Final Fantasy VI: Ray of Light

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04-03-2017, 03:07 AM (This post was last modified: 04-03-2017, 03:36 PM by Timbo.)

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I've created enough random threads that I think it's finally time I announced my project. It's kind of a vanilla omni-mod. The idea is to expand content without disrupting canon, add a modest and balanced level of difficulty to the game, remove censorship, and update artwork to more closely resemble Yoshitaka Amano's concept art. Like most of my projects I intend to work on this over a long period of time. The reason I've created this thread is because I want feedback and Ray of Light is still very early enough in it's development that almost anything can be changed. Please comment, criticize, suggest changes, and make requests This mod is supposed to be for the whole community, so I actually want and need your feedback.

Items in green are in progress.
Items in red are complete.

Global Changes:

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Implementing the GBA script with all of the best Woolsey parts kept in. It should be similar to the Woolsey-Slattery Compromise patch with a synched Slattery Opera, “Mr. Thou”, “Son of a Submariner”, “Call me a treasure hunter or I’ll rip your lungs out!”, etc.
Modifying Sprites to look more like Amano's concept art.
Implementing IOS portraits modified to look more like Amano’s concept art.
Removing censored graphics and text.
Rebalancing the difficulty to curve to add a modest level of challenge to it.
Removing as many bugs as possible.
Removing broken strategies and abilities, like Genji Glove + Offering, Vanish + Doom, and Quick + Celestriad.
Adding B button dashing.
Mini-map upgraded to show mountains.
Music Player in the Main Menu
Espers teach different spells
Each Esper is only useable by a few different characters.
Removing Esper stat bonuses in favor of diversified static equipment bonuses, whereby even starting would yield bonuses to one or more stats.
Magic rearranged from Healing, Damage, and Effect to White, Black, and Time.
Removing, replacing, and reshuffling Magic, Lore, enemy, and new spells to make room for new abilities for new command skills, tools, and throwable items.
Changing the physical damage formula and rebalancing equipment to reduce the dominance of magic and put physical attacks on an equal playing field.
Adding new events to make Mog and Gau more relevant to the plot.
Moving Gogo and Umaro to guest character slots using the guest adder patch and using their slots to add new characters in their place.
Using those characters to explain and expand on a few of the games dangling plot threads, namely the fate of Banon and Arvis.
Removing Blitz’s Fighting Game style and Bushido’s Charge Gauge command inputs and replaceing them with standard eight skill command lists in order to enable two additional eight skill command lists, with natural ability learning, and menu displays for two additional characters and a Natural Magic list for Relm and an additional character. Which wouldn’t be possible if GrayShadows, who is my new hero, hadn’t already made it and generously decided to modify it and share it with me.
Adding Omega Weapon and Kaiser Dragon superbosses to the game.
Numerous Equipment Changes.
Changing Critical Status from 1/16 HP to either ⅛ HP or ¼ HP.
Increasing Desperation Attacks from a 6.25% chance to a 12.5% chance.

Character Specific Changes:

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Terra: She gains a redesigned Amano style sprite, Morph and Revert become a toggle that doubles damage dealt and received, and she gains a greater number of learnable spells than other characters due to the limitations of Morph.
Locke: He gains a redesigned Amano style sprite, Mug replaces Attack rather than Steal, and Steal is replaced with a full eight skill command list called Tricks.
Cyan: He gains a redesigned Amano style sprite, some of his Bushido skills will be replaced to add diversity to his skillset, his Bushido gauge is replaced with a faster eight skill list, and after being selected, each skill has a successively longer delay time according to power level before it’s executed.
Shadow: He gains recolored Amano style sprite, his Throw command is limited to scrolls and shurikens, additional scrolls and shurikens will be added to the item list.
Edgar: He gains a recolored Amano style sprite, some of his Tools will be modified or replaced to add diversity to his skillset.
Sabin: He gains a recolored Amano style sprite, he gains a more useful skill in place of Spiraler, and his Blitz command’s fighting game style button input is removed and replaced with a standard eight spell list.
Celes: She gains a redesigned Amano style sprite, and gains a greater number of learnable spells than other characters due to the limitations of Runic.
Strago: He gains recolored Amano style sprite and some of his Lores will be replaced to balance his skillset.
Relm: She gains a redesigned Amano style sprite, a natural magic list, a greater number learnable spells than other characters due to limitations of Sketch and Control, and Dog Block status when it’s appropriate.
Setzer: His Slots command is derigged and it’s party targeted Joker Doom effect removed and possibly replaced with a different spell.
Mog: His Dance skills no longer persist and are reselectable each turn.
Gau: He gains a recolored Amano style sprite, the ability to equip knives and claws, a desperation attack, a smaller total number of learnable Rage skills, a[color=#33cc66] rebalanced Strength score with accordingly rebalanced Rage skills and monsters, the Attack command in place of Leap, and either his Rage skills are learned anywhere in the world by winning battles with Gau in your party or the Rage command toggles with the Leap command when on and off of the Veldt and the formations that actually appear on the Veldt are modified to make Rage learning less awful.
Gogo: He gains a recolored Amano style sprite, becomes a permanently recruitable guest character, equipment no longer changeable (does not include relics), and possibly gains Esper use.
Umaro: He becomes a permanently recruitable guest character and gains higher stats due to inability to do anything other than “Umaro Smash!”
Kefka: He gains a recolored Amano style sprite.
Magitek Armor: It's not really a character but it gains a redesigned Amano style sprite as well.