FF6 - Brave New World

1: After I save Shadow and return to Thamasa, I talk to him from the left side of the bed. He turns to the right, as if to face me. Can you fix that? (I assume this also happens I save Relm from the Cave on the Veldt if I didn't pick up Shadow.)

There are several instances of this throughout the game. For example, the Old Man on the Veldt will only speak to you from the front, as will Arvis just before Terra is named.

It was to do with the fact that speaking with these NPCs instigates an event that requires the player to be standing in a certain area (that said, I'm not sure why Relm/Shadow at Thamasa do this).

2: Regarding Frozen status and Relics, can you check to see if a character specifically has a Ribbon equipped then make him immune to Frozen or immediately undo the Frozen condition?

The problem is that the game doesn't treat Frozen as a normal status, which makes it very hard for us to work with.

3: If I'm on the Veldt and Gau is in my party is there any way to preferentially generate fights for Rages that Gau doesn't know? If so, I'd likey.

I went to every possible length that I could to ensure that none of Gau's rages were hard to come across on the Veldt. At worst, you have a 1 in 3 chance of encountering a specific enemy every 32 (I think) encounters.

8: I have an item with a totally blank name from a previous patch. It seemingly does nothing. Is that the old 'Nothing!' item?

9: What's a Slim Jim do in this game?

I'm guessing you got those from one of our broken patches (1.0.4, probably) as neither of those items are actually in the game.

13: What does the Rage Belt Relic really do? (Its in-game description is a buncha question marks. I'm interested in a thorough explanation.)

It's the old Rage Ring. It gives Umaro the "Throw Allies" attack, as well as boosts physical damage by 25%.

It also grants resistance to some element. I forget which one.

Lightning.

14: Shadow... still seems weak! He has 368ish battle power and his physical attacks from the back row are hitting for about 150 each while other physical attacks in the back row are hitting for much more! His magic ain't that great either. And his max HP is the lowest or second lowest of my team. Did I just get a gimp character?

My Shadow was rocking pretty hard in my last playthrough. I took him to Narshe with the Rogue Cloak and a pile of Fire Scrolls and he pretty much cleaned house. He was also one of my MVPs in Kefka's Tower since I'd stocked up on Ninjatos for him to toss at bosses (which is to say nothing of Ninja Stars).

16: Why does Runic work only on the first Runicable ability per round instead of all of them?

Because no one's been able to convince me that persistent Runic is anything but massively overpowered.

Runic is something else that I've utilized to some very great effect in my most recent runs through the game. There's a few boss fights in particular I'm not sure I'd won if I *hadn't* had my Celes Runic'ing.

17: The Fenrir summon sets Regen, but doesn't do the initial splash of HP cure like the Regen and RegenX spells do. Can we fix that?

Fenrir setting Regen is partly a flavor thing (since the Regen spell felt a bit misplaced on it), and partly to make summoning it a very useful way to start out any boss battle.

18: Why is he called AtmaWeapon the first time and just Atma the second?

Atma Weapon just wasn't quite himself any more once he got brought back from the dark world...