With the implementation of Patch v0.5.5 this week, we must make yet another compromise. From this patch onward, gliding will be performed using a glider rather than with Pals. Pals in the player’s team will still provide passive buffs to gliding, but players will now need to have a glider in their inventory in order to glide.

How lame. Japan needs to fix its patent laws, it's ridiculous Nintendo owns the simple concept of using an animal to fly.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

It's the using a creature to glide that's the specific problem this time. Not the "using a creature" per se, but "pressing a button to instantly summon a non-player-controlled game-creature to allow for gliding, which is instantly dismissed once the player touches the ground" or something like that in the patent

[–] NightFantom@slrpnk.net 36 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Which is equally insane, no?

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 26 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, the more you read the patent the more you just want to grab whoever approved it and force them to explain how and why it deserved it, despite lots of prior implementations.

[–] Yermaw@lemm.ee 6 points 19 hours ago

As far as I understand patent law, if nobody has actually patented something someone can just say "mine lol" and scoop up royalties and block shit for spite.

[–] Caesium@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

it's even more stupid because that's not how the mount works in Pokémon anyway

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's how it works in Legends: Arceus, isn't it?

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 19 hours ago

As described in the patent, yes. You press one button, you start riding said mount. If it's glider mount, it automatically changes to the stag once you touch the ground OR to the fish if you fall to the water.

Palworld never had this "automatic change from one mount to another", at best it was the glider pals that you didn't have to manually summon in order to glide and went away once you touched the ground or water. I've skimmed the patent a few times, but I don't recall it having a case for going from creature-assisted-gliding to back on foot

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

Introduce a .5 second delay before dismissing the creature upon touching the ground.