FF6 Beyond Chaos playthrough

- Well, it would be great against a boss to get hit from instant Near Death... more chances to cast desperation;
- the problem is that it happens often...(wasting minutes just for a shuriken) I'm starting to have need to find Tool/Throw guy, or it will be a waste;
- Yeah, with undeads work in that way;
- Flash Rain? i believe it was Acid Rain: not only did double damage to Fire Shield wielder, but, unless you applied a proper patch, undeads absorb Acid Rain damage;
- I'm fine with that: Espers, Breaking items and Sandstorm are still viable, but what really interests me is endless super buffed Cure 3... he's destined to be the healer. On a side note he has good dodge parameters and with enhancher + other stuff he basically can dodge magic with an insane rate;
- Yeah, that was definitively True Knight status;
- Monster in a clock? i'm not sure what he is... it looked Allo Ver due to starting with L5 Death, but then AI was different and he wasn't undead. What i don't understand is why he has that song?

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part 13 - Kefka, you cannot pass!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo8gK4WnG8A

part 14 - Rare stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eI1SH2VYog

part 15 - Farm road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtmDzm-SM4

Yeah, I noticed that there are a lot of useless items if you don't have someone with Throw or Tools... so I decided that in later versions, those items will always be breakable if they have no other purpose.

I didn't mess with the undead/poison stuff, to be honest I forgot it was an issue until you mentioned it.

Wow, I didn't even notice the Mblock statistic... that guy is crazy.

As for the clock boss... in my expert opinion, I think it was actually based on Doom Gaze's AI. He's definitely a secret bonus boss (I can tell because of the music), and those enemies are special in that they need to be created from scratch. So they generally take AI and stats from a couple of bosses, then the AI is randomized in the same way that a non-boss enemy's AI is randomized, so that they have new skills. You probably noticed that almost all bosses have the same skills as in vanilla, but these secret bosses are randomized a bit more. And to make them extra special, their formations have unique music.

There's not much to say about the videos today, since it was mostly just checking out monsters...

• Goebelop isn't a very good bodyguard, if it sneezes you away in battle.
• You seem to be avoiding using fenix downs... is there no place that sells them?
• What a disorienting chocobo ride. Was Kaji drunk? I'm really digging the purple chocobos, though.
  

In older versions i remember that when i used Tenkarider seed, Terra started equiped with a Shuriken in her hand, which was really cool... still when you remove it, then there wasn't any way to equip it again

I dunno if Acid Rain was a matter or not, still it sounds good to me absorbing damage swapping Buckler...

I believe it won't be really hard to reach 128 Mblock with him, Still i think the true crazy guy is Kensin, which is destined to have 255 defense with few good stuff.

So it's a secret custom boss, huh? Good... meanwhile i believe to have already prepared a decent strategy for that guy, just waiting for Blackjack.

- Sneeze skrews event battles... does exist a way to not consider a victory when some character is kicked out of battle?
- A lot of places sells them, but most of the time they cost too much, Luckily there's one shop in which you can halve the price, speaking with a female character, so i took the chance to buy 10x; (in any case if i can rest instead of wasting them, i don't let escape that chance)
- When i ride a chocobo i like swinging left/right... it makes the travel less boring
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part 16 - What the hell was that?!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAWLP9q427M
A funny battle...

part 17 - Random espers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEq-DByXGz4
Too bad only few of them can completely benefit of their powers...

part 18 - Finally a Sneak Ring!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_0IDoA1ITg
I don't know if 80% of monsters i meet have only rare steal item to steal or what: my thief sucks at stealing! ;[

Well, only non-boss enemies can get the Sneeze skill... there aren't many event battles with such enemies where Sneeze is a problem.

• First of all, that was the craziest battle I've seen yet! I often forget that things like that are possible. I'll consider it briefly, then completely forget about it... so even I get surprised by things like an enemy breaking an item to summon Palidor.
• I hope we'll see what the Thief Glove does, eventually.
• Dadaluma was healed by Sandstorm... your most powerful fighter was forced into healing duty. You only had 1 fenix down when Dadaluma started throwing strange weapons, too. I'm glad Kaji wasn't able to just steamroll Zozo.
  
