2015-01-20, 08:44 PM
Mirsa, I don't know if you ever got an answer. As far as I know, there's nothing broken in the Grand Battle patch so that's probably the one you want.
duredure, nothing was changed in hit/critical odds. Do you know that if you can only move 1 hex (ie you're surrounded) you are more likely to miss and to receive critical hits? The AI uses that tactic often and it may account for what you're seeing. I haven't dug through the damage/hit routines thoroughly, but I seriously doubt they give bonuses to COM enemies. Everything I've looked at doesn't have a player bias. One of the reasons it was hard to inject extra EXP into enemy units is because everything in the game uses the exact same "EXP+ per action" routine. Even COM vs COM battles appear to be played out hit by hit like a real battle, giving EXP after each action.
Harablo, I think knight level only plays a factor in which squads act first during a battle. As far as I know, the "which invader takes precedence" is decided randomly during a normal game. In multiplayer, there's a "turn order" setting; it might affect that.
quick brown fox, thanks for the feedback. I played through on Caerleon and still didn't find the enemies especially challenging. It just required an adapted strategy compared to normal. Basically, I had to play more defensively, use more units with ranged skills and go after enemy knights more aggressively to force retreats. Because enemies only get one boost per organization phase, timing is crucial. If you dally about they will get too strong. I look at it as a "sliding time limit" rather than the original "fixed limit".
This was just something I threw together on request. I spent a day tracing the EXP routine and there are ways to implement EXP+, but I just simply don't have the time. I didn't want to make the mod dependent on my translation so it becomes much harder to find an unused area to insert new code. Honestly, I have doubts that higher level knight/creatures would make a significant difficulty difference anyway. The small stat boosts from level ups are just not enough to counter the "human advantage".
Rovole, BGE is the sloppiest, most inefficient game I've ever seen. There are double copies of all kinds of data. I don't know how many members of E3 Staff continued on with Hearty Robin, but it seems like many aspects of GE were just plastered inefficiently over the original LoF by people who didn't really get how LoF was working. For example, there are segments of Japanese text that appear in LoF and are still in the data in GE, but are set to no longer appear in game. I don't know if it was error (using the 'end-text' tag instead of the 'next line' tag) or if an editor decided to block some lines and just didn't bother to remove the text. I pretty sure the game could have easily fit on a single disk if they had wanted to.
duredure, nothing was changed in hit/critical odds. Do you know that if you can only move 1 hex (ie you're surrounded) you are more likely to miss and to receive critical hits? The AI uses that tactic often and it may account for what you're seeing. I haven't dug through the damage/hit routines thoroughly, but I seriously doubt they give bonuses to COM enemies. Everything I've looked at doesn't have a player bias. One of the reasons it was hard to inject extra EXP into enemy units is because everything in the game uses the exact same "EXP+ per action" routine. Even COM vs COM battles appear to be played out hit by hit like a real battle, giving EXP after each action.
Harablo, I think knight level only plays a factor in which squads act first during a battle. As far as I know, the "which invader takes precedence" is decided randomly during a normal game. In multiplayer, there's a "turn order" setting; it might affect that.
quick brown fox, thanks for the feedback. I played through on Caerleon and still didn't find the enemies especially challenging. It just required an adapted strategy compared to normal. Basically, I had to play more defensively, use more units with ranged skills and go after enemy knights more aggressively to force retreats. Because enemies only get one boost per organization phase, timing is crucial. If you dally about they will get too strong. I look at it as a "sliding time limit" rather than the original "fixed limit".
This was just something I threw together on request. I spent a day tracing the EXP routine and there are ways to implement EXP+, but I just simply don't have the time. I didn't want to make the mod dependent on my translation so it becomes much harder to find an unused area to insert new code. Honestly, I have doubts that higher level knight/creatures would make a significant difficulty difference anyway. The small stat boosts from level ups are just not enough to counter the "human advantage".
Rovole, BGE is the sloppiest, most inefficient game I've ever seen. There are double copies of all kinds of data. I don't know how many members of E3 Staff continued on with Hearty Robin, but it seems like many aspects of GE were just plastered inefficiently over the original LoF by people who didn't really get how LoF was working. For example, there are segments of Japanese text that appear in LoF and are still in the data in GE, but are set to no longer appear in game. I don't know if it was error (using the 'end-text' tag instead of the 'next line' tag) or if an editor decided to block some lines and just didn't bother to remove the text. I pretty sure the game could have easily fit on a single disk if they had wanted to.