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Unpearable Pear
I totally agree, couldn't have said this better myself. I've grinded away hours farming balloons and have ended up with so many repeats that it's just giving me a headache -_-
The ACNH Rant Thread
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CitrusCakes
art-school trash
This is about to be long, but I'm so fed up with this one particular problem I've had lol
My major grievance right now is the elusiveness of walking stick bugs...I...just...don't understand why I have had 0 luck with finding one yet. I've started cracking down about finding one since their season ends after November for Northern Hem, and I have not seen a single one. Not one. They've been around in the NH since July and I haven't seen ONE, like what the hell?
I started scouring the web for tips on catching them, but to no avail. I did the trick where you travel to a Nook mystery island, get rid of every single tree, weed, flower, and rock, and just focus on the palm trees--didn't work. I did more googling and saw multiple sources suggest there's a "spawn condition" of catching 20 bugs in one sitting first before walking sticks can spawn--didn't work. I saw someone on reddit show video proof that there was a glitch about walking sticks being entirely invisible in a previous patch (around 1.3.0), but still catchable, so I started swinging at barren trees hoping there was an invisible, glitched-out bug on them--didn't work. Literally nothing has worked. It's not an error on my end as far as I know, I've been searching for them at the proper time frames and ensuring I'm walking slow enough not to scare them away.
I'm going to be wholly pissed off if I have to wait until July 2021 to catch a walking stick because of an error on Nintendo's part lol. I don't see what else I'm supposed to do to catch one at this point.
My major grievance right now is the elusiveness of walking stick bugs...I...just...don't understand why I have had 0 luck with finding one yet. I've started cracking down about finding one since their season ends after November for Northern Hem, and I have not seen a single one. Not one. They've been around in the NH since July and I haven't seen ONE, like what the hell?
I started scouring the web for tips on catching them, but to no avail. I did the trick where you travel to a Nook mystery island, get rid of every single tree, weed, flower, and rock, and just focus on the palm trees--didn't work. I did more googling and saw multiple sources suggest there's a "spawn condition" of catching 20 bugs in one sitting first before walking sticks can spawn--didn't work. I saw someone on reddit show video proof that there was a glitch about walking sticks being entirely invisible in a previous patch (around 1.3.0), but still catchable, so I started swinging at barren trees hoping there was an invisible, glitched-out bug on them--didn't work. Literally nothing has worked. It's not an error on my end as far as I know, I've been searching for them at the proper time frames and ensuring I'm walking slow enough not to scare them away.
I'm going to be wholly pissed off if I have to wait until July 2021 to catch a walking stick because of an error on Nintendo's part lol. I don't see what else I'm supposed to do to catch one at this point.
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GnarlyGarden
Senior Member
They are very!!!! hard to see. Basically just some pixelation in the bark. I have gotten them on the oak/fruit trees. They are only available during limited hours - 4 - 8 a.m. and 5-7 pm. If you travel to an NMT during one of those time ranges, the time on the island never changes after you arrive. So you can fly to an island at 6:30 pm, and look all evening. Be sure to keep catching/chasing off other bugs, so new bugs will spawn. Good luck!
CitrusCakes
art-school trash
That's exactly what I did already lol
I've figured out by now that it's not a mistake on my end, I always search for them at the right times.
Dude, I'm so pissed. I have over 200 NMT and I trade rare villagers and stuff. I JUST got rid of an ungifted Muffy a few weeks ago. It took forever for the bubble to land on her. Now someone's lightly-gifted Muffy from a user I traded with moved in on Judy's old spot. I'm beyond frustrated.
saucySheep
I've frikin' LEFT the forum :D bye!! won't miss ya
I wish Nook's Cranny wasn't so flat broke at the beginning
Agreed!!! I would looooooove for Tortimer's Island to come back. Summer year-round? Hell yeah!
My guess is (provided that it does come back), Nintendo wanted to wait a year had passed since the game came out, so people are not rushing to fill their critterpedia, because rushing can cause burn-out for some people. After all, Summer has the vast majority of things to catch.
By the time Summer wraps up in the Southern Hemisphere, it should be about a year since AC:NH came out.
You know what would be a great idea? If Nintendo did an anniversary celebration update, and it included Tortimer's Island.
. . .
