[Completed] Pokémon Rising Earth

[obito2009]

How can I get "Dusk Form Lycanroc" in this game?

 

[you're a worm]

Well there's the one I used in development, but that ones pretty messy. Let me know if it helps, I might make a cleaner one at some point.

This one works just fine, thanks.

Also, I experienced an issue that caused a broken loop and had to reload the game (fortunately I had just saved). I just teamed up with Orson in Castaway Cavern and got into a double battle. I used the move Dragon Darts when we were down to one target and an error keeps coming up. I attached the screenshot.

 

[Corveone]

I continue having a lot of fun with this game, got my eight badge yesterday :)

A few issues I'd like to mention:

1) The AI usage of Full restores is weird. It's kinda hard to explain so I better just leave that video to show it (1:50 and 2:12). No idea what causes it but honestly I think the game would be better without them, because sometimes the way the AI wastes its turns healing for no reason just makes things actually easier for the player.

https://youtu.be/rcFGkl3foW4

2. Synthesis fails during harsh sunlight.

3. Game crashes when trying to open the menu while on Safari Zone.

 

[Never_this_again]

How can I get "Dusk Form Lycanroc" in this game?

You do actually need the special Own Tempo Rockruff, which is currently not in the game due to me not realizing I need to put it in; I might make Dusk Form Lycanroc a special encouter in the future, but as of now it's not obtainable.

This however solved another mystery for me, namely what caused the crash that Vizier reported a bit ago. Opening the game at night with a Rockruff in your party causes it to crash; I'm gonna work on a fix but I don't know how fast I can deliver.

Also, I experienced an issue that caused a broken loop and had to reload the game (fortunately I had just saved). I just teamed up with Orson in Castaway Cavern and got into a double battle. I used the move Dragon Darts when we were down to one target and an error keeps coming up. I attached the screenshot.

Noted, gonna take a look at that.

I continue having a lot of fun with this game, got my eight badge yesterday :)

Thanks, glad you're enjoying it.

1) The AI usage of Full restores is weird. It's kinda hard to explain so I better just leave that video to show it (1:50 and 2:12). No idea what causes it but honestly I think the game would be better without them, because sometimes the way the AI wastes its turns healing for no reason just makes things actually easier for the player.

That is very weird for it to use the Full Restores like that; Maybe I'll test it out with Hyper Potions, if that makes any difference, but using it to heal hail damage is like really stupid.

2. Synthesis fails during harsh sunlight.

That I didn't know, and that's bad. I'll take a look at it.

3. Game crashes when trying to open the menu while on Safari Zone.

Maybe has something to do with the Pause Menu script; Noted, I'll take a look.

 

[Michaelkami]

Hi! I've been playing this game for the better part of a week and a half, and it really has been quite engaging!

I just had a quick question - are the EV training items in this game? If so, where are they?

Thanks so much. This game has been a ton of fun and each of the battles have been clever in their difficulty, which I appreciate so much.

 

[Never_this_again]

Hi! I've been playing this game for the better part of a week and a half, and it really has been quite engaging!

I just had a quick question - are the EV training items in this game? If so, where are they?

Thanks so much. This game has been a ton of fun and each of the battles have been clever in their difficulty, which I appreciate so much.

Thank you, I'm glad you're enjoying the game!

The Power items can be won from an NPC on Route 5, which you can access after the 8th Gym.

 

[werhsdnas]

Why do some of the elite four members have -Def/SpD natures?

 

[jeffrey1667]

game crashes for me during the dialogue after i beat the warden of victory road... Could you see if you could provide a fix for this, please?

 

[Sparhawk55]

Is it possible to get a mediafire version of the download? My computer doesn't run MEGA anymore cause it's old as heck.

 

[Corveone]

I just cleared it :), so here's my final thoughts/feedback.



What I loved:

Spoiler:

-Amazing Pokémon availability, plus all the 100+ TMs & Move tutors, and items for competitive strats all available before the Elite Four, making Team building so flexible and fun. No need to wait until post-game to build a decent team, or worry about your Pokémon not being able to get X move, item, or Ability. Oh, and even Mega stones! (although I didn't use them because I think having both Bibarel and a Mega on the same team would be too OP)

-Well balanced level curve and game flow. I guess that would probably vary depending on your mons' growth rates but I personally never needed to grind against wild Pokémon, except obviously when adding new Pokémon to my team. In fact, I actually had to toggle Exp. Share off quite a few times to prevent overlevelling. And even if you do need to grind, it's easy with the exp. share and the Pokémon Center training feature. Wild Pokémon are also properly balanced with the level curve.