• Everyone in Dadaluma's battle was so paranoid about poison. His minions use Antdot, Dadaluma used antidotes on himself, and even when you sketched the minions you casted Antdot
• The esper world had a somewhat interesting palette (this is relatively new).
• You have an abnormally low number of characters who can use magic, so it'll be easy to decide who gets what esper.
• Wow, check out those Earrings for 18400 GP.
• Rider seems like an appropriate name for the airship guy.
• It looked as though they were holding the opera under a black light. Rave opera?
• Cutting it pretty close with rats!
• I found it funny when you spent all of your money, just before finding the guy who sells Sneak Rings.
• Icicle Grip is a cool move, doing damage and inflicting Blink status.
• You might have noticed that a lot of enemies only have enough MP to use their powerful skills once... that's because of how they're randomized. If an enemy gets a skill they don't have enough MP for, their MP gets raised just enough to cast it once, and maybe a couple other spells. I like this approach because it means enemies can surprise you and hit you hard in the first couple of turns, but then you'll have a chance to recover. In general, Beyond Chaos is tuned for quick and brutal fights, which is also why I haven't bothered to raise the HP limit on bosses (also, that would require effort...)
  

- Oh, right! he broke Doom Darts! i definitively wanna farm some...
- Probably they find Antidote everywhere too, like me! so much Antidotes that they use them without a reason...
- Well at least boosts are usable from everyone: Locke benefits of +1 speed each lv up;
- Really expensive, but i found the shop who makes me half the price, and i must say Earrings surprised me for a total different reason.
- Rider joined, now i've need of Tenka: in that way i'll be able to have Tenkarider in my party!
- Yeah, 00:00 was definitively close.
- No problem, random drops give me plenty of junk to sell for cash;

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part 19 - The first Kefka's fanatics were here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_0J8sJ0OJs
Not too much friendly...


part 20 - What the... Earrings, do you...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X9W9hTNDbI
That's what i call sweet.


part 21 - Persistent couple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSw-O5GjnOg
Blocked almost everything...

• If I'm not mistaken... the earrings have a Merit Award effect? Wow, that's super lucky. Do they force you to re-equip if you remove them? If not, I might have to nerf that...
  
• You encountered Kefka in the Magitek Research Facility. He said, "Don't think you've won. I'll be back." Well, he wasn't wrong the first two times.
• I had a little moment of panic when you almost left behind Ifrit.
• Maybe your stealing addiction is a bit out of control... you're healing your enemies just so you can keep stealing from them!
  

- It's too late: it won't make me re-equip! still i'll respect the bound to Earrings and won't be cheap, unless i'll be forced to use that for... say Intangir?
- Since i have to do some test for my hack, i wanted to see if the game force the player to get Ifrit too, appearently not...
- That happens when you decide to lock-up the rom... Unless you relocated ROM name address i still should be able to assign the original name to the game.
Anyway the fact is that Locke is a troublemaker! ;[ he's the main obstacle to stealing items, until i see at least one item i won't let them die, especially if they are missable...

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part 22 Neat random for new espers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIEWDcfegpE
Speed won't be a problem...


part 23 Rider, you disappoint me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHwN7JbZVIs
May someone use Tools or Throw!!


part 24 - heh, WoR will wait a bunch of time...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI9m3ImYqHE
We have THE boss.

Haha, well, I never intended to lock up the rom. That was just a side effect of changing the name. Truth be told, it's been a bit of a pain in the neck for me too. By the way, if you didn't know, the randomizer should also generate a text file that has all kinds of info in it, including the stealable items for every enemy.

As for the Earrings and other things... my philosophy is to not restrict players who enjoy using glitches, exploits, cheap strategies, etc... I try to only patch stuff out when I think it will interfere with players who want to play without such things.

• Number 24 immediately made himself weak to wind and then died like a chump!
• Still no espers that raise magic power, huh.
• Too bad Rider has such low stats... however, innate Jump is actually pretty good if you can get a Dragon Horn, because things like Fixed Dice and rod procs benefit from the Jump damage multiplier.
• Dakada (Intangir) is intense! Looks like he might have inherited some traits from a certain enemy in Kefka's Tower.
• Genome came with another Flame Shield, even after taking his old one? That's extra lucky.
• Sraphim has Ice 3... for 3000 GP, that's not a bad investment.
  

Well, your game restricted Earrings from me! So far, nobody can equip them.

Fair enough! That happened to me too, except it was Hero Rings. ;_; Though, every piece of equipment should be equippable by at least one character... if it's not, it's a bug.