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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99994)

« on: 2024-08-06 05:20:16 »

I'm finding myself a little split on NT 2.0.

I LOVE 1.5; it's FF7, the game we love, but with improved combat and tons of great added content. Some of that content could have been implemented more elegantly, or went just a bit too far, but it successfully created "FF7, but with extremely engaging gameplay and tons of new bosses."

I don't feel like that statement is true in 2.0. Type A is essentially the base game with the bosses given an overhaul, but missing all the added content, and Type B is a rearranged (but not necessarily better) game with improved (but seemingly not quite as engaging) gameplay and some (but missing some of the very good) added content from 1.5.

I feel like these are all too different to be the same mod. Ultimately the best experience I've had with these mods was with 1.5; the Kaiju fight between the guard scorpion and the dragon was unbelievably cool, for instance. I feel as though many people will hear about this mod and play 2.0, as the latest update just feels obvious to use, and those people won't have as good an experience as they would have with 1.5.

Not to be massively critical to the guy who made my favorite mod ever, 2.0 is still good of course, but is there any way that 2.0 could be made a different project? 1.5 is New Threat; 2.0 should be New Path, New Vision, or something of that nature.

Sorry if I'm being too critical, I just wanted to give honest feedback while it's in my mind.

The Dragon vs Scorpion fight is still in 2.0

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99994)

« on: 2024-08-02 08:44:24 »

Looking to scratch that FFVII itch, would you guys recommend 1.5 or 2.0?  I’d prefer more altered scenes and new boss fights.  I guess the furthest thing from vanilla lol

If you're after the most changes to bosses, then go with 1.5 arrange. Every boss is different, and it has way more post game bosses as well

2.0 type B changes the story in Midgar, and changes bosses in the main story too. The combat changes and materia stats are more fine tuned, but I also find the game much easier compared to 1.5. The changes aren't as radical but a lot of them are better (not all though, I prefer 1.5 Yuffie for example)

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99994)

« on: 2024-06-04 14:16:04 »

Your work is always appreciated Sega Chief! Thanks for even bothering to still update 1.5!

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FF9 Gameplay Releases / Re: [PSX/PC] Alternate Fantasy (v3.2 & v6.0)

« on: 2024-06-01 05:37:09 »

I just finished this mod and have to comment on it.
I like what you did with Zidane. He's an excellent support and damage character now, perfect in his MC role. Zidane with Chemist was really helpful

I was fine with the difficulty, but I have to say the endgame is really hard on Vivi. Having Necron absorb damn near everything just made me rely on Steiner, Beatrix, and Eiko for the endgame, since she can up their attack and they can easily hit 9999 over and over again. Kuja going pissy boss mode and countering every attack with Curaga and the full party drain was a bit ridiculous too. Ozma basically forced auto reflect since there's no guard against Berserk, so him hitting that basically meant game over

Despite those complaints, I only died on Ozma lol. I had a fun time, but it's funny that even with this mod, even with all the buffs to Freya and Amarant, my endgame party was still Eiko, Zidane/Quina, and the 2 knights. Shock just can't be beaten in FF9, especially now that I have 2 of them

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FF7 Tools / Re: [PSX/PC] Save Editor - Black Chocobo (v1.15)

« on: 2024-05-15 22:37:34 »

Crashing when opening a New Threat 2.0 save. An earlier save file loads, but my endgame save file crashes the program whenever I try to open it

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99994)

« on: 2024-05-15 22:28:10 »

Speaking of that fight, I'm trying to use Black Chocobo to trigger that fight by going back to the areas I'm locked out of, but Black Chocobo crashes whenever I load a New Threat 2.0 save file. Does anyone know of a fix for this?

Edit: The newer versions of Black Chocobo seem to be incompatible with endgame NT saves. But I went to older versions of it and it loaded the save fine.

[Spoiler:]

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99994)

« on: 2024-05-07 04:14:48 »

*) A secret encounter was made unmissable and can be accessed on Type A and Type B

Spoiler: show

Is this about the Calamity fight? Are there new ways to trigger it?

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99994)

« on: 2024-05-02 06:04:55 »

I read somewhere, that when beating all Fort Condor battles, you get a Masamune.

I missed a couple of them and already finished Cosmo Canyon...

Is there any chance to replay them or do i have to start over again?

I think the free Masamune was patched out back in 1.5. Earlier builds had it, but I recently replayed it and didn't get anything for winning every Fort Condor battle. It was a bit TOO overpowered for something that requires no work or money really.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99994)

« on: 2024-04-30 07:33:06 »

After replaying 1.5 I like how the summons were balanced in that game as good stat boosters to the type of build you want compared to 2.0 where the extremely heavy hit to DEX made me not bother with any of them besides Hades for stat protection
Also I really don't get why Ultima and Contain I think were locked so late to the final dungeon in 2.0. By time I got them I had no reason to really use them since almost everything was defeated

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Releases / Re: Cosmos Gaia: a worldmap rendering and analog controls overhaul

« on: 2024-04-21 06:46:24 »

I see in this thread I'm not the only one who has slowdown on the world map.

Edit: Figured out the issue. Switch the game driver to Directx12. It'll work then

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99994)

« on: 2024-04-19 01:29:32 »

I saw that you said you wanted to expand on Type B. Is there any chance of making the bosses as fun and insane as 1.5 Arrange? Like having to face both Lost Numbers etc. I had a blast with 2.0 Type B but also felt it was much easier than 1.5 Arrange, even on Hard mode with no sources.
I'm at a divide where I love the improved combat mechanics of 2.0, but miss all the extra bosses and sidequests of 1.5

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99994)

« on: 2024-04-12 19:15:02 »

Are Gospel Sparks still available in this? If so, where?

