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No longer threatened by the mafia organization Almata, the people of Calvard have returned to their peaceful lives. But one day, a shocking series of murders involving a mysterious crimson beast sets the wheels of fate in motion once again. Various factions spring into action – both those who abide by the law to uncover the truth and those looking to capitalize on any new developments wherever possible, no matter how sinister.

With chaos once again looming on the horizon, the spriggan Van Arkride receives an unexpected visitor, prompting his own investigation. Who is behind the murders, and what is their goal? The sands of time bring old and new faces together for this thrilling second installment in the Trails through Daybreak saga.
Year 1209 of the Septian Calendar.

The threat posed by Almata has passed. Peace has finally returned to Calvard. And, for a time, that peace goes uninterrupted—until a CID special forces unit is slaughtered by an unknown assailant.

With authorities working to contain the situation, criminal forces take the chance to make their own moves.

Meanwhile, a spriggan by the name of Van Arkride begins his own investigation—after prompting from an unexpected visitor.

Who could be responsible for this massacre? What was their objective? And how does it all relate to Agnès' search for the eighth Genesis?

A crimson beast's roar. A chance meeting with a boy and girl, both embroiled in a mysterious search. These are the circumstances that lure Arkride Solutions down the trail of an inescapable fate.
Battle System
The game builds on the seamless transition between field battles and command battles introduced in the previous game with new mechanics that can be used in both: Cross Charge & EX Chains! Mastering the use of these two combo mechanics can provide you with overwhelming firepower to use against your opponents.
- Cross Charge
If you manage to Perfect Dodge an enemy's attack during a field battle, the Cross Charge icon will appear! Pushing the correct button while the icon is on-screen will swap in another party member, who will simultaneously execute a charge attack on your foe! As a bonus, the party member that you swap in will have enhanced attack power for a period of time.

- EX Chains
EX Chains can be activated by fulfilling specific conditions during command battles. Once these conditions have been met, using a craft or normal attack against a stunned enemy will automatically activate an EX Chain! This allows party members with SCLM activated to launch a simultaneous attack that will also impact nearby enemies, dealing massive damage.

Choose Your Chapters
Van and his collaborators will not always travel together during the events of Trails through Daybreak II. At times, some of the group may split off in order to take care of tasks in different areas of Calvard concurrently. Because of this, each act contains multiple chapters you can play in any order. Progress the story in the order you choose! Each chapter features a different cast of characters as we see their side of the act's story play out.
Once you've completed your chosen chapter, the next one will start up automatically.

Unique Missions
Certain chapters will feature missions that utilize the unique skillsets of the characters in that chapter's party. For example, directly controlling the holo core AI, Mare, to hack the orbal network, or using Swin to silently tail a suspicious individual.

Van Arkride
The man at the head of Arkride Solutions. A lover of sweets, saunas, and orbal cars. Due to his job as a spriggan, Van has a tendency to take on legally-questionable jobs. However, the fact that he occasionally walks on the edge of the law does not preclude him from doing good by others—as is evidenced by his numerous personal contacts. While tracking down the Oct-Geneses at Agnès' request, Van developed the ability to transform into an armored form known as the Grendel with the help of Mare, the holo core installed within his combat orbment. It was with this new ability that he was able to fend off the mafia group known as Almata. Having once terrorized the entirety of the Republic, Almata was eventually brought to its knees by the Arkride Solutions team during the fight for the Oct-Geneses. Upon the quelling of this threat, however, they decided to temporarily go their separate ways. Now left to himself in a less-than- lively office, Van is free to return to his lone-wolf lifestyle once more.

Agnès Claudel
A first-year at the prestigious Aramis Academy who currently serves on its Student Council. Despite her polite manner of speaking and at times meek demeanor, Agnès has shown great strength and determination while employed at Arkride Solutions—especially when facing off against the seedy underbelly of society. Agnès first met Van while searching for eight prototype orbments known as the Oct-Geneses, which she inherited from her great-grandfather. As thanks for taking on her request, she began working as one of Arkride Solution's part-time assistants. At present, Agnès has recovered seven of the eight Geneses. Unfortunately, while continuing her search for the last remaining Genesis, she's had no choice but to also divide her time between preparing for the Aramis Academy Festival and periodically helping out around Arkride Solutions. Regarding her relationship with Van, she both respects and admires him as her employer. However, she seems to be harboring some more amorous feelings for him as well...

