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

I'm so excited I can't wait! But like, only metaphorically. Please take as long as you need :)

This looks great! Take your time, and thank you for your work!

Keep the Braviary thing, but make that happen for every encounter/battle!!!

Why are you making me want to start over from the beginning for a third time!? WHY MUST YOU TORTURE ME SO!?

Getting the notification that a new pokemon rejuvenation dev blog is out actually jolted me wide awake and its past midnight at the time of writing this lmao.

10/10, would play music while reading devblogs again

h-braviary is cute
ich liebe

Yooooo banger music alert 

We're almost there. I just know it.  Jan and team take it easy and make sure to take breaks in between.  :)

Me playing the waiting game for Testing

LET'S FREEAKIIIING GOOOOO!!

Oh my god! I can't wait! Keep up the good work Jan! If anyone gives you a hard time, just let me know okay? As a dev myself, looking at this makes me so happy that your update is almost coming out. Meanwhile, I'm over here working on v5. I'm so hyped for this! 

Jan is all of us, but not right now, new rejuv dev update 

Ugh, you and all your improvements to old parts of the game. It's so annoying how you do this and suddenly I have to start a new game so I can see absolutely everything that's changed and lose my mind about how good it is and how talented you are. Just really quite upsetting to me. And rude of you. Yeah, I'm definitely genuinely upset right now.

I remember playing V10 the first time around May 2018. So much has changed since then.

I'm surprised how Jan still likes Sewaddle, with so many bugs to fix, the Bug type would be my least favorite.

Good luck with the bugs infestation Jan, and thanks as always

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2. I have tears in my eyes, Jar made this read way too funny. Help.

3. You know I have an obsession when I've been regularly checking this page to the point where I've genuinely been practicing in RPG Maker just so I can one day be of use to this game and the dev team. I may not be Rejuvenation's oldest fan, BUT IM DETERMINED TO BE THE BIGGEST FAN.

The beckoning bucket brought boons and bounty (and bugs).

IT JUST ME OR IS SHE (MOM) 

ALIVE STANDING THERE I GUESS SHE WAS DEAD OR I AM FORGETTING SOMETHING TO  KNOW BTW I HAVE FINISHED THE GAME. JUST REMIND ME IF ANYONE KNOWS WHAT IS HAPPENING THERE 

15 minutes ago, nirmaan said:

IT JUST ME OR IS SHE (MOM) 

ALIVE STANDING THERE I GUESS SHE WAS DEAD OR I AM FORGETTING SOMETHING TO  KNOW BTW I HAVE FINISHED THE GAME. JUST REMIND ME IF ANYONE KNOWS WHAT IS HAPPENING THERE 

I think that's just Aevia's legacy sprite?

57 minutes ago, YouGotLittUp said:

 

I think that's just Aevia's legacy sprite?

BRO IT CANT BE HER SHE DOESNT WEAR A HAT 

That is my best friend. That's the man that I love, I love him like he's my brother.

THANK YOU JAN

2 hours ago, nirmaan said:

BRO IT CANT BE HER SHE DOESNT WEAR A HAT 

Yeah that's her legacy sprite. All the legacy sprites were upgraded into legendary sprites. Aevia is just one of the many legends. 

the fear in my heart when i read that we shouldn't update if we're on terajuma, knowing that i stopped playing right before angie

and the happiness i felt when i found out my pc managed to keep a save from when i was still in blacksteeple castle

no idea why it decided to make this jump in save file backup tho

really excited about the update, and hoping i can manage to keep my teila resort save 
you're doing great jan, keep up the good work~

Im super excited. I cleared the whole game up until v13 like 3 monhts ago. Will it be worth to restart the whole journey again? Or do I just start after Saki and then after I beat the whole game I try to start from the beggining. I fear It might be a bit of a repeat until I reach saki again. Awesome work tho, super excited!

1 hour ago, Charlyzard said:

Im super excited. I cleared the whole game up until v13 like 3 monhts ago. Will it be worth to restart the whole journey again? Or do I just start after Saki and then after I beat the whole game I try to start from the beggining. I fear It might be a bit of a repeat until I reach saki again. Awesome work tho, super excited!

It seems like all of Terajuma is getting a redesign, so it seems worthy of a replay to me.

I'm gonna die. Unless i restart anyway, since my current run is a mess.

21 hours ago, Kite Silvers said:

The beckoning bucket brought boons and bounty (and bugs).

IS THAT WHAT THE BUCKET MEANS -

Lmao I uninstalled my v13 just waiting for v13.5, so, not gonna die if I never was anywhere to begin with hah

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.

I've been waiting years for the opportunity to do so but i always held back myself saying to myself "just be patient until the full release of the game to enjoy it to the fullest instead of playing separate parts one by one"

Either way happy you are all still passionate about this big ass project after all these years

Can't wait for the full release :D

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.

21 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.

