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Bless ya cheers Smeargle yeah its been great! 1. hmm I think we are playing around the idea of 10 versions? don't quote me on that lol 2. For right now no, in the future after v5 release? potentially. As it stands rn, Ruby is taking on all the art side of the project, Caz is focusing on the story, eventing and most of the mapping meanwhile I am focusing on the gameplay aspect, I have picked up mapping throughout the course of development. We are in a comfortable state however if the work load gets a bit intense considering Caz is a med student and I'm going into my 3rd year of uni, we will consider getting another person on the team. 3. The both of us have very much so enjoyed the work we have done for Desolation and can't wait for everyone to release it to the public. Ruby has very much loved re-designing some of the characters, meanwhile I have suffered doing the pbs, 8 hours straight in one day to finish off the trainers... life is pain. But it'll all be worth it! I've loved re-doing the teams for the Deso cast, especially when have of them had Gengar. We have debated custom shinies, Ruby has done some actually for a few Pokemon no spoilers to what those Pokemon are :]. However overall we haven't focused on custom shinies this version. For v6 its a potential route we will go down, personally I do love the custom shinies in Reborn/Rejuvenation and having them in Desolation would be pretty cool! With Ruby being the main/only spriter, community work may be an option, if we do look to the community, we will make a post about it. 1. So when it came to the encounters, I created an Obtainable List specifically for Desolation, yes an Obtainable List like Reborn has that isn't a notepad file or just text on a screen like we had for v4 LOL which will drop sometime around the release of v5. This list along with a document helped me mark out what mons were available, what wasn't and where they existed in the wild. So when re-doing the encounters, I really considered my previous playthrough of Deso, what would be busted before a certain Gym, what should be available earlier and also I took inspiration from Reborn/Rejuvenation. With Desolation also having a unique factor being the Credit Shop, I played around with that to make certain Pokemon obtainable, for example Aderyn, everyone would literally buy a Magnemite because that gym was b r o k e n. Hopefully the changes I have made make for an enjoyable experience. 2. I'm going to say yes cause we have updated to Gen 7, so yes. 3. If you mean like the changes to the encounters/updating to Gen 7 affecting the story.. not really, it just changes a few teams around thats all. 4. It'll probably be explained ingame, if not Caz will talk about it sometime. 5. If you mean the gym leaders? yes they are each based around a single type. Realistically, this time around we are just looking towards active members of the community that Ruby and I have spoken to and know would be good people to ask to do beta testing. When v6 comes around, we will make clear what kind of "qualifications" we are looking for when it comes to beta testing IF we open it to the public.

1. For v5 no, theres no need tbh lol. Reason I say that is because v5 is essentially completed, we are currently in the process of doing internal testing then it will go to Beta Testing, then public release. We do have plans to drop some stuff before the release though so look out for that! 2. Yes, I will link anything important to do with Deso in the Fangame General Channel on the Discord Server unless otherwise 3. To quote what Ruby said "Too damn hard.", she told me the day Caz reached out to her since she couldn't contain her excitement :'], she needed someone to be excited with! Meanwhile for myself it was pretty hard at times, especially when people were saying like "Desolation is dead, Caz is never coming back" and I would end up being optimistic about it LOL. 4. Caz will answer that later, he is currently asleep, either here or in the upcoming FAQ 5. To quote Ruby again "I already have some experience with random people sliding into my dms, unless it’s something weird I think I’m fairly prepared, haha" For me, I'm more than fine with people dming me for stuff, just don't be over the top weird when you dm me stuff thats all I ask aha. Ruby and I have known about Deso's return for about 10-11 months, basically when the proper production started. And both of us have! even before we knew each other :') I first played it back in 2016 on v3? then v4 came out, was gassed, then was consistently looking at the deso thread for the update to come in 2018 but never did. Yes I was one of you guys LOL, I was still optimistic! For Ruby it was the reason why she reached out to Caz in the first place... in 2017, who would have thought a DM from 2017 that took Caz 2 Years to reply to would be the turning point for Desolation. I'll let Ruby answer that one 2. Again Caz is currently asleep as of writing this response, he will answer this either here or in the upcoming FAQ lol If you are talking about the multiple save file feature Rejuvenation has, for v5 no, for the future? maybe. I brought it up but we decided against it for now, The idea for v5 is to focus on the "complete overhaul", small features such as multiple save files will be considered for the next version. For right now you can just move the "Game.exe" out of the Saved Games Folder and into a safe location, then start the game and create a new save file that way.

