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Let's cut through the pre-amble:

What is Devil May Cry?

Devil May Cry is an action series developed and published by Japanese company Capcom, beginning with Devil May Cry 1 in 2001 for the Playstation 2 (Here's an advert showing it as part of Sony's holiday lineup that included landmark gaming titles such as Final Fantasy X, Grand Theft Auto 3, Metal Gear Solid 2 and... Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance). The game series began as a prototype build for Resident Evil 4 that had more of an overt action focus than the acclaimed horror franchise was known for. Rather than scrap the build, Capcom saw potential in the idea of a stylish action game, and gave director Hideki Kamiya permission to make it a full title.
Kamiya would involuntarily leave the series after DMC 1 as Capcom didn't ask him to work on DMC 2. Instead, a still-to-this-day unknown phantom director was put in charge of the game and he ran it into the ground. With less than half a year before DMC 2's 2003 release, Capcom brought in a new director to course-correct and get the game out for release: Hideaki Itsuno. In less than six months, Itsuno would rally the team, basically make the entire game, and create several features that would go on to become series staples, and while DMC 2 sold well, it was critically panned for being a very boring game. Itsuno, not wanting his reputation to be sullied, came back in 2005 with Devil May Cry 3, generally considered one of the greatest action games of all time. From here several core traits are instilled: chief among which being style meters that track the player's skill with combos and Dante having a style system that lets him use different movesets.
And it's in 2008 with the release of Devil May Cry 4, marking the series going multiplatform for the first time as it came out on the PS3 and Xbox 360, that this story really begins:

The build up to 2010

With DMC 4's release in 2008, Capcom set the sales expectation that the game would sell 1.8 million units by the end of the fiscal year. DMC 4 would sell two million units in under a month, but Capcom were a bit unimpressed. They were hoping that now that DMC was on a wider range of platforms that the sales would correspondingly go up, but instead the game just saw a modest increase over DMC 3. The cost of game development had also shot up in the new console generation, making Capcom more concerned about DMC4's sales just being fine, especially coming off of huge sales juggarnauts from 2007 such as Halo 3, Call of Duty Modern Warfare and Bioshock. (It doesn't help that DMC 4 had a very rushed development leading to the now infamous case of Dante's playable chapters just being Nero's but backwards)
Japan at the time was also in a weird place when it came to gaming. The mobile phone gaming market was about to take off, and the playerbase in Japan was already smaller than the worldwide market for obvious reasons. In the home regions, it was safer to look into handheld gaming, and while Capcom had dallied with the idea of a DMC game on the Playstation Portable (at one point considering a remake of the first game that reached in-game screenshots and box art that was quietly shelved for unknown reasons, alongside a prequel focusing on Dante's father Sparda), these ideas never left the ground. Seeing how Western markets were more traditionally concerned with console gaming at this time (and the success of the God of War franchise proved Action was a genre people wanted), Capcom's idea was simple:
Give their IPs to Western studios and let them take a crack at it, with the idea being their knowledge of what the West wants would let the games sell better. The results were mixed. The Bionic Commando reboot is nowadays more known for the twist of YOUR WIFE IS THE ROBOT ARM and only sold 27,000 units in a month, but Dead Rising did fairly well under a Capcom Vancouver branch until Dead Rising 4 happened and uh... kinda killed the series because it was awful.
Capcom eventually set their sights on giving the West a crack at DMC, leading to them eyeballing several studios. This worked out well for them in that Itsuno was also burnt out. After having spent five straight years on DMC and having redeemed its image after DMC 2, Itsuno was ready to take a break and make his dream game: Dragon's Dogma, a dark fantasy game that is very fun. It got a Netflix anime adaptation recently that is... not as fun. But while Itsuno was making Dragon's Dogma, Capcom had some time to spitball handing the series off. They eventually settled on Ninja Theory, an up and coming British team best known for Heavenly Sword (a very pretty game with mediocre action combat and a priority on storytelling), and Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (a modernisation of Journey to the West that was very pretty but priotizied story over gameplay). Rumors began to circulate in early 2010 that Ninja Theory had acquired the license and would be making a prequel focusing on Dante's early days, but it would only become clear at Tokyo Games Show that year when DmC: Devil May Cry* was formally announced.
And the fanbase collectively hated it.
(* Yes that does technically mean this reboot's name is Devil may Cry: Devil May Cry. I'm going to call it DmC from here to differentiate it from the core series)

The TGS Trailer

For those unaware of DMC, I should stress that by 2010, it had a reputation for a certain flair and theatics. Dante was known to be a goofball in cutscenes, taunting enemy demons and making a mockery of them. He has an entire cutscene in DMC 4 where he acts like he's on the stage of a theatre with how grandious he is. People liked Dante for this reason, he was a breath of fresh air in a time when most protagonists were stotic, gritty jerks who only talked in curse words and gravelly shouts. And his flowing white hair was also certainly iconic.
So here comes the new take on Dante, the West giving him a go and oh... hoo boy. There's no charisma, there's no panache. The trailer has no gameplay. Dante doesn't look like a trash talker, he looks like a meth addict. He's smoking, something the DMC 1 design documents said Dante would never do as (per Kamiya) smoking is uncool. His hair isn't even white!
Now let me be clear: I am not opposed to a new take on Dante. Certainly, the idea presented in the reveal trailer that Dante is imaging the demons he fights as an acute case of psychosis is an interesting idea, as it raises the question of whether or not the demons are real or if he's senselessly killing random people. But the execution would have had to be perfect, and opening with just a fancy trailer that had no signs of gameplay for an action franchise was not the right foot to start on.
What doesn't help was that the entire Western Capcom initiative was one pushed by a very controversial figure in gaming called Keiji Inafune, who would leave Capcom right after DmC's announcement in 2010. Inafune was the one most strongly advocating for the western development approach (Something Capcom were quick to stress in 2010 after his departure), but with his departure the movement had less steam. Inafune would go on to make Mighty Number 9, a Kickstarter that went miserably wrong on every turn and is usually seen as one of the most disappointing games of the 2010s.
I should also point out here: Dante's radically different design from the norm of the series was a mandate imposed by Capcom. Ninja Theory's original concept art for Dante was much more closer to his traditional design- white hair, red coat and all. But Capcom, and Itsuno especially, were adament that if Ninja Theory were going to be doing something new with the franchise, that they needed to go off the cuff- in Capcom's own words, "Go crazy."

The development

So Dante got a new color palette, a darker jacket and black hair. But at the time (this news only came out two years after the redesign was revealed), people didn't know about Capcom explicitly telling NT to go off the rails, and what they saw... was Ninja Theory going off the rails in the wrong way.
So from the word go, fans aren't happy. Fans are usually never happy but I mean they were unhappy. Chief Creative director for Ninja Theory Tameen Antionades said after the reveal: “The vitriol was immediate, aggressive and relentless for the next two years. Without a second of gameplay being shown, it had been written off as a disaster in the making.” Tameen would become the ball and chain around DmC's marketing, which is quite apparent in how Ninja Theory would dial back on his appearances as we get closer to the game's release. The backlash to the launch clearly surprised Ninja Theory and caught them off guard, with Tameen publically lashing out at the original fanbase for writing the game off or being unhappy at Dante's visual redesign. This would go on to dominiate the discussions about DmC for its pre-release cycle, as it became less about the game and more about the community and whether or not the response was justified (alongside in typical internet fashion, a few death threats being tossed around which apparently included a full metal song). No matter which side of it you lean on though, Tameen had habit of putting his foot in his mouth in regards to PR:

When asked by Venturebeat how he felt about the fan reaction to the TGS trailer, Tameen (and I am quoting them word for word here) “took a drag of his cigarette and without blinking or pausing to exhale the smoke from his mouth, said: ‘I don’t care.’”
Tameen went on to insult Dante's original costume in a later interview when saying that what was and wasn’t cool had changed in the years since DMC1: “If Dante, dressed as he was, walked into any bar outside of Tokyo, he’d get laughed out.”
Finally, he disparaged the original series for its depiction of women, particularly the demon hunters Trish and Lady, saying: "I've nothing against big tits - I'd rather have my head resting on a pair right now - but if you're going to try and stimulate someone on different levels, there's better ways to do it... We did that in Enslaved with Trip. People loved her, not because she had big breasts and high heels, but because she felt like someone who could be your girlfriend. That to me is more attractive than a prostitute walking around with a big gun." The idea that Tameen was dismissing Lady and Trish (Lady especially has basically the largest character arc in DMC3 and it's as much her story as Dante's) irked the fanbase.

Capcom likely stepped in behind the scenes and encourged a few changes. Notably, Dante's design underwent a few shifts, including making him more muscular and rewriting portions of the game to give him a few more of Old!Dante's trademark quips. A few voice actor was also cast, named Tim Phillips... though NT wouldn't budge on the haircut as it was part of the story. The Dante psychosis/prisoner angle from the TGS trailer was also completely scrapped from the final product, having Dante instead be confirmed to be sane and fighting demons, not people. Even though Capcom had encouraged NT to go off the rails... money still reigns supreme and Capcom wanted to turn a profit. So closer to release, Capcom made a point of stressing that Itsuno and several other DMC veteran staff were supervising the combat system and offering guidance. Combat designer Rahni Tucker spoke positively of the exchanges she had with Itsuno:

While Capcom Japan kept a close eye on Ninja Theory’s work on DmC’s characters, story and world, its greatest focus was, naturally, on the game’s combat. Itsuno and other key personnel would visit the studio in Cambridge every few months to check in on its progress, Ninja Theory staff would often make the trip out to Japan, and in between those times there would be regular video conferences and daily email updates. All that communication helped to unify the two companies, despite a fundamental split between their approaches to game development: Ninja Theory liked to start with the visual design, and Capcom with the mechanics. Modestly, Itsuno admits he learned a lot from the collaboration; Tucker believes she picked up an awful lot more. “I learnt so much,” she says. “Itsuno would speak philosophically about how he approaches combat and enemy design. They build most of the player’s set of actions first, and then think about the things they can build to allow players to exploit particular elements of the system they’ve designed. They really put the emphasis of the baddie design back onto the player’s actions. It’s kind of obvious, but just the way that he spoke about it was inspiring, and it made a lot of sense to me.”

