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When I get back to nyc, a friend of mine is giving me his old brick GB. just need to get my hands on an old gb flashcart and LSDJ :D
Hello,
First of all it's great to know you're still working on this project. I made a HT hack of this game with the hacking tool you released some time ago and I would like to make a few suggestions as to how to tweak the game.
-An interesting way to nerf holy, flare and meteor would be to increase the mp cost (1 mp for every spell doesn't make sense since some of them are clearly more powerful than others). Wizardry spells keep their monstrous offensive power, but you'd be limited on the number of times you can use them.
-As for enemies being too weak near the end, the solution is simple: increase their stats.
Balchmorn beat the game at level 33 and was apparently overleveled. Considering you could have leveled up to 42, I'd recommend the following: make these enemies harder, but increase exp. This way you can grind up to level 42 if you want, but the game would still pose you a challenge, plus the extra exp gained makes grinding less time-consuming. Grinding up to level 42 in the original game is not only pointless, but very long. Now grinding serves a purpose and doesn't take forever.
-I'd say to keep the seeds and cure potions buyable, but maybe increase the cost.
-Battlefields just aren't used to their fullest potential in the original game. Lots of people just skip them for a simple reason. Often the rewards aren't worth it.
A most interesting tweak would be to actually increase the exp and gold reward, but to increase the difficulty of the challenge with each battle. i.e. 1st battle 2 mintmints, 2nd battle 3 mintmints, 3rd battle 3 scorpions, then 3 edgehogs, 3 sparnas, 3 centaurs etc... The last battle should be very challenging since it would bring a big reward. But just increasing the difficulty level for a bigger reward would make me happy.
-Medusa seems an absolute pain in the ass.
The problem appears to be her petrifying ability, which makes winning or losing mostly a matter of luck as to wether she decided to use it twice in a row or not. Victory should depend on strategy, not luck, but then again if it's the only occurance whre luck is a determining factor, i'd say it's ok.
-In your videos regular goons seem to give you more trouble than crystal bosses, or am I somehow mistaken?
Keep up the good work, buddy. I'm looking forward to playing this hack once it's completed!
There's a few things I do recall.
Tristan's Ninja Stars IIRC has a high critical hit rate... perhaps it's a property or a value. I think the Dragon Claw and a few other weapons are in the same boat... perhaps making Bombs do critical hits would be nice (I don't think it ever happens with Bombs)
Also, consider making Holy a Drain elemental. Drain hits are very random... the damage is more or less fixed, but the healing done by it is as random as the claw's status infliction rate. Drain's obviously more noticeable when resisted.
i clocked about 15 hours, unfortunately my final save was against dark king's 3rd form save state,
lvl 33 was basically with minimal enemy encounters in dungeon, just doing all battle fields getting gold and loot, even so i am usually at 40+ in original, so i assumed at lvl 33 i would have decent challenge and honestly i felt i was underleveled but apparently not :P and i was lvl 7 against flame rex, 17 for golem, 22 for dual head hydra, and 28 for panzu.
Rex and golem was difficult for me, but dual head and panzu was a joke not due to my level but due to OPness of holy and flare, i tested the battle 2nd time against those bosses without spamming holy and flare, the difference in difficulty was significant, it was much harder and longer making it endurance match, i purposely used weaker magic like aero, thunder and what not, it was quite refreshingly hard, hence the reason why i strongly suggested nerfing holy and flare, meteor is just fine for me it is a strong option but not overwhelmingly so.
Pictures you posted of level forest got me excited, at least i would get to work to earn cure spell whoo just what it needs in this hack!
and i would love to test your beta release of reborn if you are willing!
I wanted to post here to let you know that your hard type hack of MQ has been obliterated with minimal effort i had no problems beating it, end game lvl 33, still lower than endgame phobe's lvl 34
comments: game up to t-rex was quite refreshingly hard, but after wards it became a joke, slightly harder than original but still a joke, i never worried about running out of ammo or pots
, once i obtained holy, the entire game was pretty much gg, bosses were either holy or flare spam till dead, dark king was a surprise but nothing that ragnarok bashing and auto healing from phobe cannot handle.
suggestions: nerf the holy and flare's power, and definitely nerf armors as well. With full endgame gear i was virtually immune to every status attack that dark king spammed at me, and maybe tone down giga axe's power, once i got it, it was my main weapon till i got ragnarok, heck nerf that as well, its too OP, i suspect it has hidden crit attack increase modifier since i crit alot with that weapon and one shot everything, i dont remember critting 80% of time in original with excalibur. Cure is most OP spell in entire game, heals you to full health for cost of 1 point
pros: early half is harder than orignal, t-rex made me tear my hairs out, standard goons gave me trouble with confusion hax and pertify. AI was dumber than original in this hack at least it seems to me so doesnt always heal when i want them to. Way to go at nulling cure glitch on dark king making me earn the victory
cons: once you acquire 2nd set of armors, it becomes a joke, AI is still OP as hell, ohkoing everything with their main weapon except for bosses or resists. ragnarok is extremely strong, i am critting 80% of time typically doing 1300-1800 per crits one shotting everything even late game, JCE i wonder if you accidentally put in increased crit modifier or i am extremely lucky. hydra boss and panzu boss wasnt a challenge, holy and flare did heavy damage to them typically doing 1800-2400. and maybe tone down cure's power as well, it tends to heal me to full health per casting maybe tone that down too it makes dark king's fight easy as long phobe stays alive.
final comments: Great hack, i had fun with this difficulty mod, it was a breath of fresh air, i look forward to possible improvements you make into this hack
Holy AFAIK is non-elemental, so the only real way of tweaking it is nerfing it. Flare can be neutered by giving fire resistance on the enemy...
Perhaps neutering the armor defensive stats would help bridge the defensive gap. Trade defense for resistances...
I'm not sure how much the monsters are tweaked resistance-wise, but immunity to stone (Dragon Claw) and doom (Life spell) should help. It might make some sense to somewhat nerf the Dragon Claw as a result...
Cure has a very high healing power naturally IIRC. I'm not even sure how the numbers are crunched there.
perhaps the most shocking part of all of this is that a guy named "Tony Romo" isn't even partially Italian.
The Giants are not world beaters either, but they actually did put up a decent effort against the Packers despite their loss. It is somewhat difficult to imagine that the NFC East is a gimme for any team, especially with the circumstances.
