Does the game have full auto battle?

[Lifebringr]

As per title; I see conflicting information online so not sure if it’s depending on platform or something

[Melodia]

No platform differences here (at least for this issue).

There's no full auto-battle in that you can just 'set it and forget it' so the battle keeps going. Game does have a sort of memory feature where the last set of commands you choose on a character will be executed (you can have up to four actions at once because of the game's battle system).

[Lifebringr]

Ok thanks

[Homer Morisson]

There is a kind of workaround, if you don't mind using a NG+ savegame right off the bat.

That way, you'd have all the jobs already unlocked and could use (spoiler-free) the final job's passive ability called "Obliterate", which auto-kills all enemies at least 20 levels below you, except for bosses and rare enemies, and the odd regular one with instant death immunity.

That way, you'd be Level 99 and pretty much every non-story battle would be auto-resolved right away, as Obliterate always triggers instantly at the start of combat, no matter on which character you equip it.

That way, you'd only have to manually fight the boss and rare encounters, though the latter are optional as well, and then towards the endgame there'll be encounters with enemies in the 70 - 90+ level range where you'd then have to fight all the battles.

But seeing as this game doesn't have random encounters but rather enemies wandering the overworld and dungeons and combat is only initiated once the party comes into contact with an enemy symbol, you could avoid most battles that way even in endgame stages.

All that said:
The battle system in BD and BD2 is one of its key features, a cool new take on TBC, and also somewhat important to the story that you at the very least understand its basic premise.

[Tyrant]

Originally posted by Homer Morisson:

There is a kind of workaround, if you don't mind using a NG+ savegame right off the bat.

That way, you'd have all the jobs already unlocked and could use (spoiler-free) the final job's passive ability called "Obliterate", which auto-kills all enemies at least 20 levels below you, except for bosses and rare enemies, and the odd regular one with instant death immunity.

That way, you'd be Level 99 and pretty much every non-story battle would be auto-resolved right away, as Obliterate always triggers instantly at the start of combat, no matter on which character you equip it.

That way, you'd only have to manually fight the boss and rare encounters, though the latter are optional as well, and then towards the endgame there'll be encounters with enemies in the 70 - 90+ level range where you'd then have to fight all the battles.

But seeing as this game doesn't have random encounters but rather enemies wandering the overworld and dungeons and combat is only initiated once the party comes into contact with an enemy symbol, you could avoid most battles that way even in endgame stages.

All that said:
The battle system in BD and BD2 is one of its key features, a cool new take on TBC, and also somewhat important to the story that you at the very least understand its basic premise.

or just play the game normally? You don't need to cheat and use a NG+ save at the start to trivialize the game. Just through normal play alone and using the chain battle system you can trivialize all boss battles before you even unlock the Monk job. You can do it beforehand, but once you unlock Godspeed Strike on the Thief you can class stack from that point on and one round every boss. You'll fight the Berserker after that, which you can also use to do the same thing if swinging an axe is more your taste.

Eventually you can unlock a combo that will allow you to one round even the games secret super boss, several times over.