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Changelogs
Version 1.1.9
Made certain enemies immune to Stop and/or Sleep in order to prevent these effects from interfering with enemies' death AI. In some cases, enemies were given lowered resistances to other status effects to compensate.
Removed Stop effect from GIM52A's Snipe Laser.
Irvine's [Gun] Parts items now describe the guns' properties.
(Remastered PC only) Changed Aurabolt's description to match the other versions'.
Version 1.1.8
(Remastered PC) The download now includes pre-patched FFVIII_EFIGS.dll files for 1.0.1, 1.0.2, and 1.0.3.
Slightly increased the effect of Darkness, Silence, Slow, and Defend on Crisis Level.
Slightly increased all standard GFs' HP.
Fixed an issue in which the gain from Str+25% was set to +20% instead of +25%.
Increased power of Lv?Curse at all Crisis Levels and changed the divisor at Crisis Level 1 from 4 to 3.
White Wind now functions as standard curative magic when determining the amount of HP healed.
***Crisis Level 1: Slightly stronger than Pray and slightly weaker than Cure.
***Crisis Level 2: Slightly weaker than Cura.
***Crisis Level 3: Slightly weaker than Curaga.
***Crisis Level 4: Stronger than Curaga.
Slightly increased Quistis' STR in the early game and the STR and/or base power of some of her weapons.
Added Slow to Aurabolt's list of status effects and increased the chance of inflicting an effect.
Increased Tonberry (summon)'s power.
Increased Cactuar (summon)'s power.
Increased the following enemies' chance to drop an item: Bomb, Hexadragon, Blood Soul, Armadodo, Wendigo, Death Claw, Grand Mantis, Adamantoise, Vysage, Tonberry, Funguar, Eliminator, X-ATM092.
Increased the chance of successfully Mugging the following enemies: Adamantoise, Mobile Type 8
Changed high-level Bombs' most common drop to Bomb Spirit.
X-ATM092 will now drop a Megalixir at low levels.
Lowered Mesmerize's STR at high levels slightly.
Lowered Grand Mantis' HP and increased weakness to Thunder to 200%.
Changed Righty's Mug/Drops at high levels.
Fixed an issue in which a Confused Adamantoise would cast Haste and Reflect on itself instead of a player character.
Mid-level Adamantoises are more likely to yield Whisper than before. It occupies the third Mug slot and the second Drop slot.
Made Adamantoises more likely to appear on the beach on Winter Island.
***Mid-level Admantoises can be found on the beach on Winter Island as well as the isolated beach in the southeastern part of Centra.
Fixed a crash that would occur in the NORG fight when Right Orb attempted to dispel Aura.
Changed Seifer (3)'s extra attack while under Aura status to a regular attack instead of a crit.
Changed Seifer (4)'s first two Mug slots to Holy Water x10 and Remedy x5; the last two slots contain Megalixirs as before.
Lowered Seifer (4)'s Slow and Confusion resistance.
Lowered Omega Weapon's max HP from 256,000 to 224,000.
Lowered Red Giant's Poison and Zombie resistance.
Lowered Tiamat's Slow resistance.
Increased number of Chef's Knives that can be Mugged and Dropped from Tonberry.
Added a note about Irvine's weapons when he joins the party; also, one of each [Weapon] Parts item is added to your inventory when he joins.
Added a message displaying how much the player has donated to the Trabia Garden fund to make the sidequest's objective clearer.
Changed NPC dialogue in Shumi Village to hint at stronger monsters being found on the western side of Winter Island.
Changed NPC dialogue in Esthar to hint at stronger monsters being in high, Ragnarok-only locations on the world map.
Changed NPC dialogue in the Presidential Palace post-Lunar Cry to hint at stronger monsters being found at Tears' Point (post Lunar Cry, pre-Disc 4 only).
Added some dialogue in the Presidential Palace that hints at the Sorceress Memorial sidequest that was excluded from the Remastered/Switch versions by mistake.
Version 1.1.7
Reduced the number of fixed encounters when using Zell to open the door to Deep Sea Deposit.
Included more chances to encounter Adamantoises in Deep Sea Deposit.
Version 1.1.6
Fixed an issue in which Flare would damage Edea(3) when cast on herself under Reflect status.
(Switch) Fixed instances in which Magic Summon would cause a crash when spawning certain enemies in the Aberrant Monsters and Sorceress Memorial sidequests.
Version 1.1.5
Removed Mobile Type 8 battle from Zell's stint as party leader on Disc 3.
The FFVIII_EFIGS.dll patch for the 1.0.3 update to FFVIII Remastered is now included in the archive.
Version 1.1.4
Changed the Elastoid in the final battle of the second Laguna dream to an Eliminator, preventing a crash that would sometimes occur when killing the Elastoid.
Version 1.1.3
Fixed an issue in which the sidequest with the drunkard in FH was accessible earlier than intended.
Fixed an issue in which using a Scan Stone on Seifer would cause a softlock.
Version 1.1.2
Fixed a crash that could occur when fighting "Sorceress" (1) under certain conditions.
Fixed a crash that could occur when fighting Vysage under certain conditions.
Fixed a typo.
(Switch) Made some minor adjustments to certain enemies' HP and drop tables to reflect the PC version.
Version 1.1.1
- Early Strength growth of Squall, Quistis, Zell, and Rinoa increased.
- Rinoa's Luck increased.
- Increased Crit Bonus of all of Rinoa's weapons except for Shooting Star.
- Darkside's AP cost decreased from 100 to 80.
- Changed the required crafting materials for various weapons, also fixing an oversight in which Zell's second weapon wasn't able to be made until later than intended.
- Added weapon upgrade requirements to the included info document.
- Both the 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 .ips patches are now included in the mod files archive.
