Posty

June 30

Locking this thread, theres no need for it anymore :']

June 24

10 hours ago, Ravuri1 said:

Hi,

I have another question. So will we be having a feature to check the field effects in Desolation v5 just like how Reborn has the field effect readouts in its pokegear?

Potentially in v6, for v5 I plan on making a small field effect guide which will be located in the Desolation Folder, since we adjusted a few fields from Reborn as well as created our own.

June 23

2 hours ago, Wolfmoru said:

Hi, i'm new here!!

Will the game also feature the overleveling pokemon don't listen to you mechanic after the rework?

/ will it be possible to turn that off in settings? For a more casual experience?

Hey welcome!

So we had this feature previously (and it still is a feature) however, as of v5 there will now be a hard cap! basically your Pokemon will no longer gain experience past a certain cap (which you can see what it is while viewing your Trainer Card) til you receive the next badge. It's essentially Rejuvenation's hard cap which we implemented into the game. You can still go over the hard cap using a Rare Candy and then a Reserve Candy to get your Pokemon under again, if you need a specific move or evolution before a battle :]

June 22

7 hours ago, GenEric said:

so

how is development going

is everything on fire yet

Development is going well! In the midst of Beta Testing, ironing out any small errors and bugs, adjusting teams if need be and overall polishing up the game as a whole.

We are still aiming End of June (in a week or two) and we have a unexpected surprise which we are happy we were able to get sorted during this period of testing, but more of that will come closer to the release date :] idk if we will be giving you guys a set date but just expect it looming around the corner when you least expect it!

June 21

~~can't believe someone voted Ruby up for everything already my plan is ruined, also already voted Caz for King AAA~~

Welp anyways I'ma nominate @Hellscythe for Ember King and @Caz for Sunlit

June 20

21 hours ago, Ravuri1 said:

Hi Developers,

Firstly a big thank you for bringing back the game. I am excited to play the game and know how the story will progress. The three things that really made desolation stand out for me were the amazing story and characters, the credit system and the luxury of having your own customisable mansion. One thing I didn't like about the game was that as the maps/regions felt lacking or hurried as the game progressed. So, my question for the devs is that did you rework older areas (specifically Blackview and Celia). Sorry, if I have been too straightforward as I am not a native english speaker. But I am really looking forward to play v5 (much more excited than reborn E19)

Hey we appreciate it my guy! we are excited to be bringing you the game soon!

In regard to your question, yes and no? Lemme explain. So Caz has edited a few of the older maps slightly and I have personally gone back to adjust and fix anything that looked out of place, few errors etc, for example.. trees.. I now despise trees..
You may notice a few maps having a slight revamp, not major! just a little polish up for details. However with myself only starting mapping recently (as in the past 6 months?) the maps will mainly get a major rework when we start development on v6!

This is because for v5, our main focuses were:

1. Revamping the characters, Ruby did a fantastic job on giving them new life.

2. Balance, my main goal was to adjust the game and make the overall "Pokemon gamplay" aspect more enjoyable

3. Actually pumping out the story lol

We have goals set in mind for v6, one of them will be reworking the maps! This is a long project, and as you can expect with gaining a team, it's gonna take a bit of time before everything is completely up to scratch with our vision! But we hope we deliver an overall enhanced Pokemon Desolation in v5!

June 16

7 hours ago, LightningKillua said:

3) Posty: Have you ever dabbled in Smogon, VGC, or competitive battling? If not no worries but if yes, which tiers/gen? Looking forward to seeing your rebalancing of Desolation (and taking notes for my own fangame lol)

I have actually (main reason why I started working on Deso was because I had knowledge on Team Building and wanted to help implement some balance) I started doing a lot more VGC when SwSh came out because I enjoyed the meta and wanted to do a bit more comp battling. I don't really play Smogon tiers though, if I did it would probably be OU, sometimes UU, also I am currently in a Draft League or have been for the past 3 years! So I have a good amount of knowledge on competitive battling

June 15

3 hours ago, GenEric said:

will there be guns? if there are, can ava have a gun?

yes the game has now been dubbed Pokemon Gunsolation, everyone has guns, but who knows what kind of guns

1 hour ago, TayJess said:

is there a obtainable list?

