Can't capture creatures, because all of mine 1 hit

[Fleshbits]

I can't capture much because anytime I get something on my team, it levels up and one or two hits the thing I want to capture. On the otherhand, I cannot defeat it myself, because my weapons do next to no dmg. To capture things, you need fine control over how much dmg you are doing, because the game wants it as close to dead as possible without actually killing it.

Have I tried using something lower level? Sure, but then I can capture like 1 or 2, and then the thing is leveled up and doing too much dmg.

How are you all handling this?

I am playing custom hard mode btw. My dmg is 50% and creatures do 3x to me. I am currently, level 15. Tried the game on normal and literally fell asleep the combat was so easy.

There needs to be a way for me to take stuff out of my party and swap stuff in, without returning home, so I can put the newer low levels in my party when I am about to capture something lower level than me.

[Khergit Horse Archer]

use a broken shock baton? tbh if you are playing hard mode shouldn't you be figuring out how to do it yourself? isn't that the appeal for that lol

[Fleshbits]

Originally posted by Khergit Horse Archer:

use a broken shock baton? tbh if you are playing hard mode shouldn't you be figuring out how to do it yourself? isn't that the appeal for that lol

There is a way....return to home after every fight and swap low level crap back into your party, but that's tedious AF.

I don't have access to anything called a shock baton, currently. I am level 15.

[Khergit Horse Archer]

it unlocks at 22, shock baton as it's called

[rage]

Originally posted by Fleshbits:

Originally posted by Khergit Horse Archer:

use a broken shock baton? tbh if you are playing hard mode shouldn't you be figuring out how to do it yourself? isn't that the appeal for that lol

There is a way....return to home after every fight and swap low level crap back into your party, but that's tedious AF.

I don't have access to anything called a shock baton, currently. I am level 15.

Hit them with your pick axe or use a low level cat/sheep/chicken.

[BEEP!]

If your trying to capture things & you need your pal to do damage make shere you give it weaker attacks or a element that's the weakness to the thing your fighting so it does even less damage.
Plus the shock baton is mighty useful & also try using the poison crossbow as well then smack with baton.

[Mavrah]

Are you winning, son?

Originally posted by Fleshbits:

I am playing custom hard mode btw. My dmg is 50% and creatures do 3x to me. I am currently, level 15. Tried the game on normal and literally fell asleep the combat was so easy.

You made the very settings you're complaining about. Sounds like you should have tried learning the game mechanics and figuring out what you would want to tweak by playing further into a standard difficulty setting first.
Levels are very important in this game, and your Pokemon will 1-shot almost anything 5 levels down. Player weapons have very low power by comparison, which is why they are useful for slowly sapping Pokemon health to near-zero so you can capture them.

[IvoryTemplar]

Originally posted by Fleshbits:

I can't capture much because anytime I get something on my team, it levels up and one or two hits the thing I want to capture. On the otherhand, I cannot defeat it myself, because my weapons do next to no dmg. To capture things, you need fine control over how much dmg you are doing, because the game wants it as close to dead as possible without actually killing it.

Have I tried using something lower level? Sure, but then I can capture like 1 or 2, and then the thing is leveled up and doing too much dmg.

How are you all handling this?

I am playing custom hard mode btw. My dmg is 50% and creatures do 3x to me. I am currently, level 15. Tried the game on normal and literally fell asleep the combat was so easy.

There needs to be a way for me to take stuff out of my party and swap stuff in, without returning home, so I can put the newer low levels in my party when I am about to capture something lower level than me.

Stop trying to catch lvl 1 Pals?

Because you're 100% not trying to capture pals close to your level with your current settings unless you hacked your game to give you pals ridiculous stats.

[sh3riff]

the problem is you .. learn how to play the game and adjust your setting

[Rhyono]

This is a somewhat valid complaint when playing on normal settings. I never know when my pals are going to go from a mid move to obliterating the enemy in one shot. Regardless of whether they are close to me in level or not. However, when you choose to make the game harder on yourself, I consider this a feature.

[God of Snacks]

Your weaponry should lag slightly behind your pals so once your pals are too strong, use your weapons to weaken. Crossbow, Coarse gun, Pistol, Assault Riffle. They're all pretty good at weakening pals way lower level.

[Fleshbits]

Originally posted by sh3riff:

the problem is you .. learn how to play the game and adjust your setting

Blocked another random kid that wants to argue on the internet with strangers.

People play games to have fun and should be able to talk to other that want to have fun. No one wants to sort through a bunch of random ♥♥♥♥♥ after a full work week of dealing with ♥♥♥♥♥ 8 hours a day..

[Fleshbits]

Originally posted by God of Snacks:

Your weaponry should lag slightly behind your pals so once your pals are too strong, use your weapons to weaken. Crossbow, Coarse gun, Pistol, Assault Riffle. They're all pretty good at weakening pals way lower level.

Sure. I mean, that was my first thought, but my weapons do literally no dmg at all with these settings. I can destroy the weapon before I can inch down the last 1/4th of health. Perhaps, it gets better with access to other weapons or I can find an equipable pal ability that doesn't do uber dmg as I explore.

I really just need to use a low level pal, but you can't unless you go back to base and swap every other fight.

[Fleshbits]

Originally posted by Mavrah:

Are you winning, son?

Originally posted by Fleshbits:

I am playing custom hard mode btw. My dmg is 50% and creatures do 3x to me. I am currently, level 15. Tried the game on normal and literally fell asleep the combat was so easy.

You made the very settings you're complaining about. Sounds like you should have tried learning the game mechanics and figuring out what you would want to tweak by playing further into a standard difficulty setting first.
Levels are very important in this game, and your Pokemon will 1-shot almost anything 5 levels down. Player weapons have very low power by comparison, which is why they are useful for slowly sapping Pokemon health to near-zero so you can capture them.

Again, My weapon will break before even doing 1/4th the healthbar. If I don't use them and rely on pals, then the entire healthbar is gone in one shot. There is no in between currently, with these settings, and I think that's a problem.

Perhaps once I get access to other weapons or if I can find a pal partner ability that does super low dmg, but I've tried what you are suggestions long before I came here asking questions and it doesn't work with these settings.

[marionettethree]

Originally posted by Fleshbits:

Originally posted by Mavrah:

Are you winning, son?

You made the very settings you're complaining about. Sounds like you should have tried learning the game mechanics and figuring out what you would want to tweak by playing further into a standard difficulty setting first.
Levels are very important in this game, and your Pokemon will 1-shot almost anything 5 levels down. Player weapons have very low power by comparison, which is why they are useful for slowly sapping Pokemon health to near-zero so you can capture them.

Again, My weapon will break before even doing 1/4th the healthbar. If I don't use them and rely on pals, then the entire healthbar is gone in one shot. There is no in between currently, with these settings, and I think that's a problem.

Perhaps once I get access to other weapons or if I can find a pal partner ability that does super low dmg, but I've tried what you are suggestions long before I came here asking questions and it doesn't work with these settings.

Maybe you should change your custom difficulty setting a bit? (You can always change it, it will affect your save file). Make you (player) do more damage to enemy and make pals do a bit less damage. That should fix your problem.

Also, try fire or poison arrow. If successfully inflict status, enemy will take DoT damage in percentage to their HP.

I have to warn you, in late game, even without lowering your damage in setting, player weapon will barely do any damage to higher level pals.

[Xantanash]

You can bring up the menu with "4" and just command them to stop attacking and then throw your capture ball.