Video: Fei Destroys His Village
The robot has some sort of mechanism for detecting its current occupant. It identifies Fei as an inexperienced "Lamb" pilot, and sets the controls to Easy mode! While amusing, the presence of difficulty modifiers in a combat robot's console seems quite impractical. Why wouldn't you want your war robot to be easy to handle?
In any case, Fei is thrust into robot combat immediately afterwards. Robot combat is largely similar to character combat, with some key differences:
1. There are no items to heal robots, seeing as they're made of metal, not flesh and bone.
2. Robots need to build up attack levels by attacking before being able to execute combos. Consider it as their way of "warming" themselves up.
3. Speaking of which, every attack uses up fuel, a highly limited resource that can only be feasibly recharged at certain refueling robots/stations. So you need to be more careful with what attacks you throw out, or even what you choose to fight. You can charge a very miniscule bit in combat for emergencies, but if you've run out, odds are you've lost the battle already.
4. Spells are usable in robot combat, but tend to do underwhelming damage, as they're calibrated for character combat, where foes have considerably less HP. Also, healing spells don't restore HP, only armor loss sustained from certain attacks.
5. Robots have a built in booster that can be toggled on or off. When turned on, ot greatly boosts how fast they get turns, at the cost of consuming 1/50th of their total fuel capacity every turn. It comes in handy against sturdy foes, but needs to be used sparingly considering how scarce fuel is.
Mechanical talk aside, this battle is fairly easy despite Fei's inexperience. Which, well, isn't surprising. It's the early game after all, how well do you expect generic mookbots to stand against the protagonist's prowess? 😆
Robot and character fights both give XP to the characters, there's no such thing as robot XP. It makes some sense as a paradigm, but it also makes robot fighting feel a bit awkward at times, as you're burning the robot's resources without getting much of a direct gain for it in turn. As such, robot fights against non bosses can get a mite aggravating past a point, and I tend to decline them after a while.
Fei may have defeated two soldiers, but all it did was draw the attention of the rest of the platoon. They quickly surround him on all sides!
Then this intimidating robot, presumably the robot of their commander, shows up, ordering them all to ruthlessly fire at Fei! Welp, he's in serious trouble now...
Meanwhile, an increasingly concerned Citan looks on, worried about something awakening in Fei.
Dan shows up fine, and reveals that he does have a sensitive side to him, despite his grossness. Lol.
Citan makes this rather ominous comment, perhaps hinting that he knows more about Fei than he lets on...
Timothy returns, but unfortunately one of the soldiers spots him and blocks his way!
The commander coldly gives them the go ahead.
Welp. So much for you, Timothy. And just when you were looking forward to a new life, too!
Fei, unable to bear the trauma of seeing his friend killed in front of him, loses control of himself!
And awakens...his hidden evil self? Damn!
He unleashes a powerful explosion from the robot!
Needless to say, there's a wee bit of collateral damage here. The village is blown apart, along with the enemy platoon, most of its inhabitants, and, worst of all, Alice.
The next morning, Fei wakes up, blissfully unaware of his own actions.
Unfortunately for him, he's immediately faced with his victims - the surviving villagers. They're...not particularly thrilled to see him. Especially Dan, who lost his own sister in that mess.
As Citan puts it oh-so-politely, it's time for Fei to leave them and find a new life. He vaguely suggests looking around in Aveh's cities, (well, the one city, Bledavik), but well, it's going to be a long while before he gets there. And who knows how well he's going to adjust to the big city life?
It's been a while, but finally, Fei's journey begins in earnest! How shall he eke out his life? Shall he settle down in a nice Avehian family? Perhaps work in a fine establishment? Maybe even open his own art studio? Find all of that and more next time!
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