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  1. Mindlack
    From the item guide ( https://www.rebornevo.com/forums/topic/41661-item-guide-v18-void-kissed/ ) IIRC Blazikenite and Swampertite can't be obtained yet.
  2. Mindlack
    Yay, good news! I didn't know you could downgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 7 -- you may have been the luckiest of us all. ^^ Just a word of caution on pictures. Especially if you're not using exactly the game's own screenshots, it's surprisingly time-consuming. But you wrote that you would take your time until V13 (a decision that is completely understandable -- what the Rejuv dev team is planning in route 4 looks absolutely huge, and it'd be a right shame to force yourself not to use it because you'd have reached it too soon), so perhaps it won't be a concern.
  3. Mindlack
    Okay, so it wasn't a bug in the end. I found out from CosminCosman on Discord that Kiki's mons were EV invested, with level*1.5 EV in every stat. That makes it just possible (with unfavorable rounding or perhaps a display thing that keeps enemy mons green if they're less than 1 HP under 50%) that Meowstic took 59-60/119 HP from Medicham; similarly, the Swoobat had probability 7/8 to OHKO. I just got unlucky damage rolls.
  4. Mindlack
    Don’t worry, it’s been like that for a while and no one complained.^^ Remember? “The AI is so broken I’m surprised it ever functioned.” I don’t know how it’s exactly like – but here’s an analogy which I hope isn’t too far off the mark. Imagine a 20,000-tile mosaic (so that any two tiles have the same shape) representing a blue sky (so that two tiles have similar colors). Or, maybe, one of the Reborn tile puzzles, except much, much bigger and without recognizable shapes or colors. You know approximately how it’s supposed to look like in the end, but n
  5. Mindlack
    How do you manage Terra? With Ciel, she’s one of the Gym Leaders where I just can’t seem to make anything work, so I end up spamming healing items, especially for Quagsire which doesn’t care about set-up mons. Ciel I always eventually cheesed after setting up a mon right under the Togekiss’s nose and making it sweep. I also struggled with Hardy. Shade was an issue in my two completed playthroughs but I swept it in the third one. I remember beating Charlotte first try in my first playthrough (with a Magneton’s Sturdy being the deciding factor in the end, while the Prankster Damp
  6. Mindlack
    It’s quite possible indeed. However, so far it gave me the right info on Pokemon levels, movesets, and the right ballpark for damage... so did the devs specifically change the ev spreads since the wikia’s last update? (or is it just the first modification I catch) That’s why I would really be interested in a non-conjecture answer.
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    He's aware of it, but climbing Mount Pyrous to challenge Cal (whose strength he doesn't know) doesn't exactly sound like a test of mental health either, so he doesn't understand the point. That would be so mean of me to do this to him. But I can't let him escape the resolution of the plot, can I? (By the way, I think I wrote it in an earlier chapter, but it's really not a straight trip to Kalos).
  8. Mindlack
    But HP/Sp.Def aren't specific stats of Lucario or Medicham, are they? And the wikia disagrees -- apparently the first EV trained ace is Serra's. (Though it could of course be incorrect or outdated)
  9. Mindlack

    There are some who will give riddles to people they want to assess. And there are others, who ask them to instead climb mountains. Guess which category is Kiki? Guess which category Gabriel would have preferred? 

     

    The Odd One Out has a new chapter online! 

     

     

    (PS: If you didn't answer: "the category of people who will take care of Reborn City and help him go home", you might have been wrong ^^)

  10. Mindlack
    I know I should EV train, but I don't want to do it right now. I'll probably do some later, before some harder battles than these. But that's not my question here.
  11. Mindlack
    Hey! Thank you for all your answers in the poll! I'm closing it now, but feel free to comment. You won't have any battle this chapter... But don't worry, you'll have plenty in the following chapters... After all, it's called a finale for a reason. So I'm writing the finale of Part 2, making the pictures (which takes a lot of time because battles, among others), so Part 2 should be completely online by the end of the year. Chapter 40: Novel Nihilism Character rates:
  12. Mindlack
    Hello, I'm not sure this is actually a bug, but I've just been fighting Kiki and I have had a couple of Psychic attacks that damaged their enemies a bit too little. The thing is, I'm using the wikia to get the EVs/IVs of my opponents, so perhaps it's incorrect or I'm doing the wrong calculations. Everything uses Smogon's S/M damage calculator. Here are the two situations: 1) Swoobat using Psychic against the Lucario (lv 40, 30 IVs HP/SpDef, no EVs and neutral nature according to the wikia). Swoobat is Simple and used one Calm Mind (so +4
  13. Mindlack

    Do you know which color the lake is supposed to be on Azurine Island in Reborn 18.4.1? I'm on my first visit, and it's blue. But in TTar's playthrough (for instance), and in my memory as well, it was always brown at that point... Am I mistaken or is there something wrong?

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    2. Mindlack

      Mindlack

      Thank you, cass! So, it’s nothing to worry about? 

    3. andracass

      andracass

      yup! it'll be fixed next release.

    4. Mindlack

      Mindlack

      Okay, thank you again! 

       

  14. Mindlack

    I have just finished the first draft of the last part of Part 2's finale of The Odd One Out. 😢

    I'll probably need to retune it a bit, write the latest chapters' character rates...

