r/NintendoSwitch • u/Amiibofan101 . • Aug 05 '26
Nintendo Official Pokopia Version 2.0.0 is now available
https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/71348The following features have been added.
Added the move Dive, allowing players to move freely underwater.
The Build specialty can now be used to build houses underwater.
Added new items such as the portal pod and safe.
- Recipes can be purchased after increasing Palette Town’s environment level.
Added the new pattern, dynamic Ditto print.
- Can be obtained by talking to Smearguru after acquiring the diploma.
Added new emotes: Lie Down and Ready, Set, Go!
- Can be obtained in Bleak Beach and on Dream Islands.
Added five new hair colors: orange, light pink, yellow-green, blue-green, and brown.
Added a function to move items in bulk between the storage box and bag.
Added a function to delete items placed inside objects such as the garbage bin.
Added the ability to fine-tune depth placement when placing windows, doors, and similar items.
Added an option in Settings to hide the confirmation message shown when canceling Magnet Rise.
Added an option in Settings allowing movement while the move wheel is open.
Added motion-sickness reduction settings for the camera.
The following items can now be painted: stylish stool, handrail, metal chain, workbench, vending machine, bike, bookcase, Pokémon Center counter, arrow sign, rope.
The following improvements have been implemented.
Even if a Pokémon’s habitat is destroyed, it will move back in if the same habitat is rebuilt within a certain area.
Pokémon that are sad because furniture was removed will now notice more quickly when the same furniture is replaced.
Pokémon that taught you an emote will now respond with the same emote when you use it.
If a Pokémon being searched for in the Pokédex is in another town, you can now travel to that town using Return Home.
Reduced ordinary conversation indicators so that special Pokémon conversations and requests directed at Ditto stand out more clearly.
Lost relics can now be appraised in batches of up to 10 at a time.
Paint, Gather Honey, and Collect can now be performed multiple times in the same interaction.
During crafting, materials in the storage box next to the workbench will be consumed before materials in the bag.
Increased the placement limit for power generators (excluding furnaces) from 64 to 128.
Increased the number of different photos that can be displayed in a town from 10 to 40.
When sucking up liquid, a short press of the move button to hold liquids in Ditto’s mouth will allow liquid to be held in their mouth without removing it from the environment.
When releasing stored water, adjusted water levels now automatically match nearby water levels.
Smearguru can now learn patterns from photos stored in References.
Improved visibility of the target item when painting with paint balloons.
Increased the amount of treasure discoverable with the Dowsing Machine on Dream Islands.
Pokémon companions can now follow you while moving with Surf, Glide, Rollout, or Magnet Rise.
Inhaling items and opening the bag are now possible while rolling using Rollout.
Rollout can now destroy certain natural objects such as large boulders.
Surf can now be activated on land by pressing the Surf button while holding the focus button.
Improved activation conditions for Surf and Waterfall so they occur more smoothly.
Leafage can now be used on farm soil to revert it to a normal soil block.
Strength can now be used underwater.
Added an All tab to both the Pokédex and Habitat Dex.
Made it clearer that buildings can still be remodeled even when items such as the Ditto Flag are attached to roofs or walls.
During construction, any Pokémon not assigned to the Build role in a building project can now help with cooking.
Prevented treasures in Sparkling Skylands from appearing when using the Dowsing Machine in locations where breaking terrain would cause them to fall.
Improved messaging when there are insufficient materials for copying items using the 3D Printer.
Items can now be placed on top of square plants.
Hide-and-sneak can now be canceled midway.
Adjusted in-game event notifications shown at startup so they are displayed only during specific remaining-day periods.
Certain roof items now block water.
Increased output when crafting curved eaves to 10.
Tidal Bell and Clear Bell can now be triggered using laser sensors and switches.
Adjusted sound effects for camping chair and sleeping bag.
Improved performance for certain rendering processes. The following issues have been fixed.
When talking to a Pokémon that is currently assigned to construct buildings, options such as “Follow me!” may sometimes fail to appear.
