The DLC is annoyingly structured.
Also Keiran is a budding school shooter
I finished the DLC story and man, making the plot that
you hurt a little kid's feelings over and over and over again until he vows revenge against you was a bit of a bummer. I guess we'll see where this goes in the next one.
The DLC is annoyingly structured.
Also Keiran is a budding school shooter
I finished the DLC story and man, making the plot that
you hurt a little kid's feelings over and over and over again until he vows revenge against you was a bit of a bummer. I guess we'll see where this goes in the next one.
Really, the issue is that you're not allowed to just tell Carmine to fuck off and get over herself.
The real-life Kitakami is just south of Hokkaido, so assuming the geography lines up the same way it makes sense there's a lot of Sinnoh Pokemon around.
Yeah, from Googling, it's about halfway between Kanto and Hokkaido, so it would have a mix of gen 1 and gen 4 Pokemon.
Hey for anyone like me trying to catch the Legit Sinistcha, I learned that Scarlet and Violet were updated so that there are separate Outbreaks for each form of Pokemon with form differences. So you can hunt for a Legit Sinistcha outbreak where every one is the real form, I caught about 20. I just wanted to share this in case other people were trying to get both forms
Andy JoeWe claim the land for the highlord!The AdirondacksRegistered Userregular
Beat the Teal Mask story, caught the Loyal Three.
Okidogi was the easiest, might have just gotten really lucky with the catch RNG. Munkidori was really tough, I relied on an Amoongus for Spore, and its combination of poison and psychic attacks did a lot of damage to my team; needed three or four tries to get it. Fezandipiti took a while what with it having Roost to heal itself, but its attacks couldn't hurt my team very much so I was able to cycle damage dealers in and out and get it one (very long) try.
Okidogi was the easiest, might have just gotten really lucky with the catch RNG. Munkidori was really tough, I relied on an Amoongus for Spore, and its combination of poison and psychic attacks did a lot of damage to my team; needed three or four tries to get it. Fezandipiti took a while what with it having Roost to heal itself, but its attacks couldn't hurt my team very much so I was able to cycle damage dealers in and out and get it one (very long) try.
Munkidori
Only has Psychic and Poison attacks, so if you bring a Bisharp or Kingambit it is completely unable to do damage
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Andy JoeWe claim the land for the highlord!The AdirondacksRegistered Userregular
Perrin quest
The "Alpha Pokemon is near" music playing as the Bloodmoon Ursaluna approached made my heart skip a beat.
I found a shiny jangmo-o and I looked at it and then looked at my love ball and weighed up my options but just threw a quick ball and now I have regrets. A love ball would have been perfect for it. Oh well.
Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
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I beat the main story. Still need to do all the side stuff (catch the loyal three, Perrin quest, etc)
I've been trying to use a new team since lvl 100s just trivialize everything. Actually made things pretty hard.
I wish I could use Ogerpon now that I have him but I might have to box him. All the types he can be totally clash with my existing team on top of having like four grass types or something... why are both Dipplin and Sinistcha and Ogerpon all grass types? Not to mention a ton of the wild pokemon in the area are also grass type
The DLC is annoyingly structured.
Also Keiran is a budding school shooter
I finished the DLC story and man, making the plot that
you hurt a little kid's feelings over and over and over again until he vows revenge against you was a bit of a bummer. I guess we'll see where this goes in the next one.
Yeah that was a major bummer. Though they framed it in a super weird way where it felt like he was possessed or something... I thought at first it was gonna be revealed that he had some evil spirit or curse or something affecting his behavior. In the end I'm just not sure. He might just be like that? But seriously yeah, the lack of dialog choice in those moments was a little frustrating. Not that I wanted to give him Ogerpon or anything but like, at any point grab the kid by the shoulders and explain the situation before he runs off to sulk...
Side note, man, I've been watching a Let's Play of the base game and seeing that and then playing the DLC by comparison is just so rough. I dunno what they did with this patch to fuck up the optimization but the entire DLC area feels like I'm running through molasses with all the lag
If you haven't since you downloaded the DLC, power off your Switch fully and boot it back up. It won't completely eliminate the slowdown, but it did reduce it for me by a considerable amount. YMMV, of course.
Ogre Balloons Minigame is oddly difficult. It took an insane amount of tries to clear normal alone and even with 4 people both my clears were with less then 10 seconds left.
Yeah, I don't even know if it's possible to beat normal solo right now? It would be very close, but like, depending which map you get, what colors you need and spawns, etc. I can see runs being totally unwinnable. Part of the issue is just that wild pokemon eat far faster than you can even collect balloons. A single munchlax getting through is just game over, instantly, basically.
