V13.5 Update | Progress Has Been Made!

AAAA so excited!!! Take your time, a good game always takes time.

awesome

Excited because TESTING SOON YEEEE, scared for release because............ Renegade route..... beware...... STILL MORE EXCITED  

1 minute ago, Chrixai said:

Excited because TESTING SOON YEEEE, scared for release because............ Renegade route..... beware...... STILL MORE EXCITED  

I’m excited for the opposite : The Paragon Route.

paragon or renegade? that is the question.

as for me, I probably choose paragon since I am not particularly one for personal betrayals, but to each their own I suppose.

I'm so excited; paragon route, here I come. Jan and Zumi, take your time and get some well-earned rest.

The replayability in this game is off the charts AAAAAA

Awesome, I'm glad we got new infos! But I have a question: since Aevia got new design but, from the screens her second outfit was the same, her second outfit will be updated? 

5 minutes ago, Jan said:

I assume you mean her backsprite? Yeah, that will be updated! It just hasn't been done yet. On release everything will be updated properly :).

Yeah, I meant that. Thanks for the answer! 

Just popping in to say thanks for all your hard work--again~  Tbh I haven't gotten far in Rejuv at all; never made it past the 2nd gym.  It's mostly because other games have hooked me, but I'm planning to finally, actually get into the game once you get 13.5 out.  I've heard about certain plot points and events surrounding the protagonist...things that speak to me personally, due to my own experiences.  How profoundly they speak to me is what I'm most looking forward to.

now this is epic

Cant wait for the removal of intense mode release day!

I am very much looking forward to this! And I have to find a way to make myself push through a Renegade route sometime, since I find it hard to be enough of a dickhead to everyone to get on it...

we're fighting talon besties W

super excited for this update!

Are you still going to show the results of the balance changes from the survey? Or are they a bit too much into spoiler territory?

Are there any early-game changes pre-v13 in this update or can I start a new playthrough now without worrying too much about major changes to the story?

1 hour ago, Kerat said:

Are there any early-game changes pre-v13 in this update or can I start a new playthrough now without worrying too much about major changes to the story?

As of now from what I remember from other dev posts, Jan and the other devs have placed in a mercy ruling for v13.5. Because there are events on Terajuma Island that would be long gone by now because you would in theory do them on your very first visit in the story, the devs have made it so that in v13.5, you can access that event and part of the Island story.

However they also pointed out that this only extends to v13.5. Once v14 proper comes out, the Terajuma Island story events will be reset back into place timeline wise. The only other things that are effected by this as far as I am aware of is the free Aevian Feebas you get at Gearen City no longer being available post v14.

You should be good for the time being.

This game is incredible. Thanks for the effort. Looking forward to finding the spot where the soundtrack is played.

Im a Bit confused. When you sag that Paragon and Renegade Route have been completed do you mean like you’ve finished the entirety of the Story for Rejuvenation or have you just finished the changes necessary to activate both the routes from what’s available up to V13? Does that also mean V14 goes all the way through the last couple gym Leaders to the E8 and Champion?

I swear, if talon doesn't have a talonflame on his team, i have lost all faith in humanity

The hype is always real when Jan or Zumi gives us updates about Pokemon Rejuvenation

8 hours ago, Quackborg said:

I swear, if talon doesn't have a talonflame on his team, i have lost all faith in humanity

4 hours ago, Zumi said:

 

The routes being completed means that the content for the new routes for as far as the story goes in 13.5 is practically done bar a couple of small things. The last version to be released is slated to be V16 as of right now, so no, the remaining leaders and the E8/Champion will not be fought immediately in V14, as well as that the routes will be continued in future updates as well. We've still got a bit to go and gotta spread out content across updates!

Oh ok that makes sense. Thank you for clarifying that for me.

hello buddy so congrats on (almost) completion of 13.5V. So I was interested to how many hours of gameplay will add to it then ?

If I wanted to restart the game (because my save is gone -.-) would you recommend to wait for the update because it has many changes to the game before the update or can I just start a new game?

I hope you are doing better and still taking time to take care of yourself and your loved ones man! I love these updates, so keep up the good work man!

51 minutes ago, Jan said:

I don't really have an estimate! It's hard to say right now. 

 

I'd just wait at this point.

Ok great. Thanks for the quick answer 

Hi I've been wanting to start Rejuvenation but decided to wait for the next update. My only concern is if there are any sort of impactful story decisions like there were in Reborn that occur throughout the game and would decisions made in the early-mid game have an impact that we won't know about.

My headphones were on full volume. That being said, my first instinct was not to pause the music but to bop to the beat! 

