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Sword & Shield **Official news only** DLC Crown Tundra 22nd October
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Hopefully there’s cool stuff to do in them. Memorable puzzles, stories, environments, etc. I love the concept of an Open world area in a Pokémon game, but Open world games have also taught me to be wary of map sizes.
Just to follow on the comparison, BotW was a pretty game and its world was well thought out to facilitate exploration, but it definitely felt too big for its own good. Especially in the snowy region where it was mostly barren. Realistic perhaps, but not fun for a video game.
Just to follow on the comparison, BotW was a pretty game and its world was well thought out to facilitate exploration, but it definitely felt too big for its own good. Especially in the snowy region where it was mostly barren. Realistic perhaps, but not fun for a video game.
HOLD UP!
Did I just saw Raid D-Max Hoothoot NOT use a Max Move?
Did I just saw Raid D-Max Hoothoot NOT use a Max Move?
Someone on Reddit made an actual comparison between BotW's overworld and the Wild Area based on both maps and the E3 footage:
I hope not: i actually want to run Technician swift to cheese early game to bits
Maybe make it a priority move? It is called "Swift" after all. That's not just an English thing, as it's called Speed Star in Japanese.
Yung Dramps
awesome gaming
I had a more unconventional idea: Make it a Fairy type move. Stars have been associated with Fairies or moves commonly used by them like Wish. Making it a priority move as Pumpkinz suggested though? That could be even better!
I feel like a 60 bp special fairy move would just be outclassed by every other special fairy move. Priority would be essential. It'd basically be a more powerful fairy type vacuum wave, which sounds p good.
Fair point, but unless something changes it won’t have a good Ground-type move due to no tutors.
The Raid Boss Steelix in the E3 Treehouse video used regular moves too. I think it used One Max Move in the entire battle (Max Rock iirc)
It attacked Maractus rather than the Dynamaxed Grookey. Maybe Max Moves only trigger on other Dynamax/Gigantamax Pokemon? In other trailers we always saw Max Moves used on other D/G Pokes.
EDIT: Gameplay footage has shown that Max Moves can be used on regular mons.
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Yung Dramps
awesome gaming
Wow, that's... Actually a good point...
Is there any footage of a max move being directly used on a regular Pokemon? I still think they would've said this was a thing if it existed, but if your theory is true... Goodness gracious, that changes a LOT about this mechanic...
We saw in the Nessa demos that D-Max mons can use Max Moves vs regular mons.
Yeah, that's the most likely explanation. It's very interesting because you get to know what moves the mon has without relying on weird stuff like Dittos or Mimic.
Just watched a few of the trailers and the E3 Treehouse and the Steelix used Max Rock on a Ludicolo with no Dynamax Pokemon on the trainers' side. It then did not use any Max Move for the next two turns, though it did use 2 moves per turn. So it's either a "One Max Move per Raid Battle" situation or "One Max Move every X number of turns".
Yes?
Raid Pokemon can chose between two(?) normal moves, and Maxed ones. We saw that in the E3 demo
Fake Edit: it seems i am late.
Well, that would be a bit messy. Offensive MAX moves are always the same, and have usually better secondary effects that the normal ones, but that would imply a Maxed pokemon using a status move but Max-Guard.
... Except if Max Guard is an exception. And there are non-Max offensive moves with different utility effect: for example, the Absorb line. And
Being forced to use the Maxed moves when there is an use for the non-Maxed ones would be messy. It would make getting better a worse state.
Honestly? Thank Arceus. I never used Rare Candy in games until the very end because I knew it wouldn't be worth using them early on, so this means it can actually fulfill its intended purpose of using it almost as soon as you get it.
Interesting, I wonder if they are replacing Wings/Vitamins with candy too? As long as it doesn’t work like Let’s Go EVs.
also what is the context of that pic? Why do they have a level 45 Corviknight but level 12 - 18 everything else, including all 3 starters?
Crazed attempt to not show its pre-evolutions.
(Which is odd, considering such a thing never happened with the regional early bird)
This was confirmed in Nintendo Treehouse (Which is where this screen is from). The only new footage shown to us today is some stuff from the wild area with the combees and running around with other players. A lot of the video reviews are using old footage form other trailers.
Judging by the Nessa demo, they all turn into Max Guard. RIP Deoxys-D.
This is a pretty clever and organic way to implement tutorial skipping into the game. We all agree that tutorial skipping has been one of the obvious missing elements, and the way they could have done it is to have a selection screen with
1. Enable all tutorials
2. Enable only tutorials for new mechanics to Sword/Shield
3. Disable all tutorials
But in a lot of ways I actually like their method better. The above method, while effective, is a bit clunky, and the majority of people will catch a Pokemon at that initial part. Given that they've shown we're able to skip multiple tutorials, it's possible that they could've implemented some way to have tutorials autoskipped if it's detected that you've played through the game already, making repeat playthroughs more fluid. That would be awesome.
1. Enable all tutorials
2. Enable only tutorials for new mechanics to Sword/Shield
3. Disable all tutorials
But in a lot of ways I actually like their method better. The above method, while effective, is a bit clunky, and the majority of people will catch a Pokemon at that initial part. Given that they've shown we're able to skip multiple tutorials, it's possible that they could've implemented some way to have tutorials autoskipped if it's detected that you've played through the game already, making repeat playthroughs more fluid. That would be awesome.
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