Beta and the Beast... and the Mono Extravaganza (Patreon)

yikes to the hikes, guys, so beta's been out for about a week and a half now which truthfully is more than i wanted beta to have to be out for but for how relatively clean alpha was i have not been prepared for the intensity of this test.
but.
that is really mostly not because of the actual errors involved... like yeah AI was alarming at first, but 95% of the inaction errors are sourced back to the same 2-3 causes which are already fixed so that's whatever, and the rest has been me tweaking values for smarter decisions which is frankly where i want to be.
some eventing-side bugs that keep popping up over recurring waves are a pain but that's also expected and i'm getting those set and properly tested with more cass's and kanaya's helps.

but that is not what has made this testing period so intense.
what it is is the fact that it is has turned into Supervised Testing Part 3, x10.
and when I say x10.
I mean literally.

welcome to the 7's Mono Extravaganza.

this started the day after beta. there are 10 of us in one giant group call all running the game together with monotype challenge runs. the represented types are:

• Fighting
• Ghost (it me)
• Poison
• Psychic
• Bug
• Normal
• Rock
• Ground
• Steel
• I think Water is next ?
• and a couple weenies who are doing nuzzles/completion runs instead of monotypes but whatever we don't count them (everyone call dan a weenie (no dont he's sad enough about working so much already))

this was something Dan organized in response to the Reborn Penta-Op airing on youtube. he has this thing where he gets mad at people who play games because he's like i could do that better. so he tried to do it better, organizing a penta-op with some of his close friends just for fun. but when it roped in some first-time players, this is what it became.  

we started the day after beta, and we are still going strong. a few people are coming towards the end of their runs, and at least one other (hi inuki) finished early and then started over with a new type. complete mess. literally no one is on sync with each other. but that's okay for reasons you'll see below.

it's been a blast. i'm not the type of person who loves hanging around people that much, but it's pretty fun to go through this with everyone, and to be able to, at any hour of the day, hop into this call with 3-9 other people playing through it. it makes some very base, inner child part of me very happy. 

but it's also been stressful because being in a call with 10 other people playing the game means that i am suddenly very aware of every bug each of them encounters, and moreover, every poor AI decision that i see happen in their playthroughs, so i've taken a handful of notes from that. collecting a lot of moment-to-moment feedback has pushed me to make several last minute QoL changes to the beta like iolia crystals needing to be smashed once, some extra light shard additions, and the therapist now lets you select a nature...
but it's basically another bout of supervised testing, yep. i show up not just as a player, but as the dev, and so there's a lot more for me to keep up with.

and i can't.

if i were just playing, i could surely keep up with them, and if i were just bugfixing, i could surely keep up with it, but trying to do both at once has meant i haven't done a whole lot besides reborn since beta came out.
y'all encourage me to take breaks and i appreciate this
but also i don't want to get left behind by the group~
and i do want to get community out pretty quick.
so i hustle, but i hustle because i want to. and in the mean time, it's a bit much.
but we'll call it worth.

anyway, lemme spread the wealth. since everyone's timezones are out of whack, and some people aren't able to screenshare properly, some of them started recording major battles and posting them on youtube.

and some are a true delight.
i just now asked for permission to share, and only a few people are around right now to offer it, so let me pull some videos from those guys that accepted... 

ah, patreon won't let me embed within a post, so i'll link and tag... and add some thumbnails manually. because the thumbnail game is getting out of control. 

Inuki [Normal] vs Kiki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBoJ3JuBUd0

Ikaru [Psyhcic] vs Luna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Grj0NiD2E

G [Poison] vs Radomus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_ae4OawPJo

Inuki2 [Rock] vs 1st Tangrowth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGaikQOdZOg

Ikaru [Psychic] vs Terra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LQKGfdHQbE

G [Poison] vs Terra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMHkyqCMZio

Inuki2 [Rock] vs Garchomp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkMjSaKk9zk

Dan [Weenie] vs Flornia
http://rebornevo.com/ame/l1sb.mp4

Dan [Weenie] vs Garchomp
http://rebornevo.com/ame/l1ob.mp4

-- i haven't taken any recordings myself, but with luna coming up, maybe i will...

and if i get permission from some of the others, i'll post some more of theirs too!

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did you know this was supposed to be a rewards post? i bet you didn't!

for patrons pledging between 7/1 and 7/31:

• everyone's been added to the credit list-- if you want to not be included or have a certain name you want used, communicate it to me!
• accounts have been set to supporter, folks have been message
• if you've been missed somehow or you want to call in one of the higher tier rewards please do me a message please

also we have somehow just blown through to my next goal which
wow
guys i haven't even emotionally caught up with the last one~
a lot the sudden jump is strong part due to the several new level 100 saints who've joined us recently-- so huge shout out to them, you all are incredibly amazing

i am so not prepared to do another usual dramatic spiel like i've done on rewards and tier goals in the past but
you all have my whole heart
so i fight hard to make it worth it~

but action over words. i got some bugs to fix up.
xxxxx

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