Let's play FFT 1.3 Easytype Complete

[Desmodus Rotundus]

If you mean the guy with the newspaper, that's Tommy Lee Jones not Tony. I would enlist but I do not check threads regularly enough to volunteer for missions most times anyway. Why not play vanilla btw if the modders have turned up such a steaming pile of masochist manna.

 

[spekkio]

If you mean the guy with the newspaper, that's Tommy Lee Jones not Tony.

An observant reader, huh?
Thank you, Andy.

I would enlist but I do not check threads regularly enough to volunteer for missions most times anyway.

Volunteering for missions is totally 2011.

Why not play vanilla btw if the modders have turned up such a steaming pile of masochist manna.

So... What do you suggest? Should I start over or what?



Anyway...



I've tried to beat next battle using a setup which would allow us to gain some JP:

Ramza - Geomancer
Bee - Dragoon
WC - Ninja
Steve - Chemist
DR - Dragoon

Unfortunately, there were some... problems.



17. Goug Lowtown

Video 32. Goug - Before the battle



So, to my surprise, it looks that we underestimated the power of the Church

We face 2 ninjas, 2 thieves and 2 summoners - all of them male

Fags have some good equipment / abilities

Attempt #1

First attempt went to shit quickly - Mustadio is unarmed + I did not set 'Reequip' command for him earlier + he decides to stay in front and goes down quickly

Main reason of our epic fail was Steve - poor bastard was too slow to cast something strong enough to damage enemies

Enemy summoners aren't very strong

But they are not the main threat here - ninjas are.
Steve is able to cast Golem, which is kinda useful. But shortly after that we lose Bee

Steve is useful as an executioner

We lose Ramza, WC and Steve quickly. Re-raise works:

But it's not enough for us to win this battle - too many enemies who can own our low-on-HP units easily.
Bee does not help - she keeps hitting our units / reviving enemies

: x

When she goes back to her senses, one of the summoners turns her into stone. DR vs. 6 enemies?

<<

Attempt #2

I switch Ramza to Knight (sapping MP from summoners) and Bee to Samurai (ranged damage). Other guys stay unchanged:

Shit looks bad from the start:

The key to winning this battle is the beginning. I try different things 2-3 times before I come up with this:

DR goes airborne, targeting one of the ninjas:

With CT=17 faggit should not act before DR lands. Bee releases katana's spirit:

Ramza is disabled anyway... Steve is too slow to cast Bahamut (that would target 5/6 of enemies...). But Odin should do:

DR lands, owning 1st ninja, Steve damages three other enemies

Ninja #2 does something stupid (Aim+4). DR is faster, saving Steve's ass:

Steve terminates one of summoners

Summoner #2 revives Ninja #2, who aims at Steve's ass again. WC stops this faggotry:

With 3 enemies and 5 allies on map, winning is easy. Bee owns Summoner #2

Remaining thieves rape Mustadio, Steve and Ramza, but our 3 units are enough to deal with them. Plus, we have some dark tricks at our disposal too:

DR claims another life

We play around with remaining thief till all enemies crystallize. WC improves his ninja skills thanks to that:

Steve learns another summon

Ramza inclines as well

We grab 2 Headbands too

DR ends the battle

Video 33. Besrudio's Rescue

We can check new stuff in Chronicle - Artefacts:

Dragon Ball #1 obtained!

The path that we took to reach Goug is inaccessible now. We have to use different one to reach Lionel Castle:

But before that - moar manly discussions!

Video 34. Delita's Warning

Man, I don't understand how could I miss all these homosexual undertones while playing the game back in the 90-ties. It's like Top Gun all over again...



We reach the city of Warjilis without problems. Nothing new in the shop, sadly. When we try to leave the city, a man gets raped:

Video 35. The Cardinal's Wrath

Ramza learns Speedsap

Bee learns Defense Boost and Wind Blast

WC learns Beastmaster, HJump5, Knife, Katana & Ninja Blade

DR learns Dragonheart

Steve and Guzu learn concentration, Mustadio learns Reequip and Treasure Hunter

It's time to save a damsel in distress!

Brofist this ONLY if you still live in your parents' basement.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Nicely done. Dealing with ninjas is usually a bitch. The AI like to gang up on low hp units, and ninjas are actually built for that, unlike most classes.

Wait a sec...

WTF is the 'Jump' shit in the turn order? I thoguht you said you couldn't tell when I'd land.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Exciting stuff.

And yes, I'm easily charmed.

 

[spekkio]

WTF is the 'Jump' shit in the turn order?

