Palworld - This is Destroying Everyone's Catch Rate! New Update Out Now for Xbox

[@GeraltofRivia22]

I thought I was going crazy, barely being able to catch level 30 Pals when I'm level 44.

[@JamesPratt-v1g]

Use bigger balls

[@wesleybartoszek425]

I was thinking the same I have a friend that just start and has no effigy’s yet with a lucky throw caught a warsect with a mega sphere and I’m over here with level five effigy not able to catch Jake squat I have to use the red sphere to catch any

[@mechanical_chaos]

I thought i was going friggin crazy. I kept hunting effigies, trying to fix it, but it only seemed to get worse.

[@wesleyblack8302]

it was a trap. the more effigies you get, the more you're going to need lol

[@JJiG]

I gathered a bunch tonight and im glad I saw this video just now before I applied them.

[@dakotaseckman1457]

I knew this was a thing for some time now. When you can throw a sphere at a pal and it says 87% but you fail 26 times in a row is a sign that things are off.

[@astralguardian5930]

Even just the amount of visible 10% chances only for it to end up being ridiculously more Spheres used.

[@flashfreak62]

This makes sense. I thought something was up when at level 35 I was using 5-6 spheres to catch a level 4 chikipi...when at level 1 it only ever took 1 or 2.

[@Gomorragh]

levels 41, throwing 1 blue ball always 97 to 99% as long as ive done at least 50% damage, other than that everything seems to have a chance to parry if over that

[@cinqueallison190]

man NOW i want the bugged reset serum back

[@StartPrayin]

😂😂😂

[@PillsburyNinjaKneadingJustice]

I have a friend I'm playing with that keeps getting 80 to 90% capture rate and the pal breaks out of the sphere 9 times out of 10. And I agree with him, it's quite annoying. Thank you for this video. Now I know it's not just us

[@aliasmask]

Same. It may be possible it's the ball, ie Hyperball. I throw like 20 hyper at 80% before running out and then the next Giga worked first try. I'm at level 10 in effigies.

[@sixten7920]

Yah it has been wild. I've been crafting up a few hundred of top tier orbs just to complete 10 capture on 2-3 pals. I thought lag or latency was causing it, like the game wasn't properly registering the ticks or something. Didn't think it was a flat out decrease to catch rate lol.

[@JoviaI1]

My record so far is 96% chance, 9 failures. 1/27,000,000,000,000 odds of that happening.

[@quaylo4235]

As in the chance of it happening 9 times if 1 in 27qd?

[@JoviaI1]

@@quaylo4235 At 96% capture chance, the odds of it succeeding all 9 times in a row is ~70%. The odds of it failing 9 times in a row is 1 in 27 trillion.

[@Typher_]

yeah 40 red balls to not catch the jormuntide was really fun

[@CentreSwift]

If you have a nitewing and helzepher, you can breed one instead! I've been using breeding combination calculators online and it's really useful.

[@olencone4005]

Ah, great... just... great 😭 I got my last idol last night and was happy about having my catch rates maxed -- I was just expecting it to be maxed in the positive direction, not the negative hehe!

[@BNETT21]

Same...

[@dailybs555]

just make a new save and don't level them up, while waiting for hotfix to continue your main save.

[@WyzrdCat]

Literally one of the worst feeling bugs in any game ever. Grinded hard to make myself worse... just wow.

[@j22_]

Same bro, I’ve been getting some bullshit World Data Autosave Fail ever since I maxed my effigy aswell, can’t save the game or catch a pal lol

[@crazyzombie100]

I have not maxed mine, and I am glad I have not

[@Azr4el]

I think the percentage shown doesn't even matter I have several instances where I would miss 80% chance for like 10 times in a row, wasting lots of very expensive spheres. So there is must definitely something wrong with the catch rate.

[@JoviaI1]

Yep, I had 9 failures in a row at 96% catch chance. The odds of that happening are 1 in 26 TRILLION.

[@RchardCRANIUM89]

Then I managed to catch a froststallion with a .5 percent chance. It makes no sense.

[@ronnyrdr6553]

If it was a cheeky Pall. That line defies all % chance. Just throw the worst ball you can still catch with 4-5 times and then throw a good ball. It will save you a lot of spheres.