The damage however, was long done. Even with the post-TGS revisions, DmC was facing an uphill battle from the community, with a minority waiting to give it a try themselves before casting judgement, but the majority either being apathetic or downright hostile to the game, not helped by Tameen's attitude creating the idea that Ninja Theory inherently hated what made Devil May Cry good (again, keep in mind most players wouldn't learn that Capcom were pushing for the radical Dante changes until years post-release). Ultimately though, Capcom themselves are to blame for the choices that impacted DmC: Ninja Theory were only doing their jobs to the best of their abilities and for the most part many of the staff clearly loved getting to work on such a popular franchise and boosting their studio's name. It came down an unfortunate blend of Capcom misreading what people wanted from future projects, an attempt to appeal to a Western market that fell on its face, and a director unprepared for the mass backlash his product got.
Either way, the game finally came out in early 2013.

The game itself

Eh, it was OK.
DmC launched in March 2013 and got decent reviews on all platforms, getting a consistent 8/10 on all platforms on Metacritic. The PC port was especially praised for its sheer variety of features including an uncapped framerate. Critics quite liked it, praising the story and art direction, feeling it was a necessary step for the series to make the games somewhat easier to let newcomers in without facing as daunting a challenge as the games could be (I'm pretty sure learning how to fly a plane is easier than mastering Dante in Devil May Cry 4). Old Dante's most famous voice actor, Reuben Langdon, spoke on a podcast about the game and admitted that while he wasn't fond of the new Dante's characterisation, he applauded Ninja Theory's craftsmenship.
The fanbase were colder, even with the pre-release biases set aside (this wasn't helped by Platinum, helmed by several ex-DMC 1 developers including Kamiya, releasing Metal Gear Rising Revengeance also in 2013. Metal Gear Rising is a very good game that involves flipping giant robots and fighting a very actractive Brazillian man with a gun-sheath sword). The game's framerate on consoles was capped at 30FPS for technical reasons when all prior games ran at 60FPS. Dante had lost a lot of his mechanical complexity (including DMC 3 and 4's style system which offered Dante special abilities he could switch between such as more sword and gun combos, blocking and dodging) in favour of a more universal moveset. The Devil Trigger super mode was pretty lame and automatically knocked all enemies into the air, which people didn't like as it made most encounters too easy. Building up style was too easy and the game had no systems to stop you spamming the same combos over and over. The game's weapon system of angel/demon themed weapons included color-coded enemies that forced you to use the right gear or you'd be punished. There was no Turbo Mode, a feature in most games that automatically boosted the game's speed by 20% on average.
Ninja Theory still made a good action game, albeit one that needed a bit more refinement to reach its true potential. But the lack of several core features (or worse, poorly implemented iterations of said features) led to the fanbase adopting a term:

"It's a good game, but it's not a good Devil May Cry."

The fanbase were willing to concede to the good aspects of the game- especially in audiovisual aspects. Enemies now got a subtitle during their first appearance, weapons getting a slight glint when the player pauses to let them know they can launch a pause combo attack, the soundtrack was now dynamic and evolved up the higher your style rank got, alongside the killing blow at the end of a fight getting a cinematic camera angle. Ninja Theory's sense of style itself was something that impressed the Capcom team, as all of these aspects were modified and adopted into the mainline games come 2019. The game was also very beautiful in places, leaving the Gothic archetecture of the main games for a more European feel in Limbo City. Madrid in Spain and Genoa in Italy are clear influences on the archetecture, and the design team adapt them well in making Limbo a city that is itself a weapon trying to kill Dante through compressing alleyways, closing off paths or mocking him through writing on the walls, Splinter Cell Conviction style. Combichrist and Noisia's collaberations for the soundtrack were also praised between their licensed work and new music composed just for the game, especially the songs Never Surrender and Throat Full of Glass.
But for all the praise, reluctant or otherwise, that game got mechanically, the story that the critics had acclaimed as mature and a right step forward had few supporters among the playerbase. There's been a lot written and said about DmC's story so I'll cap off the highlights here:

Dante, even after the TGS revisions, was still far too crass and unlikeable. A scene early on in the game was also seen as a potshot at fans of the old games as a response to the TGS backlash where a mop falls on Dante's head, making him look like his older self, before he snarks "Not in a million years" and throws the mop aside. Fans quickly took to several creative nicknames to refer to this new iteration of the character, with the most popular being DINO (Dante In Name Only) or Donte. Fans hated Donte's personality so much that they began unironically championing the Spanish dub of the game due to his dub actor having more fun in the role, leading to people making mods to highlight the misadventures of Donté, el exterminador de demonios. Dante being changed from a half-human half-demon to half-angel half-demon also led to mocking jokes comparing Dante to the Adam Sandler film Little Nicky.
The game relied far too heavily on swearing, with the exchange between Dante and Succubus becoming infamous for the lines "Fuck you!" "Fuck you!" "FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUU." A scene with Dante and Vergil where the two engage in brotherly banter only for Vergil to end the argument with "And I've got a bigger dick" also went viral for all the wrong reasons.
Dante's brother Vergil in the core series is a man of MOTIVATION who would sooner cut his throat than admit to anything being stronger than him, alongside someone who hates firearms. Entire essays have been written about how amazing Vergil is in Devil May Cry 3 and in some communities, his name has become synonymous with the rival archetype. Here, he's presented as a thinly veiled analogue to the Anonymous movement (you can carbon date this game to early 2010s in general with the Anonymous analouges and WAKE UP SHEEPLE energy), openly admits to Dante that "I'm powerless to stop you" from just leaving his goal to stop the demons, and in the most infamous scene of the game, uses a sniper rifle to shoot a pregnant woman in the chest, blowing out her entire stomach, before headshotting her. To make things even worse for the reputation of this version of Vergil (who had been mockingly named Vergin), the launch version of DmC had him wearing a fedora. In 2013. I don't think I need to add anything to that if you remember what became of the fedora around 2013.
Despite Tameen's comments about women in video games and "prostitutes with guns," DmC was reviled for how deeply mysoginistic the game truly was. Kat (the one heroic female character in the game and the only female character to survive the game), had several far more revealing costumes planned in concept art (Alongside the idea that Kat fought with a violin weapon pre-Lindsay Sterling which was pretty cool). Here's one of the better pieces of art where Kat was planned to be a biker chick with platinum blonde hair. Kat is ultimately a vehicle for Dante's character development as he softens up around her, only for her to be kidnapped and brutalized by the police. Dante and Vergil then kidnap the mistress of Mundus (the main antagonist) who is pregnant with his child, and trade the two women off like Pokemon cards (the camera in the trade scene, linked above in the Vergin section), leading back to the Sniper Rifle Abortion. The fanbase got very creative with memes relating to that part of the game. Kat's main involvement in the final act of the game is just to give Dante a map of the building she was tortured in, then hide behind a dumpster when Dante and Vergil come to blows over whether or not they should rule humanity. And in the re-release of the game, the final cutscene is modfied so the last shot of the game is Dante copping a feel of Kat's ass.

The end was an OK game let down by a bad story. The tale of many a game. And unfortunately, partly thanks to the game just not being good enough for the DMC pedigree, DmC underperformed. Capcom initally hoped for 2 million units to be sold like DMC 4, but later quietly lowered their projections down to 1.2 million. Some rumors speculate that Capcom had to artifically boost the game's sale numbers by counting anyone who downloaded the game when it was for free as part of Playstation Plus in January 2014 (games that go on PS+ or Microsofft's Xbox Live Games with Gold service are usually games that are either selling so well they can take the hit, are past their lifespan and looking to reignite the playerbase, or did very badly and this is a last ditch effort to get interest into the game). While not speaking directly about DmC, Capcom spoke frankly in a financial report regarding their Western outsourcing, attributing the lack of success to a "delayed response to the expanding digital contents market," "insufficient coordination between the marketing and the game development divisions in overseas markets," and a "decline in quality due to excessive outsourcing". The long and the short of it was: DmC flopped commerically, failing to meet the sales of DMC 4 in the West (which remember was Capcom's entire reason for the reboot) when it was released on the exact same platforms, and the consoles had a larger install base due to five years having passed. For what it's worth, Itsuno himself support the game and approved of Ninja Theory's efforts, even saying he'd have been honored to work on a DmC Devil May Cry 2 had Capcom gone with that project.
Some post-launch support would follow, including DLC costumes based on concept art for Dante and several alt skins based on his DMC 1 and 3 appearances, Bloody Palace (basically a time trial gauntlet run) and a campaign focusing on Vergil that sets up a sequel hook which never gets followed up on.
Some Ninja Theory staffers didn't take the news well, especially as they knew that their reputation was going to take a large hit after DmC. Art director Alessandro Taini gave a GDC talk where he went on a weird rant involving editing DMC 4 Dante into stills from... Brokeback Mountain and Batman and Robin, while also saying reboot Dante was based on... Tyler Durden from Fight Club (for those who don't know Fight Club, you're not meant to agree with Tyler or find him a role model). Keep in mind that this is Taini basically shit-talking character designs he had no hand in making. In a hilaripus twist of irony, Dante would later in the series get a cowboy hat as a weapon. Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Capcom up to this point had been going back and forth on what DmC even was- was it a prequel, a reboot, an alternate universe? They seemed to change the answer every month. But after the game's failure to meet expectations commercially, they quietly settled on it being based on an alternate universe, as was confirmed in of all things, Donte appearing as a DLC alt skin for Dante in Marvel vs Capcom Infinite.

