Insane Difficulty: Feedback and Suggestions - Insane Difficulty

Fallen Star is my first real mod of anything so for those who are playing it please let me know what you think by sounding off here. I encourage you to post your given feedback here before starting a new topic. If you do have a suggestion or want to give feedback please be specific. Don't just say bosses are too hard or cheap let me know exactly what the issue is. An example of that is like the following, "Saturos at the mercury light house uses Fireball way to much." This way I can look at his move list and possibly make the right changes.

Needs more love yo

Kyou, on 13 December 2011 - 10:32 AM, said:

lol It will get there in due time.

Can you make Saturos regenerate health? I can't remember if he did or not but the Bandits in Vault make him seem like a pushover.

Just patched a rom and threw it on my PSP. I'll be giving it a try during the times I'm recovering from the abusive relationship I have with 1.3.

Ehow22, on 15 December 2011 - 03:45 PM, said:

Saturos doesn't regen health because he's getting sapped by the mercury lighthouse. His real threat is supposed to be fireball spam.

Another note is that Saturos was balanced to be on equal footing as Tret because you could do either or once you reach Bilibin. So if you've cleared Tret, Saturos is pretty easy and if you do Saturos first Tret is easy

Gotcha

Ehow22, on 16 December 2011 - 01:37 PM, said:

This was the hardest thing to balance. Tret has vanilla saturos difficulty if you go there first while saturos is much tougher. you may have gotten lucky in that he did not nail you with fireball a lot, (like he did for me every single time i tested it). I can buff him either way as i have saves states set at every boss in the game

Am I doing something wrong? The bandits in Vault are extremely difficult for the first boss battle of the game. I've found a strategy to outlast their item spam, but whenever I take out the two thieves, the bandit just starts OHKO'ing my guys with deadly poison or whatever, and once I'm down a character, it's impossible to out damage his HP regen while out-healing his damage output. Am I just supposed to grind levels until they're easy?

Stann, on 17 December 2011 - 07:20 AM, said:

Not at all I actually did this relatively low level. Did you get any Water of Lifes? All undead drop them just so you know. I made it easier to farm them since there is no way the player can afford their 300 coin cost at this time. Another thing is to save you strongest Psynergy for when they run out of items. Another thing is deadly poison is his least used move with a chance to use it at 11/256. you may just be unlucky in that he is getting those "11" chance more than not.

Please note that gear is important too so if you have not upgraded your gear you may need to do so. I am working on a list of things that have been added or changed so just sit tight if you are not sure what is what in FS. Thanks for the feedback though.

Stann if you could start a thread about your playthrough that would be great too. This way i can follow it better and see if there are anythings that need adjusting. This is mainly for when you run into something like "this Boss is too easy" or "Boss is impossible". type of thing though I do extensive testing on most bosses. Usually 4-5 runs to make sure they are winnable.

Vanish Mantle, on 17 December 2011 - 01:07 AM, said:

Only thing I did at Tret was grab the djinni and use Issac's Retreat so I could head to the lighthouse with all the djinn.

He only cast fireball a couple times but I probably just got lucky. like you said. What are the chances to seal off a boss's psynergy? 'Cause that's saved me quite abit. I'm sitting in Tolbi at the moment btw

Ehow22, on 17 December 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

that's actually one of the strategies i tried. The other was granite spam which was interesting. Then i did all out offense without sealing, were you using the psynergy bind? If so it is an instant 100% seal of psynergy. I may have to raise the cost if it is too OP for this early in the game. Thanks for the feedback by the way

If by "psynergy bind" you mean Ivan's spell something like "air render" tthen yea. I use that on all bosses and djinn. Sometimes it works, usually don't though so I'm probably thinking of something different.

Ehow22, on 17 December 2011 - 11:43 AM, said:

Yeah it works on some bosses while djinn it works best for now. No one boss can be absolutely dominated by using Air Render or bind. Most bosses and enemies have more than one ability that does not use PP.

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No, I had no idea there were any resurrect items available at this point. The only battles I have access to give less than a herb's worth of gold, so I assumed I was supposed to muscle ahead with the items I've found up to this point. I actually had to sell some items I've found (a nut and two "ball" items) to afford battle axes for Stann and Garret. Maybe I made a mistake upgrading my weapons/armor in the first town instead of saving the money for the better stuff in Vault?

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The battle lasts long enough with his item spam for this to be more relevant than it seems. Every time I lost it was due to this move OHKO'ing someone and being unable to raise. This time around, I'll see if I can farm those rez items.

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I think I could make this happen .

Edit: I've also found a bug, I don't know if you're aware of it. The numbing strike that triggers with a battle axe attack: if your original target is dead when your turn comes up, instead of switching to defense, the animation triggers on your main character instead. All of the battle text disappears and a red cursor/arrow appears in the top left until the turn is over. It doesn't do any damage or trigger statuses from what I've seen, but it's very awkward.

Stann, on 17 December 2011 - 12:27 PM, said:

This has been fixed. Kihaku and zaen had the same issues.

Ehow22, on 17 December 2011 - 09:19 PM, said:

Actually I was going to make that end Game only. I had forgotten to mention that. in my crossbone update it will have a new and improved version of him.

Well, that sucks. Here I thought it was because of my insane luck again <_<

Do you have a save before that boss fight? If so then hold onto it. If not don't worry too much. I should have made that known so it is my fault.