/v/ - A FUCKING PLANT

Also, for those wondering about Snowvaria:

Smile Status: Protected by the game's Erwin Rommel / Chad Firecock

>>15630933

> I really hope it does well since I want the series to continue.

I'm pretty sure it flopped, since not only was it not getting distributed to large retailers (GameStop, Walmart, Target, etc) in many areas - but it could barely make it on Steam's best seller list for the week for more than a few hours. There was very little pre-launch hype, no real advertising, and it went pretty much radio silent as soon as it launched. It also apparently under-performed in Japan. Sold much worse than the PSP titles. I almost wouldn't be surprised to hear Valkyria Revolution outsold it at this point - and I have to wonder how much of the game's failure was a sour taste in people/retailers mouths over Revolution being a piece of shit (guilt by association/brand confusion), and how much might have been Sega trying to short their shipments in order to fake a scarcity. Maybe trying to replicate Octopath Traveler's success, and completely misreading the market.

Which is a shame, since the next game in the series was pretty heavily telegraphed to take place in a pacific theater campaign, and I'd kind of like to see that. Anyhow, I had to buy my copy from Amazon since nobody in 100 miles stocked it, and I'm not exactly out in the middle of BFE either. I'd rate it higher than VC1, but slightly lower than VC3. I hate putting VC2 at the bottom of the list, because it brought a lot of badly needed gameplay innovations to the formula which you can still see the influence of in VC4 - but fuck Avan Harding and his high-school slice of life civil war adventure.

Lavinia was a cutie tank mom though

Anyone know where pic related is from? Some future DLC?

>>15631134

>Thank G*d

I see what you're trying to imply, (((Darcsen))), but Valkyria are the embodiment of female ubermensch.

It was very good. I was a bit disappointed gameplay wise with how many step backs they took from VC3, but the battles being much larger adds another sense of scale that the rest of the series just doesn't have. I still play it from time to time to finish up on those hard skirmishes.

I think I still like VC3 a bit more because Kurt is a fucking madman and I loved that dense motherfucker.

Like you said, the game gets very close to getting into some really fucked up shit and then just pulls out or undermines it all.

Fucking child bombers.

I was also disappointed with Claude, He felt way too similar to Welkin in attitude, maybe less autistic but I guess Claude took the short end of the stick with how much shit he was put through compared to Welkin.

So, who did you send to the grave along with your best friend?

>>15634996

I was going to take Zaiga too, but then I thought that Raz would probably not really like the idea of having his right hand man go to the same grave.

I didn't want to pussy out and just throw out a character I didn't care for so I threw in my best Scout Curtis as he always seemed like a guy that would get the job done.

Only for him to start crying over his sister before meeting his end.

I didn't even knew he had a sister.

I'm a terrible person.

>>15634669

I sent Norid, since I really didn't need another Sniper. Most mission only call for one, so you might as well always send the one who can't perma-die, has a great ass, and most importantly - a command point. Besides, he was a loner and out-doorsy type and always talkin about the cycle of nature. He seemed like the perfect choice to send out into the woods to die alone. And to his credit, he handled the task with dignity. Plus he was a not-Canadian, so he needed to be raked anyhow.

I actually liked him as a character.

I liked it a lot, enough that its shortcomings don't retroactively take away the enjoyment I had, some aspects of the story I thought were delivered great, some fell flat mainly the help the resistance segment. I like how squad stories worked, the only part of VC2 I liked was learning more about your sub units and this was a less grindy method. I was also thinking how it's nice to play a japanese game that doesn't have some hacked in romancing element for the player to self insert so you actually get to have Claude have his own story and personality when the last few jap games I played just used self inserts

>>15630933

Honestly the decision to raid the depot is probably what allowed Ronald and Minerva to survive the assault from Ausbruch as they pulled back to chase down squad E. Not that I really cared. I hated all of squad F because they were all total bootlickers for a CO that hid under the corpse of her sergeant while everyone else fought and got killed to the last man.

>>15634669

I sent Keigel. A 60 year old former drill sergeant that pushed himself back into active duty to protect the young in war. Sacrificing himself on such a mission is just a fitting end to an old war dog. plus lancers are even more worthless than they already were in the first game with the introduction of AT mortars, a super early demolition boost order, and tanks that only take one CP to move.

