Final Fantasy Hacktics

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Okay so it's finally time, we have a demo for everyone to play!

Now, just know, this is only a very small section of Chapter 1. This is basicly what I like to
call the intro, tho it's rather long to be called that. Then again Chapter 1 itself uses over 150 event slots,
so what do I know.

This includes events passing what was shown in our teaser as well as 3 playable battles.

I would like to write more and to thank my entire team and all that, but they already know I love them,
and I would much rather just release this damn demo already so you guys can play it, rather than spending
another hour typing shit out.

So quickly, to my team. Awesome work everyone! We've come very far to get to this point,
and once the rest of the ASM's are finished as well as the balancing we can finally make the full Chapter 1 release.
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

REPORT ALL BUGS IMMEDIATELY!!



DEMO (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/89448064/Jot5Demo.7z)


VanishMantle did a stream of the demo. Watch it HERE (http://www.twitch.tv/vanishmantle/b/328217693)

Barren did a video playthru of the demo. Watch it HERE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ifxqoGCWhQ)


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Best part is that this is just scratching the surface of the game. :mrgreen: Now we just need to power through and finish this thing.

Woot! My first post on FFH. This has to be my most anticipated project and I plan to give this demo a play-through ASAP. I will most definitely be streaming this as well.

Words cannot describe how excited I am for this project. Thanks Elric and all who are involved in this project.

Fun stuff. Looks like it's shaped up to be well worth the wait. Can't really test for many "bugs" skills-wise, seeing as how I only learned 1/character, and never got to use them.
Didn't have much issue difficulty-wise, no graphical problems in the cutscenes... Nicely done everyone!

Freakin' finally
Awesome job!

nice. good job !!!

The map is good, game play was really good, also another emulator problem. If anyone uses PSX Even which is differemt than PSXFin an error happens after watching Dante's Intro. just wanted you to know this. Also when I was using Whirlwind Blade, the background went black for the rest of the fight, but didn't really mess the game up.

Well, in the first battle, the background goes black before the fight starts, because it starts raining.

But anyway, I'm glad everyone seems to be enjoying the demo :)
It wont be to long before you can play the entire chapter  :mrgreen:

Quote from: Elric on August 11, 2012, 02:15:40 pm
Well, in the first battle, the background goes black before the fight starts, because it starts raining.

On that note, I always heard the rain... but never saw it. o_O

Yea, I'mnot sure why that happens either, cuz with other emulator settings I can see it, I will look in attack.out for a bit today.

I know I also need to stop the weather in the victory event, so you cant hear in at the save screen.

EDIT: Also 1000th POST!! \o/

Looking forward to playing it. Expect the demo vid to be on youtube sometime tomorrow :)

I look forward to it Barren :D

Quote from: Barren on August 11, 2012, 03:29:53 pm
Looking forward to playing it. Expect the demo vid to be on youtube sometime tomorrow :)

Wohoo, Barren going for some JoT5 action, i like it. :D

Also, i don't remember if when i played that rain stuff, but in ePSXe everything seems to be working well except for the bugs we already know.

damn this demo is dope as hell!!!!! to bad its short, it only took 20 min. cant wait for more :)

And remember lads.

Quote from: Elric on August 10, 2012, 09:41:05 pm
REPORT ALL BUGS IMMEDIATELY!!

Quote from: Elric on August 11, 2012, 02:52:45 pm
EDIT: Also 1000th POST!! \o/

Oh, stop showing off. >_<
(Grumbles about being here longer)

jk, we all love you.

Enjoy the demo, everyone! Do not worry if you find the demo short. There's a lot more in store for Jot5 Chapter 1 than just epic introductions. ;3

And yeah, report bugs you've found. Also, feedback is very well appreciated! Sharing your opinions will make Jot5 multiple times better. :)

I have no clue how the hell anyone could complete this demo in 20 minutes unless playing at 120-180 FPS and skipping all the text.  Playing at 60 FPS, knowing how to flawlessly beat every battle, skipping through text, and using save states through each battle, it still takes me longer than that to beat the demo.

Being short is the one thing I never expected mentioned. x.x;

Come to think of it, the 1st battle alone took almost an half hour for me.

He was probably exaggerating, but it wasn't too short. It felt like CoP Ch:1 in length (to me).