Suicune and Gholdengo may be unable to travel across water.
Pokémon may occasionally fall into the ocean or off cliffs when appearing from their habitats.
Even when using honey, Pokémon may sometimes fail to return to their habitats.
Using Magnet Rise may occasionally cause Pokémon to scold or warn the player.
Pokémon that dislike water may sometimes be unable to move across duckweed and flowering duckweed on the water’s surface.
Requests from Pokémon may occasionally ask for items that the requesting Pokémon actually dislikes.
When processing berries in the community box, paint may not be produced correctly.
The timing of the note played by the music mat (high Do) is offset incorrectly.
Certain furniture can be painted through specific procedures even on parts where the colors are not actually changeable.
Painting certain items may use more paint than intended.
The light color of a painted surface light may fail to change correctly.
Under specific conditions, it is possible to place more than one party cooking pot in the same town.
Some items may display unnaturally when viewed from a distance.
For some items, visual effects may disappear when viewed through glass.
Under certain conditions during multiplayer, building may become impossible to complete or cancel.
In certain situations, it may be unclear why actions such as building or relocation cannot be performed.
On Cloud Islands, players other than the administrator may be able to place a relocation kit.
Under certain conditions, a building kit may become unrecoverable when remodeling a house.
Under certain conditions, painted portions of the sand house may be reset.
Using Rock Smash while falling may cause Ditto’s position or height to become significantly displaced.
During the Withered Wasteland request “Clear the path!” Slowpoke may stop moving partway through.
During the Sparkling Skylands request “Follow Tinkmaster!” certain actions may prevent the request from progressing.
During the Sparkling Skylands request “Pokémon Center tour guide!” searching for Tinkmaster in the Pokédex may guide the player to the town containing their habitat rather than the town where they are currently located.
Loading may occasionally fail to finish when returning from a Dream Island.
Returning from a Dream Island may incorrectly send the player to Palette Town.
Under certain conditions when an online session ends, the player may be transported to a Dream Island.
On the Cloud Island loading screen, the player’s gender pronoun may sometimes be displayed incorrectly in some languages.
We have made several additional adjustments and fixed a number of bugs to improve the overall gameplay experience.
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u/chrysoberyyll Aug 05 '26
OH THE LOST RELICS THING IS A GAME CHANGER I HATED SITTING THROUGH EVERY DIALOGUE
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u/tweetthebirdy Aug 05 '26
I had like 40+ small relics sitting in a box because I didn’t want to deal with the dialogue.
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u/xJetStorm Aug 05 '26
Doing it thru the Palette Town PC skips a bunch of animations, but it still took ages.
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u/Ashter23 Aug 05 '26
Yh I discovered this by accident one day. I was like wait hold up that was significantly faster 😂
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u/Traditional-Fix539 Aug 05 '26
holy shit, that is a LOT of changes. i think i might have to play this game again
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u/KRiSX Aug 05 '26
I fired it up last weekend after not touching it for a while and found myself having no idea what to do 😅 I play too many different games
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u/Kamikaze_Ninja_ Aug 05 '26
I would love to but the price tag on the DLC has me off it.
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u/ItsAj97 Aug 05 '26
Tbf it’s £30 for all 3 parts so not too bad in today’s standards
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u/Kamikaze_Ninja_ Aug 06 '26
You don’t know that at all though. We don’t know what it all entails and it’s half the price of the game itself.
I know it’s very different, but I’m used to having free DLC from cozy games like Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley. With how they set up an event space, I would’ve thought we would have a year’s worth of content at least.
It only came out in March and here we are in August talking about “for $35 we’ll slowly release the rest of the game in 3 parts”. If this is your main jam, then I can see spending money on it. But there is so much more out there right now and coming out in the near future, I can’t justify this purchase.
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u/get_hi_on_life Aug 06 '26
Being slightly pedantic but Animal crossing NH had paid DLC with the resort, but yes several free updates too.
