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Delta Stream not working on nuclear is something I can forgive, because nothing has delta stream normally and its presence is somewhat confusing. Nothing uses ORAS abilities. Why add them?
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Pokemon Essentials team adds all the stuff from ORAS into Essentials. They probably hard-code Delta Stream resistances because it's simple to do so. Uranium guy downloads the new Pokemon Essentials release to add some new thing to his game, and Delta Stream comes with it. He's implemented his nuclear type long before now, and making it work rules-as-written with Delta Stream means he would have to alter Delta Stream's ability code. It would be a very simple hard-code fix, but why would he care, or even think to fix an ability that isn't used in his game at all? It's not an issue.
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Apr 20, 2017 20:19
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I'm really gonna go ahead and guess that it's supposed to be coded as 'if SE, then nullify' and that Pokemon Uranium is not accurate to The Real World.
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Apr 20, 2017 21:36
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Bogart posted:I'm really gonna go ahead and guess that it's supposed to be coded as 'if SE, then nullify' and that Pokemon Uranium is not accurate to The Real World. No, it's type dependent. Otherwise Mega Rayquaza would lose its Dragon weakness.
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Apr 20, 2017 22:33
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 A strange man is here and talking like he's very familiar with Good Human Hokage Dick Solomon!  Just kidding, it's Theo. Wait, Theo!? He looks like he's 20! How long have I been lost in that ice cave?! Just compare his two sprites.   And the game claims it's just an outfit change?  Other gyms just give TMs and event flags, but this one also gives a real special thing. The 6th generation Pokemon games gave mega evolution about 1/3 to 1/2 through, so it's kinda weird for Uranium to shoot so close to the end. But then again I've had the Gyaradosite for a while so maybe it knew what I'd do...?  A guy runs out to inform that this gym is taken two at a time.  But we're split up until the leader. What happens if someone drops out early, is the other person doomed? Nothing in this gym really shows that it's supposed to be done by two at a time. It's mostly just an excuse for Theo to also get to mega evolve things.  It has five rooms that range from braindead simple to annoying in all the wrong ways.  The Power Glove does it just right. Kinda weird how no one but the Tinkerer acts like it's possible to use the HMs' field functions without having a Pokemon learn the move. Almost as if it's a disparate part of the game bolted on at some point in its nine-year development cycle that wasn't accounted for in the editing.  It just so happens that this trial tests a quality with the same name as its solution. There isn't a trial of Surf.  Surprise! Another boulder puzzle. This one is annoying because you can't see the third row without comitting on the first, which might screw you up.  Afterwards is this guy who uses a bunch of easily-bested dragons.  Trico evolves into its second form by happiness. A bunch of drugs and then the experience share get him there real fast.  After that is the Dawn Stone and he's a full-fledged Luxelong. Unlike a lot of Uranium things, it has a reasonable BST distributed reasonably, and fairy/dragon's offensive and defensive presence with Wish and Baton Pass give it a few tricks.  The second trial is...  A maze. Next!  The trainers have different colors. I don't know why.  ...A 3-legged electric buzzard. Weird for an electric/flying thing to be in a gym with an ice/dragon leader, but ok.  Adaptability, and not the ability.  By adaptability they mean not telling you that you need an HM for this in advance despite naming Strength in advance.  Not even another Tracton can stop MEGAWEAPON!  The fourth trial is forcing school children to pray to Allah 7 times daily.  Just kidding it's another "push a button to see a path light up" thing like Sheldon's gym.  Except it is infinitely more windy and complicated and failing requires going through the first! And this is still RPG Maker XP forced to run Pokemon so movement still isn't precise.  Thank gently caress these games let you save everywhere, eh?  ...Yeah sure, that's intimidating. It was weird when a cutie like Shinx does it, but this is just kinda stupid.  Well there's the instructions.  Not sure if there's a trick involved but there's no reason to not just hold up.  That's how I have been doing it, so this is no big deal.  Okay, no items is one thing, but clearly you aren't even using a Pokemon. Guess the typing: it's Ghost/Fire  Having passed the trials, we□re allowed to challenge the gym leader.  