Valkyria Chronicles™. R&D upgrades are unlocked by watching/completing specific scenes in the book. 99% of the time, those scenes are battles. Which means that R&D is updated every time you finish a battle (there is even an update after the final battle). The 1% remaining is some R&D upgrade that is unlocked on chapter 18 after a story. The Beach Episode or Pool Episode is, simply put, an episode where the cast decided to take a break and go to the beach or a swimming pool for some wet.
Valkyria Chronicles 4 is the fourth game of the series. It was released in Japan on March 21st, 2018 for the, with a worldwide release on September 25th, 2018 that also included the, and PC platforms. This game marks the return of the series to mainstream consoles (not counting the spinoff ), and is set in the same timeline as the first Valkyria Chronicles game.The game returns to the events of the Second Europan War of EC 1935, which focuses on the, the major power fighting against the, as the two vie for dominance of the Europan continent in their quest to secure, a strategically important resource. Three months into the war, the Federation begins losing ground against the Empire's might, forcing them to enact, a desperate gambit to end the war by raiding the Imperial capital. Joining the offensive is Claude Wallace, a tank commander in the Atlantic Federation's Edinburgh Army 101st Division Platoon E, who fights to end the war and take back his homeland. Together with his comrades in Platoon E including his estranged childhood friend Riley Miller, prodigy sharpshooter Kai Schulen, and the hot-blooded Darcsen Raz, they undertake a campaign that will take them across the frozen north as they fight against the numerically superior Empire. Compounding matters is the presence of the Imperial Science Institute's X-0 unit, who fields modified superhumans led by a Valkyria against the Federation.WARNING: FOLDERS MAY CONTAIN UNMARKED SPOILERS!!.: All vehicles at your disposal.
Also the Centurion, your very own battleship.: When a character reaches zero HP, the player occasionally gets a few seconds to choose between 'Inspire' and 'Stand Up.' Inspire buffs nearby comrades. Stand Up makes the character invulnerable for one movement and one action before dropping dead.: Riley, Kai, Minerva, and many other female members of Platoon E. Also, if you have the 10th Anniversary Memorial Pack, Isara from the original Valkyria Chronicles will become playable as a Grenadier to Platoon E, while Rosie & Edy join as Shocktroopers.: The game includes side chapters called 'Squad Stories', which feature the stories of the rest of Squad E's individual members. Completing them either grants a new potential, or turns a bad potential into a good one.:. Much as various Gallian tanks strongly resemble German tanks, Squad E's Hafen is nearly a dead ringer for an early-production, welded-hull M4 Sherman, save for a few minor changes like the driver and radio operator hatches appearing to open forward instead of being on the topside of the hull and the use of an Edelweiss-style hood mantlet (which the normal Minute it's modified from lacks). The M91 Robinson Submachine Gun is clearly modeled after various models of the Thompson Submachine Gun.
To drive the comparison home, it's also known as the 'Robby Gun'. Some aspects, however - most notably the magazine well, the retention bar under the muzzle, and the hooded front sight- seem to draw their influence from the German MP38 and MP40. The Lenfield is, as the name implies, based on the Lee-Enfield, though the Lenfield has been modified into a self-loading rifle (No self-loading variant of the Lee-Enfield was ever mass-produced and adopted. They were limited to prototypes and experimental models, such as the and automatic rifles, and Russell Turner's ), while the LF Wasp variant used by snipers has remained bolt-action. A bit muddled, however, in that appearance-wise the Lenfield seems to have more in common with the M1 Garand than Lee-Enfield. The Brown rifle (higher attack series) is, as the name implies, based on the aesthetics of the Browning Automatic Rifle. However, it does not draw much from the fuction of the BAR - it does not fire in full auto, has a very low magazine capacity, has its charging handle on the right hand side of the receiver as opposed to the Browning's left-handed charging handle (likely for animation commonality with the Lenfield and Gallian-S), and has a significantly shorter barrel.
