Chapter 18 suggestion | Allow your singular unit time to escape

12 votes

Not sure on the direct solvable method to take for this as I'm not a game designer. But in the Discord, the difficulty of this chapter is well apparent for people playing on hard. The unit you send to free the miners is almost always killed once the fighting starts.

A few ideas:

- Refresh the units turn after they free the miners, so they can move in sync with both groups
- Make the miners slightly sturdier (an extra turn survival), so the player can get the unit further out
- Minimize the AI's use of AOE abilities to allow the miners to survive longer
- Give the miners a variety of equipment so they can somewhat hold their own

Completed Suggested by: Juffacake (19 Oct, '22) • Upvoted: 03 Jan, '23 • Comments: 5

Comments: 5

28 Nov, '22
ODS GeeK Admin
Changing this to "Selected for Development" status, as the next patch will include adjustments to this battle: allowing miners to survive longer & adjusting the enemy class mix.
29 Nov, '22
ODS GeeK Admin
This has been implemented in GM1.03.00.R320 on 11/29/2022.
From the patch notes (https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1580520/view/3519029136668082304):
- Adjusted the difficulty of Ch. 18 battle
> The miners will now survive longer than before.
> Adjusted the mix of classes of enemy units.
03 Jan, '23
mguard Merged
The stealth your way to free the miners and distract a lot of the soldiers make a lot of sense and makes for an interesting mechanic, but the miners dying in 3-4 turns makes it impossible to save the person freeing the miners, since that character will be trapped afterwards. It is significantly easier to keep everyone alive if you just get spotted instantly and play it out normally, which makes no sense from a storytelling perspective and also wastes an otherwise great idea for a mission.
solutions could be pulling back the character you put on the mission, pull the completely out of the mission after they free the miners, buff the miners in some way, or nerf the enemies (especially the AOE mages ruin the miners a lot).
28 Feb, '23
ODS GeeK Admin Merged
Since this mentions miners, we take it that it's for Ch. 18 battle. Merging into the existing entry: https://losteidolons.featureupvote.com/suggestions/337744
28 Feb, '23
ODS GeeK Admin
"[SPOILER] chapter 19 is totally unballanced" (suggested by mguard on 2023-01-03), including upvotes (1) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.