-Lots of challenging trainers with smart team compositions, great synergies and movesets. Unfortunatelly though, the AI doesn't allways does them justice, like occasionally using Full restores to heal wheather/Stealth Rock damage or randomly picking the wrong moves, but I guess that's an Essentials' issue. Game is challenging but mostly fair and it feels rewarding, plenty of hard battles that require strategy to beat, and will also give you really cool stuff upon beating them.

-New region, a plus for me. And rewards exploration, with allways good new stuff to do and find on every new route/town.

-Good in-game and battle engine that doesn't lag, and turbo mode is allways welcomed.

What I think could be improved:

Spoiler:

-Have to grind if you want favorable natures. Considering that you can get Ability Capsules halfway through the game, and even Ability Patches after the eight gym, the lack of nature mints or an NPC that changes natures is strange.

-HMs. There are a couple of late game areas (including a segment of Victory Road) that require two or three HMs to navigate through. Being forced to have an HM slave or delete good moves to make room for these can be annoying and restrictive in the late game, when trainers with full teams, megas, double battles, and competitive movesets are everywhere.

-Mandatory trainers. I think there should be a little more freedom because almost every trainer in the game is non-skippable. This can get tedious at times, especially in the late game. Sometimes the player might not wish to battle everything to prevent overlevelling, or to avoid constantly going back to a Pokémon Center after every battle unless you spend a lot of money on potions and revives, especially if you're in a cave or long route.

-EV training. Power items are obtained after the eight gym, which seems a bit too late considering the game's difficulty curve. I think the moment when the game says something like "There won't be more easy battles from here onwards", somewhere around the 6th or 7th gym would be a better time.

Totally recommended game overall. Would definitely do another playthrough with a different team in a future. Congratulations and thank you for all the work you've put into it.

 

[Never_this_again]

Why do some of the elite four members have -Def/SpD natures?

There's only two that do; Both are mixed attackers so there's no unused attack stat that can be safely lowered. Def/SpD is the next best thing.

game crashes for me during the dialogue after i beat the warden of victory road... Could you see if you could provide a fix for this, please?

Can you be a little more specific? Did this happen only once or does it keep happening? What's your exact gamestate? Can you provide a screenshot of the error message?

Is it possible to get a mediafire version of the download? My computer doesn't run MEGA anymore cause it's old as heck.

I could swear I've seen you ask that before; I'm gonna put the mediafire download I did in the OP. It's also always gonna be updated along the mega link anyhow.

-Have to grind if you want favorable natures. Considering that you can get Ability Capsules halfway through the game, and even Ability Patches after the eight gym, the lack of nature mints or an NPC that changes natures is strange.

The thing is I did most of the game without Gen 8 being available, that was only added after the fact, so I never really thought about a place to sell mints at; I think I'm gonna put someone in who sells them, just gonna think about where.

-HMs. There are a couple of late game areas (including a segment of Victory Road) that require two or three HMs to navigate through. Being forced to have an HM slave or delete good moves to make room for these can be annoying and restrictive in the late game, when trainers with full teams, megas, double battles, and competitive movesets are everywhere.

That issue has been on my radar for a while and I thought about using HM Items instead of actual HMs, but there wasn't a working script for Essentials V19 until recently. But now that there is, I'm gonna add it eventually.

-Mandatory trainers. I think there should be a little more freedom because almost every trainer in the game is non-skippable. This can get tedious at times, especially in the late game. Sometimes the player might not wish to battle everything to prevent overlevelling, or to avoid constantly going back to a Pokémon Center after every battle unless you spend a lot of money on potions and revives, especially if you're in a cave or long route.

Making most trainers mandatory was what I did to make the steep level curve work, especially in the early game; I might be able to give a little levity in the late game, but I'll have to have a look.

-EV training. Power items are obtained after the eight gym, which seems a bit too late considering the game's difficulty curve. I think the moment when the game says something like "There won't be more easy battles from here onwards", somewhere around the 6th or 7th gym would be a better time.

I might move the NPC that gives them to Route 7 instead of 5.

Totally recommended game overall. Would definitely do another playthrough with a different team in a future. Congratulations and thank you for all the work you've put into it.

I'm glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the thorough comments!

 

[you're a worm]

Someone else already mentioned this, but I am also unable to get past the Victory Road Warden. I think there's a typo in the item name Salamencite which is causing it. See Error Report 1, attached.