Elaine Auclair
An A-rank bracer affiliated with the Calvard branch of the Bracer Guild. She is occasionally referred to by the moniker 'Beauty's Blade.' Due to her dignified beauty and masterful skill with a sword, Elaine tends to catch the eye of the media more often than not. Unfortunately, this also leads to talent agencies offering her contracts for modeling and acting—she always declines. Outside of being the poster girl for the Bracer Guild, Elaine has no present interest in joining the world of entertainment. During her high school years, she enjoyed a brief and fleeting romance with Van before he suddenly vanished without so much as a word. It was only recently, after seven years, that the two were able to reunite. Although their lingering feelings for each other have left their current relationship a bit tense, their time fighting Almata together was able to strengthen their bond once more. Some time after the events involving Almata and the Oct-Geneses, Elaine received word that the Central Intelligence Department's elite Gamma Squad had been brutally murdered by an unknown assailant, and that a 'crimson' monster was spotted at the scene of the crime...
The Republic of Calvard
A large country located in the central region of the Zemurian continent. Its current leader is President Roy Gramheart. Due to the unfortunate circumstances created by the desertification of eastern Zemuria, Calvard has a substantial history of receiving both immigrants and refugees. The resulting mixture of cultures and ethnicities has made the country into something of a melting pot. One hundred years ago, Calvard was under the heel of its monarchal rulers. It was only after Sheena Dirke and her compatriots brought about a democratic revolution that the nation was transformed into a democratic republic. Though in constant conflict with Erebonia over the control of bordering regions, Calvard has recently been on the receiving end of reparations from the empire following the Battle of Jormungandr. These reparations enabled Calvard to enter a period of rapid growth and development, leading to its eventual overtake of Erebonia as the most powerful nation on the continent. Regarding the region's recreational interests, recent technological advancements in orbal vehicles and filmmaking have caused a boom in both the motorsports and orbal cinema industries.

Messeldam
A moderate-sized city located in the north of Calvard. Due to its long-standing role as one of the Northern Sea’s major trading ports, Messeldam was often tasked during the days of monarchal rule with the delivery of imports to the capital of Oración—along with fresh seafood, of course. Although the port remains active to this day, developments in airship technology have greatly diminished its significance. The city itself, however, remains an important gateway to Remiferia and its surrounding nations. Unlike Langport, Messeldam possesses very few tourist destinations. That being said, the townscape's architecture tends to be quite popular with visitors, as its design has seen little change in the past century. The city’s Eastern and Central Eastern populations are fairly meager due to its geographical location. As such, it lacks a community that values cultural traditionalism. This has, fortunately, been a boon for Messeldam, as new art movements and customs are accepted with relative ease. It was this very attitude that led to the city serving as the venue for the Orbal Film Festival for a number of years, until its relocation to Tharbad in 1208.

After the war, Calvard is enjoying unprecedented economic prosperity. However, the public grows uncertain as the number of immigrants increases and political reform runs rampant. Follow Van, a young man and local spriggan, on a unique request that will prove more than he bargained for. Will the nation fall into chaos?

The AT (Action Time) battle command has been completely revamped transitioning seamlessly from field battles to turn-based combat. The sixth-generation tactical orbment Xipha offers a revolutionary combat experience unique to this iteration of the Trails series!
In addition, the Topic System allows players to gain an advantage in battle by using conversation topics as bargaining chips. These topics can be obtained by interacting with other characters throughout the city. The game also features the Alignment system, which allows players to change their character’s three unique attributes and influence characteristics such as their status, the forces they fight with (or against), and even how the plot unfolds.

Dive into the dynamic adventure in "Trails through Daybreak!"

Story
The spriggan's life is but one of many professions that has emerged from the Calvard Republic. Be it playing detective, negotiator, or bounty hunter, Van Arkride takes on the kind of work that can't be taken to more legitimate sources. It could be something the police can't handle, work that's best left out of the public eye, or even a request from a criminal of organization in the underworld; so long as it pays and doesn't cross too far over the gray line, he'll accept near-any job that comes across his table.

