Aberrant Signal

Centuries ago, a fleet of spaceships was attacked by interstellar creatures, and crash landed onto a planet. Desperate to survive, the fleet's last surviving AI held the line when they descended to finish them off. Since then, WARLORD has lead a march against the ever-growing enemies of humanity, factories churning out war machines, towers built to research technologies, in the hopes that one day this world can be a safe place to rebuild.

Returning from your reconnaissance mission on the next strategic target, you have a report ready to make:

WARLORD is completely insane.

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Aberrant Signal is a re-exploration of stagger-focused mechanics straying from the modern usage in real-time games like Armored Core 6, Nioh, and recent entries of Final Fantasy. Following in the footsteps of (primarily) the defunct Mobius Final Fantasy, and similar interpretations in games like Harebrained Schemes' Battletech, this is an exploration of the potential of stagger/break meters in a turn-based tactical context.