No one would know with the amount of people quitting the game.
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Pokémon Go |OT 2| Servers...gotta crash 'em all!
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No one would know with the amount of people quitting the game.
HeisenbergLannister
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Did they also change the tracking for egg hatching? I've literally laid in bed all day and gained 1.25 km somehow.
Moral Panic
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This. I haven't had problems at all today. Sometimes pokemons are dicks, sometimes they're not. Today I'm catching cp500+ pokemons like eggxecute with a single pokeball, unlike Friday where even cp86 pidgeys and weedles would brake multiple pokeballs.
The footsteps were supposed to be in game. The uproar is that they have removed the footstep image (which got glitched a few updates back), and now have put a stop to tracking websites/apps.
What people want is for them to hurry and fix/reimplement the tracker or even an improved tracker.
A bright yelllow ring Bellsprout just broke out of 6 straight Poké Balls until I finally just threw a Great Ball and caught it
30 seconds later, a dark orange ring Tauros was caught on the first Poké Ball I threw
¯\_(ツ
_/¯Shadow Ranger
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I've been having trouble catching Pokemon since I hit level 20, but I do find the update has made it even more frequent for them to flee/break free on green rings.
I don't like the "broke free" text which slows down the next Poke Ball loading. The new intro fade in and flee animation are also slow.
I especially don't like these new swipe mechanics. Curve balls are worse and distant to swipe has been messed with. It just feels odd. Maybe it's the whole "nobody likes change" thing, but I really wasn't having fun with it.
The Pokemon are also crazier now. They attack and jump way more than they used to. Lots of wasted balls made frustrating with the changes to the ball mechanics as a whole. The added craziness I can sort of allow if the Pokemon doing it were actually any good based on player level (is it?)
I don't like the "broke free" text which slows down the next Poke Ball loading. The new intro fade in and flee animation are also slow.
I especially don't like these new swipe mechanics. Curve balls are worse and distant to swipe has been messed with. It just feels odd. Maybe it's the whole "nobody likes change" thing, but I really wasn't having fun with it.
The Pokemon are also crazier now. They attack and jump way more than they used to. Lots of wasted balls made frustrating with the changes to the ball mechanics as a whole. The added craziness I can sort of allow if the Pokemon doing it were actually any good based on player level (is it?)
It's crazy what this game does. In Belgium there's a very small town near Antwerp called Lillo. It's only a few streets in size, but there are a few stops closeby. Over the last days/weeks, a lot of rare pokemon were spotted there, and the town has been overrun by trainers, to the point where most of the inhabitants have started complaining, and are asking people to leave at around 23h. Since it's summer vacation, there's constantly trainers running around. Bar owners are happy, others not.
I've seen lists of Pokémon found there and it's nuts what people come home with.
I've seen lists of Pokémon found there and it's nuts what people come home with.
Considering how bad Niantic is at running the rest of the game, it wouldn't surprise me if they have decided to do some unannounced A/B testing on the whole player base, and half of us are getting the same catch rates while the other half is getting worse.
its a posting gimmick
It's a tiresome one at that.
I'm talking about the trackers with that one. The footsteps thing hasn't been explained yet, so it's not worth worrying about to me.
Fcking awesome man! Havent seen any final evos yet. Only saw Pikachu, Squirtle and an Ivysaur in the wild (although the servers went down right when Ivysaur came up lol. :<)
clearacell
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a lot of my pokeballs are just bouncing off their bodies and falling limp
Schadenfreude
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If it makes you feel any worse, anyone could use PokeVision before. It required zero technical know-how and was readily available. Now PokeVision is gone but the user developed program it ran on is still up and running. So now only people who have the desire/google savvy can use it. The playing field hasn't been leveled. Quite the opposite even.
Well at least it's been maximized, if not entirely leveled.
MushroomSamba
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A lvl 46 caterpie broke free of 5 balls before finally being caught. What the hell?
Also, I think the hit boxes have been altered to a tinier window.
Also, I think the hit boxes have been altered to a tinier window.
A bright yelllow ring Bellsprout just broke out of 6 straight Poké Balls until I finally just threw a Great Ball and caught it
30 seconds later, a dark orange ring Tauros was caught on the first Poké Ball I threw
¯\_(ツ
Looks like standard catching shenanigans to me. Lvl 15 here though, so unless it significantly changes at a higher level, and this is occurring with every Pokemon, I think its just the same randomness as usual.
backflip10019
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How do you transfer Pokemon now? The button is gone.
Rippounette
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Are you in a relatively remote place? Happens to me all the time in my parent's home, which is in a very rural town. The GPS is kinda lost and I can hatch entire eggs without moving.
It's there, it's in the menu on the right when you select a Pokémon.
It's like Pikachu in the anime, it doesn't want to be caged. You have to befriend it now.
But seriously that happens all the time.
backflip10019
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OH didn't realize you could tap on that. Thanks.
Menu button, bottom right.
EL CUCO
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Just realized that cp136 Snorlax is 90% 😭
clearacell
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hope you've been saving up that stardust. if you hatch one from an egg you will have quite a bit of candy for it
Gotta get behind this. When it was posted I finally felt I had found a tracker with the right amount of information to let me hunt decently for specific things (both with and without the map!) and not just dump all the pokemon in my lap and ruin all the surprises.