(While I'm on the topic of weird fighting game trivia, Donte actually also got a full fighting game appearance in the "classic," Playstation All Stars Battle Royale as an attempt to market DmC ahead of its release. Yes, Donte technically didn't even debut in his own game. This story is so weird to me! In the trailer he even fights the protagonist of previous Ninja Theory game Heavenly Sword)

In 2015, Capcom re-released the game for the new consoles as DmC: Devil May Cry: Definitive Edition. This was largely helmed by the Capcom team in Japan who modified the game to make it more in line with DMC's series standards of gameplay. And you know what? It's really good! Genuinely, it actually makes the game and takes it from "A good attempt" to "one of the best Western attempts at action games period." 60FPS on consoles, all DLC included, Turbo Mode was back, a new mode called Must Style where you have to get an S Rank in combos before your attacks do damage, all alongside an insanely detailed changelog penned by Rahni Tucker. The one downside? It never got released on PC for unsaid reasons, presumably that most of the new gameplay additions... were based on mods made by the PC fanbase. Mods you can no longer find as the site storing them has gone down.
However even with this, DmC would get sand in its eye one more time. In the same year, Capcom released a similar re-release of DMC 4 called Special Edition. It was far more bare bones than DmC: DE, only adding three new playable characters in Lady, Trish and MOTIVATION Man himself, Vergil. Despite the game only getting a physical release in Japan and being digital only here in the West (whereas DmC: DE got a full release), Capcom eventually said that DMC 4 SE obliterated the DE in sales, with Capcom specifically saying that 4SE's digital sales led to a better quarter in 2015 than they were anticipating. As of 2020 (due to Capcom counting their re-releases of games separately than the original release when it comes to sales), we know that DMC4SE has sold 1.5 million units, while DmC: DE sold 1.1 million.
However, ultimately, I'm very joyful to admit that everyone got a happy ending! No, literally, everyone came out of this for the better. Ninja Theory in 2017 would release Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, a critical and commerical darling made on a self-styled "AA" budget that was praised for its handling of mental health through the lens of its MC Senua. It made its budget back easily, they're now owned by Microsoft and they're currently working on a sequel called Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2. Capcom would bounce back from their slump in the Early 2010s, beginning in 2017 with the releases of Resident Evil 7, Monster Hunter World and a certain title I'll mention in a minute. They've been releasing hit after hit for the last four years and they have more on the horizon. And Itsuno, now having made Dragon's Dogma, came back raring to go with more Devil May Cry. Though there are some rumors by Dante's voice actor that he had to threaten to leave Capcom to get it, at E3 2018 as part of the Microsoft panel, Itsuno took to the stage and announced:
"DMC IS BACK!!!"
(Watching people react to this trailer and freaking out when they see it's DMC gives me so much serotonin)
Thanks for reading this... long disaster of a post. Have a good one, and remember to keep this party crazy. Let's rock. :)

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[1.1] DE Surgeries - NewRatkinPlus patch
[1.1] DE Surgeries - Oni Race patch
[1.1] DE Surgeries - Revia patch
Extended Storage + A RimWorld of Magic - Storage Patch
Jewelry for Kurin patch
Kurin Easy Mod
Kurin EPOE and another mod patch
MSE - Prosthetic Combat - Revived
Kurin Tail Weapons
Kurin(Garam) Boots And Glove Fix
Misc. Robots Extended
MoreGloomyWalls
おっぱい追加
Oppai_addRace_patch
Polarisbloc - Security Force
Polarisbloc - Storyteller incidents pack
Proper Shotguns Patch Pack
[SYR] Prosthetic Table
Rabbie The Moonrabbit - English Patch
Rimsenal - Enhanced Vanilla Pack
Rimsenal - Federation Faction Pack
Rimsenal - Feral Faction Pack
Rimsenal - Security pack
SF Cute Minions for ARoM
[KV] Show Hair With Hats or Hide All Hats - 1.1
Simple sidearms
Tier 2 Temperature
Truly Inspired Taming
[LB] Vanilla Armors Retexture
Vanilla Furniture Expanded - Farming
Vanilla Furniture Expanded - Medical Module
Vanilla Furniture Expanded - Power
Vanilla Furniture Expanded - Production
Vanilla Furniture Expanded - Security
Vanilla Furniture Expanded - Spacer Module
Vanilla Textures Expanded
Vanilla Weapons Retextured
Tribal Headgear Retexturing
H.C_AnimalReskins_Complete
XFB Astoriel patch
[Ling]Move Steam Geyser
4M Mehni's Misc Modifications
[SPK] Additional Vanilla Crafting
[Vee]Apparel Retextuer
Archotech Brain
Auto-Cut Blight
AutoDrill
Awoolf
Balanced Eclipse and Solar Flare
Beautiful Outdoors
Better Ground Textures?
Better Pawn Control
Better Roads
Better Workbench Management
Bionic icons
BoomMod
Camera+
Chill Out, Body Purist [1.0, 1.1]
Combat Training
Common Sense
[KV] Configurable Maps - 1.1
Cremate Auto Strip
Damage Indicators [1.1]
Death Acidifier Removal
Deconstruct First
Deep Ore Identifier
[1.1] Deep Scanner Patch
Do Something for Idle
Double Population
Enemy Self Preservation
Enhanced Combat Sounds
[KV] Faction Control - 1.1
Faster Smoothing
Fences And No Floors
Fertile Planet
Realistic Rooms
[FSF] Filth Vanishes With Rain And Time
Go Explore!
Grazing Lands
[SYR] Harvest Yield
Hats Display Selection
High Tech Laboratory Facilities (Continued)
Improved Quality Scaling
Incident Person Stat
Infinite Turrets
Infused
Inspiration
Interaction Bubbles
ItemListSelector
JukeBox
Just Ignore Me Passing
Less Arbitrary Surgery (Continued)
Let's Trade!
Level Up!
LinkableDoors (unofficial)
Locks
Master of Cooking
Master of Crafting
Material Filter
[XND] Memorable Auroras
Mining Priority
More Autosave Slots
More Components
More Crashed Ship Parts
More Planning
More Practical Traits
More Sculpture
More Steel
More Trade Ships
More Trade Ships - Double Population
[KV] More Trait Slots - 1.1
[T] MoreFloors
MultipleTraders
Music on the Rim
NamesGalore
Nano Repair Tech
NightVision
NoArmorPointCap
Nurse Job
Pawn Education (Continued)
Pick Up And Haul
Power Alerts
Prepare Landing
Prison Labor
[XND] Profitable Weapons
Quality Cooldown
QualityBuilder
QualitySurgeon
Reasonable Components
Recipe icons
Replace Stuff
SF More Steel from Slag
SF Orbital Trader Transponder
Share The Load
Shear Those Corpses Vanilla
SimplyMoreFloors
Skilled Stonecutting
Smart Medicine
Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
Stabilize
[SYR] Stone Rebalance
Subsurface Conduit
Supreme Melee
Surgical Body Shaping (SBS)
Synergistic Traits
Tech Advancing
Terraform Rimworld
The Price Is Right
[1.1] TicksPerSecond
Tilled Soil
[XND] Tiny Tweaks
Trade Ships Drop Spot
[KV] Trading Spot - 1.1
[XND] Turret Extensions
[XND] TE Turret Expansion
Ugh You Got Me
Un-Limited
Use Your Gun!
Veinminer R1.1
[XND] Visible Pants
Zoological Orbital Traders
Craftable Plasteel
Farmable Neutroamine
CrustyTextiles (Continued)
More Vanilla Turrets 1.1
More Vanilla Turrets - Turret Extensions Patch (continued)
GloomyEmbrasure
Invisible Meditation Spot
[FSF] Meditation Freedom
Misc. Craftable Robots
Nuclear Work Robot
Royalty Textures Expanded
[TH]TouhouCharacters - Ablities Expansions
WorthwhileMechanoidsPatch
FemaleBB BodyType for Human
Vanilla Textures Expanded - Genetic Rim
Eccentric Tech - Cosmetic Modifications ANDROID PATCH
Plasteel Surgery (Continued)

After the End Fan Fork Dev Diary 37: Culture group changes, a new horde, Catholicism changes, and more! (PART TWO)

Running With 600+ Mods

So Hello my fellow colonists (and hats), ive been playing rimworld for 1000+ hours and im terrible at modding and would love a little help. Ive been using fluffy s mod manger to sort out any conflicts and i managed to sort most of the conflicts out, but im still suffering from lag and frame rate issues. In the early every thing seems fine but around my 5th colonist things start to slow. So im currently trying to find the source of the problem. My goal is to not only play with minimum lag but also create the biggest mod list that works smoothly together and is the most diverse. So im asking for your help, if there are any links or any tips please let me know and thank you all. Here is my Mod list if your interested and i run a gtx 1060 36gb ram and i5 6600 if your interested

