DJC'S PROFILE

I'll put the Phoenix Cave Impatient Mode glitch on the list. I rarely play with that mode enabled, so I likely missed many such bugs.

I debated whether to even include hunting predators as part of the game completion percentage since I knew it would be rather tedious. I'm leaning towards significantly reducing the number of hits to defeat predators. Players could acquire some rare drops easily that way, but the predator that spawns is random chance and later in the game there are better ways to acquire most of those rewards.

The speed issues with predators and prey are actually the result of buggy code that just doesn't execute consistently. I gave up trying to perfect that, and preventing predators from getting stuck in phasing mode, where they can pass through any tiles, even if they're not supposed to.

As for Beomaust, that's probably the third most difficult battle in the game now. You need extremely high defense, fortified with Protect if possible, to survive Overpower. Breath resistance equipment, high defense, Protect, and using the Defend command will help heroes reduce damage from Ultima Breath, which can also be reflected if only a single hero has the Reflect Condition. It's tempting to use Regen for healing, but this will get you into trouble when Beomaust casts Reversal just before Ultima Breath unless you remove it with Cleanse first. You want low HP or fallen heroes just before Reversal, but don't gamble too much since Beomaust can deal heavy damage every turn. Items are the best way to heal or grant boons. Casting life magic will get you Demolished. Casting healing magic will either get you Demolished or maybe Gravija. Demolish will either kill all but one party member, or the last remaining hero if you're down to one.

author=Andreo
I remember playing this great game many years ago (and almost crying when I encountered the bug in the trial of dragons, however after I finished it). Now I have began to play it again and I'm at the first boss, i use default settings and... how many hp it has? I remember killing him with around 15 hits now I'm over 50!!

Kraken normally has 1200 HP, but there's a hidden 20K extra. Double that for 42400 on Hard difficulty, and you had to deal 22400 damage for victory, beyond excessive. With the new patch and multiplier, it's only ~6500, about five times regular. Much more reasonable.

I'll see if I can do something to alleviate the lag in Pullus Unda. Could be a result of the special map that displays to help the player find missing party members.

Edit: Ok, got a fix up for the Pullus Unda lag. The custom map should only refresh when necessary, not continuously. Let me know if you run into any more of these situations, kalledemos. Many of the custom displays run on a similar constant refresh premise, which could be the source of whacker's issues.

author=rebel1223
DJC I have two questions from a new player, one gameplay related and one writing related

Gameplay: Is there a way to break the damage limit? After the Forbidden Continent all of my party were hitting for 9999 on the regular (My party was Vixen, Meredith, Draekor, and Willis)

Writing: What was the reason you decided to use the passive voice so much? Was it just a "sound different than the way people talk in real life" kind of thing?

It is possible to break the damage limit with a DynRPG patch. In fact, if you look in the Everlong folder and open DynRPG.ini, toward the bottom you will see several lines that have been commented out which would remove the damage cap. This will break the game, however, and I abandoned the mechanic.

Instead, I suggest turning on the automatic monster balance feature in the options menu. Or you can adjust the monsters manually if you still want a challenge after gaining levels beyond what your current position in the game is balanced for. Once you reach maximum level and start having your heroes reborn, automatic balancing is necessary.

As for the over usage of passive voice, that's mainly poor writing on my part. Using active verbs is considered easier to read and more engaging. If you're specifically referring to the style of dialog for particular characters, that is intentional differentiation. Those of noble birth (Meredith, Julia, Justin, Drakeor) employ sophisticated grammar and verbose sentences, whereas uneducated heroes (Keen, Willis) tend to use slang, contractions, and simple grammar. Others are between the extremes (Glen, Sammy).

author=whacker
Compatibilty options didn't help. I'm using Windows 7. The memory allocation save/music stopping problem is no big deal for me since I know how to work around it and I generally don't play long enough for it to be an issue. The one constant annoyance throughout my playthrough has been the choppiness and bad slowdown present whenever theirs extra info on the screen, usually a map or counter(the only exception has been the chocobo mini games and battles). I'm currently in the black dragon trial doing the +- torch puzzle and the slideshow framerate is making it very difficult and tedious. In any other area without a map, counter, etc the game runs perfectly. I played this game before the most recent big update about a year or two ago on the same pc and didn't have any of these problems.

The method of display for the Black Dragon Trial and similar counters or maps was not changed in the new version. The engine is calling the same standard functions for drawing pictures. Perhaps DynRPG hooking into the executable memory locations is causing these problems for you, but that's beyond my ability to investigate or address. Unfortunately, DynRPG is critical to the new version.

I'm actually getting poor performance and graphics artifacts on Windows 10 in full screen that I did not experience in Windows 7, but windowed mode performs better if you're yet to try that. PepsiOtaku was working on some DynRPG modification to make the drawing methods more efficient, but to my knowledge it was never publicly release in full.