5.1 Mid Season Patch

Hello everybody! Here is the midseason patch, many of you have expressed how tough it is to reach NG+20 on this season. This patch is aimed at giving some more power and helping diversify even more the party compositions and characters. Many characters has been reworked so they work BETTER on the current systems, and the espers has been revised, so they should be far more impactful now in battle. There is a couple more surprises here and there, I'll let you guys discover them!

Some of you are getting really close to the NG+20 ending line, keep it up! I wonder who is gonna be the first streamer to do so :)

General Bug Fixes:

• Many unintended interactions and animations has been corrected. For the most part, I only fixed the ones that detrimental to the party or the characters. I left the powerful/useful ones you guys discovered  on this season intact.

New animations:

• A plethora of new animations has been added to the game, replacing some of the most boring-repetitive ones for some more flashy displays! There is about +40 new ones in total!
• Limit Break animations has been added to the entire cast, now you can see the impact coming!

Espers:

• 10 New espers has been added!
• All of the old espers has received a MASSIVE buff, here is the complete list:
• Ifrit: Potency increased from 40 to 70
• Shiva: Potency increased from 40 to 70
• Quetzal: Potency increased from 40 to 70
• Siren: HP absorbed increased from 5% to 25%
• Bahamut: ATB recovered from 8% to 22%
• Pupu: Party recovery from 2% to 10%
• Diablos: HP dealt from 3% to 5%
• Golem: In adition to doubling your DEF, you also gain + 10 base speed

Buffs and Reworks:

• Most characters in the entire cast has received a power up with their Limit breaks, in 95% instances, they should be hitting harder, and healing more than before.
• Many FF8 Characters has been upgraded to the now standard limit break system, instead of being at low HP to trigger them, now they have to take turns and receive hits to charge their Limit break, like the rest of the cast.
• Many of the lackluster characters has been reworked a bit so they work better with the current systems, here is a comprehensive list:
• Cloud: No longer a hybrid character, lost his ability to cast Thunder in favor of a pure physical damager.
• Barret: No longer a hybrid character, lost his ability to cast Blizzard in favor of a pure physical damager. His Limit break also charges up faster than before.
• Rinoa: Is now a pure healer, she no longer has physical hits on her base kit. She also got a new Limit Break...?
• Quistis: She gained a new limit break under a new mechanic. Its a really powerful AoE Magic attack that needs to be charged with the help of other characters, like Aeris/Zack/Rikku.
• Selphie: She no longer needs to be at low HP to use her Slots. And when using them, she can now cast magics from 2 to 3 times, instead of 1 to 3.
• Kiros: Gained a speedboost, and also gains his Limit Break normally instead of requiring being at low HP.
• Seifer: Demon Slice now is slightly more powerful than renzokuken, and also has better chances to trigger his follow up: Blood Fest
• Edea: Has gained the Limit Break: Maelstorm. 
• Ultimecia: Ultima has been replaced with Earthquake, and instead, Ultima is now her Limit Break.
• Beatrix: Her Limit break has been reworked to an extremely powerful version. Needs help of other supports to charge it up.
• Lulu: No longer charges her magic up. Her limit break has been buffed to cast any of her spells from 2 to 3 times.

NG+ Kept

• Now, when the party loses on a NG+, they no longer go down a NG+ immediately. Instead, the party must wipe 5 times before the NG+ goes down one level.

Perfomance:

• FFbot should be more stable now. hipcus when loading for the fist time a new animation should be a bit alleviated on the less powerful machines.