[FE8] HoloEmblem: The Search for Seiso (42 Chapters) [v.1.8.2] Out Now!

I feel like the intent is a bit like FE5, where you just start a “trial run” before doing the real thing, to see if the map has some changes and all, if there are secrets to check, etc.
I don’t mind this kind of design honestly, but I do get where you come from.

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ch21x gen0 through which event does Roboco promote actually? I didn’t get one after finishing the map, I may have missed it, I just got rifles.

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The Resourceful skill doesn’t work.
Botan hits for 25Str + 18Mt = 43 damage when the innate Resourceful on her crossbow should give her 36Mt.


Kanata’s a fine unit without being able to one shot everything around this point but this really hurts Botan. I could justify a hammerne charge on Noel, Mumei, Fauna, and Gura’s Prfs but Botan’s entire existence is substituted by bulk buying shortbows for the other two statistically superior archers that joined before her.

Also the Union Skill on Anya’s Prf doesn’t subtract 7 speed and luck like it says Sana’s Starlight does, don’t know if it works on Sana I benched her immediately.

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IMO Botan doesn’t care about her PRF, and it’s not her main selling point. Instead, her biggest thing is getting Double Lion at Promoted Lv15, which allows her to abuse strong weapons even more. She’s a great candidate for a skill manual as she gets many chances to proc them.

Spoiler

You can bulk buy Luna Manuals in the bottom left corner of Chapter 19

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You know what else I can bulk buy around the time Botan gets Double Lion? Sleep Swords which entirely replace Botan’s unreliable personal skill and Brave weapons on Chapter 21, all Botan does is save me the cost of the coffee and engage rings to keep up with the basic damage output of the other two.

I’ve been using her for my second run and the only real contribution she’s made is being the only unit able to hit anything on Chapter 9. There’s really no strong weapons for her to abuse. She doesn’t need the perfect accuracy of her Prf or Hawk Bows and without taking the Discipline manual she’ll never get above C in swords, while Fubuki also gets Double Lion at 35 and brings an expendable summon. She might be useful for the 45 hit S rank bow for all of 1 chapter while the rest of the crew can also dumpster anything on the map with their actually good S rank weapons.

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How can I trigger the secret event in Chapter 8?

Really loving the game, but in Chapter 15 my game keeps crashing/freezing around the ~10th turn in the enemy phase, in both versions 1.4 and 1.5.1.

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为什么sora对话不了aqua? 不能杀旁边两个单位吗

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Have you tried downgrading to 1.3? That’s what I had to do fix my hanging issues (granted, on Chapter 8. I’m nowhere near Chapter 15 yet).

1.3 seem to work better, I think some of the bosses moving was the thing making it freeze (I don’t know if that is different between versions) Also I turned off the animations, don’t know if it helped but it is working now.

I’ve encountered a fatal error in Chapter 21x Specifically the one with 9 characters, that gives Ollie her promotion that has the doppelgangers ect.
After clearing the mission, and getting the rewards for defeating the doppelgangers, after I get the death blow scroll, Polka’s storage pops up but with incorrect items in inventory, and when you try to skip it showed this screen in the screenshot below. (I restarted and did it again and same issue at the same time, except the error screen was a bunch of checkared blocks instead), so I currently cannot continue the game with this error.

https://imgur.com/9XniPcu

(Update, the 2nd time I did it, after being on that screen for a bit, it eventually loaded to a new screen asking me to remove an item for Nihil Scroll, but the inventory was all Killer Bows, not something any of my characters had lol. after removing a killer bow for it, now its just sitting in a black screen)

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Is this romhack completed?? its not clear in the post.

I didn’t make any serious changes, but I’ll check it out shortly

Yea 100%, they’ll be fixed next patch. I’ve already iterated this earlier but i’ll also fix a few of the reminders for certain events/characters!
And thank you for playing!

That was an oversight in description changes, sorry about that. Fix will come soon!

Guide coming on the 25th. Stay tuned!

Currently working on a fix!

Sora must talk to Aqua in chp 13 to talk to her again in chp 20!

Sorry for the freezing. Still trying to figure it out.

This has happened before in chapter 2, without me being able to diagnose it. I’ll take a look!

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The game is playable until the end. All supports are yet to be finished, so that’s why i’m hesitant on giving a [Complete] lable.

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I suggest that halberdiers get tuned down in general, reaching chapter 9 I am just barely able to deal with them, via luna weapons and rally speed support. Them having 20 in all relevant stats with huge hp pools and often weilding spears means that dog piling them doesnt really work. Magic is their weak point but they will just kill on retaliation by easily doubling. The bracing stance is just a kick in the teeth making it so that units chipping at 2 range just do zero damage to them.

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They will next update!


From an esteemed romhack player

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Oh god yeah I feel this image
Why is she so frikking bad.

Holoemblem is hard partially because you have only ONE Axe user for the earlygame and there’s far too many enemies who have Lances.

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Hi, really loving the hack so far, but had to come in for a quick bug report: having a lot of issues with chapter 15.

  • Had an issue where whenever Kiara rallied on a specific tile during one attempt, the game would reset to the title. Using the “resume chapter” button would have my continue my turn from right before using Kiara. The issue was “fixed” by using a rally on a different tile, later in my turn flow.
  • Had an issue where after using a rally ability in a different attempt on a certain turn (I believe it was turn 9, maybe 10), the unit would disappear from the map, but still be listed as alive and not having taken an action yet on subsequent turns; this happened to both Polka and Kiara, but not Luna, even though all three units used rally on the same turn.
  • After ending my turn, the enemy took some number of actions, and then the bolting drowned from the 5th boat (the one from the bottom left) targets Amelia with it’s last charge. After the combat animation, the game resets to the title. Selecting the “resume chapter” button places me in the middle of the enemy’s turn (usually right before the drowned takes action, but one attempt after resetting the emulator, the eyeballs at the top of the map moved before the drowned did, but the game still reset to the title after the drowned finished it’s attack)
    Hopefully this is enough information about them to be helpful.

Anyways, I wanted to wait until I finished the game all the way through, but since I’m posting now anyways, I just want to say that I am really enjoying the design of the game so far. The game is, without a doubt, really REALLY hard- but it feels like the hack has been constantly pushing me to my limits, forcing me to rethink strategies on a map by map basis, and truly make tough choices on each turn about long term value and short term not getting killed into the sun. Things like Chapter 9’s Big Boss showing up giving infinite leader stars followed by multiple waves of really powerful halberdiers felt insurmountable at first, but after iterating on the level enough, and constantly finding out ways to be faster, I was able to find a solution and that really made me feel like I actually accomplished something in a fire emblem game (that said, maybe having some dialogue that hints that the boss will leave could help, since I thought my run was just over once she showed up, not knowing that if I found a safe spot, I could wait her out). The game pushes you to your fire emblem limits, but I like that it gives you tools to actually fight back- Noel and Choco are some of the craziest units I’ve seen in any fire emblem game (though this is only my second hack), and Nene, Risu, Subaru and Rally Spectrum (oops I mean Kiara) are no slouches either. But yeah, just wanted to say that I appreciate the unforgiving difficulty of the hack, it really makes me feel like I have to use everything at my disposal at all times to overcome

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Thank you for the report!
Chapter 15 has become extremely buggy for some reason. I’ll be sure to try and address this in the coming update(s).

THIS is what I had invisoned! You don’t know how much joy this brings me to hear this! Thank you for playing! I’m happy to hear you’re enjoying everything so far!

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