road, z-fixes and egg party!! (Patreon)

since this is a non-spoiler post, i won't be talking too much about victory road here, and showing more of it will have to be another time. probably when the next stream is announced, since i'm in a really good time to do that soon. more on that later though.

regardless, i can say here that victory road is now 3/9 sections complete-- and 2/3 were the biggest ones. so it's down hill from here. make no mistake.... still a fucktonne to do. but like, sugar we're goin' down swingin'

but since mapping is just about all i've done lately, instead i'll talk about some things other people have done. marcello has fixed a handful of Z-move - related errors-- all of the record ones, even!
here's what those were:

• Sleep now properly interacts with Z-moves even on the turn of waking up
• Z-moves no longer fail halfway through, such as due to paralysis, causing the attack to not go through
• Variable-power moves like return and wringout now properly calculate damage for Z moves
• Electrify and Ion Deluge now change Z move type properly
• Z-moves now interact with Gale Wings properly

aside from that, Marcello also fixed a handful of AI-related issues with Powder Moves, found by Azery. ty azery. basically the AI was never going to use most powder-based moves but... now they will! that means spore. watch out.
i have no idea if any opponents even use spore in this game. maybe rini's breloom. whatever.

on a different note, we have a minor graphical improvement for the party screen. eggs now show their unique designs from the menu! this was a project that smeargletail has been working on for weeks, and entirely on his own initiative, and it finally came through to completion for all egg-able species. huge props for him for doing that himself. i hope many players will appreciate it~

here's an example screenshot:

please ignore the two eggs holding items. the fact that i have no real pokemon in the party should be proof enough of debug shenanigans already.

i wonder what happens if i start a battle like this?
just out of curiosity.

answer: nothing. the battle just refuses to start. ok.

anyway, cass and i will be having a friend staying over with us for several days this week, so over these few days, i've been/will be cleaning through our entire place. and then in the time she'll be here i don't really know how much i'll be able to get done or stream, so i'm naturally not going to count on any of that...

...which probably means our next stream will be around the start of next week. but i'll announce that when i know for sure. still... i wonder how much i'll have left to do by then. the mapping pace has picked up now that most of the graphics and hard parts are set.
but it's a big enough place, i'm sure there'll still be some left.
i could always add more if i get too bored too....... just kidding ^^

until next time~