Hello, first, I wanted to say thank you a lot for your mod, you have done a wonderful job. But i have a question, maybe you already answered, but i cannot find any answer. The increase of enemy´s stats is already included in your mod or do i need to download another mod along yours?. I´m not very advanced yet (chapter 4), so i wanted to know if your mod is enough to increase enemy´s hp, attack and defense. Thank you in advice
Hi there, no, the mod has no change in enemy's stats hence you would need to download another mod if you want to further increase the difficulty. Btw, I wanted to let you know that I am in the middle of releasing a newer version that has even more enemy variants across all chapters. I am not sure if you can wait for it (even I myself am not sure when I will be releasing it as I need to do more beta testing myself). But regardless, I hope you are enjoying the current version and hopefully you get to try out the newer version soon.
Hi, unfortunately this is not possible to do. Each boss can only exist in their respective chapter as their stats, models, behaviors, are only defined in their chapter.
Hi there, sorry for late reply. Actually this ''Difficulty Hardcore - Ultimate Full Package'' is kinda outdated (I should have remove it from the download list, my bad really. I think this was the very initial release version of the mod). I would recommend that you download the latest version (both the Hardcore and the VR-Colosseum Hardcore) for more up to date changes. Then you would need to download the Full Package mod from Gameplay Enhancement.
Very Important: If you are planning to install the latest version，make sure to have the hardcore mods to be listed below Gameplay Enhancement Full package mod in your mods folder. You may need to rename and add prefix of multiple 'z's on both of the hardcore mods (e.g: zzzHardcore.pak). This way, we can be sure that the hardcore mods will always listed below the gameplay enhancement mod. This is necessary to ensure that the hardcore mods' changes would take precedence first before gameplay enhancement mod take effect. Then you would need to uninstall this hardcore full package that you are playing now.
Once again I apologize for late reply.
EDIT: Oh wow, I just came across your videos in YouTube! I am flattered really :D Thanks for showcasing the mod (even though regrettably it is not the latest version, but still happy to see the videos). The version that you are playing is in fact harder (but still do-able) than the latest version but the latest version has more 'interesting' battles, heheh. Just so you know, I may release newer versions from time to time to further balance and adjust the enemy variations where necessary.
Здравствуйте, хочу поставить ваш мод, подскажите пожалуйста какие файлы ставить, чтобы прочувствовать полное содержание (хардкор)? Вот эти два: 1a) Hardcore Difficulty — Ultimate, 2a) Colosseum и VR Hardcore — со скидкой Gil или из дополнительных файлов, это Hardcore Difficulty — The Ultimate Complete Package, или вам нужно установить все три?
Not sure if I understood your question correctly, when you play the base game, you will be able to play the vr missions as clouds party. But if you are currently in yuffie dlc, then you will only get to play the vr missions as yuffie and sonon; and those vr missions are specific on the yuffie dlc. I have listed the battles of each vr mission in the description page for both base game and yuffie dlc.
ok,well its not showing up for me at tifa's bar place,it only show shiva fat chocobo and leviathan and i have the vr and colosseum installed but not the secret weis one
Okay I've been skimming the posts and trying to avoid too many redundant questions or wasting your time with lack of clarity so...
Do you know of any mods that would have the bonus content of hard modes but on the first playthrough with its level curve? Alternatively can the bonus content monsters and bosses be shoehorned into the colosseum and/or VR for the same purpose? How might I learn how to replace the monster encounters and such? Since a lot of bosses are cinematic heavy, can a boss per round be put in with a fairly high ranking enemy partner?
Also I'm a little confused on what parameters are changed in some of these. I'm starting collect a fair amount of gameplay change mods but most of them have like one parameter that is inconvenient or conflicting. The three things probably most important for me to have are no/high stat caps, a generous slowdown when using battle menu, and mechanics from classic combat like atb bar only raising via time. I'm pretty confused at the moment whether it would be more work to try to create my own mod with all my gameplay preferences or try to get the cocktail of mods to play nice.
Hi, I am not sure if I understood your questions correctly, but anyway here goes: 1) When you refer to bonus content monsters of hard mode, do you mean monsters that are only available in VR hard mode like Malboro, Pride n Joy etc? If that's the case then yes, this mod actually included them in some of the chapters. (I actually meant to keep it a secret since I want players to explore the chapters themselves, but oh well ;) ). As for chapter bosses, no you can't replace them and you can't have them spawn in other battle areas because just as you said, they are cinematic heavy and moving them out will cause the game to crash.
