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Vietnamese language

New

  • Full Vietnamese game translation. Choose Tiếng Việt in Settings > Graphics > Language.

Arceus damage ranking and Plates

New

  • YouTube button at the top, next to What's new: it takes you to the game's channel and, when there is a live stream, it turns red with "LIVE" and takes you to watch it.
  • The ranking is now split in two: on the left, the damage you dealt to Arceus; on the right, the time survived, as always. Both halves load at once. Every board starts from zero.
  • Arceus's Judgment: you can now hit it. It is invincible and only takes a small part of the damage (less and less over time), and your attacks aim at it when no legendary is left.
  • Plates: in every run Arceus holds a random one, which gives it its type (you are told when you enter the arena). No move type is always the best anymore.

Changes

  • At minute 35, Arceus breaks everyone's item (Focus Sash included).
  • The Judgment legendaries are no longer twice as strong as the previous one: each one has 25% more HP and 15% more damage, so they can be taken down. There is no 45-minute limit in the ranking anymore.
  • Evolved moves no longer change their name: they keep it with a "+" (Meteor Mash becomes Meteor Mash +). They work just like before and still stand out with their golden border.
  • Meteor Mash hits softer: 24 damage instead of 34 and a slightly smaller area. Maxed and evolved it dealt almost twice as much as Rock Slide; now they are on par.
  • In Arceus's Judgment, poison and burns deal a small, fixed amount to the legendaries (poison used to take a % of their HP): poisoning them and running away no longer works, you have to hit them.

Mystery Dungeon orbs, Shiny Charms and ×100 gacha

New

  • Mystery Dungeon orbs: single-use items you find during the run (chests, bosses and sometimes when you defeat a Pokémon). Slumber Orb, Slow Orb and Blowback Orb put enemies to sleep, slow them down or blow them away; Focus Orb, Luminous Orb and Quick Orb give critical hits, a wider view or speed to you and nearby teammates. You carry up to 4 different ones (3 of each) and use them with keys 5-8, by tapping their slot above your moves, or with X / Y on a controller. Bosses and legendaries are less affected.
  • Shiny Charms: one per region (Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, Alola, Galar and Paldea). Complete a region's Pokédex (legendaries included) to get its Shiny Charm, and shinies become twice as likely in its gacha banner: from 1% to 2%. You can find them in your Bag, along with how many you still need for each one. If you had already completed a region, its charm is already yours.
  • Gacha: new ×100 pull, with 100 normal tickets or with 10 ×10 tickets (ten ×10 pulls in a row, each with its guaranteed Epic). The slot machine spins 10 times showing the best of each ×10, and at the end you get a summary (new, shiny and PokéCoins) with the cards sorted from best to worst. To make room, the ×1 pull is gone: you pull 10 or 100 at a time.
  • Gacha: Skip button (or Esc) during the animation: the slot machine ends and all the cards show up at once.

Fixes

  • Co-op: guests no longer get "The room has been closed" in the middle of a run (sometimes after a few minutes or when entering a rift) while the others kept playing. It happened when their connection to the rooms server dropped for a moment; now the run goes on and the room recovers on its own.
  • Co-op: if the connection with the host drops for a moment (a Wi-Fi or mobile data hiccup), the guest no longer loses the run: it pauses for up to 45 seconds while reconnecting and then keeps playing.
  • Co-op: if you drop out of a run while the others keep playing, you no longer get "The room has been closed": you wait in the room and, when they finish, you play together again.

The big update: Kecleon Shop

New

  • New: the Kecleon Shop (button in the menu) with Mints, Ability Capsules and 8 new TMs every day. Every Pokémon now has its own nature (±10% to two stats) and ability, with an effect in the run; you can see and change them on its page in the collection. TMs permanently teach moves outside its types, but only if it learns them in the games (Mewtwo can learn Shadow Ball; Psyduck cannot learn Flamethrower). Thanks to TheAdro7 for the idea and the groundwork.
  • New upgrade, Second starting move: with Repertoire, buy it once per Pokémon and then choose for free the second move you start with (or leave it random).
  • Co-op: if your networks cannot connect to each other directly (it sometimes happens on mobile data and with some routers), the match now goes through our server and you can still play together. If you can connect directly, nothing changes. You need to be signed in with an account.
  • Co-op: if you go down, you can watch a teammate who is still standing while you wait to be revived. Press the button under the message (or Q / E, or LB / RB on a controller) to switch between them and back to yourself. Only the camera changes: it uses no extra connection.

