My bad. Turns out that the story mode difficulty scales up the further you progress in your story mode run. The difficulty can only be set in either Training Mode or Free Battle mode. If you have any further questions, you can check out the English discord for the game: discord.gg/ZwC5MKQ3zZ

@@YackOarMudIce urf ok i see, was just curious since i usually play them on easy simply because idc about being good at the game and just wanna enjoy more relaxing gameplay, i would grind first route tiles with mai just to get the gear for my favorite characters or custom gear before trying to finish with another character (i like fumika, Anna, kaoruko, asuka and one other i forget atm, i just play solo since i dont like extremely fast paced PvP in games but i love the game still). you also said 3 actresses are locked but it seems like they can be selected in free battle, are they just locked online before story? I play this game and other fighters solo only so i may not be aware if they are

​@@orochimarusrebirth6509 On a new save file, the game will let you know those locked actresses are now available to use after you complete your first story mode run. I haven't really fiddled around with a new save file other than playing through story mode first since there's already a lot of information the player's given and usually what they'd do first is try and go through a story mode run to get a feel for the game, especially since it was designed to guide you into playing the tutorial first. So I'm not exactly sure to what extent you can't use the locked actresses on a new save file because before you'd probably even think about that, the game unlocks them for you. Hope that helps.

@@YackOarMudIce urf ok, i did get serina's accessory in offline free battle at lv 3 as the game still let me choose her there as a teammate (i was carrying with kaoruko for fun on a new save here), im guessing the lv 7 inherent will also unlock so maybe thats just for using them story mode, i havent confirmed you can get the inherent but i imagine you can, just not in story mode itself without having them selectable there

@@orochimarusrebirth6509 My guess is if they're somehow showing an XP meter at the victory screen going up, it's safe to say they'll get the inherent skill module that way and you can distribute the wealth to everyone else , but you won't be able to select someone like Serina for story mode or PVP until you finish a story mode run first. Also, yeah, Kaoruko and Serina are pretty solid, though the latter is slightly more difficult to use with her personal gear primarily because of her low damage output and her inherent making her even more of a glass canon as a trade off for really strong normals.

Glad you like them! Hard part for me right now is figuring out when it's safe to attack.

Thanks! If you're more comfortable playing the game on Playstation, I can get my account set up for it, but we need to coordinate in the discord channel mentioned in my profile since it's hard to do this directly in youtube.

@@YackOarMudIce yea, do u play on ps5

@@Milky-Hazard Based on what the Japanese players said to me, you can play with PS4 users, so that shouldn't be an issue. Just hop on the discord channel to better coordinate the times with everyone since we also play with Japanese players as well, and they like to join in on battle royale matches lol.

@@YackOarMudIce No there is an issue, there is no crossplay between ps4 and ps5. I got the game on disc so no ps4 digital version available for me ;/

@@Milky-Hazard I don't have a PS5, but the Japanese players that hang out in the English discord channel for this game do. I've been talking with them just now about your specific problem and they're willing to help you out if you go through the invite link: discord.gg/ZwC5MKQ3zZ

Thanks! 😄

sure, we can plan out a session at the discord channel here: discord.gg/ZwC5MKQ3zZ As for the max level, I'm not too sure. My Mai's at level 53 lol, but くろ@夜露 in the discord channel should be able to tell you.