Changelog: Xmas 2020 (24/12/2020)

[Kyu]

 

Features

 

Return to Twist Mountain

• Twist Mountain is a Christmas-themed co-op event for 2-4 players
• Trade with your friends and build the best bots you can to defeat the rogue elves
• Collect Big Robot Parts and clear as many waves as possible to win prizes
• This instance is accessible in Vermilion City, Slateport City, Hearthome City, and Castelia City
• This event will be active from December 24th until January 6th. Enjoy your holidays!

 

General

• Client mods now support gendered battle sprites. The format for battlesprites are now ID-back-shiny-gender-frame.png
  • Not all fields are required. The game client will attempt to handle all files with at least 3 parameters.
  • Undefined genders will result in the same sprites being given to both genders.
  • Frame parameters are only used for PNG arrays.
  • (Monster icons are currently unsupported, but will be handled Later™)
• Client mods now support limited coordinate modifications for battle sprites. See table-coordinate-mods.txt
• Client mods now support customized frame timings for GIF files. See table-sprite-timings.txt
• Client mods now support PNG arrays for animations. PNG arrays require defined sprite timings. See table-sprite-timings.txt

 

Gift Shop

• The Snow Globe Hat is now available for a limited time

• The Santa Hat & Santa Suit, Rising Star Particle, Earmuffs, and Scarf items have returned for the Winter Season. These items will be available for a short time this year and will return next.

 

 

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where very old players could have their daycare slots become stuck
• Fixed an issue where name fields for nicknames and team names would not accept the correct characters
• Fixed an issue where Me First, when cast against a target with Me First, would lead to an infinite loop in battle

 

Notes

• Previously, this event was scheduled to end on January 3rd. Due to gameplay / difficulty balancing issues, we have extended the event by 3 days. It will now end on January 6th 00:00 UTC.

 

[Kyu]

Changelog: 26/12/2020

 

Balancing

• Santa's Presents now exchange for 3 Big Robot Parts, up from 1
• Bosses in Twist Mountain now give an additional Big Robot Part for each boss defeated in the instance's run, scaling from 1 up to 6 per win
• The amount of elfbots which may be summoned by SOS battles has been reduced from 2 to 1 in early waves
• Aggro distance for coop partners has been slightly increased
• Updated movesets for several elfbot and boss configurations

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where losing to Bosses in Twist Mountain would cause double life reduction

[Desu]

Changelog 26/12/2020 - 2

 

Balancing:

• Added 4 extra Present pickup items in Twist Mountain's event area.
• Tweaks to Offensive Grass's starting moveset.

[Kyu]

Changelog: 29/12/2020

 

Xmas Twist Mountain Balancing

• Added event-exclusive out of battle skill effects for:
  • Recover-type moves, Rest, Heal Pulse, and Aromatherapy/Heal Bell
  • Self-targeted heals consume 2 PP when used out of battle. Ally-targeted heals and AoE heals consume 1 PP
• Removed elfbot changing after exiting the entrance map
• Reduced the maximum size of waves to 20
• Reduced the scaling of wave increases from 2 -> 1
  • Waves now progress as 10->11->12 as opposed to 10->12->14..
• NPCs now scale power levels every 8 waves, compared to 3 waves previously
• Previously useless EV presents will now open as an item if the coop team has reached the maximum EV level
• Removed the turn-in step for Big Robot Parts. BRPs will now credit immediately to the coop event's rewards upon pickup
• The default IV distribution for player elfbots has been increased to 20/20/20/20/20/20, from 0
• Elf Mastery Devices now always give +4 IVs

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where, when defeating multiple elfbots in a single battle, they would only count once against the coop event's wave counter
• Fixed an issue where unclaimed Xmas Twist Mountain presents would reroll every wave clear, instead of every item respawn wave
• Fixed an issue where Rattled would display a targeting error when activating
• Fixed an issue where Pledge skills would not cancel if the second combo skill were interrupted by Paralysis/etc.

Notes

• PokeMMO's Xmas event has been extended and will end on Jan 6th 00:00 UTC+0

Edited December 28, 2020 by Kyu

[Kyu]

Changelog: 29/12/2020 Update 2

 

Xmas Twist Mountain Balancing

• When fighting Double Battles waves, the initial partner will now always be a variant of the overworld sprite. Previously, this was randomly generated
• Increased the chances to obtain rare items from item presents, and added PP Ups/Maxes to their item pools

Xmas Twist Mountain Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where, after wave 16, enemy NPC waves would transition immediately into Doubles+SOS
• Fixed an issue where players who had full HP & no status ailments would not be eligible for PP heals when activating a healing present
• Fixed an issue where EV presents would only fill 4/5ths of the total EV gain