~~Read the FAQ~~

36 minutes ago, bruhtonium said:

Will there be an field effect manual like in rejuvenation ?

Funny enough one of our Beta Testers mentioned this, yeah I'll make a Field Effect Manual because we have adjusted a few fields, also taken a field or two and made it our own

June 12

10 hours ago, Frozenwolf94 said:

Ok so I thought of another fun question for Posty and Ruby. What mons would you like/want to get a mega?

And what head canons do you guys have involving the characters before and after helping with development?

1. We can't say due to it being a potential spoilers because Caz is very easily convinced if it looks cool as hell LOL ~~but Ruby and I played around with the idea of a Mega Ninetales but it resembled Ninetails from Okami...~~

2. Well throughout development, I have come to head canon Garret as a really bad sheriff (with inspiration from Kenny from AoT) who has a catchphrase like ... "You've yee'd your last haw you criminal scum"

10 hours ago, BRS swag said:

Are we introducing a new character this episode? Like ep 4 introduced Aurora as the new character. By the way, except ep 1, it seems all other episodes ended with a cliff hanger situation... Caz should just go and get a masters in storytelling, with the amount of talent seen in deso.

Well I'm not going to say anything but if you go back to the end of e4, a few characters mentions a certain someone who you will be meeting in e5! But who knows who else you may or may not meet :']

June 11

7 hours ago, J-Awesome_One said:

Here's an interesting question for the 3 of you. When the game is complete or near completion or... well anytime really, would any 3 of you ever livestream this game or like make a playthrough of it? It'd be kind of cool to hear what you guys thought of certain scenes or the Pokemon you chose for a certain area or whatever as you play through the game. I feel like it won't happen but hey. Miracles happen right?

You know I did think about potentially livestreaming some Deso content, either being like an open AMA or just chill and discussions, or even just playing through the game with E5, if people actually want that then I may look into doing it! ~~suppose to be streaming hollow knight but thats taken a backseat due to um.. testing~~.

June 11

7 hours ago, Caz said:

In terms of E5 content specifically, I'm excited to see discussions on the story elements, especially considering how the story has progressed since E4. I'll keep it at that, I think.

Adding onto this I firstly should give you all an update on things ~~we don't have a dev blog but everyone checks here anyways so yeah this is fine~~. Beta Testing is starting soon! within the next few days we will be getting our testers to play through the game before release, our aim is still end of this month for the release but it may change depending on the test.

Also, when E5 eventually drops, There will be a E5 Discussion Thread made here to keep all spoilers in. After about a week since the release, feel free to then discuss further outside the thread in the club! but please be thoughtful for others who still might have not played the game.

ON TOP OF THAT, the 3 of us will be hanging around in the Reborn Discord! ~~well I'm a mod anyways so I'm there all the time hsjb~~ besides the point.. Feel free to discuss with us there also and come chill. We are all extremely hyped to see the community's reaction to the project after it being on hiatus for 3 years. That being said, keep an eye on the forums for any other updates or the game's release!

June 8

8 hours ago, Xedron said:

Hey there guys! First of all congratulations to Posty and Ruby for becoming a part of one of the three big Pokemon titans!! (Pokemon Reborn, Rejuvie, and Desolation.) I know with their help the game will explore to even bigger heights than ever before!!

Now I only have about.. 2 or so questions which any member of the team is willing to answer if they like.

First one is something I've always been curious to know. That would be when you had the choice to either give the stone to either shiv or Crescent. Which did you go with and why?

The second one I feel is somewhat similar to the first, Which is character development! If you could choose only one character in the WHOLE game which one did you think was the most shocking but had the best character development and change in how they operated (Basically how they think of situations, how they executed their actions, etc.).

