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

This is one of the few radiantly good things to come from this gen
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I have one question since I can't buy it right now: How annoying is the shiny hunting? Is it like LGPE where you have to chain catch pokemon and then wait around for a shiny one to appear or do they have mechanics like SM where the pokemon will call an ally endlessly or the dexnav or can I just run in a circle in the grass to trigger random encounters?
 
UntimelyDhelmise said:
So uh yeah, I am profusely pissed. Cinderace is my new most hated Pokemon by far and GF basically went out of their way to make it fucking broken. Not only will it get Renamed Protean down the line but it also has a second exclusive move where it swaps entry hazards and screens on the field. So now I won't even be able to watch competitive videos without having to see this fugly bunny furbait shit plastered everywhere. As if it getting anime shill billing with Edgy Ash wasn't enough.

I swear if it gets shoehorned into Smash...
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Considering Gen 5 was shafted to to release schedules, I wouldn't be suprised if the same thing happened to the Gen 8 mons, plus sakurai remembers the backlash to Corrin
Love_Machine011 said:
Well I beat sword officially. Gut reaction on the overall game is that its better then sun and moon as a game, so at least the series isnt on a straight declining slope. We will really have to see what they choose to do with Sword 2 and Shield 2, ball is in their court.
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Good to hear, kinda waiting on everything to play since the whole "new game smell" made me ignore a lot of Gen 7's problems only really realizing it I think a couple months after playing it, plus I'm still paranoid about the thing fucking my console emunand is too much of a shit show to get running as well. That's kinda the issue with annualization for me, It gets really hard to tear down a game when by the time you are rethinking it another one just got announced. though I am curious in what ways do you feel the series has course corrected with Gen 8 so far?
 
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So IGN is really scrambling after being caught blatantly lying to readers about their 9.3 score. This is eye gougingly painful to read. There is no way, in any dimension, that Sword & Shield takes 40+ hours to complete the main story. There no way they didn't notice the huge list of graphical errors going on in the game. It seems they are doubling down on the models being new, then saying it doesn't matter anyway. This has to be the most pathetic article I've ever read, you'd think they'd at least shut up about they're fake reviews.

www.ign.com

Pokemon Sword and Shield Controversy and 'Dexit', Explained - IGN

Pokemon Sword and Shield were surrounded by controversy ever since it was announced. Here's why.
www.ign.com www.ign.com
 
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Perspicacity said:
So IGN is really scrambling after being caught blatantly lying to readers about there 9.3 score. This is eye gougingly painful to read. There is no way, in any dimension, that Sword & Shield takes 40+ hours to complete the main story. There no way they didn't notice the huge list of graphical errors going on in the game. It seems they are doubling down on the models being new, then saying it doesn't matter anyway. This has to be the most pathetic article I've ever read, you'd think they'd at least shut up about they're fake reviews.

www.ign.com

Pokemon Sword and Shield Controversy and 'Dexit', Explained - IGN

Pokemon Sword and Shield were surrounded by controversy ever since it was announced. Here's why.
www.ign.com www.ign.com
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you know its sad when it takes a random youtuber to give an objective take on how most of this was more or less just bad PR
Vid above is really good btw, the doesn't really have any strong opinions either way on the issue and kinda opened my eye as to how complex the world of PR and branding can get
 
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Kamov Ka-52 said:
How can you EV train if EXP share is always on?
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You can also just do specific training, since you can swap your pokemon out anywhere, you can focus on fighting pokemon who give EVs for a specific stat - Like focusing on just physical attack for an entire team until you max them out.
 
A.Shitposter said:
I have one question since I can't buy it right now: How annoying is the shiny hunting? Is it like LGPE where you have to chain catch pokemon and then wait around for a shiny one to appear or do they have mechanics like SM where the pokemon will call an ally endlessly or the dexnav or can I just run in a circle in the grass to trigger random encounters?
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No one knows the specifics yet. Chance is the same as lgpe, 1/250. There is a combo method, where your chances max out at 25, no one knows what breaks a combo. They do know you can increase it by KOing the same mon over and over.
 
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I bought the game out of curiosity. I have a digital copy and have played about 4 hours so far. Have auto-save off, been in a lot of Pokémon encounters.

My data for other games is backed up on a different microSD, so I’m not really concerned about any issues at the moment. As it is up to this point, I haven’t experienced any code breaks, just frame drop lags.
 
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