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About this mod
Updates Crystarium for Noel and Serah according to the details provided below. There are multiple versions of this mod so choose whichever one appeals most to you, your interests, and your playstyle. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did creating them!
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- NOTE: Some individuals have reported issues in trying to install this mod. Because of the way that this mod was developed to be compatible with other mods, it utilizes a patcher that was made for newer/beta versions of Nova which use a newer runtime. Be sure to install this version of runtime in order for the mod to work.
- NOTE: This is a Nova Chrysalia mod, so it's only designed to work with builds supported for that program. I believe that only the Steam release of FF13-2 qualifies, but I may be mistaken.
- NOTE: This mod may conflict with other mods, such as other crystarium, ability, or visual effect mods because of the files edited. Do not install this mod alongside those mods if you find that it is causing such issues.
Description
Crystarium Rebalanced
- Rebalances Crystarium for Noel & Serah enabling them to both learn all the abilities for each role that are available to them in the base game. This allows for greater interchangeability between paradigm roles for each character.
- For example, instead of Noel being a worse SAB or Serah being a worse SYN, this mod grants them both all the same abilities.
- Serah and Noel now also learn abilities at a similar pace but have gaps in their crystarium before they can learn abilities not normally available to them.
- Both now learn their originally assigned abilities a little faster than in the base game, but have a similar level spread as the base game for learning all of their abilities.
Crystarium from XIII Rebalanced
- Replaces Noel and Serah's crystariums with those from characters in the original FFXIII and rebalances them so that they both learn all abilities albeit later than before.
- Includes abilities that were new to FFXIII-2 like Wound that they would learn in their original crystariums.
- Serah's crystarium is replaced with the ability progression from the following characters' crystariums: Lightning's COM crystarium, Hope's RAV crystarium, Snow's SEN crystarium, Hope's SYN crystarium, Hope's MED crystarium, and Vanille's SAB crystarium.
- Noel's crystarium is replaced with the ability progression from the following characters' crystariums: Fang's COM crystarium, Lightning's RAV crystarium, Fang's SEN crystarium, Sazh's SYN crystarium, Vanille's MED crystarium, and Fang's SAB crystarium.
- Brings back abilities like Water, Slow, Haste, Daze, Pain, Fog, Evade, and Counter among others.
- Substitutes Enaero for Enwater as we are still figuring out how to make it work without issues.
Future Iterations:
- Planning to develop and release a mod that utilizes both XIII-1 character abilities in addition to XIII-2 monster abilities not normally available to Noel and Serah. This mod will mostly be rebalanced for role interchangeability, but will keep some uniqueness to Noel and Serah for some of their roles like only Serah getting access to Felflame and Felshock while only Noel gets access to Felfrost and Felgust.
Installing
- Before you begin, you will need 110 GB of free space to install Nova Chrysalia mod manager.
Installing Nova Chrysalia Mod Manager
- Open Steam and minimize it.
- Download Nova Chrysalia from the Discord server here. Latest download link will be in the #announcements channel.
- Extract the zip file and open NovaChrysalia.exe to open the mod manager.
- Set the FFXIII-2 Install Directory by going to the top-right of the Game Launcher tab and selecting "Browse." If you aren't sure where your Install Directory is, go to Steam, right-click the game title, select Manage -> Browse local files. Your file explorer window or equivalent should open up to where your game install directory is. You can use that for reference when you "Browse" in Nova.
- Above the "Launch Game" option, set the dot to "Final Fantasy XIII-2."
- There are options for "Final Fantasy XIII-2" settings. Go ahead and configure them to your preference.
- Under "Filesystem," select "Unpacked mode."
- There are buttons for "Unpack Game Data (EN Audio)" and "Unpack Game Data (JP Audio)." You may only need to do it for EN audio if playing on English audio, JP for JP audio. I do both to be safe, but it may be possible to do only one.
Installing the mod
- Download the mod from the Files section here.
- Add the mod by going to the ModPack Manager tab and selecting "Add ModPack," then select the .ncmp file you downloaded. This will let it show up in the list on the left-hand side.
- The "Monster Circle Begone" mod will now be on the list. Double-click on it and select "Install Mod." Let the terminal and process run. Once it has finished, a pop-up will show up saying that the installation has completed (sometimes it'll show up behind the main window, for which you'll have to move the main window to see it and click OK).
- You can uninstall it by double-clicking on the mod in the list and selecting "Uninstall Mod."
Credits
- A huge thanks to the Nova Chrysalia modding community on Discord, especially Chris and Drifting Dreamer for all their help in developing these mods. They have been super supportive in answering questions and testing as I brainstorm and develop these crystarium updates. Drifting Dreamer especially has been a huge help making sure abilities from monsters in FFXIII and abilities from the original FFXIII that do not work normally in XIII-2 are fixed and able to work for everyone's enjoyment!