Changelog

See also: Changelog/Upcoming Patch Notes

This page now only contains the changelogs for the current major release. See the bottom of the article for links to archives of old changelogs.

4/13/2021 - Hotfix 2.8.6

• Fixed an issue with moves that lower accuracy crashing the game due to a mislabeled field effect check

4/12/2021 - Hotfix 2.8.5

• Bugfixes:
  • Fixed using Repels after previous ones are used up.
  • Fixed Artist Joop and Circuit Trainer Lenka's Pokemon.
  • Fixed encounters in a few of the trees.
  • Fixed a couple of typos.
  • Fixed an event not moving towards the player.
  • Should have fixed collision issues in Unsettling Cavern.
  • Should have fixed route 4 center's lack of night fog.
  • Adjusted Clairvoyance's coding to have an ability bar appear for it.
  • Fixed Electro Zone.
  • Ashley and Dynamo have their mid-battle dialogue again.
  • F5 now turns on searching in the dex as intended.
  • Fixed Rubina Gym's field effect again.
  • Fixed Roost not changing the user's type.
  • Fixed Persim Berry... I think.
  • Fixed Diancie having Magic Bounce instead of Clear Body.
  • Volos, Crash and Jetstream have their levels hidden again.
  • Fixed moves redirected by Magic Coat/Magic Bounce affecting targets they shouldn't.
    • Currently, a message of the attack missing will appear. I'm looking into that.
  • Fixed Defog so that it can actually eliminate Electro Zone as it was intended.
  • Fixed another overworld sprite.
  • Fixed an error in which Midday Lycanroc only had a base Defense of 8.
  • Fixed an error with follower script that could make the game crash upon starting a new file
  • Fixed graphical bug with failed crit captures
• General adjustments:
  • Fool Karp's encounter rate increased to 12.5% ahead of April Fools Day next year.
  • Added a save warning for the landlady sidequest.
  • Frightful Presence has been renamed to Frightful.
  • Slightly increased Haxorus's Speed and HP for a BST of 555.
  • Jester now activates upon the Pokemon entering the battle in addition to confusing the Pokemon for 100 turns.
  • Altaran Obstagoon now has overworlds.
  • Castform has been replaced by Yamper in the encounter table.
  • Hard Mode now disables item usage during trainer battles.
  • Wild eggs now give Pokemon either of their hidden abilities.
    • Do note that Pokemon without a hidden ability defined for a slot will have the ability they're normally generated with.
  • Ashley now has Ninetales instead of Vulpix at higher levels. The Vulpix/Ninetales now knows Torch Pass instead of Confuse Ray.
  • Dynamo's team order has been switched around. Chinchou/Lanturn now knows Electro Zone and is sent out first; Voltorb now knows Swagger instead.
  • Made a new vs sprite for Jordan
• Changed more Abilities:
  • Hoennian Zigzagoon line gains Limber as a second Hidden Ability and Galarian gains Frightful.
  • Smeargle has had Own Tempo replaced with Trace, and Moody replaced by Color Change.
  • Druddigon has gained Defiant as a second Hidden Ability.
  • Noibat and Noivern have gained Strong Will as a second Hidden Ability.
  • Eevee line:
    • Eevee has been given Mimicry as a second Hidden Ability.
    • Vaporeon has been given Swift Swim as a second normal Ability, and Boiling Point as a second Hidden.
    • Jolteon has been given Iron Barbs as a second normal Ability, and Accelerate as a second Hidden.
    • Flareon has been given Flame Body as a second normal Ability, and Armor Breaker as a second Hidden.
    • Espeon has been given Second Sight as a second normal Ability, and Magecraft as a second Hidden.
    • Umbreon has been given Illuminate as a second normal Ability, replaced Inner Focus with Regenerator, and given Merciless as a second Hidden Ability.
    • Leafeon has been given Harvest as a second normal Ability, and Grassy Surge as a second Hidden.
    • Glaceon has been given Frigid as a second normal ability, and Snow Warning as a second Hidden.
    • Sylveon has been given Pastel Veil as a second normal Ability, and Healer as a second Hidden.
  • Sableye has been given Gem Thief as a second Hidden Ability.
  • The Solosis line has been given Gooey as a second Hidden Ability.
  • Mienfoo and Mienshao have been given Iron Fist as a second Hidden Ability.
    • It has been given to Rhodie's Minefoo on Hard Mode. Good luck :P
  • Kantonian Rattata and Raticate have been given Rattled as a second Hidden Ability; Alolan have been given Quick Feet.
  • Spearow and Fearow have been given Unburden as a second normal Ability, and Anger Point as a second Hidden.
  • Ekans and Arbok have been given Frightful as a second Hidden Ability.
  • The entire Pichu line has been given Overclock as a second normal Ability (aside from Alolan Raichu), and Galvanize as a second Hidden.
  • Kantonian Sandshrew and Sandslash have been given Stiffen as a second normal Ability and Sand Spit as a second Hidden; Alolan have been given Battle Armor and Ice Scales.
  • Nidoqueen and Nidoking have been given Mold Breaker as a second Hidden Ability.
  • The Cleffa line has been given Magic Bounce as a second Hidden Ability.
  • Both forms of Vulpix and Ninetales have been given Forewarn as a second normal Ability. Kantonian has been given Flame Body as a second Hidden, and Alolan has been given Frigid. Mega Ninetales A has been given Slush Rush.
  • Shinx and its Sinnohan evolutions have been given Overclock as a second Hidden Ability. Altaran has been given Quick Wit.
  • Hoennian Ralts line has been given Second Sight as a second Hidden Ability, and Gallade has been given Strong Will as a second normal. Altaran Ralts line has been given Frisk as a second Hidden Ability.
  • Hoennian Aron line has been given Battle Armor as a second Hidden Ability, and Altaran has been given Aftermath.
  • Kantonian Growlithe line has been given Sheer Force as a second Hidden Ability, and Altaran has been given Aftermath.
  • Abra line has been given Magecraft as a second Hidden Ability.
  • Latios and Latias hae been given Quick Wit as a Hidden Ability.
  • Absol's second Hidden Ability has been changed from Blacken to Second Sight.
• Variant data:
  • Altaran Obstagoon has been given new stats and Pokedex data.
  • Altaran Ralts line has been given new stats and egg moves.