I haven't been keeping up with SV for the last 4-5 months, have I missed anything special? I gather there was something Mew related I've probably missed.
I have managed to clear normal Ogre Outsin Solo but it is entirely luck related and you need to go in with a plan using quick math and focusing on the far away balloons for your first inventory.
Did hard a few times and it's still difficult 10 stages with it getting up to 200+ Berries per stage. You basically need one person dedicated to guarding the baskets after getting their first inventory of berries as the second you put berries into the basket on hard it basically becomes a left for dead horde.
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
If you haven't since you downloaded the DLC, power off your Switch fully and boot it back up. It won't completely eliminate the slowdown, but it did reduce it for me by a considerable amount. YMMV, of course.
Good call, I'll try this. I usually put the Switch in sleep mode when I quit. I have been fully closing the game (rather than leave it suspended) to see if that helps but a system reboot certainly wouldn't hurt to try.
Edit: Also I have legit not tried Ogre Outsting beyond the one you're forced to play. Does it really ramp up that hard? It was pretty easy during the forced story bit but that's also not super surprising.
It ramps up pretty radically on normal in stages 4-5-6 you need 30+ Berries with the final stage being close to 60 and once you deposit your first berries you basically need to hope that enough to finish is in the immediate area because the second you take your eyes off the baskets you're basically risking having your entire progress reset and the pokemon just come way too quickly
I had a snorlax spawn immediately on top of my baskets and it just completely reset my entire progress for one basket
Oh no even if you lose on normal and manage to scrape anywhere between 9-10k points for the round you will walk away with over 150,000+ Cash worth of Vitamins as Mochi alone.
If you have friends who will do hard with you it gets even more insane as my successful hard attempt with 22,000 Points awarded an insane 790,000$ worth of Mochi vitamins. If you value Mochi for the same buy price as the vitamins.
I haven't been keeping up with SV for the last 4-5 months, have I missed anything special? I gather there was something Mew related I've probably missed.
Yeah, there was a Mew giveaway followed by a 7-star Mewtwo tera raid. The only other thing you missed are 7-star tera raids for Hisuian (in their base form), Kalos, and Galaran starters.
This dlc broke me. It's such an ugly, empty, unoptimized piece of nothing... they heard all the complaints and criticisms and decided to shove yen bill in their ears and tell the team to release whatever garbage there was.
I really liked SV, loved Arceus, I thought the previous gen DLCs were pretty big improvements, but this... this broke me. There's no care, respect, they gave it no time to be made... if this hadn't POKEMON on the label no one would play it.
I agree it's unoptimized but I actually really enjoy the DLC. The story is nice, the boss battles are actually the best in the series and how they should do legendary fights going forward, and trainer battles are actually challenging (so long as you don't just go in super over-leveled).
But yes, I understand that a lot of people will be unable to enjoy those things because of said bad optimization and lacking visuals. My son has been playing through Pokemon Sword and the battles in Sword look and perform so much better than they do in Scarlet.
I remember reading somewhere that the Pokemon Company cycles in mostly new devs for each game, and that strategy is great for pulling in new ideas and such, but you need more senior devs around that know what they're doing to make sure that things are optimized and run well. The unrelenting release schedule as set by the overarching Pokemon media juggernaut also ensures that they don't ever really have enough time to do the optimization and polish that the games should have, and that's a real shame.
This dlc broke me. It's such an ugly, empty, unoptimized piece of nothing... they heard all the complaints and criticisms and decided to shove yen bill in their ears and tell the team to release whatever garbage there was.
I really liked SV, loved Arceus, I thought the previous gen DLCs were pretty big improvements, but this... this broke me. There's no care, respect, they gave it no time to be made... if this hadn't POKEMON on the label no one would play it.
Im so sad that there are already a lot of complaints of fps and similar issues in the dragon quest monsters demo. On gameboy those games were actually better than pokemon. so i always have hope they could be good again. but it doesnt seem like square wants to give it a real shot at beating pokemon, which shouldnt be hard since pokemon is just in full punt mode video game wise.
This dlc broke me. It's such an ugly, empty, unoptimized piece of nothing... they heard all the complaints and criticisms and decided to shove yen bill in their ears and tell the team to release whatever garbage there was.
I really liked SV, loved Arceus, I thought the previous gen DLCs were pretty big improvements, but this... this broke me. There's no care, respect, they gave it no time to be made... if this hadn't POKEMON on the label no one would play it.
Im so sad that there are already a lot of complaints of fps and similar issues in the dragon quest monsters demo. On gameboy those games were actually better than pokemon. so i always have hope they could be good again. but it doesnt seem like square wants to give it a real shot at beating pokemon, which shouldnt be hard since pokemon is just in full punt mode video game wise.