The Brown rifle also focuses on shooting overcharged ammunition as opposed to the Browning's purpose of squad supporting sustained fire. The Type-F1 Grenade is, like all other hand grenades in the series, based on the German Stielhandgranate. The new Imperial 'Assault Tank' is heavily based on the T-34, though it has the suspension of the Panzer III and its armor is less sloped due to its shorter length and greater height.: There are missions for minor characters that reward them with either a new potential or one of their negative potential removed or replaced with a positive potential.:. Being spotted by an instructor while helping Kai out with her marksmanship test counts as one. A rather unexpected one during the Centurion engine room boss fight against Nikola. The mission automatically fails if Claude comes into contact with Nikola in any way, whether by him running into her, her running into him, or him approaching her body lying on the floor. As it's common knowledge of most VC players that running over a corpse makes it harmlessly vanish, doing the same in this situation will net Claude a nice surprise.
At the start of Chapter 16, Forseti gives you an hour to surrender. If you give up during the mission, Claude will.: Invoked by Riley in the final mission, as she is lying wounded and talks to Claude via radio. She tells him how despite all their promise to come home to Hafen alive, in the end even if they do manage to come back, it won't be the same, they have become adults now, not innocent children anymore and that Raz and the real Kai are both dead. Claude then tells her that she's right, but it's because they have become adults now that they can do things that they weren't able to do as children and that even if it won't be the same as it used to, they can still make wonderful, new memories together.
From the looks of the true ending, he's right.:. The Empire and the Federation.
Despite their ideological differences the two factions employ very similar strategies in order to win the war. Including conducting secret and frequently unethical experimentation on Valkyrur. Claude and Klaus. Both are leaders of an elite unit who ride a custom made and rather cutting-edge tanks and cares deeply for their friends. They have a rather mindset when it comes to the war and both are in love with a woman who originally doesn't want anything to do with them.
They developed a as the game progress.: The A-2 device was this. Fortunately, Claude didn't go through with it.: When the 'Winter Witch' AKA Crymaria Levin displayed her powers for the first time, immediately sinking the Comet and almost destroying the Centurion. She was intended only as a last resort, but ended up being deployed early. Her powers horrified even her allies.: Claude and Riley are very much official at the end, especially if you get the true ending which ends with between them.: Inverted. According to Ronald. Platoon F's Glory, a tank of Gallian design that saw action in the first war was specifically requested by Platoon F. This is emphatically shown not to be true in-game, however, as the Glory will often get obliterated by a single shot from some of the nastier tanks, without them even hitting the weak spot.
Averted in the case of some characters though - more experienced soldiers are not generally better than the fresh recruits but a few of the older folks are head and shoulders above most others in their class.: Averted. The game's cast includes squadmate Nico Emery and recurring enemy Nikola Graf.: Operation Northern Cross and Operation Cygnus.: Given sufficient grinding, it is possible to have everyone in Platoon E be ranked corporal or above, with no privates for them to command.: During the onset of the war, the Empire was gradually gaining an advantage, then the Federation responded with Operation Northern Cross in an effort to thrust deep into the heart of the Empire. Unfortunately, early winter prevented Federation success, and the Empire, pushing the Federation back, locking both sides in a stalemate.: Skirmishes, as in the first game. Getting an A rank isn't too hard, and only takes two turns.: Can't be a Valkyria Chronicles game without them.
Three are even hooked up to be the literal power sources for fantasy nuclear ship engines and also as nukes.: Averted. You unlock the ability to resurrect dead squad members after beating the game, so if someone died before you completed their Squad Story, said Story is not gone forever. This is important because at least one squad member will die during the main storyline, as you're forced to sacrifice someone in Chapter 16 along with Raz.: Both the Federation and the Empire are devoted to Valkyrian research, with their subjects usually drawn from the adolescent female population through a number of very dubious recruiting methods. These girls are then subjugated to inhuman experiments in order to bring forth their hidden Valkyrian potential.
