(HT) Iconic Weapons

Description

Iconic weapons (the initial weapon for each character) is now buffed to be the best weapon available at any given point in the game.

The other weapons now only serve to learn new abilities from, which takes one single use.

The SP progression has been altered slightly, so cores take more levels to unlock, but the abilities are stronger.

At Weapon Level 6, you will unlock abilities geared toward Hard Mode survival and MP management.

Armor pieces have been rebalanced to hold more materia, based on my Armor Rebalance mod, with a couple of tweaks.

Starting materia slots for the iconic weapons are always two linked slots.

See the images for details on the exact changes.

Progression for non-iconic weapons has been removed. They exist solely to teach new abilities, and then be sold.

Installation instructions

Use Vortex, or drop the .pak file into your Paks/~mods folder.

Main features

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Requirements

IT IS RECOMMENDED YOU START A NEW SAVE TO USE THIS MOD.

If you want to add the mod part way through the game, you can, but it is untested and may cause the game to hang on the weapon upgrade screen. A workaround that has been reliable in playtesting is to first go to Chadley and Reset Upgrades for every weapon you have, then install the mod and choose the upgrades again. This is because the mod uses different indexes for the abilities than base game.

This mod alters "Equipment.uasset", "PlayerParameter.uasset", "WeaponUpgrade.uasset", and "WeaponUpgradeTreeLevel.uasset", and will be incompatible with other mods that change these files. Basically anything that touches weapons, player stats/exp, armor/accessories, or weapon upgrade levels.

Shout outs

The creators of FF7 Data Editor, UEViewer (customised for FF7r), and UnrealPAK.