pirated copies should work with retail copies
I'll write some stuff in case anyone is interested in this game
>plays like an open world game similar to ark, valheim, vanguard story, etc. Where you can build a base, gather resources and deal with hunger mechanics. while there is an objective list to follow, it a rather 'short' tutorial on what the game is, eventually you'll get the gist of what to do.
>The main game is simply exploring, capturing lots of pals and beating 'unique' bosses in the very tall towers
>the decent gimmick that this game has is that you can get your pals to do slave labor, doing tasks like growing food, picking cotton, mining ores, etc.
>note to consider: the game has a lot of parameters you can customize, down to hunger rate, resource/xp gain, how fast eggs incubate, how much damage you take, punishment for dying, etc.
>you cannot bring your own players/pals to other people's multiplayer servers, you start from scratch
>levels matter a lot, gear matters a bit, your pal/pokemon matters much more. that being said, if you get a higher level pal than your player's level, it will temporarily scale to your level, the pal's true level is still the moment you captured it and will also gain xp as usual
>necklace pals are great, this includes daedream (the best so far) and dizzi (shoots lightning)
>pals you can mount are OK, flying pals is great for aerial mobility, the deer one (Eikthyrdeer), is great for ground mobility due to the horn uppercut move
>mountable pals tend to be slower if you only walk with them, try to get abilities that make them move forward or get traits that give more movement speed like 'swift'
>stats worth investing: health & weight. attack is covered by your pals (you can get pals with the vanguard trait to get more attack by 10%), stamina is superseded by mounting pals, work speed is also covered by your pals.
>leveling is best done by capturing pals, keep track of what pals you already have caught as the first 10 gives good exp
>try to find pals with mining of lvl 2 and higher, easiest one to find is tombat which spawns at night near the starting area. having mining pals of level 2 allows you to mine ore, which is quite important and you will need a lot of it
>there are few major qualities that a pal can have: alpha pal and lucky pal, alpha pal is the boss variant of the pal - usually has better stats, lucky pal is the shiny equivalent - you can hear them and the pal's size is larger and tend to have moves that aren't learnt such as a shiny lamball has a dark laser equipped
>water pals helps with fire damage during raids
>creating a base even if unbuilt, creates a fast travel point, you can intentionally die and teleport back in case you ran out of food, die to heat, etc.
>you can find rare blueprints that are stronger versions of certain gear, such as finding a blueprint to craft an old bow that does more damage, finding these is rare