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Xenomic · « **Reply #480 on:** July 05, 2014, 02:07:00 AM »

Alright, so I would like to speak about

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skillsets. I've yet to fully finish all of the skills for this skillset, so I'd like to hear some good ideas for them. Note, that these will probably be used from OTHER bosses, so what's here may be on other bosses! The default skillset has 12 skills normally, all others have 6 total (there's really 8, but 2 of them has to be forgoed in favor of one of the three).

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Fairy Circle: Restores 30% Max HP to the party. Costs 10% Max MP to use. Only usable in battle.
Esuna: Cures all negative statuses. Costs 25 MP.
Esunaga: Cures all negative statuses to the party. Costs 65 MP.
Bravery: Doubles one ally's Attack. Costs 20 MP.
Protect: Doubles one ally's Defense. Costs 14 MP.
Faith: Doubles one ally's Magic. Costs 20 MP.
Decurse: Cures Curse status on one ally. Costs 14 MP. Note: Curse only prevents the user from changing equipment.
Dispel: Removes all buffs from one enemy. Costs 24 MP. 70% accuracy.
Dispelga: Removes all buffs from the enemy party. Costs 53 MP. 70% accuracy.
Vortex: Removes all statuses from both enemy and ally party. Costs 50 MP.
Return: Brings back Excluded party members into the battle. Costs 99 MP.
Celestial Star: Inflicts 2000 Mystic-elemental damage to all enemies. Costs 100 MP. Only appears in the skillset if HP is 25% or less of Max HP value.

Bubble has been removed from this skillset. Whether or not anything will replace it, I don't know yet.

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Hellfire: Inflicts 500 Fire-elemental damage to all enemies. Costs 28 MP.
Aurora Freeze: Inflicts 500 Ice-elemental damage to all enemies. Costs 28 MP.
Skygate: Inflicts 500 Thunder-elemental damage to all enemies. Costs 28 MP.
Meteor Blast: Inflicts 500 Earth-elemental damage to all enemies. Costs 28 MP.
Wind Slash: Inflicts 500 Wind-elemental damage to all enemies. Costs 28 MP.
*Judgment Day: Inflicts 1000 Mystic-elemental damage to one enemy. Costs 40 MP.
*Mind Blast: Inflicts 200 Magic damage to one enemy + chance of random statuses. 70% accuracy. Costs 38 MP.
*Cosmic Spear: Inflicts 1500 Shadow-elemental damage to all enemies + Instant Death. Costs 100 MP. Only appears if HP is 25% or less of Max HP value.

*Only one of these skills can be obtained. The other two are forever lost.

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Man Eater: Inflicts 500 non-elemental physical damage to one enemy. Deals x4 damage if target is Human-type. Costs 12 MP.
Dismantler: Inflicts 500 non-elemental physical damage to one enemy. Deals x4 damage if target is Machine-type. Costs 12 MP.
Dragon Slayer: Inflicts 500 non-elemental physical damage to one enemy. Deals x4 damage if target is Dragon-type. Costs 12 MP.
Avian Killer: Inflicts 500 non-elemental physical damage to one enemy. Deals x4 damage if target is Flying-type. Costs 12 MP.
Fairy Popper: Inflicts 500 non-elemental physical damage to one enemy. Deals x4 damage if target is Fairy-type. Costs 12 MP.
*Youkai Hunter: Inflicts 800 non-elemental physical damage to one enemy. Deals x2 damage if target is Youkai-type. Costs 22 MP.
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*Apocalypse:

?. Costs 100 MP. Only appears at 25% or less Max HP.

(Missing one ability)

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Nothing yet...missing 8 abilities.

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Fear: Inflicts Fear to one enemy. 70% accuracy. Costs 16 MP.
POW Hammer: Inflicts Debrave to one enemy. 70% accuracy. Costs 8 MP.
Deprotect: Inflicts Deprotect to one enemy. 70% accuracy. Costs 12 MP.
Defaith: Inflicts Defaith to one enemy. 70% accuracy. Costs 8 MP.

