Shin Megami Tensei 3 HD updated to allow freely selecting skills during fusion

[XenoKefka]

I'm playing the game on Switch (almost finished actually, I've reached last dungeon...) and I could check the patch today.

The lag is indeed mostly fixed and autobattle is also much faster now.
About demon fusion skill selection: there is still random selection by default but now you can press a button to choose yourself the skills, it is fully optional.

 

[ナカノマツシンジ]

Does anyone know if turning off the voices reverts the demons that had their battle voices changed to the original version?

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You still get the new voices, and they're pretty much universally worse. The "turning off the voices" option is literally just moving the voice volume slider down to 0 (battle voices count as SFX).

 

[Zukuu]

Sweet! The one change I absolutely wanted. Just cuts tedious hours of reloading the fusion result. Hopefully it'll be in all future games as well and by the looks of their remasters and current games, that seems to be the case.

Can't wait till it drops on steam.

 

[Daouzin]

Glad to see this remaster is getting fixed. I'm pretty indifferent towards the skill change. It irks me a little because I like having to make do with what I get vs optimizing as I please. It would be better if it was a New Game + bonus. I'll definitely abuse it and recommending the game to others will change the experience from what I had back in the PS2 days so that's kind of lame too, but if it makes more people happy overall, I'm fine with it.

 

[Tyrant Rave]

Nah this is just an original oversight that is being corrected. You can prefer the random inheritance, but it's not what made Nocturne and the older games difficult.

There's no intrinsic charm to the series DNA that's tied to random skills lol

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Yeah I feel like I'm in bizarro earth at times when I read comments describing how it will affect the game. I've been playing these games for well over a decade and this is not something I will ever miss or fight for. It was annoying on release and it's even more annoying now lol

If you wanna roll with what you get, that's fine and valid. But if I want one skill to inherit, I really don't want to go in and out of a menu repeatedly for extended periods. It's just tedious.

 

[Semajer]

You still get the new voices, and they're pretty much universally worse. The "turning off the voices" option is literally just moving the voice volume slider down to 0 (battle voices count as SFX).

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That's a pity. I can imagine the new voices really annoying people that are familiar with older releases.

 

[OmegaDL50]

There were some demons that couldn't inherit specific skills (like a demon without a mouth cannot inherit a breath skill), but in general yes. Although the low odds of specific combos meant you sometimes had to settle for a "good enough" build.

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They could still block skills from a list that can't be inherited despite being able to choose what you want during fusion. This will just reduce the tedium of selecting and canceling over and over. I doubt this is going to change it so skills impossible to be transferred will be transferable.

 

[Hecht]

They could still block skills from a list that can't be inherited despite being able to choose what you want during fusion. This will just reduce the tedium of selecting and canceling over and over. I doubt this is going to change it so skills impossible to be transferred will be transferable.

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Yeah. Previous games that did this didn't allow for skills that are impossible to transfer to transfer.

 

[Angst]

fix the music or I don't care.

 

[Deleted member 2834]

Does this run at 60 FPS on PS5 actually?