 ModCheck
 MOD-E
 Core
 SRTS Expanded
 Startup impact
 RIMMSAssemble
 HugsLib
 JecsTools
 FrameRateControl
 RuntimeGC
 Verb Expansion Framework
 Better ModMismatch Window
 [1.0] Android tiers
 [1.0] Android Resurrection Kit
 Android Tiers Unfeeling Patch
 Android Tiers++ Extension
 High Tech Laboratory Facilities (Continued)
 Death Rattle
 Death Rattle - Comatose
 Life Support
 Colony Manager
 MendAndRecycle
 [SYR] Harvest Yield Patch
 More Components
 More Steel
 Rimatomics
 Planetary Drill
 Pick Up And Haul
 Misc. Training
 Un-Limited
 Questionable Ethics Enhanced
 Do Something for Idle
 Psychology
 Humanoid Alien Races 2.0
 Jewelry
 Cybernetic Organism and Neural Network
 Cybernetic Warfare
 Camera+
 [RF] Editable Backstories and Names [1.0]
 [1.0] RimCuisine 2 Core
 [1.0] RimCuisine 2: Smokes and Shrooms Expansion
 [1.0] RimCuisine 2: Bottling and Booze Expansion
 [1.0] RimCuisine 2: NERFED Drugs and Drinks
 Vanilla Factions Expanded - Core
 Vanilla Apparel Expanded
 Vanilla Armour Expanded
 Vanilla Weapons Expanded
 Vanilla Weapons Expanded - Quickdraw
 Vanilla Furniture Expanded
 Vanilla Furniture Expanded - Production
 Vanilla Furniture Expanded - Security
 Vanilla Furniture Expanded - Medical Module
 Vanilla Animals Expanded — Cats and Dogs
 Vanilla Animals Expanded — Ice Sheet
 Vanilla Animals Expanded — Tundra
 Vanilla Animals Expanded — Arid Shrubland
 Vanilla Animals Expanded — Boreal Forest
 Vanilla Animals Expanded — Tropical Swamp
 Vanilla Animals Expanded — Extreme Desert
 Vanilla Animals Expanded — Tropical Rainforest
 Vanilla Animals Expanded — Livestock
 Vanilla Animals Expanded — Desert
 Vanilla Hair Expanded
 Vanilla Factions Expanded - Medieval
 Vanilla Fishing Expanded
 Nature is Beautiful v2.5 [1.0]
 Faction Blender
 Advanced Mortar
 Vanilla Fences (Fence Tab)
 [KV] Change Research Speed - 1.0
 [FSF] Encounter Map Resources
 Bulk Stonecutting
 Fixable Mood Debuffs Alert
 Deity difficulty
 Dynamic Diplomacy
 CelsiusAndFahrenheit
 Ceiling Light [1.0]
 Animals Logic
 Animal Tab
 [SYR] Doormats
 [1.0] Dire Raids
 EdB Prepare Carefully
 Pharmacist
 Melee Hunting 1.0
 Thick Armor
 Skilled Stonecutting
 ShowModDesignators
 Share The Load
 Safely Hidden Away
 A RimWorld of Magic
 Rah's Bionics and Surgery Expansion
 RBSE Back to Basics
 Mercer's Backpacks (B19)
 Graphics Setter
 Harvest Organs Post Mortem
 Guards For Me
 [KV] Configurable Maps - 1.0
 Architect Icons
 Search and Destroy
 Pawnmorpher
 Giddy-up! Core
 Giddy-up! Battle Mounts
 Giddy-up! Caravan
 Giddy-up! Ride and Roll
 Giddy-Up! Add-on: Animal Saddles
 Select Turret Target
 Balanced Eclipse and Solar Flare
 Avoid Friendly Fire
 Blighted Alert
 Color Coded Mood Bar
 Craftsmanship
 Cultured Meat
 Deep Ore Identifier
 Dubs Mint Menus
 ED-Embrasures
 ED-Laser Drill
 Fluffy Breakdowns
 Follow Me
 Heat Map
 Hospitality
 While You're Up [1.0]
 Wealthy Traders 1.0
 Roof Support 1.0
 Quarry 1.0
 More Slaves [1.0]
 Less Arbitrary Surgery
 Cut plants before building
 [XND] Memorable Auroras
 [SYR] Set Up Camp
 [KV] Trading Spot - 1.0
 [KV] RimFridge - 1.0
 Incident Person Stat
 Tables+
 Wall Light
 The Price Is Right
 Tech Advancing
 Squad UI Tweaks
 Smaller Rooms
 Simply More Bridges
 Simple Bulk Drugs
 Selling prisoners with no guilt
 SF [v1.0] Rain Removes All Filth
 SF [v1.0] Priority Treatment
 Rimefeller
 RimHUD
 ResearchPal
 RT Fuse
 Fuse Plus
 Prisoner Harvesting
 PrisonerRansom
 Prisoner Capture and Manipulation
 Plant Growth Sync
 Pawn Rules
 OgreStack
 [KV] More Trait Slots - 1.0
 Medical Tab
 Mad Skills
 MT - Silent Doors
 LongRangePodLauncher
 Labels on Floor
 Blueprints
 Just Ignore Me Passing
 SF Grim Reality
 SF Materials Rebalanced
 Ugh You Got Me
 Invisible Conduit
 Mortar Accuracy
 DontBlockDoorMod[1.0]
 Brrr and Phew
 Better Vanilla Masking
 Recipe icons
 [RF] Realistic Planets [1.0]
 Bionic icons
 Everybody Gets One
 [WD] Partially-Passable Wind Turbines 1.0
 Simple Bulk Cooking
 Cyber Fauna 1.0
 Megafauna
 Dinosauria
 Use Your Gun/li>!< 
[XND] Turret Extensions
 Simple Turrets
 Simple Turrets - TE Patch
 Raise The Roof 1.0
 Raise The Roof Cheaply
 Auto-Mortars
 More Harvest Designators/li>!< 
Grazing Lands
 Dubs Break Mod
 Impassable Chest-deep Water
 Mod Manager
 Smart Speed
 Locks
 Higher Power
 Greyer morals mod.
 Map Reroll
 [CP] Prisoner Outfit (1.0)
 BetterVents
 Faster Smoothing
 Adaptive Cassie Storyteller
 Fertile Planet
 NoJobAuthors
 NurseJob
 Power++
 Raids For Me
 Roads of the Rim
 Rimworld Farming
 [SYR] Scar Removal
 [WD] Simple Concrete 1.0
 Smart Medicine
 Tier 2 Temperature
 [XND] AutoOwl
 Coal
 Coal Expanded
 Vanilla Iron and Steel
 [O21] Anti-Infestation Thumper
 Power Indicators
 Reasonable Components V1
 Trait Rarity Colors
 420Reality
 420Reality Graphics Reverter
 Beer is Alright
 [1.0] Bad Traits Improvement
 [PS] Barber Pod
 Better Workbench Management
 Deconstruct Return Fix
 Go Explore/li>!< 
Large Outpost
 Plasteel Surgery
 Rejuvenate surgery
 Veinminer R1.0
 Mechanical Defense 2 - base
 Mechanical Defense 2 - mechanical walls
 Mechanical Walls Recipe Patch
 Supreme Melee
 Wall Sun Lamp
 Craft Glitterworld Meds
 Mud
 Underground Soil
 Restraints
 [FSF] Growable Grass
 QualitySurgeon
 Musical Instruments
 Brain In a Jar
 Brain In a Jar Patch
 High quality textures
 Drug Response
 [XND] Profitable Weapons
 Show Draftees Weapon
 4M Mehni's Misc Modifications
 Auto-Cut Blight
 Damage Indicators
 [RF] Rumor Has It.... [1.0]
 Snap Out/li>!< 
Safe Pause
 Banish Animals
 Run and Hide
 TVForPrison
 Defensive Positions
 [v1.0]-LinkableDoors
 Medicine Expanded - Paracetamol
 Ammunition
 PawnTargetFix
 What the hack?/li>!< 
TicksPerSecond
 [KV] Impassable Map Maker - 1.0
 Change map edge limit
 Sometimes Raids Go Wrong
 Remove Death Amnesia
 TD Enhancement Pack
 Dub's Paint Shop
 Paracetamol Drug Response
 Be Gone, Nature Retreat/li>!< 
Lasting Flowers
 Carry Capacity Fix
 Realistic Eclipse
 Fallout Races: The Robots Pack
 Save Our Ship 2
 Save Our Ship 2 - Rimatomics Compatibility Patch
 Save Our Ship 2 - What The Hack Compatibility Patch
 Heated Floors
 Achtung/li>!< 
[WD] Reinforced Doors 1.0
 Balanced Animals
 99 Percent
 RIMMSLoadUp
 Archotech Expanded
 Miscellaneous 'CORE'
 Children, school and learning
 [KV] Show Hair With Hats or Hide All Hats - 1.0
 Doors Expanded
 1- UN-Colony [1.0]
 2- UN-Furniture [1.0]
 Religions of Rimworld
 Sparkling Worlds - Core Mod [1.0] - Reduced features
 Evolved Organs
 Common Ailments
 Zen Garden
 Rim of Madness - Bones
 Expanded Woodworking
 VGP Vegetable Garden
 Genetic Rim
 Glitter Tech
 Dubs Bad Hygiene
 MinifyEverything
 [RF] Rational Romance [1.0]
 A Dog Said... Animal Prosthetics
 The Birds and the Bees
 Colony Leadership
 RimQuest
 Commercial Server
 VGP Xtra Trees and Flowers
 Advanced Biomes
 Realistic Darkness 1.0
 Real Ruins
 Misc. Endgame
 RimOverhaul
 Beautiful Water
 Fantastic Flora
 Door Curtains
 Centralized Climate Control
 Advanced Cooling
 Quantum Cooling
 Temperature Gauge
 [1.0] DE Surgeries Hard
 Androids
 Forsakens
 Crystalloid (Rewrite)
 Ferian Race
 Mass Muffect Races 1.0
 Xenohumans - Gen-spliced Xenos on the Rim
 Zabrak Race
 Yabils: Space Gremlins
 Xenn Race
 The Drow Race
 Star Wars Races
 RimEffect - Asari of the Rims
 Orassans Lite
 [SYR] Naga
 Ferrex Race 1.0
 Lizardmen
 Callistans(1.0)
 Call of Cthulhu - Elder Things
 Arachne Race
 Astoriel
 [1.0] Avian Races only One Faction
 [RF] Etched Stone Walls [1.0]
 Various Space Ship Chunk
 Misc. Bees'n'Honey
 VGP Garden Fabrics
 VGP Garden Tools
 VGP More Veggies
 [1.0] Atlas' Materials
 [XND] Genetically Engineered Plants
 VGP Garden Canning
 AI Uplifting Assistant [1.0]
 Electric Stonecutting Table
 Omni Core Drill
 Furnace
 AnimalCollabProj
 Mines
 Industrial Rollers
 Smokeleaf Industry
 Unroof the Hay! [1.0]
 Area Rugs for 1.0
 Electric Butcher Table
 High Density Hydroponics
 Shield Generators by Frontier Developments
 Camping Stuff
 Fences And Floors
 [RF] Advanced Bridges [1.0]
 More Vanilla Turrets - Turret Extensions Patch
 Realistic Rooms
 [WD] Expanded Artillery
 Simple Ivory
 Mechanoid Power
 Expanded Prosthetics and Organ Engineering
 EPOE Replacement Expansion
 Fire Warden
 Fire Door
 Highway Restoration 1.0
 [CP] Red Horse Furniture - No Blackhat and VR (1.0)
 Cryogenics Cube
 RIMkea
 [sd] goodnight
 [T] MoreBedsCloth
 GloomyFurniture
 Gloomy Extra - Kitchen
 Soft Beds
 Mechanoid Blaster
 More Linkables
 More Shelves
 [T] MoreFloors
 Door Mat R1.0
 Stuffed Floors
 Storage Solutions
 Beam me up Scotty
 [1.0] Tank Beds (Fast Sleep)
 [KV] Change Dresser - 1.0
 Large Animal Beds
 Floor Lights - 1.0
 Outdoor Lighting
 Glass+Lights
 Dubs Skylights
 Turn It On and Off v1.3 [1.0]
 PowerSwitch
 SS Bigger Batteries
 SS Battery Fuse
 RT Solar Flare Shield
 SS Lightning Rod
 ElectricFence
 Dirt Paths
 Grenades Expanded
 Mine Tech
 [sd] advanced powergeneration
 BioReactor
 Invisible Conduits 1.0
 Social Supplements
 Mechanite Forge Reborn
 Sparkling Worlds Addon - Mech Serum Crafting [1.0] - Standalone Addon
 DermalRegenerator 1.0
 Medical Supplements
 VGP Garden Medicine
 Fast regen 1.0
 [sd] medicaddons
 Standing Cryptopods
 VGP Soylent Production
 VGP Garden Gourmet
 VGP Garden Drinks
 VGP_CoffeeTeaDrugs
 FishIndustry
 Meat Blend 1.0
 Veggie Blend 1.0
 [WD] Fast Moisture Pumps 1.0 
 Fire Extinguisher
 Beach
 Additional Joy Objects Lite
 RimWriter - Books, Scrolls, Tablets, and Libraries
 Statue of Animal
 Statue of Colonist
 More Sculpture
 Rimworld: Spartan Foundry
 Advanced Parka Mod [ENG/GER]
 [Ods] Star Ship Troopers Powersuits! 
 Apparello 2
 Call of Cthulhu - Straitjackets
 FashionRIMsta
 [CP] Detailed Body Textures II (1.0)
 Gradient Hair
 [SS]Lovely Hair Style
 Rimsenal - Rimhair
 [Ods] Mens Hair 
 [Ods] Womens Hair 
 Sparkling Worlds Addon - Mind Altering Device [1.0] - Standalone Addon
 People Can Change
 Planetside Politics
 Taming Inspiration
 Advanced Transport Pods
 Cargo Pod Transport[1.0]
 Therapy
 RunAndGun
 Meals On Wheels
 Room Food
 Mining Priority
 Where is my weapon?
 [KV] Path Avoid - 1.0
 Stockpile Ranking
 Opened Doors Don't Block Light
 Stackable Chunks [1.0]
 Simple Slavery[1.0]
 Prison Labor 0.9 (Outdated)
 1.0 - Imprisonment On The Go! (Make Pawns Prisoners Without Beds)
 Misc. Robots
 Misc. Robots++
 Herd Migration Revival
 Let's Have a Cat/li>!< 
Alpha Animals
 Call of Cthulhu - Cosmic Horrors
 Kill For Me
 Hunt for Me
 [WD] Barbed Wire 1.0
 [1.0] Razor Wire (With Damage)
 Plant Growing Wall Light
 [XND] TE Turret Expansion
 Tactical Charged Gear
 Simple sidearms
 Rimsenal - Security pack
 Dual Wield
 Mass Graves
 MT - Everyone Hauls
 [SYR] Bullet Casings
 Mercer's Backpacks + Nano Suit (B19)
 Hardcore Armors
 Better Survival Meals
 Remote Tech
 Transmution
 Cloth Sandbags
 Rim of Madness - Arachnophobia
 Apex: Rimworld Legends
 Melee Weapons Extended
 [1.0] Tranquilizer guns
 Valkyrie Corp. Gun Printing
 Rimlaser
 Rimsenal
 Rimsenal - Enhanced Vanilla Pack
 Rim Contractors Arsenal
 Halo UNSC Weapon Pack
 Weapon Tech
 Let's Trade! [1.0]
 [KV] Adjustable Trade Ships - 1.0
 Caravan Gear v1.6 [1.0]
 Use Bedrolls
 Early Industrial Societies
 Regenerator Nanohive
 [FSF] Improved Vanometric Power Cells
 RimTaser Reloaded
 Backup Generators
 Prayer Spots
 Pulsefire Turret
 Charged weapons for pirates
 Faction Discovery
 More Faction Interaction
 Rimsenal - Federation
 Rimsenal - Feral
 Sparkling Worlds Addon - Blue Moon Corp [1.0] - Standalone Addon
 [RF] Tribal Raiders [1.0]
 Domian Conflict Pack
 Anomlian Order Faction
 Mechanoids Extraordinaire
 More Mechanoids
 More Crashed Ship Parts
 Combat Readiness Check
 Misc. Incidents
 CustomDeathRandomness
 Sparkling Worlds Addon - More Events [1.0] - Standalone Addon
 Science Never Stops
 Rimsenal - Storyteller pack
 Variable Population
 CaravanOptions
 Raiderpedes
 Dustproof boots[1.0]
 [FSF] Rain Washes Away Filth
 Absolutely No Roof
 Let's Have a Cat! - A Dog Said Patch
 VGP Bulk Garden Drinks
 Expanded Woodworking for Vegetable Garden Project
 Locks (DoorsExpanded)
 Giddy-up! Mechanoids
 GeneticRim Megafauna Patch
 Rimsenal Security - Turret Extensions Patch
 GeneticRim Alpha Animals Patch
 Alien Children Compatibility
 The Birds and the Bees - ADS Patch
 Baby and Children
 BnC Alien Support
 RimSaves
 Better Pawn Control
 PriorityClean Mod
 Shoo/li>!< 
Work Tab
 QualityBuilder
 Job Splitter
 Dismiss Trader
 Replace Stuff
 Numbers
 [VtC] Synthetic Leather Complete
 Wall Light - Extended Colors
 Level Up/li>!< 
Dress Patients
 [SYR] Light Radius
 Simple Stockpile Presets
 Interaction Bubbles
 RaiderInfo
 [1.0] RPG Style Inventory
 Relations Tab
 Quest Tab
 Allow Tool
 Conduit Deconstruct
 Blueprint Totals Tooltip
 [1.0] ExtendedInspectData
 Killfeed
 [KV] Consolidated Traits - 1.0
 InventoryTab
 Circle And Oval
 Selectable Sculpture Graphic
 Draggable Corners
 RimStory
 Export Agency
 [SYR] Terrain
 fast regen - Linkable Patches
 Technology Blueprints
 Transport Downed Pawns
 Spartan Foundry Warcraft
 AnimalCollabProj Patch Pack
 Animal Variety Coats
 Simple Sidearms Fire Extinguisher Fix
 RimCities
 Large Prison Camp
 Graphic Chair Overhaul
 Patch for [T] MoreFloors + Vanilla Animals Expanded - Livestock
 GeneticRim Cosmic Horrors Patch
 Mass Muffect Races EPOE patch 1.0
 Crystalloid (Rewrite) temporary fix
 RimEVE (Music Pack)
 Colonist Bar KF 1.0
 Rimworld Search Agency
 Infused
 [SYR] Individuality
 VGP Garden Resources
 Smoked meat
 RimBees
 Psychic Awakening
 GeneticRim Dinosauria Patch
 RimBees - Genetic Rim Patch
 RimOverhaul - DarkNET
 Armor Core
 Alpha Biomes
 Storm's Living Biomes
 Save Our Ship 2 - Dub's Bad Hygiene Compatibility Patch
 RimSide Recycling

