Thread: New Upcoming Game: Crystal Maidens

Originally Posted by ltmeowser

Has anyone been able to clear chapter 30? That boss is ridiculous and pretty much one shots any party member I have.

My first try was very close win, had level 20 heroes. Make sure to farm those elemental crystals in one of the areas for your fighters. They give a nice boost when you invest them to unlock scenes. Also get some equipment (open girl's inventory, click on one of the items that she can equip, and click Find, if area where it drops is lower than 30, then go, farm for it) - even common equipment that you can upgrade easily will give some useful boost, like +30% HP. Upgrade some skills - skillpoints are very fast to recharge compared to cash gains, so there is no need to wait upgrading them unless it's useless skill or you need those little money that they ask for. My fighter deals 20k damage with her blow, healer heals everyone for 10k. When in fight fighters die quickly, but then you can just lure the rate into the area with tree passage and move your ranged heroes from one of the three parts to another until fighters are ready to respawn. Rat has to walk the long way and by the time it comes to the ranged unit you are ready to move her back into the other passage. If fighters are ready to respawn, spawn them, they will stall the rat for a second or two, maybe even manage to use a skill.

In town first priority is to upgrade barracks - increases the limit for energy, so increases your exp and coin gains; second - Temple - increases coins gains; and if necessary - Storage for coins - so that you can have enough to make upgrades.

Overall the game looks easy enough. Main limits are cash and energy (only have enough to do those 3 boss battles on recharge now). If stuck just level up somewhere else - farm crystals or rare items to use in upgrades/sales.

stat gains from levels are not linear.

you get much much more hp and damage going from level 30-31 than you do going from 20-21.

if you are hardstuck at a boss fight you can basically level up your girls twice and go from OH GOD HELP ME to shitstomping it.

also just to brag i rolled the 5k gems gacha and pulled micah. feelsgoodman

Unless they've changed gacha, you can get her from the free rolls so it's not so much bragging rights. I'm sure some who've played from beta have gotten every girl without spending anything..

max affection helen versus 0 affection eli

more hp even with less affection

I'm getting MUCH less enamored of the left to right thing. It wouldn't be so bad if they were all the samish speed, but as it is it's a game of whack-a-mole combined with herding cats. Keep dragging the medium/fast speed DPS so they don't race ahead of the slow tank and get slaughtered.

Never mind having difficulty picking the right one up and dragging it to begin with.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I'm getting MUCH less enamored of the left to right thing. It wouldn't be so bad if they were all the samish speed, but as it is it's a game of whack-a-mole combined with herding cats. Keep dragging the medium/fast speed DPS so they don't race ahead of the slow tank and get slaughtered.

Never mind having difficulty picking the right one up and dragging it to begin with.

It gets old really fast. All it does is force you to drag your units back to the start after each battle so you can heal before your heavily damaged units draw more fire. They're trying to ape the mechanics of a crappy lane game when with only marginally more control afforded to the player they could have a reasonably amusing RTS. It doesn't help that the control responsiveness in these unity web player monstrosities is almost always utterly wretched.

One question for the beta players. A maiden could be drawn just one time or multiples ? I though i read somewhere it's easy to get them all cause you can only draw them once. Well if that's the case it's not true anymore and a big kick in the nuts for new players (i draw helen 2 times already, transformed in 10 fire crystal each)

Originally Posted by Evilmind

One question for the beta players. A maiden could be drawn just one time or multiples ? I though i read somewhere it's easy to get them all cause you can only draw them once. Well if that's the case it's not true anymore and a big kick in the nuts for new players (i draw helen 2 times already, transformed in 10 fire crystal each)

You've read wrong. Chance to redraw a dupe girl has been there since beta. You just get crystals for getting a dupe girl.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

It gets old really fast. All it does is force you to drag your units back to the start after each battle so you can heal before your heavily damaged units draw more fire. They're trying to ape the mechanics of a crappy lane game when with only marginally more control afforded to the player they could have a reasonably amusing RTS. It doesn't help that the control responsiveness in these unity web player monstrosities is almost always utterly wretched.

I'll admit I only tried retreating to heal once, but as a result I lost because I ran out of time, so I'm not sure how viable a strategy that is.


Anyways, different question. Is it just me or do skill points only charge up to 1 if you are logged off? Unless I somehow spent skill points without noticing, when I logged on this morning after being off all night I only had a single skill point to spend when I remembered to check.

(The other possibility, which isn't quite so lame, is upgrading the research academy zero's out all your skill points, and/or you don't start regaining skill points until you accept the upgrade. I did start an upgrade before going to sleep, which was obviously finished hours before I woke.)

Originally Posted by Unregistered

You've read wrong. Chance to redraw a dupe girl has been there since beta. You just get crystals for getting a dupe girl.

Ah ok, my bad, but goods news for me ^^