Ok, played the Demo
The events are epic, but no one never had a doubt about it
The battles were pretty easy, even if enemies with the "Item" command sometimes turned them into a stall-war
I highly dislike Ramza's portrait, but whatever
Epic/10

P.s: Took me 20 minutes to play the whole Demo, playing at 120 fps. Reading everything
P.p.s: Nice of you adding Rad, Alicia and Lavian into the fray

Quote from: Dome on August 12, 2012, 10:03:03 am
The battles were pretty easy, even if enemies with the "Item" command sometimes turned them into a stall-war

Don't worry, it'll get a lot harder. ;)

/me coughs and chuckles.

Great! I love difficulty games, and the story looks quite promising

Remember there are still new users or those who suck at tactics game, so difficulty cannot be very hard. I would set it between medium-hard.

Just avoid broken abilities and make sure enemies knows how to use theirs, and the difficulty will be fine

Slightly un-related question:
Will Jot5 play like Cop (Event->Fight->Event->Fight) or will it have a world map where you can freely roam and play random battles and such?

World map is ours to explore, Dome.

This is correct, in the beginning of Jot5, the intro is all strung together like in CoP, but once you get to the worldmap it will play like vanilla FFT, going from place to place on the map :P

Which is great
Having a world map gives you the chance to implement secret events and other great stuff which shouldn't be in the main story for a lot of reasons ;P

Ohh hahah, trust me, Jot5 will have a TON of secret stuff and sidequests ;)

Here it is everyone!

Final Fantasy Tactics: Journey of The 5 Demo (http://youtu.be/6ifxqoGCWhQ)

Quote from: Elric on August 12, 2012, 01:31:33 pm
Ohh hahah, trust me, Jot5 will have a TON of secret stuff and sidequests ;)

You guys can wait, there will be a LOT of cool stuff in this regards. :D

/me whaps Durbs.


/me goes to make Journey of the 5 into My Great Teletubby Adventure just to spite Durbs now.

Quote from: Joseph Strife on August 12, 2012, 02:03:45 pm
You guys can wait, there will be a LOT of cool stuff in this regards. :D

Quote from: RavenOfRazgriz on August 12, 2012, 02:29:58 pm
/me whaps Durbs.


/me goes to make Journey of the 5 into My Great Teletubby Adventure just to spite Durbs now.

0.o

Great job on the demo, you guys have done excellent work!

Quote from: nero on August 12, 2012, 07:43:32 pm
Great job on the demo, you guys have done excellent work!

Thank you! 40 views and still climbing :)

Playing through it, looks pretty good so far! I saw sometimes though that the text was getting cut off half way at the last letter by the little book symbol thingie to read the next page here and there, not a big deal but you could in theory add 1 space to such situations to shift the book thing over one and keep the entire sentence in tact.

Also, I was wondering if I could use any of these portraits for my avatar on here? I like the AC Cloud portrait, I already took a screenshot and cropped it...

For most of the ones in the demo you would have to ask Twinees, since most of those are his works,
and since they haven't been publicly released yet, I dunno if he would allow it :/


Altho we have quite a few spriters, Kagebunji and Twinees are completely in charge of the going ons with the Jot5 sprites,
quality wise as well as what does and does not make the cut.

Id prefer if you waited until Jot5 was released and all the sprites are submitted before you use any portraits for your avatar, Jon.

Okay, won't change my avatar then.

So I finished the demo and I found the whole experience pretty good. I really like the different intros to the new heroes, and I like how you are using older characters from where the story left off. I have a few suggestions (don't read if you haven't played yet):



Hope this doesn't come off as harsh, just trying to help you improve the game! :mrgreen: You did a really awesome job thus far, keep it up!

Quote from: Jon on August 15, 2012, 07:15:50 am
Okay, won't change my avatar then.

So I finished the demo and I found the whole experience pretty good. I really like the different intros to the new heroes, and I like how you are using older characters from where the story left off. I have a few suggestions (don't read if you haven't played yet):

spoiler

- Make a new older Alma sprite to match Ramza's age (since they're about the same)
- In the last sequence maybe have two different sprites for Tsenya and Romar (I think those were their names), they just look like clones with color swaps, if you want twins keep the heads but give different clothes
- Keep the Delita King sprite but make his portrait older according to Ramza
- This is kinda dumb but give one of the four 4 move to mix it up a bit, right now four of them have 3 movement and Snake has like 5
- This is gonna sound harsh but consider cutting the battle with Alma, honestly I found it makes no sense, you're in control of the 5 guys and then suddenly you're given a random team which you have no control over and its literally a 50/50 fight depending on the random set ups

Hope this doesn't come off as harsh, just trying to help you improve the game! :mrgreen: You did a really awesome job thus far, keep it up!

