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Emerald hack: Pokémon Inclement Emerald: A Decomp Difficulty Hack [Version 1.13]
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Hey! Thanks for letting me know about the Meloetta thing; excited to see how it pans out.
Also, wanted to say thanks. I'm rubbish at pokemon. I played gen1/2 a bunch and a bit of gen3 (mostly the remakes), and I browse r/stunfisk (reddit's competitive pokemon sub), but I'm really bad. I'm also in my 30s. Never played competitive. Or pokemon since gen3. But I think it's cool. And yours is the only hack I've seen that lets me experience competitive pokemon without making me feel small. I get that 'sleep/evasion clause' and banning baton pass or shadow tag and not running gimmick harvest trevenant sets is what's appropriate, competitively. But I haven't done any of those and yours is the only hack that lets me, well, experience the brokenness that is why half the bans on smogon/vgc/other pokemon metagames I can barely name exist. I'd read about FEAR but your trick room set made me realise what it was.
Basically, I wanted to say thanks. I played Radical Red (and no hate to soupercell or that dev team at all, different target audiences), but I barely got past the gen2 flying trainer in the museum (before gym1). And I learnt I couldn't use corviknight till like level 62 or something because it's evolution was delayed (i'm excited to experience gen8, and I only will in IE2.0; so far I've been using randomizers to get at unfinished pokemon). And I went to the first gym and found these cool strategies that I'd heard of for the first time (baton passing, funbro; sleep clause, megaray) were disallowed. And I realised I needed to grind, too. And then I played IE, and you gave us a pokemon that could basically solo the first gym 1v1 (rook!). You even gave us a hint! And I got access to broken op pokemon and enough hand holding that I have beat IE more than once. Without grinding (though with a fair bit of retrying gyms). Without needing to pick (vanilla) 'viable' pokemon. I had access to pseudo-legendaries (though I wish I'd met pre-steel-nerfs metagross frankly)!
So yeah. Wanted to post because I wanted to let you know how much we noobs appreciate IE. To a large audience, this is still what I find most accessible, and the most QOL and later-gen-pokemon, to someone who has no idea what dragalge's typing is (two of water/poison/dragon; but this is from the memories of the fight in petalburg woods).
I realise I gush, but do want to say thanks, from the bottom of my heart. I last owned a gameboy advance, and you largely are why I'm still into Pokemon today.
Also, wanted to say thanks. I'm rubbish at pokemon. I played gen1/2 a bunch and a bit of gen3 (mostly the remakes), and I browse r/stunfisk (reddit's competitive pokemon sub), but I'm really bad. I'm also in my 30s. Never played competitive. Or pokemon since gen3. But I think it's cool. And yours is the only hack I've seen that lets me experience competitive pokemon without making me feel small. I get that 'sleep/evasion clause' and banning baton pass or shadow tag and not running gimmick harvest trevenant sets is what's appropriate, competitively. But I haven't done any of those and yours is the only hack that lets me, well, experience the brokenness that is why half the bans on smogon/vgc/other pokemon metagames I can barely name exist. I'd read about FEAR but your trick room set made me realise what it was.
Basically, I wanted to say thanks. I played Radical Red (and no hate to soupercell or that dev team at all, different target audiences), but I barely got past the gen2 flying trainer in the museum (before gym1). And I learnt I couldn't use corviknight till like level 62 or something because it's evolution was delayed (i'm excited to experience gen8, and I only will in IE2.0; so far I've been using randomizers to get at unfinished pokemon). And I went to the first gym and found these cool strategies that I'd heard of for the first time (baton passing, funbro; sleep clause, megaray) were disallowed. And I realised I needed to grind, too. And then I played IE, and you gave us a pokemon that could basically solo the first gym 1v1 (rook!). You even gave us a hint! And I got access to broken op pokemon and enough hand holding that I have beat IE more than once. Without grinding (though with a fair bit of retrying gyms). Without needing to pick (vanilla) 'viable' pokemon. I had access to pseudo-legendaries (though I wish I'd met pre-steel-nerfs metagross frankly)!
So yeah. Wanted to post because I wanted to let you know how much we noobs appreciate IE. To a large audience, this is still what I find most accessible, and the most QOL and later-gen-pokemon, to someone who has no idea what dragalge's typing is (two of water/poison/dragon; but this is from the memories of the fight in petalburg woods).
I realise I gush, but do want to say thanks, from the bottom of my heart. I last owned a gameboy advance, and you largely are why I'm still into Pokemon today.
