Just wanted to drop by, currently playing the latest version (doing an LP of it), want to give some impression, as a reminder last time I play this mod FFIX wasn't even out on PC version so that's quite a long time so lot of thing as change :
-My first point would be : Thanks god FINALLY a mod that fix the annoying steal rate of the game, for how much I love this game that is the one thing I hated in FFIX, purist might argue "that's part of the challenge" but as far as I'm concern there is nothing challenging (and nothing fun for that matter) about sitting over 40 minutes on a boss fight just for stealing it, so thanks a lot for that I can actually properly enjoy the boss fights now.
-The second enjoyable quality of life that I thank you for is the statut duration, another good fix here it really hardly feel worth it in Vanilla and PSX version of AF to cast buffs since their duration was so short, also enjoy statut effect lasting longer for ennemies cause it was the same issue.
-Regarding the overall rework on the abilities and more precisely how they work, that's overall a really good job it always bugged me why the Killer type of ability were only affecting the regular attack, now they work on more ability so that's cool, same for Critical hit and also use of the range, my only nitpick would be it would nice if these change could be specify in the ability's description in-game, I had to consult the Excel file to know which ability is or isn't affected by these changes.
As for the fights for now the ennemies seems similar to what I remember from the PSX, the only notable change compare to PSX version of AF regarding boss fight up to now would be Beate's second fight who like the first and third fight feel like a proper fight,
definitly wasn't expecting an Holy spell this early XD
otherwise some minor change like statut effect being more usefull (by the way good thing for reworking how some statut work on bosses like Doom (good for Tantarian when you have counter magic with Vivi by the way XD) or poison).
So for now I really enjoying this mod.