Final Fantasy Hacktics

Quote from: Stormlag on May 07, 2018, 12:00:13 am
I'm ready for this just finished irl stuff!!!

Same as well, With the appearance of a text editor from "DeSgeretjin" i'll be able to redo a lot of the class abilities descriptions and items, However since i had to redo everything from scratch i have to re implement the ability animations, Job stat growths, item stats, abilities on weapons for units to learn, redo Luso's Custom Job, and refix some enemy formations.

However the good news is that it shouldn't take long since i'm pretty used to the hex editing stuff, i have all my notes and descriptions saved on my desktop for easy access to look through quickly, and the Gria's new Job is actually pretty good since i replaced one of the Nu Mou's job to be a "Rod Enchanter", i also cleaned up the ability descriptions for "Cannon Mage" to be defined much clearer in what their abilities do, and yes the New Gria Job has their abilities scale off the MAGICK stat and requires a lot of items in your inventory. 

I've also made it clear that the Gria's new job requires certain items to be usable in their new ability, and i've also added in small descriptions for all abilities that grant a "25% chance to QUICKEN the user" for certain abilities and or items used, i'm also trying to make some descriptions make sense and job descriptions cleaner for the player's eyes.




Phoenix Down, Raise, Arise, Revive, Elpe, Unburden Soul, Mirror Down, Phoenix have all been altered.

When i'm able to get a full changelog of the new stuff i've added into Clan's Journey, i'll add them into the Main Post since i'm still looking through what text descriptions i want to change before getting into hex editing again.

And yes i've been dead trying to work on the mod still lol, also i'm about to be working soon irl, so work on the mod is going to be pretty slow when it happens, but the mod will eventually be completed since i still want to work on the enemy formations, and the Hidden Tower.

@AGodDangMoose, Question; Would it possible to make a Nightmare module that tinkers with Clan Privileges, Adding and or Removing them from the player?

Just asking this since a few of the clan privileges are pretty overpowered and get used so much compared to the lesser ones that almost never get used.

@Eternal, Yeah i saw, it's pretty good.

@DeSgeretjin : I love the editor even though for my mod i had to start with a completely clean FFTA2 rom since i did a lot of Hex editing and using strings that your Editor doesn't recognize like + and Down Arrow so it just crashes my Mod when i try to load it lol, but it's ok since with the text editor i'm able to just speed through changing all the text first and then i'll go back into hex editing animations and such.

Thank you for the editor. 

Does this also include Item names and item descriptions?

Neat, this is actually useful.
Thank you for doing this.

Quote from: Stormlag on February 16, 2018, 02:03:05 am
Oh I remembered that its counted as a Saber weapon... Have you tried it with Monkey Grip Passive skill? might cause problems carrying 2 greatswords if he has inner Dual wield and Monkey Grip.... not likely but maybe

Sorry for the late reply, Luso can't equip 2 Greatswords, and the accessory works as intended on Luso for example:
If you did in fact was able to equip 2 Greatswords(unlikely though) he'll still do the Dual Wield attack with the greatswords minus his unique item.

Also the trait "it has the unique ability to raise it's attack stat by doing "opportunity commands" when given the option to do so." is still a bit wonky since it's technically a weapon type "Saber" but listed under as an "Accessory". so yeah heh...

The Gria job is still going as intended but i need a bit more work on some creativity for their "mirror items" abilities since you can't edit the texts any longer than it's vanilla set, that and i've been busy with irl issues again along with trying to bug test the mod in my free time to make sure it's much better on release than my previous mod version release, at this point i think i've learned alot from doing this mod project for FFTA2 which i'm pretty happy about.

Once i finish up with the Gria Job/Completed Luso job update and then the following Battle Formations update, this mod should be done until i decide to come back and fix up on some broken stuff that might be stupidly left behind by me

Quote from: Stormlag on February 15, 2018, 08:22:50 pm
Oh my! that's really great! If this is not the final update, If you can create 3 or 5 Gift Skill Item like this found in the game with different types of effects... OOOhh that would be so awesome.(like stealing from enemies like Illua first battle or hiding it in game)

I'm really pumped up to play the update!

it's not the final update; However, The update after the Gria Job update is going to be the Battle Formations update which will include enemies that didn't have boots and or accessories will happen to balance out these fights along with enemies having some armor/abilities changes if necessary.

