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

Neurotypical Mantis said:
nearly everyone i've seen, myself included, have gotten a shiny really really early into the game. some people have said they didn't get one but maybe they missed it
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I didn't find/see one early on but I was surprised to randomly come across a shiny Dratini around 40 hours into my playthrough. They really should have included the sparkle and sound from PLA with how subtle some of the shiny colors are.
 
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TitchBitties said:
I didn't find/see one early on but I was surprised to randomly come across a shiny Dratini around 40 hours into my playthrough. They really should have included the sparkle and sound from PLA with how subtle some of the shiny colors are.
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Two of the shiny Pokemon I found were just chilling while I was battling something else. I can't imagine how many more I missed simply because I wasn't standing still long enough to spot them.
 
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Oh my fucking word I fucking hate Nintendo and their incessant need to make simple fucking features convoluted as all hell. Try to wirelessly send a screenshot, smartphone option just straight up doesn't fucking work. I'm not connecting a Twitter account (nor can I, as soon as I do the browser stops working entirely), and I tried to make a Facebook which was banned FUCKING INSTANTLY (literally the second I hit "create") because "I didn't use my real name".

Finally break down to shoving my SD card in the computer (it has usb-c, why the fuck can't I just do that, Nintendo?) and my fucking word, what the fuck is their file organization system? I get it's all by date, but it's so unintuitive the way it's set up. Is Nintendo just literally incapable of just doing shit in a standardized method? All this fuckin' effort to post this screenshot, because what the actual fuck is this luck I just got?

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Also, fuck raids. They aren't fun, at all. It's a miserable slog every single time and it almost feels like regardless of how well your group is set up to take down a raid, the AI will just deliberately cheat and fuck you into the dirt whenever the hell it feels like it. All the animations take way too damn long, the boss gets way, WAY too many actions whenever it fucking pleases, and thanks to a culmination of both of these, you're often getting shit canned by the timer because it takes half a god damn century for a single turn of actions to happen. I can't stand them and I wish so many good items weren't attached to them.
 
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Nick Gars said:
Oh my fucking word I fucking hate Nintendo and their incessant need to make simple fucking features convoluted as all hell. Try to wirelessly send a screenshot, smartphone option just straight up doesn't fucking work. I'm not connecting a Twitter account (nor can I, as soon as I do the browser stops working entirely), and I tried to make a Facebook which was banned FUCKING INSTANTLY (literally the second I hit "create") because "I didn't use my real name".

Finally break down to shoving my SD card in the computer (it has usb-c, why the fuck can't I just do that, Nintendo?) and my fucking word, what the fuck is their file organization system? I get it's all by date, but it's so unintuitive the way it's set up. Is Nintendo just literally incapable of just doing shit in a standardized method? All this fuckin' effort to post this screenshot, because what the actual fuck is this luck I just got?

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Also, fuck raids. They aren't fun, at all. It's a miserable slog every single time and it almost feels like regardless of how well your group is set up to take down a raid, the AI will just deliberately cheat and fuck you into the dirt whenever the hell it feels like it. All the animations take way too damn long, the boss gets way, WAY too many actions whenever it fucking pleases, and thanks to a culmination of both of these, you're often getting shit canned by the timer because it takes half a god damn century for a single turn of actions to happen. I can't stand them and I wish so many good items weren't attached to them.
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HARD agree. the raids are such fucking bullshit. they'll literally just glitch into randomly regenerating health and the lag is so fucking miserable.
what the fuck was the problem with the max raids? those were literally fine
 
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Nick Gars said:
Also, fuck raids. They aren't fun, at all. It's a miserable slog every single time and it almost feels like regardless of how well your group is set up to take down a raid, the AI will just deliberately cheat and fuck you into the dirt whenever the hell it feels like it. All the animations take way too damn long, the boss gets way, WAY too many actions whenever it fucking pleases, and thanks to a culmination of both of these, you're often getting shit canned by the timer because it takes half a god damn century for a single turn of actions to happen. I can't stand them and I wish so many good items weren't attached to them.
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I wouldn't mind Raids if the drop rates were way higher. Or Soloing was not essentially Goldingo, Iron Hands, Fluttermane or bust.

Because Herbas only have a chance to drop from 5-6 Star Raids. And if you are not scumming the dates, it's real bad. A chance to get a 1-use item that only lasts a limited time is horrendous.

Why Avern can't give you some daily via cooking I don't know.
 
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6MillionCoofs said:
I wouldn't mind Raids if the drop rates were way higher. Or Soloing was not essentially Goldingo, Iron Hands, Fluttermane or bust.

Because Herbas only have a chance to drop from 5-6 Star Raids. And if you are not scumming the dates, it's real bad. A chance to get a 1-use item that only lasts a limited time is horrendous.

Why Avern can't give you some daily via cooking I don't know.
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i would love to do daily titan fights with arven
 
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Mr. Bung said:
A past and future version of Magikarp would be cool. Both would be about on par with Gyarados when it comes to overall power.

-Past: Typing is water and dragon. This would be the Magikarp that is referenced all the way back in its Red/Blue Pokedex entry as being stronger than its extant form. An aggressive fish that has features of both Magikarp and Gyarados. Powerful, but its traits are energy expensive and few survive to adulthood. Facing almost certain extinction, the species gradually undergoes changes and it is eventually able to thrive with much less nutritional intake and breed like crazy, at the expense of all its power. However, all the powerful traits it lost would be reborn as the evolution Gyarados in the select few Magikarp that are able to make it there.