Congratulations! Though it'll be a long time before I play 13.5 because I'm currently slowly making my way through Reborn's final version for the last 5 months. It took me 16 months to finish Rejuv V13 (Jul '21 - Nov '22) and I'm currently only 5 badges into Reborn, so I don't anticipate that being complete anytime soon. Nevertheless, I can guarantee that I will eventually be playing 13.5!

also deso v6 eventually

Thanks!

So excited! The maps keep looking nicer each update. Love the 'new' soundtracks too ^^

18 hours ago, Jan said:

There are decisions that can lead to different endings yes, but it is a point-based system. So messing up/missing a certain decision will not lock you out of a certain ending. The path of which your route is decided is calculated near the end of v13 main story content. 13.5 begins the routes to those endings based on that. Every important decision is pretty blatant with its importance. The game will always communicate (visually and sometimes through text) which decisions are impactful and which aren't. 

Thanks for the reply!

On 5/5/2023 at 10:48 PM, Jan said:

I don't really have an estimate! It's hard to say right now. 

 

I'd just wait at this point.

thanks for the quick reply

So, is the paragon and renegade endings basically just good and bad, or is it more than just that?

Thank you for explaining, very appreciated.

Pretty Hyped! So with the new version coming out, is it worthwhile to start again for new content? Or is it only after a certain point the changes are going to be made?

Okay so important question as someone who JUST started the v13 stuff recently. (I play in chunks)

Is 13.5 going to have enough early game content overhauled to necessitate another replay-? (I mean I likely will anyway but still)

Welp, once the update drops i'm gonna play through the game twice. One timeline i'll be nice and do most, if not all sidequests and the second timeline will be me just being a menace.

dang so excited I even got my gf and some of my friends on your games like reborn and this and I can wait but it is so hard to when your games are so good and idk but hope one day we can do passwords to make some interesting runs in rejuv like we are able to in reborn but Jan I know it takes time so take your time and enjoy making this fantastic game man. :)

On 5/3/2023 at 7:26 AM, Cursed Angel said:

paragon or renegade? that is the question.

 

 

 

 

 

 

as for me, I probably choose paragon since I am not particularly one for personal betrayals, but to each their own I suppose.

paragon for me
I can't really be or like being mean for the life of me

Could it be possible that the v13.5 launch for july or august of this year and is the V14 potentially the last episode or do you want more content before the end game ?

Thanks in advance, love your game.

Kinda a silly question, but is there a good way to be notified on when the update drops? I've blanket muted the Discord server, but like is there a specific channel that I should unmute?

Is it possible to start a separate file from my main one? I really want to try the renegade route.  

Great job! Really takes one hell of a something for someone to make a project out of raw, unadulterated passion without any form of pay. To this day, you're still working on it. Keep fighting the good fight, champ.

Gentlemen this is a bucket

The bucket could mean testing in other words beta testing phase?

On 6/29/2023 at 9:36 PM, Cerulean said:

The bucket could mean testing in other words beta testing phase?

I've been trying to analyse what the bucket means for so long, I thought that too, or maybe it's a bait and troll, if I was in their place, I would totally throw out a random png and see how they hyper analyse it just for shits and giggles

4 hours ago, axe-16 said:

I've been trying to analyse what the bucket means for so long, I thought that too, or maybe it's a bait and troll, if I was in their place, I would totally throw out a random png and see how they hyper analyse it just for shits and giggles

That's true. I would do the same thing. 

Hi Jan & Zumi,

Will the new legendaries such as Urshifu, the two new Regis, Calyrex and it's horses as well as the three Galarian birds be added to version 14.0?

I really wanna try using them under debug mode.

Howdy! I’m super excited to see what comes from this new update. The game is phenomenal and I can’t wait to play it again. My only question is about the balance - will there be changes to the normal mode that don’t make it so restrictive and difficult? I know there’s been quite a few posts detailing why v13 normal mode is unbalanced so I’m wondering if any leeway has been made on that.

On 7/6/2023 at 2:10 AM, sleeplessarcher said:

Howdy! I’m super excited to see what comes from this new update. The game is phenomenal and I can’t wait to play it again. My only question is about the balance - will there be changes to the normal mode that don’t make it so restrictive and difficult? I know there’s been quite a few posts detailing why v13 normal mode is unbalanced so I’m wondering if any leeway has been made on that.

 

 

I think there was a post about some changes being made to particularly difficult battles and unbalanced fields, I'll see if I can find the links to them

Link ONE - field and gym leader changes: 

Link TWO - Boss battles