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Caz forgot to implement the buff in the new update, it will probably be back again for version 6 if he doesn't forget again.

Ava is an official gym leader in the game, and if I'm not mistaken, one of the stronger ones, meaning it would make most sense for the MC to collect other gym badges to get stronger before challenging Ava. The developers could put in a battle between the MC and Ava as just a casual friendly battle, but it would defeat the purpose of the Gym battle since you would already know you're more than capable of defeating her in an official gym battle, especially since we're already capped out at level 70 so there's not much you can really do that would make Ava spike in difficulty in a Gym battle. Soooooo basically the first battle with Ava will probably be a Gym battle with her somewhere nearing the end of our adventure, and perhaps the developers might add battles between the player and Ava following the Gym battle as friendly sparring matches, as well as being able to be re battled through the Battle Simulator built in the top floor of our mansion.

Hey man, don't ever feel pressured to get the game out as soon as possible by people who are "annoyed" at the release taking longer than they expected. You're developing this game for free, and are doing it solely out of passion and to provide the community with entertaining content. Take as much time as you need, because I know how it feels to have struggles with motivation and productivity, and working on fan games is no easy task. Otherwise, you've knocked it out of the park, these updates are really interesting to read and the new developments to older and new areas are beautiful. To you and the rest of the development team, keep up the good work!

I literally searched through all of Blackview and found her nowhere, I think the quest will be continued in episode 6, so right now there's no way to continue the quest, it just ends there.

Are you on the latest patch, 5.1? Last time I played, I remember that Garrett's goon would ask you if you wanted to travel to the EV training cave, you just wouldn't be able to access the basement itself, which I think was added in the latest patch and was not present in previous iterations of Episode 5. Otherwise, you can also go to Blackview City and teleport there via the teleporter in the Daycare if you purchased the upgrade through Mana. Also I think the Badges missing should have been fixed in 5.1, I've never experienced my badges missing when I played either.

I think it's stated somewhere in the journal entries in the Archives. I remember Aurora feeling pity for Kukui/Keegan as he was just foolishly following Shiv/essentially being used? I think it's in Journal Entry #5, the one you need the Archives Key to access.

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You don't, go to the bottom right of the Cellia Docks and find a sketchy house tucked away in a corner. If someone is blocking the house, that means you need to sleep in the hotel that was payed for you by Ava. After, once you return back to the house, there should be no one blocking the way. Once you enter the house, events will unfold and you will be allowed to enter Cellia City.

Hit the Windows key + R and then type in "Saved Games" (without the apostrophes of course), once you're in this folder, there should be another folder called "Pokemon Desolation". Once you click on this folder, there should be a bunch of files named for example: 1 - (Your characters name) - 0h 20m - 0 badges.rxdata There could be a lot of these files or very little, depending on the amount of backup files you allowed the game to generate in the settings. Once you find one that goes back to right before you got stuck, (a good one to look for is one quite a bit later than when you received the third gym badge) and then right click that file, hit rename, and then change the name to "Game.rxdata" (once again, without the apostrophes). Also make sure you delete the original Game.rxdata file before you do this. Next time you reload your game, your character will be where that backup save was made. And remember, make sure you do this on the latest patch, 5.1, so that you don't just run into the same problem again. If you still need any more help, let me know.

Hey! For future problems such as this one, please try and post it in the Troubleshooting section. Anyways, this problem should have been fixed in the latest update, which is 5.1. If the problem still persists, try asking again in the Savefile troubleshooting post in the Troubleshooting section and a developer can try and help, but yea, 5.1 should have fixed this problem. You can find the download here: EDIT: If for some reason the problem does persist, you can try and go to a backup save that occurs before you battle that grunt. Just make sure you're on the latest patch before you redo those events. It's fairly easy to do as well, but if you need some help with that, let me know.

Also next time you have a question like this please make sure to post it in the Discussions section and not the Manor section

Mega Evolution is possible right before the battle with the seventh gym leader, through a sidequest. However, you're very limited in the mons you can Mega at this point of the game.

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Just go the Discussions section and you can find two threads, one that outlines the availability of every Pokemon made by the developers themselves, and a fan made thread that details where and when you can catch every Mon available, they're both pinned as well so you'll find them somewhere near the top. As for mods, I don't believe there is a dedicated thread to that, but if you search around the internet I'm sure you can find some, but I am not sure if the developers are with/against the use of mods, so proceed with caution. ... and just for convenience I'll just directly link the guide anyways, but if you want to refer back to it you know where to find it.

If you did the Cellia Item Shop quest, you can buy Link Stones from the shop for a small price of credits. If you didn't do the quest, go talk to a lady at the Cellia Docks, I believe she's at the pier right above the boat that takes you from Blackview to Cellia.

Yeah, I saw Caz drop a reply in someone's story discussion thread so I hoped maybe one of the Devs would stumble upon this as well, but yeah, I'll definitely drop them a PM sooner or later if they never see this lol

Hey! So I was gonna ask this question in the Ask Us Anything Thread, but unfortunately, when I got around to doing it, the thread was locked So I'll just ask here and hope one of the devs see it. I wanted to ask about Aderyn's design in the game. As it is right now, she looks REALLY similar to the female ranger trainer class in Pokemon X and Y, with some minor differences like skin tone and hair color. Do you guys plan on updating her design in the future? So a redesign would probably also be worth the extra work? I also think her design hasn't changed all that much since episode 4 when Pokemon Desolation was just a one man team and Ruby Red hadn't joined yet to create a bunch of the new cooler designs. Unless this is an intentional design choice in which I would feel pretty stupid for making this thread. And if it is an intentional design choice, I don't mean to bash on it, it's just something that I was curious about since she made her first appearance in the game.