[Completed] Pokémon Rising Earth

[Never_this_again]

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

When you try to open the game at night with a Rockruff in your party the game crashes, but it goes away when you evolve it into a Lycanroc. Alternatively, the next version I'll publish will also fix this issue.

 

[DenBulens]

Am I wrong or is Infernape not in the game?

 

[cailm]

infernape is in game just pretty late, iirc you get the choice to choose one of the sinnoh starter around 7th gym

 

[maplerdarkness]

So, i am stuck in overgrown forest trying to meet a sizzlipede. It's been 6 hours and i met countless larvesta..... It is not some kind of bug right? Just my bad luck right?

EDIT: OKKKAYYYY FINALLY ONE AFTER 6 HOURSSSS

 

[maplerdarkness]

So on route 3, you get gifted a magmar. I didnt know you woudnt be able to get electabuzz if you choose magmar, will there be wild elekid/electabuzz to catch? I cant find it on the encounter list.

 

[Never_this_again]

Am I wrong or is Infernape not in the game?

As Cailm already said, Infernape (and the other Gen 4 starters for that matter) can be obtained in Orcrest Town after beating the 7th Gym Leader.

So, i am stuck in overgrown forest trying to meet a sizzlipede. It's been 6 hours and i met countless larvesta..... It is not some kind of bug right? Just my bad luck right?

EDIT: OKKKAYYYY FINALLY ONE AFTER 6 HOURSSSS

Glad you got one but yeah, both Larvesta and Sizzlipede are 1% encounters there. So sadly it was just your bad luck. (Also Sizzlipede is most certainly a bug.)

So on route 3, you get gifted a magmar. I didnt know you woudnt be able to get electabuzz if you choose magmar, will there be wild elekid/electabuzz to catch? I cant find it on the encounter list.

Unfortunately Electabuzz (or anything from its evolution line) is not obtainable aside from that gift.

 

[cailm]

Kind of wish we get the choice to choose other fossil pokemon after defeating the second gym rather than you are only allowed to take aerodactyl. Like if I prefer other fossil pokemon that can be only found in vast cavern in specific but cannot get it due to the fact root fossil and other few fossil`s location is the same as the evolved form which in a way make those ones pointless

 

[maplerdarkness]

Sad that icant get an elekid. will you be implementing other ways to obtain magmar/electabuzz in the future?

 

[maplerdarkness]

Also can i just check, how do you evolve inkay in this game?

 

[Never_this_again]

Kind of wish we get the choice to choose other fossil pokemon after defeating the second gym rather than you are only allowed to take aerodactyl. Like if I prefer other fossil pokemon that can be only found in vast cavern in specific but cannot get it due to the fact root fossil and other few fossil`s location is the same as the evolved form which in a way make those ones pointless

You might be playing an outdated version there; The fossils cannot be found anymore since the fossil revival crashed the game.

As for giving out other fossils that aren't Aerodactyl, that's really an issue of how much to give is too much and how much is too little. I could make you choose just from the four that Jenkins uses and I'm sure someone would be like "but what about *hypothetical fifth pokemon* since you have *percieved counterpart Jenkins used*" and in the end it'll be like a giant list of all the fossil pokemon which would really be too much. It's why I stuck with just Aerodactyl, it's the easiest and most straightforward, and I doubt anybody can complain how it's useless.

Sad that icant get an elekid. will you be implementing other ways to obtain magmar/electabuzz in the future?

You can actually gain Magmortar later in the game as a wild encounter. I could add Electrivire as an encounter later in the game as well, but, the places where I could potentially put it is like reeeaally late so idk if that would help you.

Also can i just check, how do you evolve inkay in this game?

Here's how you do it: You pick up your PC, then you flip it upside down. Just kidding, it just evolves on Level 30 normally without any fancy extras.

 

[maplerdarkness]

Having a electivire late game would be cool. Btw is there a list of what each move tutor in each town teaches. Spend a lot of time trying to find out who teaches what. Also, is flash tm available in this game?

 

[Corveone]

Btw is there a list of what each move tutor in each town teaches.