1. So previously if people remember, Desolation was going to have 16 Gyms. After thought and consideration also the level curve Desolation will now only have 12 Gyms. This will be more suited for the story we want to develop 2. Umm I guess? Depends on your party idk 3. For the engine, most likely we will be. Since the engine was produced and released during the ending party of v5 Development, we didn't even consider it but v6 maybe who knows, we'll have a discussion about it, cause Reborn does feel extremely nice now I will admit. Nope! like Reborn/Rejuvenation, your savefile from v4 will be compatible with v5. However we highly recommended that you do create a new savefile because with the complete overhaul of graphics, trainer battles and encounters, some parts have been redone and other stuff that you may miss out on if you continue from v5. It would be worth playing again from the start, plus the game has been on hiatus for 3 years, you might have forgotten some parts of the story

For v5, we are planning on having a selective Beta Test, meaning we will be reaching out to a few people to see if they want to be apart of the testing process, we will gather a team of 4-5 testers (maybe a few more). For everyone (i'm glad someone brought this up) Please do not flood Caz's dms with inquiries about Beta Testing, we have people in mind who we will ask, and will be reaching out to them soon. As for v6, we don't know if we will be doing the same process or not, if not we will open beta testing to the public via a forum. 1. Ahhh Reborn's new AI, to answer this bluntly... Yes. I brought it up to Caz and he implemented it over the course of a few days, so expects battle to "hopefully" be balanced and smarter! :] 2. With development for v5, Caz was mainly on and off since v4's release, so I would say about the time where Ruby first got involved with the game was the start of its "proper" production, and that was Late July last year? so about 10-11 months I would say.

As mentioned in the "Meet the Team" post, I have personally gone through and redid every single Trainer Battle in the game, every major team has had a revamp, some nerfed, some buffed. Encounters have also been redone, every area has had new Pokemon added and old Pokemon removed/axed til later on. Besides that, the overall Story hasn't been changed, maps are mainly the same besides a few edits :] As of right now, Gen 7 has been added and implemented into the game! As for Gen 8, we plan on adding that for v6, yes this would mean redoing encounters and trainers AGAIN, but I think to save time for now, its the best move moving forward. Also due to the lack of community sprites at the time of development, it would have been an extra load for Ruby to sprite considering she has given every single main sprite a glow-up.

Hi! if you're magically reading this, then well, this thread is now locked and will become inactive. There will be a new thread for EP6, we have new team members after all, so look forward to that :)

Just the one for me and its s e r i o u s sgdb What got you into Yugioh? and when did you start

Time to throw in some nominations :] Artist of the Year - @Ruby Red (y'all beat me to it :[) Sugarpop Sunbeam Award - @Azzie Dorkiest Dork Award - @Azeria The K-K-K-Kawaii Award - @Walpurgis @Ruby Red The Smelliest Auth Award - @Azzie (you stink <3) The Shelly Citra Award - @Ruby Red Most Likely to Start a Religious Cult - @Ojama Yellow (for the honey!) Most Likely to Die First in a Killing Game - lets shove @Ruby Red there also (looks at Summer Party Hunger Games) The Craziest Conspirator Award - @Hellscythe789 Award Award Award - @Jan edited: also nominating @Alex for Most Likely to be Madame X :')

I going to nominate Alex for Ember King and Ruby & Kyle for Sunlit Sovereign x

Dodrio: Increase Base Defence +10 and gains the ability Huge Power Primeape: Increase Base Speed +20 and gains the ability Scrappy

Typo at the hospital where after you find the underground base and talk to huey/reina, Ren asks how 'Ren is doing' lmao

Theres a major bug where if you walk into the open door in the Scholar Recreation Center, then you end up in the void with no escape besides resetting your game.

Gonna just chuck these nominations here... Sugarpop Sunbeam Award - Mu7e Auspicious Auth Award - Icy Smelliest Auth Award - Azery Artist of the Year - Ruby Shelly Citra Award - Kyle Most Likely to Gain a New Mega Evolution - Alistair Award Award - Jan

@Sayia Cheers, much appreciated! x

Finished V10 and I do not have Anju's Pendant due to my save being started around V5, if someone could put it in my bag i would much appreciate it. Game.rxdata

The Celebi gave me an Ability Capsule, ahahaha unlucky guys x

With the new Version, it brought Zygarde Cell collection, as of now is there anyway to actually combine the Cells to create Zygarde. Or are we just collecting Cells for the fun of it until we can combine them in later versions

I'm trying to do the Type: Null sidequest however I cannot find where to obtain a Magnet, I know that you can get them off Nosepass but isn't Cratos Mountain blocked off? Unless there is another place where you can find Nosepass I might just be plain stupid but assistance would be greatly appreciated x