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Signed up just to give some feedback here.
I probably should have been writing this as I played instead of after I finished but whatever...
First reactor - Whoa nelly. Way too hard for the first area. This might be an appropriate difficulty if your intention was a "hard difficulty" version of FF7, but if it is just a rebalance, don't assume that players are masters of the game at the very beginning. The first area of any game should ease you into the game, difficulty-wise.
Guard Scorpion - This battle was easier than some of the random battles in this area. Definitely not right.
Part of the reason I found Guard Scorpion so easy is probably after seeing how hard the enemies in this area were, I decided to grind for potions a bit. So I probably went in a level or two above the norm.
The section right after the train (I really need to learn what these places are called) - The rocket guys with their sleepy critter companions are vicious. Tifa got the crap beat out of her here, and I didn't exactly have a surplus of phoenix downs so...
Air Buster - I entered the fight with two limit break at the ready. Two limit breaks later, the fight was over.
Aps - Water heals him? But taking a tidal wave to the face damages him? Also pretty easy.
Turtles (I dunno what they are called) - That royal guard is a royal pain. They just sit there and cast it on themselves over and over. How about give them 1mp and make royal guard cost 1mp, just to prevent endless boredom. Also I think their stab attack didn't have a sound.
Reno - He seemed, inactive at best. His most common move seemed to be the pyramid, which cost him one turn, and one of my guys a turn, which means every time he did it, I basically got 2 free shots on him. Also, it took me like 20 turns to successfully steal from him.
Shinra Soldiers at HQ (the red armored ones) - Barret was back attacked and took over 500 damage from the "double shot" attack. Wee bit powerful.
Teleporting enemy with mallet - I don't know if he was supposed to, but at one point he just vanished for a while and all I could do was sit there and wait for him to return.
Sample: H0512 - besides the opening attack, I was not attacked at all during this battle, all the way up to the point when I got an error and had to escape it. If he is going to revive his buddies each time one of them dies, they need a lot more health. Even then, perhaps it would be better if he only did it when two of them were dead.
Elevator boss - This guy seemed pretty good. I don't remember vanilla version, but I thought the status effect bullets seemed odd at least. "I will shoot you with my sleepy bullets!" I think this guy is the only non random battle which actually killed a character (Aeris).
Rufus - Already mentioned, but Dark Nation disappeared pretty quick. After that the match becomes pretty boring as all he did was use his shotgun. It was pretty powerful, but pretty boring.
Motor Ball - This guy, while he did take a beating before dying, didn't actually offer much resistance. He basically sat there as I tore him apart.
I also noticed the mechanical bosses were healed by lightning and (at least) motor ball was weak to water. While this does makes sense in a way, it also kinda goes against all my rpg experience which says "cast lightning on machines."
Character wise:
Barret seems like he has a bit too much HP.
Tifa probably could use a slight HP boost. Also, I don't know if it was intentional, but her limit breaks are devastatingly powerful. In this case it seems like the whole "low health, high power" concept might have gotten a little out of hand.
Aeris did not have quite as much Magic as I had envisioned. I assume she is the primary spellcaster?
Did not get to use XIII enough to notice anything.
I liked that you took out the stat mods the magic materia had. I noticed they was left on revive though, which I assume means you left them on the more powerful materia. How do you envision that working out? In my head it seems like it would just make the magically-inclined characters even more so, which shouldn't be necessary as you have started to differentiate them from the get-go.
Can you change those hints you give out in battles to only appear the first time? I think I was told about the sleep ailment five times.
As a guy who has only played a couple of the FFs, this next one bothered me more than it probably should have.
Why did you change the Sense and Enemy Skill names? They may be Libra and Blue Magic in the other games, but in this one I think they are kind of expected to be Sense and Enemy Skill. Regardless of that though, If you changed those to sync up with other games, why not change the other spells?
Random thoughts for later parts of the mod:
Have you considered making Independent materia which solely serve as stat boosts? It could be useful for non-magic users. Similar to HP+%, but without the %, due to... not wanting to break the game. Something like Strength +, which as it levels, the amount of strength granted also increases. +2, +4, +6, +8. Just a thought.
I'm also curious to hear what you are planning to do with KOTF, HP+%,MP+%, and ultimate weapons. I had always promised myself that when I played FF7 again, I would do it without those due to how overpowered they were.
Most of the other things I noticed have been mentioned by others so I'll leave those out.
I definitely want to see what the next part is like, because I realize that the Midgar section of the game is probably the most boring due to the lack of options a player has. You really can't throw a bunch of materia at the player at the beginning and say "have at it."
