Elden Emblem (WIP - 20ish Chapters, playable up to Leyndell/Morgott)

[BadHunter]

Ever wanted to play Elden Ring, but as a turn-based strategy RPG?

Me neither, but here it is!

Elden Emblem is a FE8 hack I made based on FromSoftware’s Elden Ring. It is currently a WIP, but I think it is at a good stopping point to be made playable as a first version release. You can think of this as a finished Part 1 and Part 2 will come later. To give an idea of where this version ends, for those of you who played Elden Ring, it goes up to Leyndell and ends after the Morgott fight. This is probably about 60-70% of the game. Despite it not covering the entirety of Elden Ring, I would still consider this version to be a fairly complete release with a firm ending and it will probably be a while until I finish the rest of it. There is also an optional superboss spoiler[/spoiler], but that fight is not quite well-tested yet, and isn’t really intended to be super beatable yet.

Key Features:

• Playable units all from Elden Ring, including Alexander the Jar Warrior, Ranni the Witch, and a customizable Tarnished One.
• Custom maps based on Elden Ring locations. My goal was to capture the essence of each location while still making (hopefully) good Fire Emblem maps.
• Epic boss fights! (More on that below)
• ~20 chapters so far. It’s hard to give an exact number because some maps are optional and some are boss maps, so it’s difficult to say what counts as a chapter. To give a rough idea of the length, my typical playthrough takes about 8-12 hours. My time might be on the quick side because I made it, but I also tend to play games slowly.
• Unbreakable weapons! Each weapon you obtain is an exciting permanent addition to your team’s arsenal!
• Buyable stat upgrades! Since you don’t need gold (runes) for weapon maintenance or healing, you spend your runes to level up instead!

Download Link:

Dropbox

To play Elden Emblem, download the latest ups file from the above link and patch it onto your own Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones rom.

For the age rating, I put 13+. Elden Ring is 17+ for violence and blood/gore. This is based on Elden Ring, but with pixelized gba graphics and nothing gory is shown, so I think 13+ is appropriate. However, some of the writing taken directly from Elden Ring may describe some gruesome imagery which may be disturbing.

Screenshots

Boss Battles

Boss battles are not common in Fire Emblem games, but they are an important part of Elden Ring and Souls games in general, so of course this rom hack has some maps dedicated to bosses. How most of them work is: You bring your Tarnished One and one other unit of your choice to accompany you. Most bosses have their Move reduced by 1. This makes it so that you have the opportunity to maneuver around them rather than just being forced to engage in combat repeatedly every turn. Most bosses will change their weapon kit each turn, and the change will happen either at the start of Player Phase or at the start of Enemy Phase, depending on the boss. Paying attention to their weapon patterns will help you know when to attack and when to back off.

More specific gameplay-related things to be aware of

• Weapon Triangle effects increased so that disadvantage causes -20 hit and -2 damage instead of -10 hit and -1 damage.
• Crit damage reduced from 3x to 2x.
• Weapons/Staves have no durability
• Healing from staves is lowered. Base heal only heals equal to the healer’s Mag stat.
• No consumable healing. However, there are some healing tiles that allow a unit to heal to full health once, marked by a Dragon Vein flame.
• Gold (called “runes” in this) is used almost exclusively to buy stat upgrades rather than weapon upkeep. Stat upgrades are generally intended for the Tarnished unit, but feel free to use them as you like. The only other use for runes is for a few small shops, so don’t be shy about spending them for stat upgrades (there is also a quest in Liurnia that requires runes, but you can earn enough within that map).
• Each character has a personal skill and each class grants a skill upon promotion. The Tarnished One’s personal depends on their chosen class in the tutorial.
• Many events are triggered by using the “Interact” command on certain tiles. Be on the lookout for secrets! This is also how you open chests, you do not need a key.
• There are some optional maps in the direction of Limgrave East. These maps can be re-challenged if you want to grind or if you missed some of the goodies in those maps.
• Growth rates work similarly to Three Houses (character growths + class growths). Growth rates in Elden Emblem are probably a little lower than in most Fire Emblem games, especially for the Tarnished One. This is because you are expected to use runes to buy stat upgrades throughout the game at the Roundtable Hold.
• Promoting does not reset level, so you are encouraged to promote as soon as you can. The level cap is 20, which you can expect to reach or get close to for some of your characters around the time you get to Leyndell. Promoting does slightly reduce EXP gain, but it also slightly increases growths.
• Some weapons and classes are tagged in their description with a word in parentheses, for example (Greatsword) or (Dex). A weapon with such a tag can only be used by a class that also has that tag, and only if they meet the appropriate weapon rank. For example, the Claymore is tagged with (Greatsword), so you would need a class that also has that tag such as Mercenary or Hero.
• Class differences:
  Many classes have tweaks to things like stat caps, growths, weapons, promotion branches, and each class has a skill. All playable classes are foot-locked. While Torrent exists in Elden Ring, mounted classes don’t suit the style of gameplay I am going for. All classes have 5 Move except the Bishop class which has lower move to balance its skill. There are some differences in weapon access for the classes in this game. For example, Assassins can use bows and Sages only use Anima. Units also do not lose weapon ranks when promoting to a new class, allowing you to carry over weapon types to a class that wouldn’t normally have them.

