Final Fantasy Hacktics

Thats an interesting twist to the gameplay, yet I'd love to have at least one member of every race on my team, for having full access to every classes the game can offer (in addition to the monsters thanks to this hack)

Okay, so far so good on my run, im really considering morpher, yet it requires considerable amount of grinding through monster capturing. Did the Capture skill had changed from vanilla? Had the avaiable monster's skillsets?.

I may ask for the better way to capture monsters but I though already know the response: concentration support skill on sleep/stop skills, then demi and other %hp skills to safely reduce monsters' health then use capture on them.

Edit: forgot to ask about gunner's powershot skill. I noticed that has an awful accuracy formulae for a healing skill. In your doc states it heals and apply protect, yet in my game it didnt applied protect and my characters are masters at dodging these healing bullets

Selfquoting what I wrote:

Quote[...]having let them all growth at least 50 of their 99 levels in the most favorable class for his final stats[...]

For which specific jobs, is something cannot exactly tell, but I followed a gamefaqs guide about leveling minmaxing stats depending on the one or two stats you want to rise.

And by speeding up the things, it means what you think. Yes. Exp multiplier cheats since im not manually levelling a full 24 team roster with the game been beaten more than three times already.

As I said in the past, discovering a way to break the limits of a psx/psp rom and make new content over that new "unlimited" new size instead of just playing around the limits of the said rom is pure daydreaming, because the older is this community and no one has ever reach that achievement. May be wrong, thou, but I doubt.

So, what community has designed afaik are tools that works on editing the existing space, and even clearing/simplifying some data to make room for extra space (like the addition of the riskbreaker on fft tlw 2.0)

As long as we find a magical solution to break rom's cheksum limits, we are constrained on question 1 to play/mod what already exists.

it makes sense, specially in late game where MATK rises enough to overcome the 1/3 base damage the -ga spells he is proposing.
However, magic is controled not as much for its damage, but for two other factors.

The first is a global one called character speed. Nu Mous has inherent low speeds which result in less turns and therefore less dps per round. Only one nu mou job has somewhat decent speed iirc

The second is on most magic departments, and is MP. mana can become ignorable thou, via blood price or clan privileges, and other means like potions. Still, in a game in which characters starts at 0MP and gain 10 per turn, a spell that costs technically 2.4 turns in MP gain has to worth the waiting versus three times casting a basic spell.

As sidenote, aqua and aero are usually treated as tier 1.5. Their MP cost is closer than T2 than 1, so I'd stick with x1 multiplier for them, at the very least.

In any case, on first read, I like your approach

Whos gonna tell me, one day would need a tutorial about how to use the morpher. No, really, allways ignored him so I have no clue besides catching, feeding and morphing into, which allways felt odd because the monster usually has no skills to play with. just raw stats.

regarding slow but powerful and higher range guns:
- Chaos Rifle is 60 atk at cost of 5 spd, giving a net 12 atk per point of spd
- Longbarrel is 70 atk at cost of 10 spd, giving a net 7 atk per point of spd
- Bindsnipe is 80 atk at cost of 15 spd, giving a net 5,3 atk per point of spd
The only advantage of top dmg guns is an extra point or two in range (+3, +4, +5 extra range in comparison with average lighter guns).

Are you content with the current situation of these numbers? Might suggest you to shorten the points of atk per point of spd "sacrificed", if you still want to keep a detrimental increase among rarity. Given the actual status, I do believe that Chaos rifle would be my heavy gun of choice (less burst, more average dps).

PS: the similar treatment should every weapon on negative spd values have.
By the way, Speed is a value that fluctuates depending on classes from base 150 to 200 at Lv50. A malus of 15 in speed means around a rough 10 to 5% less turns (far less turns before lv50)

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Was about to write you a PM, since its a personal request but ended up just editing this message to incorporate to it.
Its like my 3rd run on the game and I want to speed up the start so I can enjoy my clan earlier, so I've tried to reduce AP cost via many ways by my side (AiO editor, gameshark codes, etc). No luck here. Its a selfish request and be free to ignore it if you like, but would love to get an alternative patch just for this 2.0 version in which skills costs 10/20/30 AP to learn (so everyone involved in a battle would had a guaranteed skill learning). Alternatively, Leonarth's module for learning via JP spending looks promising as well

I agree with all the points explained at the beggining and that you are trying to achieve. Will follow your project with interest, looks promising.

Hope you find out the gamebreaking bugs. Perhaps another mod has encountered similar problems in the past and writes you back a possible solution (?).

Good luck and greetings with the formations. Is a gargantuan work indeed

Rune Knight looks like the class I've ever dream of, but never got: tanky spellcaster with area damage around himself. Nice concept.

