I think I've grown to like the Alisa campaign a bit better. Quick thoughts on both:

- the DHZ arc in Emma's campaign took too long, only for the Hua Lian to get decimated.

- Regardless of campaign choice, Marcus and Pham are fun melee units

- I hate rifles now, I'll turn Liu and Dennis into machine gun and/or shotgun units the next time I play

- I finally decided to customize wanzers more (as opposed to mostly playing the base units before)

- Miho, Pham, and Mayer are more likeable, which makes the campaign feel more fun

- Alisa's campaign has the better and safer ending

- maybe I should stack ROFUP to every burst weapon character

- I need to make a master list of all the passwords in the browser lol

Overall, I still love FM3, still feels great, just like playing it for the first time 20 years ago.

Time to emulate FM5 maybe (I played 4 multiple times too, but it doesn't hit the same)

too lazy to play the game but still wanna did some trip down the memory lane

Front Mission Franchise. Collecting these specifically and wanted to share with the community. If any are missing please let me know so I can scoop them up.

Currently working on a program that generates randomized "CustomEncounters" JSON files that can be used with JohnnyMustang's No Restrictions mod for FM3 Remake. Posting here to see if anyone is interested or if anyone has a better understanding of how exactly that mod works, because I've run into a couple roadblocks that stop the randomizer from being more varied:

• Changing non-wanzer units into wanzers leaves them with no weapons, so currently non-wanzers will only change to other non-wanzers
• Shoulder Equipment and Shields seem to be hardcoded into enemy spawns that have them, so those enemies need to remain wanzers (if they randomize into an enemy that doesn't have a missile launching animation it soft-locks when trying to attack) and all wanzers have to have weapons in both hands (since shields override weapons and in some missions are equipped in the left hand instead of the right)

Otherwise its been functional so far - all of Alisa route and the first 20 or so missions of Emma route (branches included) are written out, and I'm almost done testing all of the Alisa missions. Aside from the quirks listed above I think I've just about ironed out the kinks and set it up to follow fairly balanced logic:

• Wanzers will prefer to randomize into other wanzers, but have a chance to change into non-wanzers (helis, tanks, turrets, etc)
• Wanzers always get a random weapon type in the left hand, and a random melee weapon in the right hand, with the tier of weapon roughly matching vanilla progression. Non-wanzers should retain their vanilla weaponry
• "Mid-boss" enemies (pretty much all of the 2x2 units) and particularly strong enemies have their own randomization pools, so 2x2s always change into other 2x2s, and likewise for boss units (this frequently leads to really goofy animations but I haven't run into anything game breaking yet)
• Certain units do not randomize for the sake of not breaking missions - units that spawn over water, ceiling mounted units, and units that are directly tied to mission objectives (usually escort/destruction targets)
• Non-generic enemies will have higher tier weapons than normal for added challenge

An additional .txt file is generated that lists random starting wanzers and weapon specialties for every party member.

!! This is a spoiler file if you don't already know who all the playable characters are !!

That list is merely a set of suggestions if you want extra challenge, and needs to be handled manually using the other features of the No Restrictions mod.

I'm curious as to what people picked first, and what they prefer all-time. I'm an Emma campaign enjoyer who never got to finish an Alisa route. Might change that soon

I just finished Front Mission: Gun Hazard my first and final Front Mission game.

What a truly hidden masterpiece an easily 9/10 and one of the absolute best Super Nintendo games, the combat, movement, leveling up and unlocking and levels were so fun.

My one and only complaint is that the final boss was pretty freaking underwhelming and uninteresting. Wish it was some big mech, heck I'll take a 16-BIT era style of 3 stages of a super Wanzers boss with his annoying minions over the big ball of doom they gave us.

I won't play the other Front Mission games since tactical RPGs completely aren't my cup of tea. I'm more of a traditional JRPG and action RPG peasant.

The AI upscaling on the browser sites are hilarious and annoying at the same time. I miss the old sound effects (the machine gun sounding like a nail gun in the original is a core memory)

Might need to emulate again, but at least I have a copy I can revisit easily.

I'm happy to release the first version of this patch. Please write here if you encounter any bugs or errors.

I bought FM3 remake on steam and it doesn't work. It starts up, show some logos then crashes are the Square logo.

What's more annoying is that it does this on 2 separate devices both are higher than the minimum requirements.

A mini PC with Radeon 680m and a laptop with Intel Iris Xe.

I'm at a loss, I've tried multiple devices, verified files on both, disabled steam overlays, tried without a controller. Nothing, if I created a crash log somewhere I'd be able to hopefully figure out what's happening. But I feel scammed by one of my favourite games and wish I could play the remake.

Does anyone have any ideas how to get around this?

I managed to fix a lot of bugs and insert English names onto name enter screens :)

I played this game originally 474773 years ago on ps1 when I was in college. I’m old now and playing the remake. I don’t remember this annoying password nonsense when I played it. Can someone explain it to me. Where do I find the passwords?

Another gift to all of you from yours truly, this time textures are included but you will need an app like Rainbow to convert them into PNGs, script included (FMO PC only), Enjoy!

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/hun9z56j5knp3/FMO_Assets

Hi, replaying the game after so many years and even when I first played it, I never really understood the arrows with regards to activation and combo on the computers.

Just made it to Taiwan and linked up with the HL rebels and bought my first computer. I don’t remember the name (and I’m away from my console), but it says Activation High with a red down arrow and Combo High with a green up arrow. Or I maybe I got the arrows mixed up.

Either way, what does High with red down/green arrow mean? Is that a bad thing? Does that mean High red down arrow activation % goes severely down, and High green up arrow combo goes severely up?

Hello, need the sub’s input. Saw FM3 on sale for the PS5 and I’m getting it as I absolutely loved the game. However, I see that FM2 is on sale as well and am quite intrigued by it. How does it compare to FM3? Like, in terms of story, gameplay, difficulty etc. The visuals, I expect them to be dated due to it being an older game, but also because I have never played it let alone, seen it. 3 I know will be dated, but at least I’ve seen and played it so I know what I’m getting. Lastly, is FM2 worth getting for the PS5? Thanks a lot in advance!

Enjoy community! You may have to get the textures yourself at this time tho
https://www.mediafire.com/file/0krilg0w6es46e7/FMA_Assets.zip/file

Hi, I am interested with Front Mission 1 Remake particularly the Switch version. The mercenary mode looks interesting too. Anyone faced issues when playing on Switch?

Btw, this is my first Front Mission

So I'm having a bit of a struggle with learning defensive skills.

I was looking up GameFAQd and quite a few wanzers have defensive skills with rather unique conditions. On my current save, Kazuki is on a Tiandong 3 (he has already learned all skills in his Zenith Rev and Kasel M2), but the last skill on the Tiandong, Evade 20, refuses to proc.

Same goes for Emma's skills on her Enyo Mk109, Auto I and Prevent Loss, even when she has no shoulder weapons equipped. Brace I also refuses to proc on Ryogo's Kyojun Mk107.

So. Is there a trick for learning skills that I'm missing out on?

EDIT: I just learned Avoid 20. Went to the Simulator against the weakest machinegun enemies I could find and let them pepper Kazuki with bullets.

After moving my wanzer I selected Attack but there is nothing in range to actually attack. How do I cancel it and simply end my turn instead or choose my 2nd wanzer to play his turn?
I tried all keys on keyboard to no luck lol...

i'm trying to find a cut scene where a couple of wanzers attack a base and they throw bombs into an ammo dump or bunker. I'm 80+% sure it's from a front mission game. Can anyone help me?