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Bleed: Inflicts Sap to one enemy. 40% accuracy. 0 MP for now.
Mind Bleed: Inflicts MP Sap to one enemy. 40% accuracy. 0 MP for now.
Lock: Inflicts Lock to one enemy. 40% accuracy. 0 MP for now.
*Reverse: Reverses statuses on party. For instance, Regen becomes Poison, and vice-versa. Costs 50 MP. Battle only.
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*Diseased Tempest: Inflicts 1500 Wind-elemental damage to all enemies + Fear/Debrave/Deprotect/Defaith/Sap/MP Sap/Lock. 60% accuracy. Costs 100 MP. Only appears at 25% or less Max HP.

(Missing 2 abilities)

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*Seraphic Law: Inflicts

Holy-elemental damage to all enemies. Costs 100 MP. Only appears at 25% or less Max HP.

(Missing 7 abilities)

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*Cosmic Break: Nothing yet. Costs 100 MP. Only appears at 25% or less Max HP.

(Missing 7 abilities. This skillset is directly tied into the character's skillset).

So if you can help brainstorm, that'd be great! ^^;;

Kaitani · « **Reply #481 on:** July 06, 2014, 09:14:52 PM »

One thing I was supposed to ask a while ago but forgot: similarly to SDM locking down / opening up again, is Hakugyukurou supposed to stay locked after you reach Makai?

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Xenomic · « **Reply #482 on:** July 06, 2014, 09:18:33 PM »

Yes, that place is actually supposed to stay locked. It becomes unlocked during beta6 for a specific reason.

Kaitani · « **Reply #483 on:** July 06, 2014, 10:36:02 PM »

Oh well, can't be getting any blue magic from the notorious fairy in there then...

Xenomic · « **Reply #484 on:** July 06, 2014, 10:46:35 PM »

The Blue Magic list still needs revamped anyways, so Death Lance might not even be a Blue Magic spell later. Hard to say...Koishi has a crapton of spells that probably need reduced to not 50 spells. @_@;

Xenomic · « **Reply #485 on:** July 07, 2014, 05:41:26 AM »

So....final map of updated Makai right now. Went from 200x200 to 118x137. I redid the map while taking a break from working on Palanquin Ship, as it needed to be drastically sized down. It's now a bit more compact and easier to traverse, and most of the locations are still pretty much the same. However, before I release this in whatever update patch, I'll have to make sure to leave a WARNING! for players to save at save points and not the world map to avoid being stuck...@_@;;

Old map for comparison:

Speaking of Palanquin Ship, here's one hallway thus far (the rooms for this hallway are all done, and I'm in the process of doing the next area of the ship. Trying to avoid having the dungeon be TOO big, since you come here right after Myouren Temple itself. There's a couple gimmicks to this place, and it's a one-time only dungeon, so better make sure you do everything before finishing it!

In addition, have what is Gensokyo's current world map!

Whether or not I'll ever revamp Gensokyo's map, I don't know. I want to, but on the other hand, it'll be a pain in the arse to fix all of the teleport events and whatnot...

Xenomic · « **Reply #486 on:** July 12, 2014, 12:02:52 AM »

Safe to say, something doesn't feel completely right...this is what I could get out of the current tileset (this is the ONLY room of which even uses this tileset. The rest will be underground. Here's the tilesets I'm using for this dungeon.

For the shrine part itself:

For the actual dungeon:

So now the question becomes, what to do with the actual dungeon? Originally, the gimmick of this dungeon dealt with money. Enemies dropped a lot of money in here, but any money made or lost in this dungeon will not transfer to outside the dungeon. Whatever you came in here with is what you come out with. I remember doing away with this gimmick and going with something else, but I forgot what now...of note, who'd a thought there'd be a church-like area in Makai? :v

So yeah, I need to come up with a good gimmick for this dungeon that isn't used in any of the previous dungeons, and figure out if the tileset I'm using for the actual dungeon will work...oi vey. @_@;

Kaitani · « **Reply #487 on:** July 14, 2014, 11:39:58 AM »

I've been doing some testing on blue magic learning with a lvl 99 Koishi. Assuming the learning ability is working as intended, the massive level advantage should give almost a guaranteed chance to learn any skill in battle. But what happened was:
Ruby Dragon (lvl 23 or 28, can't remember) casts Meteor (20% base chance to learn), so chance of learning it is 91/96 %, but doesn't get learned. Later in the same battle the dragon uses Flare Breath (40% base chance) which should be 100%+ chance after the level difference comes in play, yet it doesn't get learned. Did I just get super-unlucky with the Meteor (and on the previous 3 attempts) and are Koishi's further attempts at learning stuff stopped after seeing a blue magic in combat?

