Insane Difficulty: BNW 1.6 nATB Beta - Insane Difficulty

https://www.dropbox....3uXAcfyZea?dl=0

Please do not report any bugs in the 1.6 beta thread if you're using this patch. Assume that any and all bugs are a result of nATB.

Known bugs:

1) Caterpie
2) Weedle

WHAT THIS CHANGES, IN CODE:

1) The ATB gauge pauses during animations. This changes code around the battle effects launching and the Active/Wait command in options, which is now disabled. I can provide disassembly for this if anyone is curious.
2) The global speed bonus is restored to 20, as in vanilla.
3) The Regen/Seizure/Poison table is adjusted to double the rate of Regen/Seizure/Poison.
4) The command timer table had most of its values cut in half.
5) The flee evaluation command was changed to double the amount of ticks that flee is valid on.
6) Enemy timers were drastically cut as according to BTB's wishes.
7) Status timers were all cut in half.
8) Desperation attack timer was cut.
9) The speed timers were reduced so that Haste is only 50% faster than Slow.
10) There was some really neat free space for commands that could be executed every tick. I stole them all. Sorry!

WHAT THIS SHOULD CHANGE FOR END USER:

1) Hey, when I put in a command, it doesn't take 30 seconds to execute.
2) Oh hey, menu trick is irrelevant now.
3) Fight now pauses the timer when you're targeting, like every other command.
4) Bushido pauses while it's charging up. This change is up for discussion.

Think0028, on 28 December 2014 - 11:27 AM, said:

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Only terminators I my town that I know of work with termites. Sorry.

(Though I do notice that Edgar can do anything that Butterfree or Beedrill could anyways: SleepX, Bio Blaster, Drill, etc., etc. These two bugs aren't even lending a helping hand after having infested this hack. Ingrates.)

Man, magic Edgar is Butterfree and vig Edgar is Beedrill, never occurred to me before.

Edgar is clearly a unicorn. Look at that majestic horn.

New version up. Changelist:

1) IT FINALLY PAUSES WHEN YOU'RE TARGETING WITH FIGHT HALLELUJAH.

Nice. I'll be sure to try this when the definitive 1.6.0 is up. I always hated the transition between FFIX and FFVI, I should be good with this now.

Is it feasible to get Bushido charging to pause?

Disclaimer: Haven't played 1.6 nATB, only been playing 1.5.2 nATB.

Feasible, yes, trivial even. However, that's an actual balance change; Bushido takes actual time to charge to 'balance' its power level. Whether that's what BTB wants/intends, I'm not sure, but I'm not going to change that until actually prompted.

Two updates:

1) I have a new version up that bypasses writing new enemy scripts entirely. Instead, the monster timer increments faster to match the script changes. This means I never have to write a new version again.

2) If anyone can get me a save where Locke is uncursing the Hero Shield and is about to trigger the learning Remedy/Regen glitch, I would love you forever.

My biggest concern in the current incarnation of this patch is how enemies with 20-second timers (generally random enemies that appear in packs) behave, as I suspect they may now spam their timed attacks too often.

Here's a few examples tolook for:

Albatross - Fireball (this is a big one)
Hobo/Hunter/Punisher - Pointy Stick
Boxxxy/Pan Dora - Disaster
Gargoyle/Mephisto - Quake
Urchin - Blow Fish
Sea Flower - Wave Cannon

I can adjust timers to go less, but slower timers might be too slow then. Feedback appreciated.

Well that was way too hard. New version up.

New version up: now pauses for Cyan's Bushido input, after asking BTB nicely. Feedback appreciated if Cyan is too good.

I highly doubt it. Besides, it's a change that makes vigor Cyan slightly better relative to stamina Cyan, which sounds like a good thing.

I keep seeing some minor graphical glitches as I wander the WoR overworld. Think it could be because of this patch?

edit: nevermind, I'm an idiot––I see this is a known problem associated with vanilla BNW. Carry on...

Well, just to be sure, what kind of glitches? The map tearing a little, little skips as you walk? That's BNW. Anything else, might be me. Almost certainly isn't (I'm nowhere NEAR the graphics code) but always wanna check.

Just map tears. Some of the map-panning stuff at the beginning of the WoR didn't show, either.

Definitely BNW, then.