Final Fantasy Hacktics

I guess that's a way you could look at it! I was trying to certainly give it an alien look but the main thing I was going for was to make KANZEN scarier than Altima. I...guess it's working!

I'm not exactly sure what could be causing this...from the modified TEST.EVT, modified WLDFACE/UNIT files, ATTACK.OUT, etc. It could also be an ASM hack. But a series of things keep happening. First of all, at random intervals, certain skills cause the game to freeze, specifically in the Deep Dungeon. The skill in particular that does this is a Raise skill. Other things that cause the game to freeze are selecting abilities, whether they be action, support or movement abilities, and changing jobs. I...don't know what could be causing this. I know FOR SURE that it's NOT the ISO itself, so...I have no idea.

I'm aware you can change what it looks like with FFTP, but I'm looking to edit the effects of the R/S/M themselves. Also, changing the formulas for a few Action abilities in particular, but that's not quite as important.

Have you ever thought about editing FFVI Advance? There hasn't been to my knowledge any good ROM hacks of that game and I know tools exist for it that are similar to the tools used for FF3 editing. I made a FF3 patch myself a while back and someone asked me the same question.

I've been messing with KANZEN.spr a bit, and this is something I've been working on. I've used bits from the Judge sprite as well. It's obviously far from done (especially the portrait) but I wanted to see if this might be a step in the right direction for a usable, edited, KANZEN sprite.

I like that you gave Squires the Break abilities, did you have FFTA in mind with that?
And I like what you're doing with assassins. Are you going to keep vanilla Transparent's qualities or change them?
Also, I was under the impression that Samurai already HAD two hands as an ability. Do you mean having Two Hands innately? Or changing Katanas to make them two-handed?

I like your work so far. I'm curious as to what you're going to do with the dilemma of Calculators.

Quote from: Mike on November 12, 2015, 08:03:51 am
Good job  but I think u should recolor the sprite because you recolored the portait already .

The portrait's essentially the same though. I didn't recolor it, it just wasn't positioned correctly when I imported it into the spritesheet and so it was one whole pixel line off. So I re-imported the portrait and just moved it over one so the rest of the portrait showed I figured out that it was off when I was making the WLDFACE and UNIT bins, the WLDFACE was over a bit in comparison to the original portrait I made.

(edit: I'll probably recolor her eventually though. I was playing with more bronzy-golden tones instead of silver and an orange/red fabric and trim instead of the blue/gold, but the only reason I haven't yet is because I would have to heavily modify the portrait.)

A taste of the difficulty level:

Deep Dungeon - BRIDGE (my fav deep dungeon map)

Warlock Troupe (Difficulty: 9/10. I've managed to beat this battle using the current meta, so it's not impossible, but definitely requires some prep and since there's 3 other insane battles on this floor, such as the 7/10 Divine Knights, 8/10 Skull Knights and 8.5/10 Demikraken, resets might happen if you don't want to prepare a multi-strategy team.)



Demikraken (Difficulty: 8.5/10) (Maybe I should replace him with a Nu Mou?)

An update for the Elly/Warden Knight sprite. The portrait was off by about one line, here's the updated version.

Quote from: Jumza on November 10, 2015, 11:59:10 am
It's funny because if you inflict Charm and Invite, the monster will join the blue team, then be charmed and continue fighting for the red team (or green or light blue or whatever).

To my knowledge, at least when Charm is already existent on an enemy unit, if you Invite them as well, they are still considered part of the enemy team somehow and thus will remain loyal to you even though they're also charmed. If you remove Charm, they'll act like a regular guest! But the idea I had was more of a "Random" status infliction, so when you cast it (Kind of like Tainted Love in TO) you'll either get Charm, or Invite, but not both.

And definitely! I have a couple of things I might want to take you up on (after seeing the progress for A Stone's Ripple) but that won't be for a little while, since I'm still working on Events and various in-game text at the moment. Also, I'll be updating this probably over the next week, so feel free to critique it (that's open to anyone for that matter) in any way that you feel could be constructive!

More job updates:

Archer (They're alright. Anything's better than charge.)


