I'm abusing the hell out of the Let's Go feature to level up.
Quick question - if I level up a Pokemon in my party while another is let's going, will it miss the chance to evolve? I swear I had a Happiny with an oval stone in my party level up during let's go and it didn't evolve.
No, Pokemon won't evolve if they level up via Let's Go.
Crap.
You just need to give them one more level up via candy/battle/etc and they'll get the chance to evolve again tho.
Edit: Oh, and side note - I finished watching the Sword let's play. I definitely have a better appreciation for that game now... as long as you ignore the wild area :P It looks like the Isle of Armor was pretty cool too - more what Sword should have been (they didn't play Crown Tundra so didn't see that). The post game was really, really bizarre and maybe the worst story (and character designs?? yikes!) in the game? (and that's saying a lot) But I liked the gameplay ideas behind it (doing raids with the gym leaders as the NPCs is cool). One of these days I really do need to go back and beat that game.
So what's the best way to trade Scyther for an evolution? I've tried 0260 0260, 0261 0261, and even 0260 0261 with no response.
I found that almost all of the trade evolution pokemon showed up in their final form as 4-5* raid bosses, including scizor, so you can just catch one with a little luck.
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So what's the best way to trade Scyther for an evolution? I've tried 0260 0260, 0261 0261, and even 0260 0261 with no response.
I found that almost all of the trade evolution pokemon showed up in their final form as 4-5* raid bosses, including scizor, so you can just catch one with a little luck.
I *believe* they can also spawn as mass outbreaks but obviously that's probably gonna be more RNG than just trying to find a raid :P (I may be wrong on this tho, I don't have Serebii up to check)
Weirdly specific Pokemon Violet/Scarlet question - is it just me, or are there a lot less options for leveling Pokemon up from 30 or so than there were for leveling between 20-30? It seems like the thicket near the Team Star poison crew was the only place for low 30s, and now the only place for mid-30s is the mountain path to the Medali gym? I'm not missing anything?
The one good thing about grinding that mountain path for so long is that, after two hours, I blundered into a Flareon. And I caught it! I hadn't gotten an Eevee yet, so that sucker's going to have so much Ditto sex.
Why the crap did I ever make my original name "cloudeagle?"
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Weirdly specific Pokemon Violet/Scarlet question - is it just me, or are there a lot less options for leveling Pokemon up from 30 or so than there were for leveling between 20-30? It seems like the thicket near the Team Star poison crew was the only place for low 30s, and now the only place for mid-30s is the mountain path to the Medali gym? I'm not missing anything?
The one good thing about grinding that mountain path for so long is that, after two hours, I blundered into a Flareon. And I caught it! I hadn't gotten an Eevee yet, so that sucker's going to have so much Ditto sex.
I honestly can't remember except to say I was overleveled for like a lot of that game (minus the parts where Nurse Not-Joy directed me to something way over my level range because that feature is dumb and only picks the closest stuff). Did you check the west end of the world? I can't remember where stuff is but I feel like the mons around Porto Marinada were around there? I'm not positive but I kill those damn girafarigs for Sp.Atk EVs all the time and I feel like they're level 28ish (but again, I'm like level 100 when I'm doing this so I don't pay close attention ). Also try checking the overhang cave thing next to that?
Or, you know, do raids and get a stupid amount of XP candy :P I think even the 1*s and 3*s give a decent amount (and can be easily solo'd).
Weirdly specific Pokemon Violet/Scarlet question - is it just me, or are there a lot less options for leveling Pokemon up from 30 or so than there were for leveling between 20-30? It seems like the thicket near the Team Star poison crew was the only place for low 30s, and now the only place for mid-30s is the mountain path to the Medali gym? I'm not missing anything?
The one good thing about grinding that mountain path for so long is that, after two hours, I blundered into a Flareon. And I caught it! I hadn't gotten an Eevee yet, so that sucker's going to have so much Ditto sex.
I honestly can't remember except to say I was overleveled for like a lot of that game (minus the parts where Nurse Not-Joy directed me to something way over my level range because that feature is dumb and only picks the closest stuff). Did you check the west end of the world? I can't remember where stuff is but I feel like the mons around Porto Marinada were around there? I'm not positive but I kill those damn girafarigs for Sp.Atk EVs all the time and I feel like they're level 28ish (but again, I'm like level 100 when I'm doing this so I don't pay close attention ). Also try checking the overhang cave thing next to that?