[@xkidgey]

I knew something was odd.. Using six balls to catch a pal in the 60-70% range happens way too often lol

[@stuartmcewan8750]

Im only at Level 8 catch rate. then i begin hearing about this bug... explains some of my failing catches. Guess ill hold off on upgrading for now then. hopefully soon

[@zath863]

I knew something was off when i was missing a 98% 5x in a row. I also used 56 legendary spheres on jetragon on a 14% capture rate.

[@sphygo]

Yup, love dumping 20+ balls onto Pals with a 10-20% capture rate. I thought it was confirmation bias for awhile, but it's been happening way too often to be coincidental at this point.

[@Spychopunk2077]

The % is not real I caught pal with 12% odd before it goes to 50 something and after 3 rd times the chance goes up you should be good, and took me 3 tries to catch a boss pal .

[@desertwhaler]

I knew something had to be wrong with the catch rate percentage. I think the problem goes even deeper because there's things that say I have a 50% or higher catch chance, and I've blown through 15+ balls trying to catch it. Odds just don't seem to match up.

[@edsylvester751]

I was wondering why this was happening to me. Ive been focusing on trying to use only legendary spheres since im max level, but it doesnt seem to do much for especially lvl 40-49 pals, not to mention legendaries who's capture has been abysmall either way.

[@glenni83]

So that is what`s going on. I had a suspision that something was up. I was catching pals in a zone at lvl 50. I was doing some catching with sphers that was low lvl easy. I did do a full run of finding upgrades in a few hours, bumping my catch rate up to max from 6/10. I came back to the zone, now i was starting to struggle with the spheres that i used catch em with. Then i had to start using legendary spheres on bosses that i could easy with other spheres. Question is, do the team know this is an issue now?

[@Spychopunk2077]

Also the electricity baton will increase the rate and pal with electricity power that stun pal will temporarily raise your catch rate

[@MADSLAYER47]

Welp I maxed out effigy

[@sandorphoenix]

How I noticed the difference was by not turning in any effigies early level, and after level 25 I used all the effigies I found into the statue, I couldn't catch even the basic Pals.

[@kennithbob]

Oh no. I think I feel this too! I was getting poor percents on common level 1 pals. I play on a friend's server, but my other friends play more... might be why I have a better catch rate? Slacking=winning? Hope they fix this soon, though. Thanks for the informative video.

[@LoLTerminus]

you dont need to wait for an update. Go into your world settings and increase your capture rate to a point you feel comfortable with for the time being until a hotfix is released.

[@AurioDK]

I have the capture rate maxed having already made one run on normal settings without any settings modifications. It only helps with lower level pals, so if you are up for a grind it does help to have capture rate maxed, as soon as you hit level 40 and need to use ultra and legendary spheres later on it doesn´t seem to make any difference, I still miss a whole bunch of 50% throws in a row on the same mob. Breeding seems by far the easier way, max capture rate is okay though if you are grinding for the condenser ... which I am not, I have the patience of an ADHD toddler.

[@PhoenixBlacke]

Yea i was thinking there was a glitch, im at 49, using Ultra Spheres mostly and they hardly work against lvl 40-45s. Im not max Effigy but Im up there, and noticed how its so much harder to get a pal then at the start. And i even changed the pal capture rate to 2 not 1, and its still harder!

[@malachishaner690]

I just figured the catch rate of higher level pals was getting lower as I pushed through, as I increased the capture rate I also noticed that the chance went up when I actually used a ball on a pa vs what shows when you put ur cross hair over a pal, which I don't remember happening before the increase.

[@Sam_Saraguy]

Perfect timing, as I was just about to start a new world. I guess I'll hang on to the effigies until we get word this has been patched (hopefully they will be as helpful at higher levels).

[@DragonKnightJin]

I'm almost at level 50 on my first run. Sounds like it's time for me to yeet that world into the bin and start fresh with the knowledge I have now. At least I learned this before I spent time hunting down the last ~11 Lifmunk Effigies I need to max out my Effigy Level... Or banged my head against the wall that is the Legendaries...

[@nicolasprzasnyski2114]

So im lv 9 with my liffmunk statues.... should i just like double my catch rate to bring it back to working as intended? Whats the multiplier i should use?