Support Affinity bonuses

Support conversations are not in this game, but you can still get supports for gameplay purposes. The stat boosts from supports are a little different and simplified in Elden Emblem.
Fire: +1 power
Thunder: +5 crit
Wind: +5 hit
Ice: +1 defense
Dark: +5 avoid
Light: +5 crit avoid
Anima: +2 hit/crit/avoid/crit avoid

Recruitment Guide (Spoilers!)

• Tarnished/Melina: Joins automatically in tutorial
• Roderika/Hewg: Joins automatically in Limgrave West
• Alexander: Talk with Tarnished after lowering his HP to <= 50% in Limgrave West. Can get again in Liurnia if missed.
• Corhyn: Joins automatically after Limgrave West
• Rogier: Joins automatically after Stormveil 1
• Nepheli: Talk with Tarnished in Stormveil 2
• Thops: Talk with Tarnished in Liurnia
• Rya: Visit at the large ruins in Liurnia to receive quest to retrieve her necklace. Get her necklace from the shack for 1000 Runes, then go back to Rya with a unit who is holding the necklace and she will take the necklace and join.
• Ranni: Visit the top left tower at Ranni’s Rise
• Blaidd: Talk with Ranni or with Tarnished after recruiting Ranni at Ranni’s Rise
• Goldmask: Talk with Corhyn at Altus Plateau
• D: Talk with Tarnished while holding a Deathroot in Limgrave East. Deathroot can be obtained on the same map from the Tibia Mariner at the top.
• Sellen: Visit the shack guarded by a Pumpkinhead with a character who has at least 7 Mag in Limgrave East.
• Millicent: Talk to Gowry in Sellia while holding the Broken Needle obtained by defeating O’Neill in Caelid. Gowry will then turn the Broken Needle to an Unalloyed Needle. Then talk to Millicent with a unit holding the Unalloyed Needle. This will cure her from her illness and she will join. Must be quick so that you can get to her before she dies of Scarlet Rot.
• Gostoc in Stormveil 1 is not recruitable, however there are different ways you can decide to interact with him. If you take the left path and he is alive, he will take 100 runes from you every turn. Also, if Gostoc is alive, going into the room with the chest and the knight will trap your unit inside until another unit waits by the door. If you attack Gostoc, he will open the central door and become hostile. If you kill Gostoc, you will not lose runes every turn or get trapped in the room. However, if you clear the map without killing Gostoc, he will reward you with 3000 runes after defeating Godrick.
• Seluvis at Ranni’s Rise is also not recruitable, however you can visit him at the bottom-left tower of the map. He will tell you that he is looking for Nepheli. If you bring Nepheli to him, he will give her a potion that kills her, and in exchange you get her Stormhawk Axe, except it is no longer prf-locked. You can also bring Thops to Seluvis; Thops will die and you get Thops’ Barrier. You can also bring Sellen, who will die and you get a Starlight Shard. Only meet with Seluvis if you are absolutely sure that you will never want to use these units. In short, be wary of wicked sort.

Difficulty Modes: Which mode should I play?