Xenomic · « **Reply #488 on:** July 14, 2014, 08:10:38 PM »

There's the coding for Flare Breath in general. If you already HAVE Flare Breath, then this won't even activate at all.

As for Meteor, you cannot learn it from Ruby Dragon. It uses it, but it's not learnable FROM it. I removed it being learnable from it due to how strong it was, so you can't get it until later. I believe it's the same for Holy from the Imps in Cave to Makai.

Kaitani · « **Reply #489 on:** July 14, 2014, 08:47:35 PM »

A learnable blue magic you can't learn from certain enemies? That's one of the cruelest things I've heard in a video game before. How is the gamer supposed to tell the difference between fighting low odds and impossibility in these cases? If you don't want certain strong blue magic to be learned that early on, replace them in the moveset with something that isn't a blue magic. I suppose the notoriuos monster in Poltergeist Mansion basement that uses Ultima belongs to this category as well?

As for Flare Breath, I didn't have that skill yet when it was used on me, so I don't know what caused it to not get learned. On the fight before I did manage to learn it though (didn't save afterwards).

Xenomic · « **Reply #490 on:** July 14, 2014, 08:52:05 PM »

Intel. Intel tells you exactly what Blue Magic spells you can learn from enemies, if they have any. Yes, you can tell with the Remains of Hell enemies because after you fully complete the events there (which is in beta4), you can go in Remains of Hell with anyone I believe.

As for Krysta, you CAN learn Ultima from it. It's just a really low chance to do so (and you have to be able to survive Ultima anyways, which is really hard to do with how powerful it is, and how rarely it's used).

Weird...it SHOULD be getting learned like easily. The coding states that it should be anyways (in the battle event, it puts the enemy's level right there so...), so I'm not understanding why you're not learning it at level 99. Hm...

Kaitani · « **Reply #491 on:** July 14, 2014, 09:11:15 PM »

Intel huh? In that case you need to do a full check on the Intel database at some point, because I've come across a lot of errors in them and I'm sure I've missed some. Also, I can't remember seeing any blue magic info on any of the bosses so far, does that mean you can't learn anything from them? (Tenshi fights come in mind)
Furthermore, Intel data on Suika has no word on blue magic, Pandaemonium and Gathering Oni are thus not learnable from her? (not that you could get them anyway...)
And one final notion about Ruby Dragon: Intel data tells you can learn Flare from it, but it also uses Flare Breath, which you can also learn from it. However, Intel doesn't tell you anything about Flare Breath in there, so in that sense it's no different from Meteor in this particular case.

Xenomic · « **Reply #492 on:** July 14, 2014, 09:15:42 PM »

Weird...dunno what's up with the Intel being as broken as it is right now. The Tenshi fights, you can't learn any of the Blue Magic from earlier fights most of the time, simply because well...you never have Koishi that early on. I don't recall if you can get them at Hollowed Caverns or not though. As for Suika, I may have forgotten about that part. Oops.

Xenomic · « **Reply #493 on:** July 15, 2014, 06:50:11 AM »

So, here's a special little request, which I asked quite some time ago, sometime last year. I am thinking of doing more battle animations, just to flesh those out more, and I still need the animation for this spellcard:

This is the only one missing out of Iku's skillset. I cannot seem to find any good way of replicating this spellcard (all the MUGEN characters don't have the full version of the spellcard in the SFF files...) so...unless someone can help me out with this...

In other news, I MAY be cutting down how long the intro is, as well as how long the final cutscene in beta4 is. In fact, the intro may just be the Kourindou/Hakurei Shrine events with the other events just cut out entirely, while the final cutscene in beta4 may be cut down and moved across the game. What do you guys think of this??

Kaitani · « **Reply #494 on:** July 15, 2014, 09:28:27 AM »

I'm not sure if the intro needs to be cut down, since you can choose to skip it if you want. The length of the beta4 cutscene made me feel like I'd entered the "end-game", so I guess some of that stuff could be shown later on. There was something in that cutscene that felt a bit odd though:

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Xenomic · « **Reply #495 on:** July 15, 2014, 09:36:13 AM »

You can, but it is a 15-20 minute intro and if you're playing for the first time, more than likely you'd want to see the intro I'd think. But yeah, the beta4 cutscene is like an hour long so that does need to be chopped down and put in other places, or just summarized more, or something.