[@BookkeeperGaming]

I appreciate the video! I have been playing solo offline, so I will probably just up my capture rate until the fix comes. I just finished my first playthrough last week normal vanilla settings and started a new character 3 days ago. I have had some kind of amazing start to the game...2 shiny right when I spawned, then about 3 more within 2 hours of play. Also, got a legendary handgun schematic on my first visit to the sanctuary. Also, I probably have 10 shinys at this point which is probably equivalent to my level 50 account.

[@crazypieman9]

dope af

[@xing5260]

Guys don't go for lifmunk just edit server settings and set catch rate to twice and here we go

[@theprettypetard2524]

i guess this explains how i spent nearly an entire in game night trying to catch a damn galeclaw when it was supposed to be about 20% chance with a regular pal sphere since i am only missing 2 level for the lifmunk effigy

[@vert2552]

5:52 I wonder how he made foundation go all around like that on different heights as you cant connect it. Are those seperate 'structures' just well placed? Or is there a way to actually do it?

[@powergi3996]

I thought i was going crazy..lv10 effigies here. I guess I'll focus on crafting ammo and spheres and wait for the update.

[@XbraveheartX87]

SAME!! i spent several hours with my max speed jetragon getting all the effigies and then i started farming bosses and noticing its taking SOOOOOOO many spheres i thought i was going nuts.

[@boookythegod]

Bro, they spreading some bs lol feel like this is to get ppl to stop playing because “ catch rates are broken “, when in reality, it’s been the same game every day lol you can 100% mostly every min except the mammoth in the starter area by LOWERING ITS HEALTH. This video is pointless asf and just going to sway ppl away from the game for shit that YOU CAN 100% control.

[@dresean3725]

​@@boookythegod No, this is an actual thing. I've played this game quite a bit, but after the last update I found myself failing catches that made no sense. I'm talking failing 60% captures 8+ times in a row and failing 80% catches 3-6 times. And these cases happened on SEVERAL occasions. It was beyond infuriating and the same thing was happening my two other friends on our server. Oddly enough, I now wonder if it's been fixed or only affects random servers because I played for the last 8hrs or so and capturing felt like it was back to normal. Loved it cuz I had to stop playing for a bit 2 days ago due to the extreme annoyance at failing 80% way more times than succeeding

[@YDG666]

@@boookythegod I see no harm saying it is bugged, this will not make people stop playing the game what will make people do is create a new character and not upgrade the effigy simple as that, and this video is comming from someone who constantly give tips about the game which means he is not a hater of the game trying to sway people to quit just to lower the steam online players... The good example is this person you commented on @powergi3996 he instead of stopping playing he will craft more supplies instead, this is enough proof just "chillet" out and don't act like the crazy fanboys from pokemon kay? =) Let's just hope things will get fixed asap and if it is not bug even better right? It is only win-win here, we only lose if it is a bug and it won't even get patched up.

[@wild_wyoming6392]

It's the secret levelscaling mech, lol. The strknger you think you are, the weaker they make you to mame the game harder. 😂 /j

[@mortagon1451]

Well that explains things

[@keithstephenllorente]

not bad that I got the bug for the Memory Wiping Medicine. I draw back to level 1 and my catch rate was higher than before with max effigy (since I maxed may catch rate ASAP)

[@Matok1]

You know I was wondering if the displayed rate doesn't match the actual rate because I've been noticing a lot of break outs in the 60-75% area, more so than one would think should happen. And the other thing I noticed is if you hold Q and aim at at something, the displayed capture rate before you throw is much lower than the rate displayed once the ball hits. I thought this was the 'improved capture rate' kicking in but I bet the rate you see before you throw is the actual rate you're getting.

[@jesseteravainen3208]

sounds reasonable

[@rocksfire4390]

the only thing that changes the capture rate are the effigy's, the sphere to capture with (they list their capture power), the enemy pal level (most important), back sphere throw and finally reducing the enemy pals hp. the players level has no effect on capturing a pal, so it can safely be ignored.

[@bryantroehm6731]

you forgot adding a status effect like burn or stun

[@rocksfire4390]

@@bryantroehm6731 oh yea, good point.

