Hi everyone! Welcome back to another development blog for Pokémon Vanguard! I've made extensive progress over the past month since 1.1's release completing every indoor map redo and nearly every new map! We've also completed nearly every regional planned for next update leaving just a few shiny sprites to be made. The only thing left to do is eventing and trainer teams, which shouldn't take too long since I know exactly what I'm going to do with each of those. While I don't wanna show off too much new content, have a look at a stylish new update to the Academy.
Yep, the stretched building tile I lazily added originally is finally gone! And enjoy these screenshots from the interior and exterior courtyards!
You heard him, different Pokemon will appear in each courtyard, adding a plethora of variety!
So what else? Well for the past few weeks in the discord, I've been mentioning the return of all starters being available. While this is in fact true, I've gone through and given some updates to each starter.
Want a super fast Froakie that plays around critical hits? A hard hitting HP tank Tepig? A Bulbasaur that ACTUALLY learns special attack moves? Each starter has been updated to add move diversity to the pool of 24 allowing you to choose from sweepers, tanks, all rounders, and more. On top of that, each starter has been given a 3rd ability (regionals will get overgrow/blaze/torrent as their third just didn't get to editing that yet). And yes as you may have noticed, Protean was removed from Froakie, but him and other starters will have other methods of balancing given to them to compensate for their possibly/already removed abilities. All of these images will be visible when given the option to pick your starter.
While I don't have any images to show off for this final one, I would like to announce that a third difficulty mode will be added to Vanguard 1.2, Expert Mode. Expert mode will bring forth the full potential of regional variants and Pokemon updates hopefully creating a truly difficult experience. With this, both Casual and Normal (will be renamed "experienced") modes will receive a few changes since there is a third option now.
That's all for now, and I do wanna also say thank you for 7.8k downloads and 960 discord members as I'm currently writing this! ~ Ayrei
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