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Shining Force 2 Community Mod Season 2

Shining Force 2 Community Mod Season 2 V1.5

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ceeejay said:
Nearing the end now!

I'll give a run down semi-tier list style of the characters when I'm done.
What Mithril items have been altered? I RNG manipulated the Titan Hammer for Khan. +2 Mov, very nice.
Which items do what? For some reason I never tried actually using Dragon's Breath until recently. Blaze 4 is nice!

I had an interesting thing happen during the Kumiko fight. Khan was going nuts. A Pyrohydra attacked him twice, Khan dodged the first. Then countered with a Critical. The game kind of sat there for a second like it was thinking. A similar thing happened later when Khan did a double attack with a Critical while under the attack spell. I thought the game froze because the screen paused for 5 whole seconds.
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It has to do with the animations and having certain effects on where the animations take bit to run through them, its kinda hard to explain.

Lots of items have been altered, check the file 05-items.txt in the zip file, but here is the run down.


--Weapons with changes-
Misty Knuckles now have Drain 2

Rune Axe has Detox 2

Storm Hammer has Storm 1
Thunder Hammer has Storm 2
Titan Hammer has +2 Mov, +1 Crit
Galam Hammer has Surge 2
Evil Hammer has the ATT & +10 DEF, but -3 Mov & Cursed

Grand Cannons has Blast 3

Achilles Swords has Surge1 (and can't break)
Taros Sword can be equipped.

Valkyrie has Attack 2
Holy Lance has Spirit 1

Indra Staff has Drain 2
Wish Staff Attack 2
Great Rod Renew 2
Supply Staff Drain 3
Holy Staff Surge 1 (and auto renews 5HP)
Mystery Staff Renew 1 (and auto renew 2MP)
Demon Rod Drain 4

Ninja Star is Ranged 3

Check the document for the full list and for all the rings as well.
 
Ah, I forgot about the document. I was able to get the Ninja Star for Shadow. :)

Kana - A-B tier - Carried me quite a bit through early to mid-game. Really had to babysit her at the end. Attack 4 is really useful.
Aurora - S tier - Her float and spells made her incredibly versatile and saved my butt many times.
Kahn - S tier - He is definitely OP. I loved that I could send him up front and tank a ton of hits.
CJ (Baron) - A - Good Attack and Defense. Gave him the Force Sword and White Ring
Charlie - B - Ranged version of Gong. Just like Gong, I always wanted to like him but the low MP and average stats make him less useful.
Diana - C - I wanted to like her as well, but her stat growth after promotion is still pretty low. I like the versatility of having an attack spell
Vay (OKNT) - S - Holy cow, Vay got me through so many obstacles. Gave her the Stallion Belt and Mist Javelin. I loved having her soak up Bolt spells in the end
Seraphim - A - Seraphim's MP pool and spells saved many battles for me, especially the Prism Flower fight.
Buddy (DISC) - A - Had him cast Storm and sit off to the side. He could punch well if I needed him to.
Picasso - B - Got me past mid-game until I got Toro. Useful character and great sprites.
Lapis - A - Lapis sniped so many important targets with Ice 4. She didn't need any extra movement for me. :-)
Enya - A - His/Her MP pool and spells made them incredibly useful. They could actually take a hit which made me happy
Shadow - S - Amazingly high attack. Gave him Ninja Star and Attack spell. One-shot many of the end game enemies. Do 150 damage to Zeon was nice too
Urboson - D - Wanted to like him. Couldn't. His turn order made it so he could sneak in for a hit, but would IMMEDIATELY get destroyed by the next enemy move.
MP - B - Good character! Loved the high attack and prowess. I got too attached the previously mentioned characters to put him in.
Rulakir - A - He destroyed pretty much everything. Liked the balance of him having less Defense
Thursday - A (B) - High move and attack coupled with that Amulet makes her a one-punch centaur. (B) rank for Centaur movement through rough terrain
Chujin - A - A bird unit that doesn't suck? Very nice! As I said before, I got too attached to everyone else to switch him in. :)
Lux - B - Decent unit. Low Move and Average Attack and Defense make it hard to use him.
Drew - C - I preferred the regular elemental spells this time around. Suffered from the same fate as Urboson
Rock - A - Super fun unit! Love the spells and utility. Especially love his prowess.
Maldius - B - Great Defense, Ok Attack.
Toro - A - Reminds me of Musashi from SF1. :) Great unit. AWESOME sprite work.
Renard - B - Much better than the vanilla archers. There were several moments in the final battles I wish I had him in
Milyana - C - Decent spells. Average HP, MP, Attack. Low Defense.
Erin and Mishaela - A / B - Good characters and decent stats. I can see myself using them in future playthroughs.

GREAT hack! I have tried some of the other SF2 hacks and never made it through. This was super fun. One of my favorite aspects is the addition of additional pain in the butt enemies. e.g.: The Goblin Scouts and various Fungi.

Very excited for Season 3!
CJ
 
Glad you enjoyed it and were able to play through it.
I also have a hard time swapping out current characters for some of the new ones. You just get so attached to them.
Love to see that you enjoyed some that I didn't use as much and didn't care for others that I really do.

Did you do the final secret battle (after the witch scene)
 
Sorry for the late response!

I did indeed try that secret battle. You are mean! :p
I thought you would have enemies pop up in the middle so I prepared for that. When they didn't appear, my plan was to gang up on Zeus+. After dealing 500+ damage I decided to check out his stats. I may need to do a little leveling for this one.

Also, it didn't help that almost every attack against me was a heavy attack.
At some point I will come back to this. :) I will definitely power level using SFEdit and give this another go.
You thinking a year or 2 for Season 3?
 
Yeah, there is a limitation with the software that you can only have 32 entities at once, so to have 30 units that only gives us 2 enemies.

Yeah I'm thinking a year to get through everything, maybe some test builds before that. Hard to say since its just a hobby project.
 
meowizer said:
What does stallion belt do?
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In the zip file of the download, there is a document called 05- Items.txt Which gives all new and changed items.
Stallion Belt is an accessory item like a ring that when equipped will give +3 Mov, +6 Def, and Increase your Critical by 2 levels. It is only equipable by Vay, Kirie, Lux (Knight/Paladin types).
 
ceeejay said:
Sorry for the late response!

I did indeed try that secret battle. You are mean! :p
I thought you would have enemies pop up in the middle so I prepared for that. When they didn't appear, my plan was to gang up on Zeus+. After dealing 500+ damage I decided to check out his stats. I may need to do a little leveling for this one.

Also, it didn't help that almost every attack against me was a heavy attack.
At some point I will come back to this. :) I will definitely power level using SFEdit and give this another go.
You thinking a year or 2 for Season 3?
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Lol, that secret battle is rough, and might be impossible on ouch.
Zeus has a 1/4 chance to stun as his critical and Kukimo has a 1in8 chance to critical. (same on their PLUS counter parts) so if they got a lot of heavy attacks, you just had ban rng I guess.

We've been working on season 3 for a few months. All character stats are done, and about 20% on art, but got lots of other changes we want to do. I want to have it done by end of 2026 or sooner.
 
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