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Losing to the final Kimono girl sends your character to the Oshawott (even after clearing the sidequest), locking you in a repeated text loop, forcing you to reload the game.

Thread title means 'Final Patch' as in the final patch fixing as many bugs as possible for Episode 4. Episode 5 is unlikely to be released until next year due to IRL things on the creator's end.

Yeah, I ran into this issue too, I didn't save and downloaded the latest bugfix which resolved the issue. I had to redo the fight though. Since you already saved, chances are you'll have to post your save into the troubleshooting thread. --- Possible bug to report, when doing the second help center quest in GDC, the dialogue assumes I didn't save the Garbordor in West Gearen when I'm pretty sure I did. It's been about a year or longer since I did that though, but I'm sure that in this particular file, I did. Here's my file if you want to take a l

Early V9 spoilers, just need direction on where to go. EDIT: Figured out where I needed to go. Market district.

Yeah, if I had to guess, Ferroseed's encounter rate is something like 5%. Ironically it was the very first Pokemon I ran into inside the Defense room while beta testing, and I ran away assuming it was a common Pokemon. Boy, did I regret that real quick.

Speaking of Pokemon Apex, the game actually updated to Build 6 yesterday. My impression of the game is a bit more favorable after I reached the end of Build 5, although I still think you spend way too much time with the level cap at 20 (I literally avoided every optional fight in the desert leading up to the tower since there was no real reason to fight them beforehand unless you wanted to burn through all of your supplies, and elected to save their EXP for after the cap was raised). Maybe I should try to contact the creator to see if this could be improved somehow. Aga

Ha, I was the one that wrote that comment. LoTA is not a hard fangame compared to the likes of Reborn (anyone coming from Reborn will pretty much steamroll the fangame outside of a few boss battles), but the fangame's presentation is so good that its very existence is a strong argument for the idea that writing and world design is just as important as gameplay. It's also pretty much the best fangame to do a blind LP of, I had far more laughs watching shofu play through LoTA compared to all the other Pokemon fangames he's LP'd. I've been keeping a close eye on this project for years

Ah. I meant to fight her, but the game keeps crashing for me every time I attempt to battle her. :/ (We should probably make another thread for this fangame...)

I've recently tried out Pokemon Apex and honestly have a less favorable review of it. Granted, I've barely reached the desert city, which I understand to be near the end of the current build anyway. The game's story is very strong, nearly to the level of the 'Reborn/Rejuv/Desolation trio' strong. But the mechanics design seems contradictory. Others have mentioned that there's a major Pokeball shortage, but that shouldn't even be your main concern. The game does not even tell you that your party size is actually restricted to 3 Pokemon throughout the entire current game, until you e

The way Desolation's plot and universe is set up, it doesn't look like there's a need for them here. The closest thing I can think of is the Hands of Arceus questline, what with the planned future phases of that quest line (my signature having a hint towards the direction the quest line is going to take). They wouldn't be anywhere near crazy though.

I had this exact issue during testing too, ha. Should really be changed, I think.

There's one on Hardened Mountain, hidden in a rock to the left on the path to the summit.

It's still only a fairly new fangame (barely a little over a year and a half old) and is only featured on one website. I'm sure I or others in this thread would write a guide, if this game ever got its own forum section. As it is now, there's kinda nowhere to put a guide without it cluttering up the forums and looking VERY out of place.

I might as well straight up say this now. Honedge is being reserved for something special, and won't be available anytime soon. Some people here probably already figured out where it's going to come from.

Assuming you're using Windows, the directory to your save file should be... Local Disc C -> Users -> (Computer Name) -> Saved Games -> Pokemon Desolation Your save file is called Game.rxdata. (Moving that file to another folder by the way is how you maintain multiple save files for the vast majority of Pokemon fangames.)

That... Should be the correct room, if I remember correctly. You might want to post your save here for Caz to look at it. (There's also a possibility that you haven't read all of the other books in the previous rooms yet, but I don't think that should affect the door in any way.)

Has it been 3 days yet? I guess it's been 3 days. Obviously massive spoilers pertaining to the 'fifth ending'. Video description describes the full process to obtain it.

My personal theory regarding what the ending implies.

You have to have done a sidequest for someone first, and then return to them BEFORE heading off to the archives when it's time for you to go there. If you're already in there, you're already past the point of no return. (You also have to ignore the advice that several other people tell you, when you discover that it's time to head to the library. That should be enough of a hint as to who that someone is. At the same time though, THAT is also the point of no return for being able to do the sidequest in the first place.)

If you think that's surprising, you should see the new TM list. Desolation teams are likely to end up FAR stronger than Reborn and Rejuvenation teams at this point. Caz has been very kind with the new Pokemon selection and items given out in this chapter for some reason. Then again, the VERY frequent major story battles resulting in teams ramming straight into the level cap if you don't raise reserve Pokemon might have something to do with that. This is actually a very good game to experiment with using Pokemon you've never tried using before.

Gonna say now, you're going to be asking for more music sources soon. Even though Desolation was put on hold for about 6-8 months... Caz came out of it as a much better writer and scenario designer. You all are in for a hell of a ride. If you thought Episode 3 was intense, ya'll haven't seen anything yet.

The level cap is actually re-adjusted to 60 in Episode 4 instead of the original 55. Obviously the episode is loaded with tons of content to justify that. Not as much as the massive content bomb that was Episode 3, but more than enough to force you to use a ton of common candies if you don't redirect all of that extra EXP to reserve Pokemon for future use. There are a great many plot important battles in this chapter, though. Bring your A-team if you sense a major battle coming up.

There is one thing I should mention that was observed throughout the course of testing. The trend of leveling up reserve Pokemon to avoid having to spam common candies is going to continue in this chapter. If you run into any new Pokemon in this chapter that you find interesting, it'd be a good idea to raise them. And there's a lot of new interesting Pokemon in this chapter...

Probably my biggest pet peeve is people throwing out the word 'edgy' to describe anything even remotely resembling dark. But I'm sleepy and that's another rant for another day (if ever), but I'll just simply say this: Desolation is NOT edgy. There's a pretty big difference between using death (or the implication thereof) as a plot device, and using it to make the world seem dark in general (often to utterly ridiculous effect in the end), and Desolation hasn't crossed that line. There's only one character that teeters dangerously close to that, but it's pretty clearly the entire poi