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

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This year's GOFest was sub-par compared to the other years. But, people complaining about shiny rates never shut up about them since they solely focus on that alone and nothing else included in the event. In this case, the shiny rates were fine. I think the buggy, already nerfed incense on top of the server issues didn't help. Then again, all of the shiny rates will be horrible if every Pokemon you tap on is running away on the map itself thanks to the bug.
 
Archeops said:
Well Go Fest 2022 seems to be going about as well as Go Tour: Johto did back in February. One of the big things that players are complaining about is the “boosted“ Shiny rate.

For those of you who don’t want to give the link a click, here’s a transcript.

As a fellow GO player (feel free to boo me for that) these people seem to forget that it’s finding a Shiny Pokémon even on boosted days like Community Days and events is a chance, not a guarantee. They just had shitty luck. That said, the general consensus on Silph Road is that Go Fest 2022’s rates are similar to last year’s: the first day’s boosted rates were at a 1/64 chance while the second day’s were at a 1/128 rate.
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I found a single shiny but I didn't play the full duration of the event and I didn't catch like my llfe depended on it so whatever. I completed the research (choose relaxed because of what I mentioned earlier), completed the collection challenges and beyond raiding/catching axew I felt like it didn't have a lot going for it. Still happy with my shiny haxorus.
Second day was super whatever to me, other than nihilego's debut I couldn't give a rat ass about raids, in fact yesterday in terms of raids were also meh to me (besides axew). Wish they would have brought back exclusive moves for legendaries or a larger/better selection of pokemon (I am bored of seeing kyogre and groudon in raids, and they didn't even bring rayquaza this time). The ultra wormhole could have been a great excuse to bring back more legendaries to raids.
But oh well, at least it wasn't the go tour: johto, where they crammed everything into a single day, that fucking sucked.
8/10 it's ok

Edit: I wasn't even thinking about shiny hunting for this event, if anything shinies are a nice extra to me.
I don't know why there are so many people who feel they are entitled to a shiny, my best guess is that they haven't played a mainline game in over a decade or never did.
 
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BlazikenLover said:
I don't know why there are so many people who feel they are entitled to a shiny, my best guess is that they haven't played a mainline game in over a decade or never did.
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You'd be surprised, but that's true for the majority. It's the gambling aspect that makes them crazy for shiny Pokemon. It's a gacha experience without being a standard gacha on the surface.
Most of the people I have met that are into the series as a whole (console, mobile, anime, etc.) are more about building a living dex in GO.
 
Education Lottery said:
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Most of the people I have met that are into the series as a whole (console, mobile, anime, etc.) are more about building a living dex in GO.
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Personally I am trying to complete the pokedex(es), but over the years I lost motivation due to how ridicolously limited the availability of some pokemon is.
A big reason why I buy these tickets is for the regionals, this year's Go fest thankfully featured no regionals that I can already find in my country.

Unrelated, but I like the new mega system and I am slowly increasing the mega level of my pokemon
 
Well I did the full two days that Go Fest was being held for, here are some highlights...
- The amount of Shinies I got on both days were roughly similar (11 on the first and 10 on the second) so I'm not too bothered by the apparently-low rate that people are complaining about. I know some people were expecting rates on-par with or better than a standard Community day but that's just pure lunacy, if anything it should be between the permaboost rate (~1/64) that some rarer Pokemon have and the standard Community Day rate (~1/25) to at least make it worthwhile.

- The kinds of Pokémon you could Shiny hunt were a bit lackluster, there were only four new ones while others had been dropped during earlier events. It would've been nice, in addition to making them available outside of their specific regions, if Niantic also dropped Torkoal's and Tropius's Shinies during Go Fest.

