praetarius5018

in which character slot is the vamp? you put down some of the BanX skills - they last the entire battle, once a law is passed it stays active - wait until an enemy breaks any of the laws then cast judge. judge heals those that haven't broken any law (more based on VIT and number of laws) and damages all that have broken any of the laws. (can't kill monster though because of reaction:death scripts, don't ask...) damage scales with number of broken laws. e.g. you cast BanMiss, stack up evasion/blind status, wait until enemies have missed a couple times (one of the reasons status spells now show miss instead of nothing when failing to hit, those count as well) and then use judge to heal yourself and damage them.

ok, that one is intended, kinda as a miniboss/source for 2 blue magics there

alone or in a group?

It is not really intended, I wanted to have 0 passives that stack with themselves but in the case of HP/MP this can't be avoided else it'd penalize stacking endure+bulwark+sturdy since their HP bonus is the exact same. yes, known, happens to all that have watched any of the tutorial scenes (compare last page) err... corvette (stingray like) and armon (brown sahagin) are victim of a typo in their level stat... (31 instead of 13) Hi-Lamia certainly shouldn't be there (world 3 mob)

4.5k ... did you built for HP on Lenna or did I underestimate the HP changes last time? >.>

maybe you changed an active ability last time? those affect stats slightly as well.

I had to make some sacrifices somewhere with the RAM I have available, so I reduced the game to only tracking one value of ABP instead of one per job. When you switch jobs that value should be cut in half. The alternative would've been no new jobs.

you did get a job level, not a character level, right? just making sure

I have no idea what is going wrong on your end...

what do you think single job mode is for? though in that case I'd keep it on normal difficulty (4)

yeah, and then add the chance of only 1/16 to get the rare steal - very frustrating overall theoretically I could, but how would we decide which moves are worth 1 icon, which 2 (this would have to be a global decision, not per boss). but I'm not too fond of this option; there's already plenty of RNG in what certain bosses do (like 1/3 chance each turn to do nothing or grand lottery cross), this would inevitably end with cases of a 50:50 chance between low damage + 1 icon or massive/aoe damage + 2 icons, so bad luck would double penalize the player. one penalty per failed RNG roll I'm ok with but not 2+

the enemy has to die by direct damage (though does not matter by whom), not HP leak, poison ticks, reflected spells or counter any lion fairy orc or one of the cure hares plant boss any plant girl any commander merugene any doomdealer palette swap skeleton any lamia any bone or zombie dragon darkmage or flaremage any unknown flayer siren gil turtle aoe before jobs: bombs and a full 6 enemy encounter is only guaranteed on difficulty 1 steal does not care about elements, the poison is purely for field icon purposes aside from that the base chance is still a measly 40%, same as vanilla, double with the thief gloves. well, you get a few extra % here with higher AGL or by being in the thief job field icons (karlabos) this is one of those things where it might not be possible to get a good solution. if the (heavy-type) bosses only got 1 icon you could flood them out to easily, you can always store turns or use brave to produce the mass of icons when you need them - but 2 icons as it is now may be a bit too much, and 1.5 icons is not possible. also getting 2 icons each is an option you have (later) as well, be it the fortress skill of knight or one of the mixes (both for heavy status) or the one !meta effect of sage.

you tried the fix only patch? wherever I left that one.. either way I won't try to make that compatible, not worth it, got better stuff to do

why should there be?

I think most of that is actually answered in the beginner house 1. the equip weight works a bit differently here than in vanilla; in vanilla it was just a flat value, divide by 8 and that is how much AGL you lose for the purpose of ATB/turn calculation. here it is basically a % of your equip load relative to your STR value. in the 0-30 weight range you won't have much penalty to ATB. (monster are calculated as if they had 30 weight) <70 differences become more notable and at 99 you might as well never get an action with that character. Or in short: strong warriors can wear heavier protection 2. the stat ups are permanent for that character and independant of current job. 3. yes, but you can only gain up to 5 levels per job (15 for single job mode). depending on what you want to do with a character it may be better to dip only a few job levels in a given job for the abilities or go all the way for the stats or a mix of both. e.g. if you already have 2 levels of berserker you have !twin cut which is almost as good as !x-fight, so taking 5 level of ranger for the later is not as important. 4. the jobs each have different base stats, black mage has less str/more mag than a knight, etc. the character themselves have minor stats bonus, this is in the 0-4 point range which is not too much longterm. and don't worry: a certain character and the inevitable replacement are 100% stat/job identical. if you are really into stat min-maxing, equipping active abilities gives 0-3 points total depending on the ability