Honestly, I feel that as long as Dragon Quest Monsters looks like Dragon Quest it's not "beating Pokemon". Monster collection games live and die by their monster designs, and I think most people, myself included, would not trade a Sprigatito or a Tyranitar for a Killing Machine.
the boss battles are actually the best in the series and how they should do legendary fights going forward, and trainer battles are actually challenging (so long as you don't just go in super over-leveled).
This part is interesting to me. I agree, some of the last battles (and particular the major legendary battle) were some of the best battle experiences I've had in a pokemon game, but I think a substantial number of people missed out on that because of the nature of DLC. I dipped into multiple streams of the DLC after I finished it myself, and everyone I watched was just using whatever strong pokemon they had from before, above level 80, and just streamrolled everything. I even clicked ahead to the end of their stream to see if they eventually replaced stuff with new things at around the right level range, but no.
the boss battles are actually the best in the series and how they should do legendary fights going forward, and trainer battles are actually challenging (so long as you don't just go in super over-leveled).
This part is interesting to me. I agree, some of the last battles (and particular the major legendary battle) were some of the best battle experiences I've had in a pokemon game, but I think a substantial number of people missed out on that because of the nature of DLC. I dipped into multiple streams of the DLC after I finished it myself, and everyone I watched was just using whatever strong pokemon they had from before, above level 80, and just streamrolled everything. I even clicked ahead to the end of their stream to see if they eventually replaced stuff with new things at around the right level range, but no.
Thats on the devs the majority of buyers are gonna be done with the main game they didnt take that into account
Blueberry seems to require main story completion at least
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This dlc broke me. It's such an ugly, empty, unoptimized piece of nothing... they heard all the complaints and criticisms and decided to shove yen bill in their ears and tell the team to release whatever garbage there was.
I really liked SV, loved Arceus, I thought the previous gen DLCs were pretty big improvements, but this... this broke me. There's no care, respect, they gave it no time to be made... if this hadn't POKEMON on the label no one would play it.
I surprised myself by not having any desire to even try the DLC.
Game Freak has been on a real roll - after SwSh's DLC "saved" a mediocre entry (for me), Arceus and SV were top-notch.
But Teal Mask just... looks uninteresting? And I dislike all the new Pokemon designs. To hear that it has further technical issues too, woof.
the boss battles are actually the best in the series and how they should do legendary fights going forward, and trainer battles are actually challenging (so long as you don't just go in super over-leveled).
This part is interesting to me. I agree, some of the last battles (and particular the major legendary battle) were some of the best battle experiences I've had in a pokemon game, but I think a substantial number of people missed out on that because of the nature of DLC. I dipped into multiple streams of the DLC after I finished it myself, and everyone I watched was just using whatever strong pokemon they had from before, above level 80, and just streamrolled everything. I even clicked ahead to the end of their stream to see if they eventually replaced stuff with new things at around the right level range, but no.
Thats on the devs the majority of buyers are gonna be done with the main game they didnt take that into account
Blueberry seems to require main story completion at least
Oh, I agree. I'm not blaming the people who just wanted to use the pokemon they've already raised. I think it's a problem with the very concept of DLC in this kind of game.
I think the level problem in the DLC had a lot to do with how they did Tera Raids. In SwSh, even when the DLC came out my team was only around 70 or so because that's really all you needed for 5-star Dynamax raids. But now with 7-star Tera Raids you have to have a team of level 100, Hyper-trained, Max EV mons, so those are the teams we're bringing to the DLC and demolishing poor, dumb Kieran
Like all Pokemon games, you kinda have to take the difficulty into your own hands. Upon starting the DLC I immediately dumped my old team into the boxes and caught a new squad of DLC 'mon and decided not to use any sort of leveling candies, which actually made the early battles rather hard! But again, I can totally see how someone who just brought in a max level squad is not going to have the same experience, but that's kinda on them.
I play pokemon to fill the dex so of course my entire team is going to be the 'new' pokemon in my team so I can evolve them. Sure everything being level 63 and up means they only need one level before they are boxed but it still takes a while to get them to the next level.
Then I eventually work out a team from pokemon that managed to impress me with some kind of clutch victory.
The amount of times I lost to Kieran made his whole story really stupid.
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Also Keiran is a budding school shooter
I finished the DLC story and man, making the plot that
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Yeah, from Googling, it's about halfway between Kanto and Hokkaido, so it would have a mix of gen 1 and gen 4 Pokemon.
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Okidogi was the easiest, might have just gotten really lucky with the catch RNG. Munkidori was really tough, I relied on an Amoongus for Spore, and its combination of poison and psychic attacks did a lot of damage to my team; needed three or four tries to get it. Fezandipiti took a while what with it having Roost to heal itself, but its attacks couldn't hurt my team very much so I was able to cycle damage dealers in and out and get it one (very long) try.
