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How does Twinning affect combat controls?
Twinning replaces the player's standard mobility, attacks, and skills with direct manual control over the Aniimo's movement, combos, and abilities.
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Switching into Twine mode completely alters your inputs and field handling. In Command mode, you stay on the field directing your Aniimo with tactical orders and ability cues while the creature attacks automatically. Twining removes that separation. You take personal physical control of the Aniimo, steering its movement, positioning, and dodges directly.
Your button layout shifts to the creature's full moveset. Controlling the Aniimo gives you direct access to its basic attack, two energy-consuming active skills, and an evasive maneuver. This creature moveset is generally more offensively powerful than fighting in human form.
Lost Pathfinder Actions
Merging into your Aniimo locks away your Pathfinder abilities for as long as the fusion lasts. You lose access to your character's real-time gadget support and basic human strikes.
Your human Active Skills are also disabled. You cannot cast the targeted Pathfinder heal to restore creature HP while twined, because that ability functions only when you are outside the fusion and fighting alongside your partner.
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