Insane Difficulty: Final Fantasy X - International - Punishment v1.5 - Insane Difficulty

Final Fantasy X - International - Punishment v1.5
http://www.mediafire.../FFXintPv1.5.7z

This patch is a difficulty modification for the PS2 International NTSC-J version of Final Fantasy X.

Strength, Magic, and Evasion nodes on the Expert Sphere Grid have been re-balanced. The Standard Sphere Grid has not been altered. Stat boosting sphere drops have been removed from arena monsters. Enemy HP, Strength, Magic, and Agility have been increased. Some enemies have higher Luck, Accuracy, and Evasion. Enemies have higher status resistances. Bosses have more status immunities. Damage needed for overkills has been increased.

Note: Arena monsters have not been buffed and the Dark Aeons and Penance have lower Strength, Magic, Defense, and Magic Defense.

Note: The Expert Sphere Grid alterations require starting a new game to take effect.

v1.5 Changes
cleaned up the remiem temple aeons, bashura's ai, the hp of the final bosses, and sinspawn gui (2nd fight)
tweaked some end game bosses

v1.3 Changes
tweaked seymour flux, sanctuary keeper, spectral keeper, and yunalesca

v1.2 Changes
re-balanced magic nodes on the expert sphere grid

v1.1 Changes
re-balanced evasion nodes on the expert sphere grid

v1.0 Changes
finished altering enemies

v0.8 Changes
altered enemies up to yunalesca

v0.6 Changes
altered enemies up to seymour natus

v0.4 Changes
altered enemies up to the thunder plains
altered the dark aeons and penance

v0.2 Changes
removed stat sphere drops from arena monsters

v0.1 Changes
re-balanced strength and magic nodes on the expert sphere grid

Awesome. Thank you for porting this over to the international version. I had started a game on the other version for a little bit, but I will gladly start over again with this one. I'm just going to wait until it's a little further along.

Thank you so much LandonRay

I was hoping you to make the international version!

Rascanuvols, on 17 April 2013 - 10:11 PM, said:

Patch completed and updated.

You, sir, are a gift. Now onto FFXII international

I'll probably do more tweaking to late game enemies (and fix Psych Up with the Bashura), however not right now.

As far as Final Fantasy XII International goes, I love the game, but I'd need to write up some tools to deal with all the compression (which I really don't feel like doing). So sadly a mod of XII is not going to happen any time soon.

LandonRay, on 24 April 2013 - 04:11 PM, said:

Sad, yes, but understandable. I still think it's too tempting not to keep on the back burner if/when you ever get the motivation, though. Maybe even focus on making the tools for the tweaks rather than the tweaks itself, not unlike the FFT patcher, so the whole community can give their input and you can have your name on the best version of FFXII on the planet.

But I can wait.

It wouldn't be an editor, it would just be a compiler/decompiler. I think ffgriever already made one for XII, however I don't think he ever released it.

At first I was like "are you suuuure this patched correctly? Then I hit macalania woods. Aiiigh, indeed.

Stopping to farm levels for the first time on the last section of the thunder plains. You can run into giants, use dark buster, get everyone an action, re-dark and use reflexes on Valefor, dodge one hit and 9999 it for a 1300ish AP overkill. It has, for the first time yet had me at least wonder IF I will be able to complete this game from a HOW LONG will it take.

Any plans to nerf the ever loving shit out of blitzball? Cause that would be fucking awesome.


edit: gamefaqs doesn't seem the have a master guide, anyone know of one? perhaps I should be asking google...

Wait until you get to Seymour Flux. The last time I fought him the fight lasted over an hour.

I'm not planning any changed to blitzball at the moment.

Good luck.

DrBretto, on 30 April 2013 - 03:19 PM, said:

pbirdman has the most complete bestiary I've ever seen in any game: http://www.scribd.co...SH-EDITION-v0-9
Incredibly useful assuming the AI scripts haven't been altered

Seymour used to give me enough trouble on vanilla. That should be interesting.

Foyboy, I actually meant mechanics guide and I found one, but thanks for that other link. There's good stuff in there.

"removed stat sphere drops from arena monsters" -- By this do you mean the spheres that turn empty nodes into stat increase nodes? If so, was arena the only unlimited source for those spheres? My memory of this game has grown fuzzy over the years.

The arena is the only unlimited source, yes.

I just arrived to omega ruins and I love this mod so far. I had to use all type of strategies to survive and some bosses were pretty challenging, the only think that I dislike is the unbalanced magic/physic attacks, I can hit for 10.000 thundaga with Yuna but no more than 2.500 with all the physical characters.

Don't appear to work on my PAL version. Anyone have tested it on PAL version and on PCSX2 ?

For most bosses that were already in NTSC-U version, did their stats and patterns change from Punishment v1.7? I am just curious.

Stats are pretty much the same, attack patterns weren't altered. However, all future alterations will be done to the International version only.

Patch updated.