This shit is too hard for me, I am playing on normal and can't beat Surge...
>>729822745Go back to >>>/vp/
>>729822839Meh, it's not a low effort pokegirl coomer thread so he can stay here
I don’t get why people get so mad that difficulty hacks exist. Radical Red in particular has a ton of QoL stuff to minimize irritation, as opposed to, say, Unbound Hard Mode.
>>729822745Just save scum. the AI cheats so why not you?
>>729823003I am resetting all the time but can't win. I fought him like 10 times now.
I love how everyone says Pokemon is easy then when someone actually makes a slightly hard version (not even the hardest it can be) everybody complains it's too hard.This is like when Souls fans start complaining about Nioh lol.
Did Clover ever update? I lost track long ago.
>>729825546>slightly harder>slightlyRR is autism tier difficulty for people who breathe competitive or challenge run Pokemon. Romhacks have a hard time hitting that sweet spot of being harder than the mainline games but not overdoing it.
>>729823003The AI is deterministic though, but it could swing on ranges or parafusion tactics
>>729825546I'm fine with hard when it's fair.Stuff like>you can't have 95% of pokemon>level cap>gym leader has 6 smogon pokemon pre-setup weather extra field rules that benefits his pokemon>oh also his first pokemon is a hazard setter with focus sashLike dude, fuck off, that's not hard that's a puzzle game with one set solution to solve the fight.You can do that shit later in the game when you give me as a player more options, such as more items, more pokemon, TMs, etc.If your early game is me having to rely to trash mons to fight a mega evolution then I'm just cheating until I get at least 2 pokemon I like that aren't starters.
>>729825546The problem with singleplayer difficulty romhacks is that you, as a player, want a team of 6 mons that you grow attached to.Maybe we can stretch this to 8 or 9 if you're weird but the point is you want a core team that you bond with. You can't do that in difficulty romhacks. You have to train up a new fucking mon or even a whole new team for every boss fight. That's why, unironically, yes too much challenge is bad. I don't want to open pkhex and input a new fucking team like one of those faggot streamers. This isn't Smogon. That isn't an adventure. And it isn't fun.
>>729822745I'm going to be honest, these hacks requiring min maxxing IV/EV's are just soulless. The second you start getting into optimizing stats is the second pokemon becomes soulless
>>729825971It is basically complete and with an extensive postgame, the next update is a full overhaul which adds gay shit like anti speed up tranny shit and other useless stuff.
My team for Surge, all level 34>Marshwamp>Haunter>Boltund>Golurk>Stonjourner>Breloom
>>729826359>anti speed upAm I understanding you correctly, they're going to try to prevent you from using emulator speedup while grinding or battling?WTF? why?
Drayano made the gold standard for what a fun-but-difficult hack is
>>729825546I never complained about the difficulty. All I want is better content.
>play pokemon dreams nuckloke >do double battle because that is the gimmicky mode of the hack>be constantly 15~20 levels above any trainerIt is all so tiresome, maybe I should reset and instead play with level balance.
>>729826470The devs are mentally ill, as expected for faggots from 4chan.
>>729822745>radical reddit
>>729826470Yes, no speed up, speeding up will prompt a captcha in game.Why? Because the developers are trannies, that is why.
>>729826624>>729826643That's unbearably cringe. Who the fuck wants to waste their life watching the same animations for 900 hours
>>729826359>>729826643Proof?Is there a changelog showing what they want to change?Allegedly, they already had anti speedup grinding but when I tested it, there was no such thing.
>>729822998What's wrong with Unbound on Expert? I liked it.
>>729826728The anti speed up is a well known complaint.Check this thread, where the devs got thoroughly shat on for being absolute fucking shithead morons.https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/727197936/
>>729826253>The problem with singleplayer difficulty romhacks is that you, as a player, want a team of 6 mons that you grow attached to.No, I do not. I don't feel that way when playing SMT, and I don't when playing Dragon Quest monster.
>>729827336I don't know about DQ but SMT lets you hold way more than 6 demons at once and you can switch them in and out during battle. You also have 3 or sometimes more out at a time. It's designed differently to Pokemon.