[@checkyoursixgaming]

I figured this out when I was testing for a few days trying to catch pals on the sanctuary islands. I am level 50 and would go with 100 legendary pal spheres to catch pals there. These were level 40-45 pals as well. If I knock them down to 5% or less health I would have a 50% to 80% capture rate chance displayed. It would be 80% for level 40s and 50% for level 45s. So that was the range. I would expect, assuming no missed throws, to catch between 50 to 80 pals every trip. I would barely get between 10 to 20 every trip. I did this test dozens of times. After the first few times I got suspicious. Then I did it more and more actually tracking it better. After doing spending thousands of spheres on dozens of tests I could conclude the capture rate displayed was no where near correct. I wasn't sure what the problem was only that the rate chance was not correct.

[@TheKotaCan]

Made a 1 minute video into a 8 minute Yap session

[@mingywantwingy1379]

Thanx for posting. I was wondering.

[@kr4toons983]

This is what i confuse before then i just think if u upgrade high Effigies the game will more harder for more adventage play. High effegies mean u explore the world alot so they give u more harder and more adventage for late game

[@Ready_Set_Boom]

I missed 98% catch rate four times in a row.

[@Khrazegaming]

Ouch . Had a few 70’s in a row missing but not THAT bad

[@crazypieman9]

this is somehow the most unlikely and the most believable comment

[@franknova987]

That's some Fire Emblem luck right there ._.;

[@Ready_Set_Boom]

@@crazypieman9 for a level 7 pal, the little bastard did not want to get in his new home. He harnessed his inner samurai and deflected a ton of my throws.

[@Wolfgang-vd8kx]

Someone at pocket pair must’ve accidentally made it to multiply by .5 instead of 1.5 💀

[@Khrazegaming]

Fat fingered the math lmao😂

[@yippykayakotherbuckets8870]

Looks like I'm starting over again. I was using the most Pals custom option; getting 5-6 in a group, and 3 World Bosses. Had 85/30 when that Tutorial task finally showed. This time I'm going to try the lowest setting, make Pals more rare. I had one escape a sphere with 100% catch chance. No fooling.

[@avereth]

Thank god I'm not going crazy, I've been going through hundreds of spheres like nobody's business. It's an absolute nightmare catching anything in the upper 30s range, and catch chances in the 70-80% range just pop open 6-8 times the first check as a normal thing. Maybe I'll adjust my catch rate up in the settings, the reduced sphere grind would be a huge relief since I capped out my effigies very fast before moving back to the proper game progression.

[@trevorsreya8277]

I *just* made an army of Anubis with all the best work related skills. I am *not* restarting right now. Fortunately, as far as I know, catch rate can be modified in the settings. I just don't know what's a good number to set it to to be balanced where it not only offsets the bug, but treats it how it's supposed to be.

[@BNETT21]

If playing on a server you can transfer pals to another character in guild then reset yours or just use the other character. i think there are ways to move a SP game to MP. hopefully there is a way to just edit our characters.

[@wumpusrat]

I just tested it on some level-1 chickens. I have two 50th level characters, one with lifmunk at 10, one at 6. Throwing a tier-1 palball at a level-1 uninjured chicken from behind with lifmunk at 10 was an 85% base chance. Doing the same with lifmunk at 6 was a 76% base chance. I'm curious if these tests against "starter mobs" were using the same level for each test, or just a random sampling of 1-5th levels. Because that'll change the odds.

[@rocksfire4390]

they where picking targets within the listed on screen ranges, i don't think they knew that the base chance to capture is based on the enemy pals level. ALL pals of the same level have the same capture rate, there might be exceptions like legendaries (not quite sure) however i tested in a few areas and all pals of the same level had the same chance to capture them. at least the displayed rate was the same anyway. edit: also keep in mind that the video that tested the capture rates had increased their capture rate in the world settings, it was applied to both tests so the results are still valid but the rates might not line up with what you have depending on your world settings.

[@dresean3725]

If I remember correctly, this is a bug on the backend. The visual will say it's a certain rate, but that's not the correct rate. It will even increase as you upgrade your effigy, but it isn't consistent

[@RathalosX]

If in dedicated server you can change/increase catch rate settings.

