General

• Slightly increased the effect of Darkness, Silence, Slow, and Defend on Crisis Level.
• Slightly increased all standard GFs' HP.
• Fixed an issue in which the gain from Str+25% was set to +20% instead of +25%.

Characters/GFs

• Increased power of Lv?Curse at all Crisis Levels and changed the divisor at Crisis Level 1 from 4 to 3.
• White Wind now functions as standard curative magic when determining the amount of HP healed.
  • Crisis Level 1: Slightly stronger than Pray and slightly weaker than Cure.
  • Crisis Level 2: Slightly weaker than Cura.
  • Crisis Level 3: Slightly weaker than Curaga.
  • Crisis Level 4: Stronger than Curaga.
• Slightly increased Quistis' STR in the early game and the STR and/or base power of some of her weapons.
• Added Slow to Aurabolt's list of status effects and increased the chance of inflicting an effect.
• Increased Tonberry (summon)'s power.
• (Remastered/Switch) Increased Cactuar (summon)'s power.

Enemies

• Changed high-level Bombs' most common drop to Bomb Spirit.
• X-ATM092 will drop a Megalixir at low levels.
• Lowered Mesmerize's STR at high levels slightly.
• Lowered Grand Mantis' HP and increased weakness to Thunder to 200%.
• Changed Righty's Mug/Drops at high levels.
• Fixed an issue in which a Confused Adamantoise would cast Haste and Reflect on itself instead of a player character.
• Mid-level Adamantoises are more likely to yield Whisper than before; it now occupies the third Mug slot and the second Drop slot.
• Made Adamantoises more likely to appear on the beach on Winter Island.
  • Mid-level Admantoises can be found on the beach on Winter Island as well as the isolated beach in the southeastern part of Centra.
• Fixed a crash that would occur in the NORG fight when Right Orb attempted to Dispel a character's Aura status.
• Changed Seifer (3)'s extra attack while under Aura status to a regular attack instead of a crit.
• Changed Seifer (4)'s first two Mug slots to Holy Water x10 and Remedy x5; the last two slots contain Megalixirs as before.
• Lowered Seifer (4)'s Slow and Confusion resistance.
• Changed Omega Weapon's max HP from 256,000 to 224,000.
• Lowered Red Giant's Poison and Zombie resistance.
• Lowered Tiamat's Slow resistance.
• Increased number of Chef's Knives that can be Mugged and Dropped from Tonberry.

Miscellaneous

• The Remastered (2019-Steam) version now includes pre-patched FFVIII_EFIGS.dll files for versions 1.0.1, 1.0.2, and 1.0.3.
• Added a note about Irvine's weapons when he joins the party; also, one of each [Weapon] Parts item is added to your inventory when he joins.
• Added a message displaying how much the player has donated to the Trabia Garden fund to make the sidequest's objective clearer.
• Changed NPC dialogue in Esthar to hint at stronger monsters being in high, Ragnarok-only locations on the world map.
• Changed NPC dialogue in Shumi Village to hint at stronger monsters being found on the western side of Winter Island.
• Changed NPC dialogue in the Presidential Palace post-Lunar Cry to hint at stronger monsters being found at Tears' Point (post Lunar Cry, pre-Disc 4 only).
• (Remastered/Switch) Added some dialogue in the Presidential Palace that hints at the Sorceress Memorial sidequest that was excluded by mistake.