Alex

Post #3 | An Introspective into Balancing - 10/31/2017 | 31/10/2017 So what's happening to Random Trainers? Often looked over as the Gym Leaders and Evil Teams take the spotlight, the random trainers of the world need some love too! As mentioned earlier in the thread, there has been a hard level cap implemented - if you've forgotten, that means your Pokémon can't go past the cap with normal levelling. This allows random trainers to be refined and balanced much more easily. This is why I have appointed myself the task of editing every trainer in the region! Tedious? Yes! Foolish? Probably! Worth it? I sure hope so! What does this actually mean, though? Well, it's better to show through example... Subject: Rocker Max of Route 4 Meet Max. He's a Rocker found on Route 4, and we'll be using him to showcase what I've actually been doing! We'll be looking at his team on Casual, Normal, and Intense. First off, let's go over his team in Version 9: Rocker Max: Version 9 Items: None Magneton Lvl 39, no item, random ability, Screech, Flash Cannon, Electro Ball, Metal Sound (default) Magneton Lvl 38, no item, random ability, Flash Cannon, Electro Ball, Metal Sound, Mirror Shot (default) That's not too interesting, isn't it? They're using default movesets and it's just the same Pokémon twice!.The more uninteresting part as that he would simply change in levels for Casual and Intense. No new Pokémon, items, moves, or anything! Talk about lame. But that's where I come in, and I spice his team up a bit! Firstly, though, let's check the Casual variant: Rocker Max: Version 10 - Casual Items: None Magnemite Lvl 36, no item, random ability, Screech, Flash Cannon, Electro Ball, Metal Sound (default) Magneton Lvl 34, no item, random ability, Flash Cannon, Electro Ball, Metal Sound, Mirror Shot (default) First of all, I will mention that the levels have been modified to take into account differences in the gym badge caps (they've all been lowered by 5, except Venam's). Secondly, this still isn't that interesting, right? But there has been a Pokémon change: one of the Magneton is now a Magnemite! Tending to Casual players is important too! But onto Normal... Rocker Max: Version 10 - Normal Items: Lemonade Magneton Lvl 36, no item, random ability, Flash Cannon, Electro Ball, Metal Sound, Mirror Shot (default) Loudred Lvl 38, no item, random ability, Rest, Uproar, Stomp, Bite Chimecho Lvl 36, no item, Levitate, Uproar, Extrasensory, Heal Bell, Take Down (default) Ohoho, three Pokémon on a single trainer's team? That used to be a rarity, but in general, there will be a slightly higher amount, since giving too much exp won't be a problem anymore! Let's also take note of the differences here: Three Pokémon of different types and uses, one has a custom moveset, and the trainer is holding a Lemonade! While this won't be too common on Normal, more random trainers like Max here will want to heal their hurt Pokémon too! Now, everyone has been waiting for this, so here is Intense: Rocker Max: Version 10 - Intense Items: Lemonade Magneton Lvl 37, no item, Magnet Pull, Flash Cannon, Volt Switch, Metal Sound, Tri Attack Exploud Lvl 38, no item, Soundproof, Crunch, Stomp, Overheat, Fake Tears Chimecho Lvl 36, no item, Levitate, Psychic, Recover, Shadow Ball, Wrap Chatot Lvl 37, no item, Keen Eye, Chatter, Nasty Plot, Boomburst, Roost Each Pokémon now has their own defined moveset, and the Loudred has evolved. But it also looks like there's a newcomer to the team, and it's no stranger to most: Chatter Chatot! On Intense, you are expected to be a good player who knows a lot about Pokémon, and how to use them well. Thus, it should be no surprise that this is the difficulty that should expect you to be using Pokémon as well as you can as much as you can. Trainers are often neglected, but I think that these kinds of changes will make changing the difficulty somewhat more interesting. Thank you for your help Max, and thank you, the reader, for sticking with me. DISCLAIMER: This is simply what I currently have down for this trainer, and may not be indicative of the final result of said trainer or any trainers in the game, but will be a general indicator of my plans. This ain't easy, yo. Anything else? Welllll.... there is one more thing. This hasn't been said yet, but it was decided a bit ago: The jackpot starters shall be removed. No longer will players spend up to a week with their finger on F12, hoping to get the elusive starter. That was not the intention to how the game was played at all, and the fact that I would offer to help players get one so they could get to actual content, is, well... It wasn't the best idea in hindsight, let's put it that way. Anyway, that's it from me! Hope this was somewhat enjoyable. - Alex

Route 2's design has been changed since older versions. You're simply looking at a playthrough of a different version.

You need to apply patch 10 after downloading the core

So as great as this political/lgbt/whatever discussion is, I'd like to have this thread go back on topic, and about the what people think are the good/bad parts of Rejuv.

Lycanroc Day really helps ingame due to its high speed outspeeding most things without much investment. It also has priority, and natural rock tomb/rock slide. Lycanroc Night does have the niche of no guard stone edge but loses out on the speed without having much in terms of bulk, so its more risky.

I feel like all that needs to be said has been said, and that further arguing is a little pointless. The conversations seem to also be going much deeper and slightly erring on the side of becoming personal, which isn't exactly great. As this thread was intentionally a letter to the dev team, and that we've seen and acknowledged it and will do what is necessary, if anything. Due to this, as well as the aforementioned reasons, this thread will be locked until further notice. Thanks for the contributions!

Is it that you want the mc to date her or is it that you want to

The TM list has been updated for the next version. Goodbye Telekinesis, we will always miss you :c

Just some things I wanted to note: - The gym leader moves will be available at some point in the game, most likely post game. - Poison Sweep and Stacking Shot were made as weaker TMs that could be given out early game, since other TMs of the same type could have been too good for that point. There was no real plan for gym leaders to give out "cool custom moves!" - Why has no one mentioned Slash N Burn that's a cool move

Work Up and Hidden Power are good TMs available from the start of v9. Nature Power, Shadow Claw, Thief, Flame Charge and Irritation also all have uses and are available before Angie. You can also have Rock Climb before Angie, which is pretty potent.

A bit late, but you can find the locations of items here

Actually, this has been a bit of a concern of us (I remember talking about Angie in particular), and part of the rebalancing of the game in v10 is so we can balance experience gain better between major trainers. Audino trainers mainly exist as a quality of life option for training up anything new to the team that is ridiculously low leveled, and shouldn't be an excuse for poor exp management.

Happy Birthday Magnezone Worshipper!!

Any information about v10 will be posted in this thread:

Happy birthday, birthday boy \o/

there is no eviolite in the game

This is a known bug that was fixed in patch 10. Download it here:

Download the patch. Open the zip file. Click extract. Choose your Rejuvenation folder as the extraction destination. If it asks to replace everything, you've done it right. Press yes.

From just playing through Pokemon X, this thing did a lot! Natural Reflect and Stealth Rock, alongside Rock Tomb and Moonblast, plus Rocky Helmet, meant that it could take anything from Normal and Flying-types while setting up and lowering stats. It saved me a lot of times, and could even take Steel hits at times! Love this thing.

There are 11 gyms at the moment, not 13. Version 10 is definitely not the end.

unzip the patch and copy the contens into your rejuv folder, replacing everything when asked

You were supposed to download the new version and the patch.

Either in Chryoslia springs, located behind a tree north of Chrysolia forest (around the 6/7th badge), or in aventurine forest (after the 7th badge)

does this look evil to you???