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Game Design and Modifications / Re: LFT: An FFT mod (The final release is a lie. Download here!)

« on: January 30, 2013, 01:11:49 PM »

Ahh, that makes sense. I had been using a Reraise strategy so I basically did everything I could to NOT get hit by that attack. Thanks for the advice.

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Game Design and Modifications / Re: LFT: An FFT mod (The final release is a lie. Download here!)

« on: January 30, 2013, 01:03:05 AM »

So long story short, I lurked around here for a while, picked up another hack, finished it, picked up this hack and loved it. I got to Chapter 4 and was making steady progress, then put it down for a little bit.

Then I hit Adramelk, who is not even remotely fair. Not only is he designed where he MUST be killed in a single turn, but it seems like it's assumed that you go in with Haste and Reraise and that you spent the previous battle kiting around, Yelling, and regenerating everyone to full. And then he has Critical Quick so I have to nail the HP perfectly, when I don't know the HP total? That's not fun. After banging my head on the battle for hours, I still don't even know his HP total.

What do I have to do? Make my entire team Undead (and would that even work to nullify his damage)? Force Dycedarg to walk up to my team before killing him? Yell for an hour like in the old Vanilla Wiegraf battle? As it is I'm pretty much forced to have the following spells go off in this order to have a chance:

Life Drain
Lich
Lightning Stab
Life Drain
Titan

I'd hate to put the hack down because of this battle. It's been great so far and I really want to see the rest of it.

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Game Design and Modifications / Re: The Final Fantasy 3/6 Eviltype 1.1 and Variations topic

« on: December 26, 2012, 06:37:03 PM »

I'm totally going to necro this thread because this hack is AWESOME. I'm playing 1.1 (the normal version) and it's literally perfect. Before this hack I never finished FF6 cuz I always got bored with how easy it was, or frustrated with how some things just don't make sense (crappy rages, the evade bug, Relm and Cyan suckitude, etc). The hack is hard, but not frustratingly so - it's just enough to keep me interested.

Right now I'm on Kefka's tower, just about to fight Guardian. I saw him go into "No use!" mode and thought things were broken until I looked on youtube. I'm planning to finish this very soon, although I'll probably branch a save off right before Kefka to go get the rest of the rages and take on the dinosaurs. On the rage note, I've already encountered Allo Ver and Siegfried in Kefka's tower, but still no Chupon - any suggestions on where to find him?

For the sake of feedback and completeness, here are a few random things I love about this hack:

• Almost all rages are helpful, but the ones I've found myself using most are Osteosaur (Doom/X-Zone), White Drgn (Pearl/Pearl Wind/Counter), Magic Urn (Harvester/Cure 3), Mad Oscar (Bio/Sour Mouth), and Pug (Break/Step Mine). I'm missing a ton of these, including the last few dungeons (Io and Woolly come to mind). Any other standouts people have found that I should be getting? Also, can I get Pugs in this hack?
• Cyan is REALLY good. Working Gravity spells did wonders for Swdtech 3, and Swdtech 4/7 are much more powerful than before. Cyan's had permanent Bismark since I got the esper, and currently has Strato and an Atlas Armlet, and Swdtech 7 hits for about 4000 x4. This makes him better than Fixed Dice x4 (although Fixed Dice x8 is fun too ).
• Umaro is a beast who has died exactly once so far. He's got Rage Ring/Muscle Belt and sits in the front row doing 4-5k each turn auto-hasted.
• Wind God Gau is not really that great in this hack. I keep trying to find a use for it, but even in Kefka's tower it's marginal. I used Gau with Stray Cat, Offering and Tiger Fangs (I think? the holy elemental ones) in the Ancient Castle to great effect.
• I love that Sketch is useful now, although I did give Relm the Gem Box so she's not Sketching too often. There are some cases where Sketch is comedically useless that I feel were put in intentionally (I'm thinking of some undead enemy but I forget which one).
• I'm still not a fan of the Figaro brothers, but they work. Edgar was awful until he became a Pearl Lance/Dragon Horn dragoon (much later than in vanilla) and inputting Bum Rush on an emulator is still kinda annoying, but both do more than enough damage so it's cool.

Since I'm almost done with this hack, I'd really like to find something similar for the other games I knew and loved but never finished (those being FF4 and FF5). Any suggestions on a similar quality hack for those?