A mod for Ultimate Fantasy Techniques two years within the making appears prefer it’ll launch in 2023, bringing a brand new marketing campaign, story, and characters to the traditional ways RPG—it’s going to even have an aesthetically applicable model of Triple Triad, the fan-favorite card sport launched in Ultimate Fantasy 8 and reintroduced in MMO Ultimate Fantasy 14.
The mod can have the anticipated new courses and talents to go together with its new characters and missions, however on high of that may have distinctive techniques for its protagonist. Maine’s distinctive “Hero” class will allow him to make use of as much as three skills in particular combo sequences over the course of a single flip—one thing that within the framework of a sport like this should have required greater than a little bit of modding wizardry.
The mod is made by Jumza, a member of a bigger group of Ultimate Fantasy Techniques modders known as Ultimate Fantasy Hacktics, which organizes throughout a discussion board and discord server. It’s going to use the PSX model of Ultimate Fantasy Techniques as a base. Jumza says that Chapter 1 of Ultimate Fantasy Techniques: Attain the Future mod will probably be obtainable in 2023, and that its been in improvement for about two years now.
Ultimate Fantasy Techniques, for its half, is a sport that individuals have each liked and wished a sequel to for years—so the viewers for mods is is fairly hungry. Initially an experimental spin on combining a Ultimate Fantasy-style JRPG with a ways sport, it is now thought-about one of many progenitors of the ways RPG or SRPG style. A lot in order that when Sq. Enix introduced one other tactical RPG we right here at PC Gamer managed to complain in a headline that it wasn’t a Ultimate Fantasy Techniques sequel. (opens in new tab)
You possibly can sustain with the event of the Attain The Future mod for Ultimate Fantasy Techniques on Youtube (opens in new tab), Twitter (opens in new tab), and the Ultimate Fantasy Hacktics Discussion board. (opens in new tab)
In case you’re a fan sufficient of the ways RPG style that you just’re nonetheless right here, you would possibly take pleasure in a bit I wrote earlier this yr about how there certain are a variety of technique RPGs out on PC proper now. (opens in new tab)