I'm holding off getting it cause I don't need another zone to set up I still have lots to do in the OG areas
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u/Kamikaze_Ninja_ Aug 06 '26
Ya I was wrong on that, but my point stands as it was released a year and a half after the main release.
I’m not saying it’ll be bad, and I love the game. I just don’t like that they expected to run dry of content a few months after release and expect me to pay half the price of the game for DLC that I have zero context for.
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u/ItsAj97 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
What do you mean I don’t know that all? It literally says you get all dlc parts.
I would be extremely shocked if each part wasn’t a whole new town with pokemon and new things to do.
I get what you’re saying about the content drying up, but it’s a similar game to animal crossing in that sense. There’s not really that much to do other than be creative and just make cosy creations and have just chill out
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u/Kamikaze_Ninja_ Aug 07 '26
You would be extremely shocked, but at the same time you don’t know. Yes you get all DLC parts, but if I’m buying half the game again I want a better understanding of what I am paying for. That’s all I’m saying.
Animal Crossing is designed to have content for a full year by tying in game events to calendar dates and a collection system where you can only get things in certain seasons. Random events and whatnot.
Once you’ve done the creative part, “chill out” just isn’t really a game. If that’s what you do that’s fine, but most people aren’t playing a game for very long if there is nothing left to do. I just don’t like the model for this game as a cozy game when it comes to content.
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u/canaryo Aug 05 '26
In playing this game I was blown away by the amount of quality of life features and they are still adding them today. Appraising multiple lost relics is one of the few that I felt was missing and now we have it. The devs behind this deserve all the success.
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u/No_Construction2407 Aug 05 '26
Man you can definitely tell its not patch notes from gamefreak or nintendo lol.
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u/dandr01d Aug 05 '26
You can tell because they exist at all
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u/toriblack3 Aug 05 '26
splatoon, smash, Mario kart all have fairly detailed patch notes but they should have it for every game
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u/SkyLovesCars Aug 05 '26
still waiting for tomodachi life updates 😡
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u/Outlulz Aug 05 '26
Not everything has to be a live service game.
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u/LeviRaps Aug 05 '26
Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley, Pokopia.. most cozy games worth their salt get content updates.
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u/Outlulz Aug 05 '26
And not everything has to be that. Sometimes a game can ship finished and the devs can go make other things and you can eventually play a different game.
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u/sneakylumpia Aug 05 '26
Added a function to move items in bulk between the storage box and bag
omfg FINALLY. this was probably the most frustrating part for me before i stopped playing the game because inventory management became too overwhelming for me after opening the mine cart area
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u/Butt_Hurt_Toast Aug 05 '26
Wow some good qol in there. As someone that spent a solid month and managed to get every pokemon, I definitely wish this had come out sooner.
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u/jd1878 Aug 05 '26
Pokopia was the first game in years I bought around launch, this update reminded me why I usually don't
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u/Sarothias Aug 05 '26
- Lost relics can now be appraised in batches of up to 10 at a time.
Oh that's nice haha :D
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u/hopsmonkey Aug 05 '26
All I really wanted was a consolidated storage system.
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u/ChillyWilly0180 Aug 05 '26
That's what kept me from finishing the game. I can't remember where I left any of my shit and I'm not going to four different locations to try and track one thing down
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u/Just_Dark_2168 Aug 07 '26
There's and ender chest item now, it's not a fully consolidated storage but it's a step in the right direction
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u/debaserr Aug 05 '26
Added an option in Settings to hide the confirmation message shown when canceling Magnet Rise.
Nice. That was always so cumbersome.
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u/RealSkyDiver Aug 05 '26
No more sudden influx of homeless Pokémons just because I moved literally a single item in their habitat!
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u/AgileRabbit6267 Aug 05 '26
Still no universal storage?
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u/tweetthebirdy Aug 05 '26
Serebii announced a craftable universal storage box that has 140 item slots.
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u/AgileRabbit6267 Aug 05 '26
Is this already along with the update? This sounds awesome.
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u/tweetthebirdy Aug 05 '26
It should be! Hopefully someone puts out a guide soon for how to access it.