Normal mode is the intended game mode, and almost all of my testing was done on Normal mode. For Hard mode, I increased the enemy Hit rate by an additional 10%. Another minor difference is that the stalker enemy Crucible Knight in Stormveil 2 will appear 1 turn earlier on Hard Mode to apply more time pressure. I have not done much else with Hard Mode and have not tested it much at all, so I recommend Normal mode for now. Normal mode should still provide a good challenge. This game probably leans a little more on the difficult side, which is where I want it because it’s based on Elden Ring. I removed Easy mode because that would be un-soulslike.

Known Bugs/Glitches

There are a few visual bugs that I experience occasionally but I don’t think there is anything game-breaking. Please let me know if you encounter other glitches as well.

• Not really a bug, but something I would like to fix: Text for items on menus gets cut off (would love to remove the -/- durability marker since durability isn’t a thing in this game, but I haven’t found a way how.)
• Sometimes numbers on the combat forecast look glitched. This doesn’t seem to affect the gameplay at all and can usually fix itself if you exit out of the forecast and try again.
• Sometimes promoting a unit will cause a glitch where it skips the level up animation and seems to simulate a weird combat encounter on a black screen. The unit will still gain the stats for promoting, so if you encounter this glitch, you aren’t missing out on any stats. It can just be annoying to not see what was actually gained. It seems to happen with Nepheli the most for some reason.
• I have had the game crash before when viewing the units list from the world map on the screen that lets you sort by stats. I am not sure what causes this. When viewing your units from the world map, I recommend doing so from the Manage Items menu to avoid this bug.
• An annoying bug I’ve discovered recently is one in which certain items will not be removed from your unit’s inventory during events where that is supposed to happen. An example is when giving the needle to Gowry, the needle will not be removed. This is strange because I know for sure that this was previously working properly and it doesn’t seem that anything has changed in the events where this happens. And there are other events that use the same scripting that are still working fine, so I’m not sure what is happening here. It’s not a huge deal since the items this happens with don’t do anything extra anyway, but it’s annoying to know that it isn’t working properly.

CREDITS

Patches used:
Circleseverywhere - Skill Systems
Monkeybard & Black Mage - most skill icons
Blaze - Stance skill icons
Tequila, Rossendale, StanH, Leonarth, Teraspark, sd9k, Kao, blademaster, Snakey1 - skills
Primefusion - test map
Huichelaar - Damage numbers in battle
Vesly - Auto save function to resume chapter at start of turn
Contro - Battle Forecast Fix
Circleseverywhere - Convert Chapter Titles to Text
Mohka - Class change expansion to allow classes additional promotion paths
Contro - Crit Cap to make crit above 100 display as 100
Circleseverywhere - Map Danger Zone by pressing Select
Vesly - Draw attack effect on map animation when battle animation off
Brendor, 7743 - Remove Enemy Control Glitch
7743 - Display Escape Menu. This is used a lot for calling events and much of this hack would not be possible without this patch. I changed the text “Escape” to “Interact” to better fit its function within my hack.
7743 - AddEvent Functions: Get HP, Get Unit Statis, Set Unit Status, Item Check, Lose Item, Silent Give Item
7743, Aera, Vesly - Give Unit Experience
Stan - ExModularSave, ExModularSave with Supply 200
Vesly - Expand weapon description field from 1 line to 3 lines
Tequila - Show battle stats when animation are off
7743, originally by Tequila, jjl2357 - Enable Locked Weapon Prf Constrants on staffs and items as well
Hextator - 01command hack for custom battle animations
Hextator - 48command hack for custom battle animation sound effects
Hextator - Anti-Huffman to edit text
7743, original: HyperGammaSpaces - FillAIDangerMap Efficiency Fix, to make enemy AI perform faster
7743 - Crash prevention in the clear turn list
Tequila - fix_lz77decompress
Vesly - Group AI, to assign enemies to a group so that if one is aggro’d the entire group is aggro’d
7743 - Use HandAxs motion as generic motion for throwing axes
Increase Enemy’s hit rate
Circles - HPBars with warnings
Leonarth - Less Annoying Fog, so that units do not immediately end their turn if they run into an enemy in the fog
ipatix - m4a hq mixer
Sme - Magic Sword Rework, to have more flexibility for weapons with magical damage properties
Stan - Skip World Map Fix
Scraiza - NarrowFont
7743 - Switch the death quote for each unit who is killer
Nintenlord - Remove Easy Mode, (it wouldn’t be a Souls game if it had an easy mode, now would it?)
Circleseverywhere - Range-Animated Weapons List Installer, to allow some weapons to always use a ranged animation
7743 - Simple setting of Sacred Weapons 2
DurabilityBasedItemEvent
Snakey1 - Stairs
7743, boy - TorchWeapons
7743 - Allow 3 or more trainee to be registered, this patch is installed but I believe Mokha’s class expansion list is what I actually used to expand the promotion list of the “Wretch” class
Stan - UnitActionRework
Krib - Effective damage multiplier (changed from default of 3x to 2x)
7743 - Change Effectiveness damage coefficient of the weapon (used to make effective multiplier on Litany of Death 4x)
Circleseverywhere - Actions after talk
7743 - Add Event: Remove Trap
7743 - Add Event: Display and recover the effect when using the item
7743 - Allows detailed setting of weapons held by summoned units