2) In terms of no high stat caps, do you mean something like having characters to have beyond 9999 HP for example? I think there already exists a standalone mod that achieves this purpose (I am not 100% sure about it but I have an impression that this mod was uploaded before). Same goes for the slowdown when using battle menu and classic combat as well. When I have the chance I will try to search for them.
3) You will definitely gonna spend more time and effort to make your own mod compared to searching and installing the mods but the rewards are much worth it! Sure the learning curve will be steep at first especially at the beginning when you first learn how to mod, but once you get the grasp of it, it will become easy. What's more satisfying to have your own customized mod that suits your own gaming preference right? ;)
A week ago I started the "Gameplay Enhancement" and now I discover this mod. Very cool! I have to restart ;-)
But I want more!!!!
If it's not too time consuming, can you boost all opponents (normal, elite and bosses) again with additional HP x 3? I would be very happy about that! Gladly again with the exp bonus ;-) With the enhancement mod + this one I should get around 9-10x vanilla EnemyHP. If I'm right.
I also play with the full "Gameplay Enhancement" + "Aggressive Enemies 50%" mod and "max LvL to 99" mod because I don't want to stop at lvl 50. In addition, I also play with the "Stage select" mod with which I restart the chapter and, for example, slowly grind through chapter 1 if I'm stuck. I loved the grinding in the FF7 original.
The Ultimate version (the one you have downloaded) already contains the additional enemy stats boost, i.e 3x HP, 1.4x attack, 1.3x defense, and 50% stagger resistance. If you wish to play with full package Gameplay Enhancement, you can do so by downloading the 'Difficulty Hardcore - Ultimate Full Package' mod file from the Optional File Section. This is basically Ultimate Hardcore + Gameplay Enhancement Fullpackage. You do however need to uninstall any FullPackage Gameplay Enhancement that you had installed previously.
How is this mod in Hard Mode? I have a existing save file and tried the first few minutes on hard, but everything dies super fast. Is it worth going for lvl 99 enemy mod to increase the difficulty or does it ramp up later on?
I started a new game initially until chapter 7 but I got bored since I had to find and lvl up all my materia again
Hi there, nothing changed in Hard mode, the enemies remain at level 50. I understand that you may find the first few chapters to be easy in hard mode because you have already acquired (and probably mastered) all the strong materias. But as you progress in later chapters you may find some battles that should still be challenging enough, assuming you are not playing other mods that would buff the party. I reckon chapter 8 onward should give you some challenges.
Try out between chapter 8-17 and see how it goes. If you still find them easy, then yeah you could go for the lvl99 mod.
Hmmm, have you tried hitting it's leg parts? Destroying them will put it into pressure and then you can use skills like Focused Thrust or Focused Shot to stagger it. Save your limit breaks for it's staggered phase and should spam lightning magic during this phase. If all these still do not work out well, then I will investigate further.
Yes, I've broken both legs for stagger, but I didn't do enough damage to kill it in those two stagger windows.
Now i'm stuck in this neverending cycle of staggering him normally, and then he regens enough, and I can't keep up the pressure before I run out of pots.
Hi again, I am sorry that I missed out on your latest post, my bad. By any chance, did you install this mod? (https://www.nexusmods.com/finalfantasy7remake/mods/476).
If you did, then chances are that Cloud and Barret are dealing less damage than they should based on the latest comment on the mod. If you didn't install this mod, then I will have to investigate further. Sorry for the delay in replying you.
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Can you make like a story boss rush? Like you put all the story boss in a VR battle? TIA
Very Important: If you are planning to install the latest version，make sure to have the hardcore mods to be listed below Gameplay Enhancement Full package mod in your mods folder. You may need to rename and add prefix of multiple 'z's on both of the hardcore mods (e.g: zzzHardcore.pak). This way, we can be sure that the hardcore mods will always listed below the gameplay enhancement mod. This is necessary to ensure that the hardcore mods' changes would take precedence first before gameplay enhancement mod take effect. Then you would need to uninstall this hardcore full package that you are playing now.
Once again I apologize for late reply.