[@EndersSaga]

This is fun breaking to me. No desire to play knowing the game is sucking my time from my goals for my efforts

[@itstmony2986]

It’s not even in alpha, quit expecting a perfect game give them time, if you’re expecting perfection from a game supposedly only 60% complete you’re senseless

[@VaguelyUncertain]

Imagine crying over the game being ever so slightly more difficult than it’s supposed to be.

[@snoogans20]

I have my catch rate cranked up to 10 in the world settings and I cannot tell you how many times I've had stuff with 60%+ catch rate break out. I literally expect it now and as you can guess I have maxed out my effigy bonus.

[@RIFADOR001]

This may surprise you, but 60% means that it will fail 40% of the time. And if you repeat it very often you might even get biased and think it’s worse. The typical “it is always terrible” while it’s 50-50.

[@snoogans20]

@@RIFADOR001 Then it should be 40% and not 100%. It fails EVERY SINGLE TIME for the first few balls unless my percent is 100.

[@DarrkSixx]

Catch rate only goes up to 2 though?

[@snoogans20]

@@DarrkSixx I modded it because it was even worse before

[@turdferguson8151]

Thank God I learned about this ahead of time, I took advantage of the mind wipe glitch to reset my capture rate,

[@dimanarinull9122]

I knew there was a capture rate bug in the game after this update. EDIT: you don't need to have 2 characters to check if the capture rate numbers are bugged, only to see that the lifmunk effigy boost is the cause. it is likely a -/+ bug regarding the effect of the effigies, and is likely using a numder that is not connected directly to the displayed capture rate numbers.

[@Baradiele]

I kind of noticed the same...and still I catched my first Jetdragon after "only" 4 red balls

[@BloredBean0]

The RNG gods blessed me because I caught the astegon boss with a legy at 10% first throw. I had a feeling the RNG gods were upset

[@Wintercide]

I had a feeling. I first noticed watching a streamer who had almost max and he was complaining about the catch rates he was having. I thought well just upgrade, but he was 2 or 3 from max! Then I noticed myself going from 3 pips to 6. HOLY. It's crazy, REALLY really hope they fix it soon.

[@WasteOfTimeDude]

God damn. At first i was like "i should start collecting those green things because i dont have a good capture rate". Then i lvl it up till like 7-8 and now i cant capture shit. I waste like 30 balls on one Pal. Mind you the red ones. And the pall is like lvl 32 and im over 40 something. I kidd you not, i could not capture ONE in the ice region. I just can not get any of them with a capture rate of 6%. Now i know why. Thanks dude. Will wait for a patch

[@Burg_11]

It didn’t make sense to me how my capture rates were so low even with the legendary spheres, this clears it up completely since I had my capture power maxed😡

[@patrickmurray3846]

and catch 22 is, unless your statue is capped to near capped you will have a 0% chance at capturing lvl 50 boss's even with leggie spheres. so i'd take lower catch rate from a bug while still having a chance at boss's

[@miss.antidote]

Well done turning a 30 second video into 8 mins

[@catmaster42]

lol, right?

[@phloxevl0]

not to mention not putting a link to the reddit post with all the info in it

[@GriffinLKVW]

He was showing proof to back up the statements. Why do you even care how long the vid is if you got what you needed after 30 seconds? lmao

[@Derzull2468]

He gave all the info in the first few seconds... Why did you watch something you didn't want to watch?

[@mechanical_chaos]

Did you wander in from the Shorts part of YT.

[@Lil_Puppy]

They fixed it today. Though actual catch rate still sucks though... Nothing like having a 1% chance and then it switches immediately to 0.08% and nothing happened but a failed first catch with an ultra ball.

[@Al3ksUnd3ad]

Damn and i had a suspicion from the start that the lifmunks were making catch rate worse and people thought i was crazy, i've played a lot of black desert online so i feel like it's made me good at feeling percentages and palworld definitely felt off when i failed a 80% 6 time in a row.

[@AlanLare]

They said it was fixed, but after the fix I'm finding myself struggling even more than before, and I've only been upgrading AFTER that patch released, so it SHOULD be getting better, but it's getting worse, I am having LvL 5 pals fending off HYPER spheres x.x

[@PragmaticTornado]

Even with 2x capture rate (the max you can set), it's still a pain capturing higher levels. Hopefully they fix this one quickly.

