Posty

December 8, 2020

23 hours ago, Nooooooo said:

Are difficulty modes planned in V6 or after?

As of right now, we do not have any plans on introducing difficulty modes for the game, maybe this will change in the future? who knows, we can include them however we would then need to include 3 sets for each trainer in the game (casual, normal and intense) , which as you can imagine will take a very long time when we could be using that time to improve other aspects of the game. We are completely open though for the community to create their own difficulty versions of the game to upload here like the community have done with "Memeborn" and "Reborn Alt Forms". If we do decide to introduce difficulty modes, don't expect them for EP6, it will be for a future future episode!

December 5, 2020

:)

Doc has been updated! sorry for the delay on this one, I'm currently quite busy with Uni Assignments which are due around the 18th, so overall I've been a bit slow! But yeah we are getting through Gen 3 quite nicely, keep it coming!

Also could ~~Hycrox~~ chuck me a dm~

Cheers

Posty

December 2, 2020

~Who's your Favourite Character?~

Hiya everyone! Today I do not have any latest development stuff (if you want extra content follow the patreon :']). However we do have something else!

Similar to what Rejuvenation did a while back, we have decided to do a poll to see who is Desolation's most beloved character! Why are we doing this you ask? well the main reason is well.. a secret :) which you all will find out about in due course, what could it possibly be? who knows! well we do on the Desolation Team ahahah..

Another reason why is well, we are just genuinely curious on who everyone's favourite character is? Is it the Hothead Connor? Maybe the Mysterious Lilith? ..Amelia? Or is it gar bea,, i mean Garret. Linked below is the Poll, click on it, choose your favourite character and submit! that simple

>>>FORM IS NOW CLOSED, THANKS FOR VOTING!<<<

The poll is set to end on January 1st 2021 so please get your votes in before time runs out!

Take care of yourselves!

Posty

November 24, 2020

Wow Posty is on fire with these updates lol (i've lost my mind with these titles)

Document has been updated! we're driving through Gen 3 so keep it up everybody~ loving the recent drive for pumping out Shinies it's been great!

Also one more thing, a bunch of you have noticed a post made in the Discussions by Khrona (some nerd ~~a good pal~~) about the creation of Silvally Shinies for Desolation, if you wish to take part in helping him create/edit the Shiny Silvallies he has made, then check out the link here:

If you create a Silvally, please upload it to this side thread INCLUDING the back sprite, I will then later take them and add them to the folder (if we approve of them ofc)

Thats all for now folks~

Posty

November 22, 2020

7 hours ago, sayar said:

In regards, to e6, will Connor get a personality change in the next update, or will i have to settle with him being a oversmart idiot. (I have no problems with him being a nerd, but i really hated his dialogues in the short time i played deso)

Woooooooooow, can't believe you've called him an oversmart idiot well you see at the start of the game he is a bit of a smug ass punk, but later on he develops :O we don't have plans on changing up his personality early game, but he definitely will get character development!

4 hours ago, Progfan_r said:

Sorry if this has already been asked before, but I have a few questions.

To my knowledge, there are no Field notes or any place where we can read up on the field effects. What's the reason for this? Is there any plan to introduce such a feature in the future?

Will the PC be able to achieve perfection form for one of their pokemon?

Is there a page where I can read the stats and other details of customer megas and perfection forms?

Apart from custom megas and perfection forms, is there any other battle mechanic that you're looking to implement in the future? (For instance, the concept of crests from Rejuvenation)

I know some of these questions come close to spoiler territory, but I would appreciate if you can answer them. Thanks!

Hiya! its no worries what so ever, we haven't had questions opened in a while anyways so~

1 - So the field notes.. haha, we planned on having them within the files for EP5 however we fell short of time/we just overall forgot to put it bluntly. On top of that the fields that you really needed notes for are either used once (Cloud Field) or are essentially somewhat the same as another field in Reborn. However in EP6 we are developing these fields to have more of a personality, so there will be a Field Notes in EP6! and if we forget then please shout at me until I make one.

2 - who knows..

3 - There isn't a page like that here on the forums, we may make one in the future, orrrr if someone wants to develop a wiki for Pokemon Desolation, then we do not mind if the stats/other details are posted there! Tbh if someone wants to make a Megas/Perfection page here, then drop me a dm, i'll have a chat with the gang and we can decide how to go about it.

4 - As of right now, we have no plans of any extra battle mechanic to be implemented in the near future, this may change though! Our main focus is developing the concept of "Perfection Form", custom Megas are just an extra thing because damn, when a custom Mega is done right its gorgeous~

November 21, 2020

20 minutes ago, lilyawaka said:

hello yes i have a question for posty

am i still allowed to play this game while drinking microwaved tea

absolutely not, if you DARE drink your hideous microwaved tea while playing our game, I will personally rock up and buy you a kettle, and also commit a few crimes out of sheer ANGER and DISGUST at the sins you have commited.