We really need it. Especially because there are rare, hard-to-catch bugs that are only available in July and August. Unless you know someone in the Southern Hemisphere and you both have Nintendo online, you'd have to wait 11 months just to try again!
Today I wasted time running up and down the beach hoping for balloon presents containing DIYs but instead I received things like tricycles and flashy cardigans. Sigh.
Small rant: When you ask Isabelle for the island rating, why does she say "So there you have it" twice??
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I dislike this too, it actually feels pretty shameless of them to lock away so many things. Visiting players' islands is one thing, but furniture colours? Fruit? sharing designs and dreaming? Personally I can afford the sub and I'm sure a lot of people can but I just hate this concept that I have no choice, in New Leaf you're able achieve all this stuff on your own which I think was really nice. Also many people bought this game and the console at the same time which is already a huge investment, and they're still locked out of basic things? That's just unfair and it makes me mad!
I feel like many people enjoy trading here so this issue isn't brought up as much as others but I think it's worth being mentioned... I mean I once read this game doesn't even use servers so you're not really supporting anything, just paying for the privelege of using your own internet.
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GnarlyGarden
Senior Member
Why is Celeste so hard to find??? I check every time there’s a shower (have my weather seed from Meteonook), but haven’t seen her in weeks despite having a bunch of light showers.
DaviddivaD
Sleepless Grandpa
8+ months later and I still hate that tools break.
Keep that stuff in Fire Emblem, Nintendo.
Keep that stuff in Fire Emblem, Nintendo.
Monokuma73
Senior Member
1. Nintendo will do as they want, always.
2. Do you really believe anyone from Nintendo is reading forums and listening what players want?
That would be awesome. We need someone who is affiliated with Nintendo, and is bilingual in English and Japanese on this forum.
Monokuma73
Senior Member
I don't think language is a problem. I do strongly believe they got at least one person in their team with perfect understanding of English language.
I think, they have own vision and absolutely will not follow any players suggestion, unless it is related to bugs or crashes.
Sharksheep
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I hate it when people share editted screenshots of their islands and they don't make it clear that it has been editted with the original image. Usually they have it as a comment of the original post like on Reddit, Twitter, or Instagram or they don't say anything until someone calls them out on it. I don't care that they editted the colors or add in little details. It's not clear for people who are more casual players and not like crazy obsessed with NH like I am.
Some examples I've seen so far:
There was an image of an entrance with Market Place decorations with the flags and the pole colors editted. People thought you can customize that item; you can't
There was an image of Zen Bridge that was editted to be blue. That's not possible, there's either the natural wood or the red zen bridge
It's a big difference compared to when the screenshots used the ingame filter or they apply their own filter afterwards. Usually with filters, it's super obvious this is not what it would look like in the game during normally.
Some examples I've seen so far:
There was an image of an entrance with Market Place decorations with the flags and the pole colors editted. People thought you can customize that item; you can't
There was an image of Zen Bridge that was editted to be blue. That's not possible, there's either the natural wood or the red zen bridge
Someone editted leases/harnesses to the Puppy plushie and change the color of the collar. The puppies just have the collar.
It's a big difference compared to when the screenshots used the ingame filter or they apply their own filter afterwards. Usually with filters, it's super obvious this is not what it would look like in the game during normally.
Since we won't be getting anymore updates in 2020, I think it's time to rant about the fact that we still haven't gotten any new Nook's Canny store upgrades since launch. We will end the year by having the same old, and boring looking shop.
Upgrading Nook's shop has been a staple in the AC games, and it's very depressing to know that after the first upgrade, there is nothing else. Especially considering how lackluster the current upgrade is. New Leaf had 4 upgrades, and all past games had 3. So New Horizons having only 1 upgrade is sad.
Upgrading Nook's shop has been a staple in the AC games, and it's very depressing to know that after the first upgrade, there is nothing else. Especially considering how lackluster the current upgrade is. New Leaf had 4 upgrades, and all past games had 3. So New Horizons having only 1 upgrade is sad.
Monokuma73
Senior Member
Before Halloween update as well as the recent one, I tried to tell nothing will be added, except some event-related-things or some minor changes. Many believed in Brewster, additional buildings, cooking, farming, etc.
Face the reality and abandon your hope as nothing relevant will ever happen to this game. Sure, we may expect some colourful events, but it will be as repetitive as we had before.
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