Added a new difficulty that just completely changes the meta and character buffs so maybe kako can actually be useful
basically it makes specials and LR cost 2AP and you get oneshot unless you have armour
I'm not really interested in going through every fight again on the new difficulty but I'd love to see a run at some point. By the way, boss counter attacks and the pillar explosions at the enemy base do normal damage damage thankfully.
As for the balance changes, kako can now 2-shot a tubrilla, so that'll be useful on day 72 and maybe some of the waves of day 79. Also maybe turrets would actually be useful, possibly on days 79, 94, and 95, but that would take some testing.
Edit: hmm, there might be some points where the new difficulty is actually is actually faster because you could get a lot of voltage quickly. On normal difficulty runs would it be allowed to change it to E&D temporarily? you can even do it in the middle of a battle.
it could be complicated because on one hand you can change briefly for more voltage, but then it also opens up the idea of switching to LDA difficulty on E&D runs before using specials to preserve AP, or switching out of Safety for more voltage too.
so it really leaves us with: A: no changing difficulties at all B: separate category for switching difficulties C: freely change difficulty whenever (and by proxy no more difficulty categories at all)
IMO needs more time to settle to gather opinions on what would be the best outcome for that
I think I'll run the new difficulty sometime in July. I've cleared my schedule to be able to do a few runs for the game here!
imo it should be allowed to change the difficulty to anything higher than the one you started on, or put another way the category you submit to is whatever the lowest difficulty you ever use in the run is. otherwise I'd prefer no changing difficulties at all which is just simplest.
I'd be down to do a semiblind race of the new difficulty.
Changed commander HPs in 1st scenario (in every difficulty):
Eva: 35 to 50
Valla-Garzo: 55 to 70
Turamtammi: 45 to 50
Vehxness: 60 to 70
There might be more that I missed. Also I didn't notice any enemy position changes.