November 21, 2020

With the addition of Crimson to our team, we have decided to reopen the Dev Q&A! So if you have any burning questions, feel free to ask them here! If its directed at any of us, or in general go for it!

However let me remind you that this Q&A is Strictly Questions directed at the Devs about development, characters, fun stuff, etc and NOT a place to ask about INGAME Content such as "Where do I find the Ice Stone" or "Where is Lucario located?" If you want to ask these questions, either ask them in the Discussions thread OR in the Desolation channel in the Reborn Discord! If this thread goes off topic again then we will swiftly lock it until further notice.

November 20, 2020

An update within 24 hours of the last update?!? oh my god

So due to the increased amount of responses since the last update (20+ in 24hrs, y'all are crazy), We've already gone through and updated the Doc

So yeah continue to go crazy aaaa

Keep it up!

Posty

November 19, 2020

Generation Update

Hey y'all, as the title says.. its time we move onto Generation 3! Cheers for all the work in grinding out the rest of Generation 2~

What this means is that, we will only be accepting submissions from Generation 3, so please keep that in mind when you are submitting your Shinies. Any Shinies submitting from a different Generation will be immediately rejected.

Hope you see what y'all get up to x

Posty

November 14, 2020

On time update! On time update!

Doc has been updated! we only need 3 more Shinies to complete Generation 2! so the moment we've accepted them 3, I will move onto the next Gen immediately

Also could ~~Edo~~ please dm me about their Submission

Lets get it!

Posty

November 7, 2020

Actually an on time update?? holy FUDGE CAKES

We've made a hefty amount of progress already in Generation 2 hot damn, cheers for all the submissions guys! Doc has been updated and we are actually only 8 away from moving onto Generation 3!

Keep em coming lads~

Posty

November 2, 2020

Shiny Project Update! Shiny Project Update!

Hey Y'all! Big News! we've completed Generation 1!! wooooo yeeeaaah lets goooo.. well not really.. we still need to accept a Mewtwo Shiny lmao

But since its one Pokemon with 2 Megas, its about time we move on.

As of today we are finally finally moving onto Generation 2! So this means that ALL Submissions must be from the 2nd Generation of Pokemon, with exceptions of Mewtwo, and Later Generation Evolutions.

Cheers for the continued hard work! keep it up guys

Posty

October 24, 2020

why the hell have I been up for 20 hours and updating the doc at 2am lol

Hiya y'all, sorry for the late update but doc has been updated! we only have 8 more shinies to go from Gen 1 so submit submit submit!

cheers again for the support~

Posty

October 13, 2020

what the heck you're updating this at 22:22pm?

yes. yes i am.

Doc has been updated! we need only 16 more Pokemon to completed Generation 1 then we can finally move onto Generation 2! so work together, make some banging Shinies and we'll MOVE

Loving all the work guys, keep it up!

Cheers

Posty

October 12, 2020

~Time for Reflection~

Hey y'all! hope you are all doing well!

Today ain't really an update of sorts. Its more of a "its time to ask the community on what they think about our game" kinda update, and what kind of feedback am I looking for... Battles.

Yes battles, you know the part which helps contributes to the "Pokemon" aspect of the game? If you haven't noticed ~~(well if you have played the game, idk how you haven't)~~, all the important battles in the game have had an overall revamp in EP5, courtesy of me (and a few others who I asked for opinions from, you know who you are, shoutout to you lot). When I came onto the development team for Desolation, my main job was to well, improve the overall gameplay of the game, aka improve the balance since there were some wild battles back in EP4 which got hit with the NERF HAMMER.. well I thought they did ahaha..... oh how ole and naive 2019 Posty was.

It's apparent that the game still suffers from balance at certain points ~~cough Garret was a walk in the park cough~~ and I am to blame. So this is where you! yes you reading this post right this second on a Monday Afternoon after you've had your third coffee of the day trying to get through your daily routine, come in. Linked below is a Google Form with questions that lists all the major battles as of EP5 and gives you three options to choose from, "Buff, Nerf or Leave". For those who don't understand these terms, "Buff" means making the battle more difficult! if you felt like this battle was a push over and could be a bit harder, tick this! "Nerf" means the exact opposite, if you felt the battle was WAAAAY too hard for this specific point in the game, tick this! and finally "Leave", well this one is obvious but if you felt the battle was completely fine, just tick this box. Please do take in account the point in the game these battles take place when answering, Pokemon Availability, Level Caps, etc.

>>Warning: Form contains EP5 Spoilers<<

>>>https://forms.gle/tJD7dmMVURE9HnLt9<<<

This feedback will be very beneficial for me to overall pinpoint which battles I should focus on when adjusting balance for EP6, with the addition of Generation 8 as well, of course teams will be adjusted regardless, but just knowing which battles I should prioritise will help to develop an overall enhanced gameplay experience.

