hi.
i am having alot of fun with this mod. it keeps me on my toes. i am at shinra tower right now, and something is kinda pissing me off.
the 3 soldiers (extra boss fight in de midgar model room) are extremely strong, and i beat them just barely. this was exciting and fun.
but after that the balance for the bosses are just plain stupid.
first the bio boss in the experiment room is weak. i beat it with tifa alone. (the rest of my party was dead, no phoenix downs etc)
then the enemies are retardedly difficult and there is no place i can restore my dead party members. using a tent somehow does not restore life to dead party members what the hell.
okay so everyone gets brought back to life, in the series of events that follow, lucky me.
so i fight the robot in the elevator. pretty easy. too easy for the mod i think.
then i fight rufus with cloud. i cast bio on his dog and then attack him one time. then they both start attacking and i need to keep curing to keep myself alive just barely.
the dog casts barrier barrier mbarrier mbarrier in that order. so i think let me attack once during that time. but noooo the sh*tty dog skips the last mbarrier, and attacks instead. i died.
guess what my complaint is? no way to level up and no way to win. wth
Idk by the sounds of it, you're just having trouble killing things cause you're characters suck. There are ways to level before you got to the tower, and there's even a couple floors in the tower that you can go level on. The point of a hardcore mod is so that you actually try to get stronger to beat the bosses, and use strategy. I'm hoping your a smart person who keeps multiple saves, that way, if you aren't happy where you are, you can go back . Oh, and tents never revived characters, even in the original game...
wtf tents i forgot.
Okay, i beat this asshole rufus, with some strategy.
But i'm now at the reactor and i'm at the extra fight with sephiroth and the mako monster thing.
and well i was low on mp so i kinda died there. but no way to re-do the fight unless i go through all that story again.
My problem is more with games in general: don't make difficult bosses without a save point nearby or the player must go through all that story telling random battles etc again. maybe even a third time. which is highly annoying.
maybe plant an extra save point in the reactor? maybe a retry mod?
it's a game for grownups, not teletubbies, repetition is a no no. and if you disagree, i have add so things get boring quick nya
Also my characters didn't suck compared to the enemies before that. but after the soldier trio the difficulty went waaay up without warning and little chance to save and or level.
leveling to beat a boss yes....but don't expect me to level to lvl 20 before taking on those bosses, because i do want the challenge this mod is giving me, only with the really hard bosses i'd like a save point/inn around to be able to level up. or else i'd might get stuck.
the trio was awesome! i had a savepoint nearby and was able to level, but i didn't. I kept trying and it was the most exciting fight i had in an rpg ever.