Squadron Recruits

[Niwashi]

Well, even when you get the "As mission affinity is at maximum" with one character, other characters may not get their bonuses. Something else is going on. Maybe it looks at your entire 8-man squad rather than the 4 you're sending or something. (In the case where I saw chemistry not being met even with affinity, it was looking for a class I don't have in my squad at all with either the active or inactive members.) Do you have an archer and lancer among your other squad members, the ones not assigned to the mission?

I do. And previously I didn't have a second archer, but I'm pretty sure it was still active, so if that's the case, it seems it even counts itself.

Ok, I think I've figured out the source of my earlier confusion. I was wrong about who had affinity. Although all the chemistry conditions I've seen refer to who you're grouped with, affinity is applied to specific characters only.

I had thought that when it says, for example, "Mission Affinity: Lalafell, Conjurer" that that meant my group as a whole had affinity for that mission if the squad included one or more Lalafells and one or more Conjurers. But no, it actually means that just the lalafells and conjurers in the group have the affinity bonus boosting their chemistry bonus.

Once I figured that part out, your earlier claim fits. For the members with affinity, it can ignore the usual condition for chemistry bonuses. I'd thought it didn't because I'd run a mission where the members with affinity happened to be the same ones that would have met their usual conditions anyway, and I'd mistakenly thought the whole group had affinity.