Can capture rates be reworked please?

[Jiffypop]

Good lord. I know the randomness is supposed to be part of the fun, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I always low roll. Like, always. I just had a 30% capture chance break out of 87 balls. This isn't even a joke. That's roughly 8.3x10^-18% chance to happen. And this isn't an isolated issue. Though none got quite that far, I often find myself throwing quadruple of the amount of balls that should be needed to capture a creature. I burn through my mega and giga and even hyper balls like crazy, especially with how expensive they are it's not fun to cut down my capturing sprees because I rolled bad dice and have to go home, collect resources, then craft new balls making my expedition lasting 10 minutes with a 30 minute break to collect new resources.

IMHO, the way pals are captured should just be changed slightly. Something like perhaps on just the mega or giga spheres and above, that instead of purely rolling the dice, the game takes the percent chance along with how many times you've thrown and then if the amount of times thrown exceeds 100/chanceToCapture, then just give it to us. Like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I'm BURNING through my refined ingots making hyper spheres just so a 50% capture can break out twelve times.

[zero254]

I think there is a theory that there is a bug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf58pMKsqCE

So it may actually change

[Cmdr D.]

Palworld is a progressive game where everything is tuned to the level and enhancement you have accomplished in game. If you see you can't catch a certain Pal, it's not because it's harder to get but simply because you haven't met some prerequisite to obtain them.

We don't full detail of "who" you're trying to catch but we do know you use "Hyper sphere" so I can only presume you're trying to catch those "legendary" Pals?

If so, then it's understandable that they are harder to catch... since Legendary Pals are supposed to be ... " Legendary " = super hard to catch.

Another way to enhance your chance is to level up your Class of course even more

1- Reducing health of Pals.
2- Using higher-level Pal Spheres.
3- Collecting Lifmunk Effigies. ( Enhance yourself through statue of power )
4- Get Ultra sphere or Legendary Sphere ( that will make it much easier for you )

Above from that, if you intend to catch too high level Pals without considering those factors, your just making your gameplay more frustrating then it should.

That's why this game is fun.. .since it requires time and patience to accomplish what others can't do.

I'm pretty sure you will succeed Soon. But also, be happy that the game is hard because if it wasn't , everyone would be overpowered by now... and everything you would do would be irrelevant and fall into the "boredom" category pretty fast.

Keep enhancing yourself and leveling up. You will get there soon.

[Dome]

Originally posted by Cmdr D.:

Palworld is a progressive game where everything is tuned to the level and enhancement you have accomplished in game. If you see you can't catch a certain Pal, it's not because it's harder to get but simply because you haven't met some prerequisite to obtain them.

We don't full detail of "who" you're trying to catch but we do know you use "Hyper sphere" so I can only presume you're trying to catch those "legendary" Pals?

If so, then it's understandable that they are harder to catch... since Legendary Pals are supposed to be ... " Legendary " = super hard to catch.

Another way to enhance your chance is to level up your Class of course even more

1- Reducing health of Pals.
2- Using higher-level Pal Spheres.
3- Collecting Lifmunk Effigies. ( Enhance yourself through statue of power )
4- Get Ultra sphere or Legendary Sphere ( that will make it much easier for you )

Above from that, if you intend to catch too high level Pals without considering those factors, your just making your gameplay more frustrating then it should.

That's why this game is fun.. .since it requires time and patience to accomplish what others can't do.

I'm pretty sure you will succeed Soon. But also, be happy that the game is hard because if it wasn't , everyone would be overpowered by now... and everything you would do would be irrelevant and fall into the "boredom" category pretty fast.

Keep enhancing yourself and leveling up. You will get there soon.

I've never seen such a condescending post before, great job. As the other posted showed in the video, the statistics shown to you are just straight up wrong because of bugged effigies.

[Fimbulwinter]

Main problem is probably that the Lifemunk effigies are bugged. I tested trying to catch a pal, then turning in 4 levels and catching the same pal again and the capture rate remained unchanged. If those actually worked, catches would probably be way easier.

[Smoodle Doodle]

i liek the spice. makes the game loop better for the crafting side. Leg Balls, bullets and rockets are my excuse to get resources still... I use rockets on the gobfins lol.