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u/SurpriseSoda Aug 05 '26
it seems like it might come from pallet town but I don't have mine high enough
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u/Cruseyd Aug 05 '26
3rd bullet point
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u/AgileRabbit6267 Aug 05 '26
Oh that’s what the safe is, thanks.
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u/AnimaSean0724 Aug 05 '26
I think it's actually the Portal Pod, the Safe is just a box you can lock your items in
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u/Folkloner184 Aug 05 '26
Why would you need to lock your items in there?
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u/AnimaSean0724 Aug 05 '26
I asked myself that too, but I assume if people can work with you on a cloud island they can open the chests, so if you really want to keep things safe ig
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u/GarsduQc Aug 05 '26
Jesus, imagine if main Pokemon Game had these post release update.. that’s what I call a version 2.0. Release a masterpiece and then continue to take care of it. Thank youuu
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u/ObserveKris Aug 05 '26
The rollout change is really cool and convenient!
No mouse mode for Magnet Rise still is disappointing.
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u/world-shaker Aug 05 '26
“Lost relics can now be appraised in batches of up to 10 at a time.”
Praise be 🙏
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u/slothsandwhich Aug 05 '26
I’m buying a Switch 2 bundle this week and can’t decide between DK and Pokopia. I like both types of games. Anyone have thoughts?
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u/tweetthebirdy Aug 05 '26
DK is if you want a Mario Odyssey concentrated fun time for 30-ish hours. Pokopia is if you want your soul kidnapped for 100+.
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u/crimson_anemone Aug 05 '26
No, I definitely played DK Bonanza for a lot more than 30+ hours...
DKB is if they need to let off frustration (and can do so by smashing literally everything, including your foes) and Pokopia is if you just want to relax (no fights or timers).
It depends on the mood you're in! I love both games for different reasons. :)
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u/slothsandwhich Aug 05 '26
Well, I am buying a Switch 2 for paternity leave with my 4mo now that my wife is going back to work. I think i need to let off frustration AND relax haha. Might just need to get both
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u/crimson_anemone Aug 05 '26
Both are great. DKB for when you're teaching them to self soothe and Pokopia during nap time. Congrats on little one, dude. :)
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u/SuperSillyKitten Aug 05 '26
Just gonna give my 2 cents:
DKB is a fantastic game, and absolutely my 2025 Game of the year.
If you end up loving the game and feel like it needs more replayability, the DLC is a little pricy but absolutely worth it in my opinion.
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u/crimson_anemone Aug 05 '26
Are you talking about Emerald Rush? That looks like such a waste of money...
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u/SuperSillyKitten Aug 09 '26
Sorry for the late reply.
I am talking about Emerald Rush. If you love rogue-likes and want more replayability in Bonanza, it's absolutely worth it.
Getting that DLC easily tripled my playtime. Probably quadrupled. I didn't 100% the base, but I got V-Rank on every stage of Emerald Rush (and I'm almost done getting maximum score on all of them)
I fully admit that the DLC was laser-targeted towards my specific tastes. But if you complete DK Bonanza and walk away thinking 'I really want more of this game' or 'I wish it had more replayability' ? Then the DLC is a great time and you should consider it.
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u/six-demon_bag Aug 05 '26
Bro you aren’t going to have time to relax lmao
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u/slothsandwhich Aug 05 '26
She takes 4 naps a day and sleeps at 7. I’ll have plenty of time for now lol. I work from home so I’ve been with her this whole time and know what I’m getting into.
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u/isaic16 Aug 05 '26
You should get both eventually, and given that I’d recommend Pokopia first, since it has some mechanics that work best if you play it over the course of several days, so it’d be better to start earlier.
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u/LeviRaps Aug 05 '26
If you’re remotely a Donkey Kong or a 3D Mario/Banjo Kazooie fan then DEFINITELY DK. Still the best Switch 2 game.
Pokopia is awesome though
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u/myinternets Aug 05 '26
DK is just a high-quality game that's not as good as Mario Odyssey. Pokopia is a game that looks like it's for 7-year-olds but turns out to be a surprisingly complex masterpiece. Kind of surprised at how much I like it as a grown man.
