Awful Emblem: The Thread (Demo 1.10 released)

If you

-At 0xA6C8, replace the six bytes there with 000000

Then you can have Hard mode bonuses for enemies in Lyn and Eliwood modes.

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Not worth going back and rebalancing again so fuck it, Lyn mode is just going to have to stay boring. Is there a way to do it for Eliwood and not Lyn mode though?

In that case you’d want to change the four bytes at 0xA6CA to 01280CD0; that way only Lyn Mode won’t apply HM bonus levels.

So it’s been a while since I had any public updates on the game. I’ve been hard at work bugfixing stuff while doing more rebalancing. I don’t know why we released a demo such a short while ago when we’ve actually gone and made some substantial changes to Act 1 now.

For instance:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7753189/Awful%20Emblem/It's%20the%20Cavalry.png

We moved Martin to Chapter 2. He reinforces you instead of June. It gives him a chance to get some experience in before June arrives and before Chapter 3 begins. It was difficult at best to use him in Chapter 3. Plus we got to go back and rewrite scenes to include him instead of June and they turned out pretty fun.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7753189/Awful%20Emblem/Vera%20Assassin%20sorta.PNG

For better flavor and logical reasons, Vera has become an Assassin. The only reason she was a General before was because of jokes we had made in early development before we took a serious look back at our bad ideas and scrapped them. She’s temporarily using a female thief animation until we get a suitable Female Assassin animation inserted. (And no she isn’t playable, that was just for testing purposes)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7753189/Awful%20Emblem/LanceSpin.png

Male Halberdiers have been inserted. Since our Halberdiers are like Lance Myrmidons, we went with Bonestorm’s animation because it’s faster and fancier than Halb 2.0’s animation. I still need to insert female Halberdiers and the map animations for both genders.

We’ve also altered some bases and growths a little more, and I’m running through the game again to do a playtest. I have more to show but I’ll save it for another day.

How do you make this awFUL hack so aweSOME?

Lots of patience mostly. Insanity also helps.