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[ToCS][Not Safe for Quinn] ohhhHHHHHHHHH MOTHER FUCKER
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YOU
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GOD THERE WAS EVEN A L I T E R A L CROW IN THE OP
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here's a full copypaste of my realization and subsequent breakdown in dms https://images.plurk.com/1Y6hjeCJMI46NkCpo1ipum.png
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GOD RIGHT WHEN C DISAPPEARED I EVEN FUCKING SAID "oh haha rean should've called it he's using sleight of hand like crow"
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anyways. crow armbrust is a komaeda
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he SURE is
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unsurprisingly, like all komaedas, the fandom thirsts massively
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also just got through the slideshow that went over the cut ymir chapter and honestly i would've WAY preferred having that over the initial field study in celdic
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it looked really interesting and also, like
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important
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gestures at the apparent politicking that happened,
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gestures at angie's goodbye,
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GESTURES AT ACTUALLY GOING TO REAN'S HOME WHEN HE'S THE ONLY CHARACTER WHO HAS BEEN SORELY LACKING IN DEVELOPMENT FOR THE ENTIRE GAME,
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why cut THAT chapter i'm legitimately ??? over it
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(anyway yes hi my gateway to this fandom was a crow player

which is kind of like saying "i got into ff7 because my friend plays aerith" except it doesn't take SIXTY DAMN HOURS TO GET TO THE SPOILER THERE)
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(whyyyy are trails games so densely packed)
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i appreciate that none of you are denying it even though it isn't hard confirmed where i'm at because once you have all the evidence it's glaringly obvious
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i can't even say i should've seen it before
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it's a brilliant twist tbh the moment you get the last piece you need to put it together is also the moment where you're going to realize
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iirc the ymir chapter wasn't cut so much as it was a drama cd
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ahhhh
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then i'll probably take a look at the translation
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considering all the flags there i am surprised it ISN'T cut content
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you CAN read a recap of it when you start ToCS2 and you probably should but yeah it's less 'we cut this because of time budget' and more of a 'buy this tie-in'
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i mean it can be both
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(gestures at kh)
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haha fair
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okay now that i'm over my initial anger
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which is partially because i fought that fuck FOR A FULL HOUR
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well more like 45 minutes
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with 15 minutes of whaling on vulcan leading into that
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i'm going to once again laud the writing there because despite all of cs1's issues it's such an intensely well plotted beat
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where are you at, again? because one of the C fights is also like
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literally the hardest fight in all of CS1
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just finished the roer chapter
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ok yep that's the one
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congrats, you're on the downhill slope
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all hail evasion tank fie
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the C fight in roer is a MOTHERFUCKER
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honestly despite dealing on average less than a 1000 damage a hit she probably put in the most work out of anybody in that fight
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evade tanks put in SO much work in ALL of the cold steel games
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tbh i think my biggest mistake was putting in alisa instead of rean
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they take a long time to get rolling but once they do they are INSANELY good
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oof yeah alisa is
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not amazing, in CS1
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she's not a good unit,
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she really isn't,,,
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i'm so used to emma being an insane arts nuke that i assumed she'd do just as well
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but, no,
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so i did make that fight a lot harder on myself than it had to be but every time i remembered that rean was in the backline she got ko'd and i couldn't swap her out anyways
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so i was effectively fighting with 3 units that entire fight
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i used, like, 3 zeram powders
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yeah that sounds normal for the C fight frankly
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also elliot put in so much work
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it's a motherfucker
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i think the big thing are the ads
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the two hardest fights in ToCS1 are Lucifuge and C
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and like, MAYBE the final boss behind that
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normally my strategy is just hit the ads with big aoe arts but they are just SO fucking beefy
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see the thing is that Alisa's... weird in terms of stats
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and while i was trying to do that their lasers kept on debuffing everyone and making a huge mess of things
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yeah i noticed
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iirc a bunch of her crafts scale off magic, but her basic attacks scale off strength?
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so she wants a balance of both
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she doesn't have high enough atk to hit hard but- YEAH
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i've noticed hybrid units tend to do terribly in cs1
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machias and alisa most prominently
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SOME of them are good but a lot of them are kinda sketch
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and also crow
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machias is good at his job and his job is to just apply DEF down constantly
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because they can't focus on one thing they do terribly at everything
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and occasionally give you a shitton of turns
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oh huh
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i never use him for that so,
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or use him period
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jusis is also another weird hybrid but tbh he's not actually a physical fighter at all
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yeah like they had definitely not figured out how some of the units were supposed to work yet
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his job is to stand there and just buff the team to hell and back
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it's just
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noble command
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Alisa, Machias, Jusis, and Crow suffer the most in 1 from it
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yeah i have no idea what to do with crow at all lajsdklfjaslkdfjsadf
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but at least i don't feel bad for not investing in him now
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and occasionally hitting enemies with that really beefy ADF down craft
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when emma is about to toss out a really spicy arts
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honestly i think to some extent trails KNOWS how ridiculous evasion tanks are
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because it straight up does not tell you what insight does
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like anywhere
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also yeah jusis is another one where iirc some of his crafts scale off magic
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I think Rune Blade is one?