Chances for me making more Gift items is unlikely since i plan on making most story boss fight enemies to have Safeguard equipped, and the gift item is only unique as a single item. (i wanted to change the item's image into a Book image, but i'm not able to do that.)

Quote from: Stormlag on February 05, 2018, 11:16:08 pm
I noted those 3 skills because of mass Revive of Elpe and Phoenix or in Unburdened Soul's case Mass Heal. Made the game really easy especially the Towers and Tournaments, Its like using a Eureka Crystal(at least items are limited) with MP but with resurrection.

In the Illusionist's case... even without Magick Frenzy or Recharge, If I only level a Hume or NuMou with the Black Mage Job they will have ridiculous Magick stat then wait 3 turns to attack rinse and repeat. This is definitely needed if you want to beat some of the enemies that use the same tactics albeit faster (ex. Tower Monsters with Gold Hourglass, Otherworldly wind and Veil of Darkness). This also connects to the 3 skills above which is needed to survive this onslaught.

I say nerf them but have to admit that I abused them to survive the last tower and the final quest.

I'm curious in the Gria class you have in mind. Keep it up!

I did nerf the 3 abilities that was listed, and it's intended to continue as a specific class type to get the best stats possible for a job combination aka Black Mage for the Magick stat up into Illusionist, plus i plan on nerfing some of the abilities that the tower monsters use since the 3 abilities are different.

I also changed the way Luso's "Dual Wield" does, he doesn't have a given Passive ability anymore; However, he starts with a unique item listed under "Gift?" (which takes place of a one handed non-elemental Saber weapon) which only "Luso" can equip, but what's unique about it is that when you only have one weapon equipped along with his unique accessory he'll automatically have an innate "Dual Wield" attack, and if you do have 2 weapons equipped along with his unique accessory it'll only dual wield the main 2 weapons and not include his item. (But Dual Wield is removed completely from Luso and anyone else that had it in the player's use in the newer version of the mod build.)

Now about Luso's unique item attributes:


Also the Gria job is going to keep some of it's Geomancer abilities, but does have a few different ones along with the Mirror items ability stuff, Bushi and Duelist both require 3 Fighter abilities mastered to use.

Quote from: DankyNogatonga on February 14, 2018, 12:44:33 am
Basically what it says in the title. We have one for FFT, one for the GBA Fire Emblem games (which are also similar) and yet we don't have a randomizer for FFTA or FFTA2.
Is it because it's too hard to make one or something along those lines?
I don't really know, but I think it should be done. 

Well with my current experience for FFTA2 modding, there seems to only be a way for random buffs and debuffs, anything aside of that is completely set, so completely random is pretty far fetched.

Quote from: Stormlag on February 05, 2018, 07:27:40 am
I finished all 300 quests already and the Final Quest and the 3 Brightmoon towers. I recommend nerfing a bit skills such as Heritor's "Elpe", Summoner's "Phoenix" and Duelists (Parivir) "Unburdened Soul"(might've been changed already) .... And Lastly the Illusionist Skills are really OP overall I think it should be removed in Humes and NuMou class.

I'm excited to play the next mod! In the mean time I'm trying out Eternal's Mod and liking its Mp system.

I might look into nerfing/changing Heritor's "Elpe", Summoner's "Phoenix", and Duelist's "Unburdened Soul" to something different, the Illusionist job isn't being removed; however, i have made their ability set requiring the weapon needed to use their abilities (So in turn you can't use their abilities as a Seer to abuse Magick Frenzy at all because of the weapon changes for Seer as well), redid their stat growth, and redid all the jobs weapon choices since a lot of them have been breaking/freezing the game when being used with the wrong race (heh...), i thought about using the modded MP System as well, but i didn't really like it.

Also the next mod update will have everything i've been working on along with the new Gria Job class, as well with the new job setup for all jobs being unlocked from the beginning similar to Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance only needing the prerequisites for them.

Quote from: Stormlag on February 02, 2018, 07:08:37 am
This might've been an oversight but I never learned the Black Mage skill "Thundara" in the game for NuMou and Moogle races. This might be due to the Rod item "Thunder Rod" gives you the skill Thunder instead.