Now, this is gold. Thank you!

Vaan
- Are Pyroclasm, Timeslip & White Whorl considered spells and scales up with MAtk? Because if you are planning to make him viable as a caster if the player decides to, he need to have a proper Matk growth on his starting job (because so late recruit, half of the levels are forced to be done on Sky Pirate).
- Whats the reason behind the change in the weaponry? I usually remember my Vaan from FFXII as Sword and Shield wielder.

Agent

QuoteCan now learn passives and reactions

Thank you. Made me nervous to have a character that would never be able to fill his P or R slots.

Hurdy
- Nice with the joke of starting as bad musician, therefore he innately knows how to sleep and sing a song about frogs XD


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Looking forward to see in which will your patch end up becoming :]

This is my first of my two or three analysis that might, with time and will, come here to help you form an idea of the current status of the mod and perhaps improve it, if you find out the necessity.

Ima focus on unit job combos I've tried for the 24 slots, having let them all growth at least 50 of their 99 levels in the most favorable class for his final stats. Also have speed up the things (otherwise my 80hr savegame wouldnt yield max level clanmates). Cleared the campaign but still on the way to clear the towers, but that will be a section for another report.
To the matter, and for improving visibility/format, the units are sorted by score and divided wheter if they use Magick Atk or Attack stats. A final disclaimer before starting, for these are my personal thoughs and even if its based on gameplay, might differ with others' opinions.








Alright, thats 5 hours of condensed writing and formatting. hope it becomes useful for anyone.

Speaking about documentation, cant find the changes for R and S abilities that are changed. For example:
- Absorb magic now works for every mp consuming ability impacting in the character, regardless being a positive or negative magic
- Last Berserk somewhat works the same as Last Quicken, dont fully understand how it works now
and so on :/

My first report (and im gonna edit this post for future updates unless someone makes another post after this).

First 20 hours and just beat the first crystal boss. That Famfrit's team not only looks menacing, but are more than cappable of obliterate your will and hopes with their simple yet excellent composition. Must mostly thank rngesus for evading some meteors, berserker'd red floateye and dual wield mog knight attacks, because at this level of progression I barely have skills learned to adjust my squad. Lucky me, my beastmaster managed to keep himself alive enough to tame red floateye and use him as a high dmg battery ram against his team, famfrit included.
Epic and well done, thank you.

Another memorable moments were the Wanted! quests in which you face 1 on 1 or 2 on 2 against a well builded set of enemies. Unfortunately, AI in this game is very basic and random, resulting in enemy wasted turns (modding cant fix that)

Speaking of bugs, im still on the way of unlocking Ninja, to see if the so-called Water Veil can pose any freeze threat on my 3DS, but for now the only minor bug happened in Ulei river, when my beastmaster casted control on a red lamia that was in a water tile: she kept herself invisible-sprited even after death, but without any game change

Someday, grim grimoire will reach v1.0 and get all planned stuff done, all fixable bugs and crashes if any, solved. Or at least I'm a very patient (or at least a faithful naive) person.

For now what is achieved is memorable at its least, and can only applaud Eternal for his continuous hard work through the years, and hopipng him for not losing his motivation on this awesome project

Long time lurker of this niche yet extremely talented community.
I even tried to start a FFTA hack project (twice in a decade, both times got discouraged).
/End of presentations.

The core parts of your hack for what I picked it instead of others are:
- Stat growth smoothed: vanilla gave me some anxiety because of this. If you recruit a new unit in late game and comes as a bad growth class, their stats were forever messed up. Also, minmaxing implies having to pick "level up classes" for most of the game until you amass enough stats to change to your real wanted class. Well, this is no more a major concern.
- Quest items: original idea was interesting but storage limitations and the lack of any kind of classification made them a painful puzzle for completionists. Also, removing exclusive artifacts meant to trade via cable link.
- Extint monsters and missable items' removal: for completionists, this means a less stressful gameplay, without having constant reminders of missable skills and items. Playing for fun without worrying at losing anything forever.
- Accesible documentation: via google docs. Is a very important feature, for the limitations of ffta hacking lets text strings sometimes outdated from which it really does now. Playing with this doc on hand, like old physical instructions manual, is essential
- A closed to vanilla hack: without any big changes like new classes or crazy abilities (aside from Morph now, XD), that might keep my nostalgia intact at the same time at giving a somewhat brand new gameplay to discover and enjoy.

That said, I will pretend to play it on a modified 3DS. I'm noticing it because afaik there is no reports yet of ppl using this mod on that platform, and take this post as a compromise of coming back here if I get any bug or glitch, or at least another future post claiming to end up the game without any issue (expect a very long report, for I'll take my time completing everything and minmaxing as much as I can).