Foreshadowing: there will be at least one trainer with mega evolution who is not pure of heart and filled with determination.  The way he yells about it, you'd think he's a dragon specialist through and through.  The antlers and the fur around his shoulders really resembler fafurr's so maybe the ice/dragon thing was planned from the start. OFSelects: Converge - Jane Doe  Maybe it's just me, but his key stone staff is somewhat obviously added to an already existing sprite, both for the vs splash and here.  Unlike prior gym leaders, this is a partner battle, and Theo finally has a full team of six.  Zapnap's electric return takes out the Glavinug instantly. This battle is in constant hail, just thought I'd bring that up.   Play Rough is the sole physical fairy move, but it's decent enough. That 90% accuracy is painful through and through, though.  Then Nimflora gets punted with Skyfall.  Theo's sixth member is his own Nucleon. It's the only member of his team that doesn't change depending on starter, actually.  Zapnap's Rock Slide does a number to both opponents.  And Theo's Nucleon has Hyper Voice. Devs Knew.  Pfft, okay sure maybe Fafurr's evolved form Fafninter is pretty beefy-looking, but-  Oh. Well then. Vaeyrn's Fafninter has Fur Coat, so besides its massive 590 BST, it is halving all physical damage. It's tough as beans.  MEGAWEAPON takes out the Anderind, to prevent it from doing anything with its Ground STAB.  Vaeryn's last Pokemon is a doofy little Ampharos, but he doesn't say this in jest.  When a trainer has a key stone, and their Pokemon holds a corresponding mega stone, some poo poo can go down.  The Ampharos is enveloped in massive light and-  ...well okay Mega Ampharos wasn't meant to be a sprite and it wasn't meant to look angry. But it has Mold Breaker to go through abilities and Electric/Dragon typing.  All other things equal, Iron Head is better to use than Dragon Calw because of the flinch chance. Fafninter probably would've caused problems if it got to do something.  Mega Ampharos has a 165 base special attack, so its Thunderbolts blow straight through Theo's Vilucard.  MEGAWEAPON finishes off the Fafninter on the next turn, leaving Mega Ampharos alone.   Dragon Pulse, like Dragon Claw, is a move with no side effects and a relatively meh power. But, you know, 165 base special attack.  Duke Nukem prods its x4 weakness to Nuclear and obliterates it in a Hyper Beam, and with that, Dick Solomon and Friend have triumphed. A total slugfest, to be sure.   An Uranium-original move, it sounds extremely strong, but Uranium's dragons are the kind that want to throw giant haymakers immediately or buff themselves, rather than use a weak move to make the next hit harder.  More importantly, the power of Mega Evolution!  Theo picks his Archilles, but instead of being forced to take our starter's stone, we get to choose. Thing is, every mega evolution I want to use but one is available before the post-game elsewhere, and in fact I have most of them.  The exception is Syrentide. But you get a free mega stone of whatever you pick here, so Porkyus gets the nod.  So rather than having to wait for her's, or just not showing it, I get it much earlier.  Oh, and the rival also got a superpower.  Of course we have to throw down right here, right now.  Just. New. Clothes.  When you've met the conditions, this icon appears in the corner. Press Z before selecting a move to unleash the power. You only get one a battle, but you can have as many things holding mega stones at once as you want.  Mega Archilles is much faster - fastest non-inflagetah lifeform in Tandor - and has a boost to its Special Attack to match getting Drought as an ability. But the ambient hail takes priority, it seems.  Porkyus becomes even more loving indestructible. And her special attack becomes pretty good too. Nothing to her attack and speed, but, did we ever care about those?  She shrugs off a STAB Earthquake and OHKOs back. 98/128/158 defenses do that.  Her ability is now Pixilate, which turns Normal moves into Fairy. Certainly not as busted as Atomizate, but as anyone who's tried 6th gen OU can attest, pixilated Hyper Voices are no joke.  Not even STAB Giga Drains can take her down.  It takes weather's fixed damage to finally get her.  Nucleon takes down Chainite and gets into a mirror match, but...  The AI script only sees the damage off of 130 BP and not that it hasn't met the condition (I know because I looked at the AI script) so it does nothing while Duke Nukem gets to it.  Yeah go straight and gently caress invisible mazes. Eat poo poo I'm just gonna use my new superpower frivolously. Incidentally...  The power of Mega Evolution is activated by the bond of trust between trainer and Pokemon. Rad Pokemon can still mega evolve, even though they're feral killing machines barely restrained from trying to kill their own trainer.
