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

[Registration]

Just remove leavanny you don't need two grass types!

But it is good, even better than serperior.

 

[Level99Manchild]

Weird, I've never had any issues with the Kanto Max Raids (but then again I actually level up my good Dynamax Pokémon).

I barely leveled my Dynamax Pokemon, and was still able to stomp the 1*s effortlessly. The shitty rewards from the 3* raids still don't justify the time and effort you have to put into them, and I'm not bothering with Falinks.

 

[Registration]

I am not sure what to do... Masquerain has a good speed and an acceptable special attack. And it would be my second special attacker.

Now carracosta attack and special attack are almost the same so I can swap both of them and there is shell smash. The problem is how weak it becomes in defense after it, but it is a cool pokemon either.

I am seriously considering cutting my starter since it feels like a glass canon sometimes

 

[Kid Named Rocket]

Yes, I know
>discord
But Emerald Rogue has officially ceased development. Personally I'm a bit saddened, since ER remains to this day my favorite romhack of them all

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Yes, I know
>discord
But Emerald Rogue has officially ceased development. Personally I'm a bit saddened, since ER remains to this day my favorite romhack of them all

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Curse you Pokabble. Im not sure i wanna kiss you or bash your brains out.

Spoiler: Seriously though

Rest well.

 

[Punished Brent]

I am unironically going to download and put money into the tcg app
The TCG has always been really fun but there was never really a good way to play digitally
there is that one program that feels like a flash game from the 90's that was only available on the pc and ipad but that was dogshit

 

[Registration]

Man BW2 map is so much better than the first one. This hacked version also added the hoenn gym leaders to fight before the big tournment and I noticed how npcs refers to future regions ans locations that would come like Alola and Galar.

The new city that is aquatic is quite charming and reminds me of pacifidlog in hoenn.

Since in this hack they made farming easier through audino spawning, I even got a shiny one:



The game is clearly an improvement to the first one, I feel like there are lots of things that I never did like the pokémon studio stuff and the dress up minigames.

As for the story, it really feels like an epilogue to the first game rather than a sequel. Every damn time they mutter the "you remind me of someone from 2 years ago". Even changes made by the hack to introduce colress early doesn't help that much in relation to the first game.

Also Ghetsis appearing in the game after that long time with us dealing with zezelin dude feels kinda cheap. I expected it to be him as the new leader of plasma instead of the hobo ghetsis that we got.

As for the dificulty, there are some battles that are harder but I dont think I lost to gym leaders as much as I did in blaze black redux. I noticed how rare full teams were in relation to the first hack where even the first gym had a full party instead.

I feel like my team is considerably weaker than the first game. I reached the E4 with this team and I dont think it will be a easy game. Even normal trainers with those 4 alongside Lance fucked me over hard with their covered bases and speed. (A single Kingdra killed 4 of my pokémons every time I used a move qnd he already covered it and outspeed me with the water terrain)

What I fear the most here is Iris, basically I only have Ice beam and play rough on masquerain and Leavanny to hit it, maybe I will TM some dragon moves on the final battle If I get there.

 

[Archeops]

I am unironically going to download and put money into the tcg app

A slight word of warning: depending on where you live (NZ-only for now, but it'll shift towards a majority of Western regional markets come the 30th) there are two Pokémon TCG apps.

To start there's TCG Live which is like the IRL card game but has no internal monetization whatsoever. You can buy code cards from a 3rd-party seller or buying IRL packs to boost your card library to a certain extent (the game does give you some meta decks for free but you'll have to spend Credits or open packs to make tournament-viable decks). There's a Battle Pass that rotates every set release and they're generally pretty easy to complete and a Ranked Ladder that can give you some nice rewards. The game does have a nasty tendency of getting glitchy whenever a new set drops due to being developed by TPCi in-house on a less-than-shoestring budget and there are other smaller issues.

And then there's TCG Pocket (it's currently softlocked to New Zealand but it'll get a proper release on October 30th). It's more like Marvel Snap and similar mobile TCGs where the game is designed around quick matches with smaller decks and different rules than the main TCG (Pocket uses a 20-card deck with a standard "playset" being two cards, Energy cards from the main game are generated in a specialized zone once per turn unless certain Trainer cards are used, and the main TCG's Prize card system is discarded in favor of a point system where the player that gets 3 points first wins the match). There is monetization in it but according to a developer the gap between FTP players and PTW players won't be too drastic and there will be events to help even it out.

there is that one program that feels like a flash game from the 90's that was only available on the pc and ipad but that was dogshit

If you're talking about the now-defunct Pokémon TCG Online game that's because it was a Flash-based web game when it first came out in 2011, they shifted it to a Unity-based app for computers and tablets a year later.