- I can agree with the issue regarding Incense-spawned Pokemon running away when tapped on the map, it probably has to do with server issues and Niantic "returning" the spawn rate to what it was when COVID lockdowns were in effect. I’ve also noticed that, both before and after the event, sometimes a Pokémon I’ve caught will “respawn” on the map and immediately run away when I tap ‘em, I’m not sure if it’s the same issue but it‘s still weird.
- The 5-star raids for the first day were really lackluster, Groudon and Kyogre were available a few days before the event and that kind of killed the desire for some people to raid (not that this affected much TBH, I still saw people filling up lobbies where I was raiding). Day 2 was surprising due to how few people it'd take to KO Nihilego, I'd join raid lobbies with only 4 players and we'd still take out that glass jellyfish. If this is an indication of the kinds of challenges Ultra Beasts will bring to Go then I'm all for it, Legendary raids can be a pain if you're not a part of a large group.

- The lack of lowered Egg hatching distances made some parts of the event annoying, especially on the 2nd day when hatching Eggs was needed for two challenges found in the UB-centric Special Research. And yes, I know that said Special Research could be completed at any time.
And now we have two events, Adventure Week and a Pokémon TCG Crossover Event, coming up.

Adventure Week will start on later today (or now if in other parts of the world) and end on the 12th, here are the specs…
- Amaura and Tyrunt are introduced to the game.

- Unown F will be appearing in 1-star Raids and has a chance of being Shiny.

- 1-Star raids (Both regular and Alolan Geodudes, Sudowoodo, Roggenrola, and the previously mentioned Unown), 3-Star raids (Rhydon, Shuckle, Tyranitar, and Aggron), and 5-Star raids (Groudon), and Mega Raids (Aerodactyl)

- Event-themed research will be available and players can get 3 free Incubators (probably those cheap regular 1-use ones)

- Research Day on the 12th (from 11:00 AM-3:00 PM local time): limited research tasks will be available where you can get Cranidos and Shieldon and have a higher chance of getting Shiny versions 'em. Tyrunt and Amaura will also appear in the wild in greater numbers during this event.

- Wild Pokémon include Graveler, Rhyhorn, the Kanto Fossil ‘mons, Larvitar and Pupitar, Aron, the Hoenn Fossil ‘mons, and the Sinnoh Fossil ‘mons throughout the event.

- Shuckle, Slugma, Cranidos, Shieldon, Archen, Tirtouga, Tyrunt, and Amaura will be available in 7km Eggs. Hatch distances will be halved during the event.

- Archen’s and Tirtouga‘s Shiny forms are available during the event and will continue to be available if encountered after the event ends.
The next event is the Pokémon TCG Crossover event, which is being done to advertise the GO-themed TCG set being released in on July 1st, it starts on the 16th of June and ends on the 30th. Here are the specs for that one…
- Wimpod, Golisopod, and another Costume Pikachu will be released. The Pikachu will be wearing a TCG-themed cap (it’s basically a reskin of the Thunderbolt Project Hat Pikachu but the hat’s colored blue and the two-thunderbolts-in-a-circle design is replaced with two TCG cards) and has the chance of being Shiny. Wimpod evolves in the same way as Magikarp, Meltan, and Stufful do: you’ll have to use 400 Wimpod Candies to get Golisopod.

- Meltan’s Shiny form will be available to players that have the Mystery Box (and presumably any Special Research tasks if you’re sitting on ’em). The cooldown timer will also be reduced.

-Six Collection Challenges will be available during the event with each being a different difficulty level. Completing them all will get you XP, a Lure Module, an Incubator, and Pokémon encounters (consisting of Venusaur, Blastoise, Charizard, and Meltan). Three more Challenges will become available on the 23rd and will also yield encounters with the fully-evolved Kanto Starters.

- Wild Pokemon include Bulbasaur & Ivysaur, Charmander & Charmeleon, Squirtle & Wartortle, Alolan Rattata, the previously-mentioned Costume Pikachu, Slowpoke, Magikarp, Eevee, Spinarak, Natu, Aipom, Numel, Bidoof, Pidove, and Wimpod. Rare Pokémon include Onix, Chansey, Snorlax, Dragonite, and Slaking.

