Each DLC pack have 3 new characters, and in contrast of focus on rosters "canon, absolutely necessary" in the main game, they would more consider about DLC characters' popularity and interesting/fun element.
DLC packs also consider add more types of unit.
Game's director hope add some more popular characters such as Ike, Roy in Sequel. (Means only if FEW2 come true I guess)
Adding Lyn and Celica was the idea of Nintendo/IS.
Okay what's going on. If you recall correctly there was a person who tweeted about additional DLC packs plans being announced during TGS closing. So either the person who tweeted that got it wrong or there are some communication issues at Koei.
Also first point is a Straight up lie.
And if the NPC characters in the story mode aren't free additions we know that:
Fates: Azura, Oboro, Niles
Awakening: Owain, ???, ???
SD: Navarre, ???, ???
I should also mention that there are rumors about FEW not selling well in JP. Make of that as you will.
18 hours, covers the middle of the fates arc to Endgame and also includes Lyn and Celica's history mode
Also have some general notes because a recap would be to long and too spoiler heavy
Notes
Oboro gameplay appears, and unlike Niles, Oboro has a unique moveset (that maybe shared by the generic lancer but still)
New mechanic fog of war appears in Xander's map
Lyn and Celica are unlocked when you finish their respective history mode map. Theoretically, F!Robin unlocks after Awakening History map, M!Corrin for fates and Anna for Shadow Dragon (as the map it's based on has a secret shop)
The story reminds me WAY too much of the Sacred stones. Other than the twins having similar temperaments to Ephraim and Erika. But also their kingdom gets attacked by monsters, their parent gets left behind, they get spirited away by a general, they go across multiple kingdoms to recruit allies, there is a route split where one twin goes though the desert to reach a kingdom where they specialize in swords (hoshido), the other twin goes to the enemy kingdom (nohr), the twins have twin weapons that are effect against monsters. And that's not even getting into the spoiler territory.
There is a random King who I think is supposed to be one of the main antagonist? But not only is he VERY generic and he barely is in the plot. Makes me wish for the Black knight, Berkut and Veronica. You know when the villains are actual characters and not just obstacles.
So a Livestream of the first 4 hours of the game or so, has been shown. Because no one here has actually reported on this You can watch it here and watch before it is removed: https://m.twitch.tv/videos/177573416
If it is down by the time your watching this or tldr (or tldw I guess) I'll write a summery of the stream under the cut. Please note I don't speak Jap so I'm just going off what I know from pre-release stuff. Spoilers obviously.
The game starts with a flash forward too what I assume to be the final battle with the twin you choose to be the main character, and the other three lords (Marth, Chrom, and Corrin) are playable although the section is brief
Cut to the actual beginning of the story where it's just a normal day in Aytolis until monsters (That are not from the Gaiden or the Sacred Stones) appear. Everyone tries to escape but the queen is separated from everyone else due to being slow, er I mean because of a rock slide. She gives the twins the shield of seals before the twins and Darios are forced to abandon her.
A new stage, the castle town is shown and the twins and Darios are trying to escape when they are corned by monsters. They are then saved by Masked Marth who is also playable briefly.
A new mechanic that is shown in this stage is to recue villagers and they will give you stuff when rescue them
The scene is of the trio talking about the queen when Rowan randomly wanders off and slips in order to mean Chrom and Lissa and Fredrick like Robin did.
The next battle is Fredrick training/testing the twins because of course he doesn't trust them
Other than being a tutorial for 2/3 of the weapon triangle a new mechanic introduce is Anna who takes the place of golden skulltulas. Talk to her after fulfilling a certain objective and you get a picture piece.
Another thing is music in this game has a normal and Ablaze version. Normal version play during menus and tutorials, Ablaze play in normal gameplay
After the battle they talk about bear and bear meat (they say Kuma a lot) and Owain is there for some reason.
The next scene is Cordelia arriving and reporting she found Robin (the reason why the Awakening crew were here in the first place was to find Robin) in a new Temple stage and he is getting attacked by Validar.
Generic mages are apparently a mook
After the battle they meet the Temple sage(?) and the scene where Chrom produces an orb that was shown in the awakening trailer plays.
After that the next stage is a desert where Arena Ferox has fell and the boss is obviously masked Marth.
There is a sandstorm that must be cleared and a new mechanic in thieves. A thief will appear and try to steal treasure, but if you defeat the thief then he will drop a key and you can open the treasure which contained medicine in this case
Fredrick uses his awaking Special where he pulls out a sword and lance along with his axe.
Afterwards the team goes back to the temple and fight Validar again and Cordelia, one of the Lance clone knights is finally playable. And in this map it looks like you need to have her lower a bridge
Afterwards Lucina and Owain reveal their real identity and that ends the Awakening segment
Just like with the Corrins the male twin along with Chrom, Freddy, Lucina and Robin go to the Hoshido while the female twin with Cordelia, Darios, Owain and Lissa go to Nohr (and no Darios and Owain are not playable)
The route does split and you need to first fight the older sisters of the respective route (the little sister are also there but does not fight you)
Owain has his own unique Idle stance while Darios shares his with Marth. Guess which one will be playable in the future.
The Dragon vein mechanic I shown and it can be used by anyone. It recreates a bridge in Hoshido and cools some lava in Nohr.
