[Rejuvenation v13 | Vague Clarity (Patch 13.0.5 is out!)]

Might be a stupid question but the Gearen sewers that geodude can be found in would be the same abandoned sewers in the early game correct? Just been running around for a bit after finding mankey in the park and have yet to run into a geodude and was wondering if I was in the wrong place possibly.

 

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54 minutes ago, Flammablefriend said:

this may be a stretch but could you put it in the game somewhere? I know there are some places you could put in passwords, such as the beginning with trainer info and the place in grand dream city?

Unless jan had this planned out when v12 came out I'd be highly suprised if it was the case. But who knows what it will end up being.

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I think this could all be refering to something Jan said in an old dev blog post about there being a special suprise for v13 due to the long wait. He did say it would be secret and this could all just be a teaser for it. I could, of course, just be misremembering or really far off base.

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

10 hours ago, Gino_8 said:

Beta won't take that long I think we can expect a community release in a few weeks

I mean the release depends entierly on how beta testing goes. It's easy to say the first phase took around 25 days so closed beta will take that long, and I certinally hope that is the case. It's just good to remember that unexpected stuff can come up.

[[Art update] The great Team Xen redux]

Torn between hype as hell for a (possible) release soon for v13, and keeping myself in check saying it'll be here when it'll be here lol.

 

Regardless the art looks fantastic as always, and your and all the devs work is super appreciated.

[Regarding V13 (Major Update!)]

14 hours ago, No name said:

 

If I remember correctly the Mega Ring was going to be given out during main story of V13. So it would be given out in part 1 of V13. (Unless the devs decide to change that for some reason)

ah thank you that answers my question!

[Regarding V13 (Major Update!)]

Take all the time you need and know that whenever both parts of v13 come out that it'll be well worth the wait. I know, that at least personally, it never bothers me how long the wait is because it just means a quality and well loved product is being produced. not to mention its always good to take care of oneself and others mental and emotional needs when building something. I hope you all  are able to stay safe and healthy as best you can!

 

if I can ask one question though, is I believe in a previous post or maybe back when there was a megathread there was mention of the mega ring being given to the player at some point as well as more megastones being made available to the player throughout the story. Is that still content planned to be added in v13, and if so which part?

[Crest Suggestions! (CLOSED)]

Vanilluxe crest: 

 

-one possible idea is because its got kind of the two head thing going on is that it's ice type moves have a higher chance of freezing the target while hail is up. I don't know if doubling it would be enough or raising it by a flat amount, so like either shifting ice beam and blizzard (and other ice moves) to 20% to freeze or giving them a flat boost of like 20/30% to 30/40%. Because that may or may not be enough there could also be an increase in vanilluxe's special moves damage against frozen targets by like 1.2 or something. I like this idea because I feel like the frozen status effect is something that is underutilized -especially in comparison to burn sleep paralyze and poison- and it would give vaniluxe a unique niche as a support or status inflictor that ice types don't really have.

 

-another possible idea is giving the player the option to mix and match two of its three abilities giving it multiple different playstyle options. having weak armor and ice body for example gives it a healing option after taking damage to get faster. I figure this could be kind of a nightmare to program so it may not be viable.

 

-I'd also second @Balthazar_Fang's idea about having an ice solar power of giving a 1.25 boost to special attack in hail in exchange for 1/8th or 1/16th hp.

 

Frosmoth crest: Since it has an ability to alleviate some of its defensive troubles already I would also give it a moxie like ability but for speed, or just giving it speed boost as an ability option to give it more viability in its speed tier.

 

Froslass crest: outside of other ice type form switchers (eiscue and G. darmanitan), weavile, and slush rushers (beartic and A. sandslash) froslass is one of the fastest ice types but that is all it has going for it. in response I would either:

 

-reinforce that playstyle by giving it a modifier that if it goes first its special type moves are given a damage boost 1.25/1.5 in power allowing it to hit harder.

 

-buff its role as an evasion mon by again saying that if it is the faster Pokémon maybe it has an extra evasion stage giving it more synergy with snow cloak, while still giving it counters in things that are either really fast or are hyper accurate/can't miss.