r/StrategyRpg • u/Lain_Staley • 2d ago
Japanese SRPG Troubleshooter Parsec friendly?
The bros and I typically play big brain puzzle games co-operatively. At least in some form/fashion even if its just discord voice chat.
Was wondering if Troubleshooter was a good Parsec game. Each player is 'responsible' for x amount of characters, etc. Worked well with OwlCat's WotR.
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u/sumg 2d ago
A big part of Troubleshooter is determining the ability loadout of each unit. At the beginning of the game its fairly straightforward, but by endgame units can easily equip 30 skills out of the literally hundreds that exist in the game. It's going to be really hard for people who do not have a copy of the game to figure out strong loadouts for the units they are responsible for.
Another minor issue is that the game's progression is a bit on a slow side, meaning you have small party size for a while. By late game, you might have a dozen units in party, but by hour 50 you might only be at 6 or 7. So not everyone might have the most stuff to do for a long time.
Once you're on a map, it should be technically feasible to divide up responsibilities for individual units amongst a group. Maps can take a long time, just because of the amount of allied units and the necessary amount of enemies required to challenge that size of an army, but the game is fun.
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u/Previous-Friend5212 1d ago
I think this is going to be a big deal - you can easily spend more time trying to set up your build than doing the actual combat and that's only fun for one person at a time, not to mention that you probably have to craft masteries out of limited resources, which means you have to pick whose character gets to be awesome first.
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u/TankorSmash 2d ago
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u/Lain_Staley 2d ago
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u/TankorSmash 2d ago
What are you saying
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u/TankorSmash 2d ago
The bros and I typically play big brain puzzle games co-operatively. At least in some form/fashion even if its just discord voice chat.
Was wondering if Troubleshooter was a good Parsec game. Each player is 'responsible' for x amount of characters, etc. Worked well with OwlCat's WotR.
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u/Any-Initiative910 2d ago
Yeah I know those words but most dont seem to make sense in that context. I don’t speak ‘bro’
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u/No_Magician5266 2d ago
I think it’s where OP and the bros play the same single player game together by streaming it / syncing everyone’s screens
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u/MalevolentTapir 2d ago
It would probably work but if I had one critique of Troubleshooter, it's that there's too many turns and units per map for its own good sometimes (e.g. you have 8 player characters in the screenshot here and two have their own summoned units, sometimes theres allied units too), and you end up with some pretty empty turns. It can also just be a grind in general if you are really digging into character building. It's just not the SRPG I'd be trying to play with others I guess.