3/30/2021 - Hotfix 2.8.4

• Cleaned up Zoltan's VS sprite.
• Fixed the inability to use certain items from the bag (including Repels)
• Fixed an inability to talk to people in the Rubina Precinct's holding cells
• Female Altaran Kirlia should now properly evolve.
  • It and a few other alt form evolution methods seem to have been borked when using spriter positioner. Not sure exactly what went wrong, but they have all been fixed. (-L2XG)
• Fire-type moves now activate Oil Spill's effect again
• Fixed Hoennian Electrike appearing in the wild in center Route 4
• Fixed Johtonian Spinarak appearing in a tree in Peridot Forest
• Fixed Houndour's egg not appearing in Charred Pathway
• Increased wild encounter levels in second Condemned Building
• Increased trainer levels in Rubina gym for first set (before reaching Citrivale)
• Fixed events that cause the player to get off their skateboard
• Tyrogue's encounter rate in IBM is reduced from 10% to 8%
  • The remaining 2% has been replaced with 1% encounter rates with Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan
• Fixed Burnout
• Follower interaction adjustments/fixes
  • Fixed interacting with follower in specific conditions crashing the game
  • Messages in Charred Pathway now account for Poison, Bug and Steel types
  • Added messages for forests and Rubina City
• Rubina Precinct cutscene edited to use Acento's encounter theme at a certain point
• Renamed a few battle background files

3/26/2021 - Hotfix 2.8.3

• Removed the ability for Mary to skip the first battle in new sidequest
• Added waits after follower's move routes when interacting
• Removed the accidental ability to have more than 6 Pokemon after catching a Pokemon, choosing to swap, and cancelling
  • If you currently have more than 6 Pokemon in your party, go to the nearest PC and deposit Pokemon until you have a maximum of 6
• Changes to Zoltan battle in Rubina in Hard Mode
  • Still forced deathmatch, but against a considerably weaker Pokemon
    • Winning allows the player to face Volos after (if they are insane enough)
• Removed activation of the anti-cheat's anti-catch switch since I just now realized it's actually redundant for it
  • Said switch now also turns off after all battles
  • Hindsight's a major bitch (-L2XG)
• Mystery gift man changes
  • Now stays after giving each gift
  • Talking after all gifts are given makes him leave
    • This is now done by fade rather than him walking out

3/23/2021 - Hotfix 2.8.2

• The bed in the Route 4 rest house now properly deactivates after its associated quest.
• Fixed a staircase
• Fixed a typo
• Attempted to fix some collision
• File loading turns off a switch that should not continue to be on
• Fixed coding for the AI when certain field effects are active

