Commander

Pretty sure the save flagging's purpose is pretty much to demote cheating. I wouldn't have been so keen or accepting of what this could entail if I haven't seen what the average person obtaining mons through unofficial means do. This does mean that anyone who adds or uses the flag system mod wise will also not be able to have those save use the online features. I'm sure I misread something, but I'm not really looking into the flagging system. I probably should, but I'm not.

ARCLIGHT ISN'T IN THE ELITE FOUR! WHAT IS THIS SORCERY! HERESY! HERESY I SAY! I mean I'm totally fine if you don't even give up a Mega Ring at all. Totally cool seeing as so many things break the game already (Looking at you Scrafty). Wait, seeing that picture made me realize:

Fun fact: He does have dialogue which reads: "Go away, I'm busy." But yeah, Ame originally had plans for that to be a TM shop once the game was near completion though I don't think that's the case anymore given how she's running out of tms. I use it in Hardcore as kind of giving stuff that should be out early (picking up more than one of the same tm does not hurt or harm your game).

You know when testing something I noticed bothered me a bit which kind of irks me. (Also to get this thread off of what Pokemon they use). "Today the heart of Reborn City falls. ...How marvelous." At first I thought it was Solaris or Sirius saying it, but that really doesn't sound like them. I'm actually starting to think Radomus might say it, but he doesn't really pause or use ellipses in his dialogue.

You'd have to thank baldr for coming up with the idea after a discussion. Seriously, I was skeptical about it at first, but it definitely really works well and makes the ai play a little better. Very easy to add mod which I hope fan-game developers consider using as a substitute for difficulty settings. I definitely would use it if I made an actual fan-game (though that won't be until Reborn is over as this thing is quite difficult to manage as is). I actually didn't think about that anime wise either but it's kind of funny thinking logic wise a trainer jumps into battle to heal a Pokemon with an incoming Pokemon charging towards you. Or healing someone in the back of the party while the Pokemon on the field does nothing. Though enemy wise, those heal items generally prolong the battle and waste PP at the most. Usually it's in your favor though. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As for update news, I did mention before that the requirements for Corey's Haunter have been nerfed as it will merely be hidden somewhere. However if you're using the party system, you may want to consider not picking up any of them (minus Croagunk who's in the clear Pokedex collectors). In E16, a certain character may be receive a special event if you clear the one fight and do not pick any of Corey's mons. Think of it like Chrono Trigger with the sealed weapons. I also realized when doing Julia's altered fight I used one of her secret mons so RIP secret mon number one. So now you guys get a new special one instead of that one (well you still get that one, but it's not as good as it could be). Anyways, still working on stuff slowly but the bulk of it is done. I do sometimes find glorious errors such as this one:

(Looks at topic's direction) Yeah...I'm gonna stay out of this one. I've stated my opinions on that stuff many, many times anyways and the same old discussion comes back one way or another. I mean Reborn pretty much just showcases all these cool mons and what they can do and how they can kick absolute butt, but if they aren't OU, they're completely worthless. Seriously though, there aren't any tiers when it comes to games just whatever the heck the creator wants to do. BA Kricketot at the begining of the game. No problem. Leader crushes your soul using PU Bug Pokemon in the rain causing so many complaints on being too strong, not a problem either. So many fun mons to choose from.

I just tested this, but it becomes the pulse, however for Tangrowth at least the sprite is missing so...it just looks awkward with the normal sprite. Tested it also with Swalot which suffers the same fate. So basically you do get to use the pulse forms, however, it's still not very practical due to how the HP thing is.

It will make more sense once you start the sidequest, but every single Pokemon (plus the mysterious Croagunk) will be available to be picked up regardless of your choice. Hardcore canon wise, leaders often have more than six Pokemon but will only use six to challenge opponents. There should be 10 mons in total though Haunter's requirements are gonna get nerfed hard for E16 because nobody could find him (he'll only be hidden instead of finding all the mons). You probably still won't be able to find him though. ------------------------------------------------- Alright I did a little bit of buff and nerfing for certain leaders (mostly Noel) today so hopefully you guys like him better in future releases. I also added up a poll since well...it's near impossible for me to thoroughly test every single boss on every single release which is why I like these to check and see what to put more time into. As for the alternate gym fights question, you may notice that Julia and Florinia are present. You're probably thinking "Oh noes! Commander isn't going to give those two fights because they are at the start of the game). Well...that's not why I didn't include them. I AM doing alternate fights for them, however their teams are going to be a little...strange since there are 3 mono users for each of those types. I don't know how it'll be recieved but I hope you guys like those two (and whoever else I add depending on poll results).

