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

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Jesus Christ, I never obtain shinies when I'm actually trying for them in any game (Masuda, chains, mass outbreaks, ect), but I just mistakenly run into them instead. Working on my livingdex, also playing OSRS, look back and I apparently walked into a battle with a shiny Floette. Even had to flee then re-engage the battle to make sure it was shiny, how the hell Gamefreak actually expects you to see a shiny like that in the over world when they don't glimmer or anything is beyond me. If I didn't run into this one by not paying attention, I wouldn't of seen it at all.

Again I have to wonder how many shinies people have flat out missed in the past week. I don't get why it's so hard to give them some kind of special visual or sound in the over world.
 
SnowBall said:
Gotten quite far in SV and this could have been a 9/10 game if GF didn’t hugely fuck up the graphics and the technological issues. Bring back the art style from the past games, make the graphics great, make the battle system faster and actually optimize the damn game and it would have been a huge improvement. I’m genuinely having a lot of fun with the game regardless. Also the people seething like mad over fans having fun with the game are a lot worse than the bootlickers. SwSh was the other way around.

As for other details picnics are such a huge step down from camp. In camp there were a lot more interactions between the player and the Pokemon. And you had Pokemon actually interacting with each other in the background with fights and races. Now they don’t even react to each other and the only thing you can really do is wash them. The gym leader tests were awful and an absolute chore.

The story is surprisingly good, at least by Pokemon standards. The only character that I can’t stand is Nemona, The other characters are fine and I’m surprisingly enjoying the villian team and the Titan path more than I thought I would.

Anyways those are my thoughts so far.
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I guess Ken Sugimori was busy with PLA when they were doing this one. It's so weird that they had him on the spin-off and not the main game. Hopefully he comes back for the next game. The characters drawn by the Land of the Lustrous designer are the only ones who look passable in this game. And even then they look sorta off. I want a story with more stakes though. Things are just sorta there until you get to Area Zero.
 
Ilikeoreos said:
So, does anyone know what the deal is with the blank area in the Northeast corner of the map? Some kind of future DLC area maybe?
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The assumption is DLC, IIRC someone delved into the code and they found data that implied future DLC is planned. I just hope it comes in form of both paid content like SWSH’s Expansion Pass and free content like the stuff PLA got.
 
Ilikeoreos said:
So, does anyone know what the deal is with the blank area in the Northeast corner of the map? Some kind of future DLC area maybe?
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Archeops said:
The assumption is DLC, IIRC someone delved into the code and they found data that implied future DLC is planned. I just hope it comes in form of both paid content like SWSH’s Expansion Pass and free content like the stuff PLA got.
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Not that the Pokemon and real world maps have any remote connection but I think that area could be the mountain range separating faux Spain Paldea with faux France Kalos. I don't expect the DLC to be a full Kalos remake but both regions have the pseudo Pyrenees in the right area so maybe we'll get to explore a more open version of Kalos' southern half.
 

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Sundae said:
If you plug in a second controller and hold the control stick in the same direction, you run twice as fast:
Apparently in the new pokemon, if you plug in two controllers at once you can run twice as fas...mp4
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...What is the limit of the number of controllers you can use?

Also, I noticed that roost and recover had their PP reduced, which is a bit annoying, since my strategies typically involve healing. Why are so many of the nerfs affecting things that I like? Should I feel like I'm being targeted?
 
Quiet Guy said:
...What is the limit of the number of controllers you can use?

Also, I noticed that roost and recover had their PP reduced, which is a bit annoying, since my strategies typically involve healing. Why are so many of the nerfs affecting things that I like? Should I feel like I'm being targeted?
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The Recover PP nerfs seem to be to discourage stall tactics, which Smogoners like to complain about. I don't think GF specifically nerfed those moves because of that though, and stall tactics aren't usually a huge thing in VGC, aside from a few fringe examples such as the infamous Celesteela wars in VGC 2017.
 
Sinner's Sandwich said:
The characters look fucking awful! Why?
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only the characters? like the new pokemoms and world itself are any better...

Ok, to be serious, I think the character design is made to match Ken Sugimori's current artstyle, if I have to guess, which I really dislike.

Gen 1 and 2 artwork from that man was weird but unique and immediately recognizable, but overtime it evolved into something extremely bland
 
Gonna start duping gold bottle caps, ability patches and start farming for shiny Flutter Manes later today, feel free to DM me if you want to organize trades or want to know how to dupe items yourself
 
Nauseated Courgi said:
Of course she isn't a "Pokemom". What are you? A horny simp?
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Ehh. Maybe I misread and assumed you were the weird horny simp. That or @Some old rug idk is the weirdo that can't type. Excuse me from trying to steer the Pokemon discussion away from sexualizing children's video game characters. I didn't expect it to devolve even further.
 
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