Quote Originally Posted by Renalt View Post
I feel like the last couple Star Oceans have these weird difficulty spikes. In Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness there was a moment early in the game where a character had to do something on a computer and you had to protect them. No matter what I did the fight would start and end in 5 seconds with a game over because the enemies would zerg rush the person on the computer and kill them. No way to stun the enemies, no way to kill them that fast. I tried to heal at the very start of the fight but they kill the person before it even pops off. I looked on GameFaqs and they said not only is this fight extremely hard...it happens MULTIPLE times.

So I figured I was just under leveled. I gained 5 more levels which was a chore cause mobs give virtually no XP at that level and they STILL get killed in seconds. I quit immediately after that.
You actually need a specific role on said character (Skulker), since it lowers their likelihood of being attacked. Meanwhile you need another role (Instigator) on one or more party members that INCREASES their odds of getting attacked. You're essentially trying to play the AI into focusing on you and ignoring them. It works pretty well, but every now and then one or more of them will still try to aim at said person.