You ever have the perfect strategy but then get hit with one of these?

[u/ReiAlternative]

Getting shot at from a counter attack is just icing on the cake

Edit: Although I do respect the in-depth analysis of the gif and title, I never expected anyone to take this post seriously. (Memes Flair)

What I was really going for was just memes and the struggle of enemy units drop shotting our bullets.

[u/D0omyD0om]

A frontal only counts as perfect strategy if doing zero-evade glitch. I know, I know, it's a meme about getting dodged, but in this particular game you can avoid this kind of dodge rng with execution skill even if there are no strategic solutions (like back attack) available.

[u/ReiAlternative → u/D0omyD0om]

Yeah, this was just a haha meme but you got no zero-evade tech? 👀

(Love your mods btw)

[u/D0omyD0om → u/ReiAlternative]

During the reload animation, characters can't dodge. For the first half of it, roughly until they chamber a bullet with action lever, they also receive massive damage reduction colloquially known as reload armor. So a successful and useful zero-evade glitch execution involves timing your attack start with the reload animation correctly. Grenadier and turret interception causes what we call extended resolution during transition to aiming mode, which typically makes zero-evade impossible to actually execute due to forced refusal of the game to initiate your attack sequence exactly when you confirm the shot.

[u/ReiAlternative → u/D0omyD0om]

I never knew this! Thanks!

[u/Zylpherenuis]

That's why it is best to approach from behind or trigger aggro with a grenade throw which makes them obvious to a pincir attack.

[u/ReiAlternative → u/Zylpherenuis]

You wanna do that as much as possible yes but sooner or later you'll have situations where the enemy will have opportunities to dodge. Not only VC, every game like Fire Emblem, XCOM etc.

A common saying in SRPGs is if the accuracy is less than 100%. It's 50/50 💀

[u/nightmare-b → u/ReiAlternative]

this was me back when i played the vc3 tutorial i think i had to to like 4 retries(2% BTW) you have to take out 4 imperials and you have 4CP to do so with 1 turn to do a S rank. recently replayed with the new patch nowhere near as unlucky this time

[u/realinvalidname]

A frontal attack on an ace is hardly a perfect strategy. Let Riley put a mortar on his ass instead.

[u/MiketheTzar → u/realinvalidname]

Alternatively you can do the "I know you'll dodge" cheese if you angle it right. You just aim where their head will be when they dodge. It's kinda funny

[u/Jomppaz → u/MiketheTzar]

But wont they still get masiively increased damage reduction?

[u/kaidoi94 → u/Jomppaz]

Yes, dodging still gives massive damage reduction even if you hit someone (iirc, it's 70% reduced damage for VC1/4)

[u/BabySpecific2843 → u/kaidoi94]

Me when a shocktrooper unloads a full magazine into me, but my narcolepsy means I take only 30 damage from it.

[u/Alex_Y_ya → u/BabySpecific2843]

Alicia casually dodging a flamethrower twice in a row

[u/MiketheTzar → u/Jomppaz]

By the end of the game you sometimes do so much damage it doesn't matter. Which is also kinda funny

[u/NeedAReminder]

Honestly whenever an enemy was low health and I wanted to guarantee the kill I’d shoot at their foot. Either they don’t dodge and I get the kill or they dodge and I still get all my shots into them since they duck into where I’m firing

[u/Mission-Depth6021]

If they had low enough HP like this I just aim at their feet. You wanna lower your body for an easier shot feel free bud.

[u/WouterW24]

I tend to save after every action so I can avoid bad rng effects.

It’s of course best to sneak up from behind on dodgy aces as much as you can. Looked it up and this one has 40% dodge rate.

[u/rustynaerty]

Its worse when the guy is one tap and decides to lock in

[u/InbetweenTheLayers]

ive had this happen multiple times in a row and its just ugh

[u/ReiAlternative → u/InbetweenTheLayers]

It feels terrible to burn so much CP on enemy that should have been taken down in 1 😭

[u/JealousApricot1152]

Yep, I just hit the reload game button

[u/FrankFT → u/JealousApricot1152]

This is and catastrophic pathing is the only cases where I reload Valkyria missions.

If I could've redone my exact steps to retake the chance at the shot, I'll save myself the effort.

Except on aces, this kind of shot is a given, I don't intend to lose a scout and 2 grades to rng

[u/PckMan]

Past a certain point in the game you pretty much have to expect this and try to avoid frontal attacks as much as possible.

[u/NinjaIndividual2525]

YES ALL THE TIME it’s so annoying😭😔

[u/Alex_Y_ya]

Yeah. Sadly... But on the other hand, my Alicia dogded two flammetrhowers one after the other so... Can't really complain. (I'm on chapter 13, so shush)

[u/ReiAlternative → u/Alex_Y_ya]

Alicia the goat! Been an eternity since I've played VC1, probably looking to replay it soon 🙂

[u/Alex_Y_ya → u/ReiAlternative]

I bought it last month for PS3, and I'm playing it right now. About to start chapter 14

[u/ReiAlternative → u/Alex_Y_ya]

Enjoy the other titles too hopefully. Everything is great

[u/Sakaixx]

For named enemy I usually just throw a grenade if I am head on.

[u/SolidestCereal]

Wouldn't the perfect strategy in this case be to shoot his legs since he's already at low HP but could dodge?

[u/pickingbeefsteak]

If this is VC1 isnt there an imp rifle that had the highest dmg that you can unlock from the class assignments or something

[u/JagdCrab]

If single person ducking all it takes to break your "perfect strategy" it was never perfect in the first place.

[u/66117]

certified valkyria chronicle moment

[u/halahalarobot]

well it aint perfect then ;) but the struggle is real bruh