Fixes

  • Cloud save: if you played and saved on one device, another device that still had the game open could upload its old copy over it (when saving or when the game updated), and your new tickets and Pokémon did not show up on the other one. Now, if the cloud has something newer, it is merged with yours before saving and nothing is lost.

Safer co-op and move fixes

Changes

  • On mobile the "Manual aim" option is gone (it did not work with the touch screen): moves always aim on their own.
  • Per-Pokémon leaderboard: runs now count from 5 minutes on (the other leaderboards still from 2 minutes).
  • Friends: you no longer see who is online, and you can invite any friend to a room (if they do not join, the invite expires on its own after 3 minutes).
  • Cloud save: your game is now only uploaded to the cloud when you press the Save button at the top (and before a game update). Everything is still saved instantly in this browser. If you play on another device or are about to clear your browser data, press Save first.
  • New friend requests show up when you open Friends.

Fixes

  • Co-op: a player with a tampered game can no longer freeze the others by sending impossible numbers (infinite experience froze the host and a giant effect froze the guests).
  • Upgrades: after changing your partner, the upgrades screen now opens on the new one instead of the last one you had looked at.
  • Co-op: a guest's Ominous Wind, Sand Tomb and Whirlpool now pull enemies in (only the host's did).
  • Co-op: a guest's Hex now deals its extra damage to burned, poisoned or slowed enemies.
  • Acid Spray, Electro Ball, Seed Bomb, Signal Beam, Power Gem, Mist Ball, Energy Ball, Ice Shard, Shadow Sneak and Draining Kiss: once evolved, the shots flew off to the sides and hit nothing. Now they go forward, and the "+1 projectile" upgrade really adds one (it added none before).
  • Co-op: if someone's level-up cards closed before they had picked (it could happen when picking very fast), they now open again and the others are no longer left waiting for them.

38 new moves

New

  • 38 new moves: every type now has 5 or more (Rock, Fighting, Dragon and Fairy had only 2). Among them Hyper Beam, Solar Beam, Magnitude, Whirlpool, Thunder Wave, Outrage, Play Rough, Sucker Punch... each with its evolution.
  • New ways to attack: shots that chase enemies or bounce between them, beams you charge up, spins that hit everything around you, shockwaves that travel along the ground, vortexes that pull enemies in, waves that push them away and zones that stun them.
  • New upgrade, Starting move: buy it once per Pokémon and then choose for free which move it starts the run with.
  • New languages: French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, in Settings > Graphics > Language. Thanks to everyone who translated them.
  • A joke line on the main menu title, like the ones in Minecraft.

Changes

  • Single-type Pokémon deal 20% more damage with moves of their type, to make up for having less variety.
  • Learning a new move no longer switches to it on its own: you keep the one you were using and switch whenever you want.
  • The game can only be played on its official website, pokesurvivor.com: if another site embeds it in its own page (for example, to put ads around it), a notice appears with a button to go to the official one.

Fixes

  • Starting move: you can now go back to the default move even if it is not of its type (for example Confusion on Psyduck).
  • Co-op: the boss due when coming back from a rift could appear thousands of metres away, where nobody could find it, and the run got no more rifts. Now it appears nearby, and if a boss ends up very far from everyone, it shows up close again after a few seconds.
  • When reloading, the new page sometimes got mixed with the old styles saved in the browser (for example, the title line showed up big and stuck to "PokéSurvivor"). That no longer happens.