Battle Animations
Knight: [Knight-Variant] Generic [M] by Salvaged
Halberdier: Dragoon - original by Mercenary Lord and NYZGamer, repallate by Pikmin 1211, Lance animation by Maiser6
Warrior: [Warrior Base] - Repal Leather [M] - Repalette by Pushwall, Sword/Lance by LoreLeek
Female Fighter: [Fighter-Reskin] Long Hair Repalette [F] by BlackMage, Repalette by SageHapuiaJDJ
Assassin Bow: [Assassin-Reskin] Ponyail by Keks_Krebs, Beccarte, SD9K
Holy Knight: [Custom-FE10 Style] Base by Iscaneus, Animation/Scripting by Nuramon and Jeorge Reds, Magic by flasuban
Cyclops [Bow]: Bow by Pie1055, scripted by Orihara_Saki, Boulder animation by TytheBub
Berserker Sword: [Berserker-Base] Vanilla +Magic [M] Sword (Durandal) by tatata

Map Sprites
Soldier (M) FE10-Style Lance by flasuban - used for Halberdier
Halberdier (U) Lance by Dei, dondon151 - used for Holy Knight
Walking Mausoleum by me

Portrait Sprites - All character portrait sprites are taken directly from screenshots of FromSoftware’s Elden Ring, and modified by me to fit the format for character portraits in the GBA games, resulting in reduced resolution and simplified color palette compared to the source material. The portraits definitely look ugly in this GBA format, but I think it fits the gritty atmosphere of Elden Ring.

Most of the writing in the game is taken directly from Elden Ring, with occasional minor differences so that it makes sense in the context of the gameplay. I didn’t want to add too much of my own writing other than gameplay-related text so that it can be as close to the source material as possible. Elden Ring’s lore is very cryptic in typical FromSoft fashion, and I did not think it would be appropriate to insert my own theories into Elden Emblem. This is also why there are no support conversations. Characters in Elden Ring never actually talk to each other directly, and adding in my own conversations would feel unnatural (however, there are still supports for gameplay bonuses between characters that are connected in some way).

About Me

Fire Emblem and the Souls series are two of my favorite franchises, so I wanted to merge the two with this project. I am fairly new to rom hacking and this is the first rom hack that I am making public. I have dabbled with a few other FE hack projects before this while learning FEBuilder, and now I feel pretty comfortable with it, though there is always more to learn. I have always had a passion for game development and have worked on my own games in Gamemaker as well.

Progress/Plans

As of now, I estimate that Elden Emblem is 60-70% complete, and I figured that Morgott would be a good place to stop for now, make it public and see if I could get some feedback. I plan to hopefully finish the rest of it someday. For mandatory content, I still need to add the Mountaintop of the Giants, the Fire Giant, Crumbling Farum Azula, Maliketh, and then the boss rush at the end. I plan to balance those areas around the expectation of having a team of units who are level 20 with competent builds. The level cap will have been reached for these areas, but rune gain on these maps will likely increase so that you can continue leveling up in a sense. Major areas that could potentially be added as optional content are Nokron, Nokstella, Mt. Gelmir, the Volcano Manor, and maybe the Consecrated Snowfields and the Haligtree. Also, I just remembered, the Maiden’s Blood… It doesn’t do anything currently, but it might do something important in the future. I don’t know what exactly, but possibly to fight the real Mohg? It sells for hella runes though…

[Speak]

I was literally thinking about a Elden Ring inspired FE game, thank you so much for making this! I’m gonna download it and play it right away!