That said there are some people (myself included) that would rather have Online come back or at least have TPCi realize that their in-house programmers are genuinely awful and should go back to having third-party development teams working on their apps.

 

[Anonitolia]

Emerald Rogue has officially ceased development

Awesome, now all the horrible bullshit past the eighth gym is never getting fixed. Thanks, troon.

I don't have any actual ill will towards the dev as a person, I'm just really salty about that difficulty spike. I loved the 2.0 overhaul but the fact that the AI almost felt like it was outright cheating past the sixth or seventh gym, with how ridiculously competent their teams were, made the entire game completely unfun to play as you kept getting fucked over by any luck that wasn't perfect while they steamrolled. You either go against the entire point of "Pokémon as a roguelike" and just build a normal team through metaprogression to win before hoping you get good items in a run, or you PRAY TO GOD that you get an absolutely perfect team on any given run, as well as good items to go along with it, as well as enough healing and money to keep you on the same level as the bosses throughout the entire thing. The fact that you cannot easily heal before 90% of boss fights without paying obscene amounts of money means that even base-game bosses would be hard, so why did this retard think it was a great idea to go full VGC in 2.0?

Rant over. I really hope a better dev does a proper rebalancing of 2.0 to make it more like 1.0 in difficulty. The latter felt like it hit a sweet spot that most ROM Hacks have never achieved, where it's tough enough to be engaging but not so tough that it restricts teambuilding or feels like bullshit, and seeing 2.0 throw that all out was tragic.

 

[Caesar]

Just FYI as you guys seem into them, there's a huge collection of pre-patched ROM hacks on archive.org, all GBA ones, 947 total. It's mostly dumps of ducumon and stuff and a lot is of course crap but you guys might wanna nab it. They're apparently all "complete" sans 4-6 roms.

"Pokemon GBA Rom Hack Collection" on archive

 

[Punished Magician]

Awesome, now all the horrible bullshit past the eighth gym is never getting fixed. Thanks, troon.

I don't have any actual ill will towards the dev as a person, I'm just really salty about that difficulty spike. I loved the 2.0 overhaul but the fact that the AI almost felt like it was outright cheating past the sixth or seventh gym, with how ridiculously competent their teams were, made the entire game completely unfun to play as you kept getting fucked over by any luck that wasn't perfect while they steamrolled. You either go against the entire point of "Pokémon as a roguelike" and just build a normal team through metaprogression to win before hoping you get good items in a run, or you PRAY TO GOD that you get an absolutely perfect team on any given run, as well as good items to go along with it, as well as enough healing and money to keep you on the same level as the bosses throughout the entire thing. The fact that you cannot easily heal before 90% of boss fights without paying obscene amounts of money means that even base-game bosses would be hard, so why did this retard think it was a great idea to go full VGC in 2.0?

Rant over. I really hope a better dev does a proper rebalancing of 2.0 to make it more like 1.0 in difficulty. The latter felt like it hit a sweet spot that most ROM Hacks have never achieved, where it's tough enough to be engaging but not so tough that it restricts teambuilding or feels like bullshit, and seeing 2.0 throw that all out was tragic.

I never paid it much mind, but now that I think of it, I'm not sure I ever actually managed to win more than once or twice. It's a fun time waster, but it really feels like the concept that you should reasonably be able to reach the end now and then instead of chipping away at runs forever got lost along the way somewhere.

Just FYI as you guys seem into them, there's a huge collection of pre-patched ROM hacks on archive.org, all GBA ones, 947 total. It's mostly dumps of ducumon and stuff and a lot is of course crap but you guys might wanna nab it. They're apparently all "complete" sans 4-6 roms.

"Pokemon GBA Rom Hack Collection" on archive

Anything good for playing in short bursts like ER? I only really have it on my phone as a timekiller, I don't think I've really bothered much with ROMhacks beyond that.

 

[Caesar]

Anything good for playing in short bursts like ER? I only really have it on my phone as a timekiller, I don't think I've really bothered much with ROMhacks beyond that.

Its just a huge collection of all the notable "completed" hacks for GBA. I'm sure there's a huge range in play burstability. Couldn't tell you which though, sorry.

 

[Danann]

I really hope a better dev does a proper rebalancing of 2.0 to make it more like 1.0 in difficulty. The latter felt like it hit a sweet spot that most ROM Hacks have never achieved, where it's tough enough to be engaging but not so tough that it restricts teambuilding or feels like bullshit, and seeing 2.0 throw that all out was tragic.

I'm gonna call that it'll be like a lot of other dropped projects picked up by loser teams: focusing less on listening to the general audience and instead listening to the dev's friend clique...oh, and troon pandering. LOTS of troon pandering.
PokeRouge, Pokemon Prism and Brown, Pokemon Uranium, quite a few others I imagine.