Physical and special, controller, Save button and fresh leaderboards

New

  • Physical and special moves, like in the games: every Pokémon has its Attack, Special Attack, Defense and Special Defense. Physical moves use its Attack and special moves its Special Attack: Machamp hits hard with Karate Chop and weakly with Shadow Ball. With moves on its strong side it hits as hard as before. When leveling up, each card says whether the move is physical or special and how well it works with your Pokémon, and the collection shows all its stats.
  • Swords Dance and Dragon Dance now raise only (physical) Attack, like in the games, and Nasty Plot arrives, raising Special Attack, learnable by any Pokémon. When leveling up, moves on your Pokémon’s strong side show up twice as often.
  • Run summary in the pause screen: each move with its category, the damage it has dealt and its damage per second; your stats with everything you have raised; and your item and the upgrade cards you have.
  • Defenses count too (a little): enemies resist your physical moves with their Defense and special moves with their Special Defense, and each enemy hits you with its strong side, which you block with your Defense or Special Defense.
  • You can now play with a controller (Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and most USB or Bluetooth controllers): move, switch attacks, pause, pick cards and use every menu, with vibration when you take damage. Set it up in Settings > Controls.
  • Collection: search by name or number, a tab with every generation, filters that combine (owned / missing, several rarities at once, shiny, favorites and type) and sorting by number, name, rarity, recently caught or most played. Plus favorites: mark them on each Pokémon’s page; they go with your account, on all your devices.
  • New Accessibility tab in Settings with “Manual aim”: your attacks go towards the mouse or wherever you push the controller’s right stick, instead of the nearest enemy. It is off by default.
  • Save button at the top right: it uploads your game to the cloud right away. Use it before closing the game or switching devices.

Changes

  • Level-up, bond and item cards can’t be picked for a moment after they appear (they look dimmed): pressing 1-4 or tapping to switch attacks mid-fight no longer picks a card by accident.
  • With a controller you can now select the Pokémon you don’t have yet in the collection, and on mobile the Settings tabs fit in one row that scrolls sideways.
  • Your game is saved to the cloud automatically every 10 minutes.
  • All-time leaderboard: if you are below rank 1,000, it shows “#1000+” instead of the exact number.
  • Big Pokémon (Onix, Gyarados, Wailord, Eternatus, the legendaries...) are now properly playable: they look a bit smaller, while still being among the biggest, and collide like a normal one, so they fit through every corridor and don’t take extra hits because of their size.
  • There are at most 3 healers, 3 shielders and 3 summoners at a time.
  • Healers and shielders no longer make a boss unkillable: their healing and shields scale with the damage you are dealing to it, and it only gets one shield every 6 seconds.
  • Judgment of Arceus: speed has a soft cap (anything above a certain point counts much less) and legendaries run almost as fast as you. After 5 minutes of Judgment, Arceus keeps speeding up, and after 7 its touch takes more and more HP, until it knocks you out in one hit around minute 40.
  • Poison still takes a percentage of HP, but against enemies with huge HP (the Judgment legendaries) that percentage is smaller.
  • All leaderboards start from scratch (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and all-time): records from running away from Arceus could no longer be reached.

Fixes

  • Security: we closed a hole that let someone put code in their leaderboard row or profile and make it run in the browser of whoever opened them (some people were sent to a video). Now everything coming from other players is cleaned, the server only accepts what it should, and the browser runs nothing that isn’t part of the game.
  • The leaderboard now shows Pokémon in shiny form for players who played with their shiny.

Required updates

Changes

  • When an update is required (for example, to fix an important bug), your current run ends after a 10 s notice and the game reloads. You lose nothing: that run’s coins, tickets, records and leaderboard entry are saved as if you had quit.

Recover your account with Gmail

New

  • If you play with a name and password, you can link your Gmail: if you ever forget your password, sign in with Google and it is the same account. We offer it when you sign in.
  • Mobile: you can now place the buttons wherever you want. In Settings > Controls > Place the buttons, drag the attacks (with the item), the pause button and the joystick, which can now also be fixed instead of appearing where you put your finger.

