Final Fantasy Hacktics

Please use a team that uses Demi 2 on Demi 2 Better Happen please. I'll also accept a team that uses Dark Element primarily

Quote from: Fenire on October 21, 2014, 04:57:09 pm
I have a quick question.
Can Mimes mime Mimes?

No

Reposting FDC's Mime AI finding here:

QuoteAI Report (Mime Debrief):

1) If your mime has MP dependent skills, you entire team will not use quickening unless the entire enemy party is asleep or charmed or death sentenced.
2) Last Song will be mimicked ONLY IF no other action was mimicked after last song was cast.  In other words, if last song causes any unit (including the mime) to get a turn and make an action, the mime will "forget" to mimic last song.
3) If your mime is charging a spell and mimicks anything before completing the spell, the mime will not complete his spell because the act of mimicking deletes the charged spell's data while retaining "Charging" status.  I think this is why Square didn't let mimes have secondaries.

Okay so here are some suggestions:

Throwing Weapons in general should have a 25-33% range increase.
Throwing Weapons in general should be more buyable/findable
Throwing Weapons should be craftable
An Atlatl and other primitive weapons would be nice
Heave, Ho! should take Melee as well as Explosives
Melee/Barehanded Perks in general should be more interchangable.

Also related: Theme of Joop Troop...somehow

QuoteCould we keep phoenix blade and, like the new Masamune, replace always slow and immunity to haste with the same negatives to speed? Minus 4 to 6 speed sounds balanced. It was a really good singing sword. Bard always got cheer songs off without wasting turns recasting. You're also affected by slow more.

Always: Reraise is an unworkable concept. It might be indeed better with negative speed, but you still end up with an unkill-able aggro unit that can Balance the shit out of you.

QuoteWon't a 139 Equip Knightsword Thief now end up being stronger than the 138 Katar 2hand Thief?

17 WP + dispel vs an effective 26 WP + 1 PA/Move
I don't think it really could ever be as bad as Katar Thieves, Always: Protect or not. The combination of extreme damage and move was what made Katar so good.

Highlights of the stream:
Lightning Bow shoots Barren in the foot
Bolt shoots Barren in the foot
I am Don't Acted and must Berserk: Pilgrimgunner edition
Double Slasher w/ Power Wrist as easy to hit as smoke
plz let me mime masamune
KogaIga can finally shine
fdc-lol I'm going to kill your shitty Ninjutsu team
me-...
7 move geosamurai gets 4 man chiri
Atheist Bow, more like mark and execute: the bow
Thanks Australian Obama

I sure can, I think. It should be at 6pm MST for me, which is a couple hours after I get off work.

This should fix that negative attribute overflow error:

Battle.bin
0018d5f4: 80a30003 lb r3,0x0003(r5)

Quote from: Barren on October 05, 2014, 10:34:40 am
Also for some reason on the mem card generator while it didn't apply in game but on the spread sheet the phoenix blade (at least I think its the phoenix blade on a thief) gave it 256 speed. I cannot make this up

That's actually intentional-ish. Understandable? Anyways, it's how negative attributes are understood by the game. It does indeed add negative speed if you try it out. Because Memgen has yet to be updated to comprehend negative numbers, it'll just barf out that number, so don't worry about that, at least. Just keep testing!

Bug List
Negative Attributes do not work properly. When extra speed is applied/overcomes the negative value in battle, it will overflow unless an speed boosting equipment is worn!
Platina Shield is neither Absorbing Holy or Weak against Dark. Diamond Shield is fine.
Defender is Always: Don't Act instead of Immune: Don't Act
Atheist, not Atheist Bow has 0% chance of Innocent
Spell Edge's Faith proc not working correctly.
Genji Helmet is not Initial: Berserk
Masamune does add: Haste

All Map Lores should be unmimeable.

Oh one more thing, hasn't Lancer getting Robes been a long standing request?

QuoteChirijiraden gains 1 Speed, Initial: Berserk and loses Strengthen: Earth, Wind, Water

I think that Chiri should have 1 Move instead of 1 Speed because it would be nice to have a Katana that Samurai actually use to hit things with. Then again Berserk.

QuoteAccessories: Holy crap, that Jade Armlet buff. Probably gonna be seeing a lot more of that. Or not, seeing as Cursed Ring wasn't touched. Then again, Flash Hat losing Initial Innocent was basically an indirect nerf to Cursed Ring, which I'll gladly accept. Hell, ANY nerf to Cursed Ring, I'll accept at this moment. Defense Ring got small nerfs, but it still covers three big status immunities almost necessary for mages to have, so it's still a strong pick, IMO. Defense Armlet looks like it's meant for physical based units now - I can especially see this accessory being pretty good for ninjas, thieves, dancers, even damage monks. Good stuff. Slow immunity for Sprint Shoes seems nice as well.

FFM also forgot to mention that Cursed Ring was to be nerf via system change:

Zombified Units that are Immune: Crystal now only have a 50% chance of revival when the death counter reaches 0. If the revival fails, the unit will have to wait an additional turn.

While I believe this is how the interaction used to work in Vanilla and it's current behavior is an ASM, it may end up being a TODO given it's an ASM.

There's actually a few systematic changes FFM forgot to document (and I hope he doesn't forget to do them!). The change I remember the most is flagging Tsumazuku for AI use.

EDIT:

QuoteUltima is to be moved to any other slot except it's current one to bypass current hardcoded AI issues.

^Important one. The reason why the AI is so derpy when it comes to casting Ultima (not giving a shit about being midcharged, not understanding that Ultima has MP cost, which is why it also works with Quickening, etc.) because it was deliberately made that way so that it was easier for Ramza to get hit by Ultima. Just any slot will do.

Idk if FFM's still going through with the Mime changes though.

QuoteSo Flash Hat is going to be the new Thief Hat it looks like. Only without +1 speed. Thief Hat probably gonna be garbage now, with it having the lowest HP (I'm assuming it's staying at 60?), especially since Black Hood got that 30 MP buff (which is GREAT, might I add), and Twist Headband getting a small HP buff. I dunno.

Thief Hat will be fine. People will always stack speed at any cost. It's usage may go down to about equal to Secret Clothes however.

Kinda sad that my suggestion to make Iron Fan Dark Elemental or any of the Spear changes didn't go through. We really need a non self strengthening Dark Weapon.

You forgot to mention what you're doing to Oil.