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I'm not sure which character you are talking about? As "monster" can mean a lot of things. If you are talking about the beastman in the jail cell in Grandseal, no they don't join.
If you talking about New Grandseal, a character called Rulikar joins your team (in the Janet slot) and he is a beastman and uses altered Gerhalt/Zylo portraits. Keep in mind that ALL npcs have portraits as well as all Season 1 characters are added in as NPC cameos. (neither of which are join-able)
If you talking about New Grandseal, a character called Rulikar joins your team (in the Janet slot) and he is a beastman and uses altered Gerhalt/Zylo portraits. Keep in mind that ALL npcs have portraits as well as all Season 1 characters are added in as NPC cameos. (neither of which are join-able)
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Yeah, the beast man in the cell is what I'm talking about. When I got back to Granseal I noticed that the beasts were missing from their cells and one of them offered to join the force. It was unusual the I had the option to refuse her offer to join. So I refused in hopes that I would run into the other beasts from the cell and the Zylo looking one would join. I looked all over the place like a kook. Ha. Thanks for clearing that up so I can move on.
Hey, while I got your attention, any chance you can kick me down some end game save states from some of your various rom hacks? I got a youtube channel and I've been wanting to do a video highlighting the Shining mods.
My channel is called, "Riggel" if you want to check it out.
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Vay fills the Kiwi spot, but with some adjustments. She is coded to appear in 1 of three different spots (some testers have had issues with her appearing in the same spot ever time so IDK). And we removed the code to name her. Vay is neat as she has some lightning resistance. Make sure to check the new Prowess Menu in each members profile to see their Criticals, Doubles, resistances, ect...
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Yeah I've been having fun checking out the prowess stats. I noticed the cursed helmet you get early on boosts come prowess stats. Adds a cool demension to cursed items.
I made a save state before I ditched Vay. I think I will go back and pick her. Thanks for info.
I made a save state before I ditched Vay. I think I will go back and pick her. Thanks for info.
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We adjusted Cursed items. Normally Cursed items have a 25% chance to stun you during your turn, instead this is 10%, other functions are normal.
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Very good.
Really enjoying this mod and the rebalancing. Great work! I had a couple of questions.
1 - Are all "hidden chests" troll chests? e.g. beneath the tree in Ribble and the dessert shrine to the east.
2 - I am close to promoting. Any recommendations on who to use special promotion items on? I see that the special promotions substitute a summon spell for their elemental attack. Are there any other perks? For example, in the vanilla version I always preferred Baron Jaha over Gladiator Jaha for the bonus movement and use of swords. I preferred Sorcerer Kazin, and Rick as the Pegasus Knight. Karna as Monk.
1 - Are all "hidden chests" troll chests? e.g. beneath the tree in Ribble and the dessert shrine to the east.
2 - I am close to promoting. Any recommendations on who to use special promotion items on? I see that the special promotions substitute a summon spell for their elemental attack. Are there any other perks? For example, in the vanilla version I always preferred Baron Jaha over Gladiator Jaha for the bonus movement and use of swords. I preferred Sorcerer Kazin, and Rick as the Pegasus Knight. Karna as Monk.
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Yeah those are all troll chests, sorry. Even if you hack the game and move your character to them they are empty chests.
For special promtions, here are my suggestions:
Secret Book - This has the most options: Aurora, Lapis, Enya, Urboson, Deedlit. Personally my favorite is lapis, but I'm a little bias since I made her.
-Aurora - Loses Renew for Neptune. Not worth the trade. She also gains way more HP, but at the cost of all other stats. And loses Minor Ice resist. But she looks really cool.
-Lapis - Trades Mend & Ice for Neptune & Altas. Neptune comes on really early and is super powerful. It does use a LOT of MP so grab some scrolls or bright honeys for her. Ice does have a lot of range, so I usually give her a pimento if I go this route. She gains an Insane amount of DEF, so if you level her up a bit, she can take some hits. But loses a bit of HP, MP, ATT (doesn't matter) and AGL. She only gets Ice Minor resist instead of Major too. But overall an interesting choice. I personally like it, but I like both versions of her TBH.
-Enya - Loses blaze for Apollo. Gains WAY more HP, but loses MP, ATT(doesn't matter) def and AGI. If you really wanna go big on ignite the HP here can help. I think this is my #2 pick
-Urboson - Loses Bolt for Neptune. With only 4 MOV, bolt has the range to compensate for this, Neptune doesn't. Plus loses HP, MP, ATT, AGI for tons of DEF. But if you give them a pimento and level them a bit for the nice def, you can make it work. Personally I think losing Bolt makes it not worth it, especially since Neptune doesn't come on until level 7 making it hard to get kills/xp with just Blast/Desoul
-Deedlit - Okay I really like this one too. She trades Ice, Chain, Attack for Neptune, Dao, Atlas, making her the most sorcerer out of the bunch. Also she keep egress if you end up dropping Diana. She gets huge DEF, but at the cost of a little HP, MP, ATT, AGL. I've used this one and after you get her some levels her DEF makes her able to be a frontliner and take a few hits. Super fun to use.
Warriors Pride - Khan and Rulikar are the two options for this.
-Khan gets more ATT but less DEF as Baron (plus 1 MOV) He doesn't really need more ATT as its insanly high either way. Barons also get better crit and can use more weapons (axes, hammers, & Swords)
-Rulikar - I usually do Rulikar with this. More ATT, plus the + MOV really helps him out, but he does lose some DEF so watch out for that. If I keep them both I use this on Rulikar and the running ring on Khan.