Or, you know, do raids and get a stupid amount of XP candy :P I think even the 1*s and 3*s give a decent amount (and can be easily solo'd).
Yeah, I hung around the Porto Marinada area for a while, then I did the areas I mentioned above. Maybe it's because I got to spend a while wandering the relatively high-level southern areas that didn't really have any landmarks. Like that marsh with a crapton of dragons. Every other area I can physically access seems to be too high level.
In the meantime, I poked my head in a cave and found the first form of the new ice/dragon. My god, it looks like an uncool junior high social studies teacher. I can't wait to see what that dork evolves into.
Why the crap did I ever make my original name "cloudeagle?"
Fire Paldean Tauros kinda bodies Samurott in a way that no other 7 star raid counter has so far. Don't even have to have a 4th move. Anger point, Adamant, +atk and +def, tail whip until Tauros dies, Sunny day when you come back, raging bull til it dies.
Samurott boosts it's crit rate so it's constantly critting, which boosts Tauros to max attack. That+90 power physical fire move+sunny day just chews through it.
Fire Paldean Tauros kinda bodies Samurott in a way that no other 7 star raid counter has so far. Don't even have to have a 4th move. Anger point, Adamant, +atk and +def, tail whip until Tauros dies, Sunny day when you come back, raging bull til it dies.
Samurott boosts it's crit rate so it's constantly critting, which boosts Tauros to max attack. That+90 power physical fire move+sunny day just chews through it.
Yep, it's pretty good. I did +atk, +HP and it works just fine
So now that Bank and Transporter are free, I'm taking a serious look at what to do with all my old mons, especially my legendaries and event ones. What do people like to do with those? Keep them in the games they got them? Move them to the latest generation? Thoughts?
Looks like a bunch of Ditto raids this weekend. 4 different types, all of them amazing breeding stock. If you still need good Dittos, this would be the weekend to do it. I'm tempted to try and get the 6 perfect IV one, myself, even though I've got a couple of 5-IV ones.
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edited April 2023
Man, that feeling when you're hatching eggs for Masuda method and the game just straight up has a seizure for like a full two minutes
(I think I figured out this is an effect that's only supposed to happen for like a half a second as the egg bursts open but it just kind of lasted a long ass time because this game is so perfectly tested and not full of bugs at all )
Annihilape is pretty good for Typhlosion. Screech turn 1 then spam rage fist.
It took me a few tries, it depends on when the shield comes up. I did Adamant, +Atk, +HP on my ape with Tera Water and it was 6-7 tries to get it right.
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edited April 2023
Yeah Annihilape works but it's super super unreliable IMO. I did it first try but only probably because he got stunned by NPC paralyze two turns in a row (like if he had killed me another time I probably would have failed). He puts out so much friggin damage that the bar depletes *quickly* with all the deaths
Weird, worked for me solo first try both times, +hp +atk, adamant, ghost tera. I wonder if there's a better option, maybe a skill swap guy that can steal his flash fire to negate the sunny day eruptions
Watching the first episodes of Pokemon Horizons. I didn't really keep up with the original show, but this one already feels wayyy different than what I remembered of it when I did watch it. Also, it surprisngly starts in Kanto in Viridian City, with the main character being from Paldea.
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edited April 2023
I have hatched so many god damn Masuda Smolivs with zero shinies. >_< Why you hate me game?
Also Pokemon Company, where's this Home integration you promised? I'm honestly hatching this stuff to send to an alt account for like a special challenge run (all food team gooooooo) but I can't even get them there without Home thanks to Switch accounts not sharing online access -_- (I also might legit give up on trying for a shiny Bounsweet and use the level 8 one my friend traded me awhile back... it's low-ISH enough level to not be OP.. still would prefer all level 1s tho :P)
Can't read at work but I guess there was some bug with these? Either way they seem like they're coming back in a little over a week if you missed them.
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edited April 2023
Masuda method, why have you forsaken me? T__T (I have hatched so many god damn eggs... ugg.. did they shiny lock Smoliv when I wasn't looking? )
Oh also, Mightiest Mark Inteleon coming soon (ice tera type). Woo. These raids are always fun.