Going in Blind - Fenrir and Leviathan (same 5-man team and gear)

Welcome to another edition of Going in Blind. For those of you not familiar with this series:

I'll be doing all my esper and trial battles without any outside information. That means no reading of the wiki or trial megathreads on this sub. I'll be relying on what little information is provided in-game, my knowledge of previous battles (especially for esper and scorn fights), general FF lore, and knowledge of Alim's/Gumi's trial gimmicks. The goal is to figure out all the fight mechanics not just simply clearing the fight.
Due to being pretty active on this sub, I'll accidentally pick up bits and pieces of information. Whenever that happens, I'll document it so it'll be obvious what I figured out and what I learned from outside sources. I might occasionally confirm some of my deductions in the daily help thread but I'll keep that to a minimum. If you see me asking a question there, please don't spoil anything for me.
The purpose of this is two-fold: I get to enjoy the challenge and I get to help others learn how develop their own strategies. This is NOT a clear guide so I will not go into the nitty gritty details of rotations and builds. I will however call out the key skills.
Also, I am putting a few extra requirements on myself. I cannot simply overpower the boss. I need to develop a strategy that allows me to survive indefinitely. Unless there is a damage race element to the fight I will always whittle down the boss. I'll also require myself to try using at least one unit I haven't used before (I won't necessarily clear the trial with that unit though). Lastly, all unit builds will be done manually. No unit builds from FFBEequip! (using it to search for gear is allowed, just no automated builds).

Note: I started this before I did the Omega fight. I switched over due to the 1/2 energy trial event.
This time I'm taking on both Fenrir and Leviathan. As usual I'm also adding a few extra requirements:

I need to use the same party and gear for both fights.
No friend units.
I can't use any units that I've used before (TMR farming, XP farming, MK bonus unit, or just sharing a unit doesn't count as using them).

Leviathan is presumably the harder of the two so I'll do Fenrir first. That means if I have to redo a fight because I switched up units or gear, it won't be for the Leviathan fight. Ya gotta strategize even your strategy for strategy making.

