Miss if targeted enemy dies?

[madsiur]

Is it possible to have this game behave like older FF games, where you can't just spam the A button to win a fight?

I want it to miss if my character chooses to attack a specific enemy that happens to die before that character takes his turn.

It probably possible to disable the auto-retargetting but some specific things have to be taken into consideration. You must first find a way to make a check on the targetted monster to see if he's still alive right before or at the very beginning of the character action. Then you must find a way to waste the character's turn (resetting his ATB gauge). There might be a place that you could only branch to a "miss attack routine" or portion of code if the check fail and that would be a lot simpler.

And I'm thinking about something else as I'm writing this: do you want that for all the types of attack (including special skills)? In this case you might have to change more code. The code related to those changes should be in C2 unless I'm mistaken. I might eventually take a look at this but now I don't have enough free time for that.