I made one during my playthrough:

Spoiler:

Dowalis (Pokémon center)
Snore
Bind
Last Resort
Iron Defense
Uproar
Block
Laser Focus
Charm
Fake Tears

Tremaria (woman near grass)
Covet
Heal Bell
Defog
Helping Hand
Worry Seed
Synthesis
Gastro Acid

Brother's Peak (Pokémon center)
Low Kick
Fire Punch
Thunder Punch
Ice Punch
Zen Headbutt
Focus Punch
Throat Chop

Quantasia (Psychic duo at casino)
Bulk Up
Recycle
Spite
After You
Magnet Rise
Pain Split
Trick
Ally Switch
Gravity
Weather Ball
Role Play
Magic Coat
Magic Room
Wonder Room

Cincoast (Hotel)
Shockwave
Electroweb
Water Pulse
Giga Drain
Signal Beam
Drill Run
Icy Wind

Cincoast (building with move relearner/deleter)
Frenzy Plant
Blast Burn
Hidro Cannon

Cincoast (Girl below move relearner/deleter building)
Fire Fang
Ice Fang
Thunder Fang
Psychic Fang
Crunch

Cincoast Underground (tunnel)
Grassy Terrain
Misty Terrain
Electric Terrain
Psychic Terrain

Route 11 Daycare
Iron Tail
Stealth Rock
Bounce
Tailwind
Endeavor
Skill Swap
Foul Play
Super Fang

Brightcliff (Library 2F)
Aqua Tail
Seed Bomb
Stomping Tantrum
Dual Chop
Knock Off
Sky Attack
Gunk Shot

Orcrest (Ace trainer in a house)
Earth Power
Heat Wave
Hyper Voice
Dragon Pulse
Liquidation
Outrage
Superpower
Draco Meteor
Iron Head

Omegata (House in the far West)
Terrain Pulse
Burning Jealousy
Flip Turn
Grassy Glide
Rising Voltage
Coaching
Scorching Sands
Dual Wingbeat
Meteor Beam
Skitter Smack
Triple Axel
Corrosive Gas
Expanding Force
Poltergeist
Scale Shot
Lash Out
Steel Roller
Misty Explosion
Steel Beam

Victory Road Pokémon Center
Aura Sphere
Psychic Blade (Crashes the game, ignore it. Probably meant to be Psycho Cut)
Brave Bird

It's not 100% complete though, pretty sure it's missing some NPC that teaches signature legendary moves such as Dragon Ascent, and maybe the Water/Fire/Grass Pledge tutor (if there was one)

 

[maplerdarkness]

It's not 100% complete though, pretty sure it's missing some NPC that teaches signature legendary moves such as Dragon Ascent, and maybe the Water/Fire/Grass Pledge tutor (if there was one)

Spoiler:

The water/fire/grass pedge tutor is in the town with the first gym and the dragon ascent tower guys is in the town with vast cavern town!

 

[maplerdarkness]

Just like to know, did anyone EV train and IV breed their pokemon before they challenged the 7th gym?

 

[Never_this_again]

A new version with a few fixes has been made available in the OP. (I updated both the Mega and the mediafire link) However, if you have already played a bit into the game and just want to update, please read the following:

There is a slight issue with the new version. When I was testing out the game with my previous save, wild battles would crash the game for me, and it only worked again after I started a new one. Now I don't know if that is an issue with just my save, or if that is an issue with all saves from the previous version.

I also added HM Items for the moves Rock Smash, Cut, Surf, Fly and Strenght to the game and while that is definetly helpful, if you are past the point in the story where you would obtain them you cannot obtain them anymore. And because HM Items also disable the use of HMs through the party, there are certain areas you cannot progress in.

So there's two solutions to this:

1. Start a new game after updating your game (straightforward, I know).

2. If you are already pretty far in and don't want to lose your progress, and just want to beat the Elite Four: Play the game on your old version as normal, but prepare your team as you would for the Elite Four (catch what you want, breed what you want, EV train if you need to, yadda yadda). Go as far as until you would battle the Warden of Victory Road (he's the last trainer standing in front of the exit, and previously would not allow you to continue because of a typo in his code). Save your game, then update to the new version. Beat the warden (preferably don't lose, because it'll warp you to the last Pokemon Center and you cannot get back to him) and continue to the Pokemon League. Please be aware that if you do this, you are now stuck in the Pokemon League as you need either Surf or Fly to leave and both these moves have been replaced with HM Items, and you cannot get any more wild encounters.

If you want to see what changed, see here:

Spoiler:

Added features/Changes:
- Mints can now be bought from Jacksons father on Forlorn Isle, after the events in Castaway Cavern.
- The trainer giving you the Power Items has been moved from Route 5 to Route 7 (aka earlier in the game)
- The game has recieved sunglasses so the overworld sun effect isn't quite as bright (I hope, since I've only seen this on other peoples playthroughs)
- Your Rivals mid- to lategame team has been buffed (or at least I hope so)
- There are now HM Items for the moves Rock Smash, Cut, Surf, Fly and Strength. Waterfall and Dive still need to be used via Pokemon.

