Play Testers for V1.3 ENTD Wanted!

[Archael]

Hi guys.


THE LATEST VERSION OF THE V1.3 TEST PATCH WILL BE THE LAST ONE IN THE THREAD. CURRENT = V1.306. THANKS ^^.


WARNING / DISCLAIMERS:
 
1) The new ENTD is VERY different from 1.0 ENTD. Enemies that had blank R/S/M or blank secondaries now can learn things there, and alot of enemies especially starting in Chapter 2 WILL HAVE good r/s/m choices and more skills learned.

2) The AI WILL NO LONGER learn trash skills for the most part as those have been 0%'ed for them.

3) THIS IS A MUCH HARDER ENTD if you're used to just rolling through the game with a party of 5 people with Blade Grasp or some other abusable mechanic. DO NOT attempt to become a tester if you do not have experience with the game, or give up easily. This WILL take some getting used to for most people I think.

4) Every encounter will require your team to be at their best or you just won't win, period. And I need help from people to see if some encounters are too much or too easy.

5) And the ENTD has been edited completely to be [PARTY LEVEL] for all generics you face in the storyline, as well as gave them some good R/S/M choices.  Boss-type NPC's such as Weigraf and Izlude etc have [PARTY LEVEL+0-5] and sometimes higher on the later end-game guys.

6) SOME ENCOUNTERS HAVE NOT been tested yet such as Queklain and Zalera, so I have no clue if they are impossible or not. Please give feedback.

7) Some late-Game R/S/M combinations were manually set by me to be more challenging, however alot of the units in those fights still use <RANDOM> skills, but the AI gets to pick from a much better pool of abilities than original FFT.

8) 99% of items used by the generic enemies are <RANDOM> and will grow with their [PARTY LEVEL]. Do NOT complain if you power level a bit and find the enemy to be too strong with their higher-level items. This is intended.

9) Some boss fights have been looked at / altered. An example of this is Zalmo can now equip swords, this enabling the Beowulf skills he has in his White-Aid skillset. Some encounters were modified greatly, such as Altima1 and 2, for the sake of making her a challenge and fun to play.

10) This ENTD will be released as part of V1.3 but with a big disclaimer that the player is free to use V1.3 without a modified ENTD. It will be possible to use V1.3 without this ENTD for those players who are not looking for a difficulty increase.



... With all that out of the way, please reply to this topic if you're interested and have time to playtest this. THIS ENTD IS NOT FINAL, please don't assume anything is going in for final V1.3. I know some things can use alot of work, and honestly, alot of people are having problems with the difficulty, but I know there's some good players out there who can adapt to pretty much anything.

Thank you.

[Asmo X]

Fear not! I shall playtest for you!

[wismarv]

hey ^^ i think i might be able to test some of the stuff out even tho am in the middle of a wotg challenge but i been off work lately and have plenty of free time, just give me like a day to grab a clean iso from my cd, since is a bit late atm to start doing any of that xD

[Archael]

hey cool man ^ ^

[LastingDawn]

Well, I think my signature already has the answer, hehe.

[Archael]

lol @ fallen in sand rat cellar

[wismarv]

am ready to start some testing, ima try to see you on chat get more info on were to get the patch since i been gone for a bit

[VincentCraven]

post it and I'll give it a whirl.

[SentinalBlade]

After Widdling hours away at testing new classes... a revision of the old FFT would be perfect right now... im still stuck on my Mind Mage... freakin psychic heals dont want to work :/

[Slim_Sephy]

Oh yes....












oh yes~

[Archael]

Ok tomorrow when I get back from beach I will check who doesn't have the patch yet.

The test file is Final Fantasy Tactics V1.301.fftpatch

I will send it to you through PM for those of you who can't get on FFH chatroom, though it is preferable you go on there to discuss bugs and 1.3 in general.

night guys

[SentinalBlade]

tried the chat info in the news section, i dont see the RL channel... are you connecting ot something different?

[LastingDawn]

Eh? That should be it though.

[Archael]

that sig is huge and annoying and hentai-ish

 

[Xifanie]

Dude, stop thinking about THAT site already. >.>

[VincentCraven]

Ok tomorrow when I get back from beach I will check who doesn't have the patch yet.

The test file is Final Fantasy Tactics V1.301.fftpatch

I will send it to you through PM for those of you who can't get on FFH chatroom, though it is preferable you go on there to discuss bugs and 1.3 in general.

night guys

Couldn't you just post the file here?

[LastingDawn]

Well unfortunately it get's updated pretty consistently therefore it's really not of any use to upload already obsolete patches, since it's rate of change is quite alarming, it's as if Voldemort doesn't take a moment's rest.

[VincentCraven]

Oh.

Well, let me know when the upgrades slow down...

[Archael]

It's not a huge deal, I just fix things as I go along playtesting them.

SCUS things haven't changed for awhile, but the ENTD changes alot, minor things.

[Serdash]

Huzzah!  I signed up!

So I was just talking about this in the chat, but so far v1.3 is amazing.  Hard to start up, but once you get rolling, it's hard to stop.

One thing I noticed was that the spell "Wall" no longer adds protect AND shell, but it's apparently one or the other.  But... it's a single target spell for 12 mp.

I can cast shell and protect on almost my entire party for 12 mp.  Why is wall so... bunk?  If it were a multi-target spell that would make more sense, but right now it looks to be a waste of jp and a waste of a skill slot.  It could be set back the way it was and I wouldn't mind, either.  Just seems like my priest wasted a chunk of jp on something she could do much quicker.

Just a small note of feedback.  All is well so far into the first bit of chapter two.