The E16 protips guide [no spoilers:]

[Odybld]

Episode 16 - Pro tips 

 

Hello Reborn players, this is a small guide intended mostly for the non-forum members and it's here to help you with the E16 Public Release. It's a small list of tips that can help you solve any problems you encounter by yourselves if applied. It's spoiler-free and made to help you enjoy the game and make it through without the need of making an account to ask for help: You can do it yourself!

 

First, follow these wise words of Amethyst:

 

9 hours ago, Amethyst said:

Attention: 
 - Before updating to E16, please make sure that you are NOT using menu frames 27 or 28. Switch to a different frame number and save before loading in E16!

 - Back up save files will now be kept according to the set Options, but existing save files are set to 0 by default. Please check your Options and enable backups!

 -  In order to begin the episode, you will need to return to the Circus Data Room (where Ciel is), and then leave the room again.

 

Before starting:

-You may not want to start E16 right right away. Once you do, the city will be permanently upgraded, and some Pokemon events will change. To grab them now and easy, you may want to go and pick some stationary event Pokemon BEFORE entering the Circus Data Room.

-Same goes for items and most importantly, Department Store Stickers!

New features:

-Take your time to explore the new city. Many previous event Pokemon (not all!) are now found in the wild, there are lots of new events, people to talk to, everything is different. 

-It's neat to Fly from one Ward to another!

-Btw, if you press "Alt", you can toggle the game speed between normal and x3.

-If you use the Online features, follow the instructions very very closely!

-The new PokeGear apps are neat, use them for information!

-The X or Esc button skips dialogues. But careful with that, you may miss something important!

 

Story tips:

-To continue with the story, start from the most central place in the city, and go to the obvious places from there. You won't need to leave the city.

-If you're warned about something in the story, heed to the warning and come prepared. You have been warned for a reason.

-Take note of a small, unexpected text that will show halfway: the way to advance through puzzles will remain the same throughout the episode. It doesn't HAVE to hurt. 

-If the Gym leader troubles you, make adjustments, do your homework on the fields and maybe make team changes. We've all been there before. We'll all manage.

 

Exploring and sidequests:

-Talk to everyone, don't skim through the dialogues, go everywhere. And again, because you may have unlocked another quest. And again and again and again. Talk to everyone again and again and go everywhere many times!

-If some rewards don't make any sense to you, one man's trash is another man's treasure. 

-Again, the quests are a chain reaction: one thing triggers another. So check on all areas and NPCs multiple times.

-Especially in some places, it's important that you spam your Item Finder until you've found everything that's hidden!

-If you explore new areas or revisit old ones, have a good bearing of the place that you are moving. Check the whole map, you may have missed something. Cover the whole area.

-Exploring areas in E16: sponsored by Max Repels.

-If you enter a place and see a text message upon entering, it propably means that you better change the field effect to something else to grab the goodies. 

-Sometimes you have to slip through cracks, sometimes you have to go up and under to make your way.

-If there's a Strength boulder, pokemon logic says it's most likely a Strength puzzle. Your strength may lay on land, it may also lay on the water.
-Reborn City is the center of the region's economic activity, but there are a few other places in the region offering opportunities too.

-Don't scorn rewards that consist of extra lore. Lore is becoming more and more important in the game, as we're approaching the finish line.

-Naturally, defeating the Gym leader may unlock some stuff. Do some more exploring afterwards.

-In the end everything will be availiable, but for now you have to make some choices. Don't sweat it too much.

 

General mindset:

-If you feel like stuck, take a look here and see if anything from this guide is applicable to your situation.

-Have fun and enjoy the story, the new polished look of the game, the quests, the rewards, the lore, everything!

 

Useful links:

-The E16 Public Release topic

-The Online Information topic to be informed about this new feature

-The Obtainable Pokemon list to know what you can get in the game now

-The Bug Reporting subforum in case you encounter a bug

 

Thanks to @pyrromanis, @Marcello and @Njab for reviewing this little guide :] Although this snow effect made it 30% harder to edit :[

Edited December 15, 2016 by Odybld

[FairFamily]

Maybe an additonal tip, you don't have to be superrich to do all the sidequests.

Edited December 15, 2016 by FairFamily

[Qaaz]

Starting a new game is always a good choise too

I had some struggle with all those changes since EP9 that I started and lot of things will change again until the final episode.

Even on Rejuvenation I had to make a new game b/c I had a bug with Narcissa

[Craxuan]

Also, wait until someone makes a guide/walkthrough for E16 so that the experience is seamless.

[Zander]

I mean... If someone has really played reborn uptill episode 16 and has gone through the game then aren't all of these facts pretty obvious? 

Your mind becomes wired to do all these things anyway so I don't really see any pro tips here 

[Ice Cream Sand Witch]

Just now, Zander said:

I mean... If someone has really played reborn uptill episode 16 and has gone through the game then aren't all of these facts pretty obvious? 

Your mind becomes wired to do all these things anyway so I don't really see any pro tips here 

This is for people who are new to the game, or are just updating to E16 (for people who started with E15, they'd be new to updating the game and might need something like this).

[Zander]

2 minutes ago, Ice Cream Sand Witch said:

This is for people who are new to the game, or are just updating to E16 (for people who started with E15, they'd be new to updating the game and might need something like this).

Well game beginners I get but people who've played episode 15 are obviously used to it