Uploaded February 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Planning to blitz through this excellent mod put together by BTB and Synchysi, which can be found here: insanedifficulty.com/board/index.php?/topic/6055-brave-new-world-160-is-now-available
Brave New World is a comprehensive balance mod for FF6, which takes a lot of the old, broken mechanics and turns it all into a slick and polished fighting machine with a dedicated following, tonnes of depth, and other small adjustments.
One thing to remember is that it's not a difficulty mod, which would aim to make the game as ball-breakingly hard as possible. Instead, it's about making the game fun and rewarding to play which it's definitely succeeded at so far. You should definitely give it a whirrrrrllllll-
Enough of that, we gotta bust some heads.
[-Whelk-] 0:09
This fucker caused my two only wipes in this run so far. If you're used to FF6, you'll maybe be used to Whelk giving off a big ol' 'GRUUUUU' before he retreats into his shell. Not so here, he does it right after landing an attack which can leave you with attacks ready to go which will hit the shell and get your ass fried.
The trick is to just have one round of attacks, using Tek Missile from TERRA's Magitek Armor. Then you can finish him off with another salvo when he comes back. This guy is basically Guard Scorpion's mentor when you think about it :I
[-Marshal-] 1:18
Quick miniboss. Steal from him, wreck his face...when Stop wears off :I
[-Tek Armor-] 1:58
These two have decent defence, but easily dealt with. They only attack physically if you're at a low level, which is very handy as Tek Laser would have caused us some serious pain. A lot of enemies have AI that checks player level like this.
[-Vargas-] 3:09
A threatening fight, the bears can be dispatched quickly at which point Vargas will begin attacking intermittently with Wind Slash. This is used every few turns, and hits the entire party. Vargas, along with all human enemies, is weak to Poison which I figure out toward the end of the fight.
[-Ultros-] 6:08
A complicated fight, he'll counter magic with Ink and smack certain characters with a tentacle attack of varying power. One thing to note is that if Banon is KO'd, then the game is over- RIDIN' THE LINE WITH FRONT-ROW BANON, PROC DAT BOLT2, #thuglyfe
[-Leader-] 9:00
With our party split up, it's time to clear three scenarios. There were no boss encounters in the Terra scenario so we're moving directly to the lengthy Sabin one. Cyan opens it up with a quick Bushido tutorial. Which I fail. I. M. Dummy.
[-Telstar-] 9:29
A monster in a box, this guy drops a great bit of kit when killed but he's deadly. He'll summon four soldiers when none are present on the field so the trick is to kill three and leave the last one alive. This makes Sabin's Blitz tricky to use on Telstar, though. We also have to deal with powerful attacks like Megavolt, which can inflict Seizure (a pseudo-poison status that drains out your HP) and Shockwave. It's best to get the fight over with ASAP.
[-Ziegfried-] 10:31
Hmm.
[-Phantom-] 11:45
Another monster in a box, he mostly used gravity-based magic. We got the kill before he could capitalise on whatever this was building up to, though. Black Belt, get!
[-Soul Train-] 12:46
Another tough fight, we lost Sabin early after he was berserked so no Suplexing here. Shadow and Cyan were then left to whittle down the train, while avoiding Evil Toots and getting run over. Fortunately, I'd had the presence of mind to guess that the Ghost Rings being sold by the ghostly vendors might be handy for something in this segment; turns out they drain Acid Rain.
[-Rizopas-] 15:52
A quick fight, he got himself smacked about pretty fierce thanks to a Muddle from Suplex and our massive offence. It's massive. I also gibbed his MP using Mindblow, which left him unable to use spells. Presumably.
[-Hell Angel-] 18:16
Called TunnelArmr in the original, this idiot tries to use Magic but it gets soaked up by Celes' Runic. He's sort of a tutorial for Runic itself, showing you how this is a great way to defend against magic-orientated enemies. Locke meanwhile kicked it's ass while both dodged and parried most of his attacks like goddamn pros.
[-Kefka-] 20:18
The tutorial ends here! Rather than fight all the enemy formations as part of this assault section, I instead geared up a party of four and cut through a route to reach Kefka quickly. I went with Terra over Celes for her Poison + Slow, while Gau was brought to use his Wild Rat Rage which is exclusively Poison + Bio with inherent Haste as a bonus.
