[auraplatonic]

Anima Zero, on 11 March 2012 - 09:03 AM, said:

Also agreeing about the low skean power. As of the latest beta, I think Harvesters were doing somewhere just under 100 damage with Fire Skean while having no buffs active on my characters and suited up with equips that would only be available to me when I first get there. Probably should be around double that, maybe a pinch less for that particular enemy.

Also, got Mog and been test driving some of his dances. It would be so nice if you didn't have to worry about failing to merely activate a dance the first try. Just wastes time and doesn't make sense to me TBH.

But with that aside, damage wise...Earth Blues needs to get nerfed HARD. I was testing it on a SlamDancer in Zozo with Mog at lv20 and 53 Magic Power (Air Lancer, MageGauntlet, Magus Hat, Mithril Vest, Tintinabar, Zephyr Cape).

Land Slide did like 2400 damage to the SlamDancer, think the other attack I saw from it did similar damage, and Sun Bath healed everyone for 900+. Not sure if SlamDancer is weak to any elements or whatnot.

I'll test out the dances some more later today after I get Water Rondo.

Also would help if I knew of an enemy that had average defenses and was neutral to all elements (That means no absorption, nullification, or immunity to anything ;D), heh.

I don't know if I can fix that with dances, but I will look into it.


The skean thing may take a little longer to tweak since I am changing their magic power to effect the damage, that is why I have not changed it yet. I did increase it a bit but its a little harder to predict the change and can take several tries.

at the dances, this is something I sort of anticipated. That one will take some time to test. As the game goes on enemies will have less and less elemental weaknesses because you damage will be good enough that a weakness will be probably OP unless it is some unique enemy with really high defense.

As a gauge, any multitarget dance probably should do 150 max to Pipsqueaks at this level. Single target 200-250. This is one of the only monsters without a magic weakness so far. Actually Slamdancer has really good magic defense too, so yea this needs really really nerfed lol

Midnight980, on 11 March 2012 - 05:31 AM, said:

As i have just finished Zozo i can attest that skean power is quite low as in not even doing 100 damage. Normal damage might need a slight push but nothing major. Dadaluma needs something done and i was thinking all you would need to do is remove his regen, he is virtually unkillable with it. It took me 4 hours to take him down yesterday with my party levels of 19 19 19 17, and I had to land the 2nd slow after the hero drink to have a shot. Just my .02, keep up the good work!

Hmmm, he should not be unkillable. I have not tested his changes from before but I know that other people have killed him. If you give me some time I will test him though, I tested his initial changes but not the ones that I made after. I don't want the regen to be too much of an advantage so if it is then I can remove it



EDIT: There is a patch so he will not fail dancing!!!! I will have to test it, but this is good news

[auraplatonic]

BETA 5.4

General

-This is a revamp of the starting area up until Whelk. This is part of some tweaks I will be adding as I do my own playthrough. I want to better balance in consideration of later skill changes and also create better AIs for the enemies as I have gotten much better since I started. This will give you an idea of the new things to expect, and other cool things I can do with AI

-These revamps will be incremental, 5.5 will be up to Mt. Koltz, 5.6 will be up to the return to Narse, 5.7 to Zozo, and 5.8 to the factory. I will reserve 5.9 for any other fixes needed until 6.0 which will be new content. This will take a little bit of time but the end result will be even better than before

Skills/Abilities

-Bio Blast accuracy reduced
-Grav Bomb accuracy reduced, power increased
-TekMissile accuracy reduced, power increased
-Heal Force and Life Force accuracy reduced(you probably won't see them miss very often I would think)
-Schiller accuracy increased
-Tweaked Blizzard, Fire Ball, and Mega Volt some more
-Decreased the power of the level 2 and 3 elemental spells

Enemies

-Revamped Guard
-Revamped Lobo
-Revamped Vomammoth
-Totally revamped Whelk, the battle is much different now.

[Midnight980]

So I decided to restart a game from the beginning to experience the new changes and they are quite nice....the Whelk battle was a welcomed change, especially to someone who has played through this game 1 too many times lol. And just so you know I encountered a graphical glitch during the Tritoch scene,it doesn't affect gameplay at all, just a graphical error.