You act as if HMs are greatest form of torture. Have you already forgotten that most puzzles in the game don't even use HMs yet they are more torture than everything but Wallace's Gym Puzzle we've seen in a Pokemon game.

I know I changed the save file location for a certain mod only because that program was giving problems due to two games sharing the same game folder. You may need to reconfigure it because of this, but your saves will be fine ultimately. I don't really know how it works so you'd have to ask Lugruff himself how it works and what you'd need to do if anything.

I see about 3 crashes a week, but thankfully most of them aren't too severe. I do remember seeing smoke all over the place driving home one night. I have an extreme paranoia of people pulling out from the sides as one time a long time ago someone was pulling out really fast and I just barely missed them. Probably ended up saving my life as someone was making a sharp turn very fast and if I didn't notice (which I only had milliseconds) and swerve out of the way, he would've hit the driver side door very hard. I can't say I'm the safest driver in the world, but most of the critical accidents are caused by people not paying attention. I've seen and heard of a couple people I know die because of it and my grandpa ended up in a lawsuit simply because he accidentally ran over a gas tank of a dead man's motorcycle (he did not cause the accident). So pretty much for the love of god pay attention where you're driving.

'Tis a sad day I can no longer troll you with the save file editing Seeing this made me realize a certain someone is getting a certain normal type back mostly because I love the thing and have stopped caring if he's too easy. Because he needs it badly. Off topic discussion, but if you want to use the new mystery egg mons (this is E16's release) you probably could just give yourself a Deerling. There is one other option, but I'll leave that a mystery until the release. I ain't gonna reveal everything I do. Good luck on this run...and hopefully you get further than Julia before stopping.

I mean one of the points of criticism I'm certainly going to give Reborn deductions on is the too many characters syndrome. So yes, I clearly think even more characters need to be added. Sarcasm aside, I feel that we should break it down what you're asking for or suggesting removing each obstacle one by one: The game needed to start tying many things up 2 episodes ago. I love all the arcs and the large cast don't get me wrong, but it feels like we start an arc with half the game as a buffer before it starts tying all up. Definitely hope a lot of arcs start getting answers very quickly but I did like the pacing of the OTS crew and their interactions are some of the best (still think Fern vs Florinia if you defeated Solaris is such a good reflection on what's really going on with Florinia). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alright so now that we established that there's way too large of a cast (not Reborn's fault exactly), let's say there was an opportunity to add such a character. What unique aspect would they bring to the plot? Honestly, with the context that we have it'd pretty much bring little or next to nothing. Not a new character, but the fact that they are gender confused or their arc is reflected around it. I will say this three times. Gender does not define a character. Gender does not define a character. Gender does not define a character. Got it? What I'm basically saying is that just because they're a certain gender, doesn't mean they have to act a certain way. Cain and Titania are the best examples of breaking their stereotypes. In fact, I bet these two have more conflict with society than a "gender-confused" character just due to the way they are. In fact we explore many different kinds of conflicts but Reborn's center of attention is always back on the league and meteor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Okay, now we established many things a gender confused could bring to the table could be instead use to better flesh out both the world and other characters instead of putting time and effort into a new such one. Adrienn probably needs more screen time anyways. But what if we did go the route and have a nb/gender-confused character? How would they fit in to the plot? Reborn seems very welcoming to all types of people most likely due to the horrible conditions they don't discriminate as much. We actually see a lot of people suffer and/or die simply due to disasters caused by team Meteor. Adrienn fits into this due not to Xe's gender, but by the fact Xe hasn't given up on Reborn and wants to rebuild it back to the way it was. In fact how many characters really even reflect on their gender in Reborn even if they fall into a certain category? Cain? Cain is just playful, but had a hard life at home and left due to his choices in love. I guess my point is that without context, I have no idea what you even mean. Reborn certainly doesn't need gender-confused characters as the world is not set up to focus on being gender based. I could keep peeling layers and still find no need for it because without context, an idea is practically worthless.

Rotom requires a data chip to change forms which it can in Ametrine city in that one house with the machine. You badly need a levitate use and given Rotom can change type with ease, it'll be an MVP for you. I think Zam/Typhlosion/Kinklang/Rotom/Sceptile/Nidoking with Sharpedo as a reserve should be able to get you very far in the game. Why should Sharpedo be in the reserve? Well given it's Mega isn't too powerful, I could see it coming in pretty soon. Klinklang you'll definitely want to give shift gear back ASAP. That thing can become a nasty boss level Pokemon if someone is skilled enough to use it.