Woo, that took a while.
Well, good luck. Hope this helps.
I probably should have been writing this as I played instead of after I finished but whatever...
First reactor - Whoa nelly. Way too hard for the first area. This might be an appropriate difficulty if your intention was a "hard difficulty" version of FF7, but if it is just a rebalance, don't assume that players are masters of the game at the very beginning. The first area of any game should ease you into the game, difficulty-wise.
Guard Scorpion - This battle was easier than some of the random battles in this area. Definitely not right.
Part of the reason I found Guard Scorpion so easy is probably after seeing how hard the enemies in this area were, I decided to grind for potions a bit. So I probably went in a level or two above the norm.
The section right after the train (I really need to learn what these places are called) - The rocket guys with their sleepy critter companions are vicious. Tifa got the crap beat out of her here, and I didn't exactly have a surplus of phoenix downs so...
Air Buster - I entered the fight with two limit break at the ready. Two limit breaks later, the fight was over.
Aps - Water heals him? But taking a tidal wave to the face damages him? Also pretty easy.
Turtles (I dunno what they are called) - That royal guard is a royal pain. They just sit there and cast it on themselves over and over. How about give them 1mp and make royal guard cost 1mp, just to prevent endless boredom. Also I think their stab attack didn't have a sound.
Reno - He seemed, inactive at best. His most common move seemed to be the pyramid, which cost him one turn, and one of my guys a turn, which means every time he did it, I basically got 2 free shots on him. Also, it took me like 20 turns to successfully steal from him.
Shinra Soldiers at HQ (the red armored ones) - Barret was back attacked and took over 500 damage from the "double shot" attack. Wee bit powerful.
Teleporting enemy with mallet - I don't know if he was supposed to, but at one point he just vanished for a while and all I could do was sit there and wait for him to return.
Sample: H0512 - besides the opening attack, I was not attacked at all during this battle, all the way up to the point when I got an error and had to escape it. If he is going to revive his buddies each time one of them dies, they need a lot more health. Even then, perhaps it would be better if he only did it when two of them were dead.
Elevator boss - This guy seemed pretty good. I don't remember vanilla version, but I thought the status effect bullets seemed odd at least. "I will shoot you with my sleepy bullets!" I think this guy is the only non random battle which actually killed a character (Aeris).
Rufus - Already mentioned, but Dark Nation disappeared pretty quick. After that the match becomes pretty boring as all he did was use his shotgun. It was pretty powerful, but pretty boring.
Motor Ball - This guy, while he did take a beating before dying, didn't actually offer much resistance. He basically sat there as I tore him apart.
I also noticed the mechanical bosses were healed by lightning and (at least) motor ball was weak to water. While this does makes sense in a way, it also kinda goes against all my rpg experience which says "cast lightning on machines."
Character wise:
Barret seems like he has a bit too much HP.
Tifa probably could use a slight HP boost. Also, I don't know if it was intentional, but her limit breaks are devastatingly powerful. In this case it seems like the whole "low health, high power" concept might have gotten a little out of hand.
Aeris did not have quite as much Magic as I had envisioned. I assume she is the primary spellcaster?
Did not get to use XIII enough to notice anything.
I liked that you took out the stat mods the magic materia had. I noticed they was left on revive though, which I assume means you left them on the more powerful materia. How do you envision that working out? In my head it seems like it would just make the magically-inclined characters even more so, which shouldn't be necessary as you have started to differentiate them from the get-go.
Can you change those hints you give out in battles to only appear the first time? I think I was told about the sleep ailment five times.
As a guy who has only played a couple of the FFs, this next one bothered me more than it probably should have.
Why did you change the Sense and Enemy Skill names? They may be Libra and Blue Magic in the other games, but in this one I think they are kind of expected to be Sense and Enemy Skill. Regardless of that though, If you changed those to sync up with other games, why not change the other spells?
Random thoughts for later parts of the mod:
Have you considered making Independent materia which solely serve as stat boosts? It could be useful for non-magic users. Similar to HP+%, but without the %, due to... not wanting to break the game. Something like Strength +, which as it levels, the amount of strength granted also increases. +2, +4, +6, +8. Just a thought.
I'm also curious to hear what you are planning to do with KOTF, HP+%,MP+%, and ultimate weapons. I had always promised myself that when I played FF7 again, I would do it without those due to how overpowered they were.
Most of the other things I noticed have been mentioned by others so I'll leave those out.
I definitely want to see what the next part is like, because I realize that the Midgar section of the game is probably the most boring due to the lack of options a player has. You really can't throw a bunch of materia at the player at the beginning and say "have at it."