Changes

  • The weekly and monthly leaderboards start from scratch, like the all-time one: now only runs with the Judgment of Arceus count, and all boards match each other.
  • Important: the only official PokéSurvivor website is pokesurvivor.com. The game is and always will be free: if any other website asks you to pay (for tickets, coins or anything else), it isn’t us. You will also see this when signing in and in the Legal notice.
  • The game’s code moves to a non-commercial license (PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0): you can still study and modify it, but nobody may charge for it.

Fixes

  • Co-op: the game no longer freezes with each player waiting for the other to choose. An item and the level-up cards no longer cover each other, and if the connection drops a message it fixes itself.
  • Co-op: after coming back from a rift, players who are not the host can see every enemy again (some used to be invisible, with only their attacks showing).
  • Friends: if your phone or computer has the wrong time (or time zone), your friends no longer always show as offline and their invitations reach you.
  • Playing on two devices (PC and phone) no longer loses coins or tickets: before, if one had the game open with old data and saved, it erased what you earned on the other. Now both are added up. And when you come back to the game after a while away, it brings in what you got on the other device (Pokémon, shinies...) without reloading.
  • Big in-game announcements (a nearby Gholdengo, a swarm...) are always centered now.

The Judgment of Arceus

New

  • The Judgment of Arceus: at minute 30, Arceus descends from the sky and takes you to the Ruins of Judgment. It is invincible, chases you faster and faster and casts pillars of light, beams and shockwaves; if it touches you, you lose almost half your HP. Every 5 seconds a legendary joins, each with twice the HP and damage of the previous one. How long can you last?
  • Three new achievements: The Judgment (reach minute 30), Before the Creator (survive 1 minute against Arceus) and Divine challenge (defeat 3 legendaries against Arceus in a single run).
  • New music for the fight against Arceus.
  • A button to report suspicious records on the leaderboard (the little flag on each row).

Changes

  • The all-time leaderboard starts from scratch: now that runs end against Arceus, older records could no longer be reached. The daily, weekly and monthly boards are unchanged.
  • Overtime from minute 60 is removed (runs no longer get that far).
  • Rifts no longer open from minute 28 on, so the Judgment does not catch you inside one.
  • Leaderboard protected against cheating: the server checks that every record was really played. You never lose anything you earn by playing.
  • Records over 35 minutes have been removed from the leaderboard: with the Judgment of Arceus they are no longer possible.

Fixes

  • Gacha pulls, new Pokémon and rewards are saved to the cloud right away. If you opened the game on another device or browser and something was missing, open it again where you got it: it comes back on its own.

Overtime and less random rifts

New

  • Overtime: from minute 60 on, wild Pokémon keep getting stronger (more HP and more damage), faster and faster. Before, with maxed upgrades, some runs never ended; now the best ones will last about an hour and a half.
  • The game now updates itself when a new version is out: within 5 seconds if you are in the menu, or after your run if you are playing (without losing anything).
  • A "What's new" button (this window) with every change to the game.
  • Easier to read numbers: 2, 5 and 8 no longer look alike.
  • Pick the normal or shiny version of your partner right from the main menu, under it.
  • New upgrades for each Pokémon: Critical Hit (+3% critical chance per level, crits deal x1.5 damage), Card reroll (+1 level-up card reroll per run) and Ban (block moves so they never show up in your cards; pick them in Upgrades).
  • Move shortcuts (in Upgrades, for each Pokémon): choose which move always goes in each slot, for example Confusion always on 1, for muscle memory.

