>>22360 It's after that fight, yeah. He gives you the item to do it later

>Was looking up designs made by James Turner out of curiosity >Stumble into this https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Phobos_Battalion#Baron_Phobos What the actual fuck PALF bros....? >>22355 There's some dex entries that also crash the game, Empire is a very polished game as you can tell. Kek, in fairness Empire has so many features that feel specifically designed to be harmful to the player, so much shit got changed to the point it barely feels like Pokemon game and the story and text walls are so insanely shit besides a few really funny ones that I sometimes have trouble even calling this a game, especially with how unpolished it feels in so many areas. As autistic as Reborn is and as genuinely mentally ill as the faggots and trannies behind it are, it's still a game foremost and the gameplay loop is fantastic and it feels like a genuine passion project (until the point Amethyst sorta gave up and Cass took over), I cannot in good faith say the same about Empire with how much this game shits on you. >>22356 It's possible but it's genuinely not worth even trying, me and Ashime spent an entire day trying, Ashime figured out a way by exploiting the AI under very specific circumstances, but it nearly drove him mad, I recommend grabbing a level 100 mon and just saying fuck it.

>>22363 oh shit, and the mask he wears in palf is a reference to that design, thought it was just a dumb mask cause he's a fucking weirdo. I assumed he was from the same movie melody is from since they're father/daughter in palf

>>22364 They're not really related in PALF, but Phobos pretends to be Melody's uncle. I find it interesting how Lawrence III (the name from the collector who tried getting the legendary birds in the movie) and Baron Phobos from Trozei did the fusion dance in PALF, I wonder if at some point they'll give him the Eggman like suit from Trozei kek?

Seeing someone say this is pure evil and a mistake only wants me to get it even more! Can't use it but it looks decent

>>22366 It's pretty good, but it takes ages to evolve, it's evolution is also one of the most broken fakemon in the game.

>the graveler and onix strategy fails because the onix even with max investment in HP doesn't have enough for the counter to fully kill anything Shame, just going to pretend it did work and the following is just a flex Time for the Debug Squad

>you actually do get the badge Neat, did I miss out on anything important?

Okay so time for a schizo theory after this line, the Fire Emblem Soren from the Telius games is revealed to be half royal half dragon and after he just said this and the talk he had of looking after a legendary that seeks worthy people I wonder if he will end up being *the child of either Zekrom(would fit a lot since his mom was a black dragon) or Reshiram**

>>22370 Fug forgot one of the asterisks, damn you lack of ctrl S

I've been slowly getting some progress in Empire whenever I have free time, I've noticed some small visual changes in Polaris, small ones, but I think some buildings have new textures. I haven't seen any new events however, weirdly enough the AI seems to also be acting less retarded than usual after I changed type matchups back to normal-ish, which is kinda funny. >>22369 Nope, you also get an advantage in a bullshit fight coming up. >>22370 >Spoiler We don't know yet, but we do know Soren's dad was a dragonfag who had a very close relationship with some legendary dragons so h-haha....... But that wouldn't happen, because it would make a Pokemon halfway relevant to the plot, and Octavius fucking hates Pokemon, even more than Jan.

This made me realize something, some fags from a literal Vietnamese basket weaving forum brought up that Mega Clefable has a dozen nut inspirations for whatever reason, fittingly the trainer who uses it is a complete fucking nutty lunatic.

It's amazing how useless Soren is in this fight

>>22374 GG, and yeah he is, did Quinn give you too much trouble? Oh also, did you get Phione? It's kinda annoying due to how autistic the Toliman puzzle is, but it's really decent later in the game.

>>22375 She gave me a bit of trouble because I was trying to do the fight without proper IVs and EVs, was trying to see how long until I needed to start messing with that Also no I haven't gotten Phione yet, still need to get the last thing to remove the crystal from what I saw on the guide

>>22376 Noted and fair, this fight fucking sucks even with EVs and maxed IVs due to how worthless Soyren is. Ah noted.

>>22374 gg

it's time to RETVRN. btw, allanah knows what the locket regalia does, which is fine for a tutorial, but it also does that canonically in universe, so how does she know that?

Why is this nigger randomly this retarded now? >>22379 Don't think too hard about Empire's writing, like with Rejuvenation it just becomes more retarded. Like Octavius tries to parse the MC and North as two competent kids who were always at the top of their class, yet this is a Pokemon world, so the MC being an early adult would have to have Pokemon for his curriculum or at the very least to defend himself, but he doesn't at the start of the game in spite of how retarded that is, Alanah has Pokemon at the start, which makes this even more retarded, and North is treated like a war vet yet he's running around with a bunch of level 20's at the start when Royale was rocking fucking legendaries, it makes no fucking sense. Even the newest chapters have a section that forces you to sacrifice a legendary to progress the plot, Octavius genuinely fucking hates Pokemon and refuses to allow them to be relevant.

Wowe, I sure wonder what this is a reference to.

>The battery grub Pokemon gets Sand Force as it's ability ?????????

of all the games why is empire one of the few that guarantees good starter ivs? it's bonkers >>22380 gg. I can't help it sometimes

>Opened up Rejuvenation's plebbit to check for a sprite I saw posted there a while back >The top post of the sub is a fat ugly chink tranny dressed like Crescent >>22383 A broken clock is right twice a day as they say. Thanks bro, entirely fair, I can't help but wonder and question these things as well and it drives me mad.

>>22384 Come on now, it can't be that ba- >checks post Jesus fuck

did octavius update the look of the town map?

>>22385 I am so sorry you saw that too, seeing that abomination ruined my entire day. >>22386 Not to my knowledge? A few houses in Polaris look as though their color changed, but I typically always play with nightlights on, so it might not be case.

what he lacks in speed he makes up for in luck

>ZA is so shit that even Joe Merrick, Mr. Bugs in Anus himself, thinks it's undercooked and lacking in worthwhile gameplay >He comes close to saying something negative about Pokemon only after it was revealed via the Teraleak that Masuda's tyrannical hold over Pokemon is gone OH NONONONO........

>>22389 the bugs are weakening

They added this cute news lady here in the train station, but you don't get opportunities to say anything, so it's weird that it's even a thing. >>22390 Or Joe's ass has been reinforced, or both.

You are DEFINITELY not supposed to be here right now.

>>22392 he's there for me too. is that supposed to be for that kid that speaks in riddles

>>22393 Yeah, but it's bugged because this event is not meant to here right now since it's related to later in the quest.

If I had a penny for every cute news girl in this game that wanted to get on with the MC, I'd have 3 pennies, which is weird that it happened thrice.

do you guys find that trainers are always switching pokemon the first turn?

thanks luis