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SOM Hard Mode Hack
« on: January 08, 2008, 09:57:40 PM »
Has anyone tried it? I have yet to complete it, but it does a pretty good job of making the game not so easy. Doing the Pure Land at the moment.
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Re: SOM Hard Mode Hack
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2008, 10:28:03 PM »
I got as far as the witch's castle before I started getting constant game overs. After that, I decided to cheapify it by giving myself 999 HP because I was dying in one hit from everything. Seriously, those things hit way too damn hard. :sad:

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Re: SOM Hard Mode Hack
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2008, 10:36:58 PM »
I got as far as the witch's castle before I started getting constant game overs. After that, I decided to cheapify it by giving myself 999 HP because I was dying in one hit from everything. Seriously, those things hit way too damn hard. :sad:

Well, it seems a bit too emu geared, as your AI companions are more often than not obstacles.

It helps a lot to range and evade. Also, telling your AI companies to not engage (aka keep away at bottom of the screen) helps a lot.

Spiky Tiger involved some luck.. you need to actually spend for Neko's Chocolates (or pray the eye monster drops a Chocolate or two) and Cup of Wishes and try to hit from long range with your main character.

One of things that you may notice is that your evade is crap.. but that's because they seem to have removed/disabled the evade bonus for equipping any piece of equipment on your bod.
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Re: SOM Hard Mode Hack
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2008, 05:34:55 PM »
yeah, too bad they couldn't have improved the AI of your teammates also.

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Re: SOM Hard Mode Hack
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2008, 05:46:54 PM »
yeah, too bad they couldn't have improved the AI of your teammates also.

I often say it's the most often mentioned idea ever and I agree.

On the other hand, it would be hypocritical of me to say it is easy, but really, it is not.
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Re: SOM Hard Mode Hack
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2008, 10:16:08 PM »
we have a lot of specialists on the scene, but there really aren't a lot of guys that excel in AI are there? have to go find someone who works on RTS, maybe what they do with unit pathfinding is similar.

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Re: SOM Hard Mode Hack
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2008, 04:29:45 AM »
Finally beat the damn hack.
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