The Battle System

The battle system features a real-time tower defense gameplay. Refer to Tips and Tricks for supplementary info.

This is part of Getting started.

Party and Support

Before the start of combat, you are able to build a team of up to 12 characters you own and can opt to include an extra character on the support slot.

Characters all have varying niches they fill and are useful in different stages of the battle, these are defined by their stats and other battle information detailed below.

Battle UI

The basis of AnotherEidos is Tower Defense. Select a character to place it on a hex. It will auto attack when an enemy gets in range of it. When the bar under a character is filled, tap it to use it's skill

Upper Portion

• The upper portion of the battle screen shows much life you have and the current status of how many enemies have spawned in the map.
• On the left you have an option to quit the battle, which effectively admitting a loss, while on the right you have buttons for pausing or toggling gameplay speed between 1x and 2x.

Lower Portion

• On the lower right side, you can monitor how much cost you currently accumulated.
• You'll be able to see the units you brought into the fight, arranged from highest to lowest cost. They display their class and cost on the top section of their icon.
  • When you select a unit that's ready to be deployed, you'll be able to view their stats and slow down the game.
  • You deploy the unit by dropping their sprite on the map, and choosing a direction for them to face.

Bases

• Red bases are enemy spawn points. Most enemies come out this way, but some stages may have gimmicks which subvert this rule.
• Blue bases are your bases, which you need to prevent enemies from passing towards.

Map Tiles

• There are two tile types, high ground and low ground tiles.
• Most enemies will be moving through low ground tiles and are blocked by low ground units.
• There are enemies who fly, move across any type of tiles, and cannot be blocked by any unit, unless stated otherwise by a unit's capabilities.

Character

• Characters will have indicator of block count in the form of shield icons, as well as a bar indicating their HP, and their SP.
• Selecting a deployed character will show their details and slow down the game speed.
• While selecting a character, there buttons to withdraw the unit, as well as one for activating their skill.

Enemies

• When a wave of enemies are about to spawn, they will indicate their intended pathing across the map before hand.
• Enemies have a bar indicating their hp.
• Boss enemies will have a red indicator on where they stand.

Flow of Battle

Generating Cost

Cost is the resource used to deploy your units, which is gained at a rate of one per second. Vanguard class units are typically cheap enough to be deployed early and can generate cost in one way or another.

Enemies Spawning and Deploying Units

An enemy is expected to spawn when a line appears for a brief moment on the map. This is the intended path the enemy will take from their spawn point to your base, and is usually your basis for where to deploy characters and which direction to face them, Enemies move with varying movement speeds, while your characters stay on their deployed tiles.

Dealing with Enemies

There two types of tiles positions: High and Low tiles. Most enemies walk in low tiles and can be blocked by characters, in which both your unit and the blocked enemy will begin dealing damage to each other. However, some fly and bypass being blocked and must be dealt with ranged attackers. Enemies with ranged attacks will prioritize the most recently deployed character that is within their range.

Sustaining Allies

Besides dealing damage, there are also characters capable of healing your allies instead of hurting enemies. These are typically Healers, though there are characters with different ways of also performing healing or sustain for others or themselves on their kits.

Withdrawing Allies

Characters can be killed by enemies are withdrawn from the battle, which will return them to the pool of deployable characters, but with a cooldown reposition timer. You can manually perform this for the sake of strategy or to prevent a fallen ally from reducing your fight's star rating.

Using Skills

Skills are special abilities that characters can use to change the tide of battle. Skills cost SP to use, but as explained above, SP is tied to each Skill, not the character. The general SP progress of a skill can be seen by either looking at the blue bar that grows beneath a character, or by tapping on that character and examining the square box that pops up below the character. Characters gain sp at a rate of one per second, and can trigger skills, either automatically or manually. The SP bar will turn yellow when full. Once full, for manually activated skills, simply tap the Skill icon to use it. For automatically activated skills, they simply will await until their conditions are met.

The blue box circled in red is an example of a Skill. It's currently generated 8 SP out of a max of 20 SP.	In general, a Skills SP bar must be full to use a Skill, but there are exceptions.

Win/Lose Condition

When enemies go through your base, your life would be deducted a point, and reaching zero leads to a game over. Successfully beating all enemies and maintaining at least 1 life would lead to a victory. Depending on your performance on keeping characters alive, and enemies away from the base would determine your star rating, which may determine some of the drops you will get. Beating a stage with 3 stars unlocks their 4 star challenge, and ability to use skip tickets to bypass playing the stage for farming purposes. Characters you bring along in a stage will gain bond at the end, regardless if they were used or not.

