Change intro text palettes for smoother transition.Rebalance combat to make player characters more effective as they level up.Tweak HP/MP regeneration rate and food consumption.Make loot scale with the level of the character who opens the chest.Award attribute points to each profession's main stats upon levelling up.Have different HP values depending on race and profession instead of it being the same for everyone.Change the way Max MP is assigned depending on profession, to make casters other than Wizards and Clerics more useful.Reintroduce enemies that were in the computer versions but not in the NES one.Add some variety to loot chests by allowing weapons and armour to be found in addition to just gold.Gargoyles and Manes should have magic attacks) Make enemy abilities more in line with the computer versions (e.g.Fix the REPEL and UNDEAD spell behaviour, also make them more useful past level 2 but less overpowered.Make horses useful (they allowed outrunning monsters in the computer versions). Adjust the town maps so that they are not as redundant (e.g.Allow the best character to try and disarm a trap in dungeons, instead of just testing the party leader.Improve and speed up enemy's combat AI.Reduce the intro credits to two screens instead of five.The NMI handler routine takes way too long Change NPC dialogue to better reflect the computer version and replace some useless banter with useful clues on how to progress the story.Make the "hit" sprite disappear more quickly to speed up combat.Reduce the duration of the screen flashes that happen when casting certain spells.Also, don't end turn when accidentally trying to cast spells with a non-caster, or opening the Tools menu when the character has nothing.During combat, allow another action after one has been cancelled via B button (still pass if B is pressed before selecting an action).Don't allow monsters to attack diagonally, since the player can't While this would be easy to implement, it would allow cheap battle tactics.Add an option to "set camp and save" when Start button is pressed (only allow camping outside of towns).Allow using the Start button as well as Select to finish party creation.These are my goals, and my progress so far. So I decided to do a QoL hack, but I will likely upgrade the graphics too. Ultima: Exodus on NES was definitely the best version of Ultima 3 back in the day, but still has its shortcomings. I thought I'd share a hack I've been working on in the past week or so.
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