Apex Build 10 Is Now Available!
After over three years, I have finally completed Build 10 of Apex! This is planned to be the final feature release of Apex as a Pokémon fangame before converting it into my own original IP (more on that another time).
As for this build, you can now continue the story of Apex in Chapter 5 by exploring the western half of Abbadon, including the sprawling Megiddo Plains, the touristy beachside town of Ys, the sleepy floral town of Eden, and much more! Check out the changelog below for a full list of additions and changes, comprising the largest changelog so far.
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Here are all the changes and additions in Build 10!
Additions
Content
The Megiddo Plains, Ys, and Eden areas are now open to explore! Continue Chapter 5 with a deluge of new content, including some surprises!
Levitate system overhaul. Pokémon that formerly had the Levitate ability now inherently levitate based on their species. See the wiki for more details.
Pokémon that normally evolve due to trading now evolve when leveled up in Assiah. Any required held items are still needed.
New fast food items that are cheaper versions of strong healing items, but lower your Pokémon's EVs randomly when consumed.
New item: Inn Coupon. Exchange these tickets at any inn for a free stay!
New trainer classes: Zangs (male and female), Priest, Pirate, Surfer, Action Kid (Beach), Tourist, Sunbather, Beach Bros, Sightseers, Salaryman, Rancher, Florist, as well as some special encounters.
Four new musical tracks, courtesy of new composer DSTY.
New Artifact is now available! Complete the Great Canal dungeon to acquire the Hydrophobic Disc to cross calm waters.
New custom move: Grim Word, a low-power special Dark move that lowers the target's Sp. Def by 1 stage.
Everyone is here! With the exception of most legendary Pokémon, every single species up through Generation V is now available in Apex!
New questline events! Hang out with your favorite NPCs.
New ghosts to battle, including three difficult challenge ghosts for extra Keystones.
Features
Artifacts now give badge boosts. War God's Hammer: Attack, All-Seeing Eye: Sp. Attack, Quantum Mirror: Speed, Geos Gauntlets: Defense, Hydrophobic Disc: Sp. Defense. For existing save files, use the associated artifact in the overworld to permanently enable the respective boost.
Added Not-So-Crazy Fesiq to Old Jul'far Ruins as a dung merchant.
Added ambience to Sagaxis Forest, Mt. Belial Upper, Shrieking Cliffs, and Acacia Lake.
Added an Ether to RevTex Textiles 1F in the generator room.
The protagonist now remarks on the flickering lights in RevTex Textiles Front Office for context.
Added an Escape Rope to RevTex Textiles B1F.
Added a healing area and some flavor to the entrance area of Acacia Temple (not available in Hard Mode).
Wild/bred Pokémon now have a 5% chance to spawn with their hidden ability.
Added in-game trades and gift events for exclusive species. Check the wiki for details.
New TM Kid quest is available after acquiring the Hydrophobic Disc.
Added visible items to Sagaxis Forest.
Luvdisc now evolves into Alomomola at lv30. The two species have been rebalanced and given updated movesets to match.
Eevee can now evolve into Glaceon in Crystal Channel Upper.
Nosepass can now evolve into Probopass in the Adamantine Palace.
Added messages when entering maps with a Pokémon with a location-based evolution in that map.
Added Lucifer's Notes #2 to Altar of Truth.
The Guru of Potential has been added to the Amon Desert. Visit him to draw out your Pokémon's latent potential.
The Experience Share can now be purchased in the Rosemary Market in Acacia Town. It's relatively expensive, so you'll have to weigh your options!
Added Eviolite to Acacia Tunnel.
A Soothe Bell is now available from a new NPC in Nysa Indoors.
Added ancient runes to text for lore purposes. This should improve clarity for puzzles that rely on ancient runes.
Larry now answers his phone.
Tweaks
Aegis Facility
Added a hint to the door to Aegis Secret Room.
Added support struts to the elevator on Aegis 1F.
Swapped locations of the Elevator Key and Max Revive in Aegis 2F Rooms for better visibility.
Vahram Temple
Added additional hints for the Vahram rune puzzle.
Braziers in the Vahram and Cliff tilesets are now fully impassable on the bottom tile for better consistency.
