[v13.5 Update | Testing Phase(s) has Begun!]

V13.5 has now taken longer than V13.

July 5th 2019 (V12) - July 16th 2021 (V13) = 742 days

July 16th 2021 - July 30th 2023 (today) = 744 days

[v13.5 Update | Testing Phase(s) has Begun!]

First, devs, what did you change in chapter 1 to make it not work, and why does that not carry over to chapters 2-5?

Also, it'll probably be a long time before I play 13.5, as my Reborn E19 run still has a long way to go. (played Rejuv V13 for 16 months from Jul '21 - Nov '22, then started Reborn in December. Only at 7 badges currently in Reborn after 7 months.)

 

16 hours ago, KrisFella said:

I am real happy and conflicted at the same time...i don't know wether to wait for a full release of the game or if i should play it right now.

Play it now! It's already so great as it is now, even without knowing how it ends.

[V13.5 Update | Progress Has Been Made!]

Congratulations! Though it'll be a long time before I play 13.5 because I'm currently slowly making my way through Reborn's final version for the last 5 months. It took me 16 months to finish Rejuv V13 (Jul '21 - Nov '22) and I'm currently only 5 badges into Reborn, so I don't anticipate that being complete anytime soon. Nevertheless, I can guarantee that I will eventually be playing 13.5!

also deso v6 eventually

 

Thanks!

[V13.5 Mini Update | Current Progress + Character Art!]

13 hours ago, CataclysmicDuck said:

I just found this game about a month ago, and just an hour ago finished V13. This is without a doubt the best Pokemon fanmade - or mainline game - I've ever played. Absolutely incredible storywriting, character development, plot twists (I'M LOOKING AT YOU RISA/RUNE/ZETTA .) Jan, you and the development team deserve all the praise you get and I understand that since it's a pokemon game you guys can't receive money (lest it be bombarded by TPC,) but I would give you all my money to help produce this if I could. You lot are all perfect human beings and devs ❤

You should know that you can contribute money to Jan on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/Janichroma

 

Also, no offense, but how intensively did you have to play to finish the whole storyline in 1 month?! It took me well over a year to play V13 from the beginning. I did do every sidequest, but even the main story is such a long one.

[13.5 Mini Update | New Team Members, New Aevian Form!]

2 hours ago, Zigzagoonfan said:

(probally except febas. If febas is still a gift after venam in 13.5)

It will not. I remember one of their previous posts (can't be bothered to find which one now) said that the Feebas "special gift" was only for V13. In future versions, I remember they said that Aevian-Feebas will only be available very late-game in some area we haven't seen yet.

[Balancing conundrums]

Is it too late to respond to the balance survey? I still haven’t completed V13 but probably only several weeks away, and I was planning to respond once I finished

[v13.5 Update | Balance Changes]

How are you changing

Spoiler

Rift Gardevoir

?

 

Also will Venam and early game gyms still have 6 Pokemon? I think that having to face a full team for a badge from the beginning is somewhat iconic for the 'hard' fangames like Reborn and Rejuvenation.

[Frostbite in Rejuvenation? Y/N?]

Voted no because I want to be able to get a lucky freeze to beat difficult battles, but why can't we have both? Have an easier, guaranteed frostbite move similar to Will-O-Wisp but keep the freeze chance on Ice moves like Blizzard.

[Regarding Intense Mode]

2 hours ago, Anstane said:

As someone who found the experience far more enjoyable on Normal than Intense difficulty, overall, I am perfectly okay with this decision. I am sure some people will not be happy, mainly those that only care for the challenge and not for the actual story, characters etc., but I am perfectly okay with this decision.

You beat me to it, I think the same! I started playing V13 on Intense but I switched to Normal at the Giratina fight in chapter 4 because it just got too difficult for it to be fun for me. The challenge of a difficult battle feels rewarding to beat up to a point, but the intense mode battles were getting past that point in difficulty for me. I am also playing mainly for the enjoyment of the story rather than for difficulty. I tried out Intense mode just to see what it was like (2 previous playthroughs on Normal pre-V13), but I decided it wasn't for me. I am on Chapter 8 now and am satisfied with the level of difficulty on Normal mode.

 

1 hour ago, EyesOnKindred said:

I think a better decision is keeping the intense mode but moving the current normal mode trainers' Pokemon set to intense mode, since all trainers in normal mode have already got fully EV trained Pokemon. Intense mode is unfair with illegal EV spreads, double mega-evolutions in battle, mega-evolving while holding other items, etc. And then, trainers in normal mode can have full but not fully EV invested teams so it is "reborn difficulty'. 

 

 

What do you think?

I don't really understand. This might just be me gaining experience on battle strategy and the like (I played Reborn first), but I think Reborn difficulty is equivalent to or slightly above the current Rejuvenation Normal mode, but you seem to imply that Normal mode Rejuv is harder than Reborn, which is not my experience.