Status Ailments

There are few status conditions characters can be subjected to in game. Here are what's been seen:

• Stunned - Character cannot attack, block, or move.
• Charmed - Character will stop blocking and attack any allies within their range. Ground melee characters will be able to reach high ground ones.
• Poisoned - Character receives gradual damage over time.

Character Stats and Information

Class and Trait

A character's class and trait dictates their primary niche in battle. It usually can give you a general idea of how they'll be deployed, how their stats are set up, and how their skills will function.

For more info see: The Class System

Nature

Character's unique passive skill that usually gives them a unique buff or function. Some characters' natures can be improved through Intimacy, but it still doesn't work right now.

Rank

A character's rank is their current power level, and determines the max level they can reach. Characters can be ranked up when they reach the max level they can currently reach. After ranking up, character levels will reset, but they'll maintain their stats, and be able to level up up to a higher level cap. Skills will also be able levelled up to 7. There are three ranks: Bronze (Rank1) , Silver (Rank 2), and Gold (Rank 3) All characters start off as bronze, aside from limited characters that start at silver. 3 stars and up can be promoted to silver. Only four remaining characters do not have rank up.

For more info see: Rank Up

You can check which characters have rank ups, alongside their max stats here: Max Stats Table.

Stats

A character's stats determines their offensive (ATK, ASPD) and defensive capabilities (HP, DEF, RES), as well as how soon they can be deployed (COST), how many can they block (BLOCK) and how soon can they be redeployed if they are withdrawn (Reposition.)

• HP (Hit Points) - The amount of damage a character can sustain. When it reaches 0, they are withdrawn and constitutes a character death, which affects battle star ratings.
• ATK(Attack) - Determines the amount of damage or healing a character does on their attack. This is contested by an enemy' DEF or RES depending on the damage type, and has the same rules as your characters.
• DEF(Defense) - Determines the amount subtracted against incoming instance of physical damage. However, enemies will deal a minimum of 25% of their attack regardless of how high one's defense is.
• RES(Magic Resistance) - Determines how much incoming instance of magical damage is reduced. Somehow, it is currently computed like defense, including the damage minimum, even if the expectation is it reduces damage at by percentage.
• Reposition - This is the cooldown time for a character to be placed back into the map after being defeated or manually withdrawn.
• Cost - The amount of cost points a character will consume when deployed in battle.
• Block - The amount of enemies a character can hold off from passing through. characters will usually prioritize fighting blocked enemies in order of who came first, while all blocked enemies will be attacking their blocker. Enemies will start to leak through if the character is blocking the same amount as their Block count.
• ASPD(Attack Speed) - This is the time interval in seconds between each auto attack a character performs in battle. A lower interval means they are able to deal more attacks within a period of time. For whatever reason, buffs that increase attack speed would be denoted with a (+) despite the fact it should instead be subtracting instead. Inversely, effects that decrease attack speed are denoted with (-) even if they're actually increasing the interval.
• Bond - Indicates how many times you've cleared a stage with that character in your Party. Since 2.8.2, It is used to unlock various content in the character gallery.
• Intimacy - The amount of presents you've gifted to your character. Characters get stat bonuses at certain intimacy levels.

Skills

Character's skills are special abilities that activate in combat, either automatically or through manual trigger. Most skills are crucial to figuring out a character's viability and niche.

For more info see: Upgrading Skills

• SP (Skill Points) - This is the resource characters charge at a rate of one per second. Character's sp is denoted by a blue bar than slowly fills up, and when sp cost is met, it turns yellow. Sp stops charging once the bar is full. There may be other ways of charging sp that do not increase over time, but through dealing or sustaining attacks but this has yet to be seen.
• SP Cost - This amount a character needs to charge in order to ready their skill for use. Some take longer than others to charge. Some character's skills have charge stacks. Cost is tied to the skill itself, so in the event characters have multiple skills, their sp costs may change accordingly.
• Starting SP - Characters are usually deployed with starting sp for their skills, making most first activations require less time.
• Skill Level - Skills can be upgraded to improve their performance. They can be upgraded up to lv. 3 at bronze rank, and up to lv. 7 at silver rank.
• Skill Duration - How long a skill is in effect. Some are instantaneous, while some last for a period. Some skills immediately start recovering sp while the skill is still on, but these are exceptions.
• Skill Activation - There are two types: Auto and Manual. Auto will activate on their own once requirements are met, usually if target is in range or condition is met like low hp. Manual requires the player to activate it on their own.

Proficiency

Proficiencies are small stat bonuses gained through expending draco and character duplicates.

For more info see: Proficiency