Acacia Town
Opened a previously unused house in Acacia Town.
The Thornwood Inn in Acacia Town begins charging for lodging after the player enters Jul'far. No more warping back to Acacia Town for free heals!
The Puzzle House is now accessible immediately upon visiting Acacia Town for the first time.
Jul'far
Added more path blocking to help keep players from getting lost.
Added a new bandit encounter with Bandit Logan.
Added some new visible items, one of which only appears during the raid.
The Camerupt Cart that goes to the Old Jul'far Ruins now cannot be used until after the player has visited the ruins, to prevent skipping the entire desert.
Added a hint if the player tries to enter the Jul'far Town Hall through the front door during the bandit raid.
Hard Mode
Items cannot be used from the bag during battles (except Pokéballs, as normal).
During the Jul'far raid, Bandit Captain Kurt now only appears on Hard Mode.
Granny does not heal the party.
Holly stops healing the party after defeating the Cloaked Elder in Acacia Temple.
Other
You can now forfeit trainer battles outside of Hard Mode by selecting Run, but beware the losing cost!
Official starters can now only be found at level 5 in the wild.
Player name entry now supports up to 10 characters.
Stick renamed to Leek to match Gen VIII+ naming.
Scratch Cards now use fixed randomness to determine the prize (if any), so they can no longer be save-scummed. A unique message has been added if the jackpot is won.
Improved visual quality of in-battle rain animation.
Reduced visual intensity of overworld snow animation.
Deerling and Sawsbuck now appear in different forms based on location. Mt. Belial area: Winter form. Verdant Path area: Spring form. Acacia Secret Hollow: Summer form.
Updated new game scene flow. Quickstart option renamed and now defaults to Sarah instead of Griffen, and some suggested character names have been changed.
Switched locations of the TMs for Rock Smash and Brick Break and adjusted TM Kid's dialogue to match. If you already have one but not the other, you will get the old drops.
Disabled entry message from Mold Breaker ability.
Small tweaks to Nascene Suburbs layout to make skateboard pathing a tad easier.
Added visual details to Jagged Cavern B1F. Side path is now blocked by breakable rocks. Added a shortcut usable with the Quantum Mirror.
Ladders in cave/temple maps have more outlining for better visibility.
Battles with Larry now use the Rival Battle music.
Balance
Levitate overhaul
In addition to those species which formerly had the Levitate ability, the following Pokémon now levitate: Beedrill, Venomoth, Magnemite line, Mew, Scizor, Celebi, Dustox, Castform, Shuppet, Glalie, Froslass, Munna line, Solosis line, Vanillite line, Escavalier, Elgyem line, Lampent, Chandelure, and Volcarona.
Ability changes as part of the Levitate overhaul
Gastly line new abilities. Base: Cursed Body, Stench. Hidden: Bad Dreams.
Koffing line new abilities. Base: Forewarn, Aftermath. Hidden: Serene Grace.
Misdreavus line new abilities: Base: Shadow Tag, Frisk. Hidden: Prankster.
Unown new ability: Base: Technician.
Hydreigon, Vibrava, Flygon now use the same ability or abilities as their pre-evolved forms.
Duskull now uses the same ability its evolved forms.
Solrock, Lunatone new abilities: Base: Sturdy. Hidden: Magic Guard.
Baltoy line new ability: Base: Magic Bounce.
Chimecho line new ability: Base: Soundproof.
Latias, Latios new ability: Base: Cloud Nine.
Bronzor line abilities shifted: Base: Light Metal, Heavy Metal. Hidden: Heatproof
Carnivine new ability: Base: Chlorophyll.
Rotom new ability: Base: Motor Drive.
Uxie, Mesprit, Azelf new ability: Base: Filter.
Cresselia new ability: Base: Serene Grace.
Tynamo line new abilities: Base: Shed Skin, Static. Hidden: Volt Absorb.
Cryogonal new ability: Ice Body.
Move changes
Increased Gyro Ball PP from 5 to 10.
Raised accuracy of Gunk Shot from 70 to 80 to match Gen VI+.
Shadow Ball power increased from 80 to 90.
Drill Peck and X-Scissor now have an increased crit chance.
Constrict power increased from 10 to 40.
Leech Life power increased from 15 to 40.
