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I dropped Sword back in November because of work, but I picked it back up with a new file a couple of weeks ago. Only took me a few days to beat the game, but even though it was barebones in the back end (seriously, Spikemuth was a hallway), I still had fun playing. Some great variety in the regular Galar Dex, Wild Area was fun if linear. This is the series that I grew up on, so I'm always going to give it the benefit of the doubt. There are definitely some good concepts that didn't get enough dev time. I have to imagine that if they went back to a two year cycle then the games will be much stronger.
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Nessa posted:Exactly! Oh thank Christ, I'm not the only one. I got lost for HOURS in that stupid forest, thinking the entrance to the cave with the mushrooms would be somewhere in the forest, because the old dude sucks at giving directions and the map sucks. Where's my mini-map? Sun and Moon had a map! I'd even take Rotom jabbering over it every 5 seconds, as long as I could have one! 
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Silver Falcon posted:Where's my mini-map? Sun and Moon had a map! I'd even take Rotom jabbering over it every 5 seconds, as long as I could have one! This will be added in DLC in Gen 9.
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Jun 20, 2020 17:48
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Carlosologist posted:I dropped Sword back in November because of work, but I picked it back up with a new file a couple of weeks ago. Only took me a few days to beat the game, but even though it was barebones in the back end (seriously, Spikemuth was a hallway), I still had fun playing. Some great variety in the regular Galar Dex, Wild Area was fun if linear. This is the series that I grew up on, so I'm always going to give it the benefit of the doubt. There are definitely some good concepts that didn't get enough dev time. I have to imagine that if they went back to a two year cycle then the games will be much stronger. It was rushed to meet Christmas and the game suffers for that no doubt but if they hadn't pushed it back I wouldn't have bought a Switch before they all went missing in the Great Animal Crossing Craze of 2020
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Jun 20, 2020 17:52
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I wouldn't mind the Zeraora raids nearly as much if you didn't have to beat every raid in the area to get new ones. I need Watts, dangit.
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Jun 20, 2020 18:06
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See Mohn posted:I wouldn't mind the Zeraora raids nearly as much if you didn't have to beat every raid in the area to get new ones. I need Watts, dangit. Mood. I started breeding Eevee last night just to get off a bunch of surprise trades with the rejects in hopes of getting a raid I could get into so that my shiny Zeraora raid would vanish.
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Jun 20, 2020 18:11
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hopeandjoy posted:Mood. I started breeding Eevee last night just to get off a bunch of surprise trades with the rejects in hopes of getting a raid I could get into so that my shiny Zeraora raid would vanish. Wait, explain please. Can you make raids go away without beating them?
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Jun 20, 2020 18:15
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See Mohn posted:Wait, explain please. Can you make raids go away without beating them? When you join and beat someone else's raid, one of your raids disappears. The problem is being able to join someone else's raid.
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Jun 20, 2020 18:48
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hopeandjoy posted:When you join and beat someone else's raid, one of your raids disappears. Well, that solves my Zeraora problem pretty handily. Thanks for the tip.
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Jun 20, 2020 18:55
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I usually start a card trade using a random number nobody will pick, keeps the raid list refreshing until you see one you like
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Jun 20, 2020 19:04
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Is there a way to use ability capsules to get an Own Tempo Rockruff? I'm trying to get a dusk Lycanrock, but it turns out the only way to get them without trading is to get very lucky with raids. I even checked in the Pokemon Home GTS but every dang body wants an Urshifu for them.
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Soysaucebeast posted:Is there a way to use ability capsules to get an Own Tempo Rockruff? I'm trying to get a dusk Lycanrock, but it turns out the only way to get them without trading is to get very lucky with raids. I even checked in the Pokemon Home GTS but every dang body wants an Urshifu for them. A friend gave me one. Give me like 5 minutes and I'll try to breed another with my fancy ditto. Edit: first one I hatched, ready to go. PM me if you still want it. History Comes Inside! fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Jun 20, 2020 |
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Jun 20, 2020 19:06
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Just got a 2nd bear on a new profile and moved him to Home. Play time total was only 1:36 but it was probably closer to 2 hours and change because of cutscenes. All in all not as tedious as I thought it’d be.
