Hart-Hunt

3 hours ago, pogeymanz said:

Nope. I just tried it now. It's nice. The only problem (for me) is that I often browse the site without being logged in. I can understand, though, how having the Unread Content kind of makes my complaint/suggestion seem redundant or not worth the effort.

It does, because it has afaik most filters that you ask for. But hey, as I see it, you got exactly what you asked in record time.

Since I haven't seen any responses from this (And the modder really doesn't want my opinion on the changes), I can safely assume that he will not be working on improving this to be anything near... Decent.

Have you tried the Unread Content feature?

Hey there! Yeah, there's been a lot of missing soldiers from ID since it fell down. Awesome to have you! We need more LPs, more threads, for everything!

8 hours ago, Tenkarider said:

i thought you already knew it, i'm italian

Right. I think I knew and didn't remember. Was just curious.

13 minutes ago, Tenkarider said:

which difference exists between the 2 versions? never figured it out, actually i don't even know which one i played

Btw where are you from tenka? Europe?

Also, please confirm if you're Duffy Duck under that hood or not. It's been years and the suspense is killing me.

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Heyo heyo! It's time I posted this! Here's my on going playthrough of Monster Tactics, mod by Emmy from New Game + (wait, am I not in NG+? Ehem).

This playthrough doesn't have any restrictions so far, but if you remember me from Insane Difficulty, you'll know that I love being challenged in FFT. So, if you guys want to see something a bit more original than a regular playthrough, let me know!

The videos are all included in the videos section of the site, so I will only be posting updates of the playthrough, so as to not clutter the LP thread!

Videos 1 to 4 are already uploaded! So far, the beginning is quite a bit overwhelming, with a first "tutorial" battle that is simply too much for a new player, regardless of your experience (or not) with tactical games like FFT, simply because there's too much information. From there on, Gariland and the consecuent battles follow a kind of steady, but good enough difficulty progression. We're still in the very beginning of the game (one of the things that I'm mostly looking for in this mod is getting to the newest chapter 5!), so stay tuned!

I upload regularly, mostly one video per week, and I have various playthroughs going on at the same time, so if new videos take a bit to show up no worries, it's just because we gotta show some love for all the games!

No idea there. I only know that qhimm is the place to go for a question like that.

Hey there! Welcome to the forums. We have a forum dedicated to new / WIP projects, I'll be moving the thread there. Worry not though, your guess was the second-best anyway.

About the mod, nice to see a FFVIII mod. However, there are some things that I'd object from the list of changes.

The first thing I'm seeing is that you're aiming for a difficulty mod. Good, that's fine, I enjoy difficulty mods when done well. However, there are many issues qith FFVIII vanilla that don't seem to be addressed here, and will not make a good base game for a difficulty enhancement. Some of those are:

a) The draw and stock system, which relies on tedious grinding on an already long game.

b) Card Mod, which breaks pretty much any efforts to balance the game as it exists in vanilla.

c) Squall, Zell, Irvine Limit Breaks as they are, are overpowered because of their multihit potential.

d) General lack of stat rebalances throughout the game.

The point is this: If you don't fix the above (which is only a sum up version of the problems with vanilla), then you'll lose a lot of players from your mod, because the base game itself won't be enjoyable. In the case of a difficulty mod, it gets worse, because the challenge will be reduced to knowing how to exploit an engine, instead of coming up with legitimate strategies.

Now, suppose you fixed all of those previous to this post. There's still a lot of changes in your change list that I'd object are not gonna make an enjoyable game (and again, this comes from a player who has played and enjoyed a ton of difficulty mods, and even has created one):

1) This one is perfectly fine, part of a rebalance, which I said is needed.

2) Same deal. Part of the focus on a difficulty mod, to spice battles up.

3) Having an optional zone with enemies at level 100 is fine in concept, because it's left as a place with optional challenges that won't halt progress from the player. Now, what I'd suggest is differentiating the Island Closest to Heaven and Hell. Maybe making one of them replay bosses in higher levels, and the other one unique enemies? The problem is, adding Omega and Ultima weapon isna silly idea, because you're essentially removing the magic out of the optional dungeons, and you're adding fights that will be way too long for a world map battle. I wouldn't step into.an area where I'll have random battles that take more than 10 minutes. It sounds tiring and tedious to the player. I see a tendency towards bringing tedium towards the player, which you should avoid at all costs, because it makes your game more tempting to be replayed.

