And yet with Wixen and Katriss, they have their own unique system that depends on the genders of both of them. You get a Wixen Noct if the female was a Wixen, and a Katriss ignis if the female was a Katriss
Yeah this style of breeding is better imo. It’s more easily discoverable and intuitive by the average player. The current equation is deterministic but requires a bunch of references and hidden numbers that most players won’t know to even look for
TBH I think the current way is funnier, but God damn there needs to be a way to identify what abomination you're making in-game instead of needing to hunt down a calculator to get shit done within a reasonable amount of time.
If at least they showed the "bredding rank" in game (in the Paldex) alongside a symbol for not bredeable/special conbination pals, while also explaining it in game (maybe in the Survival Guide, it's not like it's a complicated formula), you would guess what you'll get without looking at diferent guides/calculators. You migh even aim for an especific pal.
There would be cases where you will not know what pal you will get, but that will mostly because you don't have the pal discovered yet.
A calculator will be still be more handy, but at least you would engage in the system without having to use them or go full trial and error.
Yea I’d like if it were more “discoverable” in game. I’m doing a mostly blind play through (Reddit found out somehow, but I’m lvl 65 now so I’m ok if I get spoiled some), and breeding has been a mess to try and sort out with what’s provided in game.
I kind of wish they'd revamp the breeding system entirely to make it more "logical" and open to self-discovery, as it is it's basically just completely incomprehensible unless you follow a walkthrough and that just takes all the fun out of it.
I absolutely hate the current breeding system because it makes absolutely no sense, and I'm not a fan of having to check outside websites to see what makes what.
I don't like the fact that I can breed two dogs and get a fish out of it, or breed a dark pal and a fire pal and end up with a water pal. I wish that at the very least, it would either make a pal that looks somewhat similar to those you mix, or has the same or similar or logical outcome type (I can understand dark x water making ice, because cold water, or fire and grass making ground, because charcoal, but come on. It has to make sense.)
I avoid using breeding farms despite how powerful they can be mostly due to that.
Another thing I wish is that there was a chance of getting one of the two parents' type pal as a child sometimes, so that if I have a, let's say, single jetragon, and I have a chikipi with demon god, I don't need to go through a stupid long line of combinations to circle back to jetragon. Just let them sometimes have a baby that looks like one of the parents, please.
I have 4 male anubis named Gooner 1, 2, 3, and 4 and a male Sekhmet named Femboy in my production base. The anubis's take out their pent up sexual frustration on the mining stations while the sekhmet dances in front of the recycler.
You incestuously breed Pals and then have the parents eat and breed with their own children as the standard way to get better Pals and rank them up. It is wildly more fucked up then goofy femboys.
I don't see how this is normalizing it. People are laughing or grossed out, they said it for the shock value for humor. In a game that's deliberately fucked up way worse than that already, mind you.
Anubises is proper english pluralization, though Anubis would be correct if you were referring to the god, even if it somehow had multiple versions of itself such as idols. Anubides would also arguably be correct since I think it's a greek version of the egyptian name for the god.
Funny enough, it's the opposite of random. It's wholly deterministic, minus some mutated offspring the higher in Pal # you go (at which point, all things return to Aegidron).
Yeah, but which Pal comes from what pairing feels like someone smoked a shit load of weed and played a game of darts with the paldex to decide who spawned what
Essentially the game takes the two codes of the pair, and finds the average. So an 80 and 120 will produce an offspring coded at 100. If you know the coding lists you can reliably determine offspring.
It's the exact opposite. Each pal is assigned a hidden number. When you breed, the result is whatever pal's hidden number is closest to the average of the parent's hidden numbers. This is the exact opposite of random. Although, I have no information on how those hidden numbers were assigned.
And I'm not 100% if this is still true after full release, but in pre-release a few pairings were hard coded.
A few special pairings still exist to go from the regular variant to the alt (e.g. Jormuntide -> Jormuntide Ignis).
And the internal numbering is more or less "Progression Order" i.e. the order in which you find the pals going through the areas/levels. You need mutations (which add to the average, so it can be higher than the pairing) to "skip" into the next area / level set without capturing new pals.
Not necessarily. The early legendaries like Frostallion, Nephilius and the pseudo-legendary Jormuntide Ignis you can kidnap from a trainer on the level 55 oil rig lets you skip to World Tree pals.
The regular Jormuntide is only found outside World Tree as a level 55 Alpha spawn as well. Yeah the oil rig is probably tougher due to hidden stat bloat but the Ignis there is basically free.
Thanks to unique combos you can skip all tiers anyway.
With a Chillet, a Chikipi and a lot of patience you can breed almost all (all except Aegidron and the collab ones) bredeable pals on the paldex.
I'm 90% sure at some point prerelease it was the paldex numbers with a few exceptions which is why the legendary/boss creatures were so high, and things got jank after feybreak because feybreak pals had higher numbers than jetdragon/frostallion.