Woo, that took a while.
Well, good luck. Hope this helps.
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Bosola
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I'll nerf the randoms, and up the output of GS. Maybe I'll cut his search scope, or up the penalty for not defending the next attack?
You're not the first person to find her too weak. She *is* a glass cannon, but if I reduce the hitrate of Risky Rocket further, she shouldn't die unless you're negligent.
For various reasons, it's hard to do much about Air Buster. It's difficult to remove his 5x damage to back attacks.
Likely to remove the tidal wave self-injury.
They shouldn't cast it over and over. This suggests the random number table is screwy. As a precaution, though, I'll force them to alternate between two attacks and one royal guard. Do you think that's varied enough?
I'm thinking the random number table is problematic. Will look at this AI again, though.
This is a bug in vanilla FF7 too. It just doesn't happen very often.
I'm thinking of scrapping this entire creature. It's caused me nothing but trouble.
Revive shouldn't have that stat boost. I shouldn't have missed that...
I'll look into it. Should be easy to do.
Some people are really sensitive about 'Bolt3'!
Something like this is there, though you'd have to play further to see it. I didn't include Strength Plus, as it seemed a little broken. But Vitality Plus and Spirit Plus are there!
KOTR loses its 'piercing' status (which allows it to ignore defence) and becomes holy-elemental. Some key creatures are holy-resistant, so KOTR will still help, but won't wipe the floor with them.
HP/MP Plus are nerfed. They provide a 10% boost at level one, then another 5% with each extra level, so
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Materia Level Stat Boost* +10%** +15%*** +20%**** +25%***** +30%Indeed. That limits the options I have in battles, too. Players have a limited number of strategies available in Midgar - in fact, they have three: defend, heal, attack. Building battles that can remain varied and demanding, whilst only involving those three responses, hasn't been easy.
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Timber
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Do you plan to release a second demo Bosola?
I have refrained from playing this because my feedback would likely be the same as others have mentioned, might as well keep my 'fresh set of eyes' for later.
I have refrained from playing this because my feedback would likely be the same as others have mentioned, might as well keep my 'fresh set of eyes' for later.
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His search scope is part of his charm. It helps new players learn to defend. Although, if you do go through the effort of making the player learn to defend, it would probably be nice if defend was helpful outside of this one battle. I don't recall many other places it gets used...
I went through again to make sure the reason he seemed so easy wasn't because I was overleveled. I managed to take him down when both my guys were level 3. So yeah. I also got hit by his tail laser this time around for about 250 damage to both guys. You should probably lower that, seeing as he sometimes brings his tail up after you declare an attack, which kinda screws you over. It should be enough damage so that continuously attacking while the tail is up will kill you, but one accidental one should not.
Could you make his tail poke attack not linked to his search scope? So he could either tail poke you, or search scope followed by the rifle. If you did that, you might want to lower the tail poke damage.
If you made his tidal wave HEAL him, it would visually reinforce the fact that using water against him isn't a good idea, and would make the battle much more interesting. Just don't make it heal him for 300.
Could you just not spawn the little guys and have the big one not use his revival spell? It would make the match less interesting, but still more interesting than no match at all.
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I have a question. This is obvious you made some changes in the kernel.bin but it doesn't exist in the download. It is maybe in the ppf patch but I don't know how to open that. Could you send it to me? I you don't want to, I don't have any problems with that either.
EDIT : Stupid... I just have to take the kernel.bin from the patched ISO ^^
EDIT 2: Managed to get this demo working on the PC version. Ask me to a link/how to do it.
EDIT : Stupid... I just have to take the kernel.bin from the patched ISO ^^
EDIT 2: Managed to get this demo working on the PC version. Ask me to a link/how to do it.
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re-installed the game just to test this. will post opinions later.
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Bosola
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It's been over six months since the New Year's demo, and so it's high time you heard what's happening with FFVII: Rebirth.
Firstly, Rebirth isn't dead. Whilst it's true I haven't been able to do much work on it since the demo, that doesn't mean the project is abandoned. But although it isn't dead, it does need some surgery. My plans for Rebirth grew into a horrible, sprawling mess. I didn't just want to 'rebalance' FF7, I wanted completely new encounters, bosses, AI and field scenes. This wasn't what I originally set out to do: to make FF7 fairer, more fun to play, and a lot more 'involving'.
So that's why I'm formally commiting to a more 'stripped-down' Rebirth, released iteratively. 'Iteratively' means I won't be waiting until everything is 'just so' - rather, I'll be releasing revision after revision, listening to player feedback until we together reach an ideal finishing point.
