r/gaming • u/Iggy_Slayer • 6h ago

Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave expansion pass announced ($35) and releasing in waves. The 4 lords that were cut are being added

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tDRjYdGrGs

This game will be like 250 hours by the time we're done with everything.

  • Wave 1 (Out Today): New weapons based on Three Houses' Hero's Relics
    • Cai gets Dimitri's spear
    • Theodora gets Claude's bow
    • Dietrich gets Byleth's sword
    • Leda gets Edelgard's axe
  • Wave 2 (Holiday 2026)
    • New costumes for each of the 4 Flame Lords
    • Aurora, Jurah, & Smyrnos are added as playable units
  • Wave 3 (2027)
    • New story featuring Bertrand, Taimun, Orchel, & Anatolia
    • New allies, classes, & more
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u/Marauding_Llama 6h ago

So don't buy the game until 2027, got it.

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u/ramos619 5h ago

The game is already like 200 hours with just the current 4 lords. 4 more will add another 100+ hours, plus replaying act 3 again brings that to another +140-160 hours. 

So with the DLC you are looking at a 350-400 hour game. . . 

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u/Marauding_Llama 5h ago

If I buy and beat it now, I either need to replay everything when all the dlc is out next year or jump back into a 6+ month old save and hope I remember what's going on. So I'll wait, maybe it even goes on sale (yeah, right).

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u/Aussie_Aussie_No_Mi 4h ago

An insane opinion to have if you knew anything about the game. Playing act 1 8 times in a row would be absolutely mind numbing

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u/Marauding_Llama 3h ago

Playing Act 1 four times or eight makes little difference. The chances of me going back to a game after 6+ months just for dlc is slim.

This staggered dlc crap has been happening for a while. You don't have to know the ins and outs of the game to wait for the full version instead of keeping up with months of drip fed story dlc.

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u/Aussie_Aussie_No_Mi 1h ago

It would literally double the time you spend in act 1. For me that was 60 hours.

No you don't need to know the ins and outs, even a rudimentary knowledge of Act 1 alone would tell you exactly why Intelligent systems scrapped half of these characters paths from the base game.

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u/Marauding_Llama 1h ago

Then if I play four now and four next year, it's still the same amount of time spent and I'd rather just have the whole game available when I start playing it.