Measure is Unceasing help

[fourbits]

I have to kill five people at the same time. Each requires a simultaneous attack from two characters, but I only have eight characters in total. I've tried killing three first, then rushing the other two before the timer runs out, but it still says I've failed to kill them all at once.

Am I missing something? Are there two other characters that are hiding somewhere?

[G1ZM02K]

You need to distract each first, and then kill while distracted; bear in mind that some characters can distract more than one NPC at a time...

Some characters are also ranged so you can use those to do a killing blow on NPCs that would normally be out of reach.

[fourbits]

Okay, I'll try that. I thought prognosticars etc. had to be actively freezing someone to be killed.

[G1ZM02K]

They do, that's what I mean by being distracted - one distracts, the other kills (which frees up the original distractor BTW; handy for a secondary, long-range attack).

Bear in mind that Gaelle can distract two at once, and Teresa has both a distraction and a killing shot.

[threedot14]

My attempt focused on characters that have long range attacks. (Teresa's crossbow; Toya's teleport)
Here is my algorithm, by no means it is the best (or the only one.)

Target labelled 1 through 5 from left to right, when the stage is at the top of screen.)
First shadow plan:
Target 1 (behind the left closed door): Suleidy pistol attack. Afia in position for blink
Target 2 (the one walking around on the left): Quentin pistol attack. Toya's teleport marker in position for teleport.
Target 3 (top stage): Teresa ash distraction. Pinkus in disguise in position for melee.
Target 4 (walking on the right): Gaelle pistol attack. Teresa in position for cross bow.
Target 5 (right closed door): Toya pistol attack. John in position for anchor-down.
Second shadow plan: immediately set up after first plan's executed.
Target 1: freezing Suleidy. Afia blink kills.
Target 2: freezing Quentin.
Target 3: freezing Teresa. Pinkus melee kills
Target 4: freezing Gaelle.
Target 5: freezing Toya. John anchor kills
Third shadow plan: immediately set up after second plan's executed.
Target 1: dead (no further use for Suleidy and Afia)
Target 2: freezing Quentin. Toya is free, execute teleport.
Target 3: dead (Teresa ready for new target. no further use for Pinkus)
Target 4: freezing Gaelle. Teresa is free, execute crossbow.
Target 5: dead (Toya read for new target. no further use for John)
After third plan:
Target 1: dead
Target 2: Toya teleport kills
Target 3: dead
Target 4: Terese crossbow kills
Target 4: dead

For me, I had to use the shadow mode liberally. Kudos to those who has the action-per-minute to execute this in real time... This plan does not require any upgrades. Specifically: I didn't have Afia grand blink when I attempted this, but I imagine she would function similar to Toya.

[G1ZM02K]

I believe I did it something like:

• Sent Pinkus and Quentin to the left and set both to shadow melee (one distracts while the other kills - Left's sorted).
  
• Sent John up top and put him underground, with Teresa in the right tower...
  
• Set Teresa to shadow blind the upper one (distract), with John following up with a shadow return attack (kill - Top's sorted).
  
• Before the gates there's a platform leading to the right, send Afia that way (using blink to cross the gap)...
  
• Set Afia to shadow melee the right one (distract).
  
• Have Suleidy set up a bush near the lower point the middle two meet up, hide her and the remaining characters in there...
  
• Have Gaelle throw shadow firecrackers at the midpoint where they meet (distracts both).
  
• Have Suleidy shadow melee one and Toya the other (kills both - Centre two sorted).
  
• Switch to Teresa and trigger all shadow actions when both middle Ignacia's are in the firecracker area (all down but one).
  
• Use Teresa to make the final killing shot to the right one (kill - Right's sorted) and you're all done.