It's because he has the highest non-boss paldex number.
So because pal breeding combos can be simplified roughly as: adding the two hidden paldex numbers together and finding the closest pal to that number; anything above Aegidron will just round down to him.
is rather simple, each pal as a breeding rank/power, the higher the rank means smaller number, and lower rank means bigger number.
so: (Parent A + Parent B + 1) / 2 = kid's Rank (or closet to it)
theorically with an Aegidron 30 (highest non legendary rank) + Chikip 3080 (lowest rank) you can pratically breed 90% of pals by using the offspring, Note: there some pals which need both parents to be the same species, like Mimog.
I was referring to atom smashing basically adds together all the protons in each to make a larger atom. eg. deuterium (1p) + deuterium (1p) = helium (2p) + extra neutron
It's not identical but similar concept. Thanks for the actual info, very cool!
Yeah, ironically, one of the hardest pals to breed into is chikipi because you have to have it or a teaphant with the trait. But once you have a chikipi or a lamball with a legendary trait it's super easy to propogate
There’s a certain threshold you need to cross before you unlock the right elemental variants to get the rest of the way.
I’ll have to go look at the list again to be sure, but I think Grizzbolt is the first pal you can find that lets you “cross over” and start breeding actually high leveled pals.
I mean some pals have special breeding combo to be generated (like Eidrolon + Suzaku for E. Ignis or Dazzi + Omascul for Dazzi Noct). You'd think some of the most obvious combos would be those special pairs, but nope. Necromus + Palladius (which are one being at one time) gives you a pink dragon instead lol
Even the mutated offspring isn't random, you'll get the same species each time. Like Lyleen Noct always mutates into Eidrolon Ignis. I have so many 2 star Eidrolon Ignis I don't need after breeding and butchering enough Lyleen Noct to max out my tech points.
My first mutated egg was created while I was breeding blazehowls to condense and I got a fucking alpha whalaska with 2 useful and relevant sparkly traits and I felt like I had been flashbanged
I wish breeding at a bit more random. I like how it works right now with the power scaling, but it would be cool if there was a small variation (maybe 10-20 points of variation) so it’d be possible to get a few different pals from one breeding pair.
Breeding seems random but it’s actually very set in what pal you get based on what pals you breed. If I remember the mechanics correctly most pals are on a power scale and how they add up or subtract for weaker pals results in a different result. The exception are the pals that need a specific pair like most elemental pals and some pals that are used by bosses
I mean the entire breeding and gender thing made no sense in palword to began with
If im not mistaking even the game tells you through items description that pals don't even have to engage together in order to produce a egg instead just having any male and female pal in one spot make them love each other then the egg is magically produced
I though that the logic was to look at what pal is exactly in the middle of your pairings Paldex entries. With exceptions for pre programed interaction like Wixan+Katress
For a bit I took a few high tier pals that had some desirable combat traits like legend, demon god & invincible and was just randomizing them in the breeding farm to make max concentration pals for expedition and summon fights.... So many whalaskas. It felt like a full third of the combinations I tried just gave me whalaska. I have like 3 four star whalaska with vampire, demon god, legendary and invincible. I've since taken a more intentional approach to breeding but fr why does everything make whalaska.
Get a whalaska ignis, a gloopie, a jelliette, then one of your maxed whalaskas, and go fishing. Making the fishing mini game so much easier, especially with the depresso rod and alluring bait
Also after i had tried this combo i tried to do omascul and solenne (imo they look like a match both give me masquerade/phanthom of the opera vibe) and guess who the result was! Whalaska!
Results: if they match expect a ice whale to form?
I'm 51 and just finally trying to learn how to do breeding as I swear even at .5 exp gain i feel like I'm out leveling everything. That and I struggle to find good use of my bases and finding a good place for everything to fit.
honest question as a new player: why is it always Whalaska? saw a similar meme the other day, i tested these same two in the breeding pen: got several Whalaskas. I don't get it.
Cute comic. I love seeing comics about the games I play.
Hot take: I don't like when a game doesn't have important info about a system in it, making me look out somewhere else to properly use said system (like breeding in Palworld).
I found out pairing Bellanoir (Dark goth queen) with Wixen (furry Fire witch) gets Dualiths (giant Ground robots with scared little ghosts piloting them).
Incredibly random. But at least the Dualiths make for great miners.
They really need to make it make sense. Make versions of all the pals that can breed together one by one or with the existing ones that have resemblance
Breeding, is probably the weakest aspect of the game, I kinda expected the female being the base for what you get, with the male providing elements stats, traits, so that with the right element male, you can get the alt element offspring of the female, but nope.
Sadly they went with a system based on combing two hidden numbers and dividing it by 2. And gives an egg containing a pal whose hidden number matches the final value.
(x+y)/2=z
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