[auraplatonic]

I didn't try the battle yet but I will see what the situation is, thanks

[auraplatonic]

I will look into Tritoch a bit more, not really sure what the issue is. Progress report is that the Marshal battle has been revamped, also working on adding some rare tougher encounters to some areas and also some random battles in places where they were not there before

[blitzball55]

auraplatonic, on 14 March 2012 - 01:23 PM, said:

I will look into Tritoch a bit more, not really sure what the issue is. Progress report is that the Marshal battle has been revamped, also working on adding some rare tougher encounters to some areas and also some random battles in places where they were not there before

rare tougher fight that will die to my awesome team . . if theyre too hard i will use the save with 99 hero drinks

[auraplatonic]

I am still tweaking the encounters; I don't want them to seem like I am but at the same time I think it would be interesting to put it in there. Fossilfang is probably too strong to put near Figaro Castle I just realized


Also really pushing to have 5.5 out tonight if I get off work early enough


EDIT: still working, but will have the next update within a couple days.

[auraplatonic]

Can you guys give me feedback on this font?





The font change is only for text out of battle/menu(It will display on battle messages though so tell me what you think). I can manually change each character for the menu and battles if I find a font that most people like. Also you can see Terra's new hair color. It is a little on the brown side but I found a nice avatar to import and it matches well with it. I think it is close enough to canon and would make her look a little different then the same blond everyone else has.


Also 5.5 soon, really big changelog so far

[Midnight980]

Its pretty cool, i kinda like it. I will say tho trying to copy the 11x16 big font to 8x8 is a PITA......

[auraplatonic]

Midnight980, on 15 March 2012 - 08:32 PM, said:

Its pretty cool, i kinda like it. I will say tho trying to copy the 11x16 big font to 8x8 is a PITA......

How about this? I like the boldness better, it looks a little tiny otherwise. Yea I know, basically I will have to draw each character but it is worth it if it makes things more polished. The original font is a little too blocky and big imo

[Midnight980]

They both look good but I prefer the thinner version, the big version is too blocky for my tastes. Is that the same font only bolded?

[Archael]

auraplatonic, on 15 March 2012 - 08:13 PM, said:

Can you guys give me feedback on this font?

I prefer this font, but don't like it when it is Bolded

[auraplatonic]

Thanks for the feedback guys. I think that unless I can get all text to match up(which will be hard) I will leave this alone for now and focus on more important stuff.

[Midnight980]

Yeah that probably sounds like a good idea. If you could import an 8x8 text pallet into the game like you can with the 11x16 text that would make it a breeze, but as far as I know FF3usME doesn't support importing small font yet and i don't know of another editor that does...

[blitzball55]

auraplatonic, on 15 March 2012 - 09:19 PM, said:

How about this? I like the boldness better, it looks a little tiny otherwise. Yea I know, basically I will have to draw each character but it is worth it if it makes things more polished. The original font is a little too blocky and big imo

i kinda like the bold letters a little more mainly its because of my poor eye sight but i think the background we can all agree on is awesome especially since i was playing with the chocobo background for a while now lol

[auraplatonic]

BETA 5.5 - MT. KOLTS REVAMP



General

-Revamp has been completed up to the Returner Hideout before Lete River, plus some tweaks in preparation for future areas. The thing with the beginning sections of the game is that you do not have a lot of gold available. You should not need to level too high but instead try to manage your money and stock up on items/equipment. You will need a tincture or two for Mt Koltz
-Edited Terra's hair to where I think I like it, also imported new avatar made by smash http://www.ff6hackin...?tid=448&page=2 . Its a little more brown then blonde but I think it matches up well and won't look the same as the other blondes in the game
-Removed the ability to sleep in the beds in Figaro to workaround the bug with the Sabin/Edgar flashback. There is still a way to recover though. This causes Locke to act weird when Terra has to talk to him in Figaro for some reason, but it doesn't crash the game so I am ok with it
-Increased the speed of the walking soldiers in the Narshe group battle. Also blocked off a couple hiding spots. You may want to consider using multiple parties due to how they will rush you. Since I eliminated pincers here this should make it so you won't get killed and possibly get a game over randomly. Certain two person parties are viable in this scenario and can be successful for the incoming soldiers. (This needs tested but I don't see any reason it won't work based on my experiences with the editor so far)
-I am introducing suggested levels for areas. You are free to level over the suggested level however for every level you do it will dilute the difficulty due to the damage formulas. I based this off of what level I was, so you should be able to beat it at that level. If you find the difficulty is not enough, raising the battle speed and changing to active should noticably change that.