- Solrock and Lunatone will appear worldwide during the event, after the event end the Pokemon will swap hemispheres

- Ivysaur, Charmeleon, Wartortle, the previously-mentioned Costume Pikachu, and Wimpod will be available in Field Research tasks. Venusaur, Charizard, Blastoise, Snorlax, Dragonite, and Slaking will also be available in tasks.

- Chansey, Larvitar, Timburr, and Wimpod will be available in 1-Star raids. Alolan Exeggutor, Snorlax, Dragonite, and Slaking will be available in 3-Star Raids. Mewtwo will be available in 5-Star Raids. The Kanto Starters will be available in Mega Raids.
Both events look interesting to me but Adventure Week feels like it’ll be the one I‘ll go all-in on. I need me a good Tyrunt. And Shiny Archen, I’ve gotten one in each main game since Gen 5 and I sure as FUCK will try to get one here.
Education Lottery said:
You'd be surprised, but that's true for the majority. It's the gambling aspect that makes them crazy for shiny Pokemon. It's a gacha experience without being a standard gacha on the surface.
Most of the people I have met that are into the series as a whole (console, mobile, anime, etc.) are more about building a living dex in GO.
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BlazikenLover said:
Personally I am trying to complete the pokedex(es), but over the years I lost motivation due to how ridicolously limited the availability of some pokemon is.
A big reason why I buy these tickets is for the regionals, this year's Go fest thankfully featured no regionals that I can already find in my country.

Unrelated, but I like the new mega system and I am slowly increasing the mega level of my pokemon
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For me I’m mostly into semi-casual collecting, I don’t need to complete my Dex (living or otherwise) on Go but I like the thrill of the hunt.
 
TrippinKahlua said:
If the Legendaries are meant to be Past and Future I hope their Types are

Dragon/Fire for the Past
Dragon/Psychic for the Future.

Those types are fitting and neither type combos have been used much.
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I think Scarlet's gonna be Fire/Water and Violets gonna be Electric/Steel. Scarlet's gotta have webbed feet for a reason I think, and Violet has jagged lines reminiscent of designs of other electric types.
whatever I feel like said:
My hope is they drop the "it's just like a real place" convention of later games. Alola/Hawaii was fine but that's it, every other one has been an annoying distraction. I'd place the one set in France as being the dividing line of when it started to become obnoxious.
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Every region is based off of a real world location in some capacity tho, except maybe the regions from the Ranger games. Orre was even based on Arizona way before Unova was based on New York
 
MightyBiteySnake said:
I think Scarlet's gonna be Fire/Water and Violets gonna be Electric/Steel. Scarlet's gotta have webbed feet for a reason I think, and Violet has jagged lines reminiscent of designs of other electric types.

Every region is based off of a real world location in some capacity tho, except maybe the regions from the Ranger games. Orre was even based on Arizona way before Unova was based on New York
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Yeah, bit there's still a definite shift between DP and earlier games (based in japan, and thus largely either grounded in basic and near-universal terms of their design or completely disconnected from reality) and Unova and later games (based in other areas, and thus emphasise their differences from Japan). It's part of why characters like Kabu are often joked about larping as if their super-classical-stylings are ubiquitous throughout their region, when Hoenn is just... not like that.

Probably the closest in Gen 1-4 is Ecruteak city with the two Towers in Johto.
 
Disc said:
Yeah, bit there's still a definite shift between DP and earlier games (based in japan, and thus largely either grounded in basic and near-universal terms of their design or completely disconnected from reality) and Unova and later games (based in other areas, and thus emphasise their differences from Japan). It's part of why characters like Kabu are often joked about larping as if their super-classical-stylings are ubiquitous throughout their region, when Hoenn is just... not like that.

Probably the closest in Gen 1-4 is Ecruteak city with the two Towers in Johto.
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Unova was the only one that did it well. Most of the blatently New York aspects of the region stop at Nimbasa. The western and eastern parts past it have the similar ambiguity of the first four gens.
 