Edit: Looking at Inteleon's gen 9 learnset this fight could be super nasty. He has lots of ways to buff his defense, high crit options, 100% accurate Blizzard with snow, Mist to prevent status changes (or Haze to reset them... I guess the raid bosses can do this anyways), etc. Would not be surprised if this fight is tuned around not being able to buff and debuff (as is the strat for like every tera raid). Fell Stinger could be a particularly nasty one if you have CPU allies. Also TIL they buffed Hail in gen 9 (which is to say, replaced it). It's now "Snow" and rather than doing chip damage every turn it raises Ice types Defense by 50%!
Edit 2: Oh also, forgot about this thing I saw over the weekend:
So the 7-Star Inteleon event is out this week and it's actually pretty easy?
Joined a group online with a Perrserker with Iron Head, Sunny Day, and Taunt to stop it's Snowscape and we had a team of Iron Hands, Kingambit, and a Golduck and it went down pretty easy. We had about half the timer left when we beat it, only died once when it hit me with 3 Blizzards in a row
I also saw someone with a Tinkaton strategy but I didn't have one trained and didn't feel like doing it today.
So the 7-Star Inteleon event is out this week and it's actually pretty easy?
Joined a group online with a Perrserker with Iron Head, Sunny Day, and Taunt to stop it's Snowscape and we had a team of Iron Hands, Kingambit, and a Golduck and it went down pretty easy. We had about half the timer left when we beat it, only died once when it hit me with 3 Blizzards in a row
I also saw someone with a Tinkaton strategy but I didn't have one trained and didn't feel like doing it today.
I did it solo with an Annihilape with Sunny Day, Rage Fist, and Defiant. It was easy, but required a bit of RNG.
Man, I just got hit a series-spanning case of the Mandela Effect (or maybe it's just TIL). I was watching a streamer play a Heart Gold/Soul Silver randomizer*, and their Pokemon got hit with a move called Trump Card. And I realized that I've never heard of Trump Card. Now, of course there are gaps in my knowledge-- I don't play the games as fanatically as I did when I was younger, but the stuff I don't know is like, sometimes I'll space on the name of one of the new Pokemon while remembering what it looks like and what type it is, or the signature move of one of the optional pseudolegendaries or whatever. Not a move that existed in Gen 4! But, there it is. There was a move called Trump Card that existed from Gen 4 to Gen 7. Its effect is that it has 5 PP, and its damage scales geometrically as the number of PP left after using it approaches 0, with the maximum being 200 BP when you use its last PP.
It just feels deeply weird to have played Pokemon since Red, Blue, and Yellow, and have no memory whatsoever of an element from halfway through that span.
* A habit I am trying to break.
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Man, I just got hit a series-spanning case of the Mandela Effect (or maybe it's just TIL). I was watching a streamer play a Heart Gold/Soul Silver randomizer*, and their Pokemon got hit with a move called Trump Card. And I realized that I've never heard of Trump Card. Now, of course there are gaps in my knowledge-- I don't play the games as fanatically as I did when I was younger, but the stuff I don't know is like, sometimes I'll space on the name of one of the new Pokemon while remembering what it looks like and what type it is, or the signature move of one of the optional pseudolegendaries or whatever. Not a move that existed in Gen 4! But, there it is. There was a move called Trump Card that existed from Gen 4 to Gen 7. Its effect is that it has 5 PP, and its damage scales geometrically as the number of PP left after using it approaches 0, with the maximum being 200 BP when you use its last PP.
It just feels deeply weird to have played Pokemon since Red, Blue, and Yellow, and have no memory whatsoever of an element from halfway through that span.
* A habit I am trying to break.
There’s probably a LOT of moves you don’t know exist. Primarily because they’re dogshit.
This is the first mainline entry I have not bought, because of how buggy I heard it was. Looking for confirmation if the worst of the issues have been fixed? I've seen videos of Exorcist style head and arm spinning, characters contorting and doing some weird shit. I've also seen videos of people flying a motorcycle through the world. I've also seen videos of horrendous pop-in. I'm not sure that one is fixable since the Switch itself is pretty old and frail these days.
But anyway, I'd like to play this game because I've heard it's a really good one, marred by really bad bugs. If I can get confirmation that most of the worst of it is fixed, I might go ahead and snag it. But if the game is still super buggy and not in a very good place, I'll just continue to wait.
This is the first mainline entry I have not bought, because of how buggy I heard it was. Looking for confirmation if the worst of the issues have been fixed? I've seen videos of Exorcist style head and arm spinning, characters contorting and doing some weird shit. I've also seen videos of people flying a motorcycle through the world. I've also seen videos of horrendous pop-in. I'm not sure that one is fixable since the Switch itself is pretty old and frail these days.