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also YEAH
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it does NOT tell you Insight is +50% EVD
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yeah
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god fie really did put in a crazy amount of work that fight though
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her sweep totaled two procs of triple cancel on the xp screen
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oh
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doom
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you want some secret tech that breaks the game
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bullet cyclone was basically the only thing that consistently unbalanced c since angie got knocked back so often that she could barely get a hit in
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sure hit me
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your chance to AT delay an enemy is based off your speed.
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....................................................
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which means the best delay-based users are Fie and Rean. Especially if either of them is souped up with Jusis' Noble Command.
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oh my god
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YEAH
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"is there a limit to this?" no
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you can in fact delay an enemy so hard you kill them before they get a single turn, especially in CS1/CS2
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it gets harder in CS3/CS4 because the devs realized how stupid it was and how much everyone knew to do it
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i'm paranoid of taking elliot off my team for the final chapter since his heals were crucial but i think i might put him on the backline for triage and give jusis, like, canon to go with the rest of his support quartz
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i think the final team will be rean fie jusis and emma
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that's not a bad setup
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my go-to is Rean/Laura/Jusis/Emma typically
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i am REALLY sad about not having room for laura on the frontline beca
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because as much as fie is a great dodge tank laura just
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use i love her
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destroys EVERYTHING
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honestly it might be a better idea to put fie in the back, as much as she's my fave student
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i love laura so much
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just to permanently stall enemies out
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while elliot performs triage when other people go down
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rean SHOULD be fast enough that with jusis keeping him buffed he can do all the delaying you need
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especially with that lineup
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but yeah a lot of cs1 stuff mechanically gets fixed up in 2
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CS1 is kind of the weird transition child
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i probably should play sky at some point
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but i know myself well enough i am going to quit for a week every time something Weird happens between estelle and her bro
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yeaaaaaah
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at least here the... weirdness can be downplayed, it's still like. there. but it's much less present.
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i think it helps that there's a sense of elise knowing that, like, it's Her Issue and she needs to try and sort it out
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which is
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not helped
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by alfin enabling her CONSTANTLY
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yeah alfin in CS1 is not great, she GETS better
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but CS1 is very much her at her worst, and it does remain a running joke for. a while.
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like, i like alfin but I have also induced enough anime poisoning I can tune out like 70% of That
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...wait does the schoolyear at thors end in october,
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I honestly can't remember but I think it... has to? If I remember right?
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It's VERY weird admittedly how the school year works
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ending the game with 7500 bp with fie,,,
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I originally started (silently) watching from the Discord for Umineko liveblogs but I can comment on this too if I'm welcome
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Shoot.
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As an aside it continues to astound me how many people I've attracted from the Umineko Discord.
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Am I really that entertaining????
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Very much so, yes.
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Alisa's main job, I find, is to be a CP battery to everyone else.
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Her two CP-giving crafts are so hilariously lopsided they're insane
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Blessed Arrow hitting one other person is, at absolute worst, a CP-neutral heal, and at best gives +80 CP to the party while also healing them
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Heavenly Gift costs 50, but effectively gives the party back 180 CP over its duration, plus AoE Insight
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And then her default MQ is an amazing survival tool that also has the full party heal/revival spell stapled onto it
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She does have decent enough ATS to cast offensive arts, but her supportive capabilities are just so good that they outshine them
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The other thing about AT Delay, as a note, is something I'm convinced is a mistake in the design programming
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ohhhhhhh
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Okay, that makes sense
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Each additional source of Delay rolls off against the enemy's delay resistance, but for some crazy reason, if any of them get through, it applies the whole amount of Delay
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OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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that makes. so much sense with how combat has worked so far
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it's kind of a weird quirk that makes delay resistance really easy to get past
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last thing is that if you've been enjoying the, well, general plotting/style of Cold Steel, definitely would encourage you to check out Sky
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going from CS to Sky, the combat and general moving around get worse, but I think most people would agree that the atmosphere, characters, etc are better
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fair but i'm also hesitant to have the main romantic arc be estelle and her adopted brother
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not sure i could bear with that for two eighty hour jrpgs
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fair, it's hard for me to say much on that front because it is not something I can really condense into a description
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all I can really say is that Estelle is very very good and by far my favourite protagonist of the series
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