Question for those here…: is BDSP worth it if you didn’t actually play DP originally? I recently tried replaying Sword and… just keep getting annoyed. I tried my best to like it, I really did. What are your thoughts on BDSP beyond its fam service to previous players?
 
Fwiffo said:
Question for those here…: is BDSP worth it if you didn’t actually play DP originally? I recently tried replaying Sword and… just keep getting annoyed. I tried my best to like it, I really did. What are your thoughts on BDSP beyond its fam service to previous players?
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Per a friend who bought it - outside the chibi art style and some QoL, it’s basically 1:1 with the originals.

Team who did the remake likely didn’t want to rock the boat with Nintendo’s Cash Cow, which I get it.
 
Leaf Wage Slave said:
Per a friend who bought it - outside the chibi art style and some QoL, it’s basically 1:1 with the originals.

Team who did the remake likely didn’t want to rock the boat with Nintendo’s Cash Cow, which I get it.
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Fair enough, were the originals considered good in their day? I played lots of gen 1, a tiny bit of gen 5, then nothing until sword. Just wondering if it’s any good after all these years, remake or not.
 
Fwiffo said:
Fair enough, were the originals considered good in their day? I played lots of gen 1, a tiny bit of gen 5, then nothing until sword. Just wondering if it’s any good after all these years, remake or not.
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I haven’t played it in over 10 years, but it’s a fan favorite. D+P had its issues (EDIT: here’s another one, fuck you), then Platinum fixed those issues, added some new content, and became the definitive version.

Come to think of it, the DS as a whole was a golden era for Pokemon. The main series had Platinum, HGSS, BW, and B2W2. Then the spin-offs had the first two Mystery Dungeon games and the entire Pokémon Rangers series (plus some other spin-offs that were hit or miss).
 
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Fwiffo said:
Fair enough, were the originals considered good in their day? I played lots of gen 1, a tiny bit of gen 5, then nothing until sword. Just wondering if it’s any good after all these years, remake or not.
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Let me put it this way - Gen 4 (and the inevitable Gen 5 remake) was back when Gamefreak still gave a shit about quality. Barring the hoops to jump through to get Spiritomb, Gen 4 was overall a good gen.

The only downside of the remakes is that Empoleon isn’t as nearly unbeatable because the Steel type had some matchups changed - back in the day Empoleon resisted, I wanna say 12/17 types?
Two Dollars said:
I haven’t played it in over 10 years, but it’s a fan favorite. D+P had its issues, then Platinum fixed those issues, added some new content, and became the definitive version.

Come to think of it, the DS as a whole was a golden era for Pokemon. The main series had Platinum, HGSS, BW, and B2W2. Then the spin-offs had the first two Mystery Dungeon games and the entire Pokémon Rangers series (plus some other spin-offs that were hit or miss).
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Honestly they should’ve just made a Platinum remake instead. I know, they’re never going to retire the “Two Versions” approach - it makes them money after all - but at least now theyMre actually trying to make the versions feel like they’re actually somewhat different…
 
Fwiffo said:
Question for those here…: is BDSP worth it if you didn’t actually play DP originally? I recently tried replaying Sword and… just keep getting annoyed. I tried my best to like it, I really did. What are your thoughts on BDSP beyond its fam service to previous players?
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Emulate the DS games. I've been playing my friend's copy of Shining Pearl and it's such a slog to get through, I can't find myself caring about anything with such stiff animations and ugly chibi proportions.
 
NerdShamer said:
I still remember how long it took just to for it to fucking save.
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The long saving times was something that plagued all of the DS titles.

If I recall correctly, it takes so long because it checks every slot in your party, PC, and daycare one by one to see if anything changed since the last time you saved
 
Dunsparce said:
The long saving times was something that plagued all of the DS titles.

If I recall correctly, it takes so long because it checks every slot in your party, PC, and daycare one by one to see if anything changed since the last time you saved
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That would explain why it'd go into "Saving a lot of Data" mode if I opened the PC...
 
Whole bunch of Pokémon leaks, no pictures but info. Including final evo types and Weed Cat’s general shape.

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