[@AnthonyBrown-gt4tn]

Is it really? I don't think it's any more unfair than it should be? Idk 20 legendary spheres for Anubis sounds fair to me

[@ytubestolemyhandle]

This is the 5th time I'm restarting my playthrough... Though I can't even be mad, cause lower level gameplay sure has more challenges than when you start breeding perfect pals. But having to breed my perfect Direhowl, Lyleen, Azurobe and Anubis once again will get on my nerves fast

[@MrM-s6u]

I have a really hard time catching things with high catch rates but it took one ball for me to land a successful 0.05 rate catch

[@Woah808]

So the memory wipe medicine bug was actually a blessing in disguise?! And we all cried about it 😂😂

[@logicrules5793]

Yay I just reached effigy level 7 5 minutes before I saw this video. Good looking out.

[@ZanmarKnight]

This explains why my catch rate went down, i thought it was due to reaching a certain level

[@CarisTheGypsy]

I hope they fix this soon, I'm now trying to get my ten captures of the early game pals and I'm failing catches that used to be easy, it makes no sense, until I watched this video. Can't believe this has been the state for a while now, it's very frustrating

[@BlackDragon41sbm]

I was running around catching those elkdeers for a Pal upgrade and noticed that they're breaking out way too easily despite the capture rate being around 60%(I'm 1 point away from max effigy catch rate). I caught over 80 of these deers and having to use my Vixy farm to supply my pal ball needs because I am burning through them.

[@Optimusj1975]

They added the effigy bonus to the wrong side of the calculation. Or did them? It might have been a trap all along.

[@1_1Vic]

I thought i was crazy when a pal got away when it sowed 100%

[@xeno6527]

The numbers come from your lvl , effigy lvl the pals lvl and the lvl of your ball and the health. Add that all together, and that's your statistic in a bottle

[@Silverboy005]

Yeah, I've noticed. At first, I thought that im just ovetthinking it, but I guess its true.

[@wherethetatosat]

I just got a flying mount 3 days ago and was laughing at how quickly I was accumulating Lifmunk effigies now. I forgot which boss I came across but it said I was supposed to have a 40% catch rate. 15 balls. It took 15 balls to catch the stupid thing.

[@JakeABee]

This explains how a lvl 15 leafmonk escaped my legendary pal sphere

[@Mimzrz]

Why did you use a legendary sphere on a lifmunk 😭

[@JakeABee]

@@Mimzrz it was instinct to throw a ball and before I knew it I had just lost a damn legendary sphere

[@cpt-hail8295]

I havnt noticed any difficulty with catch rate the only pal thats shown more then normal resistance at staying in the damn sphere was lyleen noch , first time i faced her, got her down to 3% and she wouldnt stay in the Sphere, i was running a little on legendary spheres so after the 5th one i just ended the fight after that only ever atmost took 4 throws to get her since iv unlocked the legendary spheres i have not bothered to manufacfure lower quality ones no point mining tons of ore and paladium is easy, the only 2 things important that im manufacfuring are legendary spheres and rockets... the only 2 things that have really been any issue since the most recent update, is crashing on xbox, before last update it only ever crashed on occaision and generally after more then a 24hr gaming sesh at witch point i atrribute the problem to my console being to hot, the only other bug has been the alphas killing them selves, jetragon has killed himself multiple times while im tryind to capture him, he tries to charge at you then hits the edge of the crater or cliff then glitches into the lava just under the map then you watch his health go from 80% to 0 in a second... the game is honestly playing as i expect it to, high level pals or alphas are supposed to be a slight challenge, not that big of a deal anyways this game comes with its own toggleable cheat codes, if you dont like a bit of a challenge change the capture rate....

[@Priogen]

No wonder I have been feeling that it is harder to catch things after I maxed out my effigies. Hope they fixed this issue soon.

[@figloalds]

They either fixed this already or this was not true. I managed to find the memory address for the Chipmunk Statue Level and fiddled with it. Increasing the value from 0 to 10 significantly increases capture rate, and setting it to a ludicrous number allows to capture full life Pals higher than your own level with a blue ball. I'd say very confidently that the chipmunk statue level is working as intended

[@Fishster]

Could you have made a mistake? There are hundreds of comments to this video alone affirming this. Yours is the only nay. Even disregarding half as BS that’s a lot.The practical significance is large too. I wonder if you’ve got the location for the core chance and are altering that but there is a modifier variable for the offerings being applied after or something? Not disparaging your work but there now seems to be overwhelming anecdotal evidence that something is up even assuming half the people are exaggerating. I know when I’ve done work like this I could swear I’ve got a location but the code is not working as I thought it was.