>>15635103

>best scout

>didn't even bother to read his bio that says he has a younger sister

In all honesty I think they did an ok but lazy job of soft fixing the scout rush issue by putting Gatling turrets fucking everywhere as I guess its an easier way than adding a "speed, units killed, units lost" ranking system found in literally every other tactical game.

It was also really nice to not have a scout commander that can take two other squaddies around everywhere on the map. until the game gives you an overpowered scout commander that can take two other squaddies around everywhere on the map, making the APC pretty pointless.

My favorite change they made was making it so Elite troops no longer get an AP boost so you can get A ranks on the first try.

Though I don't understand why they even bothered with smoke shells at all. In the first game they were kinda a major plot device and came in handy regularly after the mission that introduces them. In this one you just kinda research them as an optional thing and use them once to bypass the entire first encounter with snowvaria in two turns and then never really find a use for them ever again. I blame this mostly on the fact that tanks now move with only one CP making it so its better to just kill everything that you would have smoked out along with bunkers completely though realistically, vanishing from the enemies box of tricks long before you research smoke.

The last complaint is dragging out the not a Shamrock Gallian light tank with the exact same three weapon load out. But only this time the flame thrower is NOT ONCE useful on any map due to the fact that bunkers don't exist at all in the second half of the game. Why couldn't they have designed a "not an M24 chaffee" tank to take its place or some shit? Or give us the "not a stuG" tank destroyer that was cut from the first game? Speaking of which, there are no Imperial Tank destroyers in this game ether which is kinda too bad. It was the only tank design from the first game that wasn't retarded.

>>15631121

>There was very little pre-launch hype, no real advertising, and it went pretty much radio silent as soon as it launched.

If it wasn't for this thread, I would've figured it was still months away from release. And to my surprise, this came out last month even! I hope it sell well over here though; I really like this series.

Anyway, I'm playing the demo (it's surprisingly long, been playing it for two hours currently) as I wait for my physical copy to arrive, and I'm really liking this compared to VC2, at least. It certainly feels more like VC1. Gameplay-wise, it's weird that moving tanks only cost 1CP now (not sure if it was like this in VC3 as I never played it), does this become an issue later on? Also, Grenadiers are a pretty cool addition too.

Also,

>Checking out squad potentials

>Viola's a Darcsen discriminator

>Is best friends with Jean, a black women

How disappointing.

>>15665215

I'm actually surprised at how little they address Darcsens in this game. Raz makes a comment on how he doesn't have much to look forward to after the war because hes a Darcsen and that's about it. They don't even go into the quite honestly ridiculous truth on how Darcsens were actually the Romans after all and the Valkururs were the filthy germanic tribes that wiped them out and caused the dark age. As for Aladden, I thought he was a parody seeing that he literally goes "M'lady" in the douchiest way possible when that passive triggers.

The one thing I thought everyone was going to jump on was Rosetta, the trap twinkie priest, but I guess traps are just normal to anime and gay priests are also the norm IRL. It also helps that he doesn't do anything gay besides being a trap.

That and the hot spring interlude chapter you get in newgame+ where you wait out a blizzard with an Imperial recon team which wonders aloud why the Federation sends women to fight in combat instead of staying home, adding that women in the Empire are all modest and don't overstep their bounds. One going as far as saying their moral code is what gives them their power over the "federation degenerates" This gets Minerva upset because shes always a salty cunt and the imp scout tells her to go back to the kitchen and make him a sandwich. A perfectly suitable task for squad F. This then makes Riley get upset and she jumps out of the hotspring completely naked and spills spaghetti everywhere. Meanwhile Kai talks with the team's sniper and he shows her his rifle which was adorned with a camo net his wife back at home made him to keep him safe. Then the blizzard dies down, everyone has a sensible chuckle and parts ways. While the sandwich line was kinda cringy, it did show that traditional woman are not slaves and can make a difference even if they aren't fighting. The games always did say something in more of a legends of the galactic heroes type philosophy. They always painted the Federation in a bad light in that they are weak, corrupt, and only survive off of bribery and backroom deals as that's what democracy for the masses bring. they even go as far as attempting to kidnap the princess of Gallia to force them into joining the federation in the first game And seeing how the empire brutally curb stomps them in the war are they really incorrect in saying that their supposedly outdated ways of thinking is a means to strength as a country?

A totally unrelated note is how hilariously patriotic the glossary page on the United States of Vinland is. Its about as sudden and out of the blue as JC Denton yelling "I'm not gonna stand here and let you badmouth THE GREATEST DEMOCRACY THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN." And I love it.

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