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The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II

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The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II cover
Developers
Nihon Falcom
Windows PH3 Games
Publishers
XSEED
Marvelous
Engines
PhyreEngine
Release dates
Windows February 14, 2018
Reception
Metacritic 81
OpenCritic 82
IGDB 81
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres JRPG
Sports Fishing
Vehicles Motorcycle
Art styles Anime
Themes Steampunk
Series The Legend of Heroes
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II on IGDB
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II guide on StrategyWiki
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II on MobyGames
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II on Wikipedia
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General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Shared executable with the Steam version of the game. Galaxy.dll shipped for achievements tracking.
Windows
Humble Store
DRM-free
Choice of DRM-free or Steam version.
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Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Shared executable with the GOG.com version of the game. Steam API shipped for achievements tracking. Can be played without Steam running.[1]
Windows
Steam
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Traditional Chinese and Korean only.
Windows

Essential improvements

HD Texture Pack

Improves the UI, battle effects, and eye textures.
Requires SenPatcher which fixes a number of bugs, all of which are customizable.

Stutter above 60 FPS (Special K)

Frame pacing and stuttering issues exist above 60 FPS and variable refresh rate technologies are unused by default. Launching the game through the Special K Injection Frontend fixes this issue without any tweaks required.
Using SKIF %COMMAND% as a launch parameter after installing Special K will automate this process.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\TrailsOfColdSteel2\settings.xml
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/748490/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\FALCOM\ed8_2
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/748490/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Launcher video settings
Launcher video settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Natively supports up to a 48:9 aspect ratio.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Adjustable FOV slider ranging from 40° to 70° (vertical). Default is 45°.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Launcher's "Fullscreen" option results in a borderless window presentation.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Displayed in the launcher as an on/off toggle for 16x anisotropic filtering.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Off, 2x, 4x, 8x MSAA. Transparency supersampling (trSSAA) can be toggled on/off.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Supports an uncapped framerate, though this may result in timing issues in some cutscenes causing a potential softlock, which can be bypassed by using Turbo Mode. Some aspects of the game are tied to framerate, such as the fishing minigame's quick-time event and vehicle turning physics.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

In-game input settings
In-game input settings
Key rebinding menu (Keyboard and Mouse)
Key rebinding menu (Keyboard and Mouse)
Gamepad button remapping menu (Xbox, DualShock)
Gamepad button remapping menu (Xbox, DualShock)

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Only mouse buttons can be bound and used, there is no cursor.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Supports both horizontal and vertical inversion.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Supports both horizontal and vertical inversion.
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Button prompts
Keyboard and Mouse prompts also available.
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

In-game audio settings
In-game audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Options for BGM, Voice, and SFX
Surround sound
Subtitles
Some videos are not fully subtitled.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Traditional Chinese
Clouded Leopard release only.
Japanese
Korean
Clouded Leopard release only.

VR support

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
32-bit executable with Large Address Aware enabled. Requires a 64-bit OS to launch the game.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Atom x7-Z8700 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 18 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 400
AMD Radeon HD 5000
Intel post-2012 series
DirectX 11 compatible
Shader model 5 support
A 64-bit system is required.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/748490/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (748490) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. xseedgames.com - last accessed on 28 May 2023