Chris

Used the Medalum for Maelle the entire game. Virtuose stance is too good. That weapon will carry you through the game. Not worth using anything else unless you missed it.

For Monoco, Joyaro is the go to. Starting in Almighty mask is too good. His 9 AP attacks late game can do a few million damage to all enemies with that mask.

I'm using Sciel as well, but she just exists to buff Maelle and Monoco, so it doesn't matter too much. I just cast her healing attack skill, and there are picto combinations to apply Shell, Powerful, and Rush all at once as well as max AP at the beginning of the fight. Maelle for heavy single target and Monoco for all enemies. Though surprisingly Monoco surpasses Maelle in damage really late game and isn't as reliant on Mark. It's pretty easy to keep Monoco in All-mighty/caster mask, which is what his two strongest abilities need. It's more difficult to keep Maelle in V stance, and she loses it if she gets KO'd.

This game is great. The clunky guns are a feature. It is significantly harder on a controller though. The weapon sway and lack of precision increases the difficulty massively. With a mouse, it's barely an inconvenience. They for sure should have added some kind of aim assist for controller. I don't know that I'd consider it a con, though. I like it.

Other than that, my only complaint is the AI. The enemies are indeed dumb as hell. You can headshot an enemy, run around a corner, and seconds later the AI says "Looks like they're gone." They do still search for a bit after, but they give up far too fast and aren't near as aggressive as they should be.

I think all they need to do without major AI changes is increase the timer on alertness and make the enemies sprint more often.

The AI is similar to Sniper Elite, and might even be the same with minor tweaks. But in that game the enemies can be several hundred meters away, so it's not as much of a problem.

Oh, I just remembered one more thing. I don't think they actually made female character models. They just look like men with boobs added. Same walk, same physique. It's extremely obvious.

I'm sure both of the Archives fans will be disappointed.

Seriously though, if you really want to, you can play the half done PVE missions they released. They're pretty much the same thing as Archives.

It's definitely not worth the effort for them to try bringing them back. I'd much rather see those resources go toward new content than a very mid game mode. Archives was fun for a few rounds, then you'd never play it again until it came back the next year.

I'm super excited about Stadium though. The Halloween event was amazing, and it looks like they took that and ran with it. It's probably the only OW event that's ever had a significant number of people playing during its entirety. They even extended it due to how popular it was if I recall. And to take it even further and add third person? I like what they're cooking.

Just to be clear, power is absolutely automated. You automate everything in the game. In the late game you have too many parts to build to ever worry about manually feeding machines.

The first power plant runs on biomatter, which can't be automated. Every other type of power is automated. It's not even a choice, really. I mean, I guess you could manually walk coal to your coal power plants if you really wanted to. You just wouldn't have time for anything else. But all you gotta do is run a conveyor belt.

I also wouldn't worry too much about doing anything wrong. Because you will.

You're guaranteed to look at your first factory and, now that you've unlocked faster miners and better recipes, tear the whole thing down and build it again.

You have to venture out of the starting area or you can't progress.

You'll discover that it's infinitely easier to build on foundations.

The only things that may not be immediately clear are the build modes, the tap of the space bar for manual crafting, and that you should rush the mercer sphere upgrade path to make your life way easier.

Also, there's a calculator in the in game search. I believe the hotkey is N.