Fixes:
- The Warden of Victory Road is no longer a sore loser and doesn't crash your game upon beating him.
- The Move Tutor before Victory Road has been informed that Psychic Blade is actually called Psycho Cut.
- Opening the menu in the Safari Zone no longer result in a crash.
- The warps in Safari Zone - North have been fixed.
- The Paladins left behind a single uninteractable grunt when they left Castaway Cavern. They have been informed of that and will take him with them in the future.
- The Rockruff issue has been fixed (aka you can safely have a Rockruff in your party again while playing at night)
- The event that would lock you in movement if you left Cliffdrop Cavern via Dig or an Escape Rope after beating Gwen has been fixed.

This release got stalled a little because I tried to add in some more postgame content, but that has been put on hold until the next release, because I'm way to stupid to figure out how to make EBDX's Boss Battle feature work. I'd say look forward to it with the next release, but I might need to scramble some ideas around to make it work without it.

Having a electivire late game would be cool. Btw is there a list of what each move tutor in each town teaches. Spend a lot of time trying to find out who teaches what. Also, is flash tm available in this game?

I've added Electivire to the Safari Zone now, so its obtainable outside the Gift Pokemon on Route 3. I've also added a move tutor list to the Google Docs. Flash is not available, no. Both dark areas in the game have been made dark just for added effect, you shouldn't need Flash to traverse them.

 

[maplerdarkness]

2. If you are already pretty far in and don't want to lose your progress, and just want to beat the Elite Four: Play the game on your old version as normal, but prepare your team as you would for the Elite Four (catch what you want, breed what you want, EV train if you need to, yadda yadda).

What if I don't just want to beat elite four and want to do other stuff as well? Does it mean i only have the choice of restarting over? I would be really discouraged since i caught every pokemon available on a particular map so far and I am already at the 8th gym... Is there no way to fix the HM problem?

 

[Never_this_again]

What if I don't just want to beat elite four and want to do other stuff as well? Does it mean i only have the choice of restarting over? I would be really discouraged since i caught every pokemon available on a particular map so far and I am already at the 8th gym... Is there no way to fix the HM problem?

Fixing the HM problem would not be the big issue. I could technically put an NPC into the Pokemon League that just gives you the HM Items if you don't have them yet, now that I think of it. The bigger issue is that all wild encounters will cause your game to crash, which is all that the post-game game currently consists of.

 

[maplerdarkness]

The bigger issue is that all wild encounters will cause your game to crash, which is all that the post-game game currently consists of.

Can this be fixed? If it can be fixed I will wait till it's fixed before updating the game

 

[you're a worm]

So, I took the option of just using version 1.2.0 to beat the annoying Warden and challenge the Pokémon league. Unfortunately I was stuck with 4 HM moves I didn't want, but them be the ways.

Rain room was easy enough, so was sand. Hail was a little annoying, sun was ok. I had to PP stall the Champion because my team was not EV trained :] Here's the squad.

There seems to be a huge glitch with this version if you're loading up old games. Every time I knocked out a Pokémon, an error box came up on screen, see attached. My Pokémon would then repeat the attack against an empty space. Then the opponent would send in a Pokémon. This made certain moves unfavourable - mostly Volt Switch and U-Turn, because I didn't get to switch. If an opponent died to phase damage (sandstorm, leech seed, etc) the same dialogue box came up and then the opponent didn't do anything. This essentially gave me a free turn to heal, after which the opponent would send out a Pokémon. I'm guessing this isn't happening for people starting a new file on v1.2.0 but I just thought I would point this out.

Comments on the game overall

Spoiler:

Firstly, good job. I enjoyed the game! The story was interesting, and I was definitely intrigued by the whole Monoliths thing. I particularly enjoyed stealing Mega Stones off the Paladin admins, and some of the conversation throughout the game was chuckle worthy.

The difficulty/level curve, everything like that was just right in my opinion. I was always within 1-2 levels of the opponents (usually marginally below, which is correct) and only had to use the trainers in the Poké centers because Dreepy is a terrible Pokémon and the pkmn company likes to annoy us by making rubbish Pokémon evolve at stupidly high levels. Though I blacked out many times, no battles were unplayably hard, I just couldn't be bothered to keep going back to the Pokécentre on longer routes. I also didn't EV train, which is why I kept getting outsped in the E4 by mons that I shouldn't have, so I'm guessing they have proper EV spreads? Not sure, but even so, only the Champion was somewhat difficult because his squad is, ah, elite.

I always battle all trainers and don't think you need to make trainer battles optional, it's not like there was an overabundance. Encounter rate seemed a little high, I'm not sure if this is because I had auto-run set.

