Final Fantasy Hacktics

Thank you for the fix Nyzer.

I'm actually running TLW + QoL + my own changes on a PS2 using Breaker Pro to launch the burnt disc.
My own changes include palette swaps and edits, all 3 tiers of regular monsters have 4 skills from their respective groups, all 1-4 map random encounters have a fixed 10 enemies per battle and some of the map 5 battles have increased enemy's as they seemed a bit lacking for rare battles.

As i don't like the Stone Gun and will never use it i didn't want the weapon spot to go to waste so inspired by one of my favourite PC rpg's, Wizardry 8, i renamed it the Omnigun and gave it the ability to cause one of several different random status effects 100%. I made a new entry for this under the Inflict Statuses tab in empty entry 4D.
As the normal gun formula doesn't allow status effects i used "46 Dmg_(PA*(WP+Y)/2) 100% status".
I don't really understand formulas much but even with a weapon power of 20 the Omnigun damage is kept to reasonable and is blockable with this formula but with the 100% status it's quite a balanced and exciting weapon to use with Balthier's Barrage ability.

One change i'm not entirely happy about was with Boco.
I wanted him to have a unique palette but found out that monster palettes are set in their job and not in ENTD which mean't he would need a unique monster job.
As i don't really know how to create a full unique job from scratch or if there are even any free slots, with time constraints i replaced all yellow chocobos in the ENTD with red and black ones and used the standard chocobo job as a unique one for Boco.
I gave this job the best stats taken from each of the three chocobo jobs with innate regen and protect as well because of my fixed 10 enemy encounters.
For his palette i made it white at first but while this was a nice change from the regular it was a bit plain so i changed it to a light sky blue.
I actually had the idea to call his job Mystic Chocobo and make his palette multi rainbow coloured but that's far beyond my basic palette skills lol, if anyone wants to have a go at that though

My apologies Nyzer, i see it was you now lmao.
I had another screen open at work and was sneaking in the posts.

@Nyzer
Nice submod.
It was mentioned in an earlier post about Argus's messed up sprite in cutscenes, after reading around i found out it's because characters in cutscenes may have some special animations that use their own sprites so if you change a cutscene characters sprite you need to create new special animations for the EVTCHR.bin using the new sprite.
If you don't then when the special animations occur the sprite will change to the old one but use the new sprite's colour palette which results in messed up sprites.
As you changed Algus's sprite will you be making new special animations for him for cutscenes?

Also i came across a consistent game freeze with this mod when putting a samurai Ramza into autobattle in the Goug City Rooftop story battle.

Not related to this submod i just came across a game breaking issue in the original Lion War mod when using Secret Hunt\Train with Balthier's four strike barrage ability.
3lric investigated and found that the Poach\Train check happens before Barrage reduces the damage so the first Poach message is an illegal poach that requires another strike to give a legal Poach and another message, if the illegal Poach happens on the 4th strike then the game simply stops, waiting to correct the poach.
If you know formulas perhaps you could have a go at fixing this?

Quote from: Nyzer on May 14, 2024, 01:19:04 amGreat discovery, thank you.

So, after some investigation, it turns out that behind the scenes, the Poach/Train checks run before the Barrage formula reduces the damage of the ability, due to the way the formula is set up. This means it can think it's reaching the target damage range only to turn out that the damage was reduced OUT of that range, but it's already been set to trigger Poach/Train.

There are probably ways to fix that up for the formula specifically, but the code for the poach/train routine was very unoptimized and it was a lot faster to just add in a check to block the Barrage ability ID before even taking the time to figure out what the problem actually was.

If you have the OrgASM program from the TLW resources (or just the FFTPatcher Suite), you can add this to your FFTPatcher > XmlPatches > PSX folder and apply it to the game.

Thanks for the quick reply.
So the first poach message is an illegal poach done with full damage which needs another strike to give you the legal poach message.
If the illegal poach happens on the 4th strike there is no 5th to correct it so the game just stops.
This is a shame as the Barrage skill is the best for poaching with it's four strikes.

Is there a problem with Balthier's Barrage ability when used with Secret Hunt?
I am getting two poached messages when a poach occurs with strikes 1-3 and the game seems to "stop" if a poach occurs on strike 4.
I say "stop" and not "freeze" because the music still plays and the unit animations are still working but there is no ui and the game doesn't continue.