Unsurprisingly, many of these girls resort to suicide, while survivors may become emotionally tattered as a result.: Finishing the game gives access to bonus content. Some is available immediately, some has to be unlocked by playing extra Skirmishes. More and harder skirmishes. More playable characters. Dead soldiers can be resurrected via the Cenotaph.
This includes storyline deaths. The True Ending. Extra cutscenes. A higher level cap for soldiers, and more development options for weapons and vehicles.: How the Federation's three Snow Cruisers are powered. The Centurion in particular, is powered by Angie.: Please, for the love of god Christel.
Stop using the 'victor' pun every time you talking about!.: Downed enemies sometimes exercise some amusing physical characteristics.: Averted. While Platoon E still offers a roster of individuals with potentially eccentric personalities, they are nonetheless rank & file of the regular army. This is very different from the previous installments where the player commandeered,. Moreover, Claude himself graduated top of his class from the Edinburgh Military Academy, while Riley's ragnite engineering talent allows her to skip grades and attend a university in the United States of Vinland, the most powerful member of the Atlantic Federation.: Non-officer squad members can be promoted from their starting rank of Private, to Private 1st Class and finally Corporal, simply by using them enough times.: Many enemy 'aces' with monikers populate various missions.
They drop unique equipment once killed.: When the Valkyrur are powering up, their eyes glow red and you. Run!.: If you get enough of your named units killed, you start getting generic, nameless units to replace them.: Many upgrades are available to bring the outdated Glory up to modern standards.: Both Minerva & Klaus treat Claude as one. On the other hand, Claude is mostly unaware, until later.: Averted this time around. Unlike the first game where Prince Maximilian led the invasion against Gallia, no members of the Imperial family are present in this installment.: Chapter 16. You have to choose a soldier in your roster to back up Raz in a mission that will end in both their deaths. Raz can't go in alone; you have to pick someone to die alongside him. Have fun.: What prompted the Federation's major offensive into the Empire, Operation Northern Cross.
With the Empire gaining an upper-hand in the war, members of the Federation cast aside their differences and pooled their resources together in an effort to resist a greater foe. This level of cooperation is even noted in-game for being unprecedented.: As with previous installments, the Final Flame, capable of being activated by descendants of the Valkyrur. The ships of Operation Cygnus also have a similar mechanism, and for a similar reason. Chiara and Nikola also have explosive triggers on them, which is powerful enough to shred the Hafen's treads even at medium range.: Grappling with this is what keeps Claude and Minerva's hands on the lever that would activate the A2 bomb and raze Schwartzgrad to the ground.
Do they follow orders and stand down, invalidating the lives that their fallen comrades gave to even get them there? Or do they activate the bomb in an attempt to honor those same lost lives, despite the Empire agreeing to a ceasefire mere moments before? Ultimately, Claude realizes that they are there to end the war in some way - which, whether by their actions or not, has already happened; activating the bomb would be tantamount to genocide at that point. He manages to talk Minerva out of it as well.: The first game had no difficulty options, but VC4 has Normal and Easy. Furthermore, having your main tank destroyed no longer results in you losing the battle,.: Azusa's ending reveals that there's growing tension between her homeland and the United States Of Vinland, noting that another great war could be on the horizon.: One that later in a DLC. Progressing through the game unlocks Smoke rounds for the Hafen, a technology that is invented by Isara Gunther all the way back in Gallia, smack-dab in the middle of the conflict.
How do your forces get their hands on them? It turns out the Squad E briefly gets pulled from the war front and goes meet with Squad 7 for the sake of diplomacy, and while there Riley and Isara talk designs, in particular said Smoke rounds. Riley hepls finalize the design and in turn gets a copy for herself, making it an option for both squads in the end.: In one mission, a sniper will target any medic on the field, preventing wounded soldiers from receiving treatment. The sniper must be eliminated before medics can be deployed again.:. One of the combat traits found on Squad E members is. Raz quotes inside the Centurion. One of Simon's quotes when you select him on the unit list to deploy is 'Let's '.