It's visible AFTER you choose it - when using the 'Show turns' or whatever option in menu. But not when CHOOSING commands for DR (press Right on unit 'Commands' menu).

this

 

[Crooked Bee]

No, really, exciting stuff.

 

[procrastinator]

Have I mentioned that those sprites are so fucking kawaii I wanna hug them all day long?

[/racofer]

 

[Damned Registrations]

Want to trade LPs spekkio? I can plow through FFT with your crappy units and you can get a bunch of codexers murdered despite the massive advantage I already made for myself in Brigandine. I'm sure everyone will be more entertained this way.

 

[spekkio]

No difference, Codex only cares about LPs of hentai games ATM.

 

[spekkio]

We should use following team:

Ramza - Geomancer (-> Ninja)
Bee - Dragoon (-> Dragonheart)
Steve, Guzu, Sov - Chemist (-> Remedy)

18. Balias Swale

It's the famous redhead again!

When suddenly!

And protect they did!



One attempt was enough (plus 2 quickloads, due to Agrias dying - man, escort missions are the best...)

Enemy team consists of 2 white mages, 2 mystics and 2 knights. Fags have good equipment and abilities:

And some of them use weird setups:

But before the raep:

AI starts by breaking Agrias' sword

Which makes her more or less useless for the rest of the fight. She doesn't have 'Re-equip' neither set NOR learned - weird, since I'm 100% sure I did that before...

Sov's 'Invigoration' is damn powerful and has the highest accuracy among all his Mystic Arts:

Guzu doesn't fuck around as well - it's bahamutan time!

Chemists can be deadly when equipped with guns - high damage AND range

Guzu delivers big time:

As you can see, one of mystics is cheating (Mana Shield)

Everything goes well, so AI decides to fuck us up - knight owns Agrias, doing 256 damage

<<

This time Agrias survives

But both Guzu and Sov go to sleep

Ramza owns one of the whites

Bee does the same with first mystic

Second mystic casts Preach (Re-raise) on herself, which begins Steve's EXP-farming - he will keep killing her over and over

White #2 revives his comrade

Bee reaches the rest of the team ALMOST in time - her Geomancy is too weak to save Agrias

<<

Change of plans:

Thanks to Guzu and good equipment, Agrias is able to survive

Steve casts Golem, which pays off quickly

Ramza and Steve are able to own one of the whites again

Radaint AI tries to kill Agrias again:

Ramza owns 2nd whitey thanks to additional attack of Coral sword:

Agrias tries to get herself killed again, but luckily for us, enemy's counter puts her to sleep this time

Ramza owns one of the knights

<<

Remaining mystic fails her Re-raise at last, which allows Steve to finally deal with her for good

And grab a new item

Bee grabs some loot as well

Sov eats a soul

And Guzu ends the battle with a bang

Haste my ass - we will make it as slow as possible!

Of course, I'm not going to use her...



The path changes again - we're not able to reach Lionel Castle - we have to visit another place instead:

But before that, we should do some shopping and equalizing. New items available:

Osafune - Attack 10, Block 35

Iron Flail - Attack 8, Block 10

We can also buy Mage's Staffs finally (mAT +2).

Flame Shield - pEV 31, mEV 10, Absorbs Fire, Halves Ice, Weak 2 Water
Ice Shield - pEV 28, mEV 10, Absorbs Ice, Halves Fire, Weak 2 Lightning

I prefer regular shields, but special ones may come in handy against certain bosses...

Diamond Helm - HP+100

Ramza learns Counter Tackle, mastering his Squire job. He's very close to reaching Geo Lv 3, which will unlock Ninja...

Agrias learns Cleansing Strike and Reequip. Let's hope she won't be forced upon us in some special battle...

Bee learns Dragonheart, Salve, Counter Tackle, Magma Surge, Shiruken and Bomb. When we grab these katanas that can heal upon use, she should switch to Ninja/Dancer. But for now:

Steve learns Chant and switches to Time Mage - he needs Lv 4 in this job (Sage)

Guzu learns Chant and switches to Thief - she still has dragoon job locked...

DR spends some of his spare JP, learning Beastmaster, Counter Tackle, Arcane Defense and Defense Boost. Should I switch him to something else than Dragoon?

Sov learns Safeguard, mastering Chemist. He still lacks Dragonheart, which should be fixed ASAP:

One 'green' location is enough if you need random encounter...