But anyway, I'd like to play this game because I've heard it's a really good one, marred by really bad bugs. If I can get confirmation that most of the worst of it is fixed, I might go ahead and snag it. But if the game is still super buggy and not in a very good place, I'll just continue to wait.
To be honest, I bought it Day 1 and the only issue like the ones you mentioned I saw was the pop-in. I don't play these games in a way that is likely to encounter glitches, though, so grain of salt and all that. IIRC they eased up the pop-in by turning down the number of active entities some.
There were also some annoying slowdowns and hang-ups in the online raids; I don't recall for certain but I'm pretty sure I never had those issues when soloing the raids, so it was almost certainly problems with the web code. I've heard that got improved a little while ago and of the couple raid battles I did afterward, I didn't experience those same issues again, so that's probably improved.
This is the first mainline entry I have not bought, because of how buggy I heard it was. Looking for confirmation if the worst of the issues have been fixed? I've seen videos of Exorcist style head and arm spinning, characters contorting and doing some weird shit. I've also seen videos of people flying a motorcycle through the world. I've also seen videos of horrendous pop-in. I'm not sure that one is fixable since the Switch itself is pretty old and frail these days.
But anyway, I'd like to play this game because I've heard it's a really good one, marred by really bad bugs. If I can get confirmation that most of the worst of it is fixed, I might go ahead and snag it. But if the game is still super buggy and not in a very good place, I'll just continue to wait.
I played it for the first time after the February patch.
Yeah, the worst of it is fixed. I didn't get anything like you described. Granted, it doesn't run well, as there's still a decent amount of slowdown and the camera clipping through the ground during Pokebattles and such. But it's playable and nothing impeded my progress or enjoyment.
Why the crap did I ever make my original name "cloudeagle?"
This is the first mainline entry I have not bought, because of how buggy I heard it was. Looking for confirmation if the worst of the issues have been fixed? I've seen videos of Exorcist style head and arm spinning, characters contorting and doing some weird shit. I've also seen videos of people flying a motorcycle through the world. I've also seen videos of horrendous pop-in. I'm not sure that one is fixable since the Switch itself is pretty old and frail these days.
But anyway, I'd like to play this game because I've heard it's a really good one, marred by really bad bugs. If I can get confirmation that most of the worst of it is fixed, I might go ahead and snag it. But if the game is still super buggy and not in a very good place, I'll just continue to wait.
I also haven’t bought it. But there are some fun videos out there made by programmers that go into why it can be glitchy.
I don’t have a link on me, but a lot of it stems from loading too much in a once because the team doesn’t use the tricks most open world games use. The rest is because the game runs on spaghetti code that’s layered on from years upon years of games that weren’t given enough time to be made. It’s a wreck under the hood. I don’t think you can patch it out completely, and they’re not afforded that time anyway.
I did post a few videos explaining why at the time, but I couldn’t tell you what page they’re on.
A lot of people say it’s passable, but an equal amount say they can’t stand it. Maybe wait for the DLC and check if it runs better by that point.
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This is the first mainline entry I have not bought, because of how buggy I heard it was. Looking for confirmation if the worst of the issues have been fixed? I've seen videos of Exorcist style head and arm spinning, characters contorting and doing some weird shit. I've also seen videos of people flying a motorcycle through the world. I've also seen videos of horrendous pop-in. I'm not sure that one is fixable since the Switch itself is pretty old and frail these days.
But anyway, I'd like to play this game because I've heard it's a really good one, marred by really bad bugs. If I can get confirmation that most of the worst of it is fixed, I might go ahead and snag it. But if the game is still super buggy and not in a very good place, I'll just continue to wait.
I've been playing it off and on since launch - mainly to keep up with the special tera raids they've been releasing. It's largely fine now. Those videos you saw at launch were mostly due to a memory leak which I believe has been fixed at this point? At least, I never encountered anything like that and I haven't heard anyone complain about it in a long time. Worst case, make sure you close out the game when you're done playing rather than leaving it suspended.