The year is 1208. A prim-and-proper young lady dressed in the uniform of an esteemed academy visits a dilapidated, multi-tenant building in a downtown district of Edith, the nation's capital. With a most dignified gaze, she looks upon the plague of the door before her. It reads: 'ARKRIDE Solutions Office: Complicated Matters Only.'
Steeling herself, she knocks on the door three times.

"First thing in the morning...?" a relaxed yet surprisingly young voice grumbles with a yawn.

From the moment he opens the door to greet her, a new tale begins.

Key Features

• The AT (Action Time) Battle system has been completely revamped, transitioning seamlessly from field battles to turn-based combat.
  
• The sixth-generation combat orbment, Xipha, offers a revolutionary combat experience unique to this iteration of the Trails series!
  
• In addition, the Topic System allows players to gain an advantage in battle by using conversation topics as bargaining chips. These topics can be obtained by interacting with other characters throughout the city.
  
• The game also features the Alignment system, which allows players to change their character’s three unique attributes and influence characteristics such as their status, the forces they fight with (or against), and even how the story unfolds.

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Hi everyone,

it's here! This update includes all the localization improvements which are also available for other platform versions of the game, and we took this opportunity to improve the encoding quality of all English and Japanese voice files on PC.

• Update English text, images and all other assets with various localization fixes and improvements.
  
• Re-balance English voice lines.
  
• Improve encoding quality of all Japanese and English voice lines.
  
• Improve support for Steam Dynamic Cloud Sync.
  
• Various other minor fixes.

Note that, primarily due to the increase in audio quality, this update increases the storage requirements of the game by roughly 2 GB.

While we expect this patch to improve the situations for all users, with the great variety of hardware and software configurations available on PC this is not always guaranteed in all circumstances. As such, you can return to previous versions of the game by selecting the any of the public "version_*" branches on Steam.

Cheers,
Peter "Durante" Thoman

Hi everyone,

this small update includes fixes for two different issues which can cause crashes in specific, rare circumstances:

• Fix a potential crash during the main scenario's final boss sequence.
  
• Fix a potential crash in one specific event after a character cut-in is displayed.

Since one of the first questions in the comments in patch notes for Reverie is frequently concerning fixes to various text issues which are not PC-specific, I'd like to note here that these are still being worked on for all versions of the game. We will of course integrate these fixes as soon as they are available.

And of course, in the unexpected case that this patch breaks anything on your particular PC, note that you can always revert to earlier versions of the game by selecting them in the Steam "Beta" menu.

Cheers,
Peter "Durante" Thoman

Hi everyone,

this update fixes a rare condition which could lead to black screens on scene changes, as well as several other smaller issues.

Here are the full patch notes:

• Fix a deadlock which could occur on some systems in rare circumstances, leading to the game becoming stuck on a black screen during loading / scene transitions.
  Sorry to those that were affected that it took until now to resolve this -- we were unable to reproduce it on any of our internal or external test systems until now.
  
• Fix a softlock issue in a small subset of battles, where very high frametime spikes (i.e. when performing an elaborate craft or art on a slower system) could lead to characters falling through the floor.
  
• Improve vertical culling of objects on an interior map.
  
• Fix the alignment of the battle turn counter in ultrawide aspect ratios.
  
• Fix a specific late-game button prompt.
  
• Fix the "Millennial Trove" shop name in its header.
  
• Replace some mentions of "trophies" with "achievements"

Since one of the first questions in the comments in patch notes for Reverie is frequently concerning fixes to various text issues which are not PC-specific, I'd like to note here that these are being worked on for all versions of the game. We will of course integrate these fixes as soon as they are available.

And of course, in the unexpected case that this patch breaks anything on your particular PC, note that you can always revert to earlier versions of the game by selecting them in the Steam "Beta" menu.