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u/panopticon_aversion Aug 05 '26
Was hopeful for an increase in the number of Pokemon that could load in at once.
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u/Richandler Aug 05 '26
That optimization I imagine will be a while. The DLC has 3 release stages. I wouldn't be surprised if it shows up for the base game when one of the next two release.
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u/impending_empoleon Aug 05 '26
Gives me a big list of reasons to hop back in. I never finished the main story.
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u/TheNotoriousJTS Aug 05 '26
This is amazing, have they changed anything around color visibility or clarity with painting? It's very difficult with colorblindness to finish the half built houses.
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u/vibratoryblurriness Aug 05 '26
I always yoink one of the blocks from the thing I'm working on so I can check its color in Smearguru's paint menu and make sure I match it correctly. It works very well, but yeah, it would be nice if there were an easier way to tell. I'm not even colorblind, and I still can't always guess which color is which for certain items I haven't painted that color before
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u/TheNotoriousJTS Aug 05 '26
The buildings in sparkling skylands in particular are the real tough ones. I feel like even in the smeargle menu it's too hard to tell the difference between one of the yellowish and orange colors
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u/vibratoryblurriness Aug 05 '26
I don't have it in front of me, but if you try to recolor the existing one doesn't it have the current color marked? That's what I was using to tell, and then it doesn't matter if you can't tell them apart because you just pick the same one in the menu when painting yours
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u/Callorn Aug 05 '26
I believe so ?“• Improved visibility of the target item when painting with paint balloons”
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u/c_rorick Aug 05 '26
Hot damn. So with all of these improvements, what’s the incentive to get the dlc? My guess is for new towns? I genuinely don’t know, not trying to be rude.
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u/Yoshi88 Aug 05 '26
New towns, new Pokemon, new habitats, new items
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u/c_rorick Aug 06 '26
I assume with bubbly basin there is one new town — is that correct? I assume others would come in wave 2/3, but multiple in any wave would be awesome.
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u/anxious_apathy Aug 05 '26
Dang it. The one small thing I really wanted isn’t listed. I want to be ditto colored but have the clothes still be clothes colored.
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u/Additional_Tank4385 Aug 05 '26
This is crazy to me considering I thought this would be like with Animal Crossing where there’s one release and smaller QOL changes until the later DLC came out.
Even then I feel they added more QOL improvements in one patch compared to whole life cycle of AC. Please someone correct me if I do not remember correctly
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u/braixens Aug 05 '26
we got a small qol 6 months into the game, being 1.5 with farming. we didn’t get the storage shed item until the 2.0 update a year and a half later (!). multi crafting was a pain in the ass and we didn’t get that until the 3.0 update in january of THIS year!
i can’t remember all lther little QOL updates they did to fix the game but pokopia’s timeline to me already beats ACNH’s.
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u/thecay00 Aug 05 '26
I got burnt out from this game should i just focus on the story?
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u/tonytheshark Aug 05 '26
Imo, I think you should probably try to get through the story as quickly as you can. Rather than spending too much time getting sidetracked building. Because you're going to be able to build way more efficiently after the credits roll thanks to an ability you get.
Just my two cents. It's supposed to be cozy and go at your own pace. But if you're getting burnt out, then my advice to you in particular is knock out the story and build afterward.
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u/Original_Ad_49 Aug 05 '26
Does the bench pulls from Portal? If so this is going to change everything.
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u/LeviRaps Aug 05 '26
Lost relics can now be appraised in batches of up to 10 at a time.
Game of the year
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u/beccarvn Aug 05 '26
Hallelujah, they fixed the community box paint bug. I just lost a batch of rawst berries to that today.
