The Last Chapter - Extremely Frustrating

[GashWizard]

Hi Guys,

I have been really enjoying the game up until the last chapter where I want to bang my head into a wall. I am playing on Normal/Maniac for reference.

The final map is... tedious and frustrating to put it lightly. I don't mind the chase-down idea where we are catching up to Balastar, but in doing so I am using up a significant amount of spells and Combat Art uses. Once we finally catch Balastar, he has three phases where upon entering the second and third phases he takes absolutely negligible damage (roughly 5 per unit) while also hitting like a truck and placing explosive/damaging fields all over the terrain. To top it off, you can't really whittle him down because he naturally heals 10hp per turn.

By this point in the map, I am usually running low on spell uses and combat arts, so healing my team is also difficult. Is this fight bugged, or is he really supposed to take such little damage? I am going to take a break from attempting to beat this map until I can figure out an optimal strategy or changes are made. It is a ridiculous jump in difficulty for one final encounter and I don't think playing on normal difficulty I should be expected to min/max for one fight (I haven't had to for anything else up to this point).

As mentioned, it is a shame that there is a sour note at the end of what was otherwise a highly enjoyable game.

[karaliolio]

I completely agree with you. Also just want to share my frustration with this one - imagine I'm on the last turn, about to beat Balastar, and the game UI just decides to stop working. Can't do anything but forcefully quit the game. Am I wasting another hour in my life to do this last mission? I don't think I will.

[Tugasan]

i'm on the same boat, Balastar is ridiculous in this last fight, i manage to get to him with full squad and alot of skills to use and yet having to kill 3 times is impossible for me.
I hate when devs are lazy and make me have to kill the last boss multiple times and gave them over the top resistances each phase, just makes what was an enjoyable game, trash, so until this is fixed this game is a nono

[ODS_Jungsoo]

Originally posted by karaliolio:

I completely agree with you. Also just want to share my frustration with this one - imagine I'm on the last turn, about to beat Balastar, and the game UI just decides to stop working. Can't do anything but forcefully quit the game. Am I wasting another hour in my life to do this last mission? I don't think I will.

Hi! Sorry for the inconvenience. The issue of game freezing during the last combat will be fixed with next week's patch. To avoide then issue please do not use 'esc' to skip the enemy's turn.

Also we will review the feedback of the last chapter's combat. Meanwhile you can feel free to share your suggestions on our Feature Upvote board: losteidolons.featureupvote.com

[ODS_Jungsoo]

Originally posted by Tugasan:

i'm on the same boat, Balastar is ridiculous in this last fight, i manage to get to him with full squad and alot of skills to use and yet having to kill 3 times is impossible for me.
I hate when devs are lazy and make me have to kill the last boss multiple times and gave them over the top resistances each phase, just makes what was an enjoyable game, trash, so until this is fixed this game is a nono

Hi! What would be your suggested improvement for the last battle? We hope to hear feedback to see what we can do to improve the experience there!

[Tugasan]

Originally posted by ODS_Jungsoo:

Originally posted by Tugasan:

i'm on the same boat, Balastar is ridiculous in this last fight, i manage to get to him with full squad and alot of skills to use and yet having to kill 3 times is impossible for me.
I hate when devs are lazy and make me have to kill the last boss multiple times and gave them over the top resistances each phase, just makes what was an enjoyable game, trash, so until this is fixed this game is a nono

Hi! What would be your suggested improvement for the last battle? We hope to hear feedback to see what we can do to improve the experience there!

Hello, nice to see your looking for feedback

maybe turn off the boss resistance buff in the last phase so he could take dmg like a normal unit, or reduce the phases from 3 to 2, or both, give Eden a similar power up

the point is, Balastar is too damn strong and should be more killble in normal difficulty, as it is now, is impossible to me to see the ending of the game because of him

[Cotton-eyed Joe]

Agreed, last boss battle is totally not fun.
Ive beat it on hard/maniac without losing anybody, but only by the skin of my teeth.
some ppl invented a cheese strat for this battle with mass sharpshooters and mages, but that just not fun.
Because Balastar got 2 separate damage reducing global modifiers ON TOP of regular armour AND guard, even the hardest hits are barely scratching him.
I suggest removing or tuning down at least some of his defensive layers while keeping his offensive moves

[ODS Orbit]

Sort of bringing back an old topic, but we did add this on Feature Upvote. Feel free to vote so that it gets more priority!

https://losteidolons.featureupvote.com/suggestions/339262/ch-27-boss-fight-rebalance

[GashWizard]

Originally posted by ODS_Orbit:

Sort of bringing back an old topic, but we did add this on Feature Upvote. Feel free to vote so that it gets more priority!

https://losteidolons.featureupvote.com/suggestions/339262/ch-27-boss-fight-rebalance

Fantastic thank you! I have voted :)

[Galroche]

managed to top phoenix point in term of terrible last boss design for an otherwise okay game ...
totally different mechanics that everything else in the game, make 80% of class choice in the game useless, super long and useless chapter to reach it if you want to try other team comp for an overly slow and boring fight.
also, if he can full heal forever and spam infinite nuclear bomb, why did he ever run ? why did he ever need an army for anything ? he could have destroyed the entire empire alone from the very beginning ...

[Elyôn]

I find the last fight very good with an intelligent pattern, but I failed in hard mode, looking at those who succeeded, I understand that it is absolutely necessary for each member of the group to be able to play the double class, physical strike and magic spell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnV4wnDl3T8
My problem is that I never thought it was necessary since I was able to play on hard mode until this last quest.
At no time did I feel the need to train my characters in this way, and suddenly I do not have the experience to properly play the double role for each character. So I have to bow down and lower the difficulty level, or start the game all over again...

[jenovaschild]

game keeps crashing during the last battle. Once okay it happens, twice shame on the developers, third time.... not going to happen. I watched the ending on youtube. will not buy lost eidolons 2.

[Tommi69]

Just crashed for me in the last battle as well, one hit from winning the game. Such a shame. I really love the game, but this really ruins it at the last moment.

[76561199556734198]

I'm so sorry to hear about your experience with the game crashing during the last battle. That must have been incredibly frustrating, especially so close to victory. I completely understand your disappointment, and I apologize for the inconvenience this has caused. I'll pass this feedback along to our development team so they can investigate this further. If there's anything else we can do for you, please don't hesitate to let us know.

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