This one is one of the easiest so far:

Guzu is even able to steal Diamond Helm from the knight

Usual rape except of that.
Ramza learns Shuriken and Bomb and switches to ninja:

Steve and Guzu switch back to chemists, but grabbing new items and abilities (Guzu learns Dragonheart)

DR is ready to kick more ass:

So is Sov (still not enough JP to learn Dragonheart):

It's time to kill some oldfags!

Since I tested next battle, and once again wasn't able to kill the enemy boss (he's using a sword that heals him for ~90 HP), I decided to take certain steps to prevent such faggotry...

Modding at it's best - the only way of winning is to plan ahead...



Brofist this ONLY if you're Chefe's alt.

 

[procrastinator]

And Guzu ends the battle with a bang

 

[Crooked Bee]

Not being a Chefe's alt, I brofisted another post of yours.

 

[spekkio]

^
Very funny, Tony.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Notice Sov has less PA and more MA than I do despite being in the same class/gear. Character stat growth is influenced sliightly by what class they've been gaining levels in.

As far as staying in Dragoon... it's pretty much an end game class. Full heavy armor and long range heavy physical damage with concentrate built in. The only reason to pick up other classes would be to learn certain abilities (attack up and abandon reflexes would both be pretty awesome. Wow, I didn't realize reflexes was so cheap. You should pick that up on anyone using a shield + mantle ASAP.) Teleport is also the best movement ability in the game hands down, but Time Mage is pretty out of the way for physical classes and it's a rather expensive skill.

Also, give everyone flame shields and then go spamming Asura to heal them while hurting enemies. You need a jrpg cheesing tutorial or something Spek-kun. This is basic stuff.

 

[spekkio]

reflexes

Reflexes doubles the character's physical and magical Evade rates.

Does it work that way? Are you sure it wasn't changed in 1.3?

give everyone flame shields and then go spamming Asura to heal them while hurting enemies

 

[Damned Registrations]

I don't think they'd be able to change that very easily, most of the changes are done to active abilities. I think they just sprinkled in enemies/abilities with concentrate to make it a bit less overpowered. But the AI is completely retarded and I'd love to see them take a swing from the front at someone with doubled 50% physical evade.

 

[spekkio]

So far only WC has Reflexes learned, and I'm not gonna use im in next battle since his owner is a fag.
But don't worry - Ramza should learn it soon.

 

[spekkio]

I think the end of Chapter 2 is close - each fight is shittier than the previous one...

We should use following team:

Ramza, Bee and Steve
DR & Guzu

19. Golgollada Gallows

The beginning of the battle is full of

Video 36. Golgollada Gallows - Before the battle

Enemies don't look that bad: 3 monks, 2 archers and 2 time mages

As you can see, they have kick-ass skills and better equipment than us. But main problem in this battle is this gentleman:

Great equipment, can damage+heal even with 0 MP and can steal shit from us.

Once again - fuck you, modder guys.



As you could see in the video, old man's charm was too much for Guzu - she joined enemies right away.

As I remember from vanilla game, 'charmed' units acted retarded most of the time, mostly using melee attacks (or maybe I'm confusing this with confuse?). In 1.3 it's not the case - charmed unit acts as it was under direct control of the AI - same way as regular enemies do... More on this later.



Attempt #1

DR is great at dealing with enemy mages. At least when he can jump:

Steve prepares Bahamut

If we have Guzu under control, enemies would be history - 2 bahamuts should be enough to kill 2-3 of them. Unfortunately, after ~20 seconds of 'thinking', AI decides to use bahamut against us:

AI uses monks in wise way - their 'Shockwave' can heal archers for example:

DR fails us for mysterious reason:

Bee kicks tremendous ass

Steve would be able to finish off 2 enemies using Shiva

But Guzu betrays us again

With Ramza and Steve KOed, Guzu charmed and Bee Disabled

I decide to pull out the plug...

<<

Attempt #2

Same units, only Steve and Guzu switched places - maybe Gaff will start with something else except Charm? Maybe he will fail? After all, his chances are < 40%?

:reaction guys - 2nd pic:

:reaction guys - 4th pic:

Fuck this shit! If I wanted random fucking game I would've played X-Com...



<<

Of course, the battle goes smooth as fuck from now on.

Fuck, I hate random fucking games like this. Especially when AI succeeds most of the time with < 40% chance and I fail most of the time with >70% chance...



But during this attempt we were lucky as fuck, though.

Enemy monk tries to bore Bee and Guzu to death, but fails

Enemy mage tries to stop Steve form raping an archer from behind, but of course fails

DR deals with her moments later, Mario-style

Guzu bahamuts the shit out of 2 monks, killing one of them right away

Babble time!

