FF6 - Brave New World

What if you separated the damage forumlas from the physical damage bit. It might be simpler to use one of the extra bits in "Special Byte 3" to pick the damage formula, while using the original physical damage byte to select what stats to use. It would keep you from having to write a bunch of exceptions which can get really hairy. Heck, or just leave everything the same and write a brand new formula that only those spells use that is selected with one of the extra bits... Ok, now I'm getting ideas for my hack... goodbye.

'eh, I suppose. But like I said, I really don't mind it as it is. The only real concern is that it's counter-logical that attacks that are supposed to be "physical" get a damage bump from magic-boosting relics instead of physical ones (and consider enemies' magical defense instead of their regular defense, which may actually be the bigger issue).

Anyhow, I felt like I should drop in with an update about the next version. Here's our current changelog:

• Wrote out some of the more gratuitous profanity in the dialogue and added an optional patch that removes *all* of the mod's profanity (and other assorted naughtiness)

• Reworked stamina to bring it in line with the other main stats, which included edits to esper boosts and several characters' base stamina - THIS WILL REQUIRE A NEW GAME

• New regen and seizure formulas that (still) allow stamina to contribute appreciably, but don't render high-stamina/HP characters (i.e. Sabin) essentially immortal

• Raised the power of several bushidos (Empowerer, Flurry, Eclipse, and Tempest) as well as the random Wind Slash/Aero casts from weapons; also set the Dragon bushido to use stamina instead of magic power

• Shuriken (and Ninja Stars) are now free targeting (press L/R to target multiple foes w/ split damage)

• Set the value of all scrolls (thrown weapons) to 500 instead of having them staggered

• Gau's stamina-based attacks, which are physical when used by the enemy, now do magical damage when he uses them so that they actually do competitive damage with a stamina-built Gau (see conversation above)

• Sand Storm now sets the Dark status (to help make Desert Aria more useful against large enemy groups)

• The Specter dance step now absorbs HP from its target instead of setting Stop (it still sets Seizure) to help shore up the "weaker" dances (Love Sonata and Dusk Requiem) that use it

• The Storm spell now targets all enemies instead of the entire battlefield (and so is actually usable)

• Set Maduin summon to ignore defense (making it essentially a multi-target Break with no split damage) and raised the power of Bismark, Terrato (note: also cleared the "ignores defense" flag for Terrato that was previously set in error, so the net result is a nerf), Alexandr, and Crusader

• Palidor now deals physical damage to all enemies instead of allowing a mass jump attack (which was both prone to all sorts of buggy behavior and really kind of shitty)

• Fixed a bug where Starlet and several dance steps (Meerkat, Tapir, and Ice Rabbit) were not correctly restoring all characters to max HP (I *thought* I fixed this in 1.1.4, but apparently not...)

• Discord now sets bserk and muddle instead of halving the target's level as it was discovered that the level-halving effect was working even if the attack missed (i.e. it was working on bosses)

• Control (the upgraded Sketch command) has been removed from the game; the Dancho Doll (Fake Mustache) and Coronet have been reworked into different/new items

• The Magicite item has been replaced with an upgraded Phoenix Down that restores a character to 1/2 their Max HP

• Lowered the defense and/or magic defense values of some (mostly end-game) armor and relics, most notably the Minerva, Czarina Gown, Royal Jacket, and Guard/Wall Rings

• Tarot now (correctly) trades in for Heiji's Coin at the Colosseum instead of a Relic Ring

• Changed several enemy steals/drops and tweaked the steal success formula to make it a little easier

• Made bosses immune to Rerise (via the same method used to make fractional damage attacks always miss them) because of issues with a muddled/bserked Relm (or Gogo) setting it with the Rainbow Brush and the fact that Rerise was (somehow) preventing bosses who drop things from dropping things

• Corrected an oversight wherein it was possible to kill Chupon with Joker Doom without triggering his Sneeze-out, thus rendering the battle unwinnable since Ultros is no longer targetable

• Fixed several zones on the WoR overworld that were incorrectly set to "no encounter"

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As for the things that are still being worked on:

• A reworking of the Morph command to be a toggle status rather than a timed one (as timers in this game are prone to being abused like a perky set of nipples)

• A new formula for GP Rain that makes it a much more viable attack and even tempts an alternate build for Setzer as it considers his stamina

• A fix to the damage formula for Umaro's "character toss" attack that will let it do the ridiculously high damage that it was intended to, as well as quite possibly adjusting the likelihood of each of his attacks being used to something more favorable to the player (note that I've already jacked up his base stamina from 12 to 60, which is now double the second-highest natural value in the game)

• A tweak to the Atma/Omega Weapon's damage formula that renders it much less of a crappy weapon; it will lose its back-row capabilities and evasion bonuses to compensate

• The Moogle Charm will be put back in the game (replacing the Dancho Doll, which went away along with control), but will have a special "hidden" bonus(es) rather than eliminating random encounters

• Updated the Unlockme.txt file

• Some other minor stuff

(We're also technically not finished with the dialogue changes, either, even though I have it listed in the "complete" section >.>)