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After all this time, it is here: Mega Link (E18.1) Changes from E7 Demo Bugfixes (E18.1) Enjoy

Hi, long time no see. Actually, it's only really been a month. So I'm going to be doing something strange but it probably is needed or at least something people may want to see, but it's going to take a little bit of time. Anyways, I've been working on Redux and that is getting to be done. So we have a little bit of a dilemma in that the game has really changed and I kind of just want to plow through it again. So I'll be making a new save file. Don't worry, everything will make sense soon. It's gonna be a pain in the ass since the easy method doesn't work but I'm curious what people will vote for who the protagonist will be. And yes, I will be using whoever wins. So vote away while I work on the pain in the ass part. Trust me, it'll make sense soon. https://www.strawpoll.me/17189466 Edit: Pic so you can see who the normal protagonists are:

Let me bring up two situations both which involve a man who can easily beat a woman in a fight: The first scenario is that the woman is given a knife while the other she's given a Gatling gun. Are either of these fair? No, but only in one does the man really stand a chance to win. Which one do you think best represents the player in terms of Pokemon RPGs. If you guessed woman with a Gatling gun, you are right. So before you spit off about the game being unfair, take a moment to think about that...deeply. Of course the leaders and bosses are stronger than you when you play on equal terms, but it's really up to the player whether they make use of the Gatling gun or the Knife. The knife is easier to wield and takes less time and effort which is often the path most of the players on here take. I don't feel like explaining it all as I've done numerous times in the past. This is just to answer if the game is fair or not. Now let's break down the one of two core issues the OP is complaining about. The first is the well known exp drought. It's an issue due to a limited amount of trainers giving decent exp where the dilemma is now spending repeated times going through a boss or wasting time doing tedious and extra work on wild Pokemon/rematch trainers to get through said boss. It doesn't help that the higher the levels get, the more difficult it is to keep a steady level curve since you need about all trainers to have 5-6 mons to hit roughly five levels an episode levels 75 and up. The OP hasn't reached that far and hasn't even hit the first true exp drought. This is an issue and it also leads to the second issue of what's going on, but that one applies to Pokemon in general. The bigger issue is the team that they are using. Most of those Pokemon you get very early on and even for myself I used mostly mons from the early game like Roserade, Gardevoir (before it got the double push back), Lanturn (before it got pushed back), Flygon (when it was Onyx Arcade), Gengar (when it was Wasteland), and Metagross (back when it was available pre-Luna)...I swear that isn't intentional. Point is that you don't really want to change mons due to the dilemma above. The level limiter system (see Rejuvenation) seems to help against this due to the dilemma being significantly less of an issue. I have doubts the OP is as much of an RPG players as they make out to be as this exp system is a well-known, but archaic system due to the sheer amount of time to gain levels. It's unfortunate and we all kind of have our hands tied as no matter how anyone tries to go about it, there will be a very large group pissed off by those decisions. Now I'm not trying to toot anyone's horn nor berate the work of anyone else's, but I do not think having the Insurgence team work on Reborn would fix the issues, but would actually make the game significantly worse. Ame has some decent idea how to deal with the lategame which I disagree with, but we have a good chunk of people who are capable of doing all the things Insurgence did if not better. Except the customization characters mostly because I ain't dealing with figuring that out (outfits are a different story). There's a mod that lets you used your cursor as a control for bloody sakes. We have at least 6 people around capable of doing quite a lot, myself included. And wouldn't it be easier to work with someone who has been around the community for a while over a whole different group of random guys in a different fandom? You might want to look in that mod market before saying anything else though. You might resolve your own complaints there.

I mean we've already been inside GG's black hole once already.

What it basically means is that while the game is playable up to E17 content, nothing has been really added or tested past Aya but I honestly recommend waiting as a completed E18 version is nearly done. This would have all the master fights, a completed synopsis, and other fun surprises. You can play E17 up until after beating Aya but beyond that you will be missing significant content.

So this is going to be an old Mander storytime. So something you should know is that the original Route 2 was super laggy. This was due to it having more than double the number of jump tiles it does now with many, many of them removed which from my experience the original one was very confusing trying to find your way around through the jumping segments. It was pretty frustrating so I think y'all are jumping to a too quick of a conclusion that they are better than Shofu at this puzzle. WTC is going to be the true test if they are or not.

It takes one to know one I suppose

So progress on my side is more or less done. Now I just gotta sit through the second stage of testing and fix anything major. Testing to throw me one last surprise as I learned overwriting the trainer file breaks the game. I had to use an older copy to get around it. A January release seems very likely but I make no promises. Also decided to drop the secret project as I think my hands are beyond full. I guess I can tell you it was figuring out the follower mod and adding it in. It's not really that hard, but I don't think I can handle all the needed fixes and manage to make on fit to what I believe is my level of quality. It doesn't mean I'm not going to help out. I'll be tinkering to see if we can make this better or easier to transfer. The current one is a bit of a nightmare of copy and pastes.

E19 means post Hardy so...sooner than you think?

Oh yeah. You guys are fine other than the one I mentioned. That's actually what I'm working on now. I would've had them done but...Unicharacters in text files break the game so that was fun fixing.

Alright I have everyone noted and am adding you right now. Just going to announce that tomorrow night is the cutoff date so if you don't put something in there, then I can't guarantee it will make it into the release. Edit: Okay, what the hell. I know I shouldn't complain but it got 0 errors compiling this together. I was expecting the worst. Good job for making me flip out for it not being a mess.

Spoilers are only fun if you make them worth reading. Who cares about the main plot when things like

He is in a state in which life and death meet. So he is neither alive nor dead.

Y'all gotta give him better clickbait if you wanna get him to read those. Like Melia becomes a prostitute causing Venom to get totally stoned for her.

There can only be one key item in your bag which also goes for TMs so all that would happen is it would say you got the item and nothing else. Don't think it would break whatever scripting you did.

@HakuryuYukio So there are two things wrong. If you see how everyone else did theres you'd noticed your format is off. I ask for PBS format for a reason. The second thing is you don't have any levels on them. Do those two things and you're in. Oh I don't see the trainer class from the list so...that to. Still working on the party system but once I finish that I'll work on getting these in, done, and updated.

@ArcBolt27 there is a bug thread and it's in the Rejuv club

??? If you are talking about no items, that's a me thing but I don't remember Waynolt doing that. And you will be able to turn it off in the official release but not currently. If it's in SWM, there should be a text doc to turn it off.

This is why we don't let Sardines operate on people.

He's probably nearly done and just updating after doing 20 or so bug fixes.

I saw it more as the player crushed what little he had going in his life which Crescent set him on a new one answering at least one of his questions. He wanted something from Xen which I presume was reviving the dead and...I think you can piece together what happened. He's only still there because he has nowhere else to go.