There are definitely still issues. The pop-in is still pretty bad in places (weirdly mostly with NPCs, not so much with pokemon and other things) and the framerate chugs in certain locations (for whatever reason this game has HUGE issues with large bodies of water). It's not enough to really ruin the experience though IMO. I guess it depends on how sensitive you are to that stuff, but like, it's not the crazy contorting models like some of those early videos were showing. It's more your typical "unoptimized video game" stuff.
To me the biggest issues were actually with how broken tera raids were and *most* of those issues have been fixed now. At least, you don't tend to get locked out of your controls or have the boss live when his HP is at 0 and stuff. I still have issues with the "real time" nature of them not exactly working as intended (there's a lot of desync problems still) but largely they're much better than at launch.
Honestly I would still recommend it. Even with the problems it's by far one of my all time favorite pokemon games and that is with how freaking broken it launched and still is in ways. It honestly might have been my favorite of all time if it didn't have those issues. It's *really* good. I still had an absolute blast even despite all the bugs. Also possibly the best story/writing of any pokemon game, no joke. Like, they actually *tried* here. And pretty much all of the story NPCs (rivals, gym leaders, teachers, team star, etc etc) are all fantastic. Maybe some of the best gym leaders since gen 5 for sure. So yeah, it's seriously good.
Here's the technical detail about Scarlet/Violet that completely baffled me.
When you're in the field, all the wandering Pokemon you see have a lower polygon count than the Pokemon you fight. This isn't the issue - loads of games do this, and the low-poly Pokemon look good even relatively up close.
The problem comes when you bump into a Pokemon for a fight. The camera zooms waaaay in, the Pokemon does its cute little roar, and only after that does the Pokemon switch to its high-poly version! Every curved surface looks a lot more jagged and uneven, and because the camera's zoomed in, you get a great look at it.
It's really not that big of a problem - the Pokemon still look okay, and I'm sure there were dozens of issues ahead of that one. But once I noticed that, I couldn't stop noticing it.
Why the crap did I ever make my original name "cloudeagle?"
Heck, I'm just realizing I never played the DLC for Sword/Shield. I never did the thing where you get a cute little Karate Bear.
Maybe I should do that if I've got the Pokemon itch.
I need to do that at some point too. Also like.. beat Shield :P I honestly didn't like Sword and Shield that much, but I hear the DLC is much better. I eventually just gave up pretending and watched a Let's Play of the base game and that was much more enjoyable (honestly I think I identified my main issue with that game being how much I hate the Wild Area though. If I ever do go back I might just avoid that area entirely until maybe endgame)
Heck, I'm just realizing I never played the DLC for Sword/Shield. I never did the thing where you get a cute little Karate Bear.
Maybe I should do that if I've got the Pokemon itch.
I was really disappointed by Sword & Shield, but loved it's DLC. (It's basically what I wanted the main game to be.)
(Just make sure you don't buy the incorrect version - rather than there being a "Sword & Shield DLC" that works for either, you need the "Sword DLC" for Sword and the "Shield DLC" for Shield. Which, I mean, now that I type it, duh. But if you're not expecting there to be two versions of the DLC it could trip you up.)
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You just need to give them one more level up via candy/battle/etc and they'll get the chance to evolve again tho.
Edit: Oh, and side note - I finished watching the Sword let's play. I definitely have a better appreciation for that game now... as long as you ignore the wild area :P It looks like the Isle of Armor was pretty cool too - more what Sword should have been (they didn't play Crown Tundra so didn't see that). The post game was really, really bizarre and maybe the worst story (and character designs?? yikes!) in the game? (and that's saying a lot) But I liked the gameplay ideas behind it (doing raids with the gym leaders as the NPCs is cool). One of these days I really do need to go back and beat that game.
I found that almost all of the trade evolution pokemon showed up in their final form as 4-5* raid bosses, including scizor, so you can just catch one with a little luck.
I *believe* they can also spawn as mass outbreaks but obviously that's probably gonna be more RNG than just trying to find a raid :P (I may be wrong on this tho, I don't have Serebii up to check)
The one good thing about grinding that mountain path for so long is that, after two hours, I blundered into a Flareon. And I caught it! I hadn't gotten an Eevee yet, so that sucker's going to have so much Ditto sex.
I honestly can't remember except to say I was overleveled for like a lot of that game (minus the parts where Nurse Not-Joy directed me to something way over my level range because that feature is dumb and only picks the closest stuff). Did you check the west end of the world? I can't remember where stuff is but I feel like the mons around Porto Marinada were around there? I'm not positive but I kill those damn girafarigs for Sp.Atk EVs all the time and I feel like they're level 28ish (but again, I'm like level 100 when I'm doing this so I don't pay close attention
Or, you know, do raids and get a stupid amount of XP candy :P I think even the 1*s and 3*s give a decent amount (and can be easily solo'd).
