Insane Difficulty: small 'optimum' bug - Insane Difficulty

Silver Spear stayed equip to give (edgar, can't remember his name) - bat power 105. Mithril pike would give 120, but the 'optimum' function wouldn't give him the weapon with the most attack. Haven't seen any other instances of this. Just got off the Raft with Aurora and Astral onto land.

unless the silver spear has some hidden power...

edit: (Post Kefka Narsche battle the silver spear still wants to be equipped via optimum)

Somehow I think the flag that prevents a weapon from being auto-equipped (that prevents the Imp Halberd and the Atma Weapon, etc. from being auto-equipped in vanilla) is set for the Mythril Pike by mistake. If I'm correct about that, it should be an easy fix.

Thanks for the report. Lockirby is right, that's what it is. So far I'm not seeing where to remove this flag, however.

Not a bug per se, but I was wondering if the clock for the Leviathan battle, is supposed to start before the fight begins, that is when you are in menu equipping Tifa / rest of the party. I was pleasantly surprised to find 3 and a half minutes at the battle's beginning my first time haha. Was like wow, really upped the anti for this one...

One other snafu I encountered was Avalon had leveled up to lvl 30, but he was killed by a zombie inflicted status (as only alive member) and when the game continued through game over scene, to restart, he had lost some (all?) of the HP from the previous level gain. i.e. he was level 29 with 2900 hp, leveled to 30, 3000 hp, died, game restart (not reset or load save) and at level 30 still, he had 2900 hp. Was right before magitek facility, the desert snake bone enemy.

I 99% reset/reload when I die anyway, but just happened to notice this.

Madsiur fixed up the issue with the spear not optimizing just now, thanks be to him!

Yes the timer used for Levy event was coded this way, but it is kinda bad because they are not submerged yet... And a bit messed up towards the player trying to set up the party. Angelo (the event maker from the earlier days) who coded that originally did not code it to allow access to the menu, and for some reason maybe the timer needed or needs to be started from that far before the battle actually starts, when the map loads. I can't recall but can look into it. That event though is one I hate going back to, it's a real mess lol. I guess it can be looked at as a sense of urgency, like the timer start there because that's how long until Levy capsizes the boat, or something. I suppose this would make more sense than drowning anyway since the party still has the underwater breathing helmet to share lol.

Not too sure at all about the Avalon issue. Are you able to reproduce it again easily enough?

I was NOT able to reproduce the Avalon HP reduction event, I actually tried two or three times, same thing with only him alive and killed by the thrown zom-bone attack and he came back in the restart at proper hp. Maybe his HP was above 3000 for level 30 except that one time I got one really low hp+ at level up roll, and thought it must have been over 3000? Could have sworn he went back under 3k though. Will report if I see any other - in game restart level up issues (read: dino forest)

What is the song that plays for Ultros, statues battle? Emmm, tasty. Very video-gamey, love it.

(and if you couldn't tell, I am amidst my first play through of RotDS '7' - having played 1.3, 4, 5 and 6 I am slightly inclined to agree with other poster on rotds web, I know the in's and outs of this and, Normal Challenging Hard Insane might be more apt titles for the difficulty - the game never ceases to surprises me no matter what I know and expect. Credit to the programmers!) ...gimme that Eaglehorn

That track is Megalovania from the game Undertale. It is a great tune indeed! Jackimus did that one.

Thanks for the feedback about the difficulty names. I'm still debating this in my head, it's one of the last things to decide on for the 1.7.1 update.

EDIT
Think I might go:
Normal
Hard
Expert
Insane

My first thought was that perhaps you equipped a piece of HP boosting gear before dying. But nothing would give you a boost that small.

Is it possible you fed Avalon a Golden Apple before dying? That might explain the discrepancy.

Lockirby2: I think you find/award at least 1 golden apple up to that point, I had used it on Avalon whenever I first came came upon it or so I thought... And now I think I see what you are saying, if I used the Golden Apple, ...onward .... died, golden apple now not accounted for, but the inventory reflects this, or not ??

I am not sure because I moved on from circumstance.

edit: and t'achi cap was equipped to start

i am playing on hard on this next version will change anything?

Found another (possible) bug:

Very beginning of WoR I was grabbing fish for Oak and maybe the fifth time I go down, no fish... left the screen to overworld map (didn't fight anything) came back ran around multiple screen changes and at one point when I went into the hut/cabin where Oak is I got a black screen of death. Nothing appeared, but I could still hear the ocean wave sounds. Nothing I could do to undo the black screen. Not sure if this was related to having no fish appear or not.

Luckily I had a save state but, thought it might be worth checking out. Especially if you have just cleared floating continent and watched the 20 minute Zuriel episode without saving in-game or save state that could be rough to do again.

One other note, I did have Snes9x's turbo engaged while screening around trying to make fish appear.

Also, I can't stand the fish 'mini game' takes ages. I never understood its purpose in Vanilla... or now...

Edit: Okay so I have a save state and I think Oak is about to kick the bucket but the game gives me the black screen of death, regardless of any turbo or not.

Really hoping I can find a way past this.

And so far no luck. Resetting in game to the save, still locks. Fought a few battles and visited the mountain, came back, still locks. I guess I may have to save Oak, but I'm worried that even if I do that the 'victory' screen will also lock-up...

Last Edit: and oddly enough 1 fish later after picking up a slightly earlier save state, Oak gives me the raft. So I am past this part anyway.

Only took 25 'in game minutes'

Uh oh! I'll take a look into that asap, thanks for the report.

yup fixes all this and i can continue my game and fix a possible crash when you are going sleep in Jericho the game crashes before Leo event

Auto-life for enemies:

Can't remember the name of the floating medusa head enemy on floating continent, but this enemy as well as Undying enemy around Stardust Village region (WoR) both have the auto-life 'sound' play as if they are coming back to life and then, nothing, end of battle. Likewise if medusa head casts auto-life on a skeleton enemy in its formation, kill the skele, sound plays, but skele doesn't come back to life.

Not sure if intentional.

Optimum: Game wants to equip Otis with the Blunderbuss (gives me attack 157) vs. the Handcannon (gives attack 212)

Got the Handcannon issue fixes, and the Oak black screen issue fixed as well - I had neglected to update a 2nd instance of a jump to what is now non-existent code, which caused the freeze. All better!

Now, to figure out what caused the Life 3 to monsters to break and/or no longer function. I can confirm it on my side here as well. Going to get on this now, got lots and lots of back ups it's all just a matter of narrowing it down.

Thanks again for finding these issues, I appreciate it!

Always happy to help -

Just about to finish up Daryl's tomb when I'm home from work, and claim the sweet prize within. Definitely going to log some major hours tonight so will keep other findings rolling in.

Which difficulty are you playing on there? I've tracked down where the issue is, but am wondering if it's just an easy difficulty bug, since that's what I'm testing it on currently.

EDIT: seems it's not working for all difficulties actually. WEIRD! It's something to do with the monster stats not picking up or breaking life 3 status, for some reason. A ROM I have 5 days before this issue is present is working...

im am playing on hard Gi i am also happy to hepl and here to help if i found bug in the next version i wiil tell

5 days you mean you will launch the next version in 5 days i admire your team and your work with the game anything to know le us know right webbhead08?