Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Tera Raid Bug Replaces Paradox Pokémon With Eggs

Well, of course this is going to happen, given that if you don't update your game, the data of the pokemon doesn't actually function properly. I'd imagine most people would have probably updated their game, if they have access to the internet, given that the game itself had a massive patch to fix a ton of bugs that plagued it.

So, it isn't a glitch, it's people trying to join a specific den outside the current version.

Leave it to Gamefreak to be this incompetent…they shouldn’t have allowed people on lower firmware to connect to their servers..How can the biggest and most successful franchise in the world have this kind of oversight? Gamefreak really is the worst.

Because of course they forgot to have the game check if you updated or not. Who would've seen that coming from a game that otherwise runs perfectly. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It's amusing to see at least. But sucks if you're affected since you'll be locked out of the actual event. Hope they'll compensate these people at least.

I've also noticed that raids end before the timer finishes. I don't think this happened before the update.

Begun the flame wars has.

@Bobb Gamefreak made it possible for people to do raids without updating their game which they shouldn’t have been allowed in the first place…They didn’t even bother to give people a warning on the Pokémon Presents that they must update to complete the raid without issue otherwise you’ll be stuck with a Bad egg which can cause problems to your save file and you can’t get rid of it unless you delete your save file & restart your game…it’s Gamefreak’s fault because they shouldn’t allowed people to do the raids on lower firmware regardless of reasons, as they have weeks & months to prepare to prevent this from happening and they didn’t tell people that updating is mandatory to do the raids.

Once again another screw up for the company who released an unfinished buggy mess, why are people surprised?

@Bunkerneath

Who expressed surprise?

@Bobb I said the reason why it’s their fault if you read my reply objectively. No it’s not common knowledge to update your game constantly unless you’re a hardcore gamer, and most Pokémon players are casual players and kids, so there are bound to have instances where people didn’t update and still allowed to download and do the raids resulting in a Bad egg which can cause problems to someone’s game, so it’s definitely Gamefreak’s fault for not preventing people regardless of firmware to download and do the raids.

The same issue happened in Sword and Shield with people modding in raids of the Pokemon added in the DLC.

I was not EGGspecting this!

Well, it's a good thing, I updated the game then.

@DarkTron

Deep breaths.

@Bobb Users don't act dumb at all.

Only system updates are forced on you via Pop up notification. Auto game updates are slow and late and very random when they finally get applied to your console. So you cannot rely on these either.

Two days ago when the patch was released, I could just launch the game with version 1.1.0 and thought the patch was not pushed out yet here in Europe.

In the end, by evening time I just decided to save the game, quit it and force a Check for Updates through the menu and then I finally got the new 1.2.0 update.

So yeah.... people cannot be called dumb when the software update isn't forcibly pushed.
Not everyone is constantly checking online if Gamefreak finally pulled their finger out of their rear end and release a new patch. Especially since it has been 3 months since the last patch!!

So this is entirely on Gamefreak to not either enforce the software update and/or lock people out of online features until they have applied the latest patch!

Pokemon used to be great. Now news about it just makes me scarlet and violent.

@Jeronan The Switch autmatically updates if:

1a. You have the gamecart of the game inserted. or
1b. If you have played the game recently.

2. You put the system in sleepmode and connect it to power. (or have at least 50% of battery)
3. The game isn't running while you put it into sleep mode.

Also works, is opening the eShop - wait for it to load completely - then close it and directly put your Switch in sleep mode.

@Bobb I have had this with many games. The auto patching is random and inconsistent at best and not always speedy with pushing out updates to consoles consistently.

I have the same situation with actual online multiplayer games that check the patch level when you login and then suddenly got an error that my game client was outdated.
So I had to quit the game and force Check for Updates to finally get the latest patch for said game.

I agree, that "most" of the time I do get "Do you want to update your game", but often much later.

@sanderev I know all this and it works most of the time, but not always and often patches get auto applied much later than they are available.

@Jeronan That's because the Switch doesn't check automatically very often. I think it's once per day at most. So an update can take 2 days to automatically be applied.

But the opening/closing of the eShop should work here as well, since it forces the system to check for updates.

Folks need to take a chill pill. It really isn't that serious and not that big of a deal.

People discovering Bad Eggs for the first time, it seems.

Wonder what it hatches... 🐣

May I offer you an egg in these trying times?

@Munchlax It's what the easter bunnelby brings all the naughty boys and girls. Lol

@Tempestryke

stop egging him on.

This article could even more accurately have been titled "I guess some people thought you could access new content without installing it first?" But that title wouldn't have been piling on Gamefreak, so y'know clickbait > journalism ... as is the modren norm everywhere.

@Uncle_Franklin Let's not tiptoe on eggshells.

Raiding is an online feature... shouldn't the update be REQUIRED to participate?

I don't need to read the comments to know that Poke defenders will blame those who encountered the bug rather than admitting it was Gamefreak's mess up.

This raises a lot of questions in me. Mainly, questions like: What happens when you encounter the egg?; Does the game lock up?; Does the egg terastallize?; Does it have any moves it can use?; Can you catch it?; What happens when you do?; Can you battle with it?; Will it hatch?; What will it hatch into?; Can you get rid of it?; Will it corrupt or otherwise negatively affect with you're save?; Will affected players be compensated for this?; Should I NOT update my game and purposely activate this Glitch just so I can get a "Compensation-Reward" too lol?

It's worth noting that, since the "Fly-a-chu" Mystery Gift has already expired since yesterday, there is currently no "Get via Internet" Event available at this moment in time, so this would be a perfect opportunity to distribute SOMETHING to apologize for this error...

I also have ANOTHER question: How do I get my Switch Games to Update Automagically WITHOUT my input? As it stands, I can only seem to get them to update if I go to each game and select them one-by-one just to check if they need updating, which, as you can imagine, gets rather tedious after a while...

You could say the devs have egg on their faces.