FF6 - Brave New World

This is very interesting, because pretty much every aspect of the game's code identifies characters by their slot rather than their actual identity. The opcodes in the battle scripts are consistent with this formula (i.e. it specifies character number six, who is Celes), so I don't see why it wouldn't respect Kutan in her place.

Agreed, I'm not sure why it isn't working for her either; I'm half-tempted to get as far as naming her before doing the glitch to escape South Figaro without her, to see if that affects anything, but that's too much effort for what is potentially another roadblock and I want to see the second half of the game

I'm not familiar with how FF6 checks event flags, so sorry if this is dumb - When you skip over recruiting Celes, is there some byte that isn't being properly set that allows the game to recognize her? Like, Celes shows up as normal in the line-up at Narshe, but once you switch to her or when you enter the party forming screens she's back to a moogle; this stays the case until the Opera House, where her sprite becomes normal Celes for every situation from then on out (But still retains the Kutan traits where you can't alter relics/equips/skills and has no runic command).

Also, is Kutan for certain the stand-in for Celes' spot (ie is Character 6 until Celes' data overwrites it during her recruitment), or is she instead a dummy value that the game pulls when trying to load an unrecruited character?

Golem is available right after Zozo now >.>

Welp time for super-DPS Edgar/Sabin now. Don't know if I missed it or if it just hadn't been mentioned yet in both the thread and the readme. On that note then, you might want to edit the text of the Sraphim seller after buying from him, as he mentions selling other rocks in Jidoor (Which I'd always assumed were Golem/Zoneseek, hence why I treat them as late-WoB espers; I'm actually not sure how early you are able to get them now, I've always just gone in after the Magitek Factory)

Bear in mind that both of those characters are totally optional, and so I was a little less concerned about splitting up their stat boosts between the WoB and WoR espers.

I guess that's fair, though I do dislike not having much use for Gau early on if I'm worrying about getting him anything but +Stam (Something I didn't mention is that I love what you've done with the Rages; I tend to sit in the menu for a couple seconds and think "What would work best here", and for the most part the rages all feel useful).

IAF was actually one of the most notoriously difficult bosses in beta, and Atma Weapon was fairly underwhelming. Before we released it, I nerfed the f**k out of IAF and beefed up Atma Weapon significantly

Atma was pretty much perfect, as far as big imposing bosses go. Like I said before, he hit hard when he needed to, but otherwise was a good balance of being durable without being overbearing (It never felt like I was playing roulette with his spells and hoping he didn't land on something devastating, but every time he made a move I needed to tend to the damage he did, manage MP, and still find time for damage of my own).

IAF... Yeah, I don't know. He went down with so little of a fight that I was surprised when I beat him. Once the missiles were gone I focused on getting buffs up on everyone, but by the time I was done Locke had nearly solo'd the thing on his own. I don't know if I'd recommend a damage increase or a health increase or what, but IAF felt like it was too easy after the fairly-difficult-but-not-overbearing fight that Ultros/Chupon put out.

...the issue is less his speed and more his survivability, which tends to be lower than that of a stamina-built Sabin.

Yeah, he's not going to tank everything forever like Stamina Sabin looks to be able to do, but a Stamina Cyan has been tanking well for me so far - My 'main' party (Though I've been trying to use everyone) has been Locke/Cyan/Strago/Whoever and Cyan handles both tanking and healing well enough, with powerful Dragons to throw whenever he gets a chance.

(Though, for the record, Kirin really isn't a buff summon - it's just a Cure 2 spell with no split loss)

I don't know why I keep thinking he is casting a full-party Regen; nothing in the printme or the hack itself says he's doing that, but I keep thinking it's Regen on the whole party.