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Silver Falcon posted:Oh thank Christ, I'm not the only one. I got lost for HOURS in that stupid forest, thinking the entrance to the cave with the mushrooms would be somewhere in the forest, because the old dude sucks at giving directions and the map sucks. Yeah, why send us to a forest filled with dojo trainers looking for mushrooms when the mushrooms aren’t even in that area?
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Jun 20, 2020 19:40
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Carlosologist posted:It’s kinda funny that at the end of the day, if that datamine is correct, all Pokémon will be available in SwSh Dexit was never a deal breaker for me, but if this is true I'm glad and I know a lot of other people will be too. If it is true though it's weird they were so cagey about it at release. Why wouldn't they just be upfront about patching in more Pokemon later?
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Jun 20, 2020 20:31
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There's a whole honey themed island but honey has no purpose...
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Jun 20, 2020 20:33
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TheHan posted:There's a whole honey themed island but honey has no purpose... 
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:
https://www.ign.com/articles/we-saw-30-minutes-of-pokemon-sword-and-shields-isle-of-armor-dlc One of the preview articles for the dlc this week asked a rep if the returning pokemon was because of the response to the cut and were told, no, the dlc was in development before SwSh released. (Granted the rep said they couldn't be certain) So my guess is that they just didn't want to reveal the dlc that early. It's also really hard to not feel like the pokemon were cynically cut so that their return could be used to hype up the dlc. Sleeping Sigma fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Jun 20, 2020 |
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Jun 20, 2020 20:49
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2nd profiles both have access to the same Home and DLC as the profile it was purchased on? Just made one to replay BotW, would be nice if I could rush the game again to work on a living dex I'll never complete
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Jun 20, 2020 20:51
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I've tried using honey everywhere and it hasn't done anything...please tell me what it does...
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Sleeping Sigma posted:https://www.ign.com/articles/we-saw-30-minutes-of-pokemon-sword-and-shields-isle-of-armor-dlc So it's either this is PR bullshit or that Game Informer interview with the director where they say they won't be adding in the old pokemon and this was all for balance reasons was PR bullshit. Just take the fuckin year off and make an actually good game.
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Jun 20, 2020 21:07
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TheHan posted:I've tried using honey everywhere and it hasn't done anything...please tell me what it does... regular honey is just for selling I think, but the island itself definitely has useful honey
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OK, I had some free time and thought I'd finally help with the Zeraora raids. First, the game doesn't update the sticker list at all. Then it does after a few surprise trades, but every raid that shows up is full. A few more surprise trades and a few more failed attempts to join someone's already filled raid because of course those are the ones that show up in the list, and I have the brilliant idea of try to locate a den and host a raid of my own. I finally found a den with a Zeraora. I start the raid, no one joins. "That's weird, usually at least two people join". Try again. Nothing. Try with the lovely AI partners, fail. Try again to host, nobody shows up again. Do two surprise trades just in case it helps refresh whatever is not making my raid show up to anyone else. Try to host two more times and nobody shows up yet again. I finally give up. gently caress you, Game Freak. gently caress you for wasting a whole hour of my day for nothing with your embarrassingly bad online system. It's ridiculous!
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Saoshyant posted:OK, I had some free time and thought I'd finally help with the Zeraora raids. First, the game doesn't update the sticker list at all. Then it does after a few surprise trades, but every raid that shows up is full. A few more surprise trades and a few more failed attempts to join someone's already filled raid because of course those are the ones that show up in the list, and I have the brilliant idea of try to locate a den and host a raid of my own. I finally found a den with a Zeraora. I start the raid, no one joins. "That's weird, usually at least two people join". Try again. Nothing. Try with the lovely AI partners, fail. Try again to host, nobody shows up again. Do two surprise trades just in case it helps refresh whatever is not making my raid show up to anyone else. Try to host two more times and nobody shows up yet again. I finally give up. I don't know what's worse, the fact that I can't just ping someone on my friend list to directly trade/fight or the fact there's no way to regularly refresh the sticker list OR that there's no way to just search for "Active ____ stickers" be it raids or trades or card swaps. I'll loving engage with your online system if you just loving let me Game freak! How is this harder and more annoying to use than the loving DS and 3DS online systems? It's 2019 you've had a decade of other developers work to at least see in passing! ZenMasterBullshit fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Jun 20, 2020 |
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https://twitter.com/joemerrick/status/1274406883533688833?s=21
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Silver Falcon posted:Where's my mini-map? Sun and Moon had a map! I'd even take Rotom jabbering over it every 5 seconds, as long as I could have one! It's really kind of frustrating to not have rpg quality of life features that have been around for 20 years and thus should know better by now.