But the biggest edge in this fight is Mindblow; one of those leaves Kefka with bugger all MP and his physical hits aren't as dangerous as his magical ones. I kept Terra on healing while Locke tried, fruitlessly, to steal Kefka's thing before Gau killed him. He failed, so I restarted and got it on the first try the next time and it...uh-
Planning to blitz through this excellent mod put together by BTB and Synchysi, which can be found here: insanedifficulty.com/board/index.php?/topic/6055-brave-new-world-160-is-now-available
Brave New World is a comprehensive balance mod for FF6, which takes a lot of the old, broken mechanics and turns it all into a slick and polished fighting machine with a dedicated following, tonnes of depth, and other small adjustments.
One thing to remember is that it's not a difficulty mod, which would aim to make the game as ball-breakingly hard as possible. Instead, it's about making the game fun and rewarding to play which it's definitely succeeded at so far. You should definitely give it a whirrrrrllllll-
Enough of that, we gotta bust some heads.
[-Whelk-] 0:09
This fucker caused my two only wipes in this run so far. If you're used to FF6, you'll maybe be used to Whelk giving off a big ol' 'GRUUUUU' before he retreats into his shell. Not so here, he does it right after landing an attack which can leave you with attacks ready to go which will hit the shell and get your ass fried.
The trick is to just have one round of attacks, using Tek Missile from TERRA's Magitek Armor. Then you can finish him off with another salvo when he comes back. This guy is basically Guard Scorpion's mentor when you think about it :I
[-Marshal-] 1:18
Quick miniboss. Steal from him, wreck his face...when Stop wears off :I
[-Tek Armor-] 1:58
These two have decent defence, but easily dealt with. They only attack physically if you're at a low level, which is very handy as Tek Laser would have caused us some serious pain. A lot of enemies have AI that checks player level like this.
[-Vargas-] 3:09
A threatening fight, the bears can be dispatched quickly at which point Vargas will begin attacking intermittently with Wind Slash. This is used every few turns, and hits the entire party. Vargas, along with all human enemies, is weak to Poison which I figure out toward the end of the fight.
[-Ultros-] 6:08
A complicated fight, he'll counter magic with Ink and smack certain characters with a tentacle attack of varying power. One thing to note is that if Banon is KO'd, then the game is over- RIDIN' THE LINE WITH FRONT-ROW BANON, PROC DAT BOLT2, #thuglyfe
[-Leader-] 9:00
With our party split up, it's time to clear three scenarios. There were no boss encounters in the Terra scenario so we're moving directly to the lengthy Sabin one. Cyan opens it up with a quick Bushido tutorial. Which I fail. I. M. Dummy.
[-Telstar-] 9:29
A monster in a box, this guy drops a great bit of kit when killed but he's deadly. He'll summon four soldiers when none are present on the field so the trick is to kill three and leave the last one alive. This makes Sabin's Blitz tricky to use on Telstar, though. We also have to deal with powerful attacks like Megavolt, which can inflict Seizure (a pseudo-poison status that drains out your HP) and Shockwave. It's best to get the fight over with ASAP.
[-Ziegfried-] 10:31
Hmm.
[-Phantom-] 11:45
Another monster in a box, he mostly used gravity-based magic. We got the kill before he could capitalise on whatever this was building up to, though. Black Belt, get!
[-Soul Train-] 12:46
Another tough fight, we lost Sabin early after he was berserked so no Suplexing here. Shadow and Cyan were then left to whittle down the train, while avoiding Evil Toots and getting run over. Fortunately, I'd had the presence of mind to guess that the Ghost Rings being sold by the ghostly vendors might be handy for something in this segment; turns out they drain Acid Rain.
[-Rizopas-] 15:52
A quick fight, he got himself smacked about pretty fierce thanks to a Muddle from Suplex and our massive offence. It's massive. I also gibbed his MP using Mindblow, which left him unable to use spells. Presumably.
[-Hell Angel-] 18:16
Called TunnelArmr in the original, this idiot tries to use Magic but it gets soaked up by Celes' Runic. He's sort of a tutorial for Runic itself, showing you how this is a great way to defend against magic-orientated enemies. Locke meanwhile kicked it's ass while both dodged and parried most of his attacks like goddamn pros.
[-Kefka-] 20:18
The tutorial ends here! Rather than fight all the enemy formations as part of this assault section, I instead geared up a party of four and cut through a route to reach Kefka quickly. I went with Terra over Celes for her Poison + Slow, while Gau was brought to use his Wild Rat Rage which is exclusively Poison + Bio with inherent Haste as a bonus.
But the biggest edge in this fight is Mindblow; one of those leaves Kefka with bugger all MP and his physical hits aren't as dangerous as his magical ones. I kept Terra on healing while Locke tried, fruitlessly, to steal Kefka's thing before Gau killed him. He failed, so I restarted and got it on the first try the next time and it...uh-
