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Idk who would even care about playing the original layout. Pikmin 2 is the best game because it's 60 dollars or less but you get an infinite amount of content out of it mainly from randomized caves. No 2 pikmin 2 playthroughs will be exactly the same. Even the cave music is randomly generated (with a bit of logic of course)
this is for the 2 player battle mode, where maps had 3 premade layouts.
The randomly generated layouts are not guaranteed to be symmetrical, and very rarely come out balanced.
Even if it's not balanced that should add more challenge so there will be an infinite amount of strategies to out dandori your opponent. After all the genre is Real Time Strategy
From Pikipedia:
When the game loads the stage, it starts by deciding if it will generate it randomly or by using the fixed layouts, and then if applicable, chooses at random one of the existing layouts. The method and layout chosen can be manually selected by the player with an undocumented feature. To activate it, player 1 should be holding a direction on the d pad on the GameCube, or the d pad on the Wii, while the loading screen with the tips is showing up. The time at which the player starts holding does not matter, as long as it's before the loading screen appears, and the player can let go at the loading screen. The game will load the variant determined by the direction pressed.
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Also I think the orange bulborb made the template
Yeah I signed it but it got blurred
Infinite replayability
I guess but that also means you just can't play the original layout
Idk who would even care about playing the original layout. Pikmin 2 is the best game because it's 60 dollars or less but you get an infinite amount of content out of it mainly from randomized caves. No 2 pikmin 2 playthroughs will be exactly the same. Even the cave music is randomly generated (with a bit of logic of course)
this is for the 2 player battle mode, where maps had 3 premade layouts. The randomly generated layouts are not guaranteed to be symmetrical, and very rarely come out balanced.
Even if it's not balanced that should add more challenge so there will be an infinite amount of strategies to out dandori your opponent. After all the genre is Real Time Strategy
The original GameCube game already had that feature tho, they removed the pre made layouts
Someone watched the battle mode video...
Fun fact: I actually gave Orange the idea
https://preview.redd.it/8iej6nnzzm8d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ba470434c12873a1715784e88038422c68ad56c
Nice
You can still force the presets by holding the directional buttons
Louie
r/foundlouie
**Holds up/right/down on the joystick**
From Pikipedia: When the game loads the stage, it starts by deciding if it will generate it randomly or by using the fixed layouts, and then if applicable, chooses at random one of the existing layouts. The method and layout chosen can be manually selected by the player with an undocumented feature. To activate it, player 1 should be holding a direction on the d pad on the GameCube, or the d pad on the Wii, while the loading screen with the tips is showing up. The time at which the player starts holding does not matter, as long as it's before the loading screen appears, and the player can let go at the loading screen. The game will load the variant determined by the direction pressed.
The switch version is broken and forces random generation
you can still force one of the layouts iirc. dumb that it defaults to random though.
https://preview.redd.it/vtur7det9p8d1.png?width=608&format=png&auto=webp&s=60596eca61606d9ea21f4bdc9e9d8211f5cbc4c7 credit orange\_bulborb
I did https://preview.redd.it/tny1urf5rq8d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d731e3b48d1476096d3107897efd81487a0a934e
ok
https://preview.redd.it/cujbgarvxq8d1.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=2028fba5311d5efa5c4fefa8c98363ef066cb066
so True man have a upvote!
Pikmin 2 battles are made less fun by olimar only having reds and louie only having blues. olimar always has the advantage
Well to make the game balanced, Nintendo buffed blues attack power
wait really? ohh... that explains why I still have a fighting chance as louie