Aran613 Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Well if someone casts sleep on another unit who has sleep/berserk equiped, will they retaliate? In that sense, will bolting/purge do the same? If that, then will Ballista do the same? Examples Sleep is cast on someone equiped with sleep? Bolting is cast on someone with sleep? Ballista attacks someone with Bolting/Sleep/Berserk? Bolting/Sleep/Berserk attacks someone with Ballista? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geriba Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I'm almost 100% certain the answer is "no" to all. The ballista example is an interesting one, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whase Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 you can't equip staves in GBA FEs and furthermore, I'm pretty sure the answer on the others is no too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor Odinson Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 You cannot retaliate period. It's in the codes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deranger Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 You cannot retaliate period. It's in the codes. I.e. A ballista at a Longbow at 3 range will not be countered and a longbow at a ballista at 3 range will not be countered, etc. I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor Odinson Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Ballistae and Siege tomes are coded as uncounterable. But they can't counter other stuff either. So yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aran613 Posted January 23, 2012 Author Share Posted January 23, 2012 you can't equip staves in GBA FEs and furthermore, I'm pretty sure the answer on the others is no too. I'm pretty sure when you have no other tomes, your person "equips it." As shown when you have a bishop in FE8, and he has no light tomes, yet has a staff like heal out and it still has the flashing-ness or triple effect on monsters anyways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT075 Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 I'm pretty sure when you have no other tomes, your person "equips it." As shown when you have a bishop in FE8, and he has no light tomes, yet has a staff like heal out and it still has the flashing-ness or triple effect on monsters anyways. Wrong, staves are unequippable according to the way battles are programmed. That's actually because the game loads the animation based on what's in the first slot. Or, to be more explicit - The game checks the items in that unit's inventory in the order that they're stored in memory and stops once it finds a non-item. This works because an equipped weapon is always stored first; if there's no equipped weapon then you get things like staves and then nothing. You can never actually equip a staff (the game code says so) and the only reason that it flashes is because slayer is programmed super-lazily - if there's any kind of item shown it starts flashing. you can prove this by attaching a stat bonus to the staff (AFAIK bonuses only work for equipped items) and then leaving it in inventory. i'd bet you that you would never see those bonuses in action Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Purple_Knight Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 They counter in fe4 if you hack yourself a long range weapon . It just looks glitchy is fuck . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Alear Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 I wish I could have Athos equip a bolting, Serra equip a psychic, and then have Athos counter and kill Serra when she heals him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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