[Fringus]

seems to currently crash when trying to finish the optional maps or entering new ones on the worldmap

[BadHunter]

Interesting, I haven’t experienced crashing and I haven’t been able to replicate the issue, though there is a little visual glitch when it goes to the save screen after completing Limgrave East. I assume this is where the crash is happening? Also, is it crashing when trying to enter any chapter from the world map or only the optional maps?

[HeroVP]

Played up to Sellia Manor in call with some friends last night, we kept excitedly pointing out the references/locations we recognized, and it was overall a great time. Some quick notes

1. In terms of team comp, there’s a pretty notable lack of dex weapon users earlygame, especially considering you get a fair amount of them through events and such. If you wanted to add one, Rogier, Yura, Diallos, or Kenneth Haight would all be decent options. Similarly, the game has a fair amount of bows, but seemingly no one to use them.

2. Speaking of, Dex weapons (assuming I am correct in my 5 minutes of testing and they are weapons that substitute speed for strength) are absurdly strong. Speed is already the best stat in FE by far, and making it a main damage stat for Dex builds encourages them to max out their speed and nothing else, which is especially rough in a game with permanent buyable stat boosters. I would personally recommend swapping Dex weapons to scaling off of skill

3. The units in the same classes as each other very much feel like there’s an obvious “good one” and “bad one”. Nepheli has a prf and better growths than Hewg in every way, Corhyn has a good skill and better stats than Roderica in every way (yeah, summoning is neat, but it being a green unit is really rough) and Sellen joins 6 levels ahead of Thops with a massive lead in magic and skill.

4. In general, the game has a decently big cast, but deployment slots feel very limited. For bosses, that makes sense, but there are a lot of maps that only give you 4 units when I have like, 10, and that seems weird.

5. A lot of item names probably need to be shortened, they don’t fit in the inventory, which looks a little rough.

6. Melina is really strong, 4 weapon types, inspiration, and miracle makes it so that there is basically no reason not to use her and that she upstages a lot of units that share her role (ie: Roderica and Corhyn are on even thinner ice since she can heal).

7. There’s a strange lack of speed tiers in this game. Nepheli and Melina double basically everything, and the Tarnished has fine speed as a cleric, but basically every other unit has no speed. This is especially notable in Liurnia 1, which is the only map I didn’t really like, the gargoyles are very fast and will one round all of your mages, and the fog and swamp makes it very difficult to escape them once you see them coming. Hit rates are also very low across the board early on, which can make some early maps pretty frustrating if you get unlucky. If skill/luck items were cheaper, this would be less of an issue

8. 20 is a really low level cap for a game this long. I get it if you want most of your progression to come from buying stat boosters, but you’re going to be at level cap for a while, which might get boring to some people as your characters stop naturally progressing

9. Boss fights are pretty cool, the non-weapon skill items are really cool, in general this is just a really cool game with a lot of thought put into it. Might have more to say later, but for now I’m just going to keep playing

Also, pretty big bug, if you accidentally revist Sellia, you lose access to Millicent and she’ll take your swords with her

Edit: Finished the hack, I have some updated thoughts

1. First off, I was wrong about dex weapons, they don’t have any special formulas, kinda wish they did, to make them different from normal weapons, but oh well.
2. The wormfaces in Altus just shouldn’t have lethality, that’s pretty lame design. They could just have less move instead, but still.
3. Being at max level for a large portion of the campaign is weird. It does let you train your weaker units pretty easily, but it also really limits your progression outside of buying stats, which I personally think is a little overpriced (not balance wise, but it feels like you should be able to do it more often given it’s supposed to be the main form of progression)
4. I do really like this cast of characters gameplay wise, but I have no clue how you are supposed to beat the game without Alexander’s rally defense, Nepheli’s stats, or Melina’s inspiration, which makes me skeptical of this being a hack with permadeath.
5. I also have found that the really big maps (especially Leyendell) are very tiring and could be cut in half without much being lost. In general, many overworld maps are fairly compartmentalized, which leads to the #1 way to clear them being to pick a direction and bring your entire squad either clockwise or counterclockwise, killing everything pretty easily. There’s not a lot of depth strategy wise.
6. Fire Magic and Bows feel like afterthoughts.
7. Final thing, a lot of chests are broken such that they automatically swap back to their closed sprites, and some of them also refill their contents.

