author=UPRC
Damn son! I tried to design that fight to be fairly rough if you didn't disable the wells. How did you fare against him?

I'm not the one you asked, but I found the fight with Tritoch and all 4 wells up to be *MUCH* easier than the standard boss fights in Reiner's scenario.


I didn't find any little bugs in Berona at all. However afterwards


EDIT: Played another hour or two. Found two minor bugs:
- The Northeastern most stairs in the second level of Horseman's Rest (the first one with waterfalls) don't ... go anywhere. I could walk on top of them, nothing.
- Once you get back from Berona, and at least until after Horseman's Rest, Tenzin is in both Linblum Castle and the shrine with the tonberries.

hello your game is great but I'm stuck in ragnarock, I enable to activate the secure console while I desactivate all the other console for the secure console.
Sorry for my english it's not my birth language.

author=UPRC

author=jonas0324
So I found a bug that makes it impossible for me to continue the game, In Eternia during the 3rd puzzle room I decided to leave the dungeon to save, and once I returned to the room the panel that starts the puzzle wont respond. I would have to replay like 2 hours to get back to where I was. Can I send the save to your e-mail address? If yes what is it?
Btw how are you supposed to figure out what to do with that puzzle? there was a similar one earlier and I just brute forced my way through it.

Chances are that I may have just forgotten to put a check on the door that disables everything on your way out if you didn't finish the puzzle. Actually, I'm like 99% sure that this is what the issue is. All I'll have to do is check the map, probably make a quick fix, and upload that sole map for you to replace in your data folder.

EDIT: Try this. http://www.walagata.com/w/uprc/Map563.rvdata2

Sadly did not work, in any case here is my save, maybe you can figure more out:
https://nofile.io/f/AW9FcbPoTMP/Save04.rvdata2

So I've been playing off and on since this was released... I don't want to write a review yet because I'm not done and I'm hoping some of these issues solve themselves later, but... While it's a great game (huge world, fun if somewhat familiar plot, good characters), you have some major balancing issues, imo. It's not so much that the game is hard - it's that the game isn't balanced in a way that is very fun (at least to me, ymmv). The game is generally well constructed and I am still having a good time and, imo, this is something that could be easily patched, so this is meant to be constructive:

- Experience gains from battle are wacky (they increase in fits and spurts and don't seem to correlate to enemy difficulty), encounter rates are really high, and random encounters are way more dangerous than bosses, who are generally weak as kittens, so it's just easier to slap on the moogle charm and only take it off to grind when you find an area with unusually high exp-to-risk ratio (e.g. the dream in the forest of Zen, where exp gains per fight is higher than in most of the Branch region but enemies go down in one hit)

- Enemy abilities are weird - enemy stats don't seem to matter, so Bolt 2 has been hitting me for roughly 1000 HP damage since the enemies first started using it. Originally, it hit me for 80% of my health. Now it's closer to 30%. Because of this, some enemies deal way more damage than is appropriate for the level, while others are dealing way too little, because it's all based on their abilities instead of their stats.

- The Death spell is way, way, way, way, way too frequent. It's not that hard to counter (since Phoenix Down are cheap) but it enrages me. I can't possibly be the only one. Either reduce the effectiveness or don't spread it to so many darn enemies

- Except for Vigor and Speed, most stats don't seem to matter. Magic does affect your magic damage, but you don't see a huge difference in damage between characters unless the difference in the Mag stat is huge.

-Stamina and Spirit don't seem to matter at all. Having 50% more stam/spirit seems to translate to 10% less damage - Hautley and Edric take similar damage from most attacks, so why bother with defensive stats?

-This translates to further issues because Mag boosts are generally on defensive equipment, so there's no reason not to outfit your entire team with equipment favoring 1) speed; 2) vigor; 3) magic, in that order. Nothing else matters.