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I like the new wild area and the goofy dojo quest. I'm unhappy that they didn't put any time into improving the bad online play. The cramorant item thing is weird as balls but looking down the Serebii list (https://www.serebii.net/swordshield/cram-o-matic.shtml) it's a good way to get really good stuff (ability capsule; star and ribbon sweets; all sorts of stuff that usually costs BP). Nuts to doing it without looking it up in a guide though. I tried out putting in a Pretty Wing, a Honey, some other throwaway item I can't remember and an Apricorn and it spat out... a Pretty Wing. so basically it ate 3 items It feels like that could be a game in itself, working out how to get good items out of it (if you wanted to do it yourself as a personal challenge rather than looking it up on the internet), but it's just another one of these systems that the game itself doesn't give you enough information to work it out. So it seems like a missed opportunity.
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If that datamine about returning Pokémon is true, then the space provided by HOME will be extremely inadequate for long-time players and collectors like me. Wonder if they'll ever expand it. (Aren't Pokémon files tiny in size anyways? Should be a cinch for a paid feature) Datamines for the Crown Tundra indicate that it's going to be much meatier than the little snack that was Isle of Armor, but I dunno. I'd rather just wait to move onto generation 9 and leave Galar's many, many mistakes and underwhelming bits behind for good.
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Carlosologist posted:It’s kinda funny that at the end of the day, if that datamine is correct, all Pokémon will be available in SwSh Is this the datamine you're referring to? https://twitter.com/SciresM/status/1273679578934808576 Because all he's saying is that there will be at least 898 Pokemon in total (not including any Mythicals added later). Not that everyone is returning. https://twitter.com/SciresM/status/1273679863036010496
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Can you get dusk Lycanroc from Isle of Armor?
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LemonLimeTime posted:Can you get dusk Lycanroc from Isle of Armor? You can evolve it there if you have one that has the special ability. But as to getting the special ability, I am not sure.
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LemonLimeTime posted:Can you get dusk Lycanroc from Isle of Armor? It's in raids. We did some last night.
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Araxxor posted:Is this the datamine you're referring to? i bet it will be the fossil pokemon that will be missing because gamefreak just loves kicking them when they are down 
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Fucksakes just give us our starters back. That's all I really want more than anything.
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LemonLimeTime posted:Can you get dusk Lycanroc from Isle of Armor? There’s a raid den that can have Own Tempo Rockruff and Dusk Form Lycanroc, yes. It’s the one to the east of the Darkness tower,
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https://twitter.com/abcboy101/status/1274355975760351234 link to what is currently believed to be the Crown Tundra's returning pokemon due to the internal listing deleting these pokemon instead of leaving them blank.
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MorningMoon posted:https://twitter.com/abcboy101/status/1274355975760351234 link to what is currently believed to be the Crown Tundra's returning pokemon due to the internal listing deleting these pokemon instead of leaving them blank. It's odd that they'd add the gen 3 starters, but not any of the others.
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Bongo Bill posted:It's odd that they'd add the gen 3 starters, but not any of the others. Gen III and IV were the absolute top tier for starters so its only weird they're leaving out Sinnoh but you got to get those Blaziken fans I guess.
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Mesadoram posted:You can evolve it there if you have one that has the special ability. But as to getting the special ability, I am not sure. I just had to trade a goon for one with that ability earlier today. From what I've read online, you can breed it down but it's no longer available to catch a Rockruff with Own Tempo. Apparently it was a special event pokemon during USUM and is a semi-rare raid den now. Outside of that though you're out of luck.
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