Resonance of Fate Enhanced Remaster Combat System Guide

Resonance of Fate Enhanced Remaster combat system is a semi-turn-based tactical gunfight system where machine guns deal scratch damage and handguns deliver direct damage. Players use hero actions and tri-attacks to eliminate targets while managing party bezels.

Combat encounters place Vashyron, Zephyr, and Leanne on an active field where time remains stationary until a character begins moving or charging an attack. The PC version features a toggleable 2x game speed setting alongside native 4K display options detailed on the Steam store page. The core rules require learning how weapon classes divide responsibilities between softening armor and executing lethal shots.

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How Do Scratch Damage and Direct Damage Interact?

Scratch damage is temporary armor softening dealt by submachine guns that changes enemy health bars from green to blue. A submachine gun can rapidly strip thousands of hit points across multiple body parts, but it cannot deplete an enemy's final hit point or kill any target on its own. If targets are left alone after taking scratch damage, their blue gauges slowly regenerate back into regular green health over time.

Direct damage is permanent lethal damage dealt by handguns and thrown explosives such as grenades. Landing a single handgun bullet or grenade on an enemy with blue health instantly converts that entire pool of scratch damage into real damage. A balanced offensive routine relies on leading with a machine gun runner to accumulate deep blue health before following up with a handgun user to clear the target in one hit. Thrown weapons also apply elemental ailments including burn and freeze, which weaken enemy defenses or stop movement during an attack run.

What Are Hero Actions and Resonance Points?

Hero actions are specialized sprint maneuvers where a character consumes a bezel to run along a preset line and fire multiple weapon charges. Pressing the hero action button generates an adjustable trajectory across the arena. Once activated, the character dashes forward automatically, allowing the player to charge attacks repeatedly until the movement gauge empties at the final destination marker.

Target distance determines charge speed during these runs. Standing far away makes attack circles fill slowly, while running directly beside an enemy accelerates charge meters and increases bullet accuracy. Pressing the jump button mid-sprint launches the character into the air, initiating aerial combat that bypasses directional shields. Jumping directly above an airborne foe triggers a smackdown, slamming the target into the ground to deal area damage and force bonus item drops.

Resonance points are tactical tokens earned whenever a running character crosses the line directly between their two stationary partners. When the hero action path intersects this line, the trajectory turns blue. Ending a turn with normal movement or passing without crossing between allies deducts stored resonance points.

How Do Tri-Attacks Function in Battle?

Tri-attacks are coordinated three-way team assaults executed along a triangular formation formed by the positions of Vashyron, Zephyr, and Leanne. Initiating the maneuver requires at least one stored resonance point and costs one bezel from the central hero gauge. Pressing the tri-attack button displays a glowing perimeter connecting all three squad members, and pressing the button again reverses the running rotation across the battlefield.

All three party members sprint along the triangular perimeter simultaneously during the attack. Characters charge their equipped weapons as they run, entering a brief slow-motion window whenever an attack finishes so the player can trigger the next character in sequence. The team completes one full rotation around the triangle for every resonance point accumulated before starting the maneuver. Building three or four resonance points beforehand creates prolonged firing windows that shred complex bosses and dense enemy mobs.

Planning spatial geometry in earlier turns makes tri-attacks successful. Obstacles such as walls and armored bunkers break character sprint paths on direct impact, immediately canceling the attack and wasting stored points. Running along walls at an angle allows characters to slide past collision barriers safely.

Which Weapon Loadout Fits Each Encounter?

Loadout balance determines how quickly a team builds damage multipliers and cycles through combat turns. Characters gain experience and level up independently for handguns, machine guns, and thrown items, with total character level dictating health pools and carrying weight limits. Detailed gear progression is outlined on the official tri-Ace website and through in-game arena tutorials.

The table below outlines how each offensive tool performs across general combat roles:

Equipping attachments through gun customization directly alters weapon performance on the grid. Scopes increase base charge speed, barrels boost acceleration for multiple charges, and extended magazines raise the number of rounds released during each shot.

How Does Bezel Management Prevent Critical Condition?

Hero bezels are defensive life containers that absorb incoming enemy damage as scratch damage and fund all offensive movement maneuvers. The party starts battles with a fixed pool of bezels displayed in the lower interface. Each individual bezel represents 1,000 points of scratch health for the active party.

When a character receives more scratch damage than their current health bar can hold, a bezel shatters into four fragments across the arena floor. Players can recover broken bezels by running across these fragments before opponents reach them. If hostile units pick up scattered shards, they restore lost health and repair broken armor plates.

Emptying the entire bezel container triggers Critical Condition. During this hazard state, characters enter a frightened stance, run at reduced speed, and lose the ability to perform hero actions or tri-attacks. Any hit taken during Critical Condition inflicts lethal direct damage rather than scratch damage, and the defeat of any single party member triggers an immediate game over.

Restoring bezels during difficult fights requires specific actions:

1. Eliminate an active enemy unit to restore one full bezel immediately.
2. Destroy an individual enemy armor plate or body part to recover one bezel.
3. Inflict a gauge break using charged handgun attacks to fracture enemy health bars and regenerate bezel resources.

Maintaining stable bezel reserves forms the foundation of proper combat strategy. New players can practice these charge timings and movement paths without risk by visiting the guild trainer in the early arena, following the foundational steps detailed in the beginner guide.

Where does this guide's official Resonance of Fate Enhanced Remaster information come from?

Official details in this guide follow RESONANCE OF FATE official site (tri-Ace), which describes the game in its own words.

The classic title returns with a Full HD remaster!

RESONANCE OF FATE official site (tri-Ace)