Insane Difficulty: NT Content & Features: Requests, Suggestions, & Bug Reports - Insane Difficulty

I think I've fixed the problem. I got a crash when the game put me in the ship's hold after the small scene on the world map showing the ship setting off from Junon. I imported an older field file and it seems to have corrected it. Uploading a patch now, but let me know if you've been getting a different problem; you mentioned that the send-off music was still playing, which has me confused.

Sorry about that, it was actually the music when you're inside the ship after going through the world map scene then it freezes. Loving the mod anyways

ShiyaNuu, on 04 August 2015 - 06:44 AM, said:

Ah, good; in that case, the current flevel patch (4th August) should fix the problem. It's available from the Download/News thread on this sub-forum.

Found two bugs/hard-locks!

After WEAPON is summoned/Meteor is in the sky, you're in Junon, Barret is tied up, Tifa is gonna die, blah blah blah, drama drama drama.

Using the Save Point first, which I've found to be a good idea, if you try and use Rank-Up, afterwards the game warps you to a different map, you can't see the characters at all, or move, but you can access the menu. I had to reset and continued on just fine without using Rank-Up.

Also, after you get Yuffie in your party, any fight between her and the airship will result in an error (Unknown Exception), and the game crashes. What would cause that?

FierceHawk, on 04 August 2015 - 07:29 PM, said:

No worries, bud; I've fixed both of these in the current flevel patch. The first was a 'wrong warp' using the wrong map ID as a destination, and the second was an encounter table using deleted fights that hadn't been disabled. The flevel patch can be found on the News/Downloads thread on this sub-forum, it's applied in the same way as the Main Installer; just point it at the game's data folder.

Ok, I finally got around to messing with the optional patch that dealt with Materia and Limits and whatnot, and, well, the number descriptions at some parts in the Materia descriptions were broken garbled nonsense (it popped up twice with the summons to be more specific, though I made a point to save a copy of my ff7.exe and ff7config.exe files before updating, incase I didn't like what the mod did). Was that supposed to happen?

Incase you're wondering, no other mods on here save for yours, along with the various patches you've posted.

And I have to ask, did you drop the idea of graduating stat limits/bonuses like what was posted in the 1.3 Mod Database Document?

Robo Jesus, on 05 August 2015 - 06:44 PM, said:

I clean forgot about that. Someone told me that certain bonuses/penalties were broken; I need to fix the .EXE patch. That database is out of date as well, it lists .EXE bonuses/penalties for an older build that didn't work out very well. I'll need to set some time aside.

Few Minor Things:

I should have taken these notes down when I was playing last night, but I was tired and just trying to get through some parts.
Anywho, just made it to Disc 3 and feel the need to run around and do all the things.

When you visit Bugenhagen (butchered his name I think) you get Red's weapon and something else, but that something else is not showing up at all in my inventory, or under key items. I thought I could go back down to the caves with it, but the switch still says only Bugen can use it, and won't let me try again.

Also, is the Summon Huge Materia somewhere that I missed? I may have to get it from the bottom of the ocean, but I thought it was in your inventory automatically after winning the mini game.

When you go to look at the Huge Materia in Bugens tower, you only really see Clouds feet (graphical glitch), and can still interact with them. I left before a soft lock....which, OH!

The save point in the sewer when you return to Midgar, I believe it's the one if you keep going South, you try to Rank-Up, the game soft locks.

Also, am I supposed to be able to swap out party members? I've been reading on the qhimm forums, and it seems everyone else can/has except me. Also the guy that I've read about to the right in the Operations room in the Highwind is absent. Which means I can't fight older bosses at the end of Disc 2.

All of these except where obvious (return to Midgar) are in Disc 3, pre-Northern Crater. I haven't gone down there yet. I want to get everything done prior. Am I missing anything by that? I noticed that using Tifa's piano does nothing, as does the broken machine in Wall Market, am I missing something?