I will be closing the form on Sunday 18th October at 11pm BST so please get your responses in before that time!

Cheers y'all for taking your time to read and fill in the form! ~~also continue submitting shinies, i'm enjoying a lot of the recent ones coming in~~

Til next time~

Posty

October 7, 2020

Posty you should be fired for this oh my god another late update?..//shot dead

Hi y'all, yeah sorry about the delay with this, past few weeks have been uhh how to describe it.. a series of ups and downs and this has skipped my mind, I'll do better in providing more updates!

Anyways Doc has been updated, we only need 27 more Pokemon to complete Generation 1 and move onto Generation 2! keep it guys!

And once again, since the Project has slowed down a lot, share this project with spriters and in other servers (if this sort of stuff is allowed ofc lmao) and spread the word of the Shiny Project! its been nice to see some new faces pop up over the past few weeks and credit to everyone who has kept making Shinies and submitting, lets get this done everyone!

Once again cheers for the support!

Posty

September 28, 2020

~A Fiery Passion~

Howdy folks! Its me once again giving you a good ole Desolation update! So lets just jump right into it shall we?

So September has been a bit of a hard hill to climb over, from personal reasons to just the world going even more into the gutter. I did turn 21 this month so that's something atleast ahahahahah ~~good lord I'm old~~. To put it bluntly, we just as a team haven't been terribly motivated to work on Deso/we have been busy with other stuff, Ruby has been working hard on zine work and other artistic practices, Caz is currently on an intense surgery run and myself, well besides trying to get them dubs in Fall Guys and framing someone to be the imposter (it worked several times, ~~sorry Ceri~~), I've just had my focuses on other situations, also uni has just started up today, so I've been preparing for that. This month has just been more difficult than we anticipated but we are getting there! This doesn't mean we haven't been working on Desolation, no far from it! Just development has been a bit slower than we hoped, but we are progressing! Anyways life update DONE, time for the gamer talk.

So this month, I've taken it upon myself to work on some hot areas in the game, some areas which you will get access to in EP6! so here have some hot content

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I wonder where on earth this could possibly be maybe you can figure it out~ I won't be saying anything.

oh dear fucking god don't tell me its another one of these puzzles, how could you do such a thing?!?!

So as you can see.. some very HOT areas will be available for exploration in EP6! why have I made these? what will we be able to discover here?? is this leading to nothing and you just want us to suffer??

who knows... well I know cause I made the maps.. and the team knows as well cause they also work on the game... you get the point!

Maps aside, I've debated potentially making a community survey to determine which important battles that were in EP5 should be changed around, buffed, nerfed, etc you get the idea, that'll most likely be coming in a few weeks so look out for that! the feedback from that survey will really help me when re-balancing these teams, and don't worry, we are working on fields as well, so expect a field manual next EP as well as some revamped content!

Thats about it for this dev update, Caz has once again dropped a Patreon post which is showcasing a really spicy area available in EP6 and holy fuck I can't wait to release this to the public! so if you want the more indepth scoop of our development, considering pledging to his Patreon! On top of that, we are closing in to our pledge goal which would mean we'll look into doing development streams! so if you're interested, do consider it! https://www.patreon.com/posts/42103055 ~~shameless plug over~~

That's all I have for you all today! Thank you for the continuous support! Stay safe and wear a mask out there :]

Cheers~

Posty

September 22, 2020

Little late update lol

Doc has been updated! we are making way through Gen 1! so cheers for everyone who is following the new system, keep it up!

September 13, 2020

1 hour ago, J-Awesome_One said:

I have a question. What if the line continues into another Generation? For example, Onix and Steelix. Would you accept Onix and then wait for Gen 1 to be done to then go onto Gen 2 or would you accept both at the same time?

Evolutions are the exception, if you do Onix, for continuity sake still do Steelix and its Mega. They will be accepted at the same time.

September 13, 2020

This has been a little while whoops

Hiya all! firstly I just want to apologise for the delay with this update! I took a weeks break off Reborn to focus on other stuff hence why I didn't update last week, but now I'm back and ~~revamped~~ so this will be updated weekly again! Got a few little updates for you all today.

Firstly, well the document has been updated! so go check it out!

Secondly which is the main update, I will be changing how we go about accepting Shinies. From this point onwards, the Shiny Project will be completed in Generations. So Posty what do you mean by this? Lemme tell you, from now on, we will be working on the Shiny Project from Generation 1 to Generation 8, so we will only be accepting Shinies from the current Generation we are on. For example, As of right now we have 89/151 Shinies completed for Generation 1, until we have completed this Generation, aka had every single Pokemon receive a Shiny Sprite, THEN we will move onto Generation 2. What this means is that, if you were to submit a Generation 4 Shiny while we are on Generation 1, it will not be accepted! ~~(or well until we get to that Generation)~~. Cheers to Zumi for giving me advice on this, I believe they did something similar for their Shiny Project for Rejuvenation. Hopefully this will speed up the process! I will update the main part so newcomers will understand.

