Bloomers, we're still going on 3.5 years strong! Over 600 decor Pikmin to collect with a projected 1500 to collect in the coming years. They've even raised the level cap to 130 a month ago just to give people even more of an incentive to bloom. Niantic seems set on keeping this game going for many years to come!How many of you guys are still blooming? I've a couple hundred thousand flowers away from getting to lvl. 100.
I'm at level 62. If possible, get to level 100 by the end of the year as well as getting the 500 decor pikmin badge. The new event has been a total pain in the ass. I keep doing mushrooms, but when i complete them i only get like 20 or 40 music notes. I haven't gotten any golden seedlings from the event. (previous events would give you like 200 to 100 event currency, or give out seedlings). It also sucks that event currency missions only award you with clothing instead of golden seedlings, which will make it harder to collect this months event pikmin.I dunno if this is a coincidence, but the scopely acquisition was finalized on May 29th, and the event that is immediately after starts making it much harder to get pikmin.regardless, here's to another 3.5 years, if the game lasts that long.
>thread finally diedF guys.Also post friend codes.
i havent actively played or kept up with the game in ages, but are there any plans on adding ice and glow pikmin? i heard ice pikmin were in the files, like a year ago at this point
>>1764024Nothing official and all the leaks and data mining just shows new decor.
COMMUNITY DAYEVERYONE GET YOUR STEPS IN
>>1759990>I keep doing mushrooms, but when i complete them i only get like 20 or 40 music notes. I haven't gotten any golden seedlings from the event.Haven't had that experience, my mushroom challenges have been giving me 80 or more music sheets since day 1. Hope they didn't change it to favor higher-leveled players, that would suck. Seedling from item-collecting and mushrooms didn't start until June 6th, and it's just for the puzzles.>I dunno if this is a coincidence, but the scopely acquisition was finalized on May 29th, and the event that is immediately after starts making it much harder to get pikmin.Idk, I think my drops were already starting to suck around mid-May. Either way, I'm probably gonna drop monthly tasks starting in July (I'm only doing June because I like music and I was in a marching band in high school). Optimizing mushroom challenges for tasks or just power breakpoints is giving me mad, and it's also a headache trying to plant a specific kind of plant every day. I miss being able to just plant what I want, when I want to, without having to optimize everything that I do.>>1764024>>1764032They added some assets for Ice Pikmin around a year ago, but they deleted them one update later.>>1764216Only got 8k steps on Saturday, so I had to walk another 10k on Sunday.
where's my july datamine????
>>1759990I was so sad that i basically only was able to get one of the Nintendo console seedlings and that was it.A lot of my friends stopped playing so its hard to coordinate large mushrooms on the weekends too for maximum output. I really feel like it went hard pay2win especially with tickets and racking up enough of whatever the month's material is to try to hit the level thresholds. There's not even a point to doing regular, non event mushroom anymore because there's no downtime between events.I still enjoy what i've done with the game so i can't be too mad. Just a shame that I don't think its for me any more.
What gameplay mechanics could they add?
>>1771721Right now, they really need to focus on tweaking stuff VS entirely new mechanics.Events every month either need to be dialed back to every few months or just one a "season" (so 4 total for the year). You should be able to get the event materials from all mushrooms, to continue to encourage players to do them and just scale with difficulty (ie, you get less from small mushrooms, and more from large mushrooms but you still get some either way).Get rid of the spin the wheel thing and replace it with something else. Using the materials you obtain you should be able to "buy" event seeds (both for the current event and seasonal relevant previous events). 100 step ones are still entirely random, but the 10,000 step large seeds should be more in favor of what you're missing. You're still "gambling" and will still need to play the game, but its a little fairer for the player.Most everything else I think can stay the same. You can still moneyhat tickets to do more in a day, still pay to get flowers and maybe even sell bundles of materials too.I think the costume stuff should all entirely be microtransaction cosmetics - there's never been one during event that I said "oh gee, I'm glad i got this instead of a seedling from the event". After they fix existing bullshit, then they can focus on new stuff. I think there should be "combat" in the game in the form of like Bulborb or other enemy raids you can do with others. Basically same mechanics of the mushroom except you can "lose" (I would say the "fair" way to do that is to just have the pikmin return to you and you have to walk to repluck them. Maybe even a ding to friendship?) and at night they could add the Glow Pikmin and Lumiknolls you can send Glowies to.I'd like to see other items to pick up instead of just fruit - fruit can stay to get nectar but it'd be cool to see like a battery you can bring back and it'd convert into event currency.