Don't cast it on monster that absorb any of its elements or cast Anti-Magic on them before.

ok thanks, I'll have both things fixed for next update

only if you link back to here

Ok, so not only is the tutorial sequence flat out wrong it also causes bugs - good to know >.>

v1.005 fixed !Brave sometimes not working or triggering enemy reactions fixed Sandworm being unbeatable unless hero1 is dead fixed after battle recovery fixed issue with keeping single job mode choosing single job mode now enables job selection before getting the first crystal the controller change things sounds like a vanilla thing which I don't feel like tracking down currently Now is a good a time as any. I've still some things I want to do but that is mostly minor stuff. Also if someone wants to do me a favor: there's an outstanding bug in Bartz old home where on some playthroughs the bard is not there but a ! balloon instead or someone else had the dead mom on the floor there or other wrong NPCs in the house; and if you talk to any of them the game goes barf. So I know that the value of 7E0A96 is responsible. I just see on my end never change from the initial value of $8F/143 outside of the cutscene in the same house where it should change... I'd be super helpful if someone can run through the game with RAM watch on that address active and see where it changes where it shouldn't. I tried now three times through the first world and found nothing... In SNES9X that is simply: cheats > search for new cheats comparison type = compare to entered address data size 1 byte data type hexadecimal value: 7E0A96 then search for that, mark the result and put it on watch after that you'll have the value always printed on the screen.

