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I mean there is the likes of the haunted field in Rejuv, which has the same sort of effects but is more general in theme so it's not as restricted.

I don't think it's necessary as such, but I do think it would be awesome. Each one should still sound like a pokemon battle theme if you know what I mean. There's a custom music pack that basically does this over in the mods section, but I've never properly got to try it out in game because it was made after my original playthrough, and it incompatible with the modified versions I've used/am planning to use for subsequent playthroughs. I think it would be sweet if in the final version of reborn, each major character (leaders, rivals, meteor admins etc) had their own theme, though it might take a while to pick them all out. I guess it would also inflate the filesize a bit, but I doubt anyone cares all that much about that, the game is still small compared to most others.

Fair enough. looks like the release is roughly estimated to be right around when my exams are starting so I'll have to wait a week or two extra to dive into E17 content. before then I also want to try and use the shared box mod to try and sort of conglomerate my team from my regular reborn save and my reborn hardcore save into one place. I think I've sidequested a bit more thoroughly on Hardcore, so I guess I'll be weirdly moving my normal reborn pokemon to my hardcore save and then moving my hardcore save over to normal reborn and hoping nothing breaks XD. THEN I'll have a save for this, but that can stay separate. Any changes to the mod compatibility plans with the E17 release? (I'm still hoping my playthrough of this can be with the custom music pack because I haven't really been able to try it yet)

This is more of an observation than anything else, but why is the 'Other Games' tab at the top of the site so inconsistent with the rest of them? Like, the rest of them are a light grey window activated by hover which has a small arrow on the left that just touches the bar. The Other Games one is a dark grey window activated by click which has a larger arrow in the middle that fully overlaps the bar.

Honestly I feel like most 'canonical' explanations of actual level caps tied to the badges either don't make sense (with either implementation) or require super convoluted setup and stuff, so IMO a good way to do it is to just tell the player that the level cap increasing as you get badges just represents you as the character becoming more skilled as a trainer and able to train your pokemon to be stronger. (with the hard level caps on xp) though this would obviously be hard to change to when you have NPCs mentioning level caps and related things like reverse candies in-character already. Also why is the sidequests bar half green but on 0% currently?

Good luck with hardcore! I found it very fun myself. If you want to play with the party system some more, I'll shamelessly plug the fact that with help from other hardcore players, I put together a bit of a guide to locations of party members and their extra pokemon. And it's not 100% complete, so if you find anything not currently listed there, feel free to share!

It's a second gen pair, but if you have female avatar, LucinaXMorgan gets my vote.

This is a really neat thing. I assume this ward would only come into existence with the rest of the renovated city, but would it be possible for the area to only get renovated if my Bigglesworth has been defeated?

Imo this cap system works much better. Also in regards to balance, I felt as if some significant fights were made easier in V9 compared to V8. Is this intentional, with normal becoming more forgiving and the proper challenge moving to intense, or was it somewhat unintentional and they'll be picked up again in future if they're a bit soft?

So Ame said that in E17, just 6 non-Legendary evolution lines would be unobtainable, so we could just wait for the obtainability list to be updated, but I thought it might be fun to try and guess/analyze which ones will become available and which ones are still locked away from us. The current list is the evolution lines of Gengar, Gyarados, Dragonite, Scizor, Skarmory, Tyranitar, Salamence, Garchomp, Ferrothorn, Hydreigon, Talonflame, Aegislash. That's 12 lines, so by my complex calculations, 12 - 6 = 6 of these becoming obtainable. there's also the possibility that one of the 6 is from Alola, but none particularly stick out to me as ones that would still be too strong for us to get (Though maybe Silvally is being counted and it's event is just not available yet for some story reason?) so for now we'll ignore the alolan stuff. With the nerf of Gale Wings, Talonflame will likely be available much earlier in the game, so that's 1. Skarmory and Ferroseed seem like pretty likely desert encounters, so we'll call that 3. Gible is also a possibility here. Magikarp sidequest seems close to completion, but maybe it'll keep going because it's basically a giant meme now. I know Larvitar and the last dark material for Deino are currently gated by rock climb, so if we got that, those two could be gotten. (Is anything else currently locked behind rocks?) Honedge or Scyther could both be potentially obtained in some sort of Titania-related sidequest? To summarize: Talonflame, Skarmory and Ferroseed feel very likely to become obtainable, while Gengar, Dragonite and Salamence have little to support their addition that I can think of I think 2 others that might become obtainable are Gyarados and Scizor, with the final one being either Garchomp or Aegislash. Share your own theories below!

Legendary action eh? could mean a few different things, but that's exciting either way. with only 6 lines left unobtainable, maybe we'll get rock climb this episode and the things gated behind that? I wonder if mega or z rings will be available yet.... but if some gym leaders have Z-moves now that should be interesting. might even get a new release of reborn for my birthday, which is 2 months from today in my timezone, so that would be an amazing present =) Is there another batch of move animations in this episode or are they coming later?

Charizard has slightly nicer wings and nidoking is... pointier?

(Mods please don't hate me for this doublepost, I can't seem to put any text in the previous post, even when editing) Enjoy! The game might think at some points that you got a different starter, but it shouldn't really affect you. if that bothers you, I guess don't use the file.

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I think they only join aya if you've found either none at all, or only croagunk, so if you have 5 I don't think the rest will join Aya. not sure if any of them become unobtainable or if they're all still around. And sorry for not really updating the guide with more info. after finishing the current version of hardcore and the chamber of memories, I haven't really had the time or drive to wander round talking to everyone multiple times with different characters to find more hidden mons.

I don't think taka is a great fit for Lawful Evil. His father, or El would probably be better IMO. Shade for true neutral works fine, but feels like a bit of a nothing square, maybe Titania would work? (with the quote about how team meteor will stop at nothing to achieve their goals, so why should she maybe)

So what move tutors are currently in the game and where are they?

Sounds like a lot of work, but I'm sure you can manage it! My 2 cents would be to not make the basic trainers too hard, because you have to fight rather a lot of them through the game, and if all of them are tough fights, it makes any sort of progression a slow slog, which can stop battling from being fun. Also bosses could start to lose their point of difference a bit, but that seems unlikely. also here's the old post on E17 for the seeds, which doesn't go into specifics but gives a good idea on what sort of things they'll do.

"It is a future where there were never any traces of you existing." so I don't think we died. this has been discussed a bit before, and I think the general consensus is that this vision was of an alternate universe where we never existed. Without us around, Fern seems to not become as jealous and bitter, and eventually becomes the 'hero', along with Cal, Arclight, Anna and the mysterious woman in the suit helping him. they get done similar stuff to us, destroying the pulse machines, but then some catastrophic event happens, and Anna wishes on Jirachi, causing the suited woman to vanish and then that timeline to no longer exist. The thought was that this wish somehow resulted in the universe where we, the player, do exist, and the game then plays out as we know it. The suited woman is still a mystery, but might be connected to shade. I don't believe there's any connection to the 'Dual Prophecies' of Rejuvenation, as that refers the the prophecies of the 4 lights and the 4 shadows. The book about the blind person who regained their sight refers to El, our friendly neighborhood cult leader.

Is it weird that I got a mental image of Ame trying to train small-child versions of the gym leaders to battle? Good luck with that. It's there for me and is looking gooooood

That's great to hear! (apart from the flooding potential)

Merry Cakeday, hope it's a good one! you improve our lives, hopefully we can enrich yours too

@Ice Cream Sand Witch I guess 3 could work because of time travelly stuff that goes on, but I don't think so either.