Yeah, I hung around the Porto Marinada area for a while, then I did the areas I mentioned above. Maybe it's because I got to spend a while wandering the relatively high-level southern areas that didn't really have any landmarks. Like that marsh with a crapton of dragons. Every other area I can physically access seems to be too high level.
In the meantime, I poked my head in a cave and found the first form of the new ice/dragon. My god, it looks like an uncool junior high social studies teacher. I can't wait to see what that dork evolves into.
we... we can't be seen together anymore
Samurott boosts it's crit rate so it's constantly critting, which boosts Tauros to max attack. That+90 power physical fire move+sunny day just chews through it.
Yep, it's pretty good. I did +atk, +HP and it works just fine
On the plus side, the final evolutions for all the starters are perfect. No notes.
Steam: pazython
(I think I figured out this is an effect that's only supposed to happen for like a half a second as the egg bursts open but it just kind of lasted a long ass time because this game is so perfectly tested and not full of bugs at all
It took me a few tries, it depends on when the shield comes up. I did Adamant, +Atk, +HP on my ape with Tera Water and it was 6-7 tries to get it right.
Also Pokemon Company, where's this Home integration you promised? I'm honestly hatching this stuff to send to an alt account for like a special challenge run (all food team gooooooo) but I can't even get them there without Home thanks to Switch accounts not sharing online access -_- (I also might legit give up on trying for a shiny Bounsweet and use the level 8 one my friend traded me awhile back... it's low-ISH enough level to not be OP.. still would prefer all level 1s tho :P)
Can't read at work but I guess there was some bug with these? Either way they seem like they're coming back in a little over a week if you missed them.
Oh also, Mightiest Mark Inteleon coming soon (ice tera type). Woo. These raids are always fun.
Edit: Looking at Inteleon's gen 9 learnset this fight could be super nasty. He has lots of ways to buff his defense, high crit options, 100% accurate Blizzard with snow, Mist to prevent status changes (or Haze to reset them... I guess the raid bosses can do this anyways), etc. Would not be surprised if this fight is tuned around not being able to buff and debuff (as is the strat for like every tera raid). Fell Stinger could be a particularly nasty one if you have CPU allies. Also TIL they buffed Hail in gen 9 (which is to say, replaced it). It's now "Snow" and rather than doing chip damage every turn it raises Ice types Defense by 50%!
Edit 2: Oh also, forgot about this thing I saw over the weekend:
The difference in quality is nuts. God dammit Nintendo Power, why did you bastardize these? :P
Joined a group online with a Perrserker with Iron Head, Sunny Day, and Taunt to stop it's Snowscape and we had a team of Iron Hands, Kingambit, and a Golduck and it went down pretty easy. We had about half the timer left when we beat it, only died once when it hit me with 3 Blizzards in a row
I also saw someone with a Tinkaton strategy but I didn't have one trained and didn't feel like doing it today.
I did it solo with an Annihilape with Sunny Day, Rage Fist, and Defiant. It was easy, but required a bit of RNG.
It just feels deeply weird to have played Pokemon since Red, Blue, and Yellow, and have no memory whatsoever of an element from halfway through that span.
* A habit I am trying to break.
I'm "kupiyupaekio" on Discord.
There’s probably a LOT of moves you don’t know exist. Primarily because they’re dogshit.
Steam: pazython
This is the first mainline entry I have not bought, because of how buggy I heard it was. Looking for confirmation if the worst of the issues have been fixed? I've seen videos of Exorcist style head and arm spinning, characters contorting and doing some weird shit. I've also seen videos of people flying a motorcycle through the world. I've also seen videos of horrendous pop-in. I'm not sure that one is fixable since the Switch itself is pretty old and frail these days.
But anyway, I'd like to play this game because I've heard it's a really good one, marred by really bad bugs. If I can get confirmation that most of the worst of it is fixed, I might go ahead and snag it. But if the game is still super buggy and not in a very good place, I'll just continue to wait.
To be honest, I bought it Day 1 and the only issue like the ones you mentioned I saw was the pop-in. I don't play these games in a way that is likely to encounter glitches, though, so grain of salt and all that. IIRC they eased up the pop-in by turning down the number of active entities some.