The last one is the music.. I feel it's one of the essential things that can really tell a story for the characters like how Hardy's theme was kind of a soft and hot rivalry before it changed into a more rock and roll and feeling that you wish there was another way until things come up and pull the rug from under you. Will the music change to really symbolize these moments in the story or will they stay the same with only a re-done melody?

I would like to once again to thank you for taking time out of your schedules just to help keep one of the biggest fangames to date stay alive and really drive it to the top of the MOUNTAIN!! **FIND GREATNESSS AT THE TOP OF THE PEAKK!!!!!!!** And to thank you for answering the questions of this curious fan of this game since I've played through it alot of times and enjoyed it ~~Although I rage quitted after I couldn't beat tristan the first time which was for a whole year cause I couldn't get past the wigglytuff since by the time I got by his pokemon mine were either at red or yellow.~~ I also hope you have a wonder day. ^_^

Much appreciated my guy, all the support has been phenomenal and it motivates us to continue working on the project

1. So I actually gave the stone to ~~Crescent~~ Nova because even though this "dream" sounds bizarre, theres something about Shiv that was always a bit off for me :'] also I like Nova lmao

2. Funny you mention this, Ruby and I were actually discussing this then we saw your question but I also have to say Hardy, he has some great character development!

3. Well Ruby answered this one already but yes, there are change of music, some of the tracks are absolute bangers I tell you.

But yeah we can't wait to drop E5! its been a wild ride developing AND playing through the game, we hope everyone enjoys it!

1 hour ago, dax said:

I love this game and can't wait for the next release! The story got me hooked! Saw some replies that there's gonna be new starters.... guess I'll be restarting a new game! I want to know more about Tristan! Will there be more story on Tristan in E5? His story was so mysterious and mind-blowing, I love it!

Yup Yup new starters, new trainer teams, new encounters, story adjustments.. its worth playing through again

Also if I say whether or not Tristan gets more story, that could potentially be a spoiler so, all i'm going to say is.. :']

June 7

On 6/6/2020 at 7:55 PM, O_Castigado said:

I was looking at the Graphics\Battlers folder and found a peculiar sprite of a Butterfree, is it a new form or a new mega evolution?

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1 hour ago, Maneeee said:

If e5 gets enough traction do you think a seperate tab (like reborn or rejuvenation) for pokemon desolation would be possible? I am aware that it might be a bit too soon for that but it might be a good idea to give this game some more publicity, plus it would be much more convenient.

I mean.. who knows? There is a link to the official club on the main forum page under "Developing Games". At the end of the day that would all be up to the site owners, and even though I'm a moderator, I'm not about to push for Deso to get its own separate tab lol. So we will have to wait and see how things develop.

June 5

1 hour ago, Vespicutie said:

In E5, will there be the ability to adjust the in-game volume? Or was there one already and I just missed it?

I'm really excited for E5! I only heard of desolation very recently, and I've been enjoying my first playthrough so far!

e5 is a ride alright :']
also yes there is! in the Options settings, you can adjust the volume, alternatively you can just use the Volume Mixer on Desktop lol but yeah you can adjust ingame

June 5

4 hours ago, MegaLiontamer said:

I’m excited for this game I might know who the gym leaders we might face in this version but I’m going to keep that secret. Anyway good luck on testing the game guys

:']

1 hour ago, Junior said:

Here's another question. I know it was previously mentioned that it is advised for people to replay through the game once E5 drops because they might miss certain things if they don't. If I was to continue with my current save file and miss out on the things that have been changed prior to the E5 continuation of the story, would the things I'll have missed impact the story later on in the game?

Asking because I think I'm in the minority of the player base who actually finished the game like 2 weeks before Caz made his hype return and I put a lot of time into EV training and getting the best natures that I don't really want to start from scratch, but if there's anything super game changing I would be OK with restarting. Sorry if this falls too much under spoiling the rest of the game.

So the early game plays out exactly the same as it did in v4, with a few minor edits to the actual story, meaning if you played from the start of v5 you won't have missed anything important!