Ricky Ricardo
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It means you recently caught that pokemans
A few things seem obvious to me post-patch:
- Pokemon are much more erratic, they attack and jump MUCH more and flee more often
- Placement of pokemon in non-AR mode seems different as well as the whole curve-throw mechanic, kinda need to re-learn throws
-GPS is less accurate, more prone to having the character run around even if you're standing still or not getting the right fix on your location (very obvious when fighting in gyms with other people), on the flip side eggs were hatching really quickly today due to this
Capture rates I'm not sure have been tweaked.
- Pokemon are much more erratic, they attack and jump MUCH more and flee more often
- Placement of pokemon in non-AR mode seems different as well as the whole curve-throw mechanic, kinda need to re-learn throws
-GPS is less accurate, more prone to having the character run around even if you're standing still or not getting the right fix on your location (very obvious when fighting in gyms with other people), on the flip side eggs were hatching really quickly today due to this
Capture rates I'm not sure have been tweaked.
woopWOOP
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D'oh, yeah that makes sense. I had it order by CP from day 1 so I just found them scattered around the list, ha.
Thanks!
Rellik
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A bright yelllow ring Bellsprout just broke out of 6 straight Poké Balls until I finally just threw a Great Ball and caught it
30 seconds later, a dark orange ring Tauros was caught on the first Poké Ball I threw
¯\_(ツ
I had a Magikarp escape my Great Ball. I only used it because it became personal after it kept breaking from my normal balls.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Yeah but it's not funny, I wish he would stop posting instead of shitting up the thread.
Baka Sempai
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I just updated to 0.31, and the app forced me to login, after trying to login, my account was reset to 0, no pokemon, no items, nothing, ... I then restarted the app and even after entering my google account details, it says the nickname is already taken.
Has anyone experienced this ?
I really feel like crap knowing I've lost all my progress (I was at level 11)
F*** !!!!!
Edit: Deleting the App fixed the issue :/ my account is back to normal.
Has anyone experienced this ?
I really feel like crap knowing I've lost all my progress (I was at level 11)
F*** !!!!!
Edit: Deleting the App fixed the issue :/ my account is back to normal.
I'm not sure about fleeing, frankly they used to flee on me a lot even before the update -_-
but the other stuff definitely seems to be true
Permanently A
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At the end, the problem comes back to communication. A simple "we are removing the steps to prevent confusion until we can get it back up and running" would alleviate all concerns.
Instead we get this.
Instead we get this.
Heck, even "Steps have been temporarily removed" in the patch notes instead of "removed" could have avoided this hysteria.
There's no reason to believe it's ever coming back, even though it could.
The update to the TOS indicates it's never coming back.
Wait, what?
Chasing with friends today; was a good day ...
Jardins des Plantes (France) was packed didn't expect that. I caught like 12 bulbasaurs, 1 Scyther, 1 Eevee, 1 Slowbro and 1 Dragonair when we're about to leave the garden was so surprising.
Parc Montsouris was a Magmar land nothing very extraordinary except that fucking Porygon but walk was fun.
During that walk between parcs we caught a Dratini and a Pidgeot.
Also, PKMN breaking free or leaving after tasting your berry is more common. Even low CP Weedle are now thug lifing me when breaking the ball free.
Also saw a guy looking at us like he want to know our names to write 'em down in his death note because we take down his Gym like nothing. Hilarious.
Jardins des Plantes (France) was packed didn't expect that. I caught like 12 bulbasaurs, 1 Scyther, 1 Eevee, 1 Slowbro and 1 Dragonair when we're about to leave the garden was so surprising.
Parc Montsouris was a Magmar land nothing very extraordinary except that fucking Porygon but walk was fun.
During that walk between parcs we caught a Dratini and a Pidgeot.
Also, PKMN breaking free or leaving after tasting your berry is more common. Even low CP Weedle are now thug lifing me when breaking the ball free.
Also saw a guy looking at us like he want to know our names to write 'em down in his death note because we take down his Gym like nothing. Hilarious.
Anecdotal, but I don't think the catch rate has changed; my expectations have.
Now I'm a level 20 trainer, a CP70 Weedle should bow down before me...or atleast I expect it to.
Whether it be candies for second stage Pokemon, XP for evolving into a third stage, or the relationship a higher level trainer has with lower CP Pokemon, Niantic really need to pull their fingers out and sort this mess out. This whole thing needs fleshing out and tweaking, not to mention fixing the fundamentals.
I'm still enjoying the game, but I'm farming the spots I already know about. Since Pokevision went down, all I'm doing is leveling the Pokemon I already have, with the odd new capture here and there.
Now I'm a level 20 trainer, a CP70 Weedle should bow down before me...or atleast I expect it to.
Whether it be candies for second stage Pokemon, XP for evolving into a third stage, or the relationship a higher level trainer has with lower CP Pokemon, Niantic really need to pull their fingers out and sort this mess out. This whole thing needs fleshing out and tweaking, not to mention fixing the fundamentals.
I'm still enjoying the game, but I'm farming the spots I already know about. Since Pokevision went down, all I'm doing is leveling the Pokemon I already have, with the odd new capture here and there.
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