Insane Difficulty: Content Only Patch Request - Insane Difficulty

any updates on when this'll be happening?

If there were any updates, I would have posted them here. It's gonna be after I have a stable version, which is going to require spare time that I don't have at this exact moment in time. I don't know when, but it will be as soon as I can.

Herr Doctor,

By all means it isn't my intention to nag you for updates on a WotL content only patch, but I thought I would register to make it plain that I, among others, are keenly interested in such a fandangled compu-file for our electronic videogrames-- it would be gangsterly appreciated.

As an aside, I'm curious; how big an endeavor it would be to make a content patch identical to the latest build that ramped up the difficulty to some sort of medium between vanilla and 1.3's insanity? Does it require a lot of manual work manipulating stat charts, or is there some effigy of a digital dial that would allow you to go down to 8 from 11?

Thanks for all the hard work, drbretto and Archael.

I appreciate you letting me know. I do want to get something out soon but it's really hard to get back into it when you haven't touched it in a while (that's what she said). To answer your question, an easy-type for WOTL will not necessarily be incredibly hard because there are several ways I can tone down the difficulty without having to change too much. I can go through and set all of the story battle enemy levels to default and call it a day (probably like 2-3 hours of work, I guess) or I can go through, give all generic units innate gained JP up and lower the job leveling requirements. The problem is figuring out which way is the best way to go, while also having a stable, bug-fixed main version to work off of because otherwise I would have to make those changes all over again every time I update.

I can't promise a release any time super soon because my life is absolutely crazy right now (fell in love with a crazy-hot, married half-asian chick and haven't figured out how to tell my girlfriends yet, while working full time while barely having enough time to make cameos at friend's gatherings) but I do have two days off this week and I can promise at LEAST 2 hours worth of getting back into the swing of things, in hopes of something snowballing.

I will release Content (or something by some other name) in tandem with the next bug fix release as soon as I can, but I cannot promise it will be continually updated thereafter.

You know, the best thing you can do if you want it to come out faster is to offer to do tasks which speed up the process.

I'm sure drBretto can assign you to do something repetitive and time-consuming (but easy to figure out) that will speed up a majority of the work he has to do.

Is it possible to just open the patched game in FFTPatcher and manually reset all the story battles? Or does the .ppf file contain more than just FFTPatcher things? If there's any way I could reset the story battles on my own instead of waiting for an update I'd really appreciate it.

Sorry for thread hijack.

The ppf contains all changes, those made in the patcher and those that aren't. However, a patched ISO should load into the patcher just fine and can be edited as you see fit. That's how I learned everything.

In a few days, I'll see about learning my way around FFTPatcher. Given drbretto's comment above, I wouldn't be surprised if his girlfriends have drawn and quartered him by now!

Thank you for working on this patch. I know myself and others are anxiously awaiting its completion.

Ok -- I'm back. I'll hash out the easy fixes tomorrow, and probably get frustrated with the chemist abilities. If it gets to be too annoying, I'll just work on the ENTD to create a content-only patch.

This still being worked on?

It's still on hold but not forgotten.

Anxiously looking forward to it!

I haven't had time to try the PS1 content patch but its seems much more measured and balanced (as far as pacing)

I introduced the current patch to my buddies and its pretty brutal. Especially in the beginning when you have such limited resources and abilities to go up against the kind of bloodbaths in Mandalia plains >.<

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It will be done when it's done.

2 years later. Any word on this? I'd love to play this without "Insane Difficulty" or whatever on my PSP.

MEMANIAsama, on 22 April 2014 - 05:56 AM, said:

The WOTL 1.3 project is now on charge of Kyozo, who has taken up the project just a few days ago. Please wait for a stable release of the new WOTL 1.3 before even attempting to have a Content Patch, which I'd assume is not within his initial scope.

In the meantime, you can always emulate the Content version of the PSX 1.3 in your PSP.

You should be able to run the PSX Content version on your PSP. Even if you didn't, however, the current WOTL 1.3 is significantly easier than its PSX counterpart. Bretto has recently handed over the WOTL 1.3 mod to Kyozo22, and he's going to be focusing on rebalancing the main game before even considering making a second "Content" version for it.

After looking at the downloads page, there is what looks like a quick and dirty Easymode patch for WOTL 1.3 here. It is an unofficial and apparently mostly untested variant of an old version of the mod (it was made in 2012).

Alternatively you could git gud.

A content patch will be developed in the future, but I'm prioritising a stable, crash-free build of 1.3 (thanks Hart and Ludo for saying so before I had a chance to respond.)

But yeah, as Ludovician said, the most important part of the project (be it 'full' 1.3 or Content) is a solid foundation, which is what this version is all about.

I just really don't understand the selfishness that leads someone to come here and request that a mod be changed to suit their needs, instead of trying to play the mod as it is. I can understand suggesting changes to the difficulty curve to ease new players in, but asking "Hey, can you take all the work you've done on this awesome mod and remake it so I can play it? I don't want to put forth the effort to learn how to win, I want you to make all the fights easier for me."