This is fixed in the updated version of the mod, and also an update for the mod:

Quote from: Stormlag on January 08, 2018, 10:13:18 am
So that means Scathe is out of question... Hmmn... Luso can't access Heritor Class but I did see Lennart which is a Hunter Sprite use it... but he may be different. so I'mma check it out

So maybe the Illusionist job should really be out of the Humes class I guess and keep them in Nu mou class... that maybe gives me incentive to use Nu mou.

Also Al Cid sucks...

Thanks man! Can't wait!

Not per-say, Scathe is just an ability animation, it can easily be replicated into a normal job ability with proper hex editing cause Adelle is a Hume same with Luso so they already have proper race animations in the base game to not make anything crash.

i'm pretty sure Al Cid is non existent in my mod.

Quote from: Stormlag on January 06, 2018, 10:40:07 pm
The Speed ^3 is badly needed in the Clan Trial "Master hands" and also needs a whole lot of Luck cause the Pots appear randomly.
Can the Luso sprite use Lennart(Heritor) or Scathe(Sage) ability? I'm gonna try it in the ability editor

Lost my save file and now replaying the game entirely (Didn't get to complete all Tactician spells so I didn't get to test out the last few abilities T_T

The clan privileges for speed^ might stay since i'd have to change every clan trial into something else which requires alot of editing the hexes and it's pretty slow since i don't have anything interesting to change them with, and or want too.

Any unit/job can use any kind of ability animation as long as the unit's animations are still tailored towards their race and is in the base game, so for example you can make a "Magick Frenzy" ability for the Gria's or a "Dual Wield" ability for the Bangaa's, but since the Gria's and Bangaa's didn't have any proper animations for these it might crash the game similar to how "Al Cid" crashes the game if he's using any weapon that's not the gun.

Quote from: Stormlag on December 20, 2017, 10:38:37 am
I'm a Fire Emblem fan too so I got that reference (some Luso's Tactician Spells hahah) never played beyond Nintendo DS and Gameboy advance though

Ah ok, but yeah i loved Robin's design and class in Awakening, and if editing the actual sprites was a thing, i would edit Luso's unique sprite to look similar as Robin but keeping Luso's signature cap in a different color.

Quote from: Stormlag on December 20, 2017, 08:08:22 am
Yes I want the Humes to be able to use guns for so long (was hoping for it to be Luso (with Tactician class not swords but might have sprite problems with that?) or the Hunter makes more sense too ( but might have problems with the Gria class so meh)

Tactician is a Sword/Book class which is based from Fire Emblem Awakening, and Gria's can't use guns because of no animations for it.

Quote from: Stormlag on December 15, 2017, 10:17:44 pm
Not really an issue (because it might not be possible) but its more fitting for the Agent class to have the Blue mage sprite and the Parivir sprite be the Duelist. Parivir has the wandering Samurai look (Ghi) and Blue Mage looks like a Noble that uses guns. (sorry for this geeky suggestion)

Nah any suggestion is great and you know what that suggestion gave me to go do, i updated the main OP with this as well, so check it out.



I like the Blue Mage's sprite for the Duelist job class, and i completely agree that the Parivir's sprite doesn't fit well for Agent even though i did read on a few wiki's for Samurai's that they did use guns back then which was new for me; however, i did the changes in that spoiler which will be the new job class replacing the Agent job class leaving the Archer and Hunter job classes as the only ranged jobs for Humes, but i will be adding Guns as a use to Rogues since both Humes and Moogles can use them.

Oh and Duelist will most likely have the same job requirements as Bushi since they seem to be equal in terms of stats besides abilities, so hopefully you like this. :)

The concept for War Medic sounds interesting i can't wait to see it in action, Good work.

Quote from: Eternal on December 12, 2017, 09:26:45 pm
FURORE         ->            LURE
Draws an enemy towards the user and reduces its Defense.

I still suggest not doing this as a particular ability use from what i previously posted:

Quote from: Zeke_Aileron on December 01, 2017, 11:08:10 pm
I have the draws an enemy closer function in my mod, and it tends to break a lot of the boss fights especially the ones that aren't supposed to be able to move, so you should try to test that out extensively, and it's good to see you back at it again. 