All of the Squad Story mission names are this:. 'The Girl in the Iron Mask' squad story has plenty:. One of the first exchanges between Jean and Stanley goes.
We get this line from Jean: And then later during the mission, she says 'Remember Stanley, when I promised to kill you last? Just to drive the comparison home, her full name is Jean Matrix. Late in the story, when Stanley is commenting on the irony of Ferrier being a, he says. The choice of credits song (The Minstrel Boy) could be argued as one to.
One of Rosie's attacking lines in the DLC story A United Front With Squad 7 is. In Chapter 5, after Kai finds out to her great displeasure that someone has bought all the fresh bread from the bakery, she says 'I don't know who bought out the entire bakery. '. There are even several references to this very website, with trope names like, and being potentials for Brittany, Kiegel, and Raz respectively, and there being an enemy ace called,. Several of the firearms companies are references to real-world companies and weapons; for example, the Federation's 'Lenfield' rifle is a portmanteau of 'Lee Enfield,' the real-world British arms company which made the bolt-action rifle of the same name, and the rifle itself bears a superficial resemblance to the real-world Lee-Enfield.
Likewise, the 'Brown' rifle is derived from the American arms company Browning, and itself shares a resemblance to the Browning Automatic Rifle, also known as the B.A.R. One of Stahlschrott's in-battle quotes,. During one of the flashbacks the real Kai refers to Squad E as ' '.: The Vulcan and its upgraded form break the well-established rules about interception fire and small-caliber weapons. First, interception fire can only be done during the other side's turn.
Everything else in Valkyria Chronicles 4 and the three preceding games adheres to this rule. Even multiturreted vehicles like the Imperial Medium Tank and Batomys and powerful and frustrating bosses like Selvaria, Maximilian, and Baldren Gassenarl would adhere to this rule. The Vulcan breaks this rule - so long as it is in range of any of your units and is not actively aiming its main gun, its ball turret will shoot constantly for very high damage. Second, it is a consistent rule that small arms other than anti-tank rifles cannot even do to tanks unless they're shooting the radiator and only do to APCs. The Vulcan's miniturret can punch right through armor, shredding the Cactus and doing major damage to the Hafen and Glory.
With these two factors put together, the only reason the Vulcan is beatable is because the AI fires the main gun when given a chance and ends its turn after firing the gun or running out of AP.: Almost all of the tragic moments of the game happen once winter closes in. Operation Northern Cross grinds to a halt, retreating squads are forced through a treacherous mountain pass, Squad F gets wiped out, the Comet gets destroyed, the Cavalier self-destructs; and to curve it all off, Raz and another squad member knowingly get sent off to die with the preceding battle taking place during a snowstorm for added bleakness. Also applies to any other non-essential squad member that happens to get killed during this part of the game.: The true objective of Operation Cygnus is to take the Valkyria on the snow cruisers into Schwarzgrad and level the city with their Final Flames.: Grenades, anti-personel mortars, and the Bombardment ship order damage all enemies within a certain radius of where they land, making them very effective against clustered infantry units.: The real Kai, whom you meet in the first interlude chapter, is easily recognisable from the opening scene.
During the villains montage. His wardrobe is, certainly, but his still makes the connection obvious.:. During a ceasefire between Claude and the Empire, a number of Imperials accompanying their leader are shown to have this attitude, who hold the mindset that a man's place is in the battlefield, while a woman's is at home. Lancer: This is what happens when females are allowed on the battlefield!Shocktrooper: That's right. A woman's place is at home, a man's at war.Scout: So get back to the kitchen and make us a sandwich!. In one mission Riley thinks that Claude is invoking this when he orders her not to go to battle, but he then provides a good reason: If they don't get their transport's engine running soon, they'll all die, so she's far more valuable at that moment as a mechanic in the engine room than a grenadier on the battlefield. She concedes he has a point and is unavailable in the following level.: Just as important as previous games.: The sole purpose of Operation Cygnus is to take out the Imperial capital of Schwartzgrad by detonating the Centurion's onboard living battery.
