Sounds like something else is going on here, I'm not sure on the specifics but I'd recommend keeping the entire folder of the current install around in case there is a problem CSDev can fix. Also, I assume by cheats, you're refering to the in game ones?
Assuming that cheat engine doesn't permanently modify the .jar file, then maybe you could try removing the .sav file? Maybe there's something in the save data causing an issue.
Definer+Suppressor is my go to for late-game progress. But, I almost never use a max duration commander. I find that you don't actually want to capture a chosen too long initially, instead you want to capture them just long enough for the commander capture to run out when a new chosen enters the battle. Maybe that doesn't matter much if every chosen has a T3 Confidence break.
You can use all of them together to make a commander that just wrecks chosen. Very expensive though.
Yeah I was just mentioning max duration/capture as an example, I usually don't use maxed duration/capture commanders unless I'm trying for something specific, though in my current loop I had all three with T3 Morality and Confidence breaks so I kinda needed max duration commanders just to limit the number of free turns any of them had as much as possible.
Ehh, like I said I find myself doing way more without them than with. So what are you doing to get them to wreck the Chosen.
Nothing complicated. Put every upgrade on one commander, send them at the chosen, you now have a one-click option to do all four types of damage (if you spread the specialized ones right) in very high amounts while exploiting T3 vulnerability multipliers. Regular commanders take multiple turns to stack up all the damage types so you're moving much faster.
It still isn't to that point, but the connection to morality issue is gone last I checked, it's just a lack of writing done for it as other things got put ahead of it such as those things related to the two bosses in the game.
I've found that a ANGR/INJU/EXPO combo works best. You need EXPO to get scaling damage, INJU leads to higher circumstance damage overall, and ANGR nullifies the highest circumstance penalty, while giving boosted trauma. Swapping ANGR for PLEA increases initial trauma damage, but the decreased circumstance damage actually seems to result in less total damage. Going ANGR/PLEA/INJU does lead to higher initial trauma damage on the first selected chosen, but without EXPO damage being dealt to the second chosen, your second surround will generate less circumstance damage. Which, in turn, leads to less overall trauma damage.
It'll happen, probably in the next round of negotiation focused tweaks, but don't take my word as definitive as I am not connected to development. That's just my best guess.
There is a file included with the game with some explanation of how things work and there are some others somewhere in the thread. Would link, but I don't remember how far back.
