The Legend of Heroes Thread - Trails of Cold Steel in the Sky

[Rean]

Also, I found out I took this screenshot yesterday while drunk.

 

[Jermu]

Any of you started with abyss difficulty? prologue was a fun experience reminded me about sc nightmare prologue (+50% enemy speed is nasty)
abyss is quite solid difficulty after a while and end game is easy as is tradition

 

[Rean]

Sarathiour I sent you the game clear save. No Mishelam save, sorry. I do remember saving a bunch of times there and reloading so I could see all the girl interactions, so I should have kept it, lol.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

What is this (reverie) and how many other games do you have to play first? Not that it matters because I probably won't finish the cold steel games until 2029.

 

[Jermu]

its pretty much farewell game to previous casts so I would advice playing all of em

 

[Grampy_Bone]

I was excited to start CS2; out of school! Civil war! Plot! Let's Gooooooo!

Rean: "We better still do grades and homework. Wouldn't want the player to have too much fun."

 

[Reinhardt]

"rean" and "fun" in one sentence?

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

What is this (reverie)

Fifth Cold Steel game and the last turn based Trails game. Is similar to Trails in the Sky the 3rd in that there is a shorter main story but also several short side stories you can play through, and a megadungeon that you can go through with any characters you'd like.

how many other games do you have to play first?

It is the fifth Cold Steel game so ideally you should play it after finishing the first four. Crossbell characters also show up but they are not plot relevant so you can play Reverie without having played Crossbell and you won't miss anything important. The story of Reverie is about its own original characters and the Cold Steel cast.

 

[Jermu]

1/3 of the time you are controlling Crossbell cast so I would not say they are not plot relevant
I would rather make that argument about sky cast
sure you can play this game without finishing crossbell/sky games but I don't see a reason to skip superior games

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Lloyd's route amounts to nothing. You could cut his route entirely and the main story wouldn't change at all. The actual story winds up revolving around C's group and Rean.

 

[Gerrard]

Reminder that if you support this shit financially you deserve to be hanged by the balls.

 

[Nelka]

Link Attacks are supposedly bugged -> [1] [2]
Easily fixable tho, just need to grab file from JP version and replace in folder.

 

[Endemic]

Spoiler

 

[Jermu]

VR

Version 1.0.3 Release Notes
Link attacks, some crash fixes, wider CPU compatibility, VR optimization, and more
Hi everyone,

we've been quite busy over the past few days in order to be able to resolve some of the more important issues encountered in Trails into Reverie.

Here is a summary of the changes and fixes in version 1.0.3:

• Fix some characters missing their link attacks.
• Fix two separate instances of potential crashes on some systems in the Magical Girl Alisa minigame.
• Disable AVX in order to support very old or lower-end CPUs.
• Improve GPU-bound performance in VR by 20% or more by leveraging the hidden area mesh.
• Fix the button prompt shown in the battle change tutorial (yes, we missed one).
• Fix the alignment of the "Trails to Walk" HuD in ultrawide aspect ratios.
• Fix the letterboxing of a specific subset of image-based story scenes in <16:9 resolutions.

You can now get back to the game, or read on for more details regarding some of these points.


Regarding AVX Support
AVX has been available in the vast majority of CPUs since at least 2011, and these days there are quite a lot of games and applications which depend on it. It's also not completely trivial to build a version without an AVX requirement, since not only the game itself but also any of the used third party libraries and frameworks need to be reconfigured.
That said, even if the CPUs without AVX don't meet our minimum specs, we still wanted to attempt to make it possible for people on such systems to at least try and run the game, but only if that can be done
without
impacting performance for everyone else. According to our internal benchmarks on this new build, there are no performance regressions even in highly CPU-bound scenarios, so we decided to go ahead with this version.
Note that we of course still do not officially support running the game on systems which do not meet the listed minimum specifications.

VR Optimization

One thing which was on our agenda but didn't quite make it for release is using the hidden area mesh functionality of OpenVR to optimize VR rendering. The idea here is that in the pre-warping images rendered for each eye, quite a lot of pixels end up not actually being visible in the final image. Since this differs with each HMD, the driver can provide a mesh which covers those areas in order to reduce the rendering load.
Sadly, the engine used in Trails into Reverie did not support this out of the box, so we had to implement it manually. The exact performance improvement varies with each headset and the relative CPU and GPU load which depends on your hardware and game settings, but on my Valve Index I measured a 21% overall performance improvement, which is of course very significant.

Magical Girl Alisa Minigame Crash Fixes
A subset of players experienced crashes in specific places in this particular minigame, which were related to a use-after-free resource management problem. The big issue with crashes like these is that whether they actually manifest is highly dependent on the overall system configuration, aspects like framerate, or even what other software is running. This both makes it easier for them to slip through QA and potentially much harder to solve them. Fixing the reasons behind these potential crashes in time for the first patch (one work day, really, in order to enable some QA period) took the combined power of PH3, so big thanks to everyone involved!