[@figloalds]

​@@Fishster I've found the value for the statue level in RAM, such that changing it displays the altered level on the statue UI. I could change my statue to lv 0 or lv 10 on command. So I went to a low level area and aimed a blue ball with the statue at Lv 0, on the face, no back-bonus, had around 36% chance. Changed to lv 10, aimed on the face, had 60%~ chance. Changing the value changed the displayed chance. So, I wasn't willing to throw 100 balls, verifying every throw to not trigger back bonus and do the proper research, so I set the statue lv to 99999 and I was able to blue-ball catch full HP monsters of lv 40+ that are EXTREMELY hard for my character to catch with her statue at lv 8 (which was her value previously). So I set the statue level to 0 and went for Fenglopes, I farmed a LOT of this mob with my character at lv 47 and statue at lv 8, done the same farming routine, perceived a significantly increased escape rate. Now, if the code for the statue level was reversed, I would have found reduced chances and exaggerating the number would make catching Pals impossible.

[@figloalds]

@@Fishster Now, maybe these people are doing these tests with different character level, or different Palbox levels, because these other 2 also affect capture chance And also, open world mobs spawn with different levels, if you try to catch a Lv 2 Chikipi your chance will be different from when you try to catch a Lv 3 Chikipi, if these things are not taken into account then erroneous results are likely. I did my own testing and from what I've seen, I will continue to level up the Lifmunk Statue normally

[@figloalds]

@@Fishster About setting ludicrous values to numbers that normally should only go up to 10, this is how I found out work speed doesn't affect Farm-type monsters, I've set a Chikipi to 69420 statue upgrades in workspeed (+208260% WS), and it still layed eggs at the "same rate". There's a huge standby time before the character starts the "spawn item animation", the spawn item animation speed is affected by WS, but the time it takes to actually spawn an item isn't, the mob only appears to be spawning faster. Same for transporting. The same WS makes Sparkbit instantly charge batteries, instantly build things and instantly craft things. So I know that the game logic allows for exceeding the numbers and having the exceeding results, the Lifmunk statue was not an exception. I do these tests specifically to understand how the game works so that I don't lose my time when playing the game for reals

[@Fishster]

@@figloalds sure but there are so many (anecdotal to be sure) with such low probability failure streaks that they are essentially impossible. As a made up (but not over exaggerated) example if you’re catching level 2 or 3 pals with a 95% or 96% it doesn’t matter which it is if you fail 5 times in a row the probability is so low 0.00003 it’s virtually impossible. In any case I’m more interested in your approach? Did you use cheat engine? Are you sure you got the correct location? There are numerous modifiers to capture chance. The fact that you could increase above 100% suggest maybe not as people are reporting that the number is displayed one way (correctly increased?) but applied incorrectly. Dunno just trying to make some sense but am playing on Xbox so no access to any tools.

[@travis718]

I think there is a much deeper bug than effigies. Or maybe its intended as a time sink idk. But i trying to catch frostallion last night, my first go with a legendary. I have my spawns doubled so there were 2 of them, i got the aggro off of one do it went back to sleep to fight 1 at a time. My first one i got all the way down to around 300 hp, and i believe my % with legendary spheres was like 9% or so. Took 5 to catch the first one. The 2nd one i took all the way down to 5 hp as i only had 5 spheres left and didnt want to waste all 5 and be shit out of luck. Had the same 9% rate and it escaped immediately every single time. I threw a hyper? Ultra? Which ever is the next one down i cant remember as a last ditch effort and it had a 13% and i caught it. My effigy is at 9. In short i believe there is a much larger bug behind capture rates, possibly even bugs with specific spheres, and not just tied to effigies but possibly a bug with the capture rate dropping with higher level pals beyond intended.

[@VaguelyUncertain]

This is the conclusion I came to as well. I think the spheres themselves are bugged out and auto ejecting the pals.