Cheers,
Peter "Durante" Thoman

Hi everyone,

this is another small update which primarily fixes a very specific crash which could sporadically occur on some systems:

• Fix a potential crash which could happen at some framerates during a specific cutscene in "A Maiden's Melancholy"
  
• Fix some button prompts in a few help notes not correctly reflecting control re-bindings

Note that you can always revert to earlier versions of the game by selecting them in the Steam "Beta" menu.

Cheers,
Peter "Durante" Thoman

Hi everyone,

we've resolved a few more issues in this update:

• Fixed a short sequence during the ending scene playing with EN voices despite JP voice language being selected
  
• The game now correctly uses the button rebindings selected for battle attack and battle move actions in all relevant circumstances
  
• Fixed a legacy script issue in the "Intimate Moments" minigame that prevented interaction during one particular question
  
• Fixed some stretching issues with ultrawide aspect ratio support in the "Horror Coaster" minigame
  
• Fixed the background of the battle target info screen being stretched in non-16:9 aspect ratios
  
• Fixed a possible brief flicker when entering the gamepad rebinding menu from the pause menu

Note that you can always revert to earlier versions of the game by selecting them in the Steam "Beta" menu.

Cheers,
Peter "Durante" Thoman

Hi everyone,

this is a quick patch as a follow-up to 1.0.3. It addresses the following issues:

• Fix a regression related to some aspects of ultrawide aspect ratio handling in cutscenes
  
• Fix an error which would occur after a specific interaction in the VR minigame

Note that you can always revert to earlier versions of the game by selecting them in the Steam "Beta" menu.

Cheers,
Peter "Durante" Thoman

Hi everyone,

we've been quite busy over the past few days in order to be able to resolve some of the more important issues encountered in Trails into Reverie.

Here is a summary of the changes and fixes in version 1.0.3:

• Fix some characters missing their link attacks.
  
• Fix two separate instances of potential crashes on some systems in the Magical Girl Alisa minigame.
  
• Disable AVX in order to support very old or lower-end CPUs.
  
• Improve GPU-bound performance in VR by 20% or more by leveraging the hidden area mesh.
  
• Fix the button prompt shown in the battle change tutorial (yes, we missed one).
  
• Fix the alignment of the "Trails to Walk" HuD in ultrawide aspect ratios.
  
• Fix the letterboxing of a specific subset of image-based story scenes in <16:9 resolutions.

You can now get back to the game, or read on for more details regarding some of these points.

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AVX has been available in the vast majority of CPUs since at least 2011, and these days there are quite a lot of games and applications which depend on it. It's also not completely trivial to build a version without an AVX requirement, since not only the game itself but also any of the used third party libraries and frameworks need to be reconfigured.
That said, even if the CPUs without AVX don't meet our minimum specs, we still wanted to attempt to make it possible for people on such systems to at least try and run the game, but only if that can be done without impacting performance for everyone else. According to our internal benchmarks on this new build, there are no performance regressions even in highly CPU-bound scenarios, so we decided to go ahead with this version.
Note that we of course still do not officially support running the game on systems which do not meet the listed minimum specifications.

One thing which was on our agenda but didn't quite make it for release is using the hidden area mesh functionality of OpenVR to optimize VR rendering. The idea here is that in the pre-warping images rendered for each eye, quite a lot of pixels end up not actually being visible in the final image. Since this differs with each HMD, the driver can provide a mesh which covers those areas in order to reduce the rendering load.
Sadly, the engine used in Trails into Reverie did not support this out of the box, so we had to implement it manually. The exact performance improvement varies with each headset and the relative CPU and GPU load which depends on your hardware and game settings, but on my Valve Index I measured a 21% overall performance improvement, which is of course very significant.

A subset of players experienced crashes in specific places in this particular minigame, which were related to a use-after-free resource management problem. The big issue with crashes like these is that whether they actually manifest is highly dependent on the overall system configuration, aspects like framerate, or even what other software is running. This both makes it easier for them to slip through QA and potentially much harder to solve them. Fixing the reasons behind these potential crashes in time for the first patch (one work day, really, in order to enable some QA period) took the combined power of PH3, so big thanks to everyone involved!

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Note that you can always revert to earlier versions of the game by selecting them in the Steam "Beta" menu.

Cheers,
Peter "Durante" Thoman