Rasonable Difficulty Patch - Mythril Mines are now crawling with Bottomswells!

[purple.platypus]

I would post this in the thread for the reasonable difficulty patch, but it got locked because of a "no necroposting" rule that no longer exists.

This patch was pretty much as advertised for the first part of the game, but I just got to the Mythril Mines and every fight is a Bottomswell! This is supposed to be a boss found a little later in the game, and even at its original stats, let alone as augmented by this patch, is nuts for a random encounter, even in what's supposed to be a more difficult game. If nothing else it makes this area very, very tedious with long fight after long fight and party members constantly being completely shut down.

Is this intentional? I played with this patch once before, I didn't finish but I'm sure I got further than this, and I don't remember it being like this the previous time. If this is a bug, what are some likely candidates for the cause?

[EQ2Alyza]

This is the second report this week of this happening, so it may be a bug. Did you install it with Bootleg 040?

Here is a supposed fix someone did: http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=15132.0

[purple.platypus]

No, bootleg rendered my game unplayable so I blew everything away and reinstalled the game and various mods manually.

Perhaps the problem lies with the wrong combination of mods interacting in an unintended way? I am using the following; I think they were installed in the following order, but I couldn't swear to it past the first three.

• FF7 (Steam version)
• Kranmer's conversion patch
• Aali's custom driver
• Anxious Heart
• Battle Scene Enhancements
• Ozmy's field pack
• The Reunion, minus the Iscar part and most of the memory patches
• Reasonable Difficulty
• Something that was supposed to change the materia field models, but I don't think it took (perhaps I put it in the wrong place)

Hope this helps.

In any case, I'll dig into that other thread you linked to when I feel a bit more up to dealing with it. FF7 wasn't exactly built to be easily modded, was it?

[purple.platypus]

Short version: I tried the "fix" in that thread. It made things worse, not better. Way worse, as in, the game crashes every time a battle starts and I can't change equipment.

Long version: See my post in the above thread.