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

[Nick Gars]

You do know how to duplicate items, right? Its really simple to get more rare balls and items.
1. Turn Koraidon/Miraidon to battle mode
2. Give them the item you want to dupe
3. Catch any pokemon, I use the shitmons on Poco Path
4. Add new mon to party
5. Replace your ridemon; this is tricky, you have to press A then B quickly, but if you do it too quickly the shitmon will transfer into the PC automatically
6. If you got the timing right, you can put your ridemon's item in your bag. Then just press + to resummon and convert it back to battlemode to catch more shitmons, your ridemon will still be holding the item but you will also have the item you put in your bag
7. Profit
I'm currently duping ability patches because they sell for 125,000 each, I've already bought all the clothes, herbs, battle items and capsules I need for the rest of the game's lifespan and I plan on making at least 100 gold bottlecaps and 25 of each special ball after I finish the money grind.

So I did this... Except I didn't take the Miraidon out of the box and convert, I just put the capture in a box, mounted, then converted. It duped my Miraidon as well. This would be extremely useful if it wasn't for the fact it's still treated as a story one, so it can't be traded.

Don't do this however, these duped Mira can only be released in the box, and once you've put extras in your party, you're gonna need to do the dupe glitch a bunch of times to move them back out. You can't manually remove them from your party in the PC.

 

[Thiletonomics]

The Battle Stadium for S/V (online matchmaking), appears to use the same RNG seed in each battle, which will result in OHKO moves always hitting:



This same RNG seeding also appears to cause <91% accuracy moves to miss on the first turn as well.

I'm not sure how VGC games are ran, but if this bug also affects those, then that's not going to look good for the game. And the bug itself shows that the game continues to impress, for the wrong reasons.

 

[UtadaWasabi2]

-New switch model
-Next generation nintendo console with switch backward compatibility
-An actual patch
Which one is most likely to happen?
For fixing the game performance issue of course.

 

[Focken Kiwi]

I've been a very busy shiny hunter. So busy, in fact, that I can cram a box full of nothing but unique shiny Pokemon.

 

[Archeops]

A few people have managed to crack the Shiny sandwich “code” and find recipes that can guarantee the highest Sparkling Power (the sandwich power that boosts the Shiny rate) level, Title Power, and Encounter power possible for specific types.

This is the current one that’s floating around due to its simplicity and the ability to mix and match which two Herba Mysticas you can use, another is similar in structure but IIRC the ingredient lists are different and they all require the usage of Salty Herba Mystica.

Oh yeah no, I totally get the use of RNG manipulation for speedruns and shiny hunting but one of the devs of PKHeX did an analysis and nearly half of the Pokémon were visibly hacked, who knows about the other half.
Anyway competitive battling is autistic as hell and if anything injection makes it less autistic/time wasting lol

I tend to just assume that they’re hacked but the people who make ‘em actually go through the trouble of checking for things that could trigger an error or, in the case of breedable ‘mons, they’re from hacked parents.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

i dont play the new pokemon games but i have to ask, how is the evil group team stars? are they good villain's?

 

[haglover]

i dont play the new pokemon games but i have to ask, how is the evil group team stars? are they good villain's?

They're bullied high school rejects (the leaders, at least) and don't have any bad intentions. Their most evil deed is skipping school and like one of the grunts fights you on a random place in the school grounds where you're not meant to. Their subplot basically consists of 2 totally mysterious unrecognisable characters who just want them back in school. I do enjoy them though.
There is no evil team to beat or anything in this game. There's not a massive plot (the majority of it is dropped on you on after you complete all 3 story routes, 1 of which has basically no story and the other 2 have very simple stories) because you're sent out of a school to do your treasure hunt i.e. whatever the fuck you want

 

[BlerdBjern]

i dont play the new pokemon games but i have to ask, how is the evil group team stars? are they good villain's?

They're bullied kids, whose response to being bullied was to build pokemon powered Mad Max cars and challenge the bullies on school grounds...

The bullies pussed out, leaving team star kinda just adrift, and they are slowly becoming more and more troublesome, one group already straight up blocked off an entire fucking route, classic pokemon villain behaviour.

If it weren't for the protagonist and their good buddy Clive O'Pompador's effort to get these unruly youths back on the right path... Team Star would have inevitably escalated to trying to hijack a god so they could rule the world at some point.

 

[haglover]

The bullies pussed out, leaving team star kinda just adrift, and they are slowly becoming more and more troublesome, one group already straight up blocked off an entire fucking route, classic pokemon villain behaviour.

They all barricade routes. (Also I completely forgot they were intending on driving their cars up into school lol) The ones that cause more trouble are definitely the grunts though, I got the feeling at some points the leaders don't actually care about the grunts do, they just want their boss back.

 

[Lammy]

Raids are so poorly implemented I'm wondering if it's even worth doing 6 star ones.

The only thing you get from 6 stars over 5 stars is Ability Patches, so if you want to give some Pokemon their Hidden Ability that lack it, that is the point of 6 stars. Otherwise, not really.

Online ones lag so badly that I've had 4+ rounds go by without the Pokemon's shield breaking even though its HP bar is empty.

In my experience, doing offline raids with 3 AI is usually faster and easier than playing online w/ randoms if you are using one of the completely hilariously broken and overpowered sets on a Pokemon.