>>1771721They really need some other game mode or something. The only things you can do in this game are walk, plant flowers (i.e., walk) or micromanage tasks. There's no combat (mushrooms don't count) or anything else to do besides collecting novel decor Pikmin. One of the most appealing aspects of Pikmin to me was all the various creatures you'd find in the Pikmin world. We still don't have any bulborbs in this game, let alone anything besides Pikmin, mushrooms and Mii characters. They should at least add a pet system or some other way to bring them into the game, even if they don't want the Niantic game that's clearly more targeted to women over Pokémon GO to have fighting.>>1771819>Events every month either need to be dialed back to every few months or just one a "season" (so 4 total for the year).Monthly events in general are just way too intrusive. Even if you're fine with spending the money to keep up with the monthly flowers, you still have to plant them, which can be pretty tedious if your main walking area isn't a long path with giant sprouts to benefit from. If you want to get all the free cosmetics, you also have to devote yourself to almost always doing event mushrooms, even if you'd rather do some large mushrooms to build up your rare flower nectar.
The new update introduces something called bird's eye view, it's extremely useful because now I can see what type of mushrooms and plants I can expect if I plan on going somewhere, not sure if it shows if a mushroom is currently being fought though. Great update!
https://linksharing.samsungcloud.com/sP5gh1bM875KMade a party walk foe the holiday weekend. Let's see how many steps we can get. Freedom to walk!
>>1779481what does it say? the only thing i see is ntr
>>1779560Pikmin are genderless little alien plant creatures. They have no want or need besides beating the ever loving fuck out of larger creatures when they're forced to and eating nectar
>>1776366>tfw no one joined my party walk.yall boring!
Hey! Decided to try out Pikmin bloom, wanted to ask what the invite code does and if anyone has one they want to give :)
picked this up recently, it's pretty fun
COMMUNITY DAYhttps://linksharing.samsungcloud.com/sC4DaeMxEYZBTotally forgot but why not start now?
missed community day whoops. Anyways when you guys invite friends to mushrooms, does it bother you when those friends use their bullhorn and invite others and take away spots? I have this happen way too often.
>>1786256Nah, the more the merrier especially now with the 10 people invites
Starting another party walk for this weekend. Hope you can join!
>>1793541>mfw someone actually joinedYay!
What if instead of pikmin it was pikmon and they where all Jamaican?
>Almost four years of this shit>Game is basically unchanged outside monthly rollouts of new flowers and new decorI hate that this game and Pokémon GO are the only GPS-based games worth playing nowadays.
>>1813271Pikmin needs to add routs like pogo has.
The sticker pikmin are lame. Look ugly and its a bitch to fill the collection out
What did Nintendo mean by this
Made a party walk for community day this weekend.https://linksharing.samsungcloud.com/y8KQGn15nnmB
>>1830754I actually never tried out smaller-scale Party Walks, but ever since the most recent update I've been getting invites from people on my friend list to do them. Joining this one too.The Party Walks seem like a good motivator for getting steps in, since the weekly challenges become get finished way too soon even if teammates lag behind. It always sucked when Thursday-Sunday end up having no motivator since you breeze through it in the first half of the week. Sure, walking for the sake of is nice, but seeing number go up as you do it is even nicer.
>>1832974Yeah I wish they would have a few more options for hardcore walkers.
Peakmin
So, that new short released on Nintendo's youtube channelTotally Pikmin related, right?
>>1859821Confirmed
Is there any kind of tool out there that allows you to search a world map for all available mushrooms? Especially since the bird's-eye view feature came out. I don't know how APIs or whatever work.
Here's a code for this weekend's community day! Hope everyone can join!
>>1865359COMMUNITY DAY PIKERS LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO
>>1867356Thanks everyone for another great community day!
ICE PIKMIN ARE COMING!!!!
holy shit it's real
Roadside and restaurant only for the ice guys?
>>1876228>Mfw having to do roadside again to get all the special decorfucking kill me.
TEAM YELLOW FOR THE WIN!
>>1879245Looks like yellow is actually winning.
Happy community day everyone! Yellow is currently in the lead for the event. Seems like they have been keeping strong. It's supposed to snow in some parts of the US so stay bundled up!
Holy shit, that was fast! That's gotta be a record.>>1880453>>1881585Yellowman here, I haven't paid any attention to the walking challenge. Does my team specifically get anything if we win?
Didn't thinkt there would be a Bloom thread!See picrel for my code (and invite code if anyone wants to grab that).>>1876228I've only gotten roadside so far...
>>1758973Can people join this game without showing location? It sounds comfy, how likely is Nintendo to pull the plug.
>>1883169You are able to set a part of the map (up to a radius of 300m) where the flowers you plant are hidden to everyone else. You can creat up to 5 of these. Apart from that the flowers you plant are visible to everyone, and if you partake in a mushroom battle everyone within range to partake can see you fighting it (otherwise it doesn't show you). If you're talking about playing the game without sharing location data with Nintendo/Gpogle you're SoL.As for Nintendo pulling the plug, there's still updates adding new features and new events every month so it's probably a case of the game being piss cheap to upkeep. I'd say at least 1 more year of new content, maybe more, then after that I can see it lasting a while before EoS.