I know. Many people felt that way, but with any optional character, they're treated as though they're not really WITH the party at all so they can actually be in other places where the story needs them.

Xenomic · « **Reply #496 on:** July 18, 2014, 03:19:14 AM »

Current map of first room of Sealed Cave. I think I know what the gimmick of the dungeon may be...or one of them anyways. Damage floors here, much like earlier in the game. Thinking if damage floors should have random encounters or not, since random encounters is set to 0 for those types of floors...

Originally, Sealed Cave was going to have the "No Physicals" gimmick, as a counterpart to Hollowed Caverns "No Magic" gimmick, but I don't know if I'll do that or not, especially given the enemies that I want to have in here. Anyone have any good ideas for the dungeon gimmick? I was thinking of having to dispel barriers on doors in order to get through them but...not sure! Damage floors are going to be a big part I know that much (think of FFIV's Sylph Cave or Passage to the Eidolons. Similar concept, but they had random encounters, these damage floors don't...)

Also, if anyone is curious, these are the enemies I have in mind for the dungeon. I need to chop out some (most are going to appear solo in fights), but they're ALL big references to the FF series...

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Xenomic · « **Reply #497 on:** July 30, 2014, 01:13:45 AM »

You see this room? This is the right room (there's a left room as well). The main switch to proceed in this dungeon in in the center. Main goal is to get all 3 colored switches down. However, you cannot enter this room normally so you have to go to the left room and do stuff there to get into this room (there's also a hidden passage in the south walls between the two rooms). The other room is similarly shaped as this one too

There are 3 switches: Yellow, Blue, and Red. The colored blocks you see in the first images are all raised or lowered depending on the switch pressed. What I need help is well...setting up the puzzle really! I'm terrible with making puzzles, and this is the ONLY puzzle in the entire dungeon. In fact, the dungeon itself is extremely short. So if anyone can help with these puzzles, that'd be fantastic. x_x;;

Xenomic · « **Reply #498 on:** September 16, 2014, 02:16:53 AM »

Howdy! Boy, it sure has been a while since I last posted anything, eh? Don't worry, I'm still working on this game. Just was watching Naruto for a month straight is all heh...

In any event, not much to speak about here. Music getting updated, battle animations nearing closer to completion (went from 230 to 330 and now down to 180 some at the current time. It MIGHT be the first thing fully done for this damned game!). Nothing new mapping wise as I'm still annoyed with mapping and wish I had more mappers!

In any case, the boss theme that plays when fighting any of the Guardians of Pandora, "Chaos" (from Super Robot Wars) might get replaced with a boss theme from Final Fantasy. The thing is...which theme? I'm thinking The Fierce Battle from FFVI, but I don't know which remix would fit the best and sound good. And I'm not sure on what other boss themes would work well enough for this too. Any suggestions? Feel free to post any music that you think would work! And if you have any suggestions for any other music, now's the chance to tell me! Who knows? It might replace something in the game!

Hopefully I'll be getting around to releasing beta5 before the end of this year...I hope...

Kaitani · « **Reply #499 on:** September 16, 2014, 08:11:02 AM »

Most Final Fantasy battle themes are too upbeat and "happy" to really fit in your game. I agree Fierce Battle is a good fit with its intensity. The only other theme I could see fitting in is the boss battle theme from FFV (does it even have a name?). As for version, that goes down to taste, but the original version of FFV's battle theme is quite "beepy".