Generally anything with Belly Drum, or Swords Dance + Screech, or Nasty Plot + Metal Sound will obliterate almost any solo raids if you take time to setup before attacking.
Not 100% on everything but I've been able to solo any and all 5 stars I've come across with maxed out level/ivs and optimal evs/nature Iron Hands (Belly Drum + Drain Punch + Thunder Punch holding Booster Energy) and Gholdengo (Nasty Plot + Metal Sound + Recover + Steel Beam/Hex/Shadow Ball holding Wise Glasses) and my friend has been able to solo all 6 stars with the same 2 Pokemon.
I've also heard some people talk about having luck with Belly Drum Azumarill or Screech+Swords Dance Perrserker, but I've not used either yet.
If you have a coordinated group of people you're playing with using those OP sets, it's probably easier than solo, but there's 0 chance to expect randoms to reliably setup before attacking.

 

[Thorn]

The bullies pussed out, leaving team star kinda just adrift, and they are slowly becoming more and more troublesome, one group already straight up blocked off an entire fucking route, classic pokemon villain behaviour.

My favorite part about the bullies pussing out is that they just did what real schoolyard bullies do when confronted, give hollow platitudes before going to the nearest adult to get the target in trouble. I think this is the first piece of media ever that got school bullying completely right. They even got the "school administration covered it up and deleted records because it made them look bad" part right.

 

[Nick Gars]

They're bullied kids, whose response to being bullied was to build pokemon powered Mad Max cars and challenge the bullies on school grounds...

The bullies pussed out, leaving team star kinda just adrift, and they are slowly becoming more and more troublesome, one group already straight up blocked off an entire fucking route, classic pokemon villain behaviour.

If it weren't for the protagonist and their good buddy Clive O'Pompador's effort to get these unruly youths back on the right path... Team Star would have inevitably escalated to trying to hijack a god so they could rule the world at some point.

To be fair, their leader did hack the economy. If the Pokemon worlds version of the IRS was as ruthless as ours, they'd be labeled the most notorious and vile Terrorist Cult to ever exist.

 

[TitchBitties]

-New switch model
-Next generation nintendo console with switch backward compatibility
-An actual patch
Which one is most likely to happen?
For fixing the game performance issue of course.

I think we're done with new Switch models and probably at least a few years from a new console altogether (it won't be backwards compatible) we MIGHT get a patch but I'm not holding my breath. I think they'll probably just put out a DLC that somehow runs worse and not actually fix anything.

 

[Fwiffo]

Does anybody here remember if SwSh had any kind of post-launch support in terms of patches? I know there was DLC and shit related to the Max Raids, but were there any noteworthy patches that actually fixed/changed game logic?

 

[TitchBitties]

Does anybody here remember if SwSh had any kind of post-launch support in terms of patches? I know there was DLC and shit related to the Max Raids, but were there any noteworthy patches that actually fixed/changed game logic?

Patches & Updates - Pokémon Sword & Shield

Patches & Updates for Pokémon Sword & Shield for Nintendo Switch. Lists all patches, bug fixes and updates that have been pushed to the game

www.serebii.net

Looks like they didn't start patching until it was prep time for the DLC and anything else was game-breaking bug fixes if I'm reading these correctly

 

[Fwiffo]

Patches & Updates - Pokémon Sword & Shield

Patches & Updates for Pokémon Sword & Shield for Nintendo Switch. Lists all patches, bug fixes and updates that have been pushed to the game

www.serebii.net

Looks like they didn't start patching until it was prep time for the DLC and anything else was game-breaking bug fixes if I'm reading these correctly

Huh. Thanks!

I feel like this is an example of the difference between western and eastern media. Here, most devs will bend over backward to listen to community feedback (most of the time), with at least a marketing-speak version of “ok ok we are trying alright!?” In some cases this has led to massive turnarounds, like No Man’s Sky. Hell, outside the vidya world, they cyberbullied the Sonic movie studio into totally redoing Sonic!

East dev studios though? Nope. “Oh you don’t like our game? Well you bought it so shut the fuck up.”

 

[TitchBitties]

I was browsing /vp/ and noticed several threads about this "trusted leaker" claiming that Megas will return in the S&V DLC. Seems like a stretch to me as it would take away any hype from Teras but I also wouldn't be upset to see the only good gimmick come back either.

https://twitter.com/Riddler_Khu/status/1597034849298427905

 

[Nick Gars]

There's no way in hell they're bringing back Megas. People liked them too much, and GF would call it "too much work", even if they were just importing the existing ones. I especially don't believe it because Megas would distract from Tera. I'll believe them bringing Z Moves back before Megas, it's way less work and because of how they work mechanically (1 shot, 1 turn), they wouldn't detract from Tera very much at all.

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

There's no way in hell they're bringing back Megas. People liked them too much, and GF would call it "too much work", even if they were just importing the existing ones. I especially don't believe it because Megas would distract from Tera. I'll believe them bringing Z Moves back before Megas, it's way less work and because of how they work mechanically (1 shot, 1 turn), they wouldn't detract from Tera very much at all.

I mean, they've done it twice before. They were brought back for Sun and Moon/Ultra Sun and Moon and Let's Go.

I can see them bringing it back. What I don't see is them adding new mega forms.

 

[Nick Gars]

I mean, they've done it twice before. They were brought back for Sun and Moon/Ultra Sun and Moon and Let's Go.

I can see them bringing it back. What I don't see is them adding new mega forms.

Regarding SM/USUM, because of the mechanics of Z Moves it made sense to include Mega forms as well. Regarding Let's Go, SwSh weren't out yet and Z moves were considered regional even in the lore of SM, so including Mega's again as a gimmick made sense. It's not impossible they won't come back, it's just incredibly unlikely because just like with Dynamax, Mega's would distract to much from the "super form" gimmick of the generation.

I can simply see Z Moves returning far before I see Mega's and Dyna's returning because they aren't a "super form" gimmick, they're just simple one-and-done super moves.