>>1883169Yes. You can both set up privacy zones or just completely turn off the flower planting option. It's in it's 4th year and still seems pretty popular so it seems like it will be around for a while just like with PoGo.
>>1883303>>1883669Sounds good. It's less demanding for a F2P player, and having a daily tracker more than a game proper could be useful.
>>1884198Sent! I'm noodle
>>1884328Thanks. Btw, if I send a postcard, does my Pikmin have to walk all the way to the other player? If so, RIP yellow dude, got a bad feeling they won't be around for Christmas.
>>1885348No. It should be sent instantly.
>>1885383Update. It isn't, poor Pikmin is in for a very long walk. I can't even dismiss it lol
>>1885632It's about 1-3 days to arrive at the destination, not like normal expeditions.
How you bloomers holding up in this weather? Haven't been able to go on a proper walk in weeksm
>Starting December 12, we'll be running tests in the United States, Germany, and Hong Kong.>In these areas, Mushrooms may take longer to reappear after being destroyed, and you may also see more Mushrooms than usual.>Only thing I've noticed is that 3 mushrooms within a 10-mile radius of me have disappeared, no new mushrooms or sproutsThis is somehow worse than the POI reshuffle during September 2024 that cut my local sprouts by 25%.>>1902596I'm from the Midwest so I walk through rain, snow or sun. Game hasn't been particularly fun lately, the silver seedlings for the 4th anniversary snack Pikmin have been a bit obnoxious.
>>1907379I'm from Michigan so weather has been all over the place. I've noticed some new mushrooms but that's it.
>Weekday: Can't find any large mushrooms>Weekend: There are more large mushrooms in my county than giant event mushrooms>They increased the item-collecting reward from 12k to 12.9kGoddammit Scopely, it's bad enough this shit is already anchored to randomness.
Anyone else save their yearly review email?
>>1926469I didn't even know this happened.
Well, there goes my main motivation for walking. Guess I'm gonna have to go to the grocery store more often.
>>1940205God I hate roadside so much. Park/clover pikmin are fucking worse though because their rare variation isn't tied to xp yet, it's still pure RNG.
bloomer, are we doing any party ?
>>1955140I'm a bit late, but here is one for this weekend! Still 1030 AM in America so you got time.
>>1955339aw shucks, I just saw your message and it's now 11pm for meI joined but I already did my 10k step
>>1926469Never knew this was a thing
>>1940205never even got the email even though I had emails enabled
Made a new party walk challenge. Month long walk that starts technically the first official week of March. Hope everyone joins up!
>>1963821Joined
COMMUNITY DAY PICKERS!I was to lazy to make a party walk, but I sure hope you all still party!
>10 000 stepsI'm tired
Started getting back into this game and I’m having trouble remembering how everything works. I need to plant white frescias for a mission but I ran out. Whats the best way to get more?
>>1982123Doing the weekly missions. Maybe it's just me but I never found big flowers that good. I also found doing specific color mushrooms better than doing the seasonal ones.
New party walk for next month! Join while you can fellow pickers.
7570 6105 4594. Here is my friend code. I posted this back in the first thread when the game released so some of you might have it already. Getting back into the game recently
>>1986372Sent! :D
>finally clear the park decors after plucking a million yellows>WELL DONE NOW HERE'S THE RARES!!!Fuck man it's just gonna be endless storage upgrades until these rares get cleared.
>>1988211Fuck the park and clover pikmin. God I hate clover so god damn much.
how many pikmin do you guys have
>>1989224I have almost 1600. Reason for this is that you can send 40 pikmin on a mushroom raid, but elemental mushrooms can only be one color, so 1600 is more than enough to send over 3 squads of 40 pikmin of the same color.
the rabbit eggs pikmin are extra cute
>>1988811Park clover sucks, but the current Klemponen ones are so ugly and wasted that I would rather have sneakers back instead
>Finally got 3k mushroom badge yesterday>Two-thirds of mushrooms done were event shrooms, because of clothing-collecting FOMO and giant event mushrooms just being the general best way to get rare flower nectar without walkingI wish there were more reasons to play this game, but nope, all we're gonna get for the next next few years is a slow drip feed of decor Ice Pikmin in addition to monthly decor.
Good job team! I'll have another month long party walk soon. April showers are over, now it's time for May flowers!
>>2006940you walk so much
>>2006948I know. Sometimes I hate it.
Party walk for May is up! Hope you all join!