[@toddabbott781]

Yes the catch rate is bugged. It can say 70% and it will fail 3 times in a row. I hope they fix this as it is really making it near impossible to catch the higher end bosses and enemies. I don't think the effigies lower your chance, but I do think the boost they give shows in your percentage, but your actual chance of catching them is not actually effected by the effigies. I am 7 away from level 10 right now and my character just hit level 50 and my base is now level 20. I have use NO esploits either.

[@DivineFlame7]

now that i think about it. since lv1 the catch rate of a very low hp mammorest has gone from 0% to 0.9% using the best sphere i can make. im lv 38 with lv8 effigy rn

[@bored7313]

I knew something was amiss, when a level 3 pal takes mega spheres at 9%

[@zeroexmachina]

even with catch rate slider turned all the way up catch rate seems lower than expected for balance but probably just an inverted skyrim ghost. I was an adventurer like you, until...

[@juzzam3]

this is true, I maxed out my effigy capture power and when I take turns capturing a pal with a new buddy I always lose.

[@Chris-hb7xp]

I knew I wasn't the only one. I was wasting 2 balls for pals that where like one shot and 10 levels below me.

[@Razdasoldier]

I MAY have found the source of the glitch. I was tweeking my graphic settings and found that by changing the "DLSS" settings it cleared up my glitches (including my catch rate glitch)

[@Razdasoldier]

I should also point out that this setting has improved mobs glitching out, and made my mount more responsive. It seems a large number of issues may be tied to DLSS settings

[@Razdasoldier]

Update: In the Southern pal reserve. I have found and captured 6 rare mons getting 100% capture within 1 ball on 2 of them.

[@LtLost15]

This explains why my capture rate is 30% for level 40-49 pals with legendary spheres with all the upgrades and being a level 50 character

[@django_unblazed869]

I have fought jet dragon 15 times went through 50 rockets an 60 spheres an cannot catch stopped playing until fixed level 9 of efigy

[@irishfeen09]

I caught him earlier got him down to 2k hp and used 27 spheres to catch him at 12% capture chance each time. I've often used 10 legendary spheres to catch a 70% catch chance pal who is 10 levels under me. Something definitely off with the capture rates

[@GriffinLKVW]

I was wondering why I was having such low chances 😢

[@Sabamonster]

Is this purely on XBOX or does it apply to every platform?

[@RIFADOR001]

Yesterday I got a fail in 97 (twice in a row) and then another in over 90. As a mathematician I know that’s possible. But I also see that sus… You don’t need to run random numbers to proof how unlikely that is. If someone thinks that, it means you don’t understand simple math. Then it’s harder to trust you.

[@toukoenriaze9870]

Heeeey you could have just got extremely lucky lel

[@Skylart]

Khraze what mod you using??

[@Dinofrogg]

Tldr: dont upgrade lipmunk effigy. its bugged rn. lowers catch rate. Reddit post guy did 10000 catches as sample size test to prove it.

[@vibratingjonas]

Level 49 with Max lifmunk effigy and a level 3 chicken would give me grief it’s so insane

[@0ChanMan]

I can't tell you how many times a 50% catch indicator would take 10+ spheres.

[@michealtheevilhero2340]

I'm convinced somebody at the Dev team accidentally added a "-" somewhere and forgot to remove it 😂

[@SHEagleYT]

I hope they correct it soon. Continuously failing at high percentages has been precisely what forced me to stop playing Lost Ark.

[@SauceBoy69]

wasted 19 legendary spheres trying to catch anubis boss I was so tilted I ended up killing it. So now my confusion is solved

[@azrazerz1445]

Dude I thought i was losing my mind

[@romellpoellinetz7435]

The game is in early access so its to be expected my character tposes until the model loads and you can tell theyre still working on how you look out of water

[@allanvanbree2391]

Lost a lv 48 shiny bc of the catch r8. Went from 1.7% to 0.1% whilst taking its health down. Then shot it once and killed it after 15 minutes....

[@rickywood8805]

Yaknow what, I knew this. At first I thought it was getting worse the more of the 'pokedex' I filled out but I tested not upgrading and boom, catch rate was better

[@EldeonROSE]

Already noticed this since last week and a new pattern of catch rate again this week.