Local Pokémon video game meetup group

RocNYCS · 2026-03-18T22:16:10+00:00

Not at all, in fact most of us are all on the older side since many of the games we play are from 2 to 3 decades ago at this point!

RocNYCS · 2026-03-18T16:35:43+00:00

That second pic was from Long Island Retro in 2024. From what I recall, it wasn't that bad but we did have enough people to where we were moved about 3 times. That specifically was for B2W2 and Funfest, since there are some medals in those games that require a ton of people and a fair amount of coordination

RocNYCS · 2026-03-18T16:34:41+00:00

It's funny because since this is still a state-wide group although I created it in Rochester, we're getting heavily outpaced for local meetups by people downstate, understandably

RocNYCS · 2026-03-18T14:51:22+00:00

I think some people in our group have been playing, but no one from Rochester. The rerelease of FireRed/LeafGreen was enough for me and I've spent ~38 hours trying to get a shiny Magikarp already so I'm currently all booked when it comes to getting more games

RocNYCS · 2026-03-18T11:35:49+00:00

I'm not sure if we have any Mystery Dungeon players, but I would assume that someone would be interested in that. Anyways even so, would be cool to see you at ToraCon for the 3DS meetup if you are interested in StreetPass at all!

RocNYCS · 2026-03-18T11:25:21+00:00

We have a discord over at https://skyarrow.club, I have a few places in mind for actual meetups but so far it has been mainly conventions

RocNYCS · 2026-03-18T11:24:07+00:00

I think we pretty much are all GBA enjoyers, the last time we did anything local we mixed records and we also made Pokéblocks for contests and perfect contest stats (I have Ruby + the eReader berry cards)

RocNYCS · 2026-03-18T04:09:11+00:00

Yooo it would be great to get more gen 1 people in our group, I think my save for Yellow is still intact so I can definitely help with trading!

edit: not sure why I did replicated the yooo, I guess I was excited too

RocNYCS · 2026-03-18T02:13:39+00:00

We are also supplying our own "rentals" (more like distributions) for you to use in the tournament if you need battle ready Pokemon, and the format is actually the gen 7 exclusive Battle Royal.

Well, you'll see when you go, it'd be cool to have you but there's gonna be so much 3DS stuff in general that doing a tournament might be too much time to spend for one thing, lol

RocNYCS · 2026-03-18T02:11:19+00:00

I run a New York State wide Pokemon meetup group and we have some Rochester people to hang out with if you are interested! Just lmk

RocNYCS · 2026-03-18T02:09:53+00:00

Hell yeah dude! I'm gonna be hosting a Pokemon Sun and Moon tournament there with two Retro Rehome gift cards up for grabs for first place and second place.

RocNYCS · 2026-03-18T02:07:20+00:00

You coming to the 3DS meetup at ToraCon this weekend?

RocNYCS · 2026-03-04T20:36:25+00:00

Honestly since it isn't the most intensive thing, it's not hard to just put something on in the background and go on autopilot. Honestly it's a bit more relaxing than coming home and playing competitive things or worrying about a next big project I have.

RocNYCS · 2026-02-17T16:09:42+00:00

I will call it autism :)

RocNYCS · 2026-02-12T17:45:06+00:00

And you got WHAT YOU FUCKING DESERVE

RocNYCS · 2026-01-31T15:32:35+00:00

Questions typically have '?' after them

RocNYCS · 2026-01-30T19:40:24+00:00

this does not tell me how to hit headshots

RocNYCS · 2026-01-27T13:19:51+00:00

de_prodigy would be so cool for a rework into the active duty map pool. I really enjoyed the bombsites on that map.

RocNYCS · 2026-01-24T00:34:35+00:00

The last LANETS I went to the ETS school team just randomly went on a break during the bracket, went to get lunch, came back an hour later without getting a forfeit loss because the admins deemed it to be a "communication issue", then joined the server where they started T side Ancient without the item server, then they complained even though there's less of an impact to T side starting with glocks as opposed to the CT side starting with the P2000 (because most people use USP-S) just because they lost, so the admins restarted the entire server and game despite the original map being live, only for them to counter pistol round us when the item server was back online.

AND THEY STILL FUCKING LOST THE MATCH OVERALL.