In general I still think this is a fun project and an interesting port, but one that could use a bit more polish, especially in terms of map design and weapon design. I know Elden Ring is a massive game, but often, less is more in terms of crafting a cohesive experience

[BadHunter]

Hey HeroVP, thanks for the thoughtful feedback and thanks for playing the game. It means a lot to me, really.

First things first, I’m sorry about the bug with Millicent . I hope you were at least able to reload and didn’t lose her and her weapons. If you did, let me know and I can make a patch for you to bring her back with the weapons she had if you want. I will try to have a fix for that bug today so that it doesn’t happen anymore. I will also hopefully have a fix for the chests in the same patch.

I agree with a lot of your points. I definitely agree about the lack of dex users and bow users in the early game. Those characters you suggested are somehow characters that I’ve mostly ignored in all my playthroughs of Elden Ring so I didn’t think to include them. Rogier is an excellent suggestion though and he can definitely be an early recruit as a dex user with some magic utility. I will try to find a way to make bows usable in the early game as well. Originally archer was one of the classes that the Tarnished one could choose as its starting class but I replaced it with soldier because lance users are also scarce outside of Alexander.

Hewg and Roderika are mostly intended to just help out in the beginning until you get better characters to replace them, though I wouldn’t be opposed to buffing Hewg a little so that he isn’t so outclassed by Nepheli. I’d do it either by making him more tanky and Nepheli more of a glass cannon so that they feel more distinguished, or by giving him a unique Blacksmith class instead. Roderika is a weird unit because of the summoning. Summoning can be a really cheesy strategy due to how the enemy targets summons, so I kinda want her to stay a bad unit to discourage players from relying on her summons. She helps out in the first map and can be used to potentially cheese some bosses, but I don’t want her to be particularly usable outside of that. Thops is also mostly intended to be bad because it fits his character and he is a less conventional mage, though I may give him a buff to his HP and Str so that he can at least use his prf more effectively and function as a more competent Rock Sling user.

As far as the limited deployment slots goes, I may increase the number of deployment slots on some maps, especially if I add more characters. However I do generally prefer the gameplay offered by carrying a lower number of units per map because it forces characters to be a little more self-dependent, and carrying large armies across big maps can be tiring.

I agree that the Liurnia map is a bit sloggish and this is one of the maps that I think could benefit from having more deployment slots, especially so that you could have some spare units to carry out Rya’s quest and still have enough units left over to continue making good progress on the map. I can see how the gargoyles can be annoying, especially without having knowledge beforehand about them coming as reinforcements. It was intended to incentivize going to the cave quickly and the reinforcements stop after visiting the cave, but yeah, there is no way of knowing that, and doing the quest will slow the player down from reaching the cave quickly, especially with limited deployment slots.

As for the level cap, I will see how it feels after adding more to the game, but I personally would like to make the latter half of the game more about refining the builds on your units by choosing the right weapons and items to use on each unit. Almost like Fire Emblem Heroes when I used to play it. Pretty much all of the content in that game had the expectation that you would be at max level, but the build is what determines how a unit performs. This is also how Elden Ring plays out, where you reach some of the soft caps well before the end of the game, and then you have a build in place and it becomes more about fine-tuning your build. I can see how no longer gaining levels can take away from some of the fun, but like I said, I will see how it feels once I add more.

I like the idea of lowering the prices on the stat boosters. Especially for Skill and Luck because those stats are definitely less valuable and maxing out Skill on a unit early still isn’t really going to break them. It would make it more worthwhile to build around those stats for some cool builds involving weapons that proc skills off of Skill, and Luck builds involving Breaths would be more viable.

