Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States

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SteelPlatedHeart said:
I’ve actually been enjoying the story, if only because it’s interesting to watch people in the village go from being terrified of Pokémon to learning something about a Pokémon or realize how it can help in their day-to-day life, only to start to see Pokémon around the village helping out and expanding the place.
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They treat Pokemon like violent wild animals, which they are, and mention them killing people. It's a breath of fresh air to have a more serious undertone to the world. I like the town slowly expanding and the Pokemon moving about the village throughout the day just like the people. The fact that NPCs and town Pokemon have a time based schedule is nice compared to "I stand here forever and look only this direction for all eternity" NPCs. Everyone has a name which alone makes them have more personality than most NPCs from the regular games, not to mention many have multiple sidequests where you get to explore them a bit.

Also Beutifred is the best town Pokemon and you can't change my mind.
 
I've been playing the game since Thursday night (thank you, Eastern Time-based eShop time locks) and, as others have said, I'm not just liking the game but I'm also surprised about liking it.

Also, I either fucked up research-wise or my luck is off charts. I've already had 5 Shiny encounters so far and I don't even have the Shiny Charm yet. I somehow managed to fuck up a chance encounter with a Shiny Stantler when I was fucking around the Deertrack Heights but then I encountered a Shiny Geodude less than an hour after that. Since then I've gone on to catch a Shiny Drifloon, Zubat, and Starly. And I STILL haven't completed the optional Shiny Ponyta quest yet.

That said, the graphics are really funky, especially in cutscenes and TV mode. I also hope the game has more storage than your usual Pokemon game, with catching being PLA's main objective you're gonna fill up those 32 boxes FAST.
 
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Sundae said:
It's pretty neat to seeing how big Pokémon can get compared to your character.
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I live for this stuff. Back when gen 4 came out I adored the weight check function on the pokedex, it was like Crack to me. Seeing how big and heavy a Pokémon could be back then blew my little kid brain, seeing it now blows my adult brain. Some of them are comically large, but damn, it really puts things into perspective. These things really are monsters, aren't they?
 
Disc said:
The giant gardevoir in particular went around like wildfire. Not surprising considering that gardevoir is always coombait.
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I mentioned this earlier in the thread, when I get this game if I can catch a large (preferably shiny) Gardevoir, I'm going to name it Dimitrescu.

If I can catch a large Gengar, I'm naming it Totoro.
 
Sundae said:
I mentioned this earlier in the thread, when I get this game if I can catch a large (preferably shiny) Gardevoir, I'm going to name it Dimitrescu.

If I can catch a large Gengar, I'm naming it Totoro.
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Mass outbreaks are your friend for shiny hunting. Save in town, go to one, catch everything, and if no shinies show, soft reset and try again.

Also turn off auto save.
 
If there's one thing I don't like about PLA's space-time distortions it's how long it takes for the damn things to go from popping up on the map to actually activating.
Rotollo 2 said:
You get Grit for mass releasing pokemon so you are encouraged to release mons after a while
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Ah, so limit is the same as past games but you at least get something in return for releasing your excess 'mons like you do with Go and LGPE. I suppose there's also February's Home compatibility update to consider as well.
SteelPlatedHeart said:
Mass outbreaks are your friend for shiny hunting. Save in town, go to one, catch everything, and if no shinies show, soft reset and try again.

Also turn off auto save.
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Funnily enough someone on Twitter was smart enough to make a spreadsheet to document the amount of additional rerolls the game's RNG will perform in order to find a Shiny seed.
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Oh, and apparently Alpha Pokemon can be Shiny a well but AFAIK they don't pop up in mass outbreaks.

EDIT: Oh, and I'm seconding the "turn off autosave" bit. One thing I'd also recommend it turning off the "automatically connect" option for online functions. I don't know if it was because I was retarded and had it on but I ended up having to redo a few hours of gamplay due to an unknown error occurring when I entered Galaxy Hall.

EDIT 2: Scratch that bit about Alpha Pokemon not showing up in mass outbreaks, I just had an Alpha Parasect pop up in a Parasect outbreak.
 
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Archeops said:
Oh, and apparently Alpha Pokemon can be Shiny a well but AFAIK they don't pop up in mass outbreaks.
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I can confirm that. I found one a few days ago and have even seen a couple video of other players getting one:


I'm currently trying to decide what to evolve a Shiny Alpha Eevee into. I'm leaning Glaceon.
 
So far I have around 33 hours in PLA. I've beaten Kleavor and unlocked Crimson Mirelands, but I haven't explored that area yet, because I'm still focusing on Obsidian Fieldlands. In the older games, my favourite task was completing the Pokédex, so naturally I'm enjoying PLA a lot. I'm hellbent on getting "perfect" status on all dex entries, because I'm a completionist.

What's interesting to me is that while working to obtain "perfect" dex entires, I end up using many different species of Pokémon and I have no fixed team at this (early) point in the game, because party members are coming and going as I need them.

Thank god for the mass-release feature.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
Despite being much slower than Santa-Deer, there’s something really entertaining about riding around on a big lumbering rock bear that likes to dig for treasure.
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There's gotta be some sorta weird exploit that switching around ride mons will cause for speed runs and I cant wait for it
 
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