My walktrought or so :P

yeah really, why are ya taking everything so literal??? Too funny lol, pop a chill pill and work on your comprehension skills. It was a great demo and i have no doubt that the completed chapter 1 will be epic, it just seemed a little short but i realize that it was only the introduction.   

I thought the Alma battle was actually really well done. As long as you made sure Alma didn't die, you had a source of revival. If she died, you had 4 turns to win that battle, or else it was game over. It was probably my favorite battle in the demo, tbh.

This is really amazing and original, except for one thing I do agree with Dome that Ramza's portrait should be changed, because in comparison with Delita he looks like he's on his 40-50, just a suggestion, even so amazing work.

Quote from: MountainDew~ on August 16, 2012, 02:56:12 pm
I thought the Alma battle was actually really well done. As long as you made sure Alma didn't die, you had a source of revival. If she died, you had 4 turns to win that battle, or else it was game over. It was probably my favorite battle in the demo, tbh.

Alma is imortal flagged (at least in my Demo). So basically you can keep on fighting even if she dies.

Ramza's meant to look older and different.  He's incognito.

Basically, Heat, you're saying everything is working more or less exactly as intended.  Heh.


And yes, all the units in the third battle are Immortal Flagged.  Every unit in the demo except the enemies in the patrol on the second battle.

Quote from: RavenOfRazgriz on August 16, 2012, 07:12:38 pm
Ramza's meant to look older and different.  He's incognito.

Basically, Heat, you're saying everything is working more or less exactly as intended.  Heh.


And yes, all the units in the third battle are Immortal Flagged.  Every unit in the demo except the enemies in the patrol on the second battle.

If I understood well, what you mean is that he won't wear the beard for all the game? if so then i can bear it, because, honestly the beard doesn't suits him...

Quote from: Heat066 on August 16, 2012, 09:26:01 pm
If I understood well, what you mean is that he won't wear the beard for all the game? if so then i can bear it, because, honestly the beard doesn't suits him...

He doesn't sound like a man at all, anything that goes this way don't fit him.

Will Ramza lose his beard?  That I'm not at liberty to discuss.  I'm just pointing out that what you mentioned was the exact intent, Ramza's meant to look noticeably different and much older because people aren't meant to be able to tell who it is at a glance or from the wanted posters of him back during the Lion War.  His disguise wouldn't go very well if he looked the same minus a monocle or something, it's not like he's Clark Kent after all...

Will there be a world map where you can train the 5 in random battles?

Dome asked the same thing some posts ago in this same topic.
World map will be there for you guys to explore, andbelieve me, you will find lot of things. :D

Quote from: Joseph Strife on August 17, 2012, 12:19:01 pm
World map will be there for you guys to explore, andbelieve me, you will find lot of things. :D

unique and very exciting things indeed XD

130+ views now! and the video is not even a week old! I guess people are really psyched about this patch Elric :)

That is amazing Barren!

Played it and it took about an hour, my favorite battle was probably the 2nd one that was the only one I almost got beaten in. I was left with Link against one of the Rangers and we both ran around collecting the crystals to prolong our lives. One of the few things on this board I've been interested in, in a long time and I'm very curious to see where it goes. Good luck, and excited for Chapter one!

Speedyshare now requires you to buy an account to download the file... so for now, here's a link on my dropbox: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/89448064/Jot5Demo.7z

Thanx Xif, I will update the OP

This demo is amazing!  I just found this site and am loving every minute of these projects. I played it through last night on my phone with no problems.  10/10 can't wait for the rest of chapter 1.  Thanks!

Hollabackjm, Welcome to FFH!
There's a lot more in store for the rest of the chapter so let us stay tuned for its release. ;)

Wow I Didnt Know Anyone Else Did This Until I Got On This Site Hey I Played it Through Liked It A Lot was Kinda Doing The Same Thing But With Ashely Riot, Tidus, Ramza, Link, and Dante But I Like This A Lot Better I Scrapped My Stuff And This IS One Of My Favorite Things To Do Thank You And Keep Up The Good Work

Quote from: Heat066 on August 16, 2012, 03:13:52 pm
This is really amazing and original, except for one thing I do agree with Dome that Ramza's portrait should be changed, because in comparison with Delita he looks like he's on his 40-50, just a suggestion, even so amazing work.