Silver Tank - Charlie is the only option for this and I would highly suggest it. He gets higher ATT & DEF, but at the cost of AGI and -1 MOV. However he gets brass gunner movement instead of centaur, which ignores a lot more terrain types, so overall his movement it better. He does also get a better critical but a worse double chance.
Pegasus Wing - Vay or Kirie can both use it, and if your going to keep one of them I'd suggest to go pegasus. They get more DEF and AGI and gain Stealth movement which ignores more terrain types. But they do lose some HP.
Vigor Ball (2) - Master monks, there are two options and two items so lots of fun. Seraphim and Buddy are your two options.
-Seraphim, I'd say no, unless you really want to push him for some Melee combat. He is mostly setup for healing and going mastermonk gives him less MP & AGI, loses Status Resist Minor, but gets more HP, ATT, and DEF. Plus Gloves vs Staffs.
-Buddy is kinda how you wanna use him. I like to go Master monk (first he looks super cool) and he has a better base ATT to be able to go mastermonk. Same stuff as Seraphim basically. Just depends if you want more MP for his spells, or if you want him to punch people in the face better.
Let me know if this helps, and love to hear how people are enjoying the mod, it always warms my heart.
Been slugging away at the next update which will fix all the dialog issues, and lots of minor bugs (plus a few major ones).
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Im balls deep right now. What's up with this amazon char? Crying?no weapons? Cool battle sprite. And me girl Thursday's got this Kobingus pendant that she can use but can't use. Thirsday wak.
And then there's raven. Promoted portrait looks inferior to unpromoted and then I try to give her the pink underoos but no dice. Y no pink underoos on me girl Raven? Wak.
Besides that the games scratching the itch...except every once in awhile some degenerate furry dialog creeps in. Some rando broad wanted to mount Charlie in the biblical sense if you know what it is...
And then there's raven. Promoted portrait looks inferior to unpromoted and then I try to give her the pink underoos but no dice. Y no pink underoos on me girl Raven? Wak.
Besides that the games scratching the itch...except every once in awhile some degenerate furry dialog creeps in. Some rando broad wanted to mount Charlie in the biblical sense if you know what it is...
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Seraphim needs some baby sitting early on. I usually don't heal my units when he is AI so he gets more experience (The AI will heal if you've taken 33% damage) then just heal as much as you can as well as feed him a few kills. Once he gets higher level, he has enough HP to survives a hit (except against archers) and gets aura, which is really good.
But yeah he can be rough to use if you don't baby sit him early on.
Lapis is one of the ones I designed stats for, I really like her, but she can be a bit of work to use too.
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Thursday is the Pacalon Centaur, she isn't crying its warpaint lol. She a "Champion" archetype, which is one of the classes that doesn't use weapons. Similar to Gerhalt or Kiwi. Feed her about 4 levels and her ATT stat will grow about 3-4 each level. She starts with 9 MOV which is insane. She suffers a bit on DEF, but has enough HP to take a hit or two. She is one of my favorite units (but I'm a little biased.) If you really want to see her shine, use the Power ring or Koban pendant (ATTACK SPELL) which will make her One Punch Centaur : )
Raven is a character made by Sapphire, they have really good DEF, which not a lot of units have. Her and Maldius can basically tank anything.
Yeah Silk only works with certain characters, had to create sprites for them and some people didn't want to. So far we have Kana, Lapis, Aurora, and Deedlit. But someone is planning on making one for MP (hopefully)
Let's see if the system will allow me to reply today.
I really enjoyed the Kraken battle! Good use of the boat sprite from SF: CD. It made the battle much more enjoyable.
That chess battle was mean! I got lucky on my second attempt. The King rushed into my troops and I had a Blaze 4 scroll handy.
Just got Thursday. I'm going to do a little grinding to mess with some of the other characters and promotions.
I really enjoyed the Kraken battle! Good use of the boat sprite from SF: CD. It made the battle much more enjoyable.
That chess battle was mean! I got lucky on my second attempt. The King rushed into my troops and I had a Blaze 4 scroll handy.
Just got Thursday. I'm going to do a little grinding to mess with some of the other characters and promotions.
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The boat battle was a new custom map using the tiles from the Port/ship map. Its kinda funny how it works and you can see some glitches in it with the map view. But it works. I plan to completely remake it (same thing, but code wise) so it works better in Season 3.
Yeah the chess battle is rough, a lot of character have low HP, which is rough with the AOE spellcasters. And the king having chain hurts more (Chain does more damage the more units it hits. 1 unit about 6 damage, but if he hits 3 units, it does about 18 damage to each one ect...) Try to do a board wipe (kill king last) on ouch... its brutal/near impossible.
I love thursday give her a few levels to get her ATT up to speed, it levels fast.
Who's your favorites so far?
I've always been a melee guy. I really love Khan. I love that I can zoom him forward and he can just absorb blows.
Next is Vay, and I can't really explain why. Cool character design and decent stats. I enjoy the higher HP pool.
After that maybe Aurora for versatility.
Then Shadow for his stupid high attack.
I'm excited for my casters to start learning their high level spells and summons.
Next is Vay, and I can't really explain why. Cool character design and decent stats. I enjoy the higher HP pool.
After that maybe Aurora for versatility.
Then Shadow for his stupid high attack.
I'm excited for my casters to start learning their high level spells and summons.
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Onxy Vay looks very cool! Don't forget she has lightning resist, so so can tank Chain and Bolt.