Yeah, with the weight system factored in, the females actually lose speed. It doesn’t really matter much for most FEs since there are basically no female enemies to speak of. But with hacking factored in, where female enemies actually exist, it does become a problem.
If we’re being realistic then the female units should have significantly lower stats in everything but maybe res but of course this id no fun and they might as well go all the way with making stats identical if they’re not gonna make them realistic anyway rather than hit an unsatisfying midpoint.
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The best option is to make female and male stats the same, except for their build. Realism shouldn’t be an issue here since if FE was completely realistic, women wouldn’t even be on the battlefield at all.
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As Dark Souls has taught us,
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Weight against skill makes sense from a game design perspective but I think basing it off of strength really is just the way to go. Thracia has its growing con but also wtf guess what your mages can’t use their meager cons to mitigate weapon weight at all.
In RD late game especially, weapon weight really becomes a non-issue because all of your units have absurd stats, so making the mitigation Weight - (str/2) might be for the best. Three houses does str/5 but that’s so scuffed and makes doubling much harder than it needs to be
god i love not fire emblem
There really aren’t that many female enemies to begin with and the only female mage is lute who has actually decent con and the only female myrmidon is Marisa who’d be shit no matter what.
Also, Neimi is bad not because she’s a female archer but because she’s an archer to begin with.
how i feel after playing this hack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Otz6JdA4ao
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I feel like I’m the only one who likes CON. It just makes sense you can be really strong but if you have a tiny body with little mass, wielding a giant sword is gonna prove more difficult than if you were larger. I also feel like it provides characters with more identity and gives us a perspective of how they would actually fair in combat with certain weapons. I know a lot of people will disagree but I don’t like the idea that because two units have the same strength or skill that they should have the same penalties.
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this could be renamed to FE8 Debug mode and nothing would be out of place