@FierceHawk You have to reach the bottom of the Northern Crater before any of that unlocks. There will be a guy on the right after your party regroups before the point of no return who will teleport you back to the Highwind, then everything you've mentioned will be unlocked. And, yes, you have to retrieve the Huge Materia from the sunken Red Sub, that's always been true, even in the original.

Awesome, thank you! I'll make my way down, stealing and morphing everything in sight.

FierceHawk, on 08 August 2015 - 09:58 AM, said:

For the Red XIII thing, Bugenhagen should give him Seraph Comb (a triple AP weapon in NT) and a Key to the Cave of the Gi. The key isn't really an item at all, it's just a bit of text to accompany a variable trigger to re-open the door that allows access to the cave. If the door is still shut for whatever reason, then I'd recommend going to the bottom of North Cave and returning. Like Brims said, there's also an NPC down there who can teleport you back for a fast return trip.

The graphical glitch (huge upside down Cloud?) is a rare glitch in FF7 PC where Cloud's field model size will be 'maxed out' and when a model gets too large it inverts. That's why he's huge + upside down, it's actually harmless as far as I know so it won't cause a crash but better to be safe than sorry; leaving the field and returning should correct it. Other places it can happen are the second screen in the game, the bridge in Corel, and likely others.

I knew I was missing something. I'll get that save point corrected, I'm assuming it's a wrong jump of some kind like what happened with some of the others.

Is this the Party Leader swap you're talking about, or just regular PHS? For the party leader swap you need to go to the bottom of north cave; the scene down there sets the game moment variable to 1998, which is the highest it goes before the point of no return (final descent). I used that as a trigger to unlock most of the stuff in order to avoid script conflicts. Same thing with the Lv.4 Limits like Tifa's Piano, etc.

Is it typical to not get the Master Materia after turning in the Earth Harp? I noticed I got an Item for an Ultimate Weapon, but I just wanted to check that I'm not supposed to get anything else.

Brims, on 08 August 2015 - 07:49 PM, said:

Yeah, the old rewards for the Kalm Traveler items aren't there anymore. Instead, you get three battles that have drops & Enemy Skills to learn. The Yahcobo (Desert Rose) teaches Pandora's Box, while the Guidebook gives a fight that can teach Dragon Force when it's beaten. Both E. Skills are used when the monster is killed, so all you need to worry about is having your E. Skill on an alive party member when the enemy dies. The Earth Harp enemies don't have a unique E. Skill, but they drop an item used for Red XIII's ultimate weapon.

Gonna try to keep this vague for anyone who hasn't done this section yet.

I'm in the Dark Cave. I can't progress upwards, though I see the way. I'm assuming I have to finish collecting everyone first. I have everyone but Aerith, but she isn't in any of the places I would expect her. In fact, I can't seem to find her at all. I noticed that I took the Cait Sith script before prompting the Cid script, resulting in Cid to simultaneously be in both places at once, I wonder if this has something to do with it..

Also, are you supposed to be able to exit this whole area? Cause I was able to just walk out normally. Rezoned just fine, but it seems like this wouldn't be advisable.

aerith is in the church in the rafters. The smelling salts you get from the caith sith fight which leads into getting cid back. Once everyone is collected you head back to shinra tower. Fair warning, these bosses are hard if your pre 70....like me WAHHHH.

Ahh, I had checked the Rafters, but only saw the Barrels there. Didn't notice the zone there, since it didn't exist before, it was a triggered scene change originally. Thanks.

Just did a chocobo race with my Rank C black chocobo disk 3.... the first race ran at like 3-4x speed. It was amazing. It was over pretty quick. After that it returned to normal speed.

I wish I could recreate this because it makes racing so much better. Not sure what caused it

Amelioration, on 15 August 2015 - 10:41 AM, said:

Yeah, that happens with FF7 sometimes (maybe the graphics driver). We're still not sure what causes it, but it's pretty handy.

Dark cave... picked not ready. Cloud is forever running into the cliff right now can't do anything

Amelioration, on 15 August 2015 - 07:11 PM, said:

That's odd, it was tested at the time. Maybe there's certain positions Cloud can get stuck from when triggering it. I'll revise the event to make it safer.