4) Al level 100 in a dungeon is silly. You're forcing the player to grind to progress with no reason whatsoever. That already turns me off of playing the mod (And I'm sure people here would agree on that). Keep all battles throughout the game with levels balanced with the party level, or keep them with static levels, but it's a really bad design choice to change between the two, and even worse to change between the two and force grinding to the max level.

5) That's just a change seeking flavour, no comments can be made of that, ir you're looking to use it to rebalance the game.

6) Again, forcing level 100 is bad. Also, increasing stats just because is bad. Try to rebalance the bosses and make the battles more engaging (AI script changes would be a much finer solution to make the bosses more unique). That change also makes me not even try your mod.

Hope that helps.

Gotta second this playlist, it's always been pretty good.

Pass the rum.

How rude, you could have worn a costume as well

Meta suggestion: Adding a list of changes in the forum (perhaps another main thread presenting the project) so that lurkers or people who don't know about the project get sold by the changes (since they are plenty)

Do you know about game design? Do you like reviewing games? Do you like writing?

Want to share your ideas or thoughts? Here's a good place to start. Write an article and if it is good enough, it will stick in the articles section! Maybe yoy feel like you have a good grasp of something that you want the rest to read and talk about it, or mahbe you're bored and want to document your thoughts on a matter, regarding video games.

Writing an article won't automatically mean it will go into the correspondent section, but it will always draw you closer to the community! If you're a lurker, then that's another chance to step up.

With that said, have a good evening. Any questions, feel free to post them below.

So, we like games. We like good games more, generally. And a game feels good to play when it feels like it has an appropiate difficulty, well planned and executed throughout the game. "Well planned and executed" is what we called "Difficulty Scope", and "Throughout the game" is called "Difficulty Curve".

Those are basically the briefest definitions (or maybe explanations?) I can give about those two terms. With that in mind, we video gamers know quite a few of them. Which games are the best examples you can think of regarding good Difficulty Scope and good Difficulty Curve?

Keep in mind a few things when posting:

1. We are not necessarily discussing the  balance of the game. A game (especially a vanilla game) might have done overpowered or abusable mechanics, but the concepts might still apply. Also, this is not to show off e-peen points. Be objetive and rational.

2. Mods are included to add as examples (of course they are)

3. Optional / side / post game content can be excluded from your game if that makes a case for the game you're hinting.

4. Try to post opening it for discussion. Don't throw names without justification if possible.

Ready? Go!

A good way to start if you're lost is to ask the dev who created the Suikoden 2 Hardcore patch, which debuggers he used to reverse engineer the rom addresses, and whichever info he already has (if he's willing to share it).

https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3303/

From there on, second what seibaby said. The very basic two tools you'll need is a hex editor of choice (HxD is a good one, I personally like Hex Workshop because of its compare function but it's not free), and a debugger, where you find out a ram address, add a breakpoint to see how or where it us executed, read or written, then trace back and reverse engineer your way thorugh until you've documented a routine that you can change into whatever you want. In the meantime, you'll need to gradually learn the programming language (assembly, mosy likely) that the gane was coded into.

Hope this helps!

Same here. I've always been lurking the news of this hack because I want it to be a blind playthrough of the game.

Welcome there. Hope you enjoy your stay.

15 hours ago, Bauglir said:

Well, everyone important likes him.

I love it.

First of all, I approve of you making a thread instead of bleeding into the Mistery Egg thread.

Second, don't take it too personally if they've edited out that small detail. No one said you weren't trying to be helpful, it's just that it's a part of the community's culture to not massively divulge it in the forums.

And yeah, we're pretty down to earth and we like intelligent posts. We try to steer away from the asshole aspect that some communities could tend towards. Hell, we sum up the first rule we have as "Don't be an asshole". Personally, my view of an ideal site also is one where we don't tend towards elitism. Why am I saying all of this? Because you asked for the rules, but in fact you seem to be interested / concerned about how the community is, and not about its rules per se.

So yeah. Give it some time, don't be quick to judge, and just accept that what happened is, someone asked a question, the creator of the mod didn't want to particularly spread that little piece of info, you tried to regardless, and the content got removed. I hope that perspective helps you a bit.

It's a hard tradition, but it's a traiditon nonetheless. And I'm sure the theme of it is to not divulge it in the official forums. Even when people will post explaining their experiences, they'll implicitely respect that rule. It's a little part of the BNW culture.