    And then there will be all the pictures for the chapters 41-45. 😨

    I said it earlier, the idea is one of the earliest ones I had and one of those I was most eager to write. So I really hope it works and you enjoy it...

  15. Mindlack
    IIRC they did a lot of work so it's really not the Essentials AI anymore, so much that it's a massive chunk of code, with at least thousands of lines. This kind of length and complexity makes it very easy for tiny mistakes to have dispoportionately large impacts, completely straying from the intended behavior (or worse, weird combinations of correct and subtly wrong code to produce something that looks like a mostly correct output). That's really hard to debug. And it's not even in the "oh, what a nice puzzle" way, more in the "omg, how do I untangle this 1000-string knot?" way. A
  16. Mindlack

    smileyface

    Mindlack replied to Fly's topic in Reborn City

    Okay... It's been about a day, so I hope you have managed to calm down. First, regarding an easy mode: do you realize that's a lot of work, given the sheer number of battles? You very probably won't get it from the devs, especially when you so rudely demanded. X-Items are indeed available after 7 Department Store stickers (in Obsidia), but they're easy to miss or to give up on (*cough forest puzzle cough*). Here are the locations: https://www.rebornevo.com/forums/topic/9720-sticker-guide-episode-18/ There is also a variety of options if you still wa
  17. Mindlack
    Ugh... Every time I'm seeing one of these jerk-allies, I can't help but wonder how exactly they were educated. Are manners so rare a sight in the Pokemon world? (or perhaps parents are). Also, it's very suspicious that the natives believe that Felicia is lying before even meeting her. Could there somehow be something unnatural at play here? Good chapter. I'm looking forward to the next ones.
  18. Mindlack

    Sometimes I should just sleep instead of writing late as if I was trying to get nightmares...

     

    I just finished the first draft of the second-to-last chapter of the second part of The Odd One Out. Here are the last sentences:

     

    Spoiler

    "Gabriel, are you alright?"

     

    I certainly wasn't.

     

    I didn't know any word, any idiom, any expletive in any language that could remotely express how utterly terrified and panicked I was.  

     

    ... I think this finale is going to be online for Christmas. How ironic. 

  19. Mindlack
    I'm not very good at the game (and often abuse shift mode+items, especially for this fight) so don't hold my suggestions in too high an esteem. But perhaps you could detonate Electrode? It's a roll, but IIRC Explosion is pretty broken in early gens. You should check it, but it's possible that Electrode outspeeds and oneshots Garchomp with it. About the Quagsire and Palossand, I'd advise that you teach Arcanine Roar (I think it can relearn it). The seed effects are forgotten (and the seed is consumed) once Terra's mons switch out, so they get their regular weaknesses back. I'm not s
  20. Mindlack
    Trubbish is also good for Acid Spray if I recall correctly. But if we’re speaking Bug types, I should also suggest Kricketune, who is (the) one Pokemon that’s absolutely great for all the early game.
  21. Mindlack

    Do you sometimes worry that your own stories will make you lose sleep? 

     

    I just wrote my protagonist into a pretty bad situation. It was planned a while ago, but funnily enough it’s more emotionally demanding than I thought. How am I going to sleep tonight? 
     

    But there’s actually a more fearsome question. He’s going to end up pretty quickly (after an emotional roller-coaster, doubtlessly) in even worse trouble – how will I manage to sleep then?

    1. Candy

      Candy

      I sleep 11-12 hours per night. I start thinking about me stories and somehow wake up 11-12 hrs later 😅

    2. Mindlack

      Mindlack

      I envy you... I'm never sleeping enough, because there's not enough time in the day to waste it on the Internet, write, and study at the same time...

  22. Mindlack
    Choice? What choice? I can’t see any choice anywhere. There always are obvious deci – (author: whisper whisper mumble) Oh. Er... Hi Evi! Nice new profile! Funny you mentioned a choice. Actually, the funny thing is, what you’re thinking of, well, it’s not the ma – (author: mumble mumble growl) What do you mean, you know where I live? Wait, where did you find that picture? .... .... Okay. (sigh). Got it. So Evi, that nutcase who wants to be called the writer insists that he
  23. Mindlack
    I think it is authorized... She’s weird, but not that kind of weird imo. Isn’t she supposed to be the smart one?
  24. Mindlack
    Wow, that was a worthy last ditch effort. Anthony sure didn't waste his time preparing for Unova champion. Perhaps it might have worked out if someone hadn't just reset his Pokemon. Am I the only one here that feels that Nastasia is way out of character in this scene though? I mean, in the plot of the game itself. After 11 new versions I still can't understand what on earth she's thinking she gains by sinking the ship and taking everyone on board. Especially if her sole purpose is to get Nancy.
  25. Mindlack
    Thank you for your comment @sayar! Regarding the pictures: well, my first step is to take quite a few pictures of the game itself. It can help for dialog, or to find room elements I'd like to use, or even because I like the background, tiling... anything I don't want (don't know how) to recreate from scratch. Then I use an image editing program (paint is a bit crude, but paint.net is nice, although it has its limitations) to add some more sprites to the overworld, or to remove characters which don't gain to be on screen. I also sometimes alter the buildings, and that's
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