- Physical abilities have weird formulas. It's generally better to just attack than to use abilities. Some abilities aren't affected by vigor at all for some reason (e.g. does Aurabolt scale off Vigor or Mag? Who cares, Jasmine just wrecks things with her basic attack command)

- Limits are not very useful because they don't seem to scale with any stat but level. They seem to ignore buffs, so... Why bother? Also, several are bizarrely balanced

- Most characters are useless for general encounters (at least through lv 30), because Hautley and Carina are just plain better. Most characters are sorely lacking in AOE abilities and in ability variety (I don't count multiple elements as different abilities unless they do different things)
1/2. The Augurers - Oy, these two are a mess. They have really balanced stat, but their abilities suck and they're stuck with subpar materias to even use them. I never got their abilities to drop anywhere, so I'm always having to hit the augurer coliseum for them, which is annoying. It's impossible to tell which of their abilities are stronger (they don't seem to correlate to MP consumption), they have no AOE, and I'm not even sure if their abilities run off vigor or magic. Their only good abilities thus far are Zuu, for the party-wide haste, and Marlboro for the status effects.
3. Sapphire - Her abilities are basically level 1 x-magic that require items. This would be fine, if not for the fact that Hautley learned his versions in the single digits and Saphhire is still working on learning these past lv. 20, after Hautley is working on Fire/Ice/Bolt 2. Her other item based abilities are also generally underwhelming because they require a big stack of items for generally ho-hum damage/effects. She finally gets decent after the Forest of Zen bit
4. Silas - His attack move is weak, his support moves are unnecessary. Thus far, his only saving grace is that he can use elemental swords
5. Bolt - I actually like him. He's fast, has a decent spread of abilities (gil toss has its moments and is cheap, Rescue is usefully strong combined with high speed, Peep would be good if not for the interface issue, etc.). Though, why does Dash miss what seems like 80% of the time? Also, the Magitek spell is lousy and has no use whatsoever
6. Edric - Given that stam doesn't seem to do anything helpful for me, he's not that useful. His kit is decent thus far (healing, buffing, debuffing, etc.) but his stat/equipment loadout doesn't really offer much
7/8. Hautley/Carina - These guys are so, so boring, but they are so, so much better than all of the other characters. Hautley, Carina, 2 random mooks to soak up hits can clear basically every fight up to Branch without having to think
9. Jasmine - Her abilities are way, way weaker than her attacks, but her basic attack can wreck everything when she's properly equipped. The fact that she manages to be a physical wrecker, decent mage, and speedster while the rest of these mooks are so weak and underwhelming seems a bit unfair...
10. Trigger - A well balanced characters. No complaints on him

- Boss fights can easily be cleared by using one or two physical characters, equipping them with a good weapon, Gauntlets and/or Genji Gloves, using a Power Coating (are these supposed to be infinite? Mine never get used up), casting Haste and Rampage (though, Genji Gloves don't work with Rampage. Is this intentional?) on them, and just healing occasionally.

- Mechanics are not clearly explained. Ability descriptions are unhelpful (you have so much empty space in the description! Give me actual numbers, effects, and elements!). Item descriptions are also unhelpful. Improves evasion? By how much? Why can't I see my evasion?? Why are there so many items I can use in battle whose descriptions says nothing about what they do?

- The Peep/Libra interface is nonsense - some symbols are used twice - once for status effect (e.g. burn, flu) and for an element (e.g. fire, water), so the icon will show up in the weakness and the resistance side. Is it weak to burn and resists fire, or vice versa?? The elemental icons are not used for anything so I'm never quite sure what all of them are (what are holy and shadow's icons?)

So, incredibly long story short, I have three major recommendations:
1. Improve the information you give the player. Give the player a clear sense of exactly what abilities do and what enemies are weak to. I *think* the abilities for most characters are lousy, but I might just not get what they actually do. The player should know what stats to increase to affect ability damage, what effects the ability has, and what its general power level is
2. Revisit your damage formulas - stats are generally not sufficiently determinative of damage, on both the player and enemy side. It makes a lot of abilities and equipment you've designed completely useless.
3. Revisit how you want your player to level as they go through the adventure - are the experience payouts really consistent with a smooth level curve, or are players grinding in certain areas and ignoring fights in others?

In the cathedral waterworks how are you supposed to figure out the codes? I had to guess 3 times to get the right one on the first door. I found no clues in the previous areas on what the codes are. Seems like an unfinished puzzle. Unless I totally missed something.

you need chocographers from hillside

oh the treasures are kinda far away from the footprints

I have the latest version and I've been experiencing "slowdown" during battle. I have a 2.4 Ghz PC and whenever I enter battle, the zoom in effect and the ATB bar lag heavily. The actual battle animations run fine, it's just those two things. Not experiencing slowdown anywhere else...anyone else having this issue?