Calculator (I always wanted a Lich in FFT)


Cloud (You might get replaced even though I like what I did with Limit)


Steel Giant (To be honest I want to replace him too)


Mediator (I like as of right now)


Summoner (Considering changing completely)


Beowulf (I like Beowulf but might change him just for the sake of change)


Byblos (Idk if I should replace him or not. If I *do* it will probably be with Ritz from FFTA)


Samurai



Ramza 3




MORE MISC CHANGES
No perma-haste on anything. Haste duration decreased.
Wall as a status introduced, reduces HP damage to 10%
Considering using Dark/Evil looking as a status that removes use of skills for the entire battle
Monster skills changed to be much more useful and intimidating - Example: Mind Control (Tiamat ability) Causes Invite or Charm on enemy units. Electrocute (Cocatoris ability) Massive lightning damage to all enemies.
Monsters all have maxed innate slots
Changed Knight Sword formula
Changed Flail and Axe formulas
Staves don't provide any WP with a few exceptions, focus primarily on MA
Shields provide stat bonuses
Transparent is just a free 100% hit
CT 0 abilities enemy only
Ramza's skillset utterly changed
Gun formula changed
Been considering replacing Beowulf
Generics at game's start have assigned names and values
First battle's difficulty increased. You might even get a Game Over
Sword Skill formulas replaced
Elemental weaknesses increased
Elemental strengthen reduced
Defend UP nerfed
Magic Defend UP nerfed
Attack UP nerfed
Magic Attack UP nerfed
JP Glitch fixed
Oil fixed
Float = Weak to Wind
Chicken = weak to fire
Considering replacing Cloud "This guy are sick" Strife with someone more interesting.

No, that's completely fine! Use it however you like! Just be forewarned, I'm probably going to edit her up some more, but she should be fine as is. I'm excited to see what you might use her for!

Elly, the Warden Knight
Here's another headswap for my new patch; I'll be posting more edits for her as time goes on.
She's a Warden Knight, which are knights of a holy order sent to catch criminals who defy the crown.

Sprites used
Animist Female - Lijj/Twinees?
Holy Knight Celia - MiKeMiTchi/Jon

FFT: HyperDrive is a patch that I've been working on at various speeds and proficiency over the years, but now, with enough time to really put some work into this mod, and a desire to actually see it go somewhere since I've played and completed most of the other mods that are available for this game, I'm going to see it through. The main goal of this patch is essentially a hard-type mod; I really enjoy having a lot of difficulty in games like these and I find the frustration makes getting new things more exciting. That being said, many events, characters, jobs, and almost all items have been changed and or are going to be changed. Items will have essential roles to play and few now actually able to be purchased, making you have to hunt and work towards better equipment. Specials will have unique abilities that distinguish them from generics, instead of just being damage houses with ROFLCOPTER stats. The Deep Dungeon will be hell, and I long to make it the hardest rendition of that famous 10 floor dungeon yet, with battles that are only barely possible, along with a final boss that will make you think that vanilla solo Wiegraf is the easiest FF battle to date. I'm in the process of changing the beloved script to give it a more Vagrant Story/Tactics Ogre feel without all of that Shakespearean crap in it, and I'm going to change quite a few plot elements that are going to make the basic story essentially drastically change, yet the game will for the most part remain the same, as I believe in making a realistic (yet ridiculously hard) patch, and not FFT 2. There's...other...patches that attempt to bring a "difficulty", to this game, but I consider them rather uninteresting and it's my goal to make a patch that will both interest you and challenge you immensely, and so to that end I will say that this is not a "balancing", patch, St. Ajora knows there's been a large amount of those, with only a select few being worth the playthrough. I don't expect to receive any support, but any help received would be greatly appreciated, and I'll push this project to completion with or without assistance.

I will release a demo patch when I feel enough of the events are done well enough that I want to share them with the community. I'm working on them nearly daily, and they'll be done soon enough.

Current status:
Editing player jobs/abilities
Editing ENTD/Events.
Editing script.

To do:
Editing EVTCHR's.
Editing Poach.
Editing effects.
Still some ASM hacks.

Completed:
Editing items.
Deep dungeon battles.
Most storyline battles.
Most animations.
Enemy jobs.
Changing weapon formulas.
Most player sprites/WLDFACE/UNIT.bins
Attack.OUT edits.


I'll be updating changes as I go, because there are quite a few, and it's hard to list all of them in one sitting because
I've changed it over the years but I'll list a few to start off with.

(EDIT: I'm going to start making edits on an entirely new ISO and start changes over again because everything is messy as hell. Going through multiple different FFText/FFTPatch files is annoying.)

