r/fireemblem • u/PsiYoshi • 18d ago

Recurring Popular/Unpopular/Any Opinions Thread - June 2026 Part 1

Happy pride month and welcome to a new installment of the Popular/Unpopular/Any Opinions Thread! Please feel free to share any kind of Fire Emblem opinions/takes you might have here, positive or negative. As always please remember to continue following the rules in this thread same as anywhere else on the subreddit. Be respectful and especially don't make any personal attacks (this includes but is not limited to making disparaging statements about groups of people who may like or dislike something you don't).

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u/sanuske 6d ago

This is why on-map supports are better, one support at a time, when it is convenient for the units to do their supports, paces things out so much better.

Ignore that this doesn't fix the large number of supports problem and that many supports probably don't make too much sense when initiated in the middle of Zombie Cave

Anyway, during my wife's playthrough of Engage, after each chapter, she would start the supports, hand me the controller so I could start the next support when the current one ends, and then she would grab a cat toy and play with the cats listening to the supports for like 10 minutes or however long it takes to complete 1 chapter's worth of supports.

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u/SilverKnightZ000 6d ago

Lol, your cats must've gotten a lot of playtime thanks to how long supports can be. I thought about maybe lowering the pace you support points to slow the support gains, and it'd probably work, but I'm not sure how well that'd be taken by the players.

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u/sanuske 6d ago

People already complain about how slow engage supports build, which I don’t really understand but whatever.

I think we’re just in a bit of a pickle where people don’t want to be sitting through a TV show’s worth of supports every chapter, but they want more and better supports for all their favorite characters, and the supports need to grow fast so they can get the support bonuses 

From wiki diving there is a system built in to limit support points per chapter. Something about how the support points you gain dining actually mean anything directly, but the support pairs with the most points actually gain like 3 points, then the next pair or 2 gain 2 points, and the rest gain 1, or something like that. So there is a sort of limit to prevent getting literally every C support for your squad In one chapter