I would like to know this too. I posted asking if the patch effected shiny locks a while back and no one gave me an answer to it.
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ORAS General Discussion - Mark 2 - Spoilers Inside
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Just got the game today. Well worth shaving off an hour or so of my exam studies for. The exam isn't until... Monday... anyway. Oh well.
The opening - from the game intro to the actual opening scene - was awesome. Really well done.
Though, the start of your adventure was a little confusing, if you think twice about it. At no point were you specifically told "go out and explore Hoenn!" or "Travel the land and catch Pokémon!" or anything. It was as if you had to understand by yourself that you're free to go. Norman spoke about beating Gyms as if you had already been told that it was the purpose of your journey. All in all, your actual adventure had very little introduction.
It was a cute touch that when you meet up with Brendan/May on Route 103, you can see the actual bush and pond featured in the intro cinematic.
Also, the Dex Nav is so good that I immediately start worrying that GameFreak will leave it out of future games. They have had an ugly tendency to feature excellent concepts in each new game, only to completely forget about it in the next. Portable berry pots and toggle-able Running Shoes in HGSS, Secret Bases in RSE (made a weak return in D/P and was left out of B/W and X/Y completely), the Vs. Seeker in D/P, Dynamic background music in B/W/B2/W2, unique Gym music in BW2, and so on. For every good thing they introduce, they keep taking away something too. I really hope the DexNav will be a mainstay of Pokémon games in the future, but I don't keep my hopes up.
The opening - from the game intro to the actual opening scene - was awesome. Really well done.
Though, the start of your adventure was a little confusing, if you think twice about it. At no point were you specifically told "go out and explore Hoenn!" or "Travel the land and catch Pokémon!" or anything. It was as if you had to understand by yourself that you're free to go. Norman spoke about beating Gyms as if you had already been told that it was the purpose of your journey. All in all, your actual adventure had very little introduction.
It was a cute touch that when you meet up with Brendan/May on Route 103, you can see the actual bush and pond featured in the intro cinematic.
Also, the Dex Nav is so good that I immediately start worrying that GameFreak will leave it out of future games. They have had an ugly tendency to feature excellent concepts in each new game, only to completely forget about it in the next. Portable berry pots and toggle-able Running Shoes in HGSS, Secret Bases in RSE (made a weak return in D/P and was left out of B/W and X/Y completely), the Vs. Seeker in D/P, Dynamic background music in B/W/B2/W2, unique Gym music in BW2, and so on. For every good thing they introduce, they keep taking away something too. I really hope the DexNav will be a mainstay of Pokémon games in the future, but I don't keep my hopes up.
Yeah it's post patch that I got the Cobalion. Why the heck would they patch on the Shiny Lock now that they got rid of it?
I got my shiny Zekrom with a patched game.
Does Syncronize not work when SRing for Groudon? I've tried over a dozen times now and not once has it had the nature I would expect it to.
Exactly what I was worried about too. One the one hand, it keeps games from being too samey. On the other, if they added all of them, it would be amazing.
For some reason I can't help but think that they created Mega Audino just to make this pun.
You need a Pokémon that has maxed out its EVs to be able to battle the Sacred Swordsman. Do you have one?
If your StreetPass is on, I can't think of why you're not getting Mirage Spots.
Don't know if anyone has posted about this/discover this, this is life changing:
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I don't know if this was talked about yet, but can we check the natures of the gift Camerupt and Sharpedo. I find it extremely strange that I would get an Adamant Sharpedo and Quiet Camerupt, the best natures for them. Did anyone else get this, cause then we might see a locked nature?
Serebii says it's random.
CTNC
Doesn't know how to attack
Mine had the same natures. I don't think its random.
CTNC
Doesn't know how to attack
You used the one thing Serebii DID fix as an example. :P
How are the IV's? Any perfect/ideal ones for them? Are they locked to something specific like the gift Pokemon in X/Y, or just completely random? I'm not that far into my game yet, so I'm kind of curious.
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I never checked the IVs, I'll go do that now.
EDIT: Neither of them had any perfects. Camerupt's best one was Speed (lol) while Sharpedo's was Special Defense.
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How do you access the Secret areas(meadow, shore and islet)?
Speaking of fixed Natures, the Castform ingame always has a Lax Nature and always has a SpAtk IV of 31. The rest of the stats look random.
So completely random, then. Well at least the nature is helpful to them for breeding. And a free Sharpedo if someone isn't into soaring around on Lati@s. (but really, who wouldn't? That feature is AWESOME. Would rather regular Latios, but not complaining)
Well, now that the dust has settled (i.e. beat the game and important sidequests), I'm setting up the breeding environment. Those ORAS hatch locations are simply awesome! I'm definitely hatching a perfect Sharpedo at the Team Aqua Hideout.
The Mr. Bonding Origin story was extremely Dragonball Z - like. Very surprised with the outcome. New Mauville is disappointingly small, the Delta Episode was amazing (Should've been called Revelations lol) and the Super Single at the Battle Maison has some real hax. My Mega Gallade beat the normal single on its own, which surprised me.
Speaking of Battle Resort stuff, the tutors are very cheap and accessible this time around! 8 BP for each of the elemental punches? I'll take 'em all! And the Life Orb farming in route 120 is just insane. 2 Life Orbs in less than 5 minutes! Sorry, Maison clerks...I got another provider.
The Mr. Bonding Origin story was extremely Dragonball Z - like. Very surprised with the outcome. New Mauville is disappointingly small, the Delta Episode was amazing (Should've been called Revelations lol) and the Super Single at the Battle Maison has some real hax. My Mega Gallade beat the normal single on its own, which surprised me.
Speaking of Battle Resort stuff, the tutors are very cheap and accessible this time around! 8 BP for each of the elemental punches? I'll take 'em all! And the Life Orb farming in route 120 is just insane. 2 Life Orbs in less than 5 minutes! Sorry, Maison clerks...I got another provider.
It's actually terribad, because I got so used to the usual button order that now I'm always trying to withdraw pokémon :| But a great idea nonetheless.
Exploring. You'll need Dive to get to them, though.
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