Munkidori
That, and Pokemon home. Though I still need to evolve some shinnies.
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Koffing at the levels you find them at have both explosion AND momento. It's awful!
Still haven't finished Paldea lol
Regional variants dont count fyi ( which I dont recall being a thing before)so it has to be bloodmoon Ursaluna not one from Arceus
I've been trying to use a new team since lvl 100s just trivialize everything. Actually made things pretty hard.
Side note, man, I've been watching a Let's Play of the base game and seeing that and then playing the DLC by comparison is just so rough. I dunno what they did with this patch to fuck up the optimization but the entire DLC area feels like I'm running through molasses with all the lag
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Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
Did hard a few times and it's still difficult 10 stages with it getting up to 200+ Berries per stage. You basically need one person dedicated to guarding the baskets after getting their first inventory of berries as the second you put berries into the basket on hard it basically becomes a left for dead horde.
Good call, I'll try this. I usually put the Switch in sleep mode when I quit. I have been fully closing the game (rather than leave it suspended) to see if that helps but a system reboot certainly wouldn't hurt to try.
Edit: Also I have legit not tried Ogre Outsting beyond the one you're forced to play. Does it really ramp up that hard? It was pretty easy during the forced story bit but that's also not super surprising.
I had a snorlax spawn immediately on top of my baskets and it just completely reset my entire progress for one basket
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Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
If you have friends who will do hard with you it gets even more insane as my successful hard attempt with 22,000 Points awarded an insane 790,000$ worth of Mochi vitamins. If you value Mochi for the same buy price as the vitamins.
Yeah, there was a Mew giveaway followed by a 7-star Mewtwo tera raid. The only other thing you missed are 7-star tera raids for Hisuian (in their base form), Kalos, and Galaran starters.
Steam: pazython
Also theres a mochi that can erase all effort points. That alone is super useful
I really liked SV, loved Arceus, I thought the previous gen DLCs were pretty big improvements, but this... this broke me. There's no care, respect, they gave it no time to be made... if this hadn't POKEMON on the label no one would play it.
But yes, I understand that a lot of people will be unable to enjoy those things because of said bad optimization and lacking visuals. My son has been playing through Pokemon Sword and the battles in Sword look and perform so much better than they do in Scarlet.
I remember reading somewhere that the Pokemon Company cycles in mostly new devs for each game, and that strategy is great for pulling in new ideas and such, but you need more senior devs around that know what they're doing to make sure that things are optimized and run well. The unrelenting release schedule as set by the overarching Pokemon media juggernaut also ensures that they don't ever really have enough time to do the optimization and polish that the games should have, and that's a real shame.
Im so sad that there are already a lot of complaints of fps and similar issues in the dragon quest monsters demo. On gameboy those games were actually better than pokemon. so i always have hope they could be good again. but it doesnt seem like square wants to give it a real shot at beating pokemon, which shouldnt be hard since pokemon is just in full punt mode video game wise.
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Honestly, I feel that as long as Dragon Quest Monsters looks like Dragon Quest it's not "beating Pokemon". Monster collection games live and die by their monster designs, and I think most people, myself included, would not trade a Sprigatito or a Tyranitar for a Killing Machine.
I realize its probably about as vig as the king fu bear island but the way uts designed makes it seem much smaller
Also the hisui pokemon should all be in the timeless forest not just two and technically then only one because the other one is a variant
This part is interesting to me. I agree, some of the last battles (and particular the major legendary battle) were some of the best battle experiences I've had in a pokemon game, but I think a substantial number of people missed out on that because of the nature of DLC. I dipped into multiple streams of the DLC after I finished it myself, and everyone I watched was just using whatever strong pokemon they had from before, above level 80, and just streamrolled everything. I even clicked ahead to the end of their stream to see if they eventually replaced stuff with new things at around the right level range, but no.
Thats on the devs the majority of buyers are gonna be done with the main game they didnt take that into account
Blueberry seems to require main story completion at least
I surprised myself by not having any desire to even try the DLC.
Game Freak has been on a real roll - after SwSh's DLC "saved" a mediocre entry (for me), Arceus and SV were top-notch.
But Teal Mask just... looks uninteresting? And I dislike all the new Pokemon designs. To hear that it has further technical issues too, woof.
Oh, I agree. I'm not blaming the people who just wanted to use the pokemon they've already raised. I think it's a problem with the very concept of DLC in this kind of game.
Then I eventually work out a team from pokemon that managed to impress me with some kind of clutch victory.
The amount of times I lost to Kieran made his whole story really stupid.