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I don't know if you knew about this, but you'll probably want to fix the prices of Cotton Robes. Cotton Robes sell more than they cost to synth (Wrist + Steepled Hat). You should probably lower the price of cotton robes so they sell for less. It basically allows people to have infinite money.

IIRC your description of Sleep/Quiet Sword state that it puts multiple enemies but it's single target.

Lucky Seven needs an MP cost if you're going to have Zidane actually have levels that end in "7." It makes it far too good with its whole "doesn't cost anything." Though, I suspect there's not much you can do about this besides give MP cost to L7.

I don't know if you knew about this, but you'll probably want to fix the prices of Cotton Robes. Cotton Robes sell more than they cost to synth (Wrist + Steepled Hat). You should probably lower the price of cotton robes so they sell for less. It basically allows people to have infinite money.

IIRC your description of Sleep/Quiet Sword state that it puts multiple enemies but it's single target.

Lucky Seven needs an MP cost if you're going to have Zidane actually have levels that end in "7." It makes it far too good with its whole "doesn't cost anything." Though, I suspect there's not much you can do about this besides give MP cost to L7.

Have you made running away harder? Was trying to escape from a trio of mandragoras outside Treno and despite holding L1+R1 for the duration, I just could not get away. Definitely makes the game harder, I guess, but it's kind of annoying not having the option to make a strategic retreat when you know you're outmatched. Enjoying the patch in general though- thanks, and kudos.

Happened again - exact same scenario. Spent what must have been 15 move cycles constantly running while getting gradually worn down. Not a fan of this to be honest because it more or less forces me either to savestate between every battle (which is cheap) or grind until i can confidently fight every battle (which is time consuming and makes the bosses less fun if you're overpowered). Maybe I'm missing something. Maybe I'm not leet enough. Or maybe L1+R1 was always this unreliable and you haven't changed it at all, in which case just ignore me.

uluru, on 24 November 2012 - 02:38 PM, said:

Running has always sucked in Final Fantasy IX. This isn't different here, and if you are grinding, you won't really get out of OHKO range from bosses with anyone but Steiner. Unless Garnet has the Magician Robe, she's going to suck. Marcus will pretty much always suck. If you grind though, you'll be able to run easier. For some reason, the makers decided putting level as a factor for your chance to escape was a good thing (WTF?)

Thanks for clearing that up - had a sneaking suspicion it was the makers' fault, but it's been such a long time since I last played. Save stating for peace of mind at least until I get to choose my party (and ditch Marcus, that dweeb)

I looked around the forum, and I didn't see much on it, but I was curious what the chances and possibilities were of making Beatrix a permanent party member? I know like way back in the day with gameshark it was possible. I never had that when I was younger and she is my favorite female FF character, so it'd be awesome to play her.

So far I'm liking what you did with the game, granted I haven't gotten far But its running smoothly, so far no bugs. This is my favorite game of all time and I can play it over and over. It's nice to find a harder difficulty. This is my first time playing on an emulator for PSX.

Kapwned, on 21 January 2013 - 11:42 AM, said:

I think he discussed the possibility of adding Beatrix as a playable character, but nothing concrete happened.

Archael, on 21 January 2013 - 12:33 PM, said:

Darn, I'd love to have her as a regular party member.

Um, I have a small question: What item I can learn dragon breath from? I have gotten dragon's hair but it doesn't have any ability. It's not like I like that skill that much, but I want to miss as little as thing I can.

Dragon's Breath isn't in the game IIRC, most abilities with fixed damage got removed. Except Lucky 7, which can actually be a relevant ability if you're, well, lucky.

I thought it was changed to chance-to-hit spell?

Yeah sorry I checked my game and you do get Dragon's Breath from Kain's Lance. It's a gravity attack that has a chance to miss and cost 100 mp. Used it twice on a Grand Dragon and it did 9999 damage and missed the 2nd time.

ok, thx for help. I guess I will have to collect everything anyway:)

