Yo, playing through 1.5 right now on arrange mode and wondering if something's messed up since I've blown a lot of time trying to morph some latest bosses but haven't gotten anything as a result. I successfully morph-killed the X-ATM in the Shinra tower, Motorball and the Jormungand serpent thingy in Junon, but all of them died with the regular animation and gave no morph loot, so is this intended? I remember it said in the documentation that bosses could be morphed for good stuff early on.
On another note, what would you say are the biggest, or most noticeable, differences between 1.5 and 2.0? Is it actual content such as new scenes, bosses and whatnot, or changes to make the combat more strategic, or something else? I'm hesitant to start a new playthrough as I'm pretty far along 1.5 already..
I'd need to check the bosses in 1.5, Motorball I thought had a Morph but perhaps the arrange mode variant doesn't have one. I'll add a morph to each one.
2.0 is a rebuild so the balancing is done differently, and the bosses are closer to their vanilla variants in terms of attacks/themes (for instance, Schizo using fire/ice and other elemental attacks instead of the physical/magical theme in 1.5). There are some new scenes added, but some content like dark cave was removed.
Congratulations on the release, Chief! I'm looking forward to playing it later this year.
So... does that mean that FF8 New Threat will be getting some attention in the near future?
It's next on the list.
There seems to be an encounter with a pterodactyl-like enemy in the Great Glacier, the open field where the cave with the 'All' Materia is located, that crashes the game at the start of battle. Just lost a good chunk of progress thanks to that.
MP Turbo is also listed as located in the Great Glacier, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. Is it a trade from the Chocobo? Having access to W-Item this early also feels... interesting
Also, is there a way to save Aerith in Mode A? Kind of hoped I'd get her for having flower girl survive the fight, but it seems I just cheated myself out of a ribbon.
I checked the Lessaloploth entry that's used on the white area, but it seems to be fine data-wise and in-battle I saw all of its attacks coming out the way they should. If it was a hard crash then it may have been something to do with the game client itself. If it was a soft-lock though (when the game continues running but have no control over it) then that tends to be something on my end.
MP Turbo is erroneously listed as the Great Glacier I've noticed, when it is actually Gaea's Cliffs; Schizo will leave it behind once defeated. I'll correct it in the notes.
The Aeris thing should work on Type A but it sounds like it didn't and I think I know why. It's because of the hard mode toggle. Aeris can be activated/deactivated however from an NPC on the Highwind (near the Operations Room + Chocobo Pen) as a debug routine. If you'd rather have her earlier, I can alter your save file to turn on the required variable if you send it across to me.