There were also some annoying slowdowns and hang-ups in the online raids; I don't recall for certain but I'm pretty sure I never had those issues when soloing the raids, so it was almost certainly problems with the web code. I've heard that got improved a little while ago and of the couple raid battles I did afterward, I didn't experience those same issues again, so that's probably improved.
I played it for the first time after the February patch.
Yeah, the worst of it is fixed. I didn't get anything like you described. Granted, it doesn't run well, as there's still a decent amount of slowdown and the camera clipping through the ground during Pokebattles and such. But it's playable and nothing impeded my progress or enjoyment.
I also haven’t bought it. But there are some fun videos out there made by programmers that go into why it can be glitchy.
I don’t have a link on me, but a lot of it stems from loading too much in a once because the team doesn’t use the tricks most open world games use. The rest is because the game runs on spaghetti code that’s layered on from years upon years of games that weren’t given enough time to be made. It’s a wreck under the hood. I don’t think you can patch it out completely, and they’re not afforded that time anyway.
I did post a few videos explaining why at the time, but I couldn’t tell you what page they’re on.
A lot of people say it’s passable, but an equal amount say they can’t stand it. Maybe wait for the DLC and check if it runs better by that point.
I've been playing it off and on since launch - mainly to keep up with the special tera raids they've been releasing. It's largely fine now. Those videos you saw at launch were mostly due to a memory leak which I believe has been fixed at this point? At least, I never encountered anything like that and I haven't heard anyone complain about it in a long time. Worst case, make sure you close out the game when you're done playing rather than leaving it suspended.
There are definitely still issues. The pop-in is still pretty bad in places (weirdly mostly with NPCs, not so much with pokemon and other things) and the framerate chugs in certain locations (for whatever reason this game has HUGE issues with large bodies of water). It's not enough to really ruin the experience though IMO. I guess it depends on how sensitive you are to that stuff, but like, it's not the crazy contorting models like some of those early videos were showing. It's more your typical "unoptimized video game" stuff.
To me the biggest issues were actually with how broken tera raids were and *most* of those issues have been fixed now. At least, you don't tend to get locked out of your controls or have the boss live when his HP is at 0 and stuff. I still have issues with the "real time" nature of them not exactly working as intended (there's a lot of desync problems still) but largely they're much better than at launch.
Honestly I would still recommend it. Even with the problems it's by far one of my all time favorite pokemon games and that is with how freaking broken it launched and still is in ways. It honestly might have been my favorite of all time if it didn't have those issues. It's *really* good. I still had an absolute blast even despite all the bugs. Also possibly the best story/writing of any pokemon game, no joke. Like, they actually *tried* here. And pretty much all of the story NPCs (rivals, gym leaders, teachers, team star, etc etc) are all fantastic. Maybe some of the best gym leaders since gen 5 for sure. So yeah, it's seriously good.
When you're in the field, all the wandering Pokemon you see have a lower polygon count than the Pokemon you fight. This isn't the issue - loads of games do this, and the low-poly Pokemon look good even relatively up close.
The problem comes when you bump into a Pokemon for a fight. The camera zooms waaaay in, the Pokemon does its cute little roar, and only after that does the Pokemon switch to its high-poly version! Every curved surface looks a lot more jagged and uneven, and because the camera's zoomed in, you get a great look at it.
It's really not that big of a problem - the Pokemon still look okay, and I'm sure there were dozens of issues ahead of that one. But once I noticed that, I couldn't stop noticing it.
Maybe I should do that if I've got the Pokemon itch.
I need to do that at some point too. Also like.. beat Shield :P I honestly didn't like Sword and Shield that much, but I hear the DLC is much better. I eventually just gave up pretending and watched a Let's Play of the base game and that was much more enjoyable (honestly I think I identified my main issue with that game being how much I hate the Wild Area though. If I ever do go back I might just avoid that area entirely until maybe endgame)
I was really disappointed by Sword & Shield, but loved it's DLC. (It's basically what I wanted the main game to be.)
(Just make sure you don't buy the incorrect version - rather than there being a "Sword & Shield DLC" that works for either, you need the "Sword DLC" for Sword and the "Shield DLC" for Shield. Which, I mean, now that I type it, duh. But if you're not expecting there to be two versions of the DLC it could trip you up.)