Gaff tries his chances with Bee, but fails again

Ramza kills one of archers

Enemy monk fails his Cyclone horribly, missing all 3 targets

Another monk tries to disable Guzu, but misses (of course)

AI got my usual 'miss every time' flag by mistake, or what?



Ramza survives another attack

DR fails same way as before

WTF is going on here? Has Archer's Bane something to do with Jump?
Or maybe the damage is displayed incorrectly?



Bee owns the monk who tried to turn Guzu into goddamn katawa shoujo...

Gaff steals Bee's katana

But she can still Draw another one from... Well, you don't have to know...



Ramza weakens remaining archer, Steve ends the job with bahamut

3 enemies left



Remaining monk revives KOed mage, recently KOed archer goes back to life thanks to Dragonheart:

5 enemies left



Ramza survives n-th attack

DR and Steve kill both mages

Guzu does the same with the archer

2 enemies left



Ramza scores another kill, owning the monk - he survived 3/4 of the battle with 39 HP

Now for the funny part - dealing with Gaff. He can damage+heal us from a distance:

But we're prepared

No quickloads required!
Some time later, Ramza steals Gaff's sword as well

Required 2 quickloads (I've decided to go full POPAMOLE since it's faster than doing this in 3-5 turns...)



Guzu loots another cloak from enemy corpse

Gaff decides to pay Ramza back, stealing his weapon (one thing is certain - he didn't use quickloads...)

Too bad that Ramza is dual wielding



Ramza continues the fun, aiming for the armor

1st try this time!
Bee devours another enemy spirit

Steve does the same to the west

DR to the east

Ramza loses his Cloak of Gayness +5

Gaff is finally able to corrupt Bee's heart

But Guzu forcefully ends this relationship

We gangrape Gaff till he has enough

Video 37. The Manipulative and the Subservient

New profile available:

We can reach Lionel Castle finally

But since the battle that we're going to fight there is one of the most broken so far, we have to prepare...

Ramza switches to knight (so he can use Blood Sword) and equips best stuff

Bee learns Osafune just in case (hurting enemy mages)

Steve learns Remedy and Holy Water

Guzu learns Remedy, Holy Water, Arcane Defense and Steal Weapon

DR sets Arcane Defense

We're gonna do it!

Brofist this only if you've completed FF7 at least 6 times.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Sorry, I brofisted your post before scrolling down.

 

[spekkio]

Sorry, I brofisted your post before scrolling down.

And about Faggfarion: we're gonna deal with him for good soon - next update is going to be the most epic in this whole epic LP!

 

[procrastinator]

next update is going to be the most epic in this whole epic LP!

No quickloads?

Depeche Mode - Master And Servant

It's funny that you should post this, because I've stumbled upon it just recently, while googling for "Mode Master".

 

[Damned Registrations]

About the wrong damage display for jumps: I mentioned this before, but the damage being displayed is what you would deal if you hit them while they were charging. Since Jump and Charge command take a while, chances are the enemy spell/command will go off before you hit, and you'll only do normal damage instead of getting the 50% boost. If it all possible, it's better to prioritize charging units with a ninja or archer or someone who can hit them hard immediately, while the damage bonus is in effect.

Speaking of ninjas, you're at or approaching the point in the game where barehanded attacks get really overpowered. Try loading up a unit with as much PA boosting equipment as you can (Jujitsu Gi/Twist Heaband/Power Bracer for example), Martial Arts + Two Swords (either a ninja with the monk passive or vice versa) and no weapon.

Now I'm kind of wishing I'd built towards that kind of character. Much simpler to use and more effective late game when the levels are so high. I'd thought they'd taken out the evasion reaction skill though, so ninjas wouldn't be as good.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

I've only completed FF7 twice so maybe it's time to another LP of it.

After I'm done with FF8, that is.

 

[betamin]

You use quickloads? You homo, tch tch...

 

[spekkio]

No quickloads?

It's funny that you should post this, because I've stumbled upon it just recently, while googling for "Mode Master".

It probably means that we're alts.

About the wrong damage display for jumps: I mentioned this before, but the damage being displayed is what you would deal if you hit them while they were charging

Now I'm kind of wishing I'd built towards that kind of character.

Can be done no problem.

After I'm done with FF8, that is.

Update or it didn't happen.

Squall 4 lyfe!

You use quickloads? You homo.

Dis gaem made me gay, BRO.

Expect massive incline, though.