No formation setting?

[ZyloWolfBane]

In SOSW there doesn't seem to be a way to manage formation, only choosing people in order. So unless I'm missing something that means my squishy classes are stuck until I have three front row characters to choose before them.

[Zodai]

Yeah, from what I played you effectively don't have a backrow until you have at least 4 characters

Fortunately though you get your fourth pretty early on

[ZyloWolfBane]

Originally posted by Zodai:

Yeah, from what I played you effectively don't have a backrow until you have at least 4 characters

Fortunately though you get your fourth pretty early on

Seems as though there's a lot of really odd design choices in this game, even the shop is dreadfully awkward to navigate, can't buy a katana in the equipment side but I can in the items side? wtf? lol.

[Zodai]

Originally posted by ZyloWolfBane:

Originally posted by Zodai:

Yeah, from what I played you effectively don't have a backrow until you have at least 4 characters

Fortunately though you get your fourth pretty early on

Seems as though there's a lot of really odd design choices in this game, even the shop is dreadfully awkward to navigate, can't buy a katana in the equipment side but I can in the items side? wtf? lol.

I think it depends on which character you have 'picked' as the one doing the shopping, like you'll only get items they can equip

It's true that there's overlap in the different parts of it that doesn't feel natural though

[ZyloWolfBane]

Originally posted by GunFinX:

There actually is! When you leave for a dungeon you can select what squires to take with you. Deselect all and then select the order for the formation.

I know, but what I meant was at the time with only three characters I couldn't choose to put them in the back row like I could in games like Etrian Odyssey.

But it's ok, your team fills out quickly enough that it stops being an issue as I've just found out lol.

[Widget]

once you get 4 characters if you want to switch the order of your party around or the formation you need to do it at the party selection screen when entering an area like fewmy valley for instance, when it shows you the list of characters to select you need to either use the controller to select their portrats and then remove them from the party by pressing B on the xbox controller, not sure what the mouse and keyboard bindings are, or any other controller controls are, and then to set your party formation just select which characters you want in the first 3 slots.

Its a little complex and unexplained so I hope this helps for party formations.

[Widget]

after you start to gain more characters you can use that same method to set up a full party of 6 formation.
Like i said its a little convaluted and not very well explained, and i had to tinker to figure that out myself.

[acslacker]

I like this game, but no option to change formation mid-battle or in the dungeon is a horrible design decision.

[Malekai]

There is a way to change it in the dungeon, its in squire status under your main character, Change order is the selection name.
Please take a few moments to look for things before fussing about design decisions. The first review of this game on steam was someone saying you couldn't change to fullscreen, well if had given it 5 minutes and looked around a bit, there is a fullscreen there.

[phadin]

The fullscreen thing is BS. Settings/Options>Display, where else WOULD you look for it?

However, some things like how to change party formation, even if it's there it doesn't help if it's in an obscure location. I never would have expected to go look on the main character's squire status page to find that option. An individual character page is not where players would intuitively go for a party management option. Where you put such things IS part of the game design, and can rightfully be criticized as such if a common game element is placed in an obscure location.

[Malekai]

I agree, it is in an odd location, I just stumbled across it once I got the Return Home spell. Maybe they just expect you'll notice it, since I for one use that spell often. They certainly don't explain a lot of things well in the game, and I guess they expect you to stumble across the stuff thru normal game play. It took me getting the 8th character to figure out how to equip a gun i found much earlier lol.

[acslacker]

Originally posted by Malekai:

There is a way to change it in the dungeon, its in squire status under your main character, Change order is the selection name.
Please take a few moments to look for things before fussing about design decisions. The first review of this game on steam was someone saying you couldn't change to fullscreen, well if had given it 5 minutes and looked around a bit, there is a fullscreen there.

I appreciate your help, despite the backhand.

I've been playing for 13 hours and the option to reorder the party is EXTREMELY WELL HIDDEN. I did not run across it and would never have thought to look in "Squire Status". I've never seen a reorder option so hidden. This should certainly be more visible.