EDIT: Oh wow, I just came across your videos in YouTube! I am flattered really :D Thanks for showcasing the mod (even though regrettably it is not the latest version, but still happy to see the videos). The version that you are playing is in fact harder (but still do-able) than the latest version but the latest version has more 'interesting' battles, heheh. Just so you know, I may release newer versions from time to time to further balance and adjust the enemy variations where necessary.
Do you know of any mods that would have the bonus content of hard modes but on the first playthrough with its level curve? Alternatively can the bonus content monsters and bosses be shoehorned into the colosseum and/or VR for the same purpose? How might I learn how to replace the monster encounters and such? Since a lot of bosses are cinematic heavy, can a boss per round be put in with a fairly high ranking enemy partner?
Also I'm a little confused on what parameters are changed in some of these. I'm starting collect a fair amount of gameplay change mods but most of them have like one parameter that is inconvenient or conflicting. The three things probably most important for me to have are no/high stat caps, a generous slowdown when using battle menu, and mechanics from classic combat like atb bar only raising via time. I'm pretty confused at the moment whether it would be more work to try to create my own mod with all my gameplay preferences or try to get the cocktail of mods to play nice.
1) When you refer to bonus content monsters of hard mode, do you mean monsters that are only available in VR hard mode like Malboro, Pride n Joy etc? If that's the case then yes, this mod actually included them in some of the chapters. (I actually meant to keep it a secret since I want players to explore the chapters themselves, but oh well ;) ). As for chapter bosses, no you can't replace them and you can't have them spawn in other battle areas because just as you said, they are cinematic heavy and moving them out will cause the game to crash.
2) In terms of no high stat caps, do you mean something like having characters to have beyond 9999 HP for example? I think there already exists a standalone mod that achieves this purpose (I am not 100% sure about it but I have an impression that this mod was uploaded before). Same goes for the slowdown when using battle menu and classic combat as well. When I have the chance I will try to search for them.
3) You will definitely gonna spend more time and effort to make your own mod compared to searching and installing the mods but the rewards are much worth it! Sure the learning curve will be steep at first especially at the beginning when you first learn how to mod, but once you get the grasp of it, it will become easy. What's more satisfying to have your own customized mod that suits your own gaming preference right? ;)
This mod is awesome!!!!
A week ago I started the "Gameplay Enhancement" and now I discover this mod. Very cool! I have to restart ;-)
But I want more!!!!
If it's not too time consuming, can you boost all opponents (normal, elite and bosses) again with additional HP x 3? I would be very happy about that! Gladly again with the exp bonus ;-)
With the enhancement mod + this one I should get around 9-10x vanilla EnemyHP. If I'm right.
I also play with the full "Gameplay Enhancement" + "Aggressive Enemies 50%" mod and "max LvL to 99" mod because I don't want to stop at lvl 50. In addition, I also play with the "Stage select" mod with which I restart the chapter and, for example, slowly grind through chapter 1 if I'm stuck. I loved the grinding in the FF7 original.
And I need a new challenge after Elden Ring ;-)
The Ultimate version (the one you have downloaded) already contains the additional enemy stats boost, i.e 3x HP, 1.4x attack, 1.3x defense, and 50% stagger resistance. If you wish to play with full package Gameplay Enhancement, you can do so by downloading the 'Difficulty Hardcore - Ultimate Full Package' mod file from the Optional File Section. This is basically Ultimate Hardcore + Gameplay Enhancement Fullpackage. You do however need to uninstall any FullPackage Gameplay Enhancement that you had installed previously.
I think "Difficulty Hardcore - Ultimate Full Package" is the same as "1a. from this mod + 2-12 from the "Gampley Enhanced mod"
Am I right?
I started a new game initially until chapter 7 but I got bored since I had to find and lvl up all my materia again
Try out between chapter 8-17 and see how it goes. If you still find them easy, then yeah you could go for the lvl99 mod.
I can't stagger him and then dps through his regen.
Any tips?
Yes, I've broken both legs for stagger, but I didn't do enough damage to kill it in those two stagger windows.
Now i'm stuck in this neverending cycle of staggering him normally, and then he regens enough, and I can't keep up the pressure before I run out of pots.
Kind of stuck around 10-15% hp.
If you did, then chances are that Cloud and Barret are dealing less damage than they should based on the latest comment on the mod. If you didn't install this mod, then I will have to investigate further. Sorry for the delay in replying you.