Star Ocean: The Divine Force is a role-playing game with challenging fights. To succeed, you must always search for the best approach and be one step ahead of the enemy. One of the things to keep an eye on are action points. You need them for creating chain combos, but you'll notice that the number of APs is not always the same in combat. This may leave you wondering why AP keeps changing in Star Ocean: The Divine Force.
How does the AP gauge work in Star Ocean Divine Force
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To be successful in battles, you need to understand how the AP gauge work in Star Ocean: The Divine Force. You'll need higher AP to utilize chain combos efficiently, but how to get more? As you've noticed, your default AP is only five.
You need to surprise and blindside enemies to get more, as they'll increase your AP to 15. If you change character during combat, your increased max AP will transfer over to them. Be careful, as the expanded limit will be reduced if you take damage or are knocked down. Remember that characters you don't control can't have more than 5 AP. Now that you know why AP keeps changing in Star Ocean: The Divine Force, you can be more successful in this action game.
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Nebojša Prijić is a staff writer at Pro Game Guides. He's an old-school gaming journalist that loves real-time strategies, shooters, and RPGs. He remembers the first Diablo, PC games on a single floppy disk, and playing Mortal Kombat on the keyboard.