Well, I figured I might like to see what I've been missing over the last few months. Could have been a year for all I know, but I'll be installing the game again very soon!
So, just to fill me in, what has been achieved over the last few years that I should be aware of? Mods, meshes, little scripting things. The lot.
And how do i kill shadow?
Huh...the line with Alchemiss telling you how to beat her didn't show? [spoiler]Well, in any case, destroy all the pillars in her lair to lighten the mood. :thumbdown: Ugh, nevermind the pun.[/spoiler]
-darkphoenixII
Quote from: darkphoenixII on February 18, 2007, 11:24:03 AM
Huh...the line with Alchemiss telling you how to beat her didn't show? [spoiler]Well, in any case, destroy all the pillars in her lair to lighten the mood. :thumbdown: Ugh, nevermind the pun.[/spoiler]
-darkphoenixII
Uh, I'm pretty sure Reep was joking... The "How do you kill Shadow?" question has been a long-standing joke around here. In the early days, it was the single question most asked by new board members...
Quote from: Alaric on February 18, 2007, 12:31:49 PM
Quote from: darkphoenixII on February 18, 2007, 11:24:03 AM
Huh...the line with Alchemiss telling you how to beat her didn't show? [spoiler]Well, in any case, destroy all the pillars in her lair to lighten the mood. :thumbdown: Ugh, nevermind the pun.[/spoiler]
-darkphoenixII
Uh, I'm pretty sure Reep was joking... The "How do you kill Shadow?" question has been a long-standing joke around here. In the early days, it was the single question most asked by new board members...
No, i was just stuck.
:P
I read that I should challenge her to scrabble and hide all the 'Q's, which didn't help.
Quote from: Reepicheep on February 18, 2007, 12:59:39 PM
Quote from: Alaric on February 18, 2007, 12:31:49 PM
Quote from: darkphoenixII on February 18, 2007, 11:24:03 AM
Huh...the line with Alchemiss telling you how to beat her didn't show? [spoiler]Well, in any case, destroy all the pillars in her lair to lighten the mood. :thumbdown: Ugh, nevermind the pun.[/spoiler]
-darkphoenixII
Uh, I'm pretty sure Reep was joking... The "How do you kill Shadow?" question has been a long-standing joke around here. In the early days, it was the single question most asked by new board members...
No, i was just stuck.
:P
I read that I should challenge her to scrabble and hide all the 'Q's, which didn't help.
[spoiler]You're supposed to hide the
'Z's, not the 'Q's.[/spoiler]
I remember the first time I played the game and Shadow was prattling about being invincible as long as she stood in the shadows.
I thought, "Aha! I just need to snuff all those candles scattered around. Then there won't be any shadows."
[spoiler]
Quote from: Urthman on February 18, 2007, 08:05:51 PMI remember the first time I played the game and Shadow was prattling about being invincible as long as she stood in the shadows.
I thought, "Aha! I just need to snuff all those candles scattered around. Then there won't be any shadows."
I am sure glad someone else analyzed that clue the same way I did!
The odd thing about that level, at least when I played it the first couple times, was that there wasn't much chance of the pillars getting destroyed by accident. The only character I initially took in who was doing area damage was The Ant, and his acid bombs have no effect on objects. I wonder if IG arranged things that way deliberately? Only Man-Bot's poor aim and Minute Man's area melee attack are likely to help you out.
[/spoiler]
Quote from: stumpy on February 19, 2007, 04:00:47 AM
[spoiler]Quote from: Urthman on February 18, 2007, 08:05:51 PMI remember the first time I played the game and Shadow was prattling about being invincible as long as she stood in the shadows.
I thought, "Aha! I just need to snuff all those candles scattered around. Then there won't be any shadows."
I am sure glad someone else analyzed that clue the same way I did!
Uh, make that a third person
[spoiler]Try fourth. I just kept kicking her butt 'til Alchemiss finally said "The pillars look a little weak. I think we can bring this entire lair down around her ears with a little elbow grease." [/spoiler]
[spoiler]It's funny- when I first played the game, I put together the "her weakness is light" thing immediately, but I thought that meant that the key to defeating her was El Diablo's fire powers. I did work out the actual way before Alchemiss' hint, though- probably not long before, however.[/spoiler]
I had already cheated in Gambit from the X-men and missed with the '52 pick-up' power I gave him which easily knocked out a pillar... If not for that, who knows if I might have been among the many who popped in here with that question...
Can anyone tell me where I can get hold of the character tool/FFedit and the update nowadays?
Are the mods tools still up at FFans?
If they aren't, someone send them to me, for both games, along with the patch, and I will make them available on my site.
Fortunately, the mod tools for both games are still up at http://www.freedomfans.com/modforce/. The links to the FF 1.3 patch download (IG never hosted that at its own site) are still at http://www.freedomfans.com/ffpc/downloads.php. Even the links to the demos for both games are still up.
Haha, I analyzed that clue the same way, Stumpy, must have wasted near on an hour trying to snuff all of those candles.........
Ditto. Yeesh, I remember being pretty frustrated with Shadow & Co slowly wearing down my guys as I scrambled around trying to snuff the candles and then nothing happens when they're all out. Nowadays, after all that, I would probably just cheat and look at the mission script, but back then I didn't know any Python...
Right you are - found the things I needed. The official site wasn't working for me earlier, but I think that might have been my side of the internet.
Incidently, my internet is also causing me to be unable to download any of those. Its been incredibally off-and-on recently, and any downloads I'm trying to do stop altogether when my internet shuts down. I've been trying to download EZ-FX, the update, the editor and FFX, but I can't do any. Without those, the game experience just won't be the same. :(
Any ideas on why my internet might be so slow? I can't tell you the details because I have no idea what they are.
Have you run spy-ware and virus checking software lately?
Nothing grind your connection speed to a halt like a few thousand instances of malware and a 12pack of trojans...
yeah... I know....