There's also a glitch that caused my game to crash in the Pokémon Centre before Victory Road, and the chap that offers to teach "Psychic Blade". I thought you had introduced a new move, but maybe it's a mistranslation of an existing move, such as Psycho Cut? See Error Report 2.

I also noticed a bug in Safari Zone, when you come back south through the gate from the Island (North of the first rest house, where there's a dive spot), you are put 1 tile behind the entrance that takes you to the Island part of the map. So when you step forward (away from the gate) it thinks you are entering the gate and sends you back to the island. I was basically trapped on that island until I used all my steps/balls. When I tried to use the menu I got an error message, see Error Report 3, attached.

Looking forward to getting past the Elite Four :]

Also, I've been taking note of some typographical/grammatical errors in the NPC's dialogue throughout the game, so please let me know if I should paste it here or send it to you separately.

 

[jeffrey1667]

Hi, so I finally got the screenshot of the error with the warden i mentioned before. here you go:

 

[Corveone]

Yeah, I forgot to mention that error at the exit of Victory Road occurred for me as well. I only got past it because I did some black magic using RPG Maker to unstuck myself. Seems like an issue with the Salamencite typo.

 

[Never_this_again]

Sorry for not replying earlier, it's been a busy week for me.

Someone else already mentioned this, but I am also unable to get past the Victory Road Warden. I think there's a typo in the item name Salamencite which is causing it. See Error Report 1, attached.

Okay this one confused me because I was like "wait I did definetly test this" but I checked and yeah there's a typo.

There's also a glitch that caused my game to crash in the Pokémon Centre before Victory Road, and the chap that offers to teach "Psychic Blade". I thought you had introduced a new move, but maybe it's a mistranslation of an existing move, such as Psycho Cut? See Error Report 2.

You'd think I'd double check the moves I constantly misspell, but here I didn't. But that's an easy fix.

I also noticed a bug in Safari Zone, when you come back south through the gate from the Island (North of the first rest house, where there's a dive spot), you are put 1 tile behind the entrance that takes you to the Island part of the map. So when you step forward (away from the gate) it thinks you are entering the gate and sends you back to the island. I was basically trapped on that island until I used all my steps/balls. When I tried to use the menu I got an error message, see Error Report 3, attached.

The fact that the menu produces an error message was an issue with the menu skin; That one's gonna be fixed in the next version, and I'll look into the teleport issue as well.

Also, I've been taking note of some typographical/grammatical errors in the NPC's dialogue throughout the game, so please let me know if I should paste it here or send it to you separately.

I'd appreciate any and all help with that; You can either post it here or just DM me, I don't really mind either way.

Anyways, I'll hope I have some time to work on bugfixes on the weekend and have a new version ready by saturday or sunday, but I can't really promise that.

 

[you're a worm]

Sorry for not replying earlier, it's been a busy week for me.
Okay this one confused me because I was like "wait I did definetly test this" but I checked and yeah there's a typo.
You'd think I'd double check the moves I constantly misspell, but here I didn't. But that's an easy fix.
The fact that the menu produces an error message was an issue with the menu skin; That one's gonna be fixed in the next version, and I'll look into the teleport issue as well.
I'd appreciate any and all help with that; You can either post it here or just DM me, I don't really mind either way.
Anyways, I'll hope I have some time to work on bugfixes on the weekend and have a new version ready by saturday or sunday, but I can't really promise that.

Cool, well, I'll send that list directly to you once I've completed the game and I'll tidy my notes up a bit in the meantime because they're all jotted down in a .txt file.

Take your time with the fixes, life comes first :]

 

[DenBulens]

Hello, when I start up the game I get and error that says: Script 'Pokemon' line 159: NoMethodError occured. undefined method `pokedex' for nil: NilClass

Anyone have an idea how to fix this?

 

[pardal78]

So far I'm having fun.
Out of curiosity, are hidden abilities present in the game?
Edit: Nevermind, just found the answer in someone else's post XD

 

[Never_this_again]

Hello, when I start up the game I get and error that says: Script 'Pokemon' line 159: NoMethodError occured. undefined method `pokedex' for nil: NilClass

Anyone have an idea how to fix this?

Can you describe your game state? Like, is this your first time opening the game? Because this sounds like the Rockruff at night issue.

 

[DenBulens]

Yeah I have a rockruff, does the error go away when rockruff evolves?