Follower pokemon and Affinity system

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Hi Insurgence team,
I would like to ask if follower pokemon can return to the game, I have only started route 2 and do not know if this appears later in game, IF not , here are my ideas for the basic expectation of this request. In HG/SS the first pokemon appears behind your character as a following pokemon and can be interacted with. I Saw that Mew followed us in the opening sequence , but not after. I would like our starter pokemon or , the pokemon in our team with the most affinity to follow us.

Suggestion of how Affinity can be calculated,

  1. Every pokemon has a trainer id right, Well if there was a counter for how many times we carried a pokemon with us or battled with us or if we literally never removed a pokemon from our team for a very long time( Step count above 2000, 3000 or so)
  2. the pokemon who we use our TM Return on, .
  3. Pokemon caught with friendship/heal/luxury ball
  4. If this affinity system can mimic the Affection/Friendship system in the 7th gen games, it doesnt need treats and other minigames ( for initial release but ideas for later build of game??), just interacting with our following pokemon would increase our affinity, allowing a pokemon to faint will decrease affinity.

If there is no pokemon in our team with base affinity , then there is no follower pokemon ( pokemon with return move and starters will always have affinity)

Edit: Alright If the Affinity system needs more game memory processing/coding/ bloat data .

Can the insurgence team give us the option to choose our gameworld follower ?
Suggestion - there is a marker in the current game to alter our sprite appearance right? Well can there be a marker in say our pokegear, to choose which of our team pokemon we want to set to follow in gameworld

I ld like to Thank the creators for the game done so far. Zeta/ Omicron was great and didnt have any problems . The grinding nature of pokemon games, e-RPG, i accept, the return of a game with secret hideout trainers is great, now just have to find the big city store in this game that sells rarecandies and iv/ev items for high prices

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it does follow you.

remove follower is Letter “o” in controls.

are you sure your first slot poke isn’t just dead, or if you pressed letter o.

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Thanks , i might have pressed O , in my attempt to remap the keys and resize the window, On the default controls , what keyboard button is O ?

I know you can remap keys by right clicking on the header bar of the game window but that thankfully has a return to default option.

I think this was a feature of zeta/omicron so it would most likely still be there, Well then this could be a thread to improve the complexity of the follower , rather than the first pokemon in the lineup ( mine s is usually the weakest pokemon with a smokeball or runaway ability or arenatrap ability ) but its never my favourite of the team

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default is letter o. check your “controls” before you start the game to see if you changed you default settings.

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btw im giving free 5 iv pokemons for new players. hit me up if you want some.

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Thanks for the pokemon offer @Lesss , I ll figure out online trading and battling later, Dont want them for now , can you tell if the feature to zoom the game window /resize is still possible?

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well i mostly play on medium screen size, only small, medium and full screen is recommended. since i just mostly shiny hunt, medium makes it so i can watch a movie 60% of the screen and still check if i found a shiny.

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The “o” function was removed as it caused a number of bugs with Mew’s transform ability later in the game. Followers, if they disappear for some reason, reappear when refreshing the map using “p”.

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thanks rocket bro for clarifying.

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@1ofthe4rocketbros This didnt help so far, i pressed ‘o’ and ‘p’. P showed a warning something like , refreshing map might cause more errors than fixing, i continued. I changed my outfit to default. I deposited all my pokemon except Eevee. The starter is healed and full health. No follower. Should this thread be bug reporting rather than suggestion?

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some pokes dont have a follower sprite if im not mistaken. did you try switching pokemons? is it a delta?

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Thanks @nate , problem fixed , Eevee is back after my character was forced to change sprite after i got the Instant-Lapras and surfed. I think the bug started when i tried summoning mew with the pokeflute, and no mew appeared , just an option to change appearance to cult gear , and the game told me , uniform is not needed now. My follower pokemon didnt reappear till an hm force sprite change happened. The pokecentre healing did not reset it.

Though , I hope moderators and developers see the fanservice possibility if the follower can be custom, something different , more than , strictly the first pokemon in your pokebelt lineup.

Great game so far