Does anyone know anyway to change custom chosen's personality # and race without resetting the entire clothing and naming system? Its been a hastle wanting to change the race and then having to change every piece of clothing again. Also anyone unable to use the change race then set same personality, i have to direct do it or it just freezes/softlocks
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Curious. On early loops at what day are you guys "snowballing" if that makes sense. I usually wait for couple ee commander, but feel like I'm rather slow. Way too slow to do a day 30 imago so im curious how people are doing it. I feel like the game is balanced around the single item for stuff. Tried inevitability, but it feels way worse.
Unfortunately as far as I'm aware there is no way to prevent race/personality changes from resetting the custom Chosen. It's really annoying.
If I recall correctly, without considering items on loop 1, you should be able to field your first 4-2 Commander at Day 13 or 14 depending on how efficient you are with drawing in the Chosen, and get Networked Consciousness by Day 20. From there it's just a matter of cleaning up T2 Breaks as fast as possible to weaken the Chosen enough for an Orgy, as a single Orgy will open up some T3 Breaks, and then drawing out days to build up T4 Breaks.
However, the best item for Snowballing is Tomorrow's Newspaper. A single use T2 Break is nice and definitely useful in later loops, but in early loops a 4-2 Commander will easily do both T1 and T2 Breaks at the same time, and with how Tomorrow's Newspaper lets you skip so many upgrades you can get your first 4-2 Commander out significantly earlier and be getting more EE than if you used a single use item. Tomorrow's Newspaper also carries the momentum into the later days with how you can ignore any Commander upgrade that isn't gating you from more useful upgrades like Networked Consciousness, Vengeful Reconstitution, Reality Sealing, the Evacuation/Extinction upgrades/etc.
Also Inevitability is a bait item, it seems useful on the surface but the extra trauma damage is kinda useless. Like... it's convenient being able to easily set up a full team surround earlier on but that's all it is, convenient. In the early days that EE drain matters more than you think and you aren't really getting enough out of it for that to be worthwhile. Sure full team surrounds are nice but unless that gets you an orgy (which it likely wont do before you'd already be able to set up an orgy without it) it doesn't really benefit you aside from having an extra source of EXPO modifiers to help with the Chosen you're focusing, but that's not really necessary since early loops lack much damage reduction and later loops you should out scale the damage reduction.
Tomorrow's Newspaper is hilariously broken in early loops, partially for all the EE savings/refunds, partially because Punisher Commanders (remember, they cost no extra EE) have an insane damage mod and just blow through the early game. My first time playing with it, I had T3 Breaks starting on Day 7.
On my ongoing Classic playthrough for the guide I'm working on, had I not gotten aggressive prior to achieving 4-2 Commanders, I'd have gotten them at Day 11. Thanks to buying and productively using a 4-1 Commander on Day 9, I got my first 4-2 on Day 10, then had all T2 breaks at the end of Day 15, with 51EE ready to be spent towards either Synthesis or Networked Consciousness (haven't decided yet). I do think my Chosen might have been easier than average, though; getting started with a Day 12 4-2 for your first breaks is probably more typical?
On my ongoing Classic playthrough for the guide I'm working on, had I not gotten aggressive prior to achieving 4-2 Commanders, I'd have gotten them at Day 11. Thanks to buying and productively using a 4-1 Commander on Day 9, I got my first 4-2 on Day 10, then had all T2 breaks at the end of Day 15, with 51EE ready to be spent towards either Synthesis or Networked Consciousness (haven't decided yet). I do think my Chosen might have been easier than average, though; getting started with a Day 12 4-2 for your first breaks is probably more typical?
Haven't tried the loop skipping yet but I always get an orgy between 15-20 days usually and by day 20 i have all distortions I need+ All relevant 3 breaks. Seems fast enough but don't really have a run to compare. Will try skipping and see how that goes I guess.
You can try triggering Rampage/Temptations to make your life easier because of the extra 100 energy.
I always get inevitability as my first item btw.
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So here is what I meant by changing the chosen appearance:
This is the same loop with different baits. As you can see the undead chosen (Arcanum/Promise) were changed by changing the baits. So let's say you want aversion(Orgy distortion) on an undead chosen but you get Arcanum as undead who has pre-broken innocence. You can try changing the bait and get Promise as undead who has all clear vulnerabilities.
Yah I can get to day 20-23 orgy and distortion occuring. But damn i dont know how to in 7 days hit all t4 and have the energy for imago by day 30. I keep having issue of having them being friends or similar activity thus people with higher ee energy gen work together doing lesser ee tasks. Win around day 35. Its a recent issue recently. Has anyone seen the TV interview or was it removed or somehow have I just been skipping it? (Edit: I'm assuming one custom had any chosen allowed accidently thus it wasn't possible to see, I just checked. Can I get a confirm if this is true?) I haven't been able to see any of the events like the interview or mansion invitation and also constantly have them work on lower ee tasks together. i think friendship is just a deteriment to ee gains.
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Worth noting that you don't need all T4 breaks to capture a Chosen, just at least one or a Distortion path. You also don't need all of the 100EE final battle upgrades to buy Imago Quickening - just at least one of the action upgrades.
As for getting vulnerability up for T4 breaks once you have T3s unlocked, I usually use one of two gameplans each day: if I'm just trying to raise most/all levels, I capture each Chosen once with a hybrid Commander (I like HATE/INJU/EXPO if I don't have the upgrades/energy to go for all 4) and try to get a strong Orgy going before Extermination ends, minimizing the turns that the Chosen have available to use their T3 actions before the Orgy, then Surround each of the Chosen in turn afterwards, letting the others do T3 actions freely with their high circumstance levels. This does an okay job at raising basically everything but CON vulnerability, which tends to raise slowly with this. For that, it's best to try to focus Captures on one Chosen and raise primarily their INJU level first. Flight is good for this, since you can use your last Capture on them at the very end of the fight.