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC][FF7_SYW_Unified] 1.06 (2024/03/22) - PC installer + Steam deck + iros

« on: 2024-04-10 02:13:52 »

How do I get the game to show the PSX controller icons? I have my DS4 connected and it works fine, but it still shows the PC icons (SWITCH) and such instead.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99994)

« on: 2024-04-08 07:44:09 »

Hi, I already played and completed the 1.9 and was thinking to replay with the 2.0 version, but I noticed that getting W-item materia has become far easier to get compared to the previous version of the mod and I think everyone knows how gamebreaking this is.
I just want to ask if the duplicate glitch has been fixed or not

It hasn't been fixed. I got W.Item and have abused it immediately

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.94)

« on: 2020-09-21 16:24:43 »

Is it normal that I'm having trouble with money in the early game?  I've reached Junon and find myself unable to buy much having to sell my ethers. 

Am I missing something?

It happened to me on 1.5 so it's intended. I sold the MP Plus materia from Ziegfried and still went nearly broke by Cosmo Canyon. You'll be flooded with cash after you get the Highwind since you get much more AP and can easily max ALL materia to sell.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0)

« on: 2020-07-29 06:04:55 »

Nice, 2.0 is here! Eagerly awaiting Type B, I'll hold off till it's released 

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v1.5)

« on: 2020-06-08 09:14:24 »

It's an old file. Once I beat the remaining two super bosses (a certain underwater creature and a certain white chocobo) I'll be doing another play through on an updated patch. Hadn't experienced Mr. Smile prior to this file so a few characters stats are a bit messy anyways.

Are you putting that run on Youtube as well?

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v1.5)

« on: 2020-06-01 11:07:05 »

Truly, I am a professional moron.

But speaking of E.Skills, do Malboros really have Magic Breath in 1.5v normal mode (not playing arranged yet)? Can't access Stillva's on the save I'm currently working on (disc 3), and Parasites don't have it when Manipulated.

Took a break from E.skills to get more side-quests done.

They have Bad Breath for me. I got Magic Breath from the Stilvas but that was on Disc 2. I don't know where they're supposed to be during the final disc

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v1.5)

« on: 2020-06-01 03:56:43 »

I just thought about it, is this Lv4 Suicide? If its name was changed to Quarry Fuse then no adjusting needed. They use it pretty often and I just didn't know better.

That's the move.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v1.5)

« on: 2020-05-31 12:45:34 »

Speaking of L4 Suicide. It's been changed to a much weaker Earth move but Jenova still royally screws your party over if you use it on her lol, from back when it was Suicide.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v1.5)

« on: 2020-05-26 09:09:00 »

It is possible, I believe its a glitch. I was able to go out of sector 7 right after I exit the train by fiddling around this area.

That's not caused by the mod, that's a glitch that's part of the normal game. Speedrunners use it all the time.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v1.5)

« on: 2020-05-25 22:53:36 »

Is it normal that 7th Heaven doesn't let me update? I have to delete NT and then download from the catalog to update.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v1.5)

« on: 2020-05-20 08:08:04 »

I come from someone that saw Wizard Staff and didn't even bother with any other staff I found after that. TBF it was endgame, but I haven't found the 4 last staves yet, according to the documentation.

I can concede with the Full Cure materia, because it can be easily missed without paying attention to the bartender's dialogue in Cosmo Canyon.
Nevertheless, I still think that restoring you to full MP is too much. It can still be "fun and effective", as you put it, but I'm not against Magic Counter+Renew anyway. Just tone down the MP recovery of Wizard Staff.

Edited for grammar

Yeah, lower it to 300 or so, the full MP with Slash all is completely busted lol. It negates all her other staves. Her ultimate weapon is pretty pointless once you have essentially unlimited MP.
Though I guess to be fair you can also do this with the W-Item glitch so eh.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v1.5)

« on: 2020-05-20 04:41:26 »

Just want to quote this to ask Sega Chief: Please don't start nerfing things like this suggests. That leads to a horrible loop a lot of projects get into where the developer just gets feedback from players with overly tuned characters and who enjoy punishing, grueling fights, and everyone else just has to deal with things gradually getting harder and harder as anything resembling an advantage for the player gets removed.

An important aspect of gameplay that a lot of people don't think about is when the player puts these things together, and realizes what they can do now. For instance, Aerith with Barrier + Added Effect. Most players have no idea this is possible, but when someone figures it out, that's a game changer. Suddenly it feels like a million things open up. Magic Counter + Renew is another one like that, where the player has a new tool in their kit that lets them deal with things that felt impossible.

Things like this just cull the number of strategies a player can use. If a player is FORCED to have certain Materia combinations on or something, or is FORCED to wear certain accessories or they just die, that's not strategy. That's just an artificial lock on the battle that takes away other options. New Threat manages to make most of its battles more involving than Vanilla FF7, but not so involved that every single one feels like a puzzle with one solution.

The player should be able to be flexible. The player should not feel like they're artificially forced to just follow a walkthrough of actions of something to beat a battle. If some options are unbalanced and overly powered, that should be fine, especially if they're something that can stumbled upon by thinking outside of the box. The player should be rewarded for trying new things, not punished by having those things taken away because they're a little too good. If something thinks they're too good, they can just challenge themselves by nothing using them, the game doesn't necessarily have to do that for them.

Thank you for saying this. New Threat shines because it's a rebalance instead of a typical hard hack. If he follows that guy's ideas then it turns into yet another typical hard hack

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v1.5)

« on: 2020-05-20 04:01:39 »

If you're using 7th heaven, make sure to have "Music Option" set to "VGMStream" in the settings.
It's specifically in Game Driver>Advanced

It is on that, that's why I'm confused.
I'm going to test the fight on Steam and see if it works