So, what will the 'new' Rebirth still feature?
- status spells that are genuinely useful, and status effects that matter.
- rebalanced limit breaks, where one limit in a level isn't unambiguously 'better' than its counterpart
- an enemy element and status defence class system
- better individuated character stats
- more interesting weapons, often 'sidegrades' rather than 'upgrades'
- new, less game-breaking enemy skills
- holy, air and wind element abilities
- armor and accessories that promote more 'stategic' gameplay
- by popular demand: a controllable Nibelheim Sephiroth
- a 'meltdown' like status
- stronger enemies
- a true MDef. fix
- basic fixes to existing enemy AI
- enemies that employ the newer spells
As time goes on, I'll be able to start adding some of the more ambitious changes the earlier Rebirth attempted. These include completely new enemy behaviours, NPCs that talk about local enemies, new bosses / enemy encounters, and a few more things I can't reveal yet.
OK. So when are you going to release?
I don't know. But this time, I *will* be providing regular updates. See my thread on QHIMM (https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/6434/) for the latest news.
Firstly, Rebirth isn't dead. Whilst it's true I haven't been able to do much work on it since the demo, that doesn't mean the project is abandoned. But although it isn't dead, it does need some surgery. My plans for Rebirth grew into a horrible, sprawling mess. I didn't just want to 'rebalance' FF7, I wanted completely new encounters, bosses, AI and field scenes. This wasn't what I originally set out to do: to make FF7 fairer, more fun to play, and a lot more 'involving'.
So that's why I'm formally commiting to a more 'stripped-down' Rebirth, released iteratively. 'Iteratively' means I won't be waiting until everything is 'just so' - rather, I'll be releasing revision after revision, listening to player feedback until we together reach an ideal finishing point.
So, what will the 'new' Rebirth still feature?
- status spells that are genuinely useful, and status effects that matter.
- rebalanced limit breaks, where one limit in a level isn't unambiguously 'better' than its counterpart
- an enemy element and status defence class system
- better individuated character stats
- more interesting weapons, often 'sidegrades' rather than 'upgrades'
- new, less game-breaking enemy skills
- holy, air and wind element abilities
- armor and accessories that promote more 'stategic' gameplay
- by popular demand: a controllable Nibelheim Sephiroth
- a 'meltdown' like status
- stronger enemies
- a true MDef. fix
- basic fixes to existing enemy AI
- enemies that employ the newer spells
As time goes on, I'll be able to start adding some of the more ambitious changes the earlier Rebirth attempted. These include completely new enemy behaviours, NPCs that talk about local enemies, new bosses / enemy encounters, and a few more things I can't reveal yet.
OK. So when are you going to release?
I don't know. But this time, I *will* be providing regular updates. See my thread on QHIMM (https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/6434/) for the latest news.
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Timber
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YAY Rebirth is alive! 
Air and Wind? Huh?
So excited for this stuff! Though I definitely agree that the basics should be done first.
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Bosola
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Sorry, a typo. There's only one air element.
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Dinfevo
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Hi again Bosola, why don't you upload a Beta Version with the new progress. That could be great news for every fan in this forum and maybe we could help by telling you the bugs we could find.
and maybe we could help by telling you the bugs we could find.
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Vgr
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Each thing have a time. Now's not the time for this. Be patient.
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Dinfevo
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Well okay, I was just suggesting.
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albo
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Love this project
Please, could you guys make a better armor system is Rebirth? I mean, in the original VII it was sad, only bracelets for equipment I really hope you guys will think about an armor system overhaul, maybe keep the bracelets but add armors, helmets and gloves, it should make VII much better
Please, could you guys make a better armor system is Rebirth? I mean, in the original VII it was sad, only bracelets for equipment
I really hope you guys will think about an armor system overhaul, maybe keep the bracelets but add armors, helmets and gloves, it should make VII much better
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Auraplatonic
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Although I am nowhere close to an expert at the inner workings of all the files I don't think this would be very easy to do. I am just speaking from what we see in the game. Adding items isn't so difficult as there are many unused items in the game, however from a menu standpoint there really isn't a lot of space to display it, and you have to look at if there is actually a way to code multiple armors being equipped at once. If you are saying just to add other items that could be equipped that were named helms, armor or whatnot that is easy to do, but having multiple ones equipped at once...I don't know.
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Kudistos Megistos
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If you're talking about equipping several kinds of defensive gear at once, a la FF9, that's impossible.Love this project
Please, could you guys make a better armor system is Rebirth? I mean, in the original VII it was sad, only bracelets for equipment
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