Shadow Mode should pause the game

[Nomnaut]

I love the idea of shadow mode and learning how to use it is key to playing Shadow Tactics successfully. But the timings on some of the enemy windows are so tight, that getting into position, preparing shadow mode, and then executing it in time can get very frustrating at times.

In fact, I inititially thought that shadow mode did pause the game, but recently discovered that it didn't. I feel like this somewhat limits the time I can take to plan my multi-faceted attacks.

[Keraøc]

The real problem of Shadow mode, is that you can't "time" your actions.
For me, the only real use of Shadow mode, is to disable 3 guards at the same time, with a samourai in it.

[Phil]

At least it should slow down 50%

[Cire]

Originally posted by Keraøc:

The real problem of Shadow mode, is that you can't "time" your actions.
For me, the only real use of Shadow mode, is to disable 3 guards at the same time, with a samourai in it.

Hey, Keraøc.

You actually can "time" your actions with Shadow Mode. You can execute Shadow Mode for each character at individual times. There are key-bindings for executing Shadow Mode for each character as well as a key-bind for executing Shadow Mode for all characters simultaneously.

Check out the "Key-Settings" and you'll find the key-binds :)

Also, if you may not have known, you can set waypoints for movement, like an RTS game. Note that, like all actions in Shadow Mode, only one waypoint can be stored in Shadow Mode, so you can't save up a string of waypoints and then execute the whole path.

This should open up a whole lot of new strategies for you! Get creative :)

Good luck!!!

[Senlin]

Nah, if it would pause the game, then it would pretty much force everyone to use it all the time. It would change the flow of the game a lot and I think this is something that is a big strenght of the game right now. Even with constant reloading, the flow is not lost, I think it's a very big achievement from the designers here.

Shadow mode is good as it is and it's very useful, especially in later missions. Not only to dispatch several guards at the same time. I use it often to distract some guards with another character or characters and do something else with the one I'm controlling directly.
Sometimes I even use it with just one character, when I need to do several different actions in short time.