Mishrak

On 1/24/2019 at 11:11 AM, Mishrak said:

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Changing a name just to change it is pretty unusual for BNW. There’s almost always a compelling reason for really anything that has been changed.  

It’s also not as simple as just changing it in the game. There’s a ton of documentation that has to be updated as well. 

As far as aesthetics go, there’s nothing to gain except confusion when changing just the name from Stamina to Spirit. 

Cranes is one of those fights that’s a little unfair if you’re not prepared for it ahead of time. Which a blind player won’t be obviously.  It is fairly easy to mitigate the damage if you are prepared but the back attack damage bonus going away will help a lot. 

“Invincible enemies”

Everything has a weakness.  There aren’t any invincible enemies outside of scripted events.

“Completely unpreventable”

I have a hard time believing that to be the case. I don’t know your playstyle but almost everything can be mitigated even if only a little bit. 

“Party wipes and death by RNG”

I’m not sure what you mean by death by rng. If you mean occasionally enemies doing a different attack you didn’t expect (condors are a nice culprit), then observe the enemy and see if you can do something to stop it. In the case of condors you need to kill them quickly.  

True party wipes are pretty rare. One big potential is Flare Star but only Atma uses this.  Make sure you’re paying attention to what row characters are in. 

A lot of this is changing for 2.0 but a lot of what you’re listing as criticism I think is actually just you misunderstanding what’s actually happening in the game. 

The problem is: how do you make stuff harder in a jrpg?  

More damage?  This means more ohko stuff and party wipes that are entirely rng and unmitigateable. Or if they are mitigateanle, it forces the player into a “do this or you can’t proceed” situation. 

More hp?  As has been mentioned, more hp doesn’t necessarily make harder. It also wastes the players time once they figure out the gimmick. 

More speed is at least a little interesting as it punishes bad decisions without completely upending the balance. It’s not perfect though.

The best way is probably via dynamic AI scripting, but it’s a fine line to toe.

Yep. Correct. It affects a ton of defensive things. 

Even if we put a single defensive stat for it, variance is probably the wrong target for a purely defensive stat anyway. Variance only makes up for a small part of the damage formula.  The biggest contributors to defense are mdef/pdef, safe/shell for reduction and mev/pev and image/reflect for avoidance.  

At most you only affect 25% of incoming damage (at 90+) when you just target variance. For most of the game it’ll be a lot less than 25%.

The whole point is that stamina is useful. If it’s only now a defensive variance stat (on top of regen ticks/sap/etc), that’s a lot less useful than before. 

You also lose all the customization of stamina builds and weapons, vigor characters get a substantial nerf from the loss of physical variance mitigation and pure stamina builds are way less interesting or relevant.

There is a huge evasion penalty when covering btw.  I always take the animations with a grain of salt and wouldn’t worry a ton about their realism when balancing how things work.

So my question ultimately is: why would you do this?  Sure it makes it simpler to understand what Stamina does - but is that really that important?  Is it that complex as it is now?  It affects a line of heals, it affects regen ticks/sap/morph, status mitigation, and is a damage stat for some abilities/weapons.  That’s not that hard to figure out.  

Using your first post to necro a year and a half old thread. 

Mover forest near Jidoor

A large majority of this information is available after you’ve learned the password to the unlockme after completing the game.  At least hidden info and all the little details. 

As of 1.10 a large portion of what would have been written would be mostly obsolete as far as an actual walkthrough goes. 

You mean an undead enemy?  Doom will full heal undead enemies iirc.

Yeap

Fwiw Relm/Strago are getting a new stam attack in 1.10.

1) Even if it costs the player time and frustration to have to reset until they get what they want, that doesn’t mean it’s an interesting mechanic. Quite the opposite. 

2) There are plans for the colosseum already thought up, but it will require rom expansion to do it and BTB isn’t ready to expand just yet. I’ll leave it up to him if he wants to share it or not. 

On 8/18/2018 at 8:55 PM, Echoherb said:

Any chance of the Auction House ever returning in any way shape or form? 

Not as an auction house. It will be repurposed to an advanced beginner school in 1.10, so the one in Narshe doesn’t have to get replaced. 

Thankfully the Phoenix bugs are harmless. Hilarious though.

1 hour ago, velsper said:

Is it on the level of the other bugs in the game? Or there's just no room in the rom left?

It’s really not related to bugs at all. It’s more about how the enemies work. It doesn’t use their script, it uses their “control” attacks. So it’s very limited. And the character stuff is also programmed to work a certain way. Changing it is a lot of work. And making it truly interesting would require a focused effort that is frankly probably not worth it when there are much simpler solutions. 

Changing the colosseum into something actually interesting would need a rom expansion. Or more likely, an entire redesign from the ground up.  It’s not a simple case of “developers don’t want to”. There’s very real technical limitations.  

Mind Blast isn’t a party wipe if you defend against the statuses that cause you to lose control of your characters. 

It’s been an optional patch as of 1.9.  It’ll very likely be an official part of 1.10 if testing works out.

What’s crazy is how much is gonna be in 1.10 that’s not in that changelog (yet). Namely all the stuff that’s about to happen to enemies. Wew.

This is already looking like the biggest release ever.

Aero proc does have the dual wield penalty on it (but not x-fight), but yeah it will be a very good damage source.  An effective proc rate of 75% also is a huge boon.