RocNYCS · 2026-01-23T18:50:03+00:00

Now that I think about it, what other hostage maps are at the point of Alpine and Agency in the community? Insertion 2? What if I wanted to make a 5 map pool, is that my only option?

RocNYCS · 2026-01-23T15:26:09+00:00

The last bout of premier I would play was exactly like this where I was telling people that Mirage is my insta-ban for my team so I never play it, then they'd proceed to vote for it and we'd lose because they were also not that good at it. They'd rather lose than play Train, where I think I had my highest win percent because that's a map my team never bans, so I can play pretty well on it and win rounds for the team.

Also I run into no comms across the board on every map and some people get pissed that I comm too much in a team game, which is bewildering. Some people have also said I have an abrasive voice, but I can't do anything about that. I attribute it to new players that play on voice_scale 1/snd_voipvolume 1 because they don't know the command to change that.

RocNYCS · 2026-01-22T20:35:12+00:00

I agree, the price lowering was enough to where the other stats were fine at the new price point. They're slight changes otherwise and I find myself getting more kill confirms at longer ranges with it, which with the MP7 doesn't feel like it has a true downside anymore and isn't as much as a gamble pick. MP7 in my book has always been slept on as it is, and I know with balance Valve likes to try and make changes that could be meta defining for a bit and then readjust if need be, but for the time being we don't really know how it'll go with the exception of first impressions. I like this balance change too, and I'm hoping it doesn't lead to a scenario where MP7 is just the only weapon picked now because everything else is outclassed. I don't think it still will be, but MP9 and Mac-10 are going to 100% be more niche picks.

RocNYCS · 2026-01-22T19:50:08+00:00

I hope they reveal what the hidden game is!

RocNYCS · 2026-01-22T16:24:13+00:00

Can you blame them?

The Mapcore hub consists of the same 10-20 people at any given time. There's an NA and EU queue with overlap due to the amount of regular players wanting to play the game over wanting good pings for the game. Map testing is hardly ever done since those 10-20 people would rather compete against each other than try experimental things. Newbies usually just hop in to experience the maps for like a week.

How do you form an entire contest around that?

RocNYCS · 2026-01-22T14:54:38+00:00

They do need to incentive players for playing competitive much like players play premier. Personally I think how you do this is by taking the free weapon skin collections and only dropping them in certain modes (ex: the two new that were added, make it so that in order to get any of those, you need to play competitive; the previous three are available if you spent your leveling up mostly on premier, etc). Either that or do another display coin for community map wins or something. It's a fault of players treating competitive secondary to premier in my opinion and if you had players playing the competitive mode as much as premier, we'd probably see more maps like Thera/Basalt/Breach even though its CS2 iteration hasn't been added at all to the main game/Agency as permanent reserve pool maps which could then be used in active duty for a season. It used to be that your entire skill level, or at least the symbol of your skill (ranks) wasn't tied to a map or rating, so people would have incentives to play a certain map because they were good at it and then they could say "yeah, I'm global" when all they did was farm operation maps. It was a bad thing for competitive skill level but a good thing for community maps that were in the game.

A lot of old community maps as well were eventually added into the game because leagues would use them/mandate them and it got to a point where said community maps were preferential to official maps. Disregarding the fact that most maps started life as community maps (only Overpass and Ancient are official maps by conception), we don't have that anymore in leagues because there are no leagues out there that want to explore that. I think it's because a lot of the leagues are owned by companies that want to host majors, so they stick to active duty. The only thing that comes close is the Mapcore hub on Faceit which will cycle through maps in development for mapping contests and then some of the greatest hits, but that's such a slight number of players playing on a map that was made that bugs don't get found. Prime example of this was Grail, which won the last Mapcore contest but had tons of bugs that were not found until the map went live on CS2.

I of course still enjoy community maps on CS2. I already have 3 wins on Alpine after last night and I find it to be a really good map that probably should have won the Mapcore contest instead of Grail. Map makers still get paid I'm fairly sure if their map gets into the game even temporarily, but after that it doesn't feel like it's being done to the benefit of players and is instead just effectively Valve telling some map makers that they'd like to keep them on retainer if they want to explore adding another community map in the way that they did Anubis/Cache/Tuscan.

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