Tactical Breach Wizards: полезное руководство для новых игроков

A short study of the key mechanics and tactics, along with the list of playable characters, their abilities and upgrades.

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Key mechanics
Strategy tips
Zan Vesker
Jen Kellen
Dessa Banks
Dall Sabin
Рион
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Key mechanics

способность: each playable character has access to up to five unique abilities unlocked by progressing through the story. Most of them deal damage or apply some status to their target. Their use may be limited by a maximum number of uses per turn or per encounter, a cost in action point or in mana.
Abilities can be upgraded by spending perk points in-between missions. Additionally, each character can received a unique ‘innate upgrade’ by completing their anxiety dream over the course of the campaign.

Точка действия: a currency required for most abilities, but typically limited to a single point per character per turn. Some situational abilities don’t use action points. Note that Zan’s Time Boost grants an action point to an ally, which can be extremely handy.

Mana: a currency gained by sealing doors, grabbing intel and using laptops. Required for some abilities such as Jen’s Цепной болт, Zan’s Time Boost и Даллс Обмен. Reset to a single point per character at the start of each level.

Двигаемся: each of your characters can make a single move per turn, up to 5 squares. Moving can be done before, between or after using any ability. Jen’s Граната Гейла has an upgrade which refreshes the Move of an ally. There are other abilities which increase your mobility, such as Jen’s Broom Breach and or Dall’s Заряд и Обмен.

Наносить ущерб: removes health points from the target. At zero health, the target is knocked out and can no longer participate in the encounter, unless they’re resurrected.
-> The counter to damage is броня. A target with armour ignores incoming direct damage by a number of points equals to their armour value. Note that armour doesn’t reduce damage caused by knockback.

Knockback: pushes the target away from the attacker by 1 square per knockback value. If the target hits a wall, they take the remaining knockback as damage. Highly useful to push enemies through a window for an instakill, deal armour-penetrating damage, against another target to damage both, or into an overwatch area, or into the line of sight of an enemy.
-> The counter to knockback is стабильность. A target with stability ignores incoming knockback by a number of points equals to their stability value.

Strategy tips

Победа: on most levels, victory only requires a single team mate standing. It doesn’t matter if any of your other team mates are KO, hurt or poisoned: damage and statuses don’t carry over to the next level.
Offense is the best defense: strive to dispatch as many enemies as possible on every turn, because dead men don’t shoot back. Hiding behind cover isn’t a tactic, only a last resort trick if you have to end a turn in the line of sight of a survivor.
Friendly fire: most if not all abilities can also be used on allies! Friendly knockback can push a team mate to a more advantageous position.
Интеллект: whenever you encounter a new type of enemy, make sure to read their description, understand how they work, and adapt your plan accordingly
Танки: enemies with high armour and/or health can tank an inordinate amount of pure damage attacks. A smart use of knockback can result in an instakill through defenestration. If there isn’t any window nearby, slam them against a wall, or combine poison and stunning to dispatch them.
Повышение уровня: when spending perk points, look for upgrades wich allow a second use of the ability, such as Jen’s +1 use per encounter upgrade to Граната Гейла, Dall’s Неистовствовать обновитесь до Заряд, Zan’s Supportive Fire обновитесь до 3 Взрыва Болта и его Убежденность обновитесь до Predictive Bolt. The more often you use an ability, the better bang for your buck!

Zan Vesker

Zan is a former Navy Seer for the DSR state. He has some unfinished business with Liv Kennedy, a former DSR Navy black ops chronomancer, who’s now working for Reactor, a private military company.

3 Взрыва Болта (1 action): Zan deals 1 damage and 1 knockback to a target
– Upgrade: +1 damage
– Upgrade: Supportive Fire: one per turn, when a teammate uses their standard attack, take a free shot at the same target. The standard attack is the first ability listed below Move.
– Innate upgrade: +3 knockback

Predictive Bolt (1 use per turn): Zan sets up an overwatch zone in a straight line. The first enemy who enters it, in your turn or theirs, takes 4 damage.
– Upgrade: +1 damage
– Upgrade: Проверка: if the shot fires on your turn, gain +1 mana.
– Upgrade: Убежденность: if the shot fires on your turn and knocks someone out, it can be used again this turn.

Time Boost (1 mana): Zan grants 1 action point to a friendly target
– Upgrade: Бомба замедленного действия: boosts all targets in a one tile radius of the impact, except for Zan

Лжепророк (1 mana): Zan sends out a dummy which will expire at the end of the Foresee phase. Enemies will target the dummy unless they see a better option.
– Upgrade: Hurtful Lie: the prophet fires Zan’s 3 Bolt Burst at a nearby target before expiring
– Upgrade: Стойкое заблуждение: if the prophet dies before expiring, your mana is refunded
– Upgrade: Полезная литература: the prophet interracts with anything it can before expiring

Jen Kellen

Jen is a freelance storm witch and provisional private investigator. Always on the lookout for a new ‘case’, she has recently witnessed the murder of Jirin Wexler, an enforcer for the Druid Mafia. Jen has made a personal nemesis in the force: sergeant Steve Clark, traffic warlock.

