FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles (PC/PS5/XSX/NWS2/PS4/NSW) - September 30, 2025

[Lucavi]

I'll get the name of the mod for you. Its a really good one.

People gotta remember: "Holy" and "Unholy" are just concepts in that universe. They're basically elements on the chart. Cidlofas and Balbanes were some of the two greatest men of their era and they both blew people apart with Dark Sword techniques. if the church and Ultima are the only ways to reliably get access to Holy Sword techniques, just learn the other available ones! The mod numbers all of the Divine Sword techniques into numbers, and all nobility get the first one - Spirit Blade - as a default. Its a poor man's version of Stasis Sword.

Edit: FFT Emergence is the name of the mod. It uses the WotL (EU) version, so just grab a PSP emulator and the FFTPatcher Suite.

[Bweigelt]

A lot of fan hacks do something similar. Ramza's job was one of the things I hoped they would change. His base game jobs after chapter 1 are extremely powerful and break the game, but not in a particularly fun way, more in a way of letting you tediously grind in any battle cause speed is a dumb stat that needs rebalancing sort of way. I was also really hoping they would change the way JP works, tying it into actions taken each battle was the biggest issue with the game cause if meant you always had to have an ability to let you act each turn if you wanted to keep up, severely limiting what side jobs you could take. It also cause you to get extremely overleveled if you were grinding jp because you also got exp for each action. Just an all around broken system that could have and should have been tweaked very easily. All they had to do was tie JP and exp to finishing the battle and rebalancing all JP costs to account for that.

EDIT: I believe the romhack Lucavi is talking about is Cerabow's mod.

[Tyrath]

That Ramza heretic mod does sound dope.

[Lucavi]

FFT Emergence Mod. Have fun, lads!

I always loved the idea of taking the designation that the powerful in society deem you and running with it to do good. Ramza just embracing his role as "heretic", understanding that words are - as Orlandeau said - just wind on the ear, and doing what he knew to be right; titles and persecution-be-damned.

It looks like this official remaster is the purest 97 JP version of the game, which is fine: that's the choice they made. I was never a fan of Matsuno's team's approach to class and combat balance (ironically I feel that the Ogre Battle games he DIDN'T work on had the best class progression - 64 and Knight of Lodis), but hey, that's what modders are for!

Hopefully they'll give fundamentally broken items like axes a role that isn't simply to slap onto abilities that scale simply on base WP and will at least consider allowing Divine Knight abilities to deal damage regardless of equipment, but at this point, it really doesn't matter. Modders can and will fix the issues that arrive in games: that much is obvious.

[Zealot]

I'm probably gonna buy this on Steam specifically for the mods.

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[Koul]

Yeah, definitely gunna get it on steam for the mod potential lol

[Gredival]

Facts. I wanted 2 blacks and a red. I did not want 15 birds between the last two fights I had! Then I have to read all of those impossibly sad dismiss quotes. ;-;

Or you could poach them

[Lucavi]

Goddammit, lol. Poaching wild boar for the perfume was always a good time.

[Andalusian girls]

I'm probably gonna buy this on Steam specifically for the mods.

verdad i didn't even think how ol girl will pop if she gets workshop support (sans, Nexus take the wheel). people are gonna mod the shit outta this game.

[Meresgi]

I didn't notice this thread and just recently heard about this remake and i'm fucking stoked. This game consumed hundreds of hours of my life and i'm fine with it

[carlweathers]

Is there an advocate for the position that WOTL's content isn't worth it? Like did the additions make the game easy or undermine the story or something? Kinda irritating Square doesn't like a super-definitive version like the pixel remakes not including the bonus GBA content.

[Tyrath]

It basically sounds like the original dev team didn't work on the WotL so they don't want to include it in this remaster

[Bweigelt]

To be honest other than the battle where you play as Delita none of the content from WOTL was that interesting anyway. Balthier was just a slightly better Mustadio but came so late that he was already power crept and while Luso kind of broke the game he's not exactly relevant anymore. The biggest loss is the two jobs, but at the same time the requirements for those jobs was so absurd that actually unlocking them took exponentially more grinding than you would normally do. Of course they could have just made them easier to obtain. I would have been more interested it getting new stuff that was more interesting than what we got in WOTL, like a more interesting job for Ramza, any maybe some more relevant guest characters.

[Mayareira]

It basically sounds like the original dev team didn't work on the WotL so they don't want to include it in this remaster

Yeah, as if there are some office politics going on in the background.

Nevertheless, I am all in for some smartly implemented extra content in remasters. A second thought after probably the most comprehensive feedback and battle test there can ever be, can never go wrong in smart hands.

[Lucavi]

To be honest other than the battle where you play as Delita none of the content from WOTL was that interesting anyway. Balthier was just a slightly better Mustadio but came so late that he was already power crept and while Luso kind of broke the game he's not exactly relevant anymore. The biggest loss is the two jobs, but at the same time the requirements for those jobs was so absurd that actually unlocking them took exponentially more grinding than you would normally do. Of course they could have just made them easier to obtain. I would have been more interested it getting new stuff that was more interesting than what we got in WOTL, like a more interesting job for Ramza, any maybe some more relevant guest characters.

Losing content always sucks. I hate pizza-cutter Luso as much as much as anyone else, but losing multiplayer vs. and co-op dungeons? Losing all the gear? The jobs?

I'll never be happy at losing content, especially if they're charging $50 for not at lot of "interesting" new stuff.

Of course Matsuno plays the nice guy and takes the bullet for the backstage politics.

[Gredival]

Backstage politics of "we don't want to include stuff that is already done just because we didn't do it" is particularly dumb imo.

[Lucavi]

I can't remember the guy's name. Maeda? Something like that. Basically the #2 that became the #1 in charge, while Matsuno was the figurehead. It was his call. Who knows what the actual budget was.

[Tyrath]

If they want to keep the original experience they better let me dupe my Excalibur is all I'm saying

[Lucavi]

I mean, not our original experience. Japan's! No Genji gear for you! We'll see about catching chaos blades.

[Zealot]

If you can't steal Elmdore's gear there's no point in playing.

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