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- How to Beat Gauntlet Mode
- Dragon Portals and Treasure Chests
If there is something that the Warriors Orochic games know how to do it right, it gives you a lot of things to do – you will never run out of goals, characters to experiment with and battles to master in a game like Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate.
Gauntlet Mode is one of three ways to play this game – in addition to Story Mode and Duel Mode. It’s a new experience with five warriors fighting side by side, high stakes, and a difficult difficulty setting that might take you by surprise when you first start a battle.
What is Glove Mode?
Gauntlet Mode is an alternate way to play the game with a much more limited cast of playable characters and more difficult challenges. Here are the basics that make Gauntlet mode unique:
- When you start a new Gauntlet Mode playthrough, choose five officers – these are your playable party and cannot be changed except under specific circumstances. If you want to play with different characters, you need to start a new Gauntlet Mode playthrough.
- The purpose of Gauntlet mode is to: complete four series of battles that increase in difficulty.
- in battles, all five of your party members fight at the same time. You can switch the character you control in flight and change the formation they fight in.
- Different formations grant access to several special abilities that consume power from a meter below the character portraits.
- You can explore the same in between battles Camp you have in Story Mode.
You can only choose characters you’ve already unlocked in Story mode.
The actual battles are also very different than you might be used to. The purpose of combat is not to wipe out the enemy, but to: find an escape point. Dotted in each card are dragon gates – glowing circles on the ground that you need to find. Holding down the guard button (the left shoulder button) while standing on a Dragon Gate may reveal the location of the escape point. Once you wait at the top of the escape point, you’ve completed the level.
How to Beat Gauntlet Mode
Gauntlet Mode stages are arranged on a map of connected battlefields – each with a difficulty, a set of officers to fight, and a color. There are four colors that can have phases – red, yellow, cyan and purple. To play on these stages, you must unlock them with a keystone of the same color. At the start of a playthrough, you have a single red keystone and you acquire it by beating stages of the same color.
Playthroughs are split into cycleswhich are split into layers. Each map of connected battlefields is a layer. Once you reach a specific battlefield and beat it, you move on to a more difficult series of battlefields on a new layer.
The fourth tier is the last and will eventually pit you against a boss – Hundun. After completing this final challenge, you’ll have the option to start Gauntlet mode from scratch, starting a new cycle, but this time you’ll also start with a keystone of the next color. For example, after you complete your first cycle of four layers, start a second layer with a yellow keystone.
Defeating Hundun unlocks him as a playable character.
With four cycles and four layers per cycle, you must beat sixteen layers in total to ‘beat’ the Gauntlet mode.
Some stages have their names colored red. These phases are much more difficult than the other phases on the layer – take them with great caution. If you are successful, you can big rewards.
Managing miasma
A feature unique to the battles in Gauntlet mode is: Miasma. This is represented by black fog on the battlefield and a ticking gauge on the right side of the screen.
Miasma increases the strength of your enemies – if the number is very high, even mooks can damage you significantly. At the highest level, officers and mooks will shoot you in one fell swoop.
Miasma increases as you fight – beating officers will increase it quite a bit, allowing their compatriots to avenge them with impunity.
The key to managing Miasma is knowing that: it is based on location. Miasma levels are not universal – if you fight in one area for too long and the Miasma level shoots up, you can simply move away from that area to a less filled area of the map. You can also lower Miasma levels by interacting with Dragon Gates.
Alien Invaders
There’s a chance, if you’re playing in Gauntlet mode, you’ll get a notification from some intruders. The game will tell you that a specific officer has arrived to challenge you, but in reality there are several – other parties just like yours.
Defeating these officers will give you great rewards, but they are very heavy. They can use their Musou skills freely and will do so easily. Only attack them if you have sufficient resources and health.
Dragon Portals and Treasure Chests
As you explore the Gauntlet Mode maps, you will find a plethora of treasure chests. Hit them with a light attack to open them, but beware – chests can not only contain items, they can also cause other effects. The same goes for Dragon Portals. While they may reveal the Escape Point to you, there is also a chance that positive or negative effects will occur.
Some of the more notable effects include having your party members all teleport to random points on the map, alerting nearby enemies of your presence, and healing your party.
Despite the risks, you should open all the chests you can. The materials used to create incredibly powerful weapons can only be found in this way.
Unlock new characters
While you can’t initially change your party setup in Gauntlet mode, there is a way to acquire new characters.
Sometimes, defeat an enemy officer or (rarely) open a chest lets you buy an item called a sworn ally. These can be traded to the Mystic back in camp after completing a battle to unlock the corresponding character for that Gauntlet Mode playthrough, if you wish.
There aren’t many things you can do to increase your chances of acquiring a Sworn Ally item – just focus on fighting officers.
you can not get Sworn Ally items from Otherworldly Invaders.
Tips and tricks
- Enemies are hit hard, especially if you stray into high Miasma territory. Abilities that heal you, such as the special attacks of certain characters (such as Susano’o), are great for surviving in a pinch.
- Gauntlet mode is a great way to increase the bonds between specific characters without spending a ton of money in the tea house. Even if you don’t make it to a fight, you all get +40 relationship points with each other.
- Before going into Gauntlet mode, you’ll want to have very powerful weapons like fully leveled Big Star weapons or Battlefield bonus weapons.
- Some stages have multiple battlefields to beat – you have to beat them all in a row to complete the stage. The phases that allow you to move to the next tier are always multiple battle phases.
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