Preparing for the Fenrir Fight

I really wish I didn't just steamroll my way through his first two battles. I know nothing about this fight.
I can make some guesses based on his esper skills/traits:

Strong/absorbs ice (major) and dark (minor)
Weak to fire (major) and light (minor)
Probably buffs himself a lot (based on his summon ability)
Maybe a temporary physical immunity (AE mirage on his summon ability)

The usual annoyances from Alim/Gumi:

Some combination of status ailments, stat breaks, imperils, and charm/stop.
Fixed type attacks that go right through covers.
Summoning minions.
Instant death attacks.
AE MP drain.
Retaliation for certain types of attacks.
Gimmicks to seal attacks.

I put those in order of what I feel is the likelihood of dealing with that mechanic.
That's not much to go on really so I'll just build a generic team and run with it.
Tank: Magic tank is usually the better AE cover tank in the current state of the game so I'll go with that. Looks like I finally get to try out Beryl (only 6 star). I'll load up on ice, water, light, and dark resists so I'll be in good shape for both fights. 110% resists for all elements except dark (130%). I'll adjust later if imperils come into play.
Healer: Ayaka, LM Fina, and Rem are out because I use them regularly. That leaves me with... Yuna and Eiko as rainbow healers. Both are 6 star. I guess I'll start with Yuna as she has reraise in case I need it. Big drawback is a lack of dispelga and MP heals. I'll toss bushido - freedom on a support unit to handle dispels or make adjustments so I can ignore things I'd normally dispel (boost equipment resists, stat break resist buff, etc). I'm building Yuna for pure healing as i'm stuck with curaga.
Support: I probably need an MP battery I'm going with Ace (7 star) as he can also supply a strong imperil to lightning for the Leviathan fight. I'm putting cradle of horns and Ignis' TMR on him for extra utility. I'll most likely be switching between his own MP heal and the one on ignis depending on what seems to make sense at the moment.
Provoke Tank: Either I bring an attacker and have to deal with physical damage with mitigation abilities or I bring a provoke tank and have to whittle Fenrir down. I'll go with that latter as I need to learn the battle mechanics anyway. I'm running with Marquis de Leon with 100% evade, status immunity, and a little extra innate provoke in case I need it.
Breaker: 2B (7 star) gets to come out to play. Funny story about getting 2B. I was pulling for Eve so I could use up some raid moogles (and hoping for a dupe A2). Ended up with 2B x2 and 9S x7 before I got one Eve (and no A2). Next day I got Eve on a daily pull. 2B will need to handle solo damage too. NOTE: 2B was selected for this fight before I tried using her in the Omega trial. I grandfathered her into the "never used before" requirement.
Now that I built up the team, I'm starting to regret the extra restrictions...

Fenrir Fight #1

Turn 1

MdL provoked, Beryl covered, Ace used MP recovery from Ignis' TMR (to get the extra MP 3 turn refresh), Yuna DC reraise on MdL and herself, 2B used her break.
Fenrir used several abilities that I could not tell what they did but Beryl's cover activated so at least one of them was a magic attack. There were a ton of ST physical attacks but I don't know if any were skills or normal attacks. Something gave him a physical and magic damage mitigation buff. MdL has breaks on all 4 stats but no one else does so that must be a ST debuff attack.
Here are the skill names I caught: Moon of the Beast - Maybe his damage mitigation buff based on the name? Frightened Prey - Probably the stat debuff based on the name? Either that or pointed fang but this name feels right. Could also be the magic skill that triggered Beryl's cover. Pointed Fang - Maybe the ST physical attack? Maybe the debuff attack.

Turn 2

Yuna used reraise on Beryl and dispel on Fenrir. Oops, I got rid of my breaks... Worse yet, the damage mitigation buffs didn't go away. 2B used True Charge Spear which did about 3% damage. This is going to be a looong fight. MdL used Sword Fight (4-8 random attacks) to generate LB and esper orbs. It didn't do much... Beryl autoattacked and Ace used his Mp recovery skill
Fenrir used 3 skills - none of which hurt me, debuffed me, or buffed himself.

Cold Breath - Sounds like a ice attack. Maybe AE magic? It was first I think and Beryl jumped out right away.
Dark - I assume this is a dark attack. Can't really tell what kind of attack though.
Pointed Fang - Definitely ST physical attack. I can't rule it out as the debuffing move though.

Turn 3

2B used True Charge Volt, Beryl and MdL used auto attack, Yuna used prayer to the Eidolons, Ace Mp recovered. Fenrir's life went down to 86%.
Beryl got hurt (lost about 4500 HP), everyone is debuffed for all 4 stats.
I got distracted and didn't see all the attacks. The ones I saw were: - Dark Breath - Definitely AE magic attack. Presumably dark element. - Cold Breath - Still think it is AE ice magic. Makes a lot of sense with Dark Breath being a similar attack. - Super Roar - Probably the attack that got Beryl. Maybe the debuff also? If it is the debuff, then the attack should be AE. Beryl is 110+% resist for all elements for this must be elemental.

Turns 4-6

Refresh tank skills, Yuna used reraise and curaga on Beryl (dear God, I forgot how weak curaga is...), 2B used true volt charge, and Ace used MP recovery (Ignis one). 2B got him down to 73%.
Well crap. I was worried about Beryl dying and instead MdL did. Yuna took a Pointed Fang and Beryl got hit with an ST physical attack and barely survived. Pretty sure it was Hell Fang that killed MdL as I've never seen that one before. I'm guessing that was a threshold attack since I crossed 80%. I'm 100% certain I'll be wiped out the next turn so I might as well just attack and see what he does.
I used Ace and Beryl's LB and 2B used true volt charge again and knocked Fenrir down to 43%. Then I got a phone call just as I finished my turn so I have no idea what happened. It's like some higher being is tormenting me with random events that makes this harder than it should be just for your enjoyment. Beryl died and reraised, Ace died, 2B took damage, and Fenrir buffed all 4 stats.
Ace and 2B attacked again and I finally wiped out. I did see Frightened Prey again but as I died I have no idea what it did.

Fight 1 Lessons Learned

Overall, this fight doesn't seem too bad.

I rarely take any damage so if I can figure those out then I would only need breaks for boosting my damage or for threshold attacks.
Beryl needs to be able to tank an occassional AE non-elemental magic attack.
MdL needs to tank a hit that can't be evaded. I need to figure out what is the trigger for that attack (still thinking 80% threshold). If it is a fixed attack I'll need to make sure reraise is up on MdL and Beryl on that turn. Beryl may need to provoke on that turn also to ensure noone else dies.
I need to factor in those damage mitigation buffs that Fenrir uses to time when I cross thresholds.
I really need to carefully review the skills of the units I'm using. I'm spending the better part of a minute just to find the appropriate skills...
I'm absolutely certain that I could clear this very easily if I didn't care about figuring out all the fight mechanics.

Here are the skills I think I have figured out:

Moon of the Beast - Probably his damage mitigation buff. I only saw it once and it was the turn where he got the buff.
Frightened Prey - Probably the stat debuff. Only showed up on turns 1 and 6 (possibly other turns and i jsut missed it).
Pointed Fang - Positive this is a ST physical attack.
Cold Breath - Definitely AE magic. It's elemental and based on the name, ice.
Dark - Definitely magic. Probably AE but Beryl was always already covering when it came out so can't be 100% certain.
Dark Breath - AE magic and presumably dark (100% sure it is elemental)
Super Roar - AE non-elemental magic probably?
Hell Fang - ST fixed attack? Can't be evaded whatever it is. Probably 80% threshold attack.

Fenrir Fight 2

The entire goal of this fight is to figure out WTH killed MdL and confirm some of the abilities so no changes to the team or basic strategy for now. I'm going to just turtle for a bit and confirm turns when certain attacks happen. I'll wait until turn 6 to verify whatever killed MdL wasn't a turn based attack then I'll cross 80% to confirm it really is a threshold attack.
I'll just keep track of the skills I see (soooo much easier to do after I know a few of the names):

Turn 1: Moon of the Beast, Frightened Prey, Dark Breath, Dark, Pointed Fang
Turn 2: Cold Breath, Dark, Pointed Fang
Turn 3: Super Roar, Dark, Pointed Fang
Turn 4: Dark Breath, Hell Fang, Dark ,Pointed Fang (Hell Fang killed MdL and I didn't see damage so instadeath? I'll keep turtling to see if a pattern forms)
Turn 5: Cold breath, Dark, Pointed Fang
Turn 6: Moon of the Beast, Frightened Prey, Super Roar, Dark, Pointed Fang (MdL and Beryl died. Super Roar killed Beryl, Dark killed MdL so that is definitely ST)
Turn 7: Dark Breath, Dark, Pointed Fang

Fight 2 Lessons Learned

This was a great round! I was able to catch every skill that was used and I'm pretty sure of the order they were used.

Looks like Moon of the Beast and Frightened Prey come ever 5 turns.
Dark Breath, Cold Breath, and Super Roar are on a rotation and unless MotB or FP is used, they will be used first.
Dark and Pointed Fang are used in that order and are used every turn as the last special attacks.
Hell Fang is an instant death attack. I only lasted 7 turns so I can't tell if this is on a 4 turn rotation or something else.

I need to have reraise on Beryl for all turns divisible by 3. The amount of damage he takes makes healing with Yuna a real pain in the ass as she needs multiple turns to heal him. I'll probably have Ace use Cradle of Horns on Super Roar turns to increase likelihood of survival.
Obviously I need to switch up gear for MdL to handle the instant death. Looks like it is only possible for me to get 100% evade, status immunity (at least for the 4 baddies), death immunity if I either get MdL's TMR (sleep, confuse, petrify resist from his trust passive) or get LM Fina's hat. I've been slow farming LM Fina's hat simply by using her (not TMR farming) and I'm up to 16.4% only. I guess I should use my emergency moogle supply that I keep for just this purpose (I keep 204% in moogles at all times. 100% for a rainbow that needs their TMR and 104% in the form of 50%, 25%, 10% x 2, 5%, 1% x 4 which let's me instantly hit 100% for any partially farmed unit with minimal waste). In this case I'll just TMR farm the last 0.6%. Guess that puts this fight on hold a bit longer. And to rub salt in that wound, I got an Amazing fusion from those moogles...