Pin Missile power increased from 14 to 25 to match Gen VI+.
Luster Purge and Mist Ball power increased to 80 and PP increased to 10.
Pokémon changes
Raised Riolu's starting happiness from 70 to 100.
Gothita line is now Psychic/Dark.
Gothita line gains Unnerve as second natural ability.
Steel type is no longer resistant to Ghost and Dark moves, as per Gen VI+.
Torkoal, Wingull, Roggenrola, and Vanillite lines gain their GenVII+ second abilities.
Ice type no longer resists Grass.
Stat changes
Stat buffs from Gens VI and VII have been added.
Sunflora base Sp. Atk and Sp. Def increased by 20 each, bringing its base stat total up to 465.
Mightyena base stats increased: +10 to Attack, Defense, and Speed, bringing its base stat total up to 450.
Farfetch'd gains 20 base stat points in HP, Defense, and Speed, and 10 in Attack, bringing its base stat total up to 447.
Spinda base stats increased, +30 to HP, +10 to Speed, and +20 to Defense and Special Defense, for a new total of 440.
Whismur line has 10 base stat points moved from Attack to Special Attack.
Growlithe line has 5 base stat points moved from Special Attack to Attack.
Sableye gains base stat points: 30 to HP, 20 to Defense, and 20 to Special Defense, bringing its base stat total up to 450.
Rebalanced Cacnea line's stats. Lowered Sp. Attack and Speed by 10 and increased Defense and Special Defense by 10.
Corsola stats modified. -5 Attack and Speed, +10 Defense and Special Defense, +20 Special Attack and HP. New total: 460.
Ariados stats increased. +20 to HP, Defense, and Special Defense, +10 to Attack. New total 470.
Spinarak/Ariados now learn Megahorn at level 51/60 and now learn Psycho Cut instead of Psychic.
Beedrill stats increased. +10 to HP and Attack, +20 to Special Defense, and +35 to Speed. New total 470.
Butterfree stats increased. -5 to Attack, +30 to HP and Special Defense, +10 to Special Attack and Defense. New total 470.
Beautifly stats increased. +10 to HP, +20 to Attack and Special Attack, +25 to Speed. New total 470.
Ledian stats increased. -5 to Special Attack and +75 to Attack. New total 470.
Dustox stats increased. -5 to Speed, +10 to Special Defense, +20 to Special Attack, and +30 to HP and Defense. New total 470.
Kricketune stats increased. +3 to HP, +4 to Special Defense, +30 to Attack, +29 to Defense, +35 to Speed. New total 470.
Parasect stats increased. +5 to Attack, +20 to HP, Defense, and Special Defense. New total 470.
Marowak stats increased. +5 to Speed, +20 to HP and Attack. New total 470.
Purugly stats changed. -1 to HP, +8 to Attack, +11 to Defense, -4 to Special Attack, +6 to Special Defense, -2 to Speed. New total 470.
Chimecho stats increased. +5 to Special Attack, +10 to Special Defense. New total 470.
Dunsparce stats increased. +5 to Attack, +25 to Defense and Special Defense. New total 470.
Girafarig stats increased. +10 to Special Attack, +5 to Speed. New total 470.
Tropius stats changed. +1 to HP, -8 to Attack, +17 to Defense, +8 to Special Attack, +13 to Special Defense, -1 to Speed. New total 490.
Treecko line has had its Special Attack and Attack base stats swapped to now favor physical attacks.
Relicanth stats increased. +15 to Special Defense. New total 500.
Lanturn stats changed. -8 to Attack and Defense, -2 to Speed, +9 to Special Attack and Special Defense.
Learnset changes
Electrike and Manectric now learn Thundershock at level 7.
Absol now learns Focus Energy as a starting move.
Solrock now learns Zen Headbutt instead of Psychic, and now learns Flare Blitz at level 57 and Morning Sun at level 61.
Lunatone now learns Ancientpower instead of Stone Edge, and now learns Shadow Ball at level 57 and Moonlight at level 61.
Farfetch'd now learns Drill Peck instead of Air Slash at level 49, and now learns Focus Energy at level 16.
Grimer line now learns Poison Fang, Bulldoze, Poison Jab, and Night Slash instead of Sludge, Mud Bomb, Sludge Bomb, and Fling, respectively.