Note that you can always revert to earlier versions of the game by selecting them in the Steam "Beta" menu.

Cheers,
Peter "Durante" Thoman

 

[HoboForEternity]

Reminder that if you support this shit financially you deserve to be hanged by the balls.

Xseed's interpretation of estelle is superior that random weeb's opinion. Glad nisa somewhat continues it.

 

[Gerrard]

Reminder that if you support this shit financially you deserve to be hanged by the balls.

Xseed's interpretation of estelle is superior that random weeb's opinion. Glad nisa somewhat continues it.

The only (trash) opinion here is yours, dumbfuck.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Reminder that if you support this shit financially you deserve to be hanged by the balls.

Xseed's interpretation of estelle is superior that random weeb's opinion. Glad nisa somewhat continues it.

The only (trash) opinion here is yours, dumbfuck.

Most of the fanbase are initially drawn by spunky girl with big stick. Otherwise jp translation just made her like regular shonen protag. Go suck a dick off falcom discord mod

 

[Gerrard]

Reminder that if you support this shit financially you deserve to be hanged by the balls.

Xseed's interpretation of estelle is superior that random weeb's opinion. Glad nisa somewhat continues it.

The only (trash) opinion here is yours, dumbfuck.

Most of the fanbase are initially drawn by spunky girl with big stick. Otherwise jp translation just made her like regular shonen protag. Go suck a dick off falcom discord mod

Location: Disco Elysium

What a surprise you support garbage reddit writing, you subhuman waste of oxygen.

 

[Nelka]

Not really a spoiler, but anyway...

Speaking of good writing... nothing can beat ol' good power of friendship

 

[HoboForEternity]

Reminder that if you support this shit financially you deserve to be hanged by the balls.

Xseed's interpretation of estelle is superior that random weeb's opinion. Glad nisa somewhat continues it.

The only (trash) opinion here is yours, dumbfuck.

Most of the fanbase are initially drawn by spunky girl with big stick. Otherwise jp translation just made her like regular shonen protag. Go suck a dick off falcom discord mod

Location: Disco Elysium

What a surprise you support garbage reddit writing, you subhuman waste of oxygen.

Lmao if you think disco is garbage reddit writing says much about your taste and comprehension.

 

[Jermu]

seems like everyone is enjoying new trails game
and fuck nisa need to wait longer to get decent kuro2 translation

 

[Maxie]

Reminder that if you support this shit financially you deserve to be hanged by the balls.

Xseed's interpretation of estelle is superior that random weeb's opinion. Glad nisa somewhat continues it.

The only (trash) opinion here is yours, dumbfuck.

Most of the fanbase are initially drawn by spunky girl with big stick. Otherwise jp translation just made her like regular shonen protag. Go suck a dick off falcom discord mod

Location: Disco Elysium

What a surprise you support garbage reddit writing, you subhuman waste of oxygen.

Lmao if you think disco is garbage reddit writing says much about your taste and comprehension.

Disco is garbage twitter writing, consciously modelled after twitter. It's an affront to Gamerhood.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Disco is garbage twitter writing, consciously modelled after twitter. It's an affront to Gamerhood.

alwasy a stupid criticism because vertical layout is just better. the same reason why newspaper column is vertical. for it's format and as a game disco's snappy as it get.

but i dont want to argue that here because it aint gonna change anyone's mind.

anyways enjoying the reverie corridor and you can really bust the combat in a fun way again. aptly said by ash "as if the ARCUS II needs more busted feature"

i think they do nerfed some brave command. i forgot who has instant cast arts command but i havent seen any, only 50-70% delay reduction.

 

[cruel]

I'm approaching the end of Trails 3rd - what a lovely game. Much better than I expected to be honest. I'm not sure if I would put it above SC (probably not), but I definitely like it more than FC. What surprised me the most is how fun the doors are - I was expecting to be bored to tears after hearing some of them are 40min+, but most were really enjoyable so far. And I see they were able to finish Leiston fortress chapter in a very 'proper' way, in terms of final boss fight and the difficulty. Also, I would never expect that the game will let me play a party consisting of Kevin + Richard + Mueller + Renne. Very nice reward after going through FC and SC. Richard is a beast.

 

[Lyre Mors]

I'm approaching the end of Trails 3rd - what a lovely game. Much better than I expected to be honest. I'm not sure if I would put it above SC (probably not), but I definitely like it more than FC. What surprised me the most is how fun the doors are - I was expecting to be bored to tears after hearing some of them are 40min+, but most were really enjoyable so far. And I see they were able to finish Leiston fortress chapter in a very 'proper' way, in terms of final boss fight and the difficulty. Also, I would never expect that the game will let me play a party consisting of Kevin + Richard + Mueller + Renne. Very nice reward after going through FC and SC. Richard is a beast.

I see you were finally able to overcome your 2D Trails games problem. Good on you! There's much to benefit from there.