Enemy Generic Draco knights appear as enemies.
You have to fight Leo and Niles in one stage
Niles seems to currently not have a moveset of his own and just uses Takumi and Sakura's as he uses a move that both Takumi and Sakura shares.
Chrom and Male Robin have a support as well as Liana and Lissa
Edit: it seems like everyone can support with everone but only specially marked ones will produce a conversation. For example Cordelia has one with Hinoka, Sakura, Lissa and Lucina. But not Chrom.
That ends the livestream
Closing thoughts:
This leak was so much better way to show off the game than what ever the PR people have been. And while understand it spoils the DLC it shows off the game much better than using the same stage over and over again.
Also because Niles appeared I wouldn't be surprised if Oboro and Azura will also most likely appear but with Generic move sets as well.
Well, I guess this means that there will most likely be more DLC for Fire emblem Warriors than the 3 announced provided it remains a lucrative endeavor.
I have few (heh) comments about this though and I apologies for sounding pessimistic
Were they listening to us before hand?
Will they be listening to the western audience? Considering their track record with advertisement with the west. Not likely.
We actually don't know what the DLC will have in terms of content unlike Hyrule warriors where they did tell you exactly how much was in them
This is a very low key way to announce this. Not many people are going to watch the closing. I would have at least expected them to tweet about this. But maybe I giving them too much credit
My Estimated time for this wave of DLC to be released Fall 2018 at the earliest
So this was apparently from the Nintendo Dream Magazine that published yesterday and it says:
"...the team initially planned to include Corrin, Azura and the 8 siblings, but since the number of Fates inclusions were too great, they decided they had to exclude Azura (this time)."
There are so many problems with this it's not even funny.
As much as I like Caeda (and Caesar I guess) there is a problem here.
Not only does this mean that all the Lance users are Pegasus Knights, but all lance users are also all clones of each other and all Lance users are weak to bows.
This means that if an enemy sword user is in the same room as a enemy bow user, you're better of sending in a sword, bow or magic user.
They really didn't think this though did they.
Also Tiki plays like Young link. Hopefully not all future stone users fight like this.
Oh thank god Lyn and her clones were added to FE Warriors. She mostly likely was a last minute addition thanks to the choose your own legend poll but it's good there actually researching the audience.
Oh by the way for those worrying about the leaks
Granted I'm not sure if this they are talking about enemy only, or they meant the infantry lance user IS an armored knight but it is something
The reason they didn't showcase Azura in the videos is because they were reserved for characters who had already been revealed. She can still show up in either the direct or the Tokyo Game Show.
She can but like I said with the patterns that the character reveals have been doing she is still unlikely to show up
Oh great FE warriors just released the gameplay video for all the characters from fates.
And there is no Azura in sight which means her chances of getting into the base game has dropped significantly. After all why release videos of all the fates characters but leave out one.
Anyways my prediction now is on the Sep 13 direct they are going to show the shadow dragon trailer for Tokyo game show. It's their pattern to show a trailer featuring a game. It was Awakening for the Japan Expo and Fates for Gamescom.
Also PSA Cipher is holding one of it’s livestreams with Yosuke Hayashi (AKA FE warriors director) as a guest on SEP 16 (or 15 depending on the time zone). This will be the most likely be the time that Azura will be announced. If she doesn’t get announced then her chance of getting into the game plummets significantly.
Update: Azura is most likely to appear in the Nintendo direct two days from now and gameplay of her and Sakura on the 16th. Although I wouldn't be surprised if it's only in JP direct considering how JP centric the advertisement is
Also I didn't realize it at first but Sumia is the only character to get DE-confirmed. Ouch
Also PSA Cipher is holding one of it's livestreams with Yosuke Hayashi (AKA FE warriors director) as a guest on SEP 16 (or 15 depending on the time zone). This will be the most likely be the time that Azura will be announced. If she doesn't get announced then her chance of getting into the game plummets significantly.
Nintendo is a gaming business, not your damn girlfriend
@tigerunderwinter Please tell me this isn’t you
Well Either way I’m training to be a UX designer and how you present your product is just as important as how you design your product because either way the last thing you want to do is alienate your audience.
Besides that the main point of the post was to criticizes the bad PR not the roster besides maybe the twin’s weapon choice. And I rather have Hector and Micaiah for weapon variety anyways. So please don’t use me a stress ball for your grievances with the fanbase and their valid concerns.
I'm glad you can find fun in the Voting Gauntlet. And while I do agree that people reactions have more vitriol then they should, It probably wouldn't be as bad if like I said had a bit more control. I would be like your playing a chapter of Radiant Dawn (It have some of the longest maps in the series) and one of your characters gets hit by a 1% crit.
I think the main issue with the Voting Gauntlet is lack of control
I understand what the creators were going with this, Create something like Splatoon's splatfest (even though it took a while for them to refine the system)The problem is Splatfest involves a lot of skill, Voting Gauntlets does not, so really players really don't have too much control over who wins.
With no multiplier the winner was basically predetermined. With the multiplayer
it's more or less up to random chance and we all know what that feels like.
How do we solve this problem? Well other than making Voting Gauntlets harder or having no Voting Gauntlets, we can have non character Gauntlets like what is your favorite class or what is your favorite weapon.
Although replacing the Voting Gauntlets a salt is also a good Idea to.
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