The Lion War - Recruits

[ronin858]

 

Well, my humble opinion is that, how Sword Spirit is just another name to Draw Out, of the original Sword Spirit not work, it'll be replaced by Draw Out, using the older name.
Correct me if I'm wrong.

hmmm, i Guess you is right.

[ronin858]

 

A lot of Elmdor's ability can be attributed to Lucavi influence. His skillset has been adjusted to make it less mediocre since most enemies like him only have a couple abilities.

oh, Thats sounds interesting, i Very exciting for This mod

[3lric]

HI GUYS!

It's been a while since I posted here! With the final releases of TLW and TLWotL now out for everyone to enjoy (barring maybe a upcoming visual only bug fix or two for the latter), it's time to finally start work back on Jot5 and Recruits again.

We've made a few changes and additions. Initially this was just to add some new joining members, but we also decided we would like to expand the story a bit, and also fill out the remaining RDV from TLW as well as include some Mercenary sidequests if youve recruited Gafgarion.

I will post the Merc missions later today when I have some time, but for now, here is a visual of both, the entire joining squad (yes, Rafa and Malak are no longer joining), as well as the general event flow for the game. Enjoy

[Holy2Tack]

Excellent news! Been very hyped for this!

[3lric]

More updates on joining characters and some new events created

spoiler: Zalbag Port Thieves Fort

spoiler: Lenalia Post Zeakden

spoiler: Battle at Fovoham

spoiler: Merc Job 2

[nitwit]

That Lenalia post-Zeakden event perfectly bridges the events before and after it. Excellent work!

[3lric]

That Lenalia post-Zeakden event perfectly bridges the events before and after it. Excellent work!

Thanks man, this is something I've wanted to do for a long time now. Nice to be able to expand on vanilla without having to worry about staying vanilla, as I did with the standard TLW

[Andre Pratama]

Amazing Elric I want to try and I will be waiting for this

[nitwit]

Thanks man, this is something I've wanted to do for a long time now. Nice to be able to expand on vanilla without having to worry about staying vanilla, as I did with the standard TLW

I argued (of course) with someone recently that Ramza seems to shrug off the events of Zeakden pretty fast, these extra events are exactly what are missing. Granted it was a year between those events and Chapter 2, but nonetheless this is it. Looking forward to playing this.

[3lric]

I argued (of course) with someone recently that Ramza seems to shrug off the events of Zeakden pretty fast, these extra events are exactly what are missing. Granted it was a year between those events and Chapter 2, but nonetheless this is it. Looking forward to playing this.

The goal is to actually create a chapter 1.5. The mod starts at the academy as Ch1 is no longer a flashback.

[nitwit]

The goal is to actually create a chapter 1.5. The mod starts at the academy as Ch1 is no longer a flashback.

From what I've seen you're adhering to the short & sweet story beats that made FFT and Vagrant Story stand far above Tactics Ogre. You and your team should consider making a game with Godot engine or something, you really have something there.

[3lric]

From what I've seen you're adhering to the short & sweet story beats that made FFT and Vagrant Story stand far above Tactics Ogre. You and your team should consider making a game with Godot engine or something, you really have something there.

While the prospect of making a game in another engine is something Ive considered, i feel the same way about doing so with FFT as i do when people tell me to do so with RE. There are plenty of clones, but none of them give that same feeling of the real thing. Its hard to want to create on something else when we have such a great template to work from here.

Plus, someones gotta utilize some of the 200+ event slots that were made avaliable with TLW as a base patch lol

[3lric]

Heres another random thing. Just adjusting the worldmap a bit.

Ramza flees to Fovoham post Zalbag scene

[SilverRegret]

I had thought about Izlude, since he was going to end up being the Holy Archer, but while I was able to write out complete death for Elmdor and Wiegraf, Izlude is quite well dead and bloody. So we opted to create a New Shrine Knight using an unused concept from the FFT files.

I do fancy the idea of using Aerith as a joinable character. I'll see if I can come up with some dialogue to make that work. My only is with the Aerith thing is that in FFT, they never explain why she is there, and who she even is, as she is clearly not the same Aerith. However it's never really explained when it is that Cloud comes to Ivalice either. I like to think, in my head, that it's during the time that he is in the test tube in Nibelheim, but who knows. That would need to be explored a tad further before being added in.

I had considered Elidibs, and he's not completely off the table as of yet. However we did use his WLDFACE/UNIT entry for the Holy Archer, but we shall see.

If i may, i have some ideas for izlude joining, yes he might be bloody and seems dead when ramza found him but wait, even zodiac stone can revive dead malak... And izlude is bearer of zodiac stone. Then he can join as revived character. On miluda battle, if player choose to bring him to battle maybe miluda can have angry comment like heretic ramza desecrate the dead by raise & manipulate izlude or something. That would not make the story deviate too much i think. Like tactic ogre, i do believe some character deserve a second chance, a different fate, as they not inherently evil...

[3lric]

If i may, i have some ideas for izlude joining, yes he might be bloody and seems dead when ramza found him but wait, even zodiac stone can revive dead malak... And izlude is bearer of zodiac stone. Then he can join as revived character. On miluda battle, if player choose to bring him to battle maybe miluda can have angry comment like heretic ramza desecrate the dead by raise & manipulate izlude or something. That would not make the story deviate too much i think. Like tactic ogre, i do believe some character deserve a second chance, a different fate, as they not inherently evil...

All the characters have been decided already. Also I'm pretty sure you meant Meliadoul, Miluda is Weigraf's dead sister.

There issue wasn't the ability to do it technically, it was doing it in a way that makes sense, especially makes sense to me, if i don't agree with it and don't enjoy making it, then I won't make it, so I'd rather keep things as they are already. You can see the full character wheel a few posts above.

[3lric]

Another new event video for Recruits. This is event 4 post Zeakden

[Big S]

Hey Elric,

I've lurked in these forums and enjoyed a lot of the mods that this site offers for quite a while now. Seeing you guys resume work on such an awesome mod has me more excited than anything I've come across so far! I had to create an account here to let you know that your concept is amazing and aligns perfectly with my dream version of fft too!    Thank you for the hard work and I'll be looking forward to the eventual release!

[3lric]

Thanks man!

[3lric]

Another new event

[Holy2Tack]

That event is awesome. I think it would be funny if Rad picked the gil back up before offering to buy him a drink. Seems like something he would do. Buy Ramza a drink with Ramza's money.