[E17] [SPOILER] A certain Pokémon programmatically can't appear where it should

[Aironfaar 62]

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Hullo. While strolling through E17 on a new playthrough, I decided to peek at some of the game's internals via RPG Maker XP.

I found that there's a switch to turn Blitzle (the one you can find to the left of the first arena during stormy weather) into a Wimpod instead, which seems to be initialized along the other variables and switches for "one out of a selection" types of overworld encounters after the first Victoria battle in the Great Hall.
However, the initialization for this switch looks like this (Pseudocode incoming):

Free X := Random(0,1)
If Free X = 1 Do
	actually a wimpod/10 := true
	actually a wimpod/10 := false
Else
	actually a wimpod/10 := false
End If

So, unless the switch gets flipped somewhere else, it's currently impossible to get a Wimpod from that overworld event. I hope this helps.

 

[Marcello 436]

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That's on purpose. Wimpod was available there in Alpha and then it was decided that that was WAY too early for such a good mon, so we deleted the possibility of Wimpod being available in that event (but didn't see much point getting rid of what was left of the event if it could never be triggered.)

 

tl;dr, this is intentional because we axed this event during earlier testing stages.

 

 

[Aironfaar 62]

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Oh, I see. I don't know much about which critter is good and why, so I actually didn't consider that. Thanks for the quick response and clarification! Should I report this kind of thing in the future anyway, just in case something isn't intentional after all?

 

[Marcello 436]

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Absolutely! Always better to report something that might not be a bug than not report something that is. Nothing is lost from reporting something that might turn out to be a nonissue, but if people don't report things they'll never get fixed if they ARE bugs!

 

[Aironfaar 62]

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I'll do that, then. Who knows, maybe my code delving shenanigans will be good for something. Thanks for supporting this rather unusual playstyle, by the way! That the source code is openly available is pretty darn awesome.