Hooks · v0.6.0-beta.5
Public betaNative Workshop, regional challenges and battle stability
This beta release brings Workshop into the game's own menu, expands the Spira Reforged integration and fixes several battle and translation issues. The Portuguese game-text pack is distributed separately.
What’s new
- Workshop is available from the native game menu. Its activation, refinement method, slot recipes and development options are now inside Workshop.
- Capture Cascade can awaken a region after a new Dark Aeon victory. Awakened areas gain stronger monsters and regional patrol encounters; first-time tutorials explain S.I.N. and the awakening, and achievements record progress.
- Added optional Spira Reforged integrations for Omega's Seventh Seal, the Last Seal and Echo of Ultima encounters. They require the matching content pack.
- Added regional S.I.N. behavior inside Sin and definitions, artwork and progression support for twelve additional boss Tarot cards.
- Twin Stars and Three Stars can optionally grant regeneration of 1% of maximum MP on each affected character's own turn instead of MP Cost 0.
Improvements
- F7 and F8 become available sooner at startup by avoiding unnecessary waits.
- Large AP rewards are counted faster while preserving the reward amount.
- Spira Reforged options are grouped into dedicated Reforge categories.
- Workshop uses native frames, selection graphics, confirm and cancel controls. Translated labels fit their columns and use the actual equipped ability names.
- Improved Portuguese coverage and terminology for Workshop, equipment abilities, statuses and mod commands. Compatible text packages retain the matching combat data.
- Seymour Natus and Seymour Flux include their companions when selected in Ultra Custom Mix; each pair counts as two formation slots.
Fixes
- Fixed follow-up actions becoming stranded after a target dies and corrected input handoff between enemy attack sequences and the player's next turn.
- Fixed missing second attacks in eligible Omega sequences and prevented player actions from entering the middle of the enemy's sequence.
- Corrected Omega encounter recognition, temporary stat scaling, S.I.N. previews and names, and misleading activation messages.
- Fixed several translation startup, resource compatibility and native-menu text issues, including brief English fallback while navigating translated menus.
- Removed the Workshop keyboard/gamepad shortcut and its visible F8 settings. Workshop now opens exclusively through the native game menu.
Known issues
- Regional encounters, additional cards and equipment effects depend on their compatible data/assets and enabled options. New runtime features remain opt-in.
- Back up a save together with its mod progress files. Existing Dark Aeon victories are recorded as history and do not awaken earlier regions retroactively.
- The Portuguese text package remains separate from Hooks and requires English game text. This update does not claim a complete translation of every screen.
- Launcher 1.0.13 recognizes the previous Hooks identity for PT-BR activation. Recognizing this new DLL requires a compatible Launcher update; manual Hooks installation does not update that Launcher check.
- Native Workshop integration targets the current supported Steam executable; controller interaction and visual layout still need further player testing.
- Progressive elemental Touch/Imperil/Ward, its Aurochs bonus and the low-MAG Omega status rule are unfinished prototypes and unavailable in normal builds.
- For the complete beta, install the manual ZIP, including all 92 Tarot PNG images. The current Launcher update only installs the DLL and does not deliver those images.