Статический взрыв (1 action): Jen deals 2 knockback to a target. Tip: don’t mislead by its icon, this ability can be used from range.
– Upgrade: Point Blank: +2 knocback if used in melee
– Upgrade: Освежающий коктейль: once per turn, refreshes Jen’s move after firing

Цепной болт (1 action, 1 mana): Jen hits 2 targets with 2 knockback each. Tip: any hit after the first can be applied to Jen herself, a convenient way to push her to a good spot.
– Upgrade: +1 Target: you can now hit up to three targets
– Upgrade: кабелепроводы: chaining through friendlies, including yourself, refreshes the action cost once per turn
– Upgrade: Strong Finish: adds +2 knockback to the final target
– Innate Upgrade: Суперчейн: can chain through twice as many targets if you have 2 mana to spend

Broom Breach (2 uses per encounter): Jen jumps though an adjacent window and re-enters the level from any other window, as long as the space is clear
– Upgrade: Force Entry: If someone pushable blocks the re-entry, enter anyway and push the target for 3 knockback

Граната Гейла (1 use per encounter): an area-of-effect attack that deals 1 knockback to the 8 adjacent squares
– Upgrade: +1 use per encounter
– Upgrade: Второе дыхание: refreshes the move of any friendly target in the blast
– Upgrade: Штормовая граната: if thrown directly on the enemy, deals 2 damage

Dessa Banks

Dessa used to be a surgeon at the Rushwater General Hospital, then a necro medic for the Druid Mafia. She quit after murdering the mafia enforcer Jirin Wexler.

Седативный коктейль (1 action): an area-of-effect attack that leaves everyone in a 1 tile radius Sedated (lose 1 health per turn) and Unsteady (+1 to incoming knockback)
– Upgrade: сонный: +1 Sedated to all targets
– Upgrade: Легкомысленный: +1 Unsteady to the central target
– Upgrade: Укусы: all targets also take 1 damage on impact

Spectral Skull (1 action + 1 mana): Dessa fires a skull named Gary who deals 2 damages to enemies he passes through, and bounces off walls once.
– Upgrade: +1 damage
– Upgrade: Головокружительный: applies Unsteady to all targets hit
– Upgrade: Большая голова: the skull is wider, which makes it easier to hit more targets

воскрешать (1 mana): Dessa kills and revives an adjacent person with full health and 1 mana. Revived enemies consider everyone hostile, are stunned for 1 turn, and cost no mana to rez.

Дверь смерти (1 use per encounter): Dessa creates a portal on a wall. Anyone pushed into the portal won’t come out again until after the fight.
– Upgrade: +1 use per encounter
– Upgrade: Перехват: if a target is pushed into the tile in front of the portal, it will pull them in
– Innate Upgrade: Death’s Floor: creates a portal beneath anyone to send them tumbling out of an existing Death’s Door

перенесение (1 use per encounter): choose a protectee, then a target. The next time the protectee is attacked, the victim takes the hit instead. This ability has unlimited range and doesn’t require line of sight.
– Upgrade: Genius Grant: if the protectee is an enemy or the victim is an ally, your use is refunded when the transfer happens.
– Upgrade: Чрезмерная реакция: if the victim is an enemy, they gain 1 Unsteady when the link is created.

Dall Sabin

Dall is a rebel riot priest, formerly a member of Chapel.

Заряд (1 action): Dall moves in a straightline and deals 1 damage to the first target + 1 knockpack per square traveled
– Upgrade: Импульс: if Dall traveled at least 3 squares, she deals +3 knockback
– Upgrade: Неистовствовать: once per turn, if Dall’s charge hit a target, the action point is refunded
– Upgrade: Telephasing: Dall can optionally pass through targets to charge at others behind them

Censer Slam (1 action): Dall hits an adjacent target for 3 damage and 1 knockback
– Upgrade: +2 damage

Обмен (1 mana): Dall swaps location with any person you can see
– Upgrade: Паника: If enemies were targetting Dall when she swapped, they’ll immediately shoot the person she’s swapped with.
– Upgrade: Friendly Refund: if swapping with a teammate, the mana cost is refunded. Does not apply to NPC allies.
– Upgrade: Swap with Objects: Swap can also target movable objets, such as barrels and the riot shield if thrown.
– Innate Upgrade: Blind Fait: Swap even with targets you can’t see

Бросьте блокировку беспорядков (1 use per encounter): Dall throws a low barricade that blocks movement but can’t block enemy reinforcement doors. Can be used as cover. Does 1 extra damage to things knocked into it. Dall can collect it when standing adjacent to it.
– Upgrade: Взрывчатое вещество: when destroyed, the shield explodes for 2 damage and 2 knockback
– Upgrade: Настенный режим: the shield can be remotely toggled to stand tall enough to block direct attacks from passing over it
– Upgrade: Recall: one per turn, the riot shield returns to you when it’s destroyed

Рион

Rion used to be a hitman for the Druid Mafia.

Rabid Bite (limitation?): Rion transforms into a dog, runs to and bites any enemy for 1 damage. The victim becomes hostile to anyone. This ability ends Rion’s turn, but enemies won’t attack him till next turn.
– Ugrade: +2 Sedative: the victim is also sedated, losing this much health each turn

Impaling Vine (1 action): Rion skewers the target with a vine for 1 damage and 3 knockback, then pull them towards him by 3 tiles
– Upgrade: Frostfingers: after the vine deals damage to an enemy, apply Brittle to them
– Upgrade: Gripthorns: targeting open ground within 3 tiles pulls you towards it
– Upgrade: Quicksprout: if you target a teammate, your action is refunded

Britling Dart (1 mana): Rion fires a dart of cursed sap that makes armour and flesh Brittle. The target takes extra damage from attacks and collision into things, and armour is lost like health.
– Upgrade: коррозионный: destroys any Gasmak the target may have

Споровая бомба (1 use per encounter): an area-of-effect attack that deals 1 damage by default to every target in the blast area, but more damage per target affected
– Upgrade: +1 use per encounter
– Upgrade: под давлением: +1 knockback per target
– Innate Upgrade: Умный: allies in the last area aren’t affected, but still added to the target count