I guess this is to stop issues with Pokémon wandering below or above the ladders and forcing an encounter?
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I guess this is to stop issues with Pokémon wandering below or above the ladders and forcing an encounter?
Zacian is probably still broken but
their Steel forms require a held item
I'm not sure why that would be a bad thing. But even with the premise that it is it's a very brute force solution when you could just have the Pokemon not wander above/below the ladder. Or only freeze the Pokemon, or have them not trigger an encounter.
Could be. Or maybe the game loads different sections of the area in chunks and those ladders are a hidden loading screen.
It still looks weird, but it only happens with ladders, so it won't bother me too much.
Oh it won't bother me at all and that's another good explanation.
Even with that, without the famous walls of Ubers in Galar, not so many things can check him. Maybe Aegislash or Zamacenta, but if he manages to get a sword dance...oof
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Wanted Sword all along. Wanted Sirfetch'd, preferred Sif... but the lure of Tyranitar, GRap and more importantly THAT gen2 galarian form... ahh. Need them.
2 hours to go until the game releases here in Australia... I'm getting a physical copy after work so I won't be able to play until tomorrow evening 😪
A word of advice for anyone who digitally pre-ordered: This is going to be a huge launch so be prepared for the game to not unlock exactly at midnight. The DRM servers are going to be hammered so be patient!
A word of advice for anyone who digitally pre-ordered: This is going to be a huge launch so be prepared for the game to not unlock exactly at midnight. The DRM servers are going to be hammered so be patient!
Surprised they shipped yours so late. I went Tracked24 too and mine is out for delivery at the moment and I'm due to get it today.
I'm interested to see how the game is for me. To be completely honest, one could consider me new to the series. Despite having a gameboy the year they came out, Pokemon was never something I ever got into, probably because I considered myself "too old" for it, being a totally cool high school sophomore when it released. I've likely only played a total of five hours across all of the ones I've tried at various points. Point is, I really won't even know what's different or missing, because it's largely all going to be new for me.
Its often not exactly at midnight, I'll try it always around 5mins after, in 99% of cases it works then. :D Also i like when unlock times are based on Region, and not a single global time. Lets me preorder the game from places where it unlocks early so i can play it during the day instead of waiting until midnight here. :D
Anyone with the game good to say if Endeavor breaks raids or not? There's a number of moves I think that could break it like Perish Song as well. What are things looking like on those moves?
Is someone interested in a midnight (CET) launch streaming? I wanna record all my playtrough so I may as well stream it online.
Played for 5 hours, first impressions in spoilers.
I want to hope it gets better, but even forgetting "dexit" the game has issues.
What the hell went wrong?
I didn't want to be negative about the game heading in, despite all of the complaints, but it's impossible for me to ignore this games' faults. Visually, it legit looks like an upscaled 3DS game in a lot of places. Textures are bad by last-gen standards. Don't even get me started on how embarrassing these shadows are. Despite the game absolutely not looking demanding at all, it runs at 720p/30 in docked mode and still manages to have framerate dips.
The wild area, so far, is the only truly interesting part of the game. Routes are incredibly short, lack trainers, and the trainers that they do house tend to have 1 or maybe 2 Pokemon in their parties. That doesn't matter though, because if you're actually catching Pokemon you're inevitably going to be many levels above their Pokemon just by the virtue of EXP Share. I'm fine with easy, it's a kids game and I understand that they want everyone to be able to play, but this is absolutely, ridiculously, overtuned. The game constantly hands you healing items like potions and revives, EXP Share overlevels you if you decide to actually engage with the game's early Pokemon variety, and routes are absolutely filled with NPCs that will restore your party's health+PP.
Again - easy is *fine*, but Sw/Sh overcompensates to the point that unless you're rushing through the plot, you're going to be so overleveled that the combat loses any of its depth and it just becomes boring. Then to make matters worse, it seems that the rumors about the game being super short are indeed true. 5 hours in, I hit Route 5, and there's 10 of them in the game, total. My Pokemon are already in their mid 20s. I just don't understand.
On an unrelated note, I don't know who told Serebii Joe that there was a day/night cycle everywhere in the game, but that's demonstrably false. I've been playing starting at 10PM and most of the game's areas have the sun shining. The Wild Area has a proper day/night cycle, but so far that is it.
I didn't want to be negative about the game heading in, despite all of the complaints, but it's impossible for me to ignore this games' faults. Visually, it legit looks like an upscaled 3DS game in a lot of places. Textures are bad by last-gen standards. Don't even get me started on how embarrassing these shadows are. Despite the game absolutely not looking demanding at all, it runs at 720p/30 in docked mode and still manages to have framerate dips.
The wild area, so far, is the only truly interesting part of the game. Routes are incredibly short, lack trainers, and the trainers that they do house tend to have 1 or maybe 2 Pokemon in their parties. That doesn't matter though, because if you're actually catching Pokemon you're inevitably going to be many levels above their Pokemon just by the virtue of EXP Share. I'm fine with easy, it's a kids game and I understand that they want everyone to be able to play, but this is absolutely, ridiculously, overtuned. The game constantly hands you healing items like potions and revives, EXP Share overlevels you if you decide to actually engage with the game's early Pokemon variety, and routes are absolutely filled with NPCs that will restore your party's health+PP.
