So it isn't in the game?
Yeah normal types where never that great but at least some were decent. Now they're almost all useless.
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SPOILERS! Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl Data Dumps
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Nope.
That's sort of the beast with gaming nowadays. You have the tremendous freedom to fix things that day one patches gives you, but the nature of how connected gaming is now to internet does create problems too. If you don't have easy access to the internet, you don't have access to the same fixes. At a certain point we have to ask is this a price we want to pay.
Don't treat this as me excusing the bug existing in the first place. This should have been something easy to fix or at least something they should have noticed before it went out. I mean how do you miss that?
The answer to this a lot of the time is "It was noticed, reported & put on the backog but for one reason or another could not be fixed"
I'm in QA for not-video-game software and that's how it usually goes, and from what I hear from QA for actual video games it's the same if not worse. Sometimes it's just seen as low priority, sometimes there's just time constraints, sometimes an incredibly simple bug winds up being weirdly complex on other angles, etc
Just how it is
This, I can confirm that during software development, *expecially* when you're in a "must have a early version asap" state, often you just pile stuff that "must be fixed but doesn't break the software" in backlog to fix at later date, and focus on actually making the software work in first place.
We're guilty of that as well, as much as I hate seeing the backlog of bug reports myself.
Considering they likely had to rush out the phisical copies in order for them to be shipped worldwide in time, also featuring Covid shenenigans, I am not *too* surprised the phisical copy has a lot of random imprecisions that still don't actually break it.
alright let's see what all did/did not get fixed/added!
"Oh, hey, cool, they got a Shiny Starly, that- oh. Oh. Ohhhhh. Oh, no. Oh, no, no."
Well we already know there's going to be another patch after this one so second time's the charm!
honestly i know we both jsut got off with talking about QA and how it usually works with this stuff but it is very funny to imagine them seeing the leaks and just oging "okay so that's still there...that's still there...shti they found that one move the time tables up jim-san"
Actually in general, while it's almost certainl coincidental (they needed to have most of this stuff like tweets and trailers and website updates, etc ready for a while) it is very funny how the first patch is out like, 2 days after the game has leaked in full
I am not 100% sure of this opinion, but I think the fact the leak got out might got them to get that out early and do a second day 1 patch, rather than bunch everything toghether in the first one.
Having part of the internet know that the game is in a bad state doesnt help non-preorder day1 sales.
Also there's I guess the fact reviewers will get their reviews out in the next days...
Speaking of illegal movesets, a Politoed in the Battle Tower has Eject Button, which doesn't have a sprite so probably isn't obtainable in these games. Unlike deleted moves though, deleted items might actually still be functional so don't get surprised by this cheater!
Wasnt there a similar case in SwSh, of a trainer having otherwise unobtainable items in the battle tower?
Yes someone had the razor fangWasnt there a similar case in SwSh, of a trainer having otherwise unobtainable items in the battle tower?
oops!
That's exactly the case. I don't work for QA but, working in a software company, I do witness such things.
People are like "Why don't they fix Heatran not disappearing into the mountain even though it says it does?" without realizing how utterly minor that is. And besides... it's better that it does not disappear, right?
Or when, in Sword and Shield, everyone was almost crying for blood when the "game crashes when there are too many moves in the Relearner list" glitch was discovered... even though it could only happen in two Pokémon (out of almost 500), and you had to give them a crazy amount of TRs. It just never crossed up their minds, as it was a very specific situation. Or it was too specific to be a priority for them.
Similar situations remind me of some complaints I often see in speedrunner environments, where people complain that "how could a company miss that if you do a triple backflip, pause the game, use a item from the menu, then remove the enemy aggro and then click the thing, you go out of bounds?"
Yep that's totally a issue that will happen during playtesting and even if it did is relevant enough to dedicate a full geodata rewriting.
So uhhhhhh...
Remember the Jirachi and Mew that you can get as save game bonuses for SwSh and LGPE?
You can get them as soon as you get to Floaroma. Damn near fell off my chair when I saw it.
Remember the Jirachi and Mew that you can get as save game bonuses for SwSh and LGPE?
You can get them as soon as you get to Floaroma. Damn near fell off my chair when I saw it.
Now that's more like it. Incredible indeed. Dare I even say... brilliant.
Yeah the website indicated as much when they didn't have the psot-game specification that shaymin had
Iam very pro this decision because they're given at level 1 i think, which is extremely rare for a legend give away much less a mythic, to be anything lower than like 30 half the time.
You know, I'm seriously considering using both in my playthrough now. I mean, if I'm about to "Gotta Use 'Em All!", why not add them?
ahhh, that makes sense.