Fenrir Fight 3

Well it's been at least a month since I last worked on this (busy during the holidays then I did Omega during 1/2 energy for trials) and I can't remember what I was planning on doing next. I guess I'll have to reread my notes and try to figure out what I was thinking...
Hmmm... apparently I was using 6 star Yuna... I pulled a dupe a few days and upgraded her to 7 star so I guess I'm using a much better healer now (innate DC, curaja, and dispelga).
The goal this time is to confirm Hell Fang really is instant death and patterns for all the other skills. If that works out well, I'll slowly push thresholds to try to figure out what they are and what new skills or patterns I need to deal with.
Looks like I forget to use Libra previously. I confirmed weak (50%) to fire and light, beast race, 90M HP.
Well I wiped out on turn 6 this time. I managed to forget to put Golem on MdL so I had no provoke tank and I didn't gear the team to be able to tank the physical damage. On the bright side I am 100% sure that Hell Fang is an instant death attack so I know to gear for that. Also, I just turtled the entire fight so I could verify that Hell Fang is scripted for turn 4 and is not a threshold attack.
I don't think MdL is a viable tank for this fight anymore unless I completely change my strategy. I hate pulling out more 7 star units but I do have a Wilhelm that has been gathering dust since I got him (I prefer M Ramza if that wasn't already obvious)...
Now Wilhelm is geared like a man and laughs at the concept of evade. It only took me about an hour of playing with different gear until I landed on what I think is optimal gear for him. At least that's what I would be saying if I didn't just double check MdL's moves and realized he does in fact have a 100% provoke that I completely forgot about (used it in the previous fights). Yeah, keep laughing. I deserve it. Wilhelm will continue to ride the pine.

Fenrir Fight 4

This battle I did while lying in bed so I didn't take close notes.
I spent the first 18 rounds just turtling. Looks like Moon of the Beast and Frightened Prey are on 6n turns, not 5n-4. It took me by surprise that I saw it again on turn 12 instead of 11. Seeing it on turn 18 confirmed it for me. I guess the usage on turn 1 is scripted rather than on a counter. Other than that, everything was exactly as I expected.
Starting with round 19 I started attacking. Around 45% health he started using Fangs of Chaos every turn. It didn't do anything as far as I can tell but it was resisted by MdL. Around 40% health I started seeing Snap on random turns and occasionally more than once I think. I saw random damage throughout the fight too (even before I started attacking) so I may have screwed up my evade build. So I can't rule out whether or not Snap goes through evade.
Around 25% I noticed that I was getting off cycle Super Roars so there must be another threshold change to the pattern. I think I got hit with is twice which lead to a wipe.
Every turn where I was actually attacking I just hit repeat (tanks, used tank skills, Yuna healed, Ace did MP heal, 2B attacked with Speed (didn't even switch to Extract Speed and easily got him down to 11% before I died. Needless to say, barring stupidity on my part (can never rule that out) Fenrir will probably go down very fast.

Preparing for Leviathan

I only have a couple guesses based on lore and previous fights:

Aquan race
Strong against water and weak to lightning. Might be strong to ice.
Water and ice attacks (spells and abilities)
Stop

Well fuck a duck with a puck. Stop. Why didn't I think about that before I chose a team for Fenrir? Way back when I had to retry his 2 star form because I didn't bring any stop resist to that fight.
Okay, let's look at the list of units with stop resist:
I don't have these units:

A Rain
Folka (not out as of writing this but she will be by the time I post it).

I've used these units before so they are off limits per my stupid rules:

Ayaka
Chow
Minfilia
Mystea
Shylt
Vaan (remember when fullbreak was meta?)
Zargabaath

That leaves:

Moogle
Silvia

I could also use the buff from Lakshmi but that requires spending 100 lapis to respec her (I have Ayaka, Chow, and Zargabaath for stop resist so it didn't seem necessary to spec for stop resist).
You know what? I'm going to just assume Leviathan doesn't have stop this time. I'm sure I'm just throwing away 30 energy but that's better than my 3 options (4 if you include pulling for Folka). The best unit to replace from my team is Ace and I do want that imperil so here's to hoping Alim didn't give Leviathan stop. They didn't give 3 star Odin instant death and that's kinds of his thing. Why do I get the feeling you're all snickering as you read this?

Leviathan Fight 1

Turn 1

Yay! No preemptive!
Libra confirms weak to thunder and aquan race. Holy moly that's a lot of HP (120M). This is going to be a long fight with only one attacker... All stats can be broken so that's good unless I struggle to keep the ATK/MAG breaks up.
Leviathan used:

A whirlpool forms (or something like that): Leviathan has a damge mitigation buff. This is probably what gave it. Name makes more sense than the other skills.
Blizzaja - should be AE ice magic
Mow Down - AE attack that isn't elemental (Beryl has 100% for all elements) and most likely physical (everyone was hurt but MdL who has 100% evade). Yuna and Ace took the most damage which makes sense for a physical attack.
Strike - Looks like ST DEF/SPR break (only on MdL).

Tip for people that want to try doing these blind: You can tap the menu button between attacks to ensure you can take notes as the attacks happen. This is much easier than memorizing everything in one go then type it out after. It also makes it slightly easier to see what each attack did. You'll notice I didn't struggle with skill names in this fight compared to Fenrir.

Turn 2

Yuna dispelled and surprisingly the damage mitigation buff went away. (yes, I know I dispelled by breaks. I'm risking death for science!) She also healed up the team. Ace imperiled and 2B's True Charge Blade only did about 3% damage. Dear God this is going to be a long fight. Tanks defended.
Leviathan used:

Whirlpool
Waterja
Mow down
Stone gaze: Nothing happened so maybe petrify attack?
Mow down
Strike

And I'm pretty much dead now. Between dispelling and Mow Down being used twice 2B is down to 1 HP and Yuna and Ace are taking dirt naps. Without the breaks and the damage mitigation buff up, 2B does less than 1% damage.

Turn 3

Just defending to see what happens

Whirlpool
Blizzaja
Mow Down
Strike

Turn 4

Still alive somehow. 2B used LB (<1% damage) and the tanks used their tank skills.

Whirlpool
Waterja
Mow down
Stone gaze: Nothing happened so maybe petrify attack?
Mow down
Strike

Only MdL is standing now. Looks like there is a 2 turn pattern to the attacks. I predict I'll die next turn to blizzaja and the attacks will match turns 1 and 3.

Turn 5

He attacked exactly as I expected. MdL survived with 1 HP. Looks like he'll die to waterja instead.

Turn 6

Yup, exactly as expected.

Leviathan Fight 1 Lessons Learned

Mow down looks to be the big problem for the first part of the fight. As long as I have 2B's break on Leviathan I should be able to survive one hit, but not a second on the even turns. I'll need to regear Yuna and Ace for that. Yuna was originally geared for healing because I started this with her at 6 star so lots of room for improvement there. Ace is getting as much DEF and HP I can scrounge up. Alternatively, I could gear the team for elemental resists and bring along a physical cover tank instead. If I do that, I'll probably wipe out to Fenrir's Super Roar (AE nonelemental magic attack). I'll only go that route if I can't figure out a way to survive with my current plan.

Leviathan Fights 2 and 3

In fight 2 I had no problem surviving but after a dozen or so turns I couldn't get Leviathan under 99% health. I played around with dispeling his damage mitigation buff but I would barely survive even while using cradle of thorns (which I had equipped for the Fenrir fight). As I was about to die, I randomly used MdL's LB (I just hit auto) and that triggered a different skill for Leviathan: "The whirlpool is frozen" or something like that.
Fight 3 I switched around some gear and now have pod 153 on Ace so he can put up the physical damage mitigation. By carefully ensuring that I only dispelled on a turn when Beryl could use his ATK/MAG break I was able to easily get Leviathan under 80%. (I tried relying on MdL's break but Ace would die those turns). He used what appears to be a threshold attack Tsunami which is an AE water magic attack based on Beryl covering and taking no damage (technically I could be any element but the name and Leviathan's water theme makes it all but certain that it is water).
That's when I discovered that he added a new attack: Sealing Foam. It's an AE stop that lasts more than one turn and either I'm incredibly unlucky or it has a 100% chance of landing. Leviathan used it again on the next turn so either it is always the turn after the threshold then some pattern afterwards or it's every damn turn. Until I confirm otherwise, I should assume it's every turn. So now I have the headache of having to fit stop protection on top of an already extremely tight rotation.
He also used "Surround with water" as part of his threshold attack. I have no idea what that did. Maybe a stronger damage mitigation skill?

