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Inceptum Quest and Help Menu

  • DJC
  • 03/15/2016 11:15 PM
  • 1411 views
Since the last update:

  • Players can now salvage the wreck of the Inceptum after returning from the Forgotten Continent. The quest appropriates the previous King Thoth technology quest. Access to the Incultus Regnum treasure vault is only granted after completing this quest. The chests hold vastly improved loot. This change necessitated that certain Chocobo Caves are only visible when riding a Chocobo, so that the Inceptum cannot be used to access them.
  • Help Menu nested in the options menu. It still has the controls, which are updated to reflect hunting, minimap, and skill shard additions. The two new selections are Basics and Tactics, which explain various game mechanics and list information about monsters, conditions, enchantments, etc.


The Help section is not yet finished. The DynText plugin by Kazesui is fantastic, but not great for writing paragraphs. It's extremely tedious without word wrap and due to some other limitations. Also much of the old help text was useless, having not been updated since the rm2k version over a decade ago, so I'm writing from scratch. There have been specific requests for help topics, however, so I committed to this addition. I'm glad I didn't attempt to redesign the journal using this plugin, though.



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It might not be finished, but the help menu is looking nice so far.
author=kalledemos
It might not be finished, but the help menu is looking nice so far.


Thanks. I'm also planning to have the special monster skill damage algorithms explained, each revealed after its first use against the player. That will go in the tactics section along with the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy types.

Unfortunately I couldn't justify a bestiary. There's no plugin for pulling the relevant integers, strings, and images from the database.
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