I've been waiting years for the opportunity to do so but i always held back myself saying to myself "just be patient until the full release of the game to enjoy it to the fullest instead of playing separate parts one by one"

 

Either way happy you are all still passionate about this big ass project after all these years

Can't wait for the full release :D

Bro just play it now, the game is already like 80 hours long

Where's the Patron friends?

The hype is always real when Jan gives us updates on the version of the game

Looks great!

Rejuvenation is one of my top games of all time

I'm wondering if I should just start a new game. Its only 70 hours of game data for where I'm at. Before anyone asks, yes I am indeed a Gamer to the core. I will no life the new update from start of the game to the end just to see what is new. It would be better than my save data just not working on the new update.

It turns out my first save was 53 hours in lmfao........ and now I'm sad because It was at badge 5. Now just realizing that cant be right, did it delete my old saves after I reached a certain amount?

16 hours ago, Battle-Dragoon20 said:

It turns out my first save was 53 hours in lmfao........ and now I'm sad because It was at badge 5. Now just realizing that cant be right, did it delete my old saves after I reached a certain amount?

 

Sort of. You have to manually set it up that way but after 50 save game states it starts deleting the oldest ones. If you make the backups say, 100, that tells the game to never delete backup saves. Default is 50, but you can make it go higher.

No clue if making more backup states make the computer lag at any point but still.

I like this update! Really gonna be a good one, though I imagine that since 13.5 is having the Terajuma story beats be accessible later (likely way later) than intended might cause some problems going to v14, needing to move it around and all. But I'm sure you guys will figure it out.

Surprised that the Hisuian variants are coming in though. I was under the impression that they would come v14 since 13.5 was more focused on the extra content and move pool wise making some of the pokemon have their SWSH DLC movesets. But if you guys managed to squeeze them in, then that works.

I have to ask for clarification though, it says that if you beat Saki you're fine, but are there any locations that you should avoid loading in (Terajuma being the obvious example) to avoid save file breaking? Like would Sashila Village be a good place to load in after the fact? Can answer that later since you guys wouldn't likely know at the moment.

Good luck in the meantime!

2 hours ago, VMeemes said:

I like this update! Really gonna be a good one, though I imagine that since 13.5 is having the Terajuma story beats be accessible later (likely way later) than intended might cause some problems going to v14, needing to move it around and all. But I'm sure you guys will figure it out.

 

Surprised that the Hisuian variants are coming in though. I was under the impression that they would come v14 since 13.5 was more focused on the extra content and move pool wise making some of the pokemon have their SWSH DLC movesets. But if you guys managed to squeeze them in, then that works.

 

I have to ask for clarification though, it says that if you beat Saki you're fine, but are there any locations that you should avoid loading in (Terajuma being the obvious example) to avoid save file breaking? Like would Sashila Village be a good place to load in after the fact? Can answer that later since you guys wouldn't likely know at the moment.

 

Good luck in the meantime!

They generally warn about places you shouldn't load from previous version in the post with new version, likely will be the same case here. 

Damn, I'm as excited for this release as I am for Starfield. Can't wait!

Also, I'm glad you give us info this early on where we shouldn't load, but I think I will start from the scratch to experience everything you prepared for us. I love your work!

Good luck and have fun while playtesting!

bucket is staying? more like bucket is slaying 

I dont wanna lose my data, I just got a shiny ditto 

On 7/10/2023 at 11:54 AM, nirmaan said:

IT JUST ME OR IS SHE (MOM) 

ALIVE STANDING THERE I GUESS SHE WAS DEAD OR I AM FORGETTING SOMETHING TO  KNOW BTW I HAVE FINISHED THE GAME. JUST REMIND ME IF ANYONE KNOWS WHAT IS HAPPENING THERE 

That's the player...... Looks like her mom isn't she....... Sorry for bursting the bubble 

Hello, new player here! Is it worth starting a new playthrough right now? Or should I wait for V13.5? Additional question, that last statement about where NOT to load from a patch implies that you could carry through your save file if you beat Saki (whoever that is). Is that statement true?

Glad to see this getting a relase date soon man been with this game since  think 2016 or so man great stuff. with this, desolation and reborn these games are the holy trinity for rpg maker fan games for me. again cant wat for more content god speed

On 7/9/2023 at 11:25 AM, stealth07 said:

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

1 hour ago, Shadow Angel said:

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

I'm getting used to it. All it needs is patience for V13.5, no matter how painful it is. Our impatience will turn into our bad karma.

Not Jan and the devs making me want to replay rejuv for a 6th time TwT...*SOBBING TEARS OF HAPPINESS BEEN PLAYING THIS GAME SINCE I WAS 13* (I'm 17 now) 

you guys should seek out this guy for help 

Hey everyone!!! I think it's exciting news that testing of the v13.5 update for Rejuvenation has begun! I'm excited about the progress and can't wait to dive into the new features. By the way, if you're into game development, you should check out Admiral Studios. They have a lot of interesting things going on there too! Here's the link: https://admiral-studios.com/ Happy testing, and let's share our thoughts on the update!