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The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel

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The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel cover
Developers
Nihon Falcom
Windows SIMS[1]
Windows PH3 Games
Publishers
XSEED
Marvelous
Asia Clouded Leopard Entertainment
Engines
PhyreEngine
Release dates
Windows August 2, 2017
Reception
Metacritic 80
OpenCritic 79
IGDB 82
Taxonomy
Series The Legend of Heroes
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel on IGDB
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel guide on StrategyWiki
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel on MobyGames
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel on Wikipedia
Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes 1989
Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes II 1992
The Legend of Heroes III: Shiroki Majo 1996
The Legend of Heroes IV: Akai Shizuku 1996
New The Legend of Heroes 1997
The Legend of Heroes V: Umi no Oriuta 1999
New The Legend of Heroes III: Shiroki Majo 1999
New The Legend of Heroes IV: Akai Shizuku 2000
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky 2004
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC 2006
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd 2007
The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki 2011
The Legend of Heroes: Ao no Kiseki 2013
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 2017
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II 2018
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III 2020
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV 2021
The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie 2021
The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails 2021
The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero 2021
The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure 2022
The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak 2022
The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki II - Crimson Sin 2023

Key points

All Versions are DRMless after install
Runs great on any PC

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.[2]
Windows
Steam
DRM details are not known
Traditional Chinese and Korean only.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\TrailsOfColdSteel1\settings
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/538680/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Falcom\ed8
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/538680/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

External video settings.
External video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Also supports up to 48:9
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Game uses vertical FOV in configuration instead of horizontal FOV. Maximum: 70° (102° horizontal at 16:9)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Game is Borderless by default when "Fullscreen" selected in launcher. For exclusive fullscreen, you must edit settings.xml changing the "ScreenMode" to "FULLSCREEN" (Extra Note: User may require to disable the launcher on startup).
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Can sometimes cause minor hiccups/issues due to timing on scripted cutscene sequences (may potentially cause softlocks under super rare circumstances in cutscenes, these however can be avoided by using the Turbo function).
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Post-processing

Disable/modify post-process effects[3]
  1. Download Trails of Cold Steel 3D Vision Fix.
  2. Extract the contents to the installation folder.
  3. If you use Windows 10 (Creators Update onwards), open the compatibility tab of ed8.exe (or ed8jp.exe if you play with Japanese text) and check "Disable fullscreen optimizations".
  4. By default the game effects aren't modified. You can change the default state in the [Constants] section of d3dx.ini.

Input

External keyboard and mouse settings.
External keyboard and mouse settings.

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
Launcher can be navigated using supported controllers (PS4 and XInput models).
Controller remapping
Controller remapping is partial and supports one custom controller binding to a specific preset number of actions on L2/LT or your controller's equivalent (release version also contained binding for R2/RT shared with "Turbo" function, this was removed on release day patch). Solutions such as Steam Big Picture may be alternatively used for remapping of keys sent to the game as an alternative.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Supports both horizontal and vertical inversion.
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
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 general settings.
In-game general settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
BGM, Sound Effects, Voice
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Text heavy JRPG.
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
English dub has ~5000 more recorded voice lines than the Japanese original (14065 files). Voiceover audio only available for some scenes (typically key/important scenes).[4]
Japanese
Korean
Clouded Leopard release only.
Traditional Chinese
Clouded Leopard release only.

VR support

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11 DirectX 11.2 if available (Depending on version of Windows).
Shader Model support 5
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

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) 15 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 400
AMD Radeon HD 5000
Intel post-2012 series
DirectX 11 compatible
Shader model 5 support


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>/538680/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (538680) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References