Finally, the Shiny Project has slowed down a bit, which I expected as much due to well, schools starting up again and other stuff. So guys! please post this Project around in servers and maybe forums! (if they don't mind ofc lmao) I would love to see new people take part in creating Shinies! We really wanna get this project completed, we are over halfway now! Cheers for all the support guys, we appreciate all the comments, fanart and everything else!

Cheers again x

Posty

August 30, 2020

~The Chaotic City of Nightmares~

Hey everyone! It's me this time, your local Postman! I wanted to make this blog post to talk about a certain area within the game that many players have struggled with.. and by struggled I mean getting lost in the vast lands known as Blackview City.

A number of you have given feedback/complaints about how hard it is to navigate through the city, from searching for the crazy girl Emily to figuring out where the hell the Jinx Grid Teleporter is ~~trust me it also took me a while to figure out where that was lol~~. So I took it upon myself to polish up the city.

So firstly, to showcase the changes and my thoughts into going about this, here's a map of Old Blackview:

Spoiler

I'm gonna keep them in spoiler tags because well, Blackview is massive and I don't want to flood this post lol.

Anyways as you can see, the main issue with Blackview was that, well the layout was extremely clunky with paths leading to dead ends to a lot of clutter around the centre, its no wonder people got lost around here. The city is suppose to have this chaotic nature about it which is why when I looked to give it a the polish up, I wanted to keep this feel about it! This was a bit of a challenge but after discussing with the team, this is what I came up with as a concept:

Spoiler

I wanted to divide Blackview into 4 "main streets" with alley ways going in-between, this way it would help to keep this feel of a chaotic city which was our vision, while helping to tackle the issue players have been struggling with.

And for the big polished up reveal.. this is what Blackview looks like now:

Spoiler

~~its probably best to just, open both images in tabs and clicking between to have a better view of the before and after pics.~~ This polish up took a bit of time to sort out, considering I didn't want to start from scratch with the map, due to overall eventing and the map itself was fine, it just needed a little 2020 polish up since this map is well.. 4 years old now?

To conclude, this isn't the complete final design, we are looking to potentially implement something else to help navigation around Blackview.

Other than that, development is going at a reasonable pace, I've just finished up a set of maps for Episode 6 and looking to start the next set soon

Speaking about development, Caz has updated his Patreon with some spicy Episode 6 content! I'll shove the link to it below, but if you wanna have a more in-depth view on our development for Episode 6, consider pledging to him! all the support everyone gives us helps massively! whether it be pledging to just leaving comments about their enjoyment with the game.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/41016883

Anyways that's it from me, hope you all have a great weekend and we'll talk again soon~

Posty

August 30, 2020

Weekly Update, Weekly Update

As per usual the document has been updated! we have had over 600+ responses now which is, hot damn, I say that every week I swear. Keep the Shinies going! advertise the project! lets keep this project going!

August 26, 2020

Hiya! firstly we appreciate the comments! glad you were able to enjoy it!

Secondly yes, the custom Megas do have extra moves for them and will get more in the future, funny enough you suggest Mightyena as we already gave it Shadow Claw and Shadow Sneak (i think we gave it Shadow Sneak, cant remember but it'll defo be an available move in ep6) and as for the other Megas? Cinccino has already had Play Rough added to its moveset :]

August 23, 2020

Its that time of the week again!

Doc has been updated! go have a look and such ya know the drill this point.

Now I want to make a point about some of the submissions we have gotten lately, over the past few weeks we have been receiving a bunch of Shinies which have already been marked as completed on the Shiny Document, this is fine but I wanna put an emphasis on the ones we haven't completed yet. This ain't saying you shouldn't submit Shinies that have already been accepted but I want to make clear that we will be prioritising the ones that haven't been completed, looking through 4 sets of a Shiny which have already been completed is somewhat a waste of time, and we would prefer to see newer Shinies come in!

That said, could the following people yeet me a dm:

~~Dragoknight~~

Lazarus Ryuto

August 18, 2020

3 hours ago, Hannelore said:

Hi,

I had a look through bugs in troubleshooting but didn't find anything about this; apologies if I missed something obvious!

I unlocked the house on the snowy hill where you can interact with Trapinch but when I saw yes to it joining I get an error message and the game crashes. I'm pretty sure I'm updated to the latest patch but is there a way to check? I'm replaying after the last episode update to get different storylines and I definitely didn't have this issue in my last save file.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Edit:

update your game, this has been fixed, make sure you're on the latest update before reporting.

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