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Apr 21, 2017 20:11
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Silverport's clothing store must be in a time rift or something, geez.
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Apr 21, 2017 20:51
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Surprisingly, Mega-Archilles doesn't look like poo poo. I'm impressed. Letting you pick your mega stone seems like it kind of misses the whole point of having the starters mega evolve, though. But then waiting so late to be able to mega-evolve means that you already have quite a lot of stones anyway, which also feels like a balance issue. Sure, Theo, new clothes. That's all.
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Apr 21, 2017 20:51
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Just a random question that has no importance whatsoever. Do you still have a nuclear Arbok? 
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Apr 21, 2017 20:52
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What the heck kind of clothes store did Theo shop at?! Also I think calling him "Friend", is a stretch 
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Apr 21, 2017 20:52
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Oh since we'll never see it properly (since PUSSYMASHER is dead): Metalynx's entire animation cycle since I didn't want to edit it, as context for:  Mega Metalynx. It gets Heatproof, putting fire damage at x2 instead of x4. Instead of the strictly better Flash Fire or Thick Fat, it just has one of its weaknesses made less bad. Yay?
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Apr 21, 2017 21:01
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Something annoying about this gym is that from the beginning until you reach the gym leader, you can't run off back to the pokemon center and heal. So like, if you're getting screwed by the lovely experience curve (or that hold item glitch like TieTuesday was), you're gonna have to redo the gym, repeating the same trials until you reach the gym leader. Or go grind off of the route before hand for a million years.
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Apr 21, 2017 21:02
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Why does their mega ampharos sprite have fingers
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Apr 21, 2017 21:10
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It looks like they changed Theo's sprite so they could use the copy paste animation of throwing the Pokeball for the double battle, since he's too small otherwise and that would involve making a new animated sprite woaaaaaaah. Or maybe this journey is longer than you realize and you actually left your house like 2 years ago.
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Dr. Dos posted:Why does their mega ampharos sprite have fingers  Huh. Good question. Crosspeice posted:It looks like they changed Theo's sprite so they could use the copy paste animation of throwing the Pokeball for the double battle, since he's too small otherwise and that would involve making a new animated sprite woaaaaaaah. He was a partner for Comet Cave, so they already had a partner sprite for that.
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Apr 21, 2017 21:15
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Nine freakin' years - you'd think that'd have been enough time to fix sprite proportions so they don't look like complete and utter crap Theo's revamp looks awful, although I do prefer his tweaked VS sprite over his original
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Apr 21, 2017 21:20
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Wow, they really did not like the grass starter one bit, huh?
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Apr 21, 2017 21:30
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Theo clearly went to shop in the same place that Rydia learned how to Summon. 
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Apr 21, 2017 21:32
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Correction to your update, OFS: kids are forever to pay to Allah 5 times a day. 6 onwards is the kid doing their own thing.
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Apr 21, 2017 21:38
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Vinylshadow posted:Nine freakin' years - you'd think that'd have been enough time to fix sprite proportions so they don't look like complete and utter crap It took nine years, and this game is hard, so maybe Theo aged  gently caress if I know. I kinda like Mega Metalynx (even if I can't see the animation, or it's that subtle). Yeah, it's edgy as gently caress, but the entire line looks like a solid Pokémon out of all of the starters. Except for the whole Mega evolution thing these guys have going for them.
