VALO'S PROFILE

While the chance of a fixed pack being released is low, I figured it could use some mention.

The zodiac fights are a ton easier this way anyway, as without the statcreep they're practically impossible until level 45+ without spamming items.

...In my first playthrough I didn't notice the bridges since they're so hard to see. Was only the second time that I noticed the action did anything. (besides the obvious scene significance)

On this computer the sound is sharp and over twice the volume of the music itself, so it's very grating.

Some songs (ie Terra's theme, Slam Shuffle, Spinach Rag Opera, Arena music) don't have it at all though. Later today I'll see if I can identify the factor using audio software.

Found an interesting glitch in the game.

First stumbled on this when noticing odd stat gains (especially speed). When switching guns, the game seems to do some juggling with remembering stats and changing classes and such. Unfortunately, the steps are a bit out of order.

What happens is the character's total stats are remembered and applied after swapping classes... Including weapon, armor, and bolsters. This leads to power creep if you switch weapons strategically, and can lead to insane stat boosts if you switch to combat specific types (like in the sewers, against mutants and robots). It also seems to happen semi-randomly on its own, so it might be intentional? (Some battles would be extremely difficult without it)

This can be avoided partially by unequipping all nonweapons when switching weapon class (since it re-equips all nonweapons at menu exit anyway), but the amount gained by the weapon will still be added to the base stats. Can otherwise screw with the ingame events to remove the equipment, then reequip it after the stat jump.

edit: Tested and confirmed easy fix in editor. For each character's Weapon Check common event, paste in a "Change Equipment: (Event's Character) All Unequip" command in each weapon branch before the class change. These can easily be copied from the "Unequip Everyone" common event.

Seems it's a RM bug in the "no stat change" flag making it include equipment stats. Doing the fix this way as opposed to doing stats of current class level also preserves enhancers, which is good.