Easier way to get glitch mode?

[Magically Inclined Dunmer]

In chapter 5 currently and haven't popped glitch mode a single time (minus the tutorial for it) due to my corruption never reaching above 40% pretty much ever.

Playing on hard, not dying to reset the corruption nor constantly going back to camp to reset it, just playing through an entire dungeon and making it to the boss and by the end of that fight i'll have around 40%.

Is there any way to actually gain corruption faster?

[iriyap]

Just step on bug tiles a lot, some give good amount of corruption, especially the ones in boss arenas.

Very late in the game, after beating Chapter 9 you unlock a code jack ability that can boost the party's corruption by 20%/40%/50%. And after beating Chapter 8 you unlock an ability to fix the current rate of corruption, letting you stay in the glitch mode indefinitely (for the whole duration of a fight).

But honestly, the glitch mode is not really worth it. The ultimate moves have completely broken scaling and deal no damage later in the game. So it's only worth it for the stat boosts, but each stat caps out at 999 so eventually it's not worth it even for that.

[Magically Inclined Dunmer]

Originally posted by iriyap:

Just step on bug tiles a lot, some give good amount of corruption, especially the ones in boss arenas.

Very late in the game, after beating Chapter 9 you unlock a code jack ability that can boost the party's corruption by 20%/40%/50%. And after beating Chapter 8 you unlock an ability to fix the current rate of corruption, letting you stay in the glitch mode indefinitely (for the whole duration of a fight).

But honestly, the glitch mode is not really worth it. The ultimate moves have completely broken scaling and deal no damage later in the game. So it's only worth it for the stat boosts, but each stat caps out at 999 so eventually it's not worth it even for that.

Stepping on majority of bugs three shots me so I don't think that's too good of an idea.

[iriyap]

Originally posted by Magically Inclined Dunmer:

Stepping on majority of bugs three shots me so I don't think that's too good of an idea.

That shouldn't be happening unless you're stepping on the really nasty ones (usually red in color). Are you making sure to scan their effects beforehand? Press B to enter the scan mode.

Running all over bug tiles really trivializes early/mid game since it's free SP and every character (but Al) can cast powerful AoE heals, so the HP is never an issue.

[Nope]

Force your character to walk the trial of bugs, then heal them when hp go low enough before continue, repeat till you get glitch form and realized it's not worth it

[Magically Inclined Dunmer]

Originally posted by iriyap:

Originally posted by Magically Inclined Dunmer:

Stepping on majority of bugs three shots me so I don't think that's too good of an idea.

That shouldn't be happening unless you're stepping on the really nasty ones (usually red in color). Are you making sure to scan their effects beforehand? Press B to enter the scan mode.

Running all over bug tiles really trivializes early/mid game since it's free SP and every character (but Al) can cast powerful AoE heals, so the HP is never an issue.

Yes, i'm scanning them.

Not to mention literally all the bugs only give me 1% corruption regardless of what it says on the scanner.

[iriyap]

The corruption percentages are before the resistances, so it's different per character. E.g. Celica is immune to stun so she can safely step on yellow tiles and get +25% corruption per each.

Also, I guess bug tiles deal more damage on Hard. I played on Normal since I've read that Hard halves money and XP rewards and that sounded like a lot of grinding. The game still gets very challenging in the second half, even on Normal. I had a lot of fun figuring out the most cheesy party setups.