However we do still recommend playing from the start because a lot has changed, Trainer re-balance/every single important trainer's team has been updated (so if you're confused to like why for example Scarlett has __ then its best to play through from the start lmfao), Gen 7 and a new set of encounters in every route, the actual intro has been polished up similar to how they polished it in Rejuvenation ~~you get to see Rosetta in all her glamour.~~ But yeah since its been a long time since theres been an update, this is the other reason why we mention a fresh start, to remind yourself about parts of the story you may have forgotten about!

But yeah if you wanna start from v5, thats completely fine! just note you may have missed a few events early game so you may wanna go back and investigate them areas :]

June 4

17 minutes ago, Sardines said:

Yo, how you ppl doing? What's crackin? And what's going on?

Howdy partner
We're all doing pretty good right now! morale and spirits are high as we crack on with the game :] ~~even though we are dying doing edits~~
In the midst of Dev Testing right now, which hopefully be finished up soon (by soon I mean by the end of this week? we'll see) then we shall start the Beta Test and them... release the kraken (Aiming for an end of June release).

June 1

Can't believe Green Charlotte is dead this is so sad.

May 30

1 hour ago, Shiv said:

When ep 5 will realsed?

I've already mentioned about this, we are in the midst of testing as a dev team, beta testing will begin the moment we finish off that stage of testing and then it'll be released to the public. We are aiming for Late June. This may change depending on the results of testing.

May 26

33 minutes ago, Junior said:

Question for anyone, but can you guys shed some light on which characters got buffed? Apologies if it falls under spoilers.

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Asking because from what I remember when I played through the games, some important battles that occur at the height of the plot were kinda one-sided. Aurora in Cellia City and Scarlett in Blackview are some I remember where the tensions were high but the battles felt too easy to back that up and really make you feel the pressure. I noticed some of the easier battles are easy due to lack of type coverage on the AI's Pokemon as well.

So best way to put this, since every team in the game has been revamped in some sort of way, teams that were horribly difficult were nerfed and others were buffed, take that as you will, if you remember from v4 what battles were harder and what battles were easier, hopefully now they have been balanced out. I will say that the additions to Scarlett's team has buffed her overall, Aurora's team suits her more and the fight in Cellia and has been slightly adjusted. I can't say anything about newer battles but yeah lol.

May 26

4 hours ago, J-Awesome_One said:

This is a question all 3 of you can answer. Out of all of the characters we've interacted with so far, which 1 is your favorite?

Yeah its gotta be Amelia.. though I do like Emily quite a bit, and Ava you'll see why :]

May 25

28 minutes ago, Mah Ass said:

Will Jared get an explanation as in what even is this?

Are we going to get an option to join an evil organization with the whole karma system? And not just Crescent (was that their name? Been a while...), but the Black Foxes as well.

Will the history behind Moltres' preferred summoning method of human sacrifices get elaborated on?

Most importantly, if there is ever going to be a event to catch a Bagon, are you going to involve a band named "Imagine Bagons" in the side quest?

All I can really say to this is... nothing cause that would be spoilers :]
Okay but Moltres is valid though, no need for a history lesson

May 24

8 hours ago, gilam said:

Is there any boss or gym you exited to see

the players face?

Oh for sure, a good handful of people you will face in v5 but spoilers so cannot say!

May 24

6 minutes ago, gilam said:

I know about the 12 gyms.
I meant in V5 how many gyms will have

oh sorry my bad I didn't read the question properly
there will be 7 in total, 2 new gyms for v5. I won't say who the new Gym Leaders are, you will have to wait and find out

May 24

44 minutes ago, gilam said:

Are V5 release is a matter of days? Weeks?

and how many gyms there is in V5?

1. So I've said previously that we just started internal testing, which will take a week or two, then beta testing will begin, which again will take a week or two, so we don't have a set date yet, we wanna aim for a release around Late June, just keep an eye out for updates!

