Resonance of Fate Enhanced Remaster Beginner Guide

Starting Resonance of Fate Enhanced Remaster successfully requires prioritizing machine gun scratch damage before converting it with handgun attacks. Managing bezel points, maintaining proper character positioning for resonance generation, and linking energy hexes on Basel's map create steady combat progress.

How Does Combat Work in Resonance of Fate Enhanced Remaster?

Damage in the combat system is divided into blue scratch damage and red direct damage. Machine guns deal blue scratch damage, which fills enemy health bars without depleting their actual life totals. Handguns and thrown grenades inflict red direct damage, which immediately converts all accumulated blue scratch damage into real health loss.

Attacking an enemy solely with handguns requires numerous rounds to chip away small slivers of health. Deploying a machine gun first allows you to turn the entire health bar blue in a single continuous burst. A single follow-up shot from a handgun or an explosive grenade then eliminates the target on the spot.

Action points dictate how long an active character moves during standard ground movement. Moving forward drains the light blue action gauge beneath the character's name while allowing enemy attack meters to charge in real time. Stopping completely pauses battle time for every unit on screen. When an enemy charges their attack, their target indicator shifts from transparent to yellow, turning red the instant their offensive strike triggers.

How Do You Manage Bezels and Avoid Critical Condition?

Bezels are lifeblood charges in the hero gauge that sustain hero actions and absorb party damage. Every complete bezel represents 1,000 points of scratch damage. Pressing the hero action button consumes one bezel charge, projecting a directional path across the battlefield. The selected character runs along this trajectory, charging and firing weapons repeatedly until the movement gauge empties.

Depleting the entire bezel supply pushes the party into critical condition. During critical condition, party members experience fear, character offensive power drops substantially, and incoming enemy attacks deal direct health damage instead of scratch damage. Each strike taken in this vulnerable state shatters an additional bezel.

Bezel restoration occurs during active encounters through three distinct methods:

• Defeating any enemy instantly restores a full bezel to the gauge.
• Destroying an enemy body part or outer shield returns one bezel.
• Inflicting a gauge break by lowering an enemy health segment past its dividing threshold recovers one bezel.

When an ally absorbs 1,000 points of scratch damage, a bezel shatters into four pieces across the arena floor. Running over these scattered shards collects them back into the reserve. Foes can also pick up loose shards to regenerate health and restore broken body parts, making rapid shard retrieval necessary.

How Do You Execute Tri-Attacks and Position the Party?

A Tri-Attack is a synchronized offensive maneuver executed around a triangular perimeter between party members. Generating resonance points requires running a character directly between the other two allies during a hero action. Crossing the line between companions turns the trajectory line blue and adds one resonance point to the counter in the corner of the display.

Initiating a Tri-Attack consumes one bezel charge along with all stored resonance points. All three party members run simultaneously along the triangular formation, firing continuously while circling the perimeter. The action lasts for a number of complete laps equal to the total resonance points spent.

Targeting airborne enemies introduces specialized aerial mechanics. Launching an enemy upward with ground gunfire enables a bonus shot opportunity, triggering a spinning yellow cursor ring that accelerates charge speed when stopped accurately. Jumping above an airborne target during aerial combat allows a Smackdown attack, slamming the opponent down to damage all body parts simultaneously and drop bonus items.

Running into solid battlefield obstacles like bunkers interrupts hero runs and cancels active charges immediately. Characters standing against intact bunker grates gain defensive cover while maintaining the ability to fire directly through the barrier.

Which Weapon Loadout Fits Your Playstyle?

Weapon setups are gear combinations distributed among Vashyron, Zephyr, and Leanne. Character levels reflect the cumulative sum of individual weapon proficiencies across machine guns, handguns, and thrown weapons. Increasing weapon levels expands maximum health, raises total carrying weight capacity, and unlocks advanced charge multiplier skills.

Upgrading firearms occurs at the guild tinker through gun customization. Attaching custom scopes, expanded magazines, barrel extensions, and grips onto the weapon grid boosts base charge speed, charge acceleration, bullet capacity, and firing stability.

Specialized rounds from the magazine case provide distinct combat effects against specific targets. Hollow-point rounds deal increased damage against soft organic targets, whereas metal-coated ammunition penetrates mechanical armor plating.

How Does the World Map Puzzle System Work?

Energy hexes are puzzle pieces obtained from defeating enemies that restore damaged areas across Basel. Basel is structured as a vertical mechanical tower connecting various levels through primary elevators. The world map consists of deactivated hexagonal cells that prevent passage until cleared with corresponding hex shapes.

White energy hexes uncover standard map pathways, while colored hexes unlock matching tinted barriers. Placing energy stations on safe hexagonal spaces costs five colored hexes at the guild counter, creating rest locations that fully replenish shattered bezels and record save data.

Terminals scattered throughout the floors project passive combat bonuses over connected hex networks. Activating a terminal requires connecting its base location to target dungeons using consecutive hexes of the identical color. Linking terminal networks across elevators transfers combat enhancements, such as reduced enemy scratch recovery and boosted critical rates, into deeper dungeon rooms.

According to the Steam store page, the downloadable content package expands display options and introduces mechanical quality-of-life adjustments:

This content significantly expands the available graphics options, including native 4K output, HDR, and support for 120 fps. — the Steam store page announcement

Toggling the 2x game speed feature accelerates exploration through cleared sectors and town corridors. Detailed background lore concerning Basel and its mechanical infrastructure is cataloged on the official website, helping players understand the world map structure as they solve each world map puzzle on higher tower levels.

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.

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RESONANCE OF FATE official site (tri-Ace)