The Battle System

⚠ Information on this page is based on empirical data. Since information is not disclosed by Habbit, the data mentioned is instead sourced from player testing and observation. A margin of error and/or inconsistencies should be expected.

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

Starting Battle

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

You take a roster of at most 12 characters into a stage, and additional support character from other players. The upper portion of the battle screen shows much life you have and how many enemies would spawn. Each stage starts with set amount of resource called cost which increases at a rate of one per second. Battle can be paused or sped up to 2x. Enemies will spawn in hex grids with red borders, and will follow a predetermined path to reach one of your bases which is displayed briefly by a yellow line, towards your base which are hex grids with blue borders. You can deploy characters, which consumes cost, and they will auto-attack (or heal) over a set interval. They gain sp at a rate of one per second, and have skills that can be activated (some automatically.)

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.

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.

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. 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. characters can be killed by enemies or manually taken out of combat, which will return them to the pool of deployable characters, but with a cooldown reposition timer.

Check Enemy Data for more information on enemy types.

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.

Win/Lose Conditions

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.

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. But currently they do not work.

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