The concept of pulling enemies towards you sounded like an awesome idea on paper, but in the game since Bosses are considered enemies they count towards this and "Draws an enemy closer" doesn't have any kind of resistance similar to Knockback, the only reason why i'm suggesting not to do this is simply because you have to purposely do this action against a boss, and as a "Player" we get curious if a certain action can do this to said enemy, which is also the reason why Knockback doesn't work on Bosses cause they're primarily placed in a spot where they can't be knocked back.

Here's some screenshot proof that the user Stormlag has given me just to show you as an example:


I did went ahead and do this as well to see if it was actually doing that, which it did and you can also target them in the new spot as well, so i'm currently changing that and other stuff for my mod as well.

Quote from: Stormlag on December 15, 2017, 05:38:05 am
I'm simply in awe. I don't really use Ultima Shot too often to mind and at times I find it too weak or too mp expensive to use. The Rod requirement is definitely a good way around the Illusionist combo. I think Julian is the guy who posted about the job mod. I'm getting excited already... I even got a friend to play this and has positive views about this mod.

Ah that's very nice, if your friend has anything interesting to say i'm open to listen for some new ideas  , Oh yeah the rod requirement is definitely going to be in the mod since i still lack the ability to remove Clan Privileges, i have to do a lot of ability reworking for Luso's Unique Job, the Gria's New Job, the Seeq's new Job which is replacing Ranger into another Physical related Job for them or just remove the Mirror Items ability and make a new ability for them and keep Ranger as is, changes to make Agent as a new normal Job for Humes(will have Parivir's sprites, so essentially Fusiliers, but for Humes.)

I have Agent's and Tactician's stats settled in, i'll most likely release the next patch update when the new Gria Job is implemented completely along with the newer version of the Luso update altogether, which is going to be great.

Quote from: Stormlag on December 15, 2017, 01:02:52 am
- I like the Blue Mage but I'm not fan of learning some of its tedious mostly not useful techs. I don't really mind not having the job (maybe me becoming lazy because of wanting 100% techs on characters. Personal preference please ignore hahaha).
- Seeq's Mirror X-Potion should be removed or be nerfed a bit for reasons that it becomes more powerful than other skills in the game.
- I like changing the Geomancer's skills cause they are pretty much useless(my play through)
- I guess you should remove the Illusionist job from the Humes simply because of the Seer/Illusionist combo (Recharge or Mp Channeling/Illusionist Skill) and yes I admit on using it... Probably while we can't remove MP channeling yet.
- Frimelda should Dual Wield (Blademaster) I think and Vaan with Strike back... Don't actually know what to give Adelle though thinking Reflex("Instinct") just suggestions.

I like the plans you have! This is great man. Yeah just do it at your pace we'll still be here!!!

Everything within Mirror items is getting changed into unique abilities requiring the said items still for the Gria's new job class which will "Mirror Items"(new name is not revealed yet) and 7 unique action abilities.

I already implemented the unique units abilities in the current build i'm working on to see if it's good.

I might make the Illusionist's action abilities requiring a "Rod" weapon equipped to use them to cancel out the cheesiness of that Hume combo skill set, so certain ability combos won't work.(Most likely will)
Like for instance, you can equip the entire "Hunter" skill set and use all the abilities in it as any Job, but you can't use "Ultima Shot" without a Ranged weapon equipped, and in this case ranged weapons tend to be weaker than melee weapons in this mod to fluctuate weapon use in formations, same for classes that use abilities with "Shot" in it's names.

Blue Mage is no longer a job in this mod, something else takes it's place in the current build, i updated the main OP with a bit more information on that, and i also want to make every ability viable in the right situation.

The pace i'm working on for the mod is pretty steady since some stuff i had to actually learn like job assigning, like if i wanted too i can make the Nu Mou's Keeper Job class available to the player: , i'm also able to freely edit a job classes prerequisites which can be a minimal of 1 to a max of 3 jobs needing 1-8 abilities mastered, i also learned how to completely remove a Job's prerequisite so you don't have to go through the game's story to do the mission to unlock said Job. which i learned do this from this post: http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=11815.0 thanks to the person who wrote it.

Sorry about not being here for that past few weeks, it has been hectic for me with irl stuff, but anyways an Enemy Formation Editor would be really nice actually since doing hex edits for the enemy formations is very tedious and slow.

Anyways for more up to date news assuming ya'll are here for that (I will be updating the main Post as well for this along with some stuff i've been meaning to add into the mod):

And for some stuff i'm still asking for: