Is it possible to change which character you control in battle?

[Einzbern]

Or am I stuck playing as Sorey the whole game?

[Seraphita]

I'd like to know that as well...

[Marksteele]

there is, I dunno the keyboard mapping but you can do it in the in-battle menu or there's a battle action to let you do it on the fly without pausing.

[Dunia]

In-Game Menu
Put the cursor in your character's face.
Select
Select another character.
You'll see the P1 thing going to the character you selected.

You can change In-Game Battle Menu pressing start too.

[00]

How about while not in battle?

[Dunia]

After mid-game probably, an item will give you that permission.

Or not, it's a new game. I'm a Tales of Fan and gamer, but this is a new game and I don't know.

[Kyokoen]

in battle you have to put the character change skill on through menu. then if you are using controller its X + up down left right

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[D's Journal]

Originally posted by B0SS:

How about while not in battle?

No, sadly, you're stuck as Sorey the entire game.

[Simon]

You can change character outside the battle. But it is only as a battle character, not screen character.

[飞雪]

Rui had it right, but it's a little buggy for some reason. I'm trying to use Rose in combat, but it keeps defaulting me back to Sorey. The kicker is that it leaves Sorey in auto, so I can't do anything with him, but it leaves Rose on manual, and I'm unable to change her setting or control her so she sits there being useless.

[Vashe]

Originally posted by Kyokoen:

in battle you have to put the character change skill on through menu. then if you are using controller its X + up down left right

http://oi61.tinypic.com/28lrxxu.jpg

I don't get this... X + left right is "sidestep" isnt it ? :x

Edit : Ok I'm stupid, you have to use D pad... XD
Kyouken is right !

You can switch characters in the menu out of battle => Just go on the char you want to control and press "Y" on the controller.

[Mr. Do Everything]

Im pretty sure there is a battle skill that lets you open the menu then hit spacebar to swap, thats how I drive myself insane by armatizing then switching to someone else to rock a combo then watching as they immediately un-armatize.

[beautheschmo]

Originally posted by 飞雪:

Rui had it right, but it's a little buggy for some reason. I'm trying to use Rose in combat, but it keeps defaulting me back to Sorey. The kicker is that it leaves Sorey in auto, so I can't do anything with him, but it leaves Rose on manual, and I'm unable to change her setting or control her so she sits there being useless.

Sounds like you're doing it wrong. Changing characters in battle only lasts for that battle, nor does changing control style automatically confer 1p control to the character. What it sounds like you did was try to switch characters by switching Sorey to auto, then switching Rose to manual, which doesn't work (it'll just make you still 'be' Sorey, but he'll be in auto, while Rose is controlled by the non-existant player 2).

To fix it
>go to the menu (field menu, not in-battle menu)
>go to artes and set Rose to Auto
>back out to the top menu and use your confirm button (probably A) on Sorey and then Rose (which should switch her to 1p)
>go back into artes and set Rose back to manual.

For future reference, though it isn't (and never has been) indicated very well, the semi/auto/manual settings are for the player that corresponds to the character slot, NOT for character it's on, so the only time it's necessary to touch those is if you are adding/removing another player or aren't comfortable with the setting you're on. To further add to the confusion, there is only 1 default party order in this one and you have to reorder the players to the character slots instead (indicated by the 1p, 2p, 3p, 4p in the menu), which isn't quite so intuitive as previous games.

[Vashe]

Originally posted by Aria:

I'm a bit disapointed that they didn't give the opition to not run around a sorey all game but oh well... I MEAN.. Graces wouldn't be graces for me if I didn't run around with Pascal listening to her be a dork everytime I opened something or did something... or Play as sophie.. because sophie is best char

I always played as Tear in ToA, cause Tear is the perfect waifu!

[飞雪]

Originally posted by beautheschmo:

Originally posted by 飞雪:

Rui had it right, but it's a little buggy for some reason. I'm trying to use Rose in combat, but it keeps defaulting me back to Sorey. The kicker is that it leaves Sorey in auto, so I can't do anything with him, but it leaves Rose on manual, and I'm unable to change her setting or control her so she sits there being useless.

Sounds like you're doing it wrong. Changing characters in battle only lasts for that battle, nor does changing control style automatically confer 1p control to the character. What it sounds like you did was try to switch characters by switching Sorey to auto, then switching Rose to manual, which doesn't work (it'll just make you still 'be' Sorey, but he'll be in auto, while Rose is controlled by the non-existant player 2).

To fix it
>go to the menu (field menu, not in-battle menu)
>go to artes and set Rose to Auto
>back out to the top menu and use your confirm button (probably A) on Sorey and then Rose (which should switch her to 1p)
>go back into artes and set Rose back to manual.

For future reference, though it isn't (and never has been) indicated very well, the semi/auto/manual settings are for the player that corresponds to the character slot, NOT for character it's on, so the only time it's necessary to touch those is if you are adding/removing another player or aren't comfortable with the setting you're on. To further add to the confusion, there is only 1 default party order in this one and you have to reorder the players to the character slots instead (indicated by the 1p, 2p, 3p, 4p in the menu), which isn't quite so intuitive as previous games.

>isn't indicated very well
Understatement of the century. Thanks for the pointers though!