Again - easy is *fine*, but Sw/Sh overcompensates to the point that unless you're rushing through the plot, you're going to be so overleveled that the combat loses any of its depth and it just becomes boring. Then to make matters worse, it seems that the rumors about the game being super short are indeed true. 5 hours in, I hit Route 5, and there's 10 of them in the game, total. My Pokemon are already in their mid 20s. I just don't understand.
On an unrelated note, I don't know who told Serebii Joe that there was a day/night cycle everywhere in the game, but that's demonstrably false. I've been playing starting at 10PM and most of the game's areas have the sun shining. The Wild Area has a proper day/night cycle, but so far that is it.
I want to hope it gets better, but even forgetting "dexit" the game has issues.
Yeah, not quite sure what's gone on there- I pre-ordered back in July, so it's not like they're under the gun.
Ah well, as long as I have it for the weekend I don't mind too much.
I'm so bloody excited for them, going in with basically no knowledge of the games and avoiding negativity. My wife and I will be playing a copy each, I'm hoping we can 'catch em all' between us.
about day and night
apparently the night and day cycle is kinda of weird where some places get locked to a certain time of day due to being event locked
You'll lose the gold points if you switch back from the Australian store, but other than that, you should be fine.
Day/night cycle for the regular locations is unlocked after beating the game.
...yet another baffling, completely asinine, design choice for the pile. Ugh.
Wait, you can switch your e-shop region? Can I still do that if I already bought the game from the German e-shop?
Will I have to buy the game again or can I just re-download it from the Australian e-shop without additonal cost?
If so then please somebody tell me how. I want to play this game ASAP!
It's weird but can't say I dislike it, at least I get to play the game with it's colourful daylight instead of the drab darkness all the time.
You should have bought it from the Australian eShop if you wanted it to unlock early. If you bought it on the German eShop, you have to wait until it's unlocked in Germany.
Eh say what, I'm so confused, why, what were they thinking?
Honestly my problem isn't even the lock itself, but rather that it's inconsistent. It's immersion-breaking as all hell.
As far as i remember the unlock time depends on the eshop you bought it from not the one you downloaded it from. So i think its to late for that if you already bought it in the german one
That's a bummer. Next time I'll be smarter.
Now that's how you know this is a Game Freak game!
Because there's events where the game goes That evening... and the game locks to a dusk or night setting for the story. Believe SM had the same, although there the cycle wasn't locked initially.
No you wouldnt be needed to buy the game again, you could just download it from the Australian eshop. BUT unlocktime is based on the region you bought it, not the region you downloaded it from. So you'd need to wait until midnight ish in Germany either way.
(thats why i often just buy from Australia, another bonus is, its much cheaper than my home eshop (Switzerland) where pokemon costs like 80USD/70€)
But if you wanted to do that, you could just adjust the consoles clock...
And what if people playing at night, want the game to look like night?
That would mess with timed events where you get locked out for 24ish hours then.
Easiest option would be, if they'd continue going the Sun/Moon route and give you the option ingame to shift the ingame time by 12hrs, so its ingame day during real night, and vice versa.
In so far the issues of the first hours sounds like your par the course Pokémon game, nothing particularly baffling for me. Business as usual.
I'll be clear: Mix SuMo with XY and i'll be able to fully enjoy the game. If it offers me that and makes breeding and training enjoyable, this will be my first Switch game to go over 100 hours
This one feels a little strange coming from a studio that has nailed this for quite some time but oh well, it wont kill my enjoyement of the game.
I'll be clear: Mix SuMo with XY and i'll be able to fully enjoy the game. If it offers me that and makes breeding and training enjoyable, this will be my first Switch game to go over 100 hours
That's my main problem with this game, it's not lazy game design or whatever, it's the weird choices like this that I don't understand. Really I'd love if they make and interview explaining things like this because maybe they had a good reason but for the love or Arceus I can't even imagine a good reason for things like this.
I'm gonna have fun in the game, and they are going places with the quality of life improvements to things like changing nature. Speaking of which, the berries to reset the EV are still in?
I'm gonna have fun in the game, and they are going places with the quality of life improvements to things like changing nature. Speaking of which, the berries to reset the EV are still in?
I used to do so with the Japanese download codes on amazon.co.jp, for example pokemon swsh is just 50€ there. (10€ cheaper)
But they started region locking those codes to Japanese credit cards. And buying gift cards is such a hassle that I just bought it locally.
And usually the different region prepaid cards are sold at a higher price making it more expensive again.
I wish they'd just let me use my local credit card in different regions, like on my imported 3DS.
Haven't play a Pokemon game in a minute. But can you do double battles with a friend (online) vs randoms?
Yeah, I've seen this in many games with day/night cycles, I don't see the issue here.
Oh yeah, Shiny Hunters might want to be interested in this lil bit of math.
In brief, not only is there a chain system again (Though it's not certain what increases it at the moment), but the more of a specific pokemon you defeat, the higher the odds of finding a shiny for that specific pokemon.
In brief, not only is there a chain system again (Though it's not certain what increases it at the moment), but the more of a specific pokemon you defeat, the higher the odds of finding a shiny for that specific pokemon.
Yeah at least my local swiss one works in All NoE countries. Of which all are cheaper than my home country. :D
Already heard some people complain about that, because it makes it easier for casual players to find shinies.
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