Changes

  • Rock Slide deals less damage (21 instead of 26): it defeated almost twice as many as the average move.
  • Level-up card rerolls are no longer earned by defeating bosses: you get 1 free per run and can buy more in Upgrades.
  • Rift legendaries no longer always drop x10 tickets: they drop one half of the time (they used to always drop 2, which was too many).
  • Co-op: if your networks cannot connect to each other, the room says so and keeps retrying, instead of playing laggy through a slow server.
  • We moved to new servers so the game can stay free: you may need to sign in again (with the same account and password, or with Google). Your save and your Pokémon are unchanged.
  • Gacha: shinies no longer come out as duplicates. If you roll one you already have, you get another of the same rarity that you are missing.
  • Less random rifts: every time one does not show up, the next one is more likely (at most 2.5 minutes without a rift).
  • Legendaries you have not beaten yet show up 4 times as often in rifts.
  • Healers heal more the harder you hit, but with diminishing returns and a cap (2.5x at most).
  • Stronger melee attacks: while one is active you take 25% less damage, and they reach 25% further and deal 20% more damage.
  • Co-op: choosing which held item to keep now pauses the run for everyone (it used to keep going and you got hit while choosing).
  • Co-op: while someone is choosing a fusion, the run pauses for everyone.
  • Co-op: if the host switches tabs or their game stalls, the run pauses for everyone until they are back.
  • Runs shorter than 1 minute no longer count for the leaderboard.

Fixes

  • Removed broken records from the leaderboard caused by the minute 84 bug (the clock kept running while the game was frozen) and a few impossible ones. If you had one, your next run counts again.
  • iPhone (Safari and Chrome): sometimes you could not switch moves by tapping the icons, especially with your other finger on the joystick. Buttons also sit above the home bar now.
  • In runs longer than 84 minutes the screen went black, the game froze or you kept levelling up forever. Now you can play for as long as you survive.
  • If the game ever crashes, the run ends by itself and is saved (time, defeated, records and leaderboard) instead of being lost.
  • Very long runs were sometimes flagged as cheating and did not count for the leaderboard.
  • Co-op: if the host switched tabs, enemies stood still and everyone else got a free advantage.
  • iPhone: holding your finger on the joystick brought up "Copy / Select all".
  • iPhone: fullscreen sometimes did not show up. Now the button explains how to get it (Share and "Add to Home Screen").

Bonds

New

  • Bonds: defeating a legendary lets you fuse moves that fire at the same time from a single slot (up to 4).
  • A button to reroll the level-up cards.

Changes

  • More rifts.
  • Weaker psychic moves and healers.
  • Level-up card upgrades (speed, cooldown, experience, magnet, armor and power) can only be taken a limited number of times.
  • On mobile, the Pokémon details show alongside; logging in is faster and the x10 gacha can be closed.

Fixes

  • Black screen in runs longer than an hour because image memory filled up.
  • Tickets were lost if the tab closed before the run ended: now they are saved as soon as you pick them up.
  • An upgrade bought right after saving was charged but not applied.
  • The game froze forever if something went wrong mid-run.

More challenge

New

  • Bosses and legendaries with 4 telegraphed attacks that get enraged at half health.
  • 12 new moves and 8 new ways to attack: boomerang, chain, mines, meteors, turret, dash, trail and spray.
  • Mid-run events (single-type hordes, golden hour, lost Pokémon) and Meowth and Gholdengo running away loaded with coins.
  • Statues for big Pokémon.

Changes

  • Harder: fewer but tougher enemies.
  • Levelling up is slower, tickets are rarer and bosses drop a x10 ticket one time in three.
  • Faster loading.

Fixes

  • Straggling enemies vanished in front of you: now only off-screen.
  • Menus and screens overlapped the top bar.

Mobile and English

New

  • Play on phones and tablets with a touch joystick, and install it as an app.
  • The game in English and Spanish.
  • Settings screen with automatic graphics quality.

Changes

  • Fewer but stronger enemies on screen.
  • Giga Drain becomes Grass Knot (no more healing).

Missions, rifts and co-op

New

  • Daily and weekly missions, achievements with medals and titles, and a public profile.
  • Held items, move evolutions and enemies that heal, shield, summon or explode.
  • Rifts leading to 18 legendary arenas, one per type, and weather that changes the fight.
  • Co-op with your friends list and leaderboards.
  • Upgrades for each Pokémon, a slot-machine ticket gacha and a type chart.

Changes

  • Camera further out and enemies that walk around obstacles.

First version

New

  • First public version of PokéSurvivor.

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