Job Changes

Squire (I like this for the most part)


Chemist (I'm gonna change them)


Knight (NEW and Improved)


Priest (Might change, too close to vanilla)


Wizard (Also might change, I find it similar to...THAT patch)


Holy Knight (I do like this however)


Bard/Dancer - still considering (NEW and Improved)


Dycedarg's Elder Brother




Miscellaneous changes:
Quite a few characters from vanilla have been replaced
No weapon in the game has a WP over 20
No shield has an EV over 50, with one exception
No armor/helm gives an HP bonus over 120
Either bombs or piscodemons are going to be replaced.
Deep Dungeon is nearly impossible (trust me, I've playtested it near 100 times)
Trying to implement a battle with D.E.B. (it's been a dream of mine for years now)
Altima is now the hardest boss in the game
Go back to the world map after "the end". Possible save prompt before hand but idk
Trying to find a way where after "the end" you can fight in Murond like the D.D. but currently it seems impossible, although this is likely because I don't know how to do it
Teta is recruitable
I want onion knights and dark knights in, but without being like the patch-which-will-not-be-named
In fact this is all an attempt to make a better hardtype patch than the forbidden one's (not exactly true, but I don't like...that patch...)
Debating on whether making Lavian, Alicia and Rad specials is a good idea
Added Ritz from FFTA as a playable character, might replace her with Catiua or Eleanor if I can make/receive sprites for that
All units can change their names for maximum lulz
Nerfing swordskills even more than usual, I don't like them at all to be honest
Many end game enemies have ??? stats, especially those in Murond
Counter Magic is now Counter Skill, I'll add this to the Job Changes when I get around to posting the rest
Byblos is now extremely OP, but that's okay since Elidibs is a Saint Ajora-damned nightmare
Some weapons now have drawbacks; for instance the most powerful one-handed sword has a chance of quicking enemies
Almost all equipment has some kind of use now with the exception of beginning-game equips
Calculators are gone (this seems like a common thing to do) for players only. They still exist in the enemy ranks (although I hope they use their abilities, I can't seem to recall if they do or not in vanilla because I hardly remember Vanilla at this point)
Yiazmat boss battle in END, I made him as obscenely hard as possible without being "lolz" level. You can
"farm" rare equips from him.
Most Specials nerfed, including the popular nerfable Orlandu, though he serves a new purpose
All "Swordskill" knights exist on a spectrum now, ranging from Divine (stat based) Holy (damage based) Neutral (both) Dark (absorbing things) and Death/Blood (status effects)
In keeping with Vanilla tradition, the Wiegraf solo fight is technically the hardest fight in the game again, due to his abilities of removing all buffs, Don't Move/Don't Acting you instantly, and hitting you with linear damage from across the map.

Eleanor from Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis
On the same token, Kachua/Catiua from TO: Let Us Cling Together.
Olivia/Olivya from LUCT would be awesome too.
Of course all of them would have to be Type 1

Hmmm. It would be interesting if somehow you could use CWCheat to inject only the materia/equipment/items necessary to pursue that job. Or is that what you're doing? Either way, the only codes I remember for that game are ALL ITEMS LOLZORZ codes and nothing individual.

Hello all.
Something else that I've been thinking into a lot has been the seeming HP limit cap of 26111 if one sets the growth of a Job to 1/255 and then applies ??? effects to that unit, but I distinctly recall in one of the playthroughs of War of the Gods way back in the day that Adramelk had a whopping 65535 HP. What exactly would I have to do to raise the HP of a unit to that level? The idea is of course to create a superboss but if there is something specific I must do to that particular job (hardcode, etc) or if it is caused by some other factor it would be good to know that for future references.
I look forward to any replies.

Here's a small color edit for that last one, maybe this will be more pleasing on the eyes, though I'm thinking it might still be too dark of a hair color.


(edit: Somehow using a portion of Ovelia's portrait made the entire thing look worse)

So this is a bit of a newbie question, and I do apologize if it's been answered before; I will gladly take this down if that is in fact the case. But I've been putting alot of work into the small patch I've been working on recently and I've been wondering how exactly I'm going to go about modifying R/S/M abilities, and my question is, do I have to use ASM to edit the effects of a R/S/M ability, or is there another way to go about this? (in particular, editing one of the BIN files, using a hex editor, etc.)
Looking forward to responses.

Hmmmm. I'll see if incorporating the Monk's hair color will make it a little less of an eyesore. Also, which faces would you recommend I try to incorporate here, considering the size of the hair? I knew there was something a little...off-putting about it.