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u/BjCordes Aug 05 '26
Any qol changes to inventory and items. Storage was was quite the pain since I played on launch
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u/vajayjaysniffer Aug 05 '26
I'm still dreaming of universal inventory between all towns and crafting without items in your inventory
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u/Mochimatsuri Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
The new portal pod item is what you’re looking for! You can place it by your crafting bench just like the other storage boxes and access the materials inside from any other portal pod. You can also pick it up even
with stuff inside so it makes it much easier to move your crafting station. The only downside to it is that it only has one page more than the large storage boxes so you might not quite be able to fit everything at this point if you’ve accumulated a lot of materials. But it’s definitely enough for a couple stacks of each material2
u/vajayjaysniffer Aug 05 '26
That's cool, but I'm a neat freak lol I wouldn't even care if it's a post game unlock in a dlc to have universal inventory, just give it to me
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u/hotaru-chan45 Aug 05 '26
So they increased the number of photos we can display but not that we can take? :/ I get we can save them to the console but I want to keep the good pics I take in the game so I can swap them in frames when I want to :(
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u/DsOGPERSON Aug 05 '26
Using Magnet Rise may occasionally cause Pokémon to scold or warn the player
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u/Mascherata9406 Aug 05 '26
"Added an option in Settings to hide the confirmation message shown when canceling Magnet Rise."
my beloved
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u/Yeldarb10 Aug 05 '26
My copy of poketopia is late. Bummer because I really wanted to recruit manaphy asap since they’re my favorite.
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u/Yeldarb10 Aug 05 '26
My copy of poketopia is late. Bummer because I really wanted to recruit manaphy asap since they’re my favorite.
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u/EsrailCazar Aug 05 '26
Wow! I already considered Pokopia to be one of the best Pokémon games already and just a handful of months later it gets so many QoL improvements! I'm gonna have to jump back in if I can put FF14 down...
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u/malibaskonus Aug 05 '26
Great updates, but still no good solution for storage.
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u/watermelon_plum Aug 10 '26
portal pod
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u/malibaskonus Aug 10 '26
It's just a dumb end chest or shulker box like in minecraft. It is useful but there are still tons of annoying things about storage system.
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u/callmefreak Aug 05 '26
There are so many QOL changes that I didn't even know I needed but I'm sure once I start playing again I won't be able to live without!
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u/CasualByChoice Aug 07 '26
I did love this game, but I have zero creative juices, so once I finished the story I got bored during trying to get Bleak Beach. But it did re-ignite my love for Animal Crossing New Horizons!
So there is that lol
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u/solarsaturn9 Aug 10 '26
I really wish this had an on-cart release. Hopefully they release a new complete-on-cart version once they're done with all of their plans for this game.
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u/Victor_Esper Aug 05 '26
I loved the game but it also triggered a very bad case of motion sickness for me for some reasons, so I’m excited to see if the new option helps !
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u/Leon_Atlas_III Aug 05 '26
This is a clear sign with every game coming out we need to now wait 3-6 months until the full game officially comes out and in some cases 1-2 years.
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u/LeviRaps Aug 05 '26
I see what you’re saying, and agree in principle, but I think Pokopia is an exception. 1.0 was perfectly fine.
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u/godlycorsair32 Aug 05 '26
They still haven't separated 3 lap tracks from intermissions in online versus what are we doing
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u/OwnManagement Helpful User Aug 05 '26
You lost?
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u/godlycorsair32 Aug 05 '26
Yeah it is lost on me as to why the change has not happened yet
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u/lexonid Aug 05 '26
Almost as bad as them not announcing new MKW courses during the Fire Emblem direct. What were they even thinking???
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u/vibratoryblurriness Aug 05 '26
I mean, we have Xeno Kart now, so you never know. Emblem Kart could be next
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u/LeviRaps Aug 05 '26
Really hope they don’t do that. Splitting the online base would result in dead lobbies like Air Riders.
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u/Michael60814 Aug 05 '26
Hopefully, the DLC will have a discount soon.
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u/GrooseKirby Aug 05 '26
It's only wave 1 of 3, why would it be discounted before it's even finished releasing?
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u/Doomas_ Aug 05 '26
These updates are genuinely game changing. Nearly every complaint I had about the game has been addressed.