Also want to point out that while it's definitely easier in the latter parts of a loop if your Chosen are Rivals, you'd definitely rather have Forsaken be friends, and it's totally possible to consistently achieve that in Loop 1.
As for getting vulnerability up for T4 breaks once you have T3s unlocked, I usually use one of two gameplans each day: if I'm just trying to raise most/all levels, I capture each Chosen once with a hybrid Commander (I like HATE/INJU/EXPO if I don't have the upgrades/energy to go for all 4) and try to get a strong Orgy going before Extermination ends, minimizing the turns that the Chosen have available to use their T3 actions before the Orgy, then Surround each of the Chosen in turn afterwards, letting the others do T3 actions freely with their high circumstance levels. This does an okay job at raising basically everything but CON vulnerability, which tends to raise slowly with this. For that, it's best to try to focus Captures on one Chosen and raise primarily their INJU level first. Flight is good for this, since you can use your last Capture on them at the very end of the fight.
Also want to point out that while it's definitely easier in the latter parts of a loop if your Chosen are Rivals, you'd definitely rather have Forsaken be friends, and it's totally possible to consistently achieve that in Loop 1.
I think I can 30 day it if I do alternate distortions to cause the greater sin issue to not hold back others. had them as friends with similar distortion causing greater sin to lock my ee gen early game. Edit: Manage to get to day 29 with all T4. Not sure if its worth skip still though considering you lose achievements which is a fat chunk of 200% if you go for 4 t4 for all 3
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Been trying to figure this out with a couple portrait packs. I know you can use the "Change Portrait" button under info during a game to change the pack the chosen uses, but haven't found an option to actually create one that uses the pack by default. Am I just missing something or is that not possible?
I know that if your team doesn't have exactly 4 Core, 4 Minor, 4 Significant vulnerabilities, each divided up 2-1-1 with no 2 having the same level of vuln on the same stat, you can't get those vignettes. I have not experimented with "allow any team" enough to know whether a team that meets those requirements with an "allow any" Chosen will still get them. "Core Break" vignettes will also be disabled if the team doesn't meet the standard requirements--it wouldn't surprise me if including an "any team" chosen disables these even if the team would otherwise be legal.
If your "greater sins imminent" is keeping you from maximum EE, it's not the similar ones that are keeping you from maximizing EE, it's the ones that have different breaks. I did a deep dive into the source code on this one lately that's still on the past few pages here. If they've all got, say, T3 INN breaks, and INN is the one they all want to relieve the most, they'll do the associated downtime together as long as they meet the initial requirements.
Let me give you a suggestion for what I aim for in Loop 1 to hit the warp consistently. I want:
2 Chosen with the same Distortion
1 Chosen undistorted
I want 2 with the same Distortion because that gives you the related Achievement for that Distortion, which basically doubles the speed at which the Distortion progresses with repeated usage. Orgy goes down 2 turns per usage instead of 1, Tempt is changed by a .85 multiplier instead of a .9, and so on. I want the last one undistorted because of the need for quick T1/T2 breaks (generally I'd like this one to be the one with two Core Vulns) to quickly get the EE for Networked Consciousness. I aim for having them all hate each other Loop 1, because in the long run regular Forsaken aren't really worth keeping around. The benefit for making them all like each other is only easier training--and I just don't care about their training until we start getting to better species.
If you want a Chosen to use a custom portrait by default you need to make their Alias name the same name as the name of the portrait's folder. For example, the Chosen with the alias Chaos will use the portraits contained in the Chaos folder.
I haven't tested if you keep achievement progress from Distorting Chosen if you break the Distortion - if it does, seems like the best route for loop 1 is probably triple Distortion into breaking all 3 Distortions for full T4 breaks. Days shouldn't be an issue with Newspaper, I'd imagine.
I did not word that very well, but what I was looking for was a way to import custom rosters... just like the import roster button in campaign... well, answered my own question. Haha
Yes, this doubles up on Achievements (and can bunch up some early EE as well, depending on the Distortion).
Oh for this. You need to create a character early on before you start a campaign. there should be a create chosen option. Then do what you need to create it there. When it asks for the name put in the name of whatever you use will name a folder(discussed later). For example, you want a chosen name Sarah, you would name the folder Sarah and then name the chosen Sarah. Then in the portrait folder in the folder of the game (like the entire game) you make a new folder(folder i talked about) inside of it then add 9 pictures as below for your custom Chosen. Then you can add forsaken folder for it. The other are unnecessary really as you will set the race so they will only really be the default (9 png u see). The Forsaken folder has 9 png or you can use none, it just replaces the png if you want when they are forsaken.
I tried it out on city2 which is "harder" i guess than city1 since its got some debuff. Manage to get it to sub 30 with all undistorted on city 2 . i probably was struggling since i was doing 3 distortion on city 1 thus making it a haste compare to having 1 undistorted to just slam ee generation early. Good advice though exactly what I did
Also does anyone know what decides between meetup(bath) or interview? I was kinda excited to see a interview on day 15, but it went to bath T.T. Also has anyone every gotten t4 before the interview. It seems actually doable if you mix max it to the extreme and get parasitism I think. I definately didnt play to the true optimal but got t4 by day 19, which is a first for me. newspaper is ridiculously busted. Edit: t3 does nothing it seems no dialogue swap.
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I think it was said that innocence breaks weighed in on which gets chosen, with the reasoning for it being the bath scene is written more innocent while for the interview they´re supposed to be more "damaged"/less innocent. HOW strong this weight is I don´t know.