Suggested levels

Whelk:4
Marshal:6
MtekArmor:7
Mt Koltz:8-9
Vargas:9-10

-Reduced experience gained
-Changed Edgar's starting equipment
-Changed what a couple shops sell
-Locke's base battle power lowered
-Changed Lockes starting equipment and changed some of his equipment options


Skills/Abilities

-Tek Laser is now non-elemental
-Changed around Mog's dances for Dusk Requiem, should be more useful
-Reduced attack power of Poison Frog

Enemies

-Eliminated pincer attacks for some battles
-Eliminated back attacks for some battles
-Eliminated side attacks for some battles
-Made a couple of battles always back attacks
-Kefka is now immune to Stop and Slow
-Number 024 is now immune to death
-Changed some formations/encounters. There is a chance of a rare harder encounter in most areas(I would suggest saving often) Also tweaked some encounter rates here and there
-Added random battles to a couple areas where they were not there before
-Revamped Were-Rat
-Revamped Repo Man
-Revamped Vaporite
-Revamped Marshal
-Revamped Leafer
-Revamped Arneid
-Revamped Sand Ray
-Revamped MTekArmr
-Revamped Bleary
-Revamped Hornet
-Revamped Crawly
-Revamped Greasemonk
-Revamped Rhinotaur
-Revamped Rhodox
-Revamped Trilium
-Revamped Brawler
-Revamped Tusker
-Revamped Cirpius
-Revamped Vargas
-Added a new element to the Specter battle on the Phantom Train

Items/Equipment

-Reduced the availability of Smoke Bombs and increased their price
-Hero Drinks are harder to come by
-Moved Mage Masher and raised its price
-Thief knives and Full Moon type weapons can now be dual wielded, power decreased
-Tweaked Mage Masher's stats
-Tinctures heal 50 MP again
-Moved Mythril Pike and increased its price
-Tweaked defense of Plumed Hat

[GrieverTheGF]

What am I supposed to do when Whelk goes in his Shell?
Now all he does is spam Shell Dash over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over...

[Stann]

GrieverTheGF, on 20 March 2012 - 05:12 PM, said:

What am I supposed to do when Whelk goes in his Shell?
Now all he does is spam Shell Dash over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over...

You can use Grav Bomb to deal heavy damage to the shell. You're going to have to take out the shell, since he will revive the head indefinitely.

[auraplatonic]

GrieverTheGF, on 20 March 2012 - 05:12 PM, said:

What am I supposed to do when Whelk goes in his Shell?
Now all he does is spam Shell Dash over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over...

I guess the Grav Bomb strategy is not obvious at first; My main goal is for each encounter to be different than before. The best advice I can give is to try out everything you can because you never know what can be effective


On another note in a future release I might make Tritoch an actual battle, but it isn't a priority atm. Hope you enjoy the encounters to come

[GrieverTheGF]

auraplatonic, on 20 March 2012 - 07:22 PM, said:

I guess the Grav Bomb strategy is not obvious at first; My main goal is for each encounter to be different than before. The best advice I can give is to try out everything you can because you never know what can be effective


On another note in a future release I might make Tritoch an actual battle, but it isn't a priority atm. Hope you enjoy the encounters to come

Thanks, sorry for complaining.
Thanks to you as well Stann

Also I have a suggestion in the original Biggs or Wedge (forget which one) says,
"Yo! If you eff with the Shell you goin' get fucked up"! Paraphrasing of course.
Maybe you can edit with the line so it lets you know to use grav bomb.