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Dinictus posted:I kinda like Mega Metalynx (even if I can't see the animation, or it's that subtle). The Mega doesn't animate. The Golux fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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Apr 21, 2017 21:46
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Dinictus posted:It took nine years, and this game is hard, so maybe Theo aged 
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bman in 2288 posted:Correction to your update, OFS: kids are forever to pay to Allah 5 times a day. 6 onwards is the kid doing their own thing. I thought the fearmongering tweet was 7 times but it was 5. I'm going to claim 7 anyway as that's the thing to do.
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Apr 21, 2017 21:49
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Jade Rider posted:Silverport's clothing store must be in a time rift or something, geez. Dick Solomon clearly got Rip van Winkled in the ice cave.
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Apr 21, 2017 21:52
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I think I had that Beast Wars toy
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Apr 21, 2017 22:03
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I may have terrible opinions about what may or may not constitute a Good Design in Pokémon 
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Apr 21, 2017 22:08
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I'm kind of glad I stopped playing just before this area. It looks terrible.
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Apr 21, 2017 22:07
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:He was a partner for Comet Cave, so they already had a partner sprite for that. You think I have room to remember anything that happens in this game past the most recent update?
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Apr 21, 2017 22:12
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Crosspeice posted:You think I have room to remember anything that happens in this game past the most recent update? You'd better, I still have so many chekov's guns still on the mantle. He's all like, "where are my many guns?"
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Apr 21, 2017 22:24
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:You'd better, I still have so many chekov's guns still on the mantle. He's all like, "where are my many guns?" Chekov's Armory; Consisting Primarily of Poorly Thought Out Plot Points
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Apr 21, 2017 22:24
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The Unlife Aquatic posted:Chekov's Armory; Consisting Primarily of Poorly Thought Out Plot Points One of these Plot Points which is so important, it's entirely optional, and changes absolutely nothing for getting it!
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Apr 21, 2017 22:32
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They say that clothes make the man Theo. That doesn't mean they actually do that. Why did they actually do that.
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Apr 21, 2017 22:55
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So what happens if you don't have anything in your party that can mega evolve here? Do you just get screwed out of the free stone?Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:It gets Heatproof, putting fire damage at x2 instead of x4. Hey now, Heatproof isn't totally obsolete! It's the only one of those abilities that halves burn damage!
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Apr 21, 2017 23:02
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Luxelong looks like a dragon corgi
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So, the odds that kid Theo and teen Theo are from different stages in development that they just duct taped together are...?
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Cattail Prophet posted:So what happens if you don't have anything in your party that can mega evolve here? Do you just get screwed out of the free stone? I'm curious about this as well; with how "good" the game has seemed in past updates, I wouldn't be surprised if it soft-locks you into a "pick which pokemon" menu.
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Apr 22, 2017 00:48
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Raserys posted:So, the odds that kid Theo and teen Theo are from different stages in development that they just duct taped together are...? it's possible they wanted to convey character growth but not have a clue how to do that organically, but yeah its pretty likely two different concepts for theo just got smushed together terribly
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Apr 22, 2017 00:50
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Nihilarian posted:Luxelong looks like a dragon corgi  Uranium's version kinda looks like a younger Drampa 
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Apr 22, 2017 00:53
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Rainuwastaken posted:Wow, they really did not like the grass starter one bit, huh? I like how they didn't actually put flowers on it, they just made its skin pattern be a grandma couch print. The final insult.
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Congratulations! Your Theo evolved into Teeno!Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Oh since we'll never see it properly (since PUSSYMASHER is dead): I could have sworn it had Flash Fire. Was it changed at some point?
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Now that the Persona 3 LP has started, I keep of thinking of that Theo when people are mentioning this Theo. This would be a much better game if the rival was P3P!Theo.
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