I think I'd probably have more to say if I hadn't spent all last week thrashing Metroid Dread while this game was not in a playable state but, yes, I enjoyed it, it's definitely comparable to other fan made games I've played. You didn't add too many features like some games do (stuff like changing natures, improving IVs etc.) but the HM items would have been nice before getting so far!

A couple of weird (non glitch) things I noticed

Spoiler:

The AI does not know how to use Full Restores. Many times in Gym Leader/E4 battles, they used Full Restores on their lead mon when it had only lost 1 chunk of HP to Leech Seed. I'd say that probably needs to be addressed in the long run, because they were basically shooting themselves in the foot.

I hit a Mandibuzz with Brick Break after it did Roost but it did not hit for SE damage. Also Seed Bomb on Gliscor, same thing. Maybe need to check whether that interaction is configured correctly - i.e. Flying type being lost on the same turn that you Roosted.

Between the trainer classes and their names, there appears to be an extra space. it's like: Youngster___Joey instead of Youngster Joey

After the first fight with your rival, there didn't seem to be a way to heal until I had left town and come back. Likewise, there was no way to box the early mons caught before reaching the first poke centre.

As I mentioned before there were some typos I noticed during the game so I will send these to you separately when I get a chance, maybe on the weekend.

 

[Never_this_again]

Can this be fixed? If it can be fixed I will wait till it's fixed before updating the game

I'll be honest here and say probably not. The issue came up when I updated the two big third party plugins I use; EBDX (battle interface) and the Generation VIII project. I'm not that good a coder, but I guess the errors arise from version mismatch between the save and the current version in the game. Since that's not something I've made and I can mess up a lot by messing with those two scripts, I don't think I can fix that issue.

So, I took the option of just using version 1.2.0 to beat the annoying Warden and challenge the Pokémon league. Unfortunately I was stuck with 4 HM moves I didn't want, but them be the ways.

First of all, congrats on beating the game.

Secondly, I'll probably release a new new version tomorrow that has a guy at the entrance to the Pokemon League that gives you the HM Items you don't have yet. (And also because I accidentally left the editable game file in the release when I was supposed to remove that.)

There seems to be a huge glitch with this version if you're loading up old games. Every time I knocked out a Pokémon, an error box came up on screen, see attached. My Pokémon would then repeat the attack against an empty space. Then the opponent would send in a Pokémon. This made certain moves unfavourable - mostly Volt Switch and U-Turn, because I didn't get to switch. If an opponent died to phase damage (sandstorm, leech seed, etc) the same dialogue box came up and then the opponent didn't do anything. This essentially gave me a free turn to heal, after which the opponent would send out a Pokémon. I'm guessing this isn't happening for people starting a new file on v1.2.0 but I just thought I would point this out.

Based on the error file it looks like that's an EBDX error that comes from the same version mismatch I've mentioned above, which I sadly cannot really do anything about.

Spoiler:

The AI does not know how to use Full Restores. Many times in Gym Leader/E4 battles, they used Full Restores on their lead mon when it had only lost 1 chunk of HP to Leech Seed. I'd say that probably needs to be addressed in the long run, because they were basically shooting themselves in the foot.

Yeah, I've been made aware of this. At some point I'll need to do some rebalancing, which would also include checking if they work better with Hyper Potions or if I just give them Full Heals and leave it at that.

I hit a Mandibuzz with Brick Break after it did Roost but it did not hit for SE damage. Also Seed Bomb on Gliscor, same thing. Maybe need to check whether that interaction is configured correctly - i.e. Flying type being lost on the same turn that you Roosted.

I've noticed that, but that seems to be an issue with the original essentials that had been fixed in the recent hotfixes (at least I think I saw it in the patchnotes) so that interaction should be correct from 1.2 forward.

Between the trainer classes and their names, there appears to be an extra space. it's like: Youngster___Joey instead of Youngster Joey

I've noticed, but, that has been a peripheral error for me so far, since it's just a mild annoyance and doesn't really break anything. But I'll get to it eventually.

After the first fight with your rival, there didn't seem to be a way to heal until I had left town and come back. Likewise, there was no way to box the early mons caught before reaching the first poke centre.

You should be able to heal anyway. The thing is just that your mom has one line of text commenting on your new Pokemon before she will set the switch to get to her standard text that heals you. So all you should need to do is talk to her twice at the start. As for the boxes thing, I didn't really see that as an issue during the making. I guess if you want to box your starter early on.

As I mentioned before there were some typos I noticed during the game so I will send these to you separately when I get a chance, maybe on the weekend.

That would be great, thank you!

I made my comments in italics, because, well, a spoiler is a spoiler.

Also I'm glad you enjoyed the game, and thanks for your comments, I really appreciate it.