1 hour ago, BJ7171 said:

At first I was pretty upset when I read this, intense mode is complete bullshit but thats what I loved about it. But then I realized that now I wont have to reconstruct my entire team for one fight, and I can just use what I want. So I'm alright with this.

Yeah, I am playing with the same team or sometimes switching out one of my Pokémon, but not more than that. The battles are satisfyingly challenging on Normal but still manageable. I stopped playing on Intense mode and switched to Normal in chapter 4 because the difficulty was getting to the point you mentioned that I would have had to train multiple new Pokémon for each major fight, which hurts the fun factor for me.

 

Overall, I would just like to tell Jan&co that we are the community, and we will continue to support you as long as you continue to support us with enjoyable releases of your games.

 

Best Wishes,

Shadow Angel

[v13 and MKXP]

15 hours ago, andracass said:

well, this post is basically an advance notice for the release

 

 

so..................

Can't wait for the 14th (presumably final riddle), and then release probably not long after!!!

GO GO GO

[Another package has been delivered!]

It's not just decoding the base64, it's actually encrypted somehow as well in a way that the site knows how to decode.

I played with the encryption on the same page with similar inputs and got totally different outputs:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA encrypts to uUpqkh5hTLhci/Ahlu3E9GoJkwevuSjYtCoeJC7obhM=

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB encrypts to VTyczwRvJaaTOM5LtG5ZcKE9s5j4VtyxBdig2uI7sYA=

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAC encrypts to ihumZYiqrmFC5xKIem1dc/hAuix7rUoBFgYAAReR8Iw=

They're totally different, not just the one letter off

[Another package has been delivered!]

I'm trying online-toolz and it doesn't work for me

 

What am I doing wrong?

[A package has arrived!]

44 minutes ago, farhantdm556 said:

wait saki has a twitter account???????

 

[A package has arrived!]

Just now, Ram Cxz 007 said:

one day passed in my country is it still 9

yes

[Testing the waters: a FAQ about V13's testing phase]

0% to 50% testing in 25 days, now just 50% more to go

[Why exactly is V13 taking so long? Well...]

 

On 1/3/2021 at 5:40 PM, farhantdm556 said:

JAN U HAVE BEEN WORKING TO HARD MAKING SURE THAT THIS FINAL CHAPTER IS TO BE PERFECT SO DONT STRESS URSELF OUT  AS FARE AS I KNOW UR GAME STORY IS BETTER THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE WHEN I FIRST SAW IT, WERE ALL PROUD OF HOW MUCH EFFORT U PUT INTO THIS GAME .....so please ounce ur done plz take ur time to relax and make sure to clear ur mind, u need it but what i should be saying is THANK YOU for making a game that i truly love most.

V13 will not be the finale of Rejuvenation, I think you're confusing it with Reborn E19. Rejuvenation will go until V16 or V17.

[Why exactly is V13 taking so long? Well...]

Hey Jan and everyone,

Am playing Desolation E5 while I pass the time for V13 and E19 ... would like to tell you all about how excited I am for the update!

Finished Reborn E18 almost exactly 2 years ago about at the end of 2018, 3 months after discovering the whole community, and started Rejuv shortly after at the beginning of 2019, and there I made a big mistake. While I now know that V11 was already out at that point, I downloaded V9 by mistake (I think you should put an obvious disclaimer on the old downloads to let people know that there is a newer release available.) I played through the whole game and only noticed I was playing V9 right at the end when I got the message that I was at the end of V9 content. I was about to update to V11 and continue that playthrough, but I got a new computer around that time and just kinda forgot about it. A year passes, then in early 2020 I find out that V12 released, and downloaded the correct version this time to start a new playthrough. I got as far as Teila resort before I started procrastinating continuing my playthrough throughout the pandemic summer and fall, with the election looming and all that (somehow I can even procrastinate doing things that I enjoy.) I kept thinking I would get back to continuing my playthrough, but never quite made the leap to resume after the months-long absence. Once I saw the news in the fall about V13 development, and saw how there would not just be much new content, but also a major revamp of the older content, and that it was being recommended to start V13 from the beginning once it comes out to experience the remastered older content and gen 8, I decided to put off Rejuvenation until V13 released and then start a new game. Thanks to my mistake back in 2019, I will be getting an extra special experience with V13, seeing the revamped older content and then experiencing the story of V10, V11, V12, and V13 all for the first time fresh, brand new, and mostly unspoiled.

I give my best regards to Jan and friends for making this great game, and everyone in the community for supporting each other through the events of the past year. Happy New Year everyone, hopefully 2021 will be lit by the end of these terrible times and lit up by us all. Here's to a better future!

 

Best Wishes,

Shadow Angel

 

ps jan i nominated you to get the award award award for surviving covid and everything, so you can thank me for that.