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[S84 PATCH]

I'm not gonna lie I had some trouble at some parts of the game (and I've beaten most Fire Emblems on the hardest mode •__•). I beat Eric first go but the RNG was on my side luckily. The stage where you get Itsuke along with Kelik and the the thief (forgot name it was lik Altharres or something) was pretty tough too. It's probably because I refuse to use save states and lose characters. This post is pretty much just an attempt of mine to become part of the conversation by the way as most of it is stuff people probably don't wanna read anyway.

[Fire Blazer]

@Bobyrk ah I see... well as good as Zach is, Alice/Inanna > Lirin, so I don't regret that. Zach is the only archer (note: archer-you get Storm and Haas again later, and a Sniper VERY late game) so I'd say "use him at all costs" but it's your choice, if archers aren't useful to you then there's not much point.

@S84 LOL I see. Most people had difficulty with the same two parts that you did. Eric and chapter 13. Chapter 13 just has tons of units and the characters tend to be at weapon triangle disadvantages because of Ace/Kevin being axe-users against the fighters/brigands. BUT, it IS an ambush, so I figure the battle should be a defensive one that is very hard, as oppose to an easy one where it doesn't even seem like an ambush.

And Eric is mainly hard because of his critical. Otherwise you could just defeat most of the other enemies, then have someone like Kevin draw him in, and bombard him with all your characters until he dies.

Also, it's Althares, 'Al' for short.

[Xkoncept2323]

Yo blazer, im very glad that you are working on this hack. i have been a fan of fire emblem for a long time, and even though there are gamecube and ds games now, the GBA versions are still my favorites. i have beated each of the gba , and i got bord so i started looking for hacks. there are good ones out there, but yous is by far the best one. it is like a completely new one. it has everything i could possibly want in a fire emblem games, new characters, custom animations, and the halberdeir( i love unmounted lance users, but the only one is general) i still have not beaten it, but the game is great. the only thing that i dont like is the amount of reinforcements, but that is just me. i can just finish the chapter faster if i want to avoid that. i belive that this hack might surpass Blazing sword in epickness. cant wait till the game is done.

[Fire Blazer]

Thanks. The point is to have a completely new game so I'm glad I gave that to you. You get a max of 2 Halberdiers and Generals each so I think you will be happy.

Also, I had planned on turning down reinforcements. Main thing is I'm trying to give you guys a lot of experience to level up, because this game doesn't have arenas (which are cheap) and it is a little bit shorter than FE7, so there's less time to level-up.

[k_nguyen93]

Hello just wanted to give you some updates on "bugs/glitches" I found although maybe some of them are intentional.

-In level 4, when you first encounter Kevin, he has a weird color to him. Once you recruit him though, it'll go back to normal.


-I don't know if you have this in other levels but I noticed in level 4 that at the fort in the far left and at the ballista in the far right, you have two units on top of one another. I thought I was mistaken at first when I saw a nomad appear from where the mercenary was in the left top but then two archers appeared out of nowhere from on top the ballista as well.



-Small note, not sure if this is because I'm scaling it on my iTouch or if this happens in other Fire Emblem games, but I noticed units in the top row of the map on level 4 are cut off. Siegfried for example. You'll notice the archer I posted in the image above has the same problem.


-This might be intentional but shouldn't Shon have a higher Con and Aid because he is mounted? Currently I have him at level 7 with 7 con and 6 aid. Gordon is level 8 with 10 con and 15 aid.

-Might just be me but at level 5 Inanna has the same resistance as many of my other units and it's at 4. Shouldn't a Pegasus Knight have higher resistance? Again I've never paid attention to the numbers in past versions of Fire Emblem so I may be wrong.

[Fire Blazer]

@Kevin I know about that one

I guess I should fix it, it's been there since forever...

About the archers, I recall some obscure glitch happening with them before but I had thought I fixed it and it hadn't been mentioned until now... hmm... I'd like to blame your iPod Touch/iPhone emulator, but... I guess it's me. I'll see if I can fix it.