v1.000 added job sprites for the 10 new jobs made by BlackLiquidSorrow added abilities for DarkKnight, Lord, Vampire, Magus and Sage jobs separated ability slots into 4 active and 3 passive slots added running for overworld walking and ship spells now show miss if they fail because of magic evasion; status spells that hit but inflict no status do not show miss MP drain spells now inflict HP damage and restore MP of 1/32th the damage dealt, capped at 40 X-Magic no longer receives a penalty to spellpower; instead it requires half a turn of charge up before casting changed !Animal to a 8 skill selection changed !Mimic to a 8 skill selection replaced Monk's !Kick with !Blitz, 8 skills based on unarmed combat, unlocked by maxHP replaced Knight's !Guard with !Valor, 8 skills based on defense, unlock based on win:escape ratio replaced Thief's !Steal with !Rogue, 8 skill menu, unlocked by successful steals replaced Mime's !Mimic command with a 8 skill menu based around acting and imitation, skills unlocked from the start replaced Dragoon's !Lance with !Drag-On, 8 skill menu based around their signature skills throughout the series, unlocked by max HP added !Science to Chemist, a 8 skill menu based on research, skills unlocked by Hi-Potion count replaced HP +30% on Monk and Tamer with !BuildUp HP +30%: renamed to Sturdy, HP +10%, reduces fraction damage taken replaced Endure on Berserker with Sturdy replaced Pierce on Dragoon with Sturdy replaced !Slash on Samurai with Crit Up replaced !Slash on Crusader with !SwdSlap replaced !Steal on Dancer and BlueMage with !Mug replaced !Aim on Chemist with !Science replaced Preemptive on Ninja with Caution added CQC passive: +20% damage while in the front row replaced !Animal on Geomancer with CQC replaced Preemptive on TimeMage with CQC Bulwark no longer adds 10 VIT, instead reduces regular damage taken changed Lich from +3 VIT, +7 MAG to +20% magic power and increased drain power WhiteMage now learns AreaCast instead of MassCast BlackMage now learns MassCast instead of AreaCast added defense piercing property to !BuildUp changed the white/black spells available for !Red, !Rose, !X-Magic; slightly less front loaded, !Red even gets 2 Lv6 spells increased base hit chance for DoomClaw from 66% to 75% increased base status chance for HP-to-1, doom and destroy effects from 40% to 55% adjusted stats of most monsters modified AI of Siren, Kimabryn, ArchAvis, SolCannon, Merugene, Crayclaw and Omega Mk3 changed Sandworm's Demi to Quake edited unused NeoGoblin to Rebone enemy and added to a boss formation edited Skullkin stats to make the "solutions" more in line with vanilla strategy form changing bosses now keep status resistance between form shifts added a cap to ABP while jobless; on job change you'll have at most 4/5 ABP reduced HP buff from 100% to 50% fixed weapon animation of flail and morning star reduced the influence on damage growth for Lv2-35, added slight damage growth for job levels 1-30 (double level for single job mode) adjusted HP per job level; now treats single job mode as having twice the job level increased HP per job with "HP up" bonus from 30 to 50 reduced monster stat spread by difficulty adjusted monster base stats by level added +10% steal chance for thief job fixed a bug that made !Throw with weapons deal about 2.5 times the intended damage renamed !Martial to !Bushido replaced Bushido/Fate Hit with Booster: weak attack that buffs user's STR replaced Bushido/Danger with Dispatch: chance to instantly kill Blue/Aero: increased power against floating targets or those weak to "aerial" attacks Blue/Goblin Punch: damage bonus against same level target reduced from x4 to x2 with -50% defense Blue/Goblin Punch: level check compares only last digit on level Blue/White Wind: heals by 33% caster maxHP instead of 100% current HP, affected by Heal Amp Summon/Odin: now always uses Zantetsuken, a holy elemental magic attack against all enemies Time/Flood: added ground type, increased power from 110 to 126 Terrain: now always behaves as if pierce passive ability was equipped Terrain: removed Gaia's Wrath and Lament again increased MP restored by ether from 20-150 to 50-150 adjusted item cooldown values for !mix and !throw reduced scaling of heal magic with weapon attack increased heal power bonus of Sage Ring from 5 to 7 removed Ramuh and Shoat summon items, the summon spells are now added directly on boss death added Web that inflicts slow added Vaccine that reduces status damage taken added MP sickness debuff for MP recovery with !Item, !X-Item and !Mix that reduces further MP recovery with those skills by 25% (but then capped at 100) White/Pure and Mystic/Cleanse now additionally remove MP sickness fixed a game crash caused by having !Hide, !Show, !Catch or !Release in the 4th ability slot fixed a bug that made defend/guard sometimes not work fixed a bug that made x-item with feather not work fixed a bug that prevented abp reduction on job up fixed a bug that made Blue/Condemn deal absurd damage when it failed to inflict the status fixed a bug that made Counter use fire spellblade instead reduced guard damage reduction from -75% to -50% first escape with BraveBlade does no longer reduce attack power, only 2+ escapes !dance: buffed power of Mystery Waltz and Jitterbug by 50%, reduced power of Sworddance from 400% to 200% reduced damage reduction from armor/shell from 50% to 25% monster can now land critical hits on their regular attacks fixed a bug that made !mimic mimic the landing of (s-)jump and not the jump itself changed MP gain of !Brave from 100 to 12.5%maxMP + 100 physical accuracy is now adjusted by spot in party, top to bottom, x9/8/7/6 changed how multiple hits of Time/Meteo are handled; changed to a quicker animation changed element of Time/Comet to wind/earth changed element of Time/Meteo to earth/fire removed LP from NG+ scaling in NG+ treasure chests are now reset replaced some NPC texts in Carwen for more hints to gameplay changes changed default difficulty and encounterrate from 3 to 4

I think the only effects that don't stack with each other are the weapon element ones since multi-element weapon attacks don't work too well in the code, resist beats weakness.

Sol Cannon was always a % boss; though now it scales up with difficulty (x1.5 on difficulty 1) and actually can hit a weakness. So yes that can go up to a 1 hit kill. Admittedly SC is one of those bosses where I don't know what to do with. The main cannon has this gigantic charge up... and then does the same damage as the sidekicks basically. And then it doesn't really scale with difficulty; diff4: 50% rocket + 50% beam is a kill the same as diff1 75%+75%. Also, you may or may not gain 2 more consumables in the next version to use with !(X-)Item. *cough*web*cough*vaccine*cough*