I ask, because twice now I've had one of my petpets show up when I was fighting Inflatable Balthazar to get my pet's hp restored.
Behold:
Selecting the petpet didn't appear to do any damage, either time, but the option was there - even if it didn't actually do anything.
I don't remember this happening before - and when it happened the first time with Roseau I though it might be a glitch of some sort, but then it just happened again a few minutes ago I decided to ask. ^^
DamionDarkheart wrote:Erm...are you sure this is actually new? I've seen it for a really long time. It just doesn't do anything.
That's the thing - I'd always heard about them doing that, but I'd never had it happen before now - despite how many times I'd fought one-player with Chaffee on my old account. But now, it's happened twice in the past week or so, hence my wonderment.
Yes, I believe it has been in for a LONG time, but for some reason it broke and they only just fixed it, or they just made it more common. I had done about 500 battles without seeing my petpet once and in the last 20 or so it helped two or three times.
I noticed it last night when 4 battled the scientist to change her back into a girl. I didn't think much of it at the time. They used to be damage multiplyers in two-player battles, much like the fierce or berzerk stances, without an increase to the damage you'd take. They were then disabled for a long time, and I guess TNT reactivated them yesterday. As far as I know, they've never done anything in one-player battles.
This happened to me a few weeks ago; I actually made a thread about it over at PPT, but no one seemed to know why petpets were (are) mysterously reappearing in the battledome.
Mine didn't do any damage, either.
EDIT: Yep. He just showed up again. Once again, he failed to actually do anything, but he's only level 1; maybe that factors into whether a petpet does damage or not (I think it used to)?
danceu4ia wrote:But I can't make my petpet reappear in the battledome, it only happened once for me...any theories floating around as to why that would be?
I think that's just normal. The whole thing seems random, rather than "triggered." It took me about 15-20 tries to get that screenie, and right after that battle, Muco showed up again in my next battle (I'm going for the Black Pteri avvie, so I kept jumping back and forth between the pteri and the lupe). I haven't seen him since, though.
Petpets haven't been in battledomes for a very long time. I guess they decided to re-add it as a random event during battle. Personally, I've very glad they did.