-so thus far.
I do echo the sentiment that the plot is so-so thus far.
Look in <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1711500/pfx/drive_c/users/...
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Yes. On controller you can hold square or the equivalent button to select an area. With mouse you can just drag.
Thank you! Was driving me crazy that I couldn't select certain units only
Honestly kbm seems like the way to go here. Fumbling around with trying to click units in motion or stopping to hold that multi-select circle every time is going to get tiring.
