FFX-2 New Dawn

The premise of FFX-2: New Dawn is to make the game more challenging (but not  brutally difficult), requiring you to make the most of your accessories and Garment Grid choices, while also giving you more fun tools to tackle the battles with. Some main features are / will be:

Species based mechanics

Some of the enemy species have new (but familiar) traits that require you to make the most of different dresspheres! Use Yuna's new weapon to nail Wolf type enemies, have your Warrior slice through a Helm's armour or let Rikku become a bit more like Lulu to melt some Flans (they have much more physical defence now)

Epic boss fights

Bosses have improved stats, and may have new tricks of their own! Learn new ways to counter and conquer them!

Dressphere Overhauls

Some abilities have extra effects, others may have changed which dressphere they're on and there are also brand new abilities to try. For example:

• []The Songstress can buff two stats at once, her dances deal a small amount of damage and have improved effects[/]

  []The Thief can use items more quickly, use time magic and Dismantler some machina.[/]

  []The Samurai has a new ability inspired by one of Auron's Overdrives, and a recreation of the Threaten ability[/]

  []Black Mages can learn a full non-elemental line of Magic, and the White Mage can damage foes with a Glimmer, or unleash the full Holy spell![/]

  []and many more![/]

  Accessory and Garment Grid changes

  Bloodlust (now called Lionheart) and Wring are now build defining accessories that boost the strengths of physical/magic based characters and bolster some of their weaknesses.

  Elemental Garment Grids obtained in Chapter 1 now give Ward tier auto-abilities, so elemental spells aren't

  Installation instructions

  Pick your version, you can choose the full mod or the lite version which removes the sweeping changes to abilities.

  To install this mod I recommend using the FFX/FFX-2 External File Loader which can be downloaded from:

  https://www.nexusmods.com/finalfantasyxx2hdremaster/mods/150

  -Unpack the External File Loader files into your FFX/FFX-2 installation directory (replacing files if asked)

  -Inside the data folder create a folder called mods (if it doesn't already exist) (EFL default)

  Now you can copy the ffx_ps2 folder from this mod into this data/mods folder. (If you configured the EFL to use a different path, copy the folder there instead)

  You'll know if its working if the first boss casts Demi and the initial dresspheres have different abilities.

  Note: I think this will only work fully when played in English (for now!)

  STILL IN DEVELOPMENT

  I'm still in the process of developing this mod so would appreciate any feedback or any ideas people might like to see implemented! What would you improve about FFX-2s gameplay?

  The game is modded up to the end of Chapter 4 / start of Chapter 5.