Believe me that one person can only find so much especially after my pitiful display of trying to find all those bugs for stuff I was doing mod wise. I'm already getting pre-alpha testing done and making sure it goes through checks so that I don't end up having another Ciel scenario. Something that should've been spotted ended up in the final release. I'm not saying Ikaru does a bad job (probably better than me), but with how big Reborn is now, it takes 10-20 hours at the least to test everything that needs to be tested in reality. I've only been part of beta testing since 14.5 but yeah, I have a feeling this one is gonna be a long one just due to redoing five episodes worth of content in one release. Definitely is gonna feel nice going back in the city, but one single warp error would be a major glitch so...god help the alpha testers. Unless of course you redid the entire thing (not keeping any old maps ie insides of houses for warps) which would be an entirely different scenario. Part of me doesn't even want to know how you got 300 tiles and only be halfway done. I mean some maps aren't even 200 tiles in size (10 x 20) so dear lord I'm both curious and of afraid of this puzzle and it does suck when you can't do something you like (I learned event tile switching lags about 10 frames, but what can you do?) Oh oh! I have one question I just remembered. Is the world map going to look any different now that Reborn is going to be more or less a lighter color?

I have no idea what I just watched but...I kind of liked it. I honestly thought I was going to hate this anime, but it's absolutely brilliant.

I know you can get Shadow Ball if you go through the process of Hardcore downloading and transfering the save, but legit ways would be to sadly drop the zam. I love the Pokemon, but it's only good, not great. As for the rest of your team: -Replace Macargo with Cyndiquil as typhlosion is leagues better as a fire type -Replace Sharpedo with Rotom as Rotom-W is fantastic and not frail -You can replace Zam with Reuniclus (TR user) or Jynx as while Jynx is frail, that this is fast and gets some nice status moves, but all three are good choices -Depending on how good your Sceptile and Klinklang are, you may want to consider replacing. Klinklan should be able to help you with the fairy leader coming up, but you could replace it with...Hariyama afterwards as that's a really good hard hitting tank. -Sceptile I never liked, but I suppose it has interesting usage with Leaf Storm, Giga Drain, X-scissor, Dual Chop, etc, but Roserade is a nuke if you need a replacement.

HACKS! HACKS!!!! (*TRIGGERED*) Pokemon Desolation seems to be a popular fan-game within the community, but really there isn't much that can rival Reborn and Rejuvenation in terms of design simply because most creators don't design around that level of difficulty, dark and deep story, or length. I don't know about Rejuv, but I know Reborn isn't planning on a sequel since well Ame plans on making her own game afterwards (see Starlight Divide). E16 is coming out very soon, but if you're interested in more Reborn, there's the hardcore mod (which has moved to Reborn City). Yes, shameless advertising, but it comes with the CoM post-game for maximum rage.

Lucario...probably could put a huge dent in hardcore, but I don't see it breaking anything since its best attacks other than CC are special based. In fact I've done SD users who couldn't auto win the match due to not being fast enough, but eh, this ain't Hardcore. I can't remember how every leader fights since its been like 14 months almost, but you don't really see that many tanky mons thinking about it so...maybe Lucario could break the game. As for set mode, I'm pretty sure the hardest part will be managing exp over actual fights since exp is in such a shortage. I do like Set mode better because it cuts the number of menus you have to deal with, but that's a whole big debate in Pokemon in general. I just prefer shift for exp spreads so that one of my Pokemon isn't just carrying my team. Kudos if you do the rest of this challenge on set. Yeah, yeah not a hardcore run, but I enjoy reading some runs from other people once in a while. I always find your runs entertaining for some reason.

Basically it would work just like the games. Don't quote me on any of this but both players would require internet to connect and for both games to read data for transferring before the original Pokemon is deleted and replaced with the new one. I do not want to go too deeply into this discussion, but breeding and/or using these Pokemon online should be okay theoretically. What has been stated is that not obtainable yet mons such as Gyarados, Scizor, etc will not be usable in battles (don't know about trading) until they are officially released. I don't know how thoroughly the checks are so I cannot tell you how it will work. Believe me that if I'm fully aware of what could happen with the online system, I'm sure Marcello and the team are well aware as well. E17 is still a long ways away so it's going to be really hard to answer every single question in regards to it until the release date gets really close because this is mostly an annoucement which does not necessarily mean the system is 100% polished just that it's working.