2. Um.. that has been answered a few times here now and on the FAQ, but its 12 (guys please read the FAQ before asking questions incase your question has already been answered :])

37 minutes ago, smeargletail said:

are you ever going to do custom moves like rejuv? if so I can help you navigate the animation editor and explain anything you need about it?

So we had plans on adding a new custom move this version which we ultimately scrapped in the end, I won't say what that move was because s p o i l e r s but we "might" add custom moves in the future? no idea yet lol, appreciate the offer, if we end up doing so I'll probably hit you up!

May 24

9 hours ago, Dreamblitz said:

Well, I don't really have anything to ask, nor anything to offer, but I still feel the need to offer my help if I can. Most of all, it's just great to see this active!

~~And I promise I'll actually reach the end of V5 this time~~

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Bless ya Dream gsiub

9 hours ago, Chrixai said:

To Caz, Posty and Amber. Which character in desolation do you guys like the most and why?

wait i just realised you said Amber sfgub I can't believe Ruby's alter ego is Amber. I'll let the others answer for themselves but for me personally.. I have to say Amelia, I just really like her personality and more important her design you'll see why

6 hours ago, AiedailEclipsed said:

What's the Dreamscape?

Whhaaattt? Dreamscape? what are you talking about?? sounds like a pretty cool area or something, wonder what its like there..

5 hours ago, Marmalade said:

What is everybody's favorite pokemon?

Again I'll let the others answer themselves for this one, but for me its Typhlosion!

4 hours ago, Alilatias said:

I only came in here to say, thank you two for helping on this project. With the massive scope that Desolation had, I didn't think there was any sustainable way for the project to continue with a solo dev. Especially with med school thrown into the equation.

Okay, I lied, I do have one question.

With the new gen Pokemon, I assume that will mean changes to Pokemon availability. That means gym leaders would be rebalanced around them as well. Also, in that sense, have you considered adding additional starters, or replacing some of the existing starters? I intend on restarting the game from the beginning as it has been quite a long time. While we patiently wait for the new episode, I think the community would like to hear about any new additions before the first gym. After all, the first gym was a pretty infamous fight as well, where most people just recommended to bring a Biabarel.

cheers! we both are very excited and thrilled to be working on this project, its been a lot of fun revamping Desolation and I really do hope y'all love the stuff we have done to the game!

As for your question, so I mentioned it previously about starters, with the addition of Gen 7 I have gone through and made massive changes to Pokemon availability. For the Starters I looked over what there was and I did some changes, 5 Starters have been axed and replaced, don't worry though! some of these old starters will appear at different points in the game, there will still be 8 Starters! With overall Pokemon availability, I made a document and an Obtainable List to see what Pokemon were available via the Wild, Events, Trades, Credit Shop etc and then saw what wasn't available ~~cough every single water encounter cause we had no way to fish cough~~. Afterwards I judged Pokemon based on upcoming battles, basically the gym leaders and thought what would be better here and there. With my work over 100+ Pokemon have now become available, thats not just the new areas in v5, throughout the game! keep an eye out for the Obtainable List which will drop nearer the release!

Okay I'll spill the beans a bit on Connor's new team, I've made changes to 3 of his Pokemon, his team will somewhat utilise the field a bit more than it did before and you will probably need more than one Pokemon to take him down. With a good variety of Pokemon you can obtain before his gym, not to mention some of the new starters, I hope his battle has the same flavour as it did before just changed a bit

Talking about Gym Leaders yes, they have been balanced based around the Pokemon available at that point in the game. You don't need to worry about having to buy a Magnemite from the Credit Shop in Celeste just to have a crack at Aderyn's powerhouses known as Hawlucha and Honchkrow *flashbacks to Sucker Punch, Life Orb, Moxie, I am so sorry for your suffering*

4 hours ago, jeffhu said:

I,m chinese fans ,Is there a chance to become a tester

Umm maybe? again we are going to be dming active members of the community to take part in the Beta Test this time around, we already have people in mind we will ask.

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