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That makes sense, I had forgotten about the freeze dry and hail buffs! Speaking of ice scales… ice scales Lapras… just sayin' >;)
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I'm not planning to change them, even though they're mostly just annoying. The frontier just wouldn't be the same without that one Walrein set!
Hey, thanks for the very detailed feedback! Very enjoyable read. Always makes me happy to hear that IE's delivering on the difficulty, but in a way that lets you decide how hard you want it to be (glad you appreciated Rook!). Sometimes you just want to have fun with the broken stuff.
Haha, I learned my lesson with Fur Coat. No more stat doubling abilities on things that have passable stats!
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Excellent work on this ROMHack
Legitimately one of the best I've ever played
Question: My quick feet Combusken evolved but Blaziken did not receive speed boost. When I try to use ability pill I only get the option to switch to Blaze ability. Is Speed Boost not available on Blaziken or is this a bug?
Legitimately one of the best I've ever played
Question: My quick feet Combusken evolved but Blaziken did not receive speed boost. When I try to use ability pill I only get the option to switch to Blaze ability. Is Speed Boost not available on Blaziken or is this a bug?
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You need an item called "Ability Patch". They become available after the 6th gym.
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Thank you! Also I just evolved my Togetic at level 50, when does it learn moon blast?
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You should both check your Pokedexes!
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Hey, Buff! I was in the middle of mono-dark run and as I was trying to work out what new fun sets for my Umbreon, I wanted to ask; What do you think of Eevee from Let's go Eevee? Or the exclusive attacks from that game? The idea would be to either have a Eevee with unique stats (Think Eternal Flower Floette, for example) that knows these moves but can't evolve, Otherwise you could just add the attacks as signature moves for the Eeveelutions. I really don't want you to think I'm nagging or the like. I'm just wondering why others haven't tried this yet given all the other crazy things I've seen from other hacks. As far as I know only Radical Red has those moves at all.
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I had to create an account just to give thanks.
I hadn't played a pokemon game since Emerald came out almost 20 years ago.
This was my first time playing on set mode too, what a challenge!
This hack was awesome, incredibly well made.
The only (minor) bug I encountered is using Relic Song in double battles causes Meloetta to transform twice.
I don't even know if this is intended or not.
Thanks for the game. I will definitely start a new game when the update comes out.
I hadn't played a pokemon game since Emerald came out almost 20 years ago.
This was my first time playing on set mode too, what a challenge!
This hack was awesome, incredibly well made.
The only (minor) bug I encountered is using Relic Song in double battles causes Meloetta to transform twice.
I don't even know if this is intended or not.
Thanks for the game. I will definitely start a new game when the update comes out.
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Hey! I've given the Eevee line many buffs already, and I'm not a big fan of the LGPE moves (those names are just bad, haha), so I don't really want to spend time coding effects and animations for them.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! The Meloetta thing is definitely a bug, thanks for reporting it!I had to create an account just to give thanks.
I hadn't played a pokemon game since Emerald came out almost 20 years ago.
This was my first time playing on set mode too, what a challenge!
This hack was awesome, incredibly well made.
The only (minor) bug I encountered is using Relic Song in double battles causes Meloetta to transform twice.
I don't even know if this is intended or not.
Thanks for the game. I will definitely start a new game when the update comes out.
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is there a way to disable the EXP all?
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Nope.
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dangit that sucks...at least I picked challenge mode so the game wont be overtly as easy as sword and shield so there's that. While I'm not gonna get my hopes up for it I hope there'll be an option to disable EXP All in the future.
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You really can't over-level since there are caps in place and enemies scale to your Pokemon's level. If anything, disabling EXP all will make the game unnecessarily harder--it can get pretty hard even with EXP all, as it is.
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Nah, I never intended IE to be a multiplayer hack, so I won't be updating that side of it to modern standards. That's something that could reasonably be added to the battle engine upgrade at some point though, so if someone else feels like doing that it'll be included.
This is not sword and shield. The exp all itself does not make the game easier, it's only an issue if the game isn't designed around it, and surprisingly IE was, in fact, designed around it, so it's not a problem.
You can over level for a few of the early fights, though you'd have to grind for an insanely long time without cheating. I often see people playing Yda's easy mode/cheats hack of IE and spamming rare candies - they'll often run into Roxanne with a full party at the level cap, or take on the Route 110 rival at the cap, which is just ridiculous and ruins the early game difficulty.
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Does Toucannon still learn Beak Blast? I just evolved mine and it got Fly instead. I suppose it'd make sense to relegate it to a higher level considering its utility but I wanna be sure.