The stats are "as they should be", i.e. they don't necessarily follow the standards for Fire Emblem. You'll find Tamiko has quite high resistance. Inanna has relatively good resistance (it's early on so it might not be great), trust me.

Also, yeah, Shon always did have a few problems with his 'mounted traits'. I'll double-check to fix that and see if there's any other things that are missing (he replaces Eliwood!Lord class and so he still acts somewhat like an unmounted unit D:).

Thanks for your post.

[Falaflame]

I don't go to blogs, so it would be nice if you updated in the thread.

Because I see (from your YT channel), that Ch19 and Ch19x is complete... or at least I think it is.

Any screens?

[Fire Blazer]

Nah, no screens for either of those chapters, but you are right, they are done. Once I get some map sprites and other stuffz I will (hopefully) go back and take some screenshots. I'm pretty settled on the videos though, ATM.

I'll try and update this thread since you asked. I'm going to neglect the FEND and FEU threads though, since the former doesn't get any responses, and the latter is at one of my least favorite forums AND doesn't get any responses. >_> Same thing for GBATemp and PokeCommunity since their topics are pretty... like... dead...

[Falaflame]

[Fire Blazer]

Only to advertise. I've downloaded a couple hacks but only played ShinyGold (did I ever beat that one...?) Pokemon Naranja and Pokemon Brown (IIRC I beat the demo of PKMN Orange and I haven't beat PKMN Brown yet).

...Man that was an offtopic post.

[Falaflame]

Blazer, could you add the blog site to the first post?

[Fire Blazer]

Yes, yes I can.

Btw, today I finished Kelik's promoted battle animation. Which is some good progress, because it's a TON of frames and took 3 days where I pretty much only sprited in my free time to make it.

[Fire Blazer]

Man I haven't updated in a while...

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I know I haven't updated any forums in a while, but progress has been happening. For those who don't keep up with the blog at http://tacticsuniverse.blogspot.com, I finished upto chapter 19, started chapter 20, and then had to stop to take care of some custom battle animations and map sprites. This delayed me but after a week I ended up finishing chapter 20. Later I took a break that was almost 2 weeks--in short, I was tired of hacking.

I've recently got back into it and have been making chapters about as quickly as I can. Chapter 21 and 22 are thus complete, excluding scripts, which I have yet to insert. Chapter 23 is in-progress (I am customizing a tileset and have to make another really long cutscene with really long scripts, so it is taking some time).

That being said, here's some screenshots to tease you. I sort of avoided the plot, but at the very least, you know you can expect nothing less than high-quality interesting chapters with epic cutscenes and a refreshing Fire Emblem experience. At least, that's what I strive for.

Chapter 21







Chapter 22








I just have to give another thanks to Exxucus for his amazing maps. It's one of the reasons why this hack is so good IMO (I know I sound arrogant, but the intention is to praise his maps, not my hack). His awesome maps force me to do the best that I can when making these chapters and really enhance the gameplay. They aren't all super amazing, but they're never disappointing.

Well, let me know what you think/enjoy. Be sure to keep up on youtube and the blog so that you aren't out of the loop!

- Blazer

[Nitramyte]

Woah, awesome progress!

I've been avoiding the videos because I want to play it out myself but these pics makes it hard to not check, hehe.

[Zeldaicflame]

Whoa! What on earth is that lightning effect on the map? (It's so cool)

[Lord Glenn]

[Fire Blazer]

@Nitramyte, thanks. I don't upload gameplay videos of all the chapters, I usually just do little things here and there to keep up with the plot and just show what the maps and portraits look like, maybe. But even when I do, you can always just not watch the gameplay videos and wait for yourself.

The catch is you will probably miss a lot of the secret stuff I add in all over XD

@Zeldaicflame special events FTW The Mage General Galagar PWNS the soldiers. All 4 of them at once.

@LG yep, you have really good memory! I think you meant to type ch30, though. You got the name right though, which is probably harder to remember than the ch#. XD

[Lord Glenn]

[t3canolis]

Haven't finished it yet but it's EPIC so far.

[Fire Blazer]

^Those chapters are nothing compared to chapter 15 and on. Just keep that in mind as you have fun. ._. lol