-Future: Typing is water and steel. Most Magikarp remain weak through life as few are able to achieve their second evolution. A scientist with a fascination for Magikarp decided to remedy this by experimenting with the more intelligent Magikarp, encasing them in cybernetic metal suits on legs (think the walking fish in Jungi Ito's "Gyo") that allow them to quickly swim as well as walk/run and hop great heights on land. The suit also allows them all the moves Gyarados is able to use, and with about the same amount of power. Because of this, they are powerful enough that they can often beat Gyarados in a one-on-one fight. Overtime, the fish inside became fused with the cybernetic suit, becoming the future Magikarp. Its signature move would be a new form of the move Splash that causes a high amount of damage.

I thought of cool designs for them too. I wish I could draw, lol.
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Ma you describe the designs to me, then? There is no guarantee that I shall actually pu them in my theoretical demake (maybe after Pokémon Scarlet and Violet ge the DLC), but your ideas got me curious.
 
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If they were anything like Sw/Sh I couldn'tt possibly imagine doing raids for fun, fuck that shit.
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These new raids introduce exciting and fresh elements like letting the boss use three moves in a row in addition to three back-to-back boss powers, regenerate health randomly if you damage it too fast, stall you out with lag (even offline!) while the counter ticks down, freeze your cursor if you don't click fast enough, throw up a debuff-proof shield that you have to terastalize to get through before draining your tera level, randomly backing you out of menus, and breaking the game so utterly that sometimes text doesn't even have time to display.

ETA: No, they're not fun. You're either annihilating 1-5* raids with brute strength for pitiful rewards, or you are being fucked to death with the rest of your team of retards in diffcult 5* and most 6* raids. You either cheese it with the same 2-3 strats everyone else uses (Belly Drum Azu with Shell Bell or Iron Hands with Drain Punch, Pixelate Hypervoice Sylveon, or 4chan meme cat) or you simply fail.
 
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negativlad said:
These new raids introduce exciting and fresh elements like letting the boss use three moves in a row in addition to three back-to-back boss powers, regenerate health randomly if you damage it too fast, stall you out with lag (even offline!) while the counter ticks down, freeze your cursor if you don't click fast enough, throw up a debuff-proof shield that you have to terastalize to get through before draining your tera level, randomly backing you out of menus, and breaking the game so utterly that sometimes text doesn't even have time to display.

ETA: No, they're not fun. You're either annihilating 1-5* raids with brute strength for pitiful rewards, or you are being fucked to death with the rest of your team of retards in diffcult 5* and most 6* raids. You either cheese it with the same 2-3 strats everyone else uses (Belly Drum Azu with Shell Bell or Iron Hands with Drain Punch, Pixelate Hypervoice Sylveon, or 4chan meme cat) or you simply fail.
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To be fair, Max Raids did the same bullshit, just with a different packaging.
 
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Neurotypical Mantis said:
HARD agree. the raids are such fucking bullshit. they'll literally just glitch into randomly regenerating health and the lag is so fucking miserable.
what the fuck was the problem with the max raids? those were literally fine
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I still have no idea what these autists are talking about when they bring up raids in sw/sh and S/V. Where do you even go to start them in the UI?
 
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I should be able to kick people from raids with simply dumb match ups. "OH its a water pokemon with a grass type tera...lemme pick my fire starter and die 4 times killing the timer."
There are more strats i feel with these raids but you have the people using the OP strats and then a solid group of retards choosing pokemon that die so fast it doesnt matter what 3 of 4 are doing.
 
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negativlad said:
These new raids introduce exciting and fresh elements like letting the boss use three moves in a row in addition to three back-to-back boss powers, regenerate health randomly if you damage it too fast, stall you out with lag (even offline!) while the counter ticks down, freeze your cursor if you don't click fast enough, throw up a debuff-proof shield that you have to terastalize to get through before draining your tera level, randomly backing you out of menus, and breaking the game so utterly that sometimes text doesn't even have time to display.

ETA: No, they're not fun. You're either annihilating 1-5* raids with brute strength for pitiful rewards, or you are being fucked to death with the rest of your team of retards in diffcult 5* and most 6* raids. You either cheese it with the same 2-3 strats everyone else uses (Belly Drum Azu with Shell Bell or Iron Hands with Drain Punch, Pixelate Hypervoice Sylveon, or 4chan meme cat) or you simply fail.
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I can't begin to understand why they changed away from a pure turn based system like SwSh. You had your timer to pick your action, everything happened, and then the next action selection phase happened. It's simple, it works, and in Game Freaks case, it already existed so they could have done even less work if they just copy pasted it. How did they manage to make S/V's raid battles have a worse version of the half turn-based system that existed in the original FF7 from 1997?

The timer system is extremely punishing compared to the limited number of turns/deaths allowed in the SwSh raids. Even in offline play with AI the raids are insanely laggy and the menu options are unresponsive half the time. It's also baffling that they'd force you to use their new gimmick mechanic in the higher star raids and then punish you for using it due to how long the animation is. They're worse on every level compared to the perfectly acceptable system that the SwSh raids were.
 
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Viscious Seviper said:
I still have no idea what these autists are talking about when they bring up raids in sw/sh and S/V. Where do you even go to start them in the UI?
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The big glowing columns of light in the sky pointing to the glowing rocks that are also marked on your map. Or, use the search function in the online menu of S/V. My brother in Christ you have to be just a little bit dense to miss them
 
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I guess they might not show up until after the first hour or so of the game, but if you've been playing for a while they are practically impossible to miss; there are dozens showered across the map.
 
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