>>729827197I was not expecting THAT level of autistic faggotry. Same vibe as that Australian-Indian tech guy who turned out to be a pedo.
>>729827197How come whenever anons still tied with 4chan lose their anonymity they immediately end up being extreme faggots?
>>729822839>stop talking about videogames on vee
>>729827336Ok. You're not normal. There's a reason people nickname their Pokemon and a reason it takes ages to level them up. Retard.
>>729825546i agree with some of the other anons that there's a difference between>slightly harder romp where you still get to use mostly whatever you want, though shitmons might be nearly nothing more than an assetand>literal smogon compfag autism where you have to ev/iv train only the best of the best mons just to beat ace trainer billy let alone a gymand half the time the latter is basically tailor made for youtubers to do retarded challenge videos (or "nuzlockes" where they sttill just calculate everything), i don't even think the latter can be that bad all the time but i don't like playing pokemon for compfag autism. older hacks generally leaned towards the former despite whatever odder decisions they make.
>>729829392Bitch not that anon but you gotta be special needs to get attached to a fucking pokemon, you don't even interact with them outside selecting a move and see them kill random shit.In mainline they are just tools, I would understand in a mystery dungeon game where they get at least a few lines, but in mainline they might as well just be stat sheets.
>>729826883It took too long to train up new team members. There’s an EXP place, but it’s still not really “fast”
>>729830545Yeah you're not supposed to get attached to pokemon thats why Nintendo doesn't spend any time on their sprites, doesn't give them character in the anime, doesn't let you groom them or anything, doesn't tell you if they are happy or not, doesn't reference the human-pokemon relationship in the games all the time, and doesn't tell you anything about them in the pokedex.
>>729822745I always want to play a Pokemon rom hack on original hardware or a 3DS, but then i realize all of these are buggy pieces of shit that are built around you being on constant 5x speed up so I
>>729825546There's a difference between Pokemon being somewhat challenging (Cynthia, Red, some of the older Drayano romhacks) and Pokemon being a glorified puzzle game where the goal isnt any actual adventure or RPG mechanics but just crafting a team designed to perfectly counter that of your opponent and whatever gimmick they have using infinite rare candies and being able to buy half the dex for 5 pokedollars. There's nothing wrong with liking that but it is a far cry from the original Pokemon experience.
>>729829392that's because pokemon is such a babby game that you can just pump your starter and then just pick up random higher level pokemon as filler. it's been that way since rby. it's just a glorified collectathon, the combat is that bat.
>>729830545i can get that and people who get way too attached to them can be pretty odd but the games themselves do try to make a point to try and make people feel for their virtual pets (even if gen 6+ went way too far in on it, fuck the affection mechanic), you could arguably paint most monster catching games as something akin to a tamagotchi. friendship evos and return/frustration being based on said friendship is extremely barebones but it's still kind of there. obviously it's all just autism in the end, you could see them as nothing more than code or you could get extremely attached to your little team of retards if you like using shitmons or even good mons
>>729829392most people don't nickname pokemon. only hardcore autists do that
>>729822745FPBP. No one wants pokefag spammers here.
>>729830893They don't, they are just tools, I'm not using a Pokemon because I like it, I'm using it because it is useful, I can just replace it at a moment's notice when it stops being useful and feel nothing.It is not like that in Digimon, in there you shape the little fuck to be whatever you want it to be, feed it and even clean its shit, it won't be easy to replace a Digimon because they snowball their evolution requirements so the more you use one the more malleable it becomes the more personal the bond and harder it is to actually replace them both mechanically and affectionally.Palworld also nailed the bond aspect, in there they don't just fight they also work and help you move around, you can pet them, and they have useless idle animations that simply flesh them out and make them feel more alive, and they are always out there with you if you want so they are like a companion, at some point the game will railroad you into breeding in order to have a chance to beat harder content and that's when it gets personal, breeding is extremely resource heavy and time consuming, way more prolonged than the one used to create a perfect IV pokemon, but the resulting pal will feel a lot more personal and of course extremely hard to replace.