3/22/2021 - Hotfix 2.8.1

• Fixed summary not working in-battle
• Replaced Obstruct in Altaran Obstagoon's moveset with a new move, Typhoon Shield
  • Currently, Typhoon Shield is a Flying-type Spiky Shield variant
• One form of Vivillon is now no longer available in Randomizer
• Edited some code to prevent the anti-cheat from popping up when it actually shouldn't

3/21/2021 - Demo 2.8

• Updated the launcher to v1.1
  • This reflects backend changes in how the game checks for Mystery Gift and Version updates.
• Gen 8 implementation:
  • Pokémon:
    • Can be obtained normally: Obstagoon (Altaran: evolve Altaran Linoone by leveling up while holding a Razor Claw)
    • Can be found in Randomizer: Applin, Flapple, Appletun, Silicobra, Sandaconda, Cramorant, Arrokuda, Barraskewda, Toxel, Toxtricity, Sizzlipede, Centiskorch, Clobbopus, Grapploct, Sinistea, Polteageist, Hatenna, Hattrem, Hatterene, Impidimp, Morgrem, Grimmsnarl, Perrserker, Cursola, Sirfetch'd, Mr. Rime, Runerigus
      • For sake of collective sanity, there will only one form of Sinistea and Polteageist.
• Graphics edits:
  • Gave some Pokémon their gen 4 beta sprites:
    • Pidgeot
    • Sandshrew and Sandslash
    • Mightyena
    • Skarmory
    • Donphan
    • Taillow
    • Breloom
    • Lairon
  • Gave some Pokémon their gen 4 beta dimorphism:
    • Stantler
    • Beedrill
    • Pidgeot
    • Sandslash
    • Mightyena
    • Delcatty
    • Breloom
  • Contrast and minor coloration tweaks:
    • Altaran Linoone
    • Kantonian and Altaran Growlithe lines
    • Metallic and shiny metallic Umbreon
    • Metallic and shiny metallic Cyndaquil line
    • Metallic and shiny metallic Espeon
  • Gave new shiny metallics to:
    • Kantonian and Altaran Growlithe lines
    • Altaran Linoone
    • Kantonian Sandshrew line
    • Poochyena line
    • Phanpy line
  • Major coloration edits:
    • Changed the shiny colors of Noibat and Noivern.
    • Female Altaran Gyarados now have white whiskers.
    • Jynx is now black again. (She unironically looks better this way. --Kuda)
      • Shiny Jynx is white. (... although this is just a suggestion from the Discord. --Kuda)
    • Shiny Spiky-Eared Pichu is now white and brown, as originally intended.
  • Adjusted the colors of several UI assets. Rule of thumb: if it was black and red, it's now black or gray and teal.
  • Adjusted the skin colors of some NPC sprites.
  • Changed Charmeleon's front sprite to its DP frame 2.
  • Changed Typhlosion's front sprite to a custom one.
  • Changed Espeon's front sprite to a custom one.
  • Kaiser has pulled his jacket sleeves down.
• Map adjustments:
  • Changed ALL of the tall grass autotiles to a different set.
  • Replaced the redundant campfire in Charred Pathway.
  • Finished Collapsed Burrow.
  • Adjusted the position of some trees and foliage in Shardil Town.
  • Added some decoration to Routes 2 and 3.
  • Minor tweaks across the region involving tile colors, alignment, shadow removal, etc.
  • Fixed staircase next to the Citrivale Gym.
  • Shortened the interrogation room at the Rubina Precinct.
  • Fixed some tiles in Shardil.
• Audio adjusting:
  • Some tracks have had the pitch changed in-game to create a more tailored feel. Because of how pitch works with music, this also speeds up or slows down the track, so tracks with the pitch increased may feel shorter.
    • Tracks affected: Granite Town, Citrivale Lighthouse
  • Changed some tracks entirely.
    • Replaced the butchered midi of Sky Peak Forest used for routes 2 and 3 with the actual track.
    • Routes 5 and 6 have new music.
    • Removed the default Essentials Radio tracks, replacing Shardil Clearing's music in the process.
    • Spruce Laboratory has new music.
  • Some cutscenes have been given music different from the area music:
    • Petra's introduction in Spruce Laboratory
    • Conversation in Ironis Pokemon Center
    • All scenes with Kaden
    • Acento finally has his own encounter theme.
    • Tenpo has a new track that plays when he has less than 3 Pokemon left
  • Some tracks have been renamed for organization purposes.
  • Balanced the volume of several tracks.
  • Most, if not all, regional variants (both canon and custom) currently available in the game should have custom cries now.
    • This will be apparent in battle, summary, and the follower Pokémon, though not all NPC Pokémon on the overworld yet.