Fortunately averted at the last minute. Attempted by Crymaria. Also averted at the last minute.
Chiara performs this with regular but powerful explosives on Belgar's orders, and after finally snapping, Nikola performs this on Belgar.: Many experiments aimed at creating Valkyrur simulate the 'brink of death'. For many participants, it did not end well.: Semi-automatic sniper rifles can fire three shots in one action, at the cost of range and accuracy. Range and accuracy being rather important for sniper rifles, you probably won't use them. However, in the boss battle against Crymaria, you have to snipe her to weaken her. It takes three shots to knock it out, and she isn't that far away. However, unlike normal instance of this trope, continuing to improve your snipers can turn semiauto snipers into mini.: Every mission will end in failure if you take too long. The limit is usually a very generous twenty turns, but a few have much tighter limits.
There is also a hidden timer: The game rewards you for finishing missions quickly, but the target for A rank is never revealed, and varies from mission to mission.: The trope is hilariously said word for word by Riley in the third battle of the DLC story A Captainless Squad as she notices just how much more effective the 8 members of Squad E who snuck off have become. 'It's like they took a level in badass!' .: Any squad member who dies in battle leaves behind a unique item that serves as an accessory.: Operation Cygnus is a voluntary version. Federation troops still resisting within Imperial territory drawing fire from Imperial troops post- Operation Northern Cross is a textbook version of this.: There are a few missions that will make you say 'If I had known that THAT was coming, then.'
. In the Chapter 15 boss battle against Walz, any of your troops that have not left the base will be wiped out on the enemy's first turn. This will be a particularly nasty surprise to people who are accustomed to needing to defend the starting base against enemy attack. The mission to destroy the generator: you have to get two soldiers to a target point, and find the way blocked by a heavy tank at the very last step. Its weak point is protected by environmental features, so you have to bring in brute force.
If you know where the tank is, you can move the brute force into position while the original duo are on the move.: Initially with Platoon E, then joined by remnants of Platoon F, and later followed by the crew of the Centurion.: Enemy Snipers have access to both 'normal' rounds for their rifles, as well as 'interception' rounds, ostensibly meant for interception fire against player-controlled units. Normal ammunition would always be prioritized for such a situation, but if they are hit with the 'No Ammo' status effect, they will switch to Interception Fire rounds and use those for the duration of the attack instead. The player's own Snipers cannot use this ammo in the same circumstances.: Crymaria, Chiara and Nikola all run on this trope. It doesn't help that they are all mentally unstable in the first place.: What the war amounts to between the Federation and the Empire.
Millions were mobilized, and millions were lost. With the failure of Operation Northern Cross, the Empire was gradually, but surely gaining dominance through sheer attrition.
Though the war did end following Operation Cygnus, it is difficult to determine an actual winner as little changed in the aftermath.: Vodka is the Empire's most popular drink, especially during winter. They even have proverbs regarding the beverage!.: Claude, Raz, Kai, Riley, and Minerva gain swimsuit costumes from the Squad E, to the Beach! It becomes ridiculous as they could still wear it in the snow which takes up majority of the game.: The A2 bomb becomes one unintentionally. When the Empire learns that it exists and how powerful it is (by the destruction of one of the Centurion's sister units), it scares them to the treaty table.
And the arrival of a ship carrying such a weapon in Schwartzgrad scared them into signing the armistice.: initially is this, being an organization of loose-alliances between many countries. Though in face of Imperial onslaught, Federation bureaucrats soon realize they are facing a scenario.: The scrap dealer and the resistance contact who interacted with Platoon E were killed almost as quickly as their introduction.: 'It's snow.'
Cue a dawning sense of horror as Squad E realizes their lives are about to become very difficult.: Operation Northern Cross has Federation forces trek through cold climates.: Klaus and Claude develop into this.