Thanks again for taking the time to play through it and write out a detailed critique. You’ve given me a lot to work with to improve the game.

[HeroVP]

Thanks for the response! Glad you found the feedback helpful, looking forward to playing the rest of this when it comes out

I just ended up replaying her join map again, wasn’t too bad. I’m good, don’t need a patch, but I appreciate you offering.

One more quick thing I forgot to mention is that the game has an abundance of pretty low-impact stat boosters (anything that boosts a stat by less than 2). In the earlygame, that’s fine, it’s interesting to have to maximize +1 damage with swords or +1 str/dex/spd and -2 def/res, but once your units are promoted, you run into both an inventory issue, as you have more weapons and more weapon types, but the same amount of inventory space, and these small stat boosts just become less valuable due to them being a smaller overall portion of your stats. During the later maps, you still get pretty mediocre stat boosting items that are very hard to fit into your builds (and if you want small deployments, which is fair, this problem gets worse, as often can’t afford to bring your second best mage for your third best magic booster.)

If you don’t want to make the raw stat boosts stronger, that’s chill, I would just swap them out for conditional larger stat boosts (the earlygame +3 def shield when not initiating is a good example)

[BadHunter]

New 1.1 patch is out that fixes/adjusts/adds some things:

• Fixed a bug where Millicent would restart as a green unit when entering Sellia after she is already recruited.
• Slightly buffed Hewg’s base HP and Str.
• Greatly buffed Thops’ base HP, Str, and Mag, and buffed his Str growth.
• Added Rogier as a playable unit. Joins automatically after Stormveil 1. If you already have a save file beyond Stormveil 1, then you can get him by entering the Leyndell map instead, and you can just retreat at the door and you will keep him.
• Changed Moonveil because Rogier is now the main Dex/Int archetype, so I wanted to make it synergize with him better. Before, Moonveil had Arcane Blade. This wouldn’t stack with Rogier’s personal skill, so I changed Moonveil to act as a dark magic sword that deals adaptive damage. I also adjusted Moonveil’s stats to better fit this new rendition.
• Lowered price of Skill booster from 2000 to 1000.
• Lowered price of Luck booster from 2000 to 1500.
• Added two more deployment slots to Liurnia. Also moved Tarnished to the bottom right slot so that the other units can get ahead while the Tarnished one talks to Thops. Also added an event that hints at the reinforcements.
• Added one more deployment slot to Stormveil 2, Carian Manor, and Ranni’s Rise.
• The Invader at the beginning of the Caelid map will no longer respawn after defeating it.
• Shortened the number of turns reinforcements spawn from the top in Leyndell.
• Male myrmidon class growths lowered to match female. Male myrmidon growths were not adjusted before, so they had their vanilla version growths which were way too high. This is only relevant for one of the extra characters you get for clearing the final chapter.
• Sword of Night and Flame is now Dark type magic at range instead of Anima.
• Increased the runes gained from the Invader that Varre spawns at the church when a unit stops at the castle in Liurnia.
• Fixed a bug in Liurnia in which 2 events shared the same event flag, meaning that only one of the two events would trigger. These events were the boiled prawn event at the shack and the event at the gate of Raya Lucaria. They now have independent flags so they should both be activatable without canceling each other out.
• Broken Needle is now obtained from a chest behind O’Neill in Caelid. It was supposed to drop from an event in O’Neill’s death quote, but it was acting weird and dropping at a seemingly random time after defeating O’Neill, so I changed it to a chest so that it has more consistent behavior.
• The Black Bow chest was bugged causing the chest to be repeatedly obtainable and it wouldn’t change its tile. This one left me dumbfounded, as everything in the event looked correct, and it was still having the same bug even after changing which event flag it used, so it couldn’t be that the flag was being reset by something else. Decided to simply make the Black Bow drop from the nearby enemy. It is functionally the same since the enemy can’t use it, but now the Black Bow will not be repeatedly obtainable.

You can download the new patch (EldenEmblem_v1.1.ups) from the link in the original post and patch it onto an unmodded Sacred Stones rom.

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Try The Unbroken Thread.

Edit: this hack looks super cool, might wait a bit before trying it to see if anything gets added before jumping into it