Well, you shouldn't be attacking when Scorp's tail goes up regardless. Having either Barret or Cloud getting knocked out of the fight is just a nice little twist SC added into NT, which for me, I personally enjoy. Keeps you on your toes :wink:
He has 74,000. If you need to mitigate damage, then equipping a Protect Vest should halve the damage from a lot of his attacks, including Turk Comet (shoot element).
Sadly it appears we aren't up to Cid's high standards.
Wait until you meet Hojo's second form; you've yet to meet tediousMitigating the damage wasn't a problem. It's just that I felt the battle had gotten tedious after a while and I just tried to heal less and attack more to end it faster and that led to my doom.
It's just my experience, but you might consider trimming down his HP or lowering his magic defense. Not because he's too hard, but because the fight gets pretty easy to manage once you get to know what all of his attacks do, and then it just goes on and on to the point of becoming tedious. So far this is the only boss fight that imo overstayed its welcome.
But as I have said, that was just my experience. Maybe others didn't feel that way
(gonna revise him, I'll do the same with Tseng).I think I trimmed down the descriptions for those into single/multi-target because I was having issues with text space elsewhere. I could try varying them a little, but it'll be tough/risky considering how temperamental the kernel already is.
You say I should implement it. But are you sure you're ready for that date? Can anyone ever truly be?
I've got the first two issues fixed, just need to put the patch together (I'm still trying to get Dark Cave done first; might just have to bite the bullet and do it now). As for SP gained, they weren't supposed to appear until Mythril Mines but I copy-pasted the AI and forgot to remove it for Midgar enemies. You're not missing anything, they're just tallied invisibly at first so you have SP to spend when the system is introduced properly later.
I don't know if this is true of the PSX version, but on PC the animation can become desynched with the actual field script after getting knocked back. If that happens, the best thing to do is leave the screen and come back to refresh it. As for timings, you want to run into the tail-end of the green pulse rather than waiting for it to be completely clear. I could have a go at modifying it though so that it knocks you forward instead, meaning you only need to fight once.What is crazy...is the fact I just can't go through the second wind storm in the north crater at the 2nd CD, it always throw me back then I have to fight the bird who cast aero...again and again ;D
HP Plus is in the Crater (left-down path), along with the enemies that drop/steal/morph end-game weapons (but that's going to be changed soon so it's less of a headache to get them).