[Jiffypop]

Originally posted by Cmdr D.:

1- Reducing health of Pals.
2- Using higher-level Pal Spheres.
3- Collecting Lifmunk Effigies. ( Enhance yourself through statue of power )
4- Get Ultra sphere or Legendary Sphere ( that will make it much easier for you )

The pals are as weak as can be.
Why would I waste resources on a higher level sphere for a basic pal I'm just capturing for the XP bonus?
As someone pointed out, it's bugged.
No.

And as I mentioned above, this isn't for capturing elites or luckies or legendaries or whatever. This is just like random pals. And they are lower level than me. And I have literally no purpose for them other than to get the XP bonus. I'm not going to dump THAT many resources into a useless capture, especially when, as I pointed out, the rolls can get ATROCIOUS.

[The Grand Mugwump]

Change your world settings and increase the capture chance if you don't like "dumping" resources on catching pals.

It does suck that the effigies seem to be bugged though. It certainly explains why catching low level pals is harder. I'm not sure how far the bug goes though. I'm still having some luck catching legendary pals with legendary spheres and maxed effigies at 20% capture chance. If the bug still applied there, i wouldn't be able to catch any legendary pals.

[Dracoco OwO]

Originally posted by zero254:

I think there is a theory that there is a bug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf58pMKsqCE

So it may actually change

It seems to be the case i maxed effigies and i have a terrible catch rate.

[Hammer Of Evil]

no, i dont want this to change.

you can make a mod for yourself, but i think this is important to keep.

whats the fun in knowing you always catch the critter

[Jiffypop]

Originally posted by Hammer Of Evil:

no, i dont want this to change.

you can make a mod for yourself, but i think this is important to keep.

whats the fun in knowing you always catch the critter

What's the fun in pressing Q on a critter after he breaks out of the ball for the millionth time?

[Dracoco OwO]

Originally posted by Hammer Of Evil:

no, i dont want this to change.

you can make a mod for yourself, but i think this is important to keep.

whats the fun in knowing you always catch the critter

This is game breaking i throw 40 legendary spheres at the level 45 suzaku boss to catch it like tf.

[Amins]

Every time I see people complain about catch rates, they're either throwing low level spheres at high level Pals, not weakening them at all, or more often, both. They also don't understand how statistics work.

Catch rates are actually incredibly forgiving and much better than they reflect when you actually know what you're doing.

Originally posted by Dracoco OwO:

Originally posted by Hammer Of Evil:

no, i dont want this to change.

you can make a mod for yourself, but i think this is important to keep.

whats the fun in knowing you always catch the critter

This is game breaking i throw 40 legendary spheres at the level 45 suzaku boss to catch it like tf.

Case in point. Complaining that an end game boss Pal is difficult to catch.

[JustATextBox]

Originally posted by Amins:

Every time I see people complain about catch rates, they're either throwing low level spheres at high level Pals, not weakening them at all, or more often, both. They also don't understand how statistics work.

Catch rates are actually incredibly forgiving and much better than they reflect when you actually know what you're doing.

You say this as if you can actually view peoples gameplay and see what they're doing.

The game isn't hard to understand. We're all weakening the pals as much as physically possible (Under 5% health, generally down to 1%) - we're all using spheres equal to the level of the pal, and yet we're also failing a 98% catch rate 3+ times in a row

[Banzai]

In case anyone isn't aware, don't use memory wipe medicine currently as it will break your capture rates. Not sure if that's a factor in your case.

https://kotaku.com/palworld-respec-memory-wiping-medicine-bugged-1851214122

[LuckyToShoot]

What level pals are u even catching using which sphere? Usually i catch random things within 5 spheres when they are lv40+ using legendary spheres, 10-20 if i am being unlucky, but that's really rare cases. And i am playing on 0.8x catch rate so 20% less chance to catch than default settings. I dont see much of a huge issue with current rate, not to mention lifmunk is bugged i am sure that'll change drastically once they fixed it. Or if anything, just go bump up ur catch rate settings in ur world settings, easy.

Generally you want to go up 1 tier of sphere for every 10 level the pal you're trying to capture has.