• Pokémon balance edits:
  • Tweaked the types of some Pokémon:
    • Stantler is now Normal/Psychic.
    • Girafarig is now Dark/Psychic.
    • Zeraora is now Electric/Fighting.
  • Both Stantler and Girafarig have their BST increased to 490 and slightly altered level-up movesets to account for their new typing.
  • Gogoat now learns Megahorn at level 65 instead of Aerial Ace.
  • Mienfoo line now has Low Kick as part of its level up moveset. It also learns Arm Thrust at level 17 instead of Doubleslap.
  • The Noibat line is now in the Dragon egg group as well as Flying.
  • Several Pokemon have been given Corrosive Breath as an egg move.
  • Sneasel has been given Razor Wind as an egg move.
  • Abra has been given Prediction as an egg move.
  • Arceus and Rayquaza learn Divine Right by level.
  • Rayquaza learns Legendary Eye by level.
• Bug fixes:
  • Made some important backend changes:
    • The Version Checker and Mystery Gift scripts now point to new URLs, allowing them to actually work again.
      • This means that EVO Day should now only remind you to connect to the internet when you're actually not connected to the internet.
  • Fixed bug with Ball Fetch.
  • Thanks to a Discord user alerting us, TM19 now properly teaches Roost.
• Temporarily disabled A Thing.
  • For those who actually figured out what it was, it may be returning later.
• Swapped some 16.2 coding for 17.2 and 18.1 coding.
  • Might have actually gotten rid of some lag in the process???? (-L2XG, about as confused as you are)
• Cutscene tweaks:
  • Fixed some instances of singular characters being referred to as a "them" or "they".
  • Corrected some typos.
  • Edited some cutscene dialogue in Citrivale.
  • Team Mortis is no longer namedropped in the Looker scene on Route 1.
  • Added an extra line to the Rubina Precinct cutscene to better establish that Kenn, Freeman, and Sheryl are not from Altaris.
• Non-story dialogue tweaks:
  • The Spruce aide which appears in Amaris if you chose Eevee now has dialogue after the fact.
  • Kaiser now hangs out in the Citrivale Pokemon Center for a short while after completing the city's story events.
    • He leaves as soon as you enter Citrivale's eastern gate, so if you want to talk to him, be aware of that.
  • Most social commentary is now omitted when on PG Mode, or at least made more subtle.
  • Added another opportunity to be a jerk.
  • Made it more obvious that the player has to come back later when talking to the girl who asks you to find ChanChan before fighting Zoltan.
  • A man in Granite now gives a little bit of exposition.
  • Expanded outdoor NPC dialogue in several instances in Amaris City.
• Encounter tweaks:
  • There's now a 2.5% chance of a double wild battle in Charred Pathway, Peridot Forest, and Jadit Ruins exterior.
  • Nincada can no longer be found in Peridot Forest.
    • It was only found on one map, and its slot has been replaced with Paras.
  • Pidgey is no longer available on Route 6, having been replaced by Pidgeotto
  • Azumarill is available in dark grass on Route 6
  • Encounter levels altered
    • Route 5, Route 6, Amaris City, Ironis City, Ironis Tunnel, and Ironis Black Market have generally higher level ranges, ignoring fishing
• Added a new quest; Sidequest: The Landlady.
  • This quest can be started on Route 4 East as soon as the player can access the rest house. Be warned that once the quest is started, the area cannot be exited until the quest is complete, and it is possible to Game Over here.
• Starter Pokémon and Pokémon obtained from EVO can no longer be sold to Suppliers.
• Starters from the lab and Tenpo now have a guaranteed IV at 31.
• Adjusted the prices of Cafe items to reflect their PokeMart counterparts.
• Edited mart script to give Premier Balls upon buying at least 10 of any type of PokeBall
  • Also gives more for every 10 bought in one instance
• You now gain 50% more credits from deathmatches after completing Ironis Black Market.
• Prizes for Emeralis Trainer School tournament altered
  • 1 round won: 1 Level Ball, 1 Fast Ball, 1 Lure Ball
  • 2 rounds won: 1 Level Ball, 1 Fast Ball, 1 Lure Ball, 1 Friend Ball, 1 Love Ball
  • All rounds won: complete set of apricorn balls
• Hard mode now forces the player on Set Battle Style

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