I think about it like this: if you had to spend the prime of your life fighting devils, thwarting government conspiracies, and hiding from your childhood friend who is now a king and using everyone at his disposal to find you. The stress would probably have you aging quickly as well  ;)

Could be a bit late but....

thank you Nextgen, all of these have been fixed and are no longer an issue at all :P

The demo is really only ~ 10% of chapter 1, so there is MUCH more to come!

Hope it comes soon :D
I really cant wait for ch1

Just played the demo. Excellent quality. Excellent. Really made me want more. Keep it up.

Quote from: Elric on January 02, 2013, 05:24:35 pm
thank you Nextgen, all of these have been fixed and are no longer an issue at all :P

NP, was my pleasure. Wish I could have helped sooner (sounds like you already had those bugs fixed). Just picked up some recording software so I hope to post up my play-through of ch.1

Made an account simply to comment here. I've just finished the first fight and I've decided this is the most fun I've had on Tactics since my first play through! Keep up the excellent work, I think I'll be sticking around =)

Have you guys decided on a release date for ch.1 yet? I'm really excited for this patch!

It's hitting unexpected hiccups but its still making forward progress.

The first chapter is always the hardest to release because it requires the most debugging.  Please be patient, because once we get past these bits it should be fairly smooth sailing for the remaining Chapters of the game.

Kagekiri, thank you very much, this was the entire goal of the project and if people are having fun then we have achieved that.

Jumza, Original we wanted to release on X-mas, but as Raven said we hit a few snags, mostly just ASM's and how they get along with one another. But keep looking forward, Ch1 will be out shortly.

First: though I have yet to play this myself, the videos make it look incredible. This is some amazing stuff, guys, I've never seen a mod on this scale with any sort of plausibility.
Second: The problem isn't Ramza having a beard, it's that the beard is ugly. It's like a palette swap of Duke Larg or Abraham Lincoln. I'm a half decent spriter, so I'll whip up something that gives Ramza a beard more like his late father, and you can choose if you want to use it.

Quote from: Apocryphist on March 20, 2013, 08:03:53 pm
First: though I have yet to play this myself, the videos make it look incredible. This is some amazing stuff, guys, I've never seen a mod on this scale with any sort of plausibility.

This was exactly my intention, and it means alot to hear someone say that, thank you. When people play I don't want them to feel like it's a "Mod". Because with everything that has changed. It's not a Mod. It's a new game using FFT's engine.

Quote from: Apocryphist on March 20, 2013, 08:03:53 pm
Second: The problem isn't Ramza having a beard, it's that the beard is ugly. It's like a palette swap of Duke Larg or Abraham Lincoln. I'm a half decent spriter, so I'll whip up something that gives Ramza a beard more like his late father, and you can choose if you want to use it.

We have the best (and honestly most of) the spriters on FFH (Jot5 is a 18 person Team) Ramza's beard isn't suppose to look great, this is intentional as well. :P Trust me.

Alas, it looks like this is not goatee'd Ramza's day. Still, it's good to hear that Ramza isn't going to model himself after that OTHER guy who ended a civil war.
(Ramza + Zalbaag's beard and jawline is attached, if anyone finds it useful. Who knows, maybe after he shaves...?)

Haha, I still like this, and I'm sure I can find a use for it in one of my other projects. One of them will begin work shortly
after Jot5 chapter 1 comes out.

Hello
Just to let you know, i have tried the DEMO using epsxe for android on my Galaxy Note and its working great. Heres hoping that the official release will also work as well. Might have to see if CCP works as well. As ever keep up the great work guys!!

Quote from: Argy on March 24, 2013, 10:16:41 am
Hello
Just to let you know, i have tried the DEMO using epsxe for android on my Galaxy Note and its working great. Heres hoping that the official release will also work as well. Might have to see if CCP works as well. As ever keep up the great work guys!!

If you can get CCP working on any kind of handheld device, please post how over in my section. That would be a small miracle that I know more than a few people would be interested in hearing about. [endthreadhijack]

Oh you threadjacking bitch. 

:v

Threadjacking my own thread!

Celdia, do you have a full ASM list? You might just have a load delay issue, it's either that or conflicting ASM space.
But from what I understand it's more likely the former if all your ASM's are working properly.

Quote from: Elric on March 24, 2013, 04:01:27 pm
Threadjacking my own thread!

Celdia, do you have a full ASM list? You might just have a load delay issue, it's either that or conflicting ASM space.
But from what I understand it's more likely the former if all your ASM's are working properly.

Celdia uses ALMA.

/me understands now