Leviathan fights 2 & 3 lessons learned

Right now I need to ensure that I have provoke, magic cover, and phys mitigation up once every three turns. Once I cross 80% I need to add stop protection to the mix.
Yuna needs to heal pretty much every turn and the tanks are the only units that can do their tank skills so I need Ace and 2B to handle the phys damage mitigation and stop protection. Ace is also responsible for MP heals to some extent. Beryl helps with Ignis' TMR but he's busy breaking ATK/MAG almost every turn. This would be pretty easy for me to handle if I could bring a 6th unit to the fight but I said I wouldn't so I won't.
I pretty much need to respec Lakshmi for stop resist or switch Beryl to a different magic tank. I'm relying on Beryl for breaks too so that isn't really an option. I guess I need to respec Lakshmi... Oh well, at least I got a 100 lapis spin from an ad yesterday. I might as well pick up charm resist too even though I have units that have that buff. Never know when I end up handicapping myself like this again... Oh well, it's not like I ever use Lakshmi unless I need to summon her for a mission.
I probably should figure out that frozen whirlpool skill. Whirlpool is what gives him the damage mitigation so maybe there's a mechanic to get rid of it? Kind of like how 2 star Phoenix would keep healing until hit with fire enough times. Looks like MdL's LB is ice based and the skill mentioned that the whirlpool is frozen so I guess I should try pummeling him with ice attacks too.
With Lakshmi in the mix, needing Tetra for MdL for that last 5% of evade, and needing Phoenix, Alexander, and Ramuh for esper missions, that means I can't put Odin on 2B anymore. Looks like she's going to take a small hit to her damage output. This fight is probably going to take over 100 turns as is so I'm not pleased by that one bit. 2B will be doing shit damage on 3n-2 turns anyway (not dispelling on those turns) so she gets Lakshmi for stop duty.
Of course now I need to completely change my gear. Tetra needs to be on MdL to hit 100% evade and Lakshmi on 2B so that means I need to put Ramuh, Alexander, or Pheonix on Beryl. Note that they all debuff one of the elements he needs to resist for either the Fenrir (ice and dark) or Leviathan fight (water and ice). In order to ensure he has enough build to survive, I'm getting rid of Ignis' TMR and using Jake's Pirate Ring instead. That means Ace will need to MP heal instead of imperil lightning once in a while so damage output will suffer.
I'll be using this rotation:
3n-2 turns:

2B: above 80% - Supreme Support Weapon (CD) if available. Under 80%: stop resist
Yuna: heal or summon esper for mission, LB if MP needed.
Ace: pod mitigation
Tanks: tank skills

3n-1 turns:

2B: Order of precedence if available: YoRHa Sword Dance, Supreme Support Weapon, True Charge Blade, Speed
Yuna: Dispel and curaja, LB if MP needed.
Beryl: break ATK/MAG or LB
Ace: Imperil Lightning or MP heal
MdL: Free turn

3n turns:

2B: Order of precedence if available: YoRHa Slaughter Dance, Supreme Support Weapon, True Charge Blade, Speed
Yuna: Dispel and curaja
Ace: Imperil lightning ro MP heal
Beryl: Break ATK/MAG or LB, free turn if 2B used YoRHa Slaughter Dance
MdL: Free turn

On thresholds:

Yuna summons esper for missions

Leviathan Fight 4

Well the good news is that ice attacks eventually triggered a new reaction from Leviathan. On turn 6 (4th ice attack from MdL) he used "Whirlpool shattered" followed by Murk. Murk wiped out the entire team except Beryl so it was probably an elemental attack (water presumably) that isn't a magic attack (physical, hybrid, or fixed). Also, MdL appears to have been snorted. The following turn Leviathan did not use the mitigation skill so I guess ice attacks seals that but you pay for it big time. I guess I'll just have to deal with it as I can't afford to have a unit snorted.

Leviathan Fight 5

Learned a few things. For some stupid reason I thought pod 153 mitigation was 3 turns. It's only 2... Switching to Cowered Courage instead... I hope the extra 30% DEF keeps Ace a bit safer. He's always at risk of dying on even turns. I guess I'll drop some HP and DEF pots on him and level him up a bit (I died a little inside doing that). He was also the unit running out of MP the quickest so dropping MP pots on him and switching out a Resentment with Love (30% HP vs 30% HP/MP).
Tsunami/murk imbues water on my units. It also debuffs water which lead to Beryl dying... I was worried it'd be impossible to gear him correctly but remembered that MS Nichol's TMR gives water and ice resists (50%). I'd be replacing Rainbow Robe which wasn't helping with dark resists anyway so I should be safe now as long as 140% water resist is high enough. I think 3 star esper imperils have been in the 30-40% range in the past so I should be okay.
I still need to solve the water imbue problem. He doesn't actually attack on the turn that he imbues and debuffs me so I could just dispel myself the other option is to wait it out. I think I'll do the latter on the next run so I can see if tsunami/murk becomes part of the rotation or if it is just a threshold attack.

Leviathan Fight 6

Looks like at 60% he adds a new attack: Bubble Bomb. It's a ST magic attack that is non-elemental and also debuffs all stats. MdL was targeted by it so he got the debuffs but Beryl covers it then struggles to survive. I kept coming very close to dying (<1000 HP) every even turn.
40% is another threshold just like 80%. Beryl finally died to the Bubble Bomb + Mow Down x2 combo and I promptly wiped out the next turn. I'm going to have to figure out how to make Beryl tankier.
Also at some point he started using both blizzaja and waterja every turn. Not quite sure when that happened exactly but it was before 40%. Probably 60% but I'll need to check carefully next time.
The pattern for this fight is pretty straightforward. My problem is entirely the restrictions I placed on myself.

Leviathan Fights 6-12?

The first two of these fights was figuring out the best gearing compromises and optimal rotations. All of the other losses were from screwing up my rotations...
After removing Angel Earrings on Beryl and replacing with Jake's Pirate Ring, Beryl is tanky enough to survive the Bubble Bomb + Mow Down x2 turns but bad RNG results in wiping out (low cover mitigation on Beryl plus high roll on attack when I only have -50% ATK/MAG debuffs on Leviathan).
I was able to confirm that the Leviathan starts using both spells every turn under 50% HP.
I finally settled on this rotation for the win (which took 4+ attempts to execute properly):
Defense turns (starts with 3n-2 turns but I shifted the rotation to 3n turns to make it easier to recognize those turns. Died once because I didn't buff on the right turns). All of these buffs are on a 3 turn rotation which works out nicely.

2B: over 80%, CD break if available. Under 80% stop resist
Yuna: LB if available otherwise Protectga + curaja (switch to Shellga when I get close to 60%).
Ace: Primal Instinct (30% phys mitigation from Cowered Courage)
MdL: Provoke
Beryl Magic cover

Attack turns (order important):

Yuna: Dispel + Curaja
MdL: free turn
Beryl above 60%: LB if available (I dropped a few LB pots on him to get the breaks above 60%). ATK/MAG break if 2B will not use a breaking move, DEF/SPR break if 2b will be using a breaking move.
Beryl near and below 60%: Magic cover on odd turns, defend on even turns.
Ace: Lightning imperil or MP heal if needed. Summon Alexander if 2B will be using a weak attack or CD break.
2B: Use CD break when available (try to time to use it right before the killing turn). YoRHa dance CD and unlocked moves when available.

Immediately after a threshold, Yuna can summon Ramuh as I take no damage on those turns. Everyone avoids attacking as I did not dispel the water imbue and just waited 3 turns for it to go away.
A break of 50% ATK/MAG or higher is needed every turn that dispel is used. MdL has a CD move that can be used in emergencies if 2B doesn't have a break up (CD, unlocked YoRHa skill, LB). Usually I would just not dispel and attack on that turn to keep the previous turn's break. 2B is never without a break for more than one turn after turn 4.
Kill turn:

Yuna: Dispel
Beryl uses LB
Ace: Imperil lighting
MdL: Scroll of Vigor (+30% ATK item) if 2B didn't use CD break to buff ATK.
2B: CD break should have been the previous turn. Use LB.

Fenrir Fight #5

With Leviathan done it was time to go back to Fenrir with all the tweaks I made to my team for Leviathan. Beryl only had 90% dark resist but with 2B's breaks that was more than enough. I never had to heal once in the fight. I just steamrolled him with this rotation:

MdL: provoke
Beryl: magic cover
Ace: lightning imperil when needed
2B: Just use strongest attack available and break when necessary.
Yuna: Take a nap until it was time to summon Phoenix for the summon and kill mission.

Closing thoughts

The hardest part by far was the limitations I put on myself (never before used units, no friend units, exact same team and gear for both fights). For the Leviathan fight the gearing requirements were incredibly tight and there was zero room for error when it came to making use appropriate defenses were up. I have to admit I was very tempted to give up midway through the fight and if I didn't get a dupe Yuna I may had done so. With my team and strategy Curaja was absolutely needed.

Next up

I was going to try to do a budget clear for both of these fights but looking at the Folka story event bonus stage, I will need to do that blind as it includes a couple bosses I haven't done yet (both from Scorn of Marching Beasts). I could just brute force my way through but I'd rather have to do 2 fights to get up to Europa than the 2897402 or so in Scorn of the Marching Beasts. At up to 90 energy per attempt, this is going to be rough ride. Due to the time constraint I won't have any "fun" limitations on my unit selection. Time permitting I will try a budget clear too.
After that I think I'll tackle a few of the 10-man missions. Those tend to be easier to clear but the fight mechanics tend to be a lot harder.

Event Trial	Esper (3 star)	Fallen	Scorn of...	Arms (10-man)
~~The Great Count~~	~~Odin~~	~~Great Explosion Festival part 1~~	Antenolla	Tegmine
NEXT: Folka Extra Stage	~~Phoenix~~	~~Great Explosion Festival part 2~~	2-Headed Dragon	Vindemiatrix
.	Fenrir & Leviathan	~~Ancient Hellbringer~~	Beasts	Brachium
.	.	Venomous Vines of Death	.	Shaula
.	.	The Mad Doll	.	Nunki
.	.	.	.	Dabih

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Running With 600+ Mods

Going in Blind - Fenrir and Leviathan (same 5-man team and gear)

Going in Blind - Fenrir and Leviathan (same 5-man team and gear)

Preparing for the Fenrir Fight

Fenrir Fight #1

Turn 1

Turn 2

Turn 3

Turns 4-6

Fight 1 Lessons Learned

Fenrir Fight 2

Fight 2 Lessons Learned

Fenrir Fight 3

Fenrir Fight 4

Preparing for Leviathan

Leviathan Fight 1

Turn 1

Turn 2

Turn 3

Turn 4

Turn 5

Turn 6

Leviathan Fight 1 Lessons Learned

Leviathan Fights 2 and 3

Leviathan fights 2 & 3 lessons learned

Leviathan Fight 4

Leviathan Fight 5

Leviathan Fight 6

Leviathan Fights 6-12?

Fenrir Fight #5

Closing thoughts

Next up

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