 

[I_Lurk_Here]

That reminded me. I hate how when you search for any romhack online, the top links are always pre-patched third party sites.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Awesome, now all the horrible bullshit past the eighth gym is never getting fixed. Thanks, troon.

I don't have any actual ill will towards the dev as a person, I'm just really salty about that difficulty spike. I loved the 2.0 overhaul but the fact that the AI almost felt like it was outright cheating past the sixth or seventh gym, with how ridiculously competent their teams were, made the entire game completely unfun to play as you kept getting fucked over by any luck that wasn't perfect while they steamrolled. You either go against the entire point of "Pokémon as a roguelike" and just build a normal team through metaprogression to win before hoping you get good items in a run, or you PRAY TO GOD that you get an absolutely perfect team on any given run, as well as good items to go along with it, as well as enough healing and money to keep you on the same level as the bosses throughout the entire thing. The fact that you cannot easily heal before 90% of boss fights without paying obscene amounts of money means that even base-game bosses would be hard, so why did this retard think it was a great idea to go full VGC in 2.0?

Rant over. I really hope a better dev does a proper rebalancing of 2.0 to make it more like 1.0 in difficulty. The latter felt like it hit a sweet spot that most ROM Hacks have never achieved, where it's tough enough to be engaging but not so tough that it restricts teambuilding or feels like bullshit, and seeing 2.0 throw that all out was tragic.

Finally! Someone that understand what i have been going through! I decided to give the game one last try. Even with a team of ubbers, Someone will die or have to be sacrificed to advance. The rival battles are the worst since the team he carries can be the very thing that it makes or breaks your run. good luck finding replacements for your team after level 60. catching high level pokemon sucks! On my second elite four battle with only two mons left (Metagross and Enthel).

 

[Anonitolia]

catching high level pokemon sucks!

Oh god, I never even touched on this. How the game just randomly makes catching an actual thing past the fourth or fifth gym, whereas before you can catch a fucking Beldum in a pokeball first try. By the sixth or seventh, good fucking luck catching a Pidove in an Ultra ball. Sigh.

Yeah, it sucks. Again, I really hope that some dedicated autist goes and fixes 2.0's difficulty so that, at the VERY least, Normal mode is more akin to 1.0 or the base games. @Danann made a good point about such autists often ruining the game, but maybe Emerald Rogue will get lucky...?

...I don't know man, if a troon can make a genuinely good romhack without fellating the shit out of his fetish then some similarly-dedicated autist can probably rebalance it to be more enjoyable without ruining the whole thing.

 

[Punished Magician]

By the sixth or seventh, good fucking luck catching a Pidove in an Ultra ball.

You'll be lucky to get a Pidove, and not an Aggron that refuses to go in the ball even when it's down in the red, taking out half of your team (or half of your healing items) as you desperately pray that this time it goes in the ball instead of taking out half your healthbar with its next move. At least when you die to a gym leader it feels like it makes sense, but when merely trying to fill in the gaps in your team with wild Pokémon is what causes you to lose the other half, it just feels like you're fucked no matter what you do.

 

[Registration]

So I attempt to fight the E4 and the league was... Easy, at most I only lost 3 pokemon since most of them used choice stuff and I couldn't kill it in one hit so eventually they died.

Iris was funny since Alder is clearly a superior trainer. I took 3 of her pokémons with the Shiny Masquerain dying because of life orb rather than her moves so I defeat her trading blows.

Alder in blaze black redux was so much harder than her, that whole game was harder tbh.

This was the team after winning.

Then the post game starts, I am ambushed by those three ninjas who wants to fight me and he caught my team riddled with hm pokémon so I ended being able to took out a single one leaving with just a single pokemon alive.

Then I enter the pokémon club and there are the goats, just chilling. They tell me that they knew I became the champion and Unova and they were the champion in hoenn and asks if I want to battle.

I say yes (even with a full team)
I got obliterated so hard by a lvl 92 Metagross by steven that in a dual battle with Wallace and Steven, I only managed to took out Pelipper and Steven's metagross sweeped me hard. It was funny to see the game go from: this isn't very hard to Holy shit. And I caught one of the cloud onis, the sword trio I caught before the league.

 

[starborn427614]

Finally got around to finishing Scarlet the other day. Man, it's a crying shame that the generation is such a technical clusterfuck because otherwise it might have been one of my favourite mainline games. Hopefully their engine isn't held together with string next time, though I'm not holding my breath.

 

[Caesar]

Finally got around to finishing Scarlet the other day. Man, it's a crying shame that the generation is such a technical clusterfuck because otherwise it might have been one of my favourite mainline games. Hopefully their engine isn't held together with string next time, though I'm not holding my breath.

Dlc is alright too although I couldn't get the final one to work