Xenomic · « **Reply #500 on:** September 16, 2014, 08:13:43 AM »

FFV's boss theme doesn't feel like it works well to me. I feel like Fierce Battle is the best thing I can go with, but which version of it? There's not many of them, and it has to be JUST right too. >_<

Xenomic · « **Reply #501 on:** September 25, 2014, 08:28:27 AM »

So hey! Still haven't gotten around to getting a replacement for the Chaos theme, as I've been busy with working on battle animations this entire time still (still would like help on that). Now under 100 battle animations left to go, wooo! Now, here's a thing: Genius of Sappheiros, Jackpot World. Everyone knows that sound effect. However, I cannot for the life of me find it. Can someone either point out where I can find it, or can give me it? I need it for an ability that it'd be best for, and it's the best sound effect I can give to said ability. @_@;

Xenomic · « **Reply #502 on:** October 26, 2014, 01:24:50 AM »

Howdy ya'll! I know it's been QUITE a long time since the last update, but I've been doing other things not related to TF (LPing, FFWiki work, etc.). Eventually I'll get back to working on it (I needed a good long break from working on it after doing 250 some animations. Still about 79 animations left to do, not counting character-specific sprites like status sprites), though mapping and eventing aren't something I'm looking forward to, lemme tell ya ha...

In any case, here! Have the most recent review for the game thus far!

http://rpgmaker.net/games/3758/reviews/3342/

Xenomic · « **Reply #503 on:** December 08, 2014, 12:33:03 AM »

Oi vey, been quite a while eh folks? But this time, I'm back to working on the game once again! Now doing eventing and dialogue for these dungeons, so going to get somewhere with this beta finally! Just taking a while to get the dialogue to come out right. The past two sets of dialogues have taken a full day each (outside of other distractions of course), so I'm not sure if I'm just being VERY picky about the dialogue or if I'm just super rusty at doing them now. Who knows!

In any case, I still need to revamp Human Village, Pandaemonium, and Hollowed Caverns (there's of course other dungeons that need revamped and/or finished, such as Chireiden and Ancient City, but those will come later, and I still need to add in Suzunaan as well). If anyone is interested in giving mapping a try, or knows how to map in RPG Maker 2k3 and at least decently, then let me know! Could use some good mappers to help take care of mapping while I'm doing eventing. Monsters/bosses will come after I finish events up so that I don't have to worry about fighting things while trying to test out events.

Any other suggestions or any questions concerning the game or development for it, feel free to post them!

Of note, for right now if you are getting any updates or the game itself, make sure to get the Touhou Fantasy Backup rar, and if you're new to the game, get the Facesets rar as well. That is all!

Xenomic · « **Reply #504 on:** December 10, 2014, 11:10:27 PM »

So I feel like talking a bit about each of the Fragments of Pandora, since it's been such a long time, and maybe perhaps there are a few of you out there interested in knowing about each of them. However, if you do not want spoilers, do not read! There are going to be quite a few spoilers in this particular post!

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Uruwi · « **Reply #505 on:** January 25, 2015, 04:15:15 AM »

Xenomic,

You provide absolutely no installation instructions beyond "download all that"; ideally, you should have everything needed in one package. I don't know where in the world to extract your stupid music packs, but the Music folder seems to be a good guess.

Provide instructions on how to install everything.

Edit: did I mention painstakingly long loading times and screen flashing?

Xenomic · « **Reply #506 on:** January 25, 2015, 04:17:55 AM »

I can't put everything into one package due to the 200 MB file limit on Mediafire. That's why it's split up like it is. As for the music packs, they go into a folder called Music yes. Just make sure the files are in there and not in any folders IN the music packs.

Uruwi · « **Reply #507 on:** January 25, 2015, 04:41:49 AM »

The battle system is also too confusing, music sometimes doesn't play, and the digits obscure the gauges.

Xenomic · « **Reply #508 on:** January 25, 2015, 04:44:28 AM »

...How is the battle system confusing at all? o.o??

As for the music, you're certain that the music files themselves are in a folder titled "Music" and not in any folders IN the Music folder, right? Otherwise, you may have gotten an older version of the music pack (which if you just got it tonight, that shouldn't be the case). Dunno what you're talking about with digits though.

Uruwi · « **Reply #509 on:** January 25, 2015, 04:52:48 AM »

Quote from: Xenomic on January 25, 2015, 04:44:28 AM

...How is the battle system confusing at all? o.o??

As for the music, you're certain that the music files themselves are in a folder titled "Music" and not in any folders IN the Music folder, right? Otherwise, you may have gotten an older version of the music pack (which if you just got it tonight, that shouldn't be the case). Dunno what you're talking about with digits though.

The battle system is confusing because it's a real-time system but looks turn-based, and the fingers that point to the players are too small. I also did put everything into the "Music" folder inside the installation.

I was talking about the digits that show the HP/MP during battle.