Just so you know we're working on Episode 4 atm. Here's some interesting things to note, Devcat is spending a lot of extra effort and time on these episodes to try and make them fun and interesting which is why it's taking them so long to do them. They are introducing gimmicky missions that most people will only do once and be done with it but hey I admire the effort they are putting into it.
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So in Episode 3 we had that special Hot Air Balloon Mission. In Episode 4 you have a Skiing mission where you chase after Cessair who's on a sled on some Skiis. It shows you how far you are away from Cessair displaying it in a nice looking UI in the top left of the screen and another nice looking control UI in the bottom right of the screen.
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Basically you hit the little blue circles to speed up and the red circles slow you down. Run into Cessair to complete the mission.
The other thing they did is they did a special Rafting Mission where you have to try and avoid rocks and barrier spikes in the river. It puts you in RP mode where you only have some Zeder II guns, Shooting Rush, Reload, Way of the Gun, Defense, and a few other skills (No other gunner skills, No Smash or WM or any other AoE skills) with 1500 Hp/Stam/MP and some other reduced stats (basically forcing the mission to a fixed difficulty) Meanwhile the Cessair are in a raft behind you and when you run into an obstacle it leaves you stuck for 1 minute until the obstacle disappears. Eventually if you run into like 2-4 of them the Cessair will reach you and will board the raft. Unfournately Shooting Rush glitches like heck and Treasure Hunter/Merlin are really slow to attack causing you to fail more often than not. I'll upload the video once I finish so you can see what I mean.
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Just figured I'd mention that.