I like this month deco a lot
>Retrieve a peach>Only get 19 red nectar>Check wiki>Minimum is supposedly 20Wow, I must've been extra unlucky to get a roll that's never been documented. Makes me wish I took a screenshot.
3-2 of every event is always the step I get stuck at
>>2023053The challenges are totally rigged if you don't get the battle pass. I know it's not really a secret but it's so stupid.
So no june party walk?
>>2041281Sorry. I was at a convention this weekend and forgot. Here's a belated link for this month.
>>2041645is it too late to join?
>>2023053>>2023315The challenges are designed to punish those that don't keep up with every single monthly flower. Best recommendation I have for you is to either hunt down large/giant mushrooms, plant as many base white flowers as you can around sprouts in hopes you'll luck out in growing the white flower you're looking for, or hunt down people that will invite you to large/giant mushrooms. I'm usually more than willing to hunt one down if it's within reasonable driving distance. Even then, that doesn't mean I'm able to get all the decor Pikmin each month. I got 35 Game Pak Pikmin and made it to 11-3, but not a single one was blue.>>2042231It's only too late if it's already over. Technically you can join at the last second if you wanted to.
>>2042231You can join so long as it's active. Just remember it's purely for fun, you do not get any rewards other than your own personal satisfaction!
pikmans
>>2052414Pikwomen! We need female versions.
found this yesterday, poor pikmin will still be fighting a May mushroom in July
I feel like this game is making me slowly go insane.
>>2066304I loath clover pikmin so much. I guess I get it since I'm sure noat players are in the suburbs.
Does anyone know what the cafe ice decor is supposed to reference?. Every other cafe pikmin references an enemy but I can’t tell what this one is supposed to be. Maybe a chilly hop?
>>2067748It's literally on the Pikmin Wiki page for decor Pikmin.>The Ice Pikmin has a cyan cup with light blue spots and a red handle, like a Toxstool.
Alright bloomers! A tiny bit late, but a new month long walk is up! Let's get those steps in.... for America!
the new update with the extra range is very nice
Holy shit guys! Those are some impressive steps! How's everyone's month been? I got one more pikmin to get for this months battle pass and I'm hoping to get it. I'm not being lazy this time around so I will have an invite for next month after this post.Hope you all join!
>>2124516And next months party walk! More than enough time to join! Enjoy your break and we'll see you in a few days.
>>2124516>How's everyone's month been?hot, way to hot
bros my phone broke, so no steps will be added from me for the party walk. I miss my mins...
next party doko
>>2165066Sorry I had a busy weekend. Here are the results for August. Almost a million guys! Good job!
>>2165066And September's party walk. See you all there!
the wrust are cute
>>2169404Food themed ones are top teir.
Fucking FINALLY I HOPE TO NEVER SEE THESE TWATS AGAIN.
>>2171253GG anon
Fucking finally! Why did they wait until v153 (almost five years after launch) to add this feature?
>>2178603where is your pikmin 3 deluxe backpack...
>>2178603When are they gonna add more back packs in general?
pikmin voice: "pikmin"
Good job guys! Almost hitting the 1bill mark! October is soon and it's my favorite time of the year. I obsessively collect the Halloween pikmin so I'm very excited. Don't get to scared though, I'll have a new party walk soon!
>>2204863And link for the new party walk. Hope to see you guys there!
The stained glass pikmin look great.
>>2211882Sometimes I wish the object pikmin where real so I could decorate my house with them.>in b4 "but they are real"I mean specifically the ones and how they look in the game.Also I finally got the final mushroom badge.
>>2066304I swear to GOD, this fucking category is going to give me a psychotic episode.
>>2218535I gave up grinding park Pikmin up until they announced rare forest Pikmin, and those tend to be right next to each other where I live, so now I'm grinding both (still don't have four-leaf ice). I've come to terms with the fact that there's no way I'll complete both of these by fall next year, but I'll still push on despite all that.
>>2222222Go get them, you got lucky already.
>>2222222wasted it on pikmin coal, grim
>>2222222checked
>>1758973ok bro
>>2237500Do you enjoy going for walks in the woods.
And so October is over. Almost 10 million steps! I think I set it to public but STILL IMPRESSIVE GUYS! Hope everyone is now prepared to trick or treat!New party walk in a minute.
>>2243815November party walk.Hope you all join.
>>2243815yeah there is no way our little group walked that much
>>2243819nuh uh, 90 percent of the steps were from me im pretty sure, dont check just trust me.
>>2243819There were a bunch of Asians in there that got 300-500k steps each. No clue where they came from, but they really bumped up our numbers.
Finally, we're getting new, genuine content!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n327c39Y2-ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-1lQh551UY&t=270s>Coming this winterDang, hope it's before the new year.>Special Pikmin 4 Dandori Academy cavesI shan't.How did I mess this post up four times?