Gothita line now learns Dark Pulse at levels 53/58/64 respectively, and now learns Grim Word instead of Faint Attack.
Misdreavus, Gastly, Drifloon lines now learn Grim Word instead of Payback.
Litwick line now learns Grim Word instead of Imprison.
Yamask and Spiritomb get Grim Word as an egg move.
Umbreon, Murkrow, Girafarig, Purrloin lines now learn Grim Word instead of Assurance.
Oddish line now learns Grim Word instead of Natural Gift.
Swapped Ancientpower and Power Gem in Corsola's moveset, and it now learns Hydro Pump at level 57.
Butterfree, Beautifly, and Dustox now learn Psychic at level 50.
Ledyba/Ledian now learn Bug Bite instead of Silver Wind, Mega Punch instead of Swift, and X-Scissor instead of Bug Buzz, and now learn Drain Punch at level 50/60.
Dustox now learns Poisonpowder at level 15 and Air Slash at level 55.
Bronzor and Bronzong now learn Curse instead of Imprison.
Tropius now learns Leech Seed instead of Bestow and Dragon Pulse instead of Natural Gift.
Deerling and Sawsbuck can now learn Zen Headbutt by Move Tutor.
Venusaur can now learn Earth Power by Move Tutor.
Durant now learns Screech instead of Metal Sound.
Difficulty/Game Balance
Lolita Fayte's Ralts initial level lowered from 18 to 15.
Lolita Esmerelda's party initial levels lowered from 15 to 13. Added an additional rematch.
Elder Gerald's party levels lowered from 16 to 15.
Snow Angel May's party levels increased by 5.
Slight rebalance to encounter levels in RevTex. Max level reduced by 1 on 1F and Front Office and min level raised by 1 on B1F.
Lowered max encounter levels in Acacia Lake and Acacia town by 1.
Slightly raised Beldum's capture rate (making it easier to catch).
Reduced price of Pokeballs and Great Balls to 1000 and 2000, respectively.
Scratch Card price increased to 1000.
Fixes
Fixed Aegis warehouse minecart puzzle unintentionally completing while the minecarts are still moving. Minecarts must now stop on the correct positions to count.
Fixed Lolita Amelie using the wrong battle sprite.
Fixed an issue where, during the egg event on Shrieking Cliffs East, if the player catches the Braviary instead of defeating it, the whole event starts over. (Reported by Yasik)
Fixed Vahram 5F North button still considering the rock in the hall to the south of it to be blocking.
Fixed missing collisions on Vahram lava rocks.
Fixed a stray masking tile in the Bandit Hideout.
Rival name in Unknown Dungeon is now loaded dynamically from variable and not from static strings, which could cause inconsistency.
Fixed note 28 being inaccessible in XENO Corp. Server Room. (Reported by mflamel101)
Fixed a bug in Essentials where if the player was facing a water tile, but that tile wasn't otherwise passable, the game would let the player begin surfing on their current tile instead.
Fixed broken Love emote animation (finally!).
Fixed impassable stair railing tile in RevTex B1F blocking wall sign.
RevTex facility now properly sets cave flags on entry.
Fixed a typo in Note #18.
Fixed a movement bug with Mori in Murmur Tower 3F when playing as Sarah.
Fixed mismatched wall tiles in Nysa Indoors.
Fixed tile layering issue with wall/desk phones in the Indoor tileset.
Fixed inconsistent glowstick radius when changing maps (finally!).
Fixed incorrect BGM volume level in Aegis 2F Bathrooms.
Fixed some missing tree top tiles on Mt. Belial Upper.
Removed text referring to "someone's PC" when receiving Pokémon through events.
Fixed a script crash when attempting to fight the Frozen Prince.
Fixed incorrect barrel tiles in Puzzle House Challenge 2.
Fixed Snarl incorrectly flagged as a physical move.
Tweaked dialog with Sayaka on Mt. Belial Upper to better match lore.
Fixed legendary encounter events not using the same generated Pokémon for the battle and the post-battle distribution, which could result in minor discrepancies.
Fixed legendaries missing their summoning sigil where the ball icon should be in the summary screen.