Son of a gun.. FINALLY managed or rather got ridiculously lucky winning against an OVERLY INSANE Ozma and taking along that Eksuu-karibaaaa 2 without using the Charge! strat. After 20+ tries, the most ridiculous, radical thing ever happened in my gaming life. All through out the fight i just spammed Madeen, Ark, and power throwing Ultima Swords, after 4 straight lucky anti-game over Resurection Flames (which i never knew it can proc more than once until now) a 5th Resu proc'd then came a Flare Star taking down Eiko and Garnet while the other 2 managed to dodge it where the next thing that happened is that i finally stole that sword then a Doomsday came taking out Zidane and damaging itself leaving Amarant throwing an Ultima Sword which i didn't knew would end it cause of all those Curaga-Counters that made me lose track of his HP. Phew, well to sum it all up, that round thing is almost impossible to beat w/o luck. This mod is probably the best out of all the other FF mods here + CT & CC 'cept for 1.3. Now that Ozma's out of the way, everyone is at 99 already and i've done everything else i think i'm gonna need the same amount of luck fighthing Kuja with that Flare Star and my troops on 99. Well that's that, just wanna surge out my emotions here after winning that battle. Thanks for the mod and looking forward for that FFX mod!

Just some general thoughts on my experience so far with discs one and two:

Fights are generally quite balanced, nothing has jumped out at me as being overtly overpowered or unfair yet, and yet everything has been challenging, most fights taking a few tries to work out fully.

Some things I've noticed that could use a review are:

Vivi's HP:
In my playthough so far, Vivi dies; lots. From just about everything at the start. And it's really hard and expensive to stop him falling behind the level curve. Everyone else seems to be in that "can just survive at full HP" bracket, except Vivi, and without access to Protect/Shell, it can be difficult to level him up though "normal" battles early.

Missable item requirements: (These may be by design, if so, disregard.)
Blood Sword: It might've just been me, but I think I really would have struggled without the Blood Sword on the random encounters where Steiner and Marcus are escaping from Alexandria. Even with the sword and a decent equipment setup Steiner was losing HP each turn, so without the ~200 HP from the sword each turn it would have been really rough. Since the Blood Sword requires two items before Treno, someone could have to a lot of backtracking to get past these encounters.
Reflect Ring: I can't get Dagger/Garnet/Sarah/Whatever to survive for long enough against Lani to cast reflect on herself (Short of getting lucky by equipping the correct element resistance) And I was silly enough to leave said ring on Freya at Alexandria; but this is also an easily missed item on your first visit to Treno because of the cost. As a result I'm having to backtrack a few hours to go back and get it. No big deal, but it could have been much worse if I didn't have backup saves.

Otherwise, I've really enjoyed it so far. Thanks so much for making the mod, I'll keep updating with feedback of a roughly disc-by-disc basis if it's of any use! \o/

Been playing this for the last 4 or 5 days. So far I'm enjoying it. Enemies & bosses don't die in a stiff breeze anymore...or at least that was the case until I realized everyone having Auto-Reflect while Vivi bounces something like Bio off the team results in some crazy damage, heh.

The only thing I thought so far was a little over the top involved the two segments where you get to control Beatrix. The enemies seem to love two shotting her and her allies in each case aren't anywhere near effective enough to kill something before it acts. The only reason the 2nd Beatrix segment was slightly below "table flip rage" levels is that Steiner + Auto-Potion w/ Hi-Potions + Chemist meant he was quite the tank during that segment.

Currently in Disc 3 learning some skills before I go find some whirlpools of sand and get whisked away to the next area (Oeilvert & a palace). Highest levels on my team are around 28 at the moment.

Just commenting to say that Hilligargis or whatever the dick is called was a dick.

You are a mganificent bastard, Landon.

Moogleking, on 08 May 2013 - 03:52 AM, said:

Hilgigars is indeed a dick...until I had Vivi cave his face in with a few rounds of Bios reflected off my party .

Wondering what level I oughta be at when I decide to tackle Oeilvert & that desert palace afterwards. Highest level from my party is 28.

I went for the approach of having Dagger and Eiko on low health, Zidane with Auto-Potion, Protect Girls and Counter, had to get rid of all of my Potions and burn through my Hi-Potions for it to work, but it did! Zidane burned out all of his MP then smacked him with an Attack-Stated-Oak Staff to slow him, then promptly died. Dagger spams Float on everyone and Eiko keeps using Protect on Zidane. Zidane attacks, then went Trance and a well timed Reflect on Hiligargawhatever stopped his Curaga, he went down easily after that. Brilliantly strategic fight.

Next up- Dracozombies that aren't Zombies