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Pokémon Go |OT 3| "No Officer, I'm a Passenger"
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Bedameister
Member
Yeah I hope the update will be good. But I learned not to expect too much from Niantic.
Probably going to hop on the golf cart with a friend tonight and knock down some gyms just for old time's sake. For better or for worse, it will be the last time we end up fighting under the old gym system. Plus the Instincts in the neighborhood are so nasty about maintaining their gyms, we are kinda curious if they will try and build them up again just to hold them for 5-6 more hours.
The Niantic guy on Reddit says that Gyms are expected to close sometime during business hours (PDT). So if you have a collection that's due before then, make sure you pick it up!
The Niantic guy on Reddit says that Gyms are expected to close sometime during business hours (PDT). So if you have a collection that's due before then, make sure you pick it up!
Bedameister
Member
So I finally hatched my first Tyroque.
Checked it's IVs. HP is its strongest IV!!! Holy shit YES
.... as is its attack .... FUCK
and of course it turned into Hitmonlee
I almost started crying. I'm never going to get Hitmontop
Checked it's IVs. HP is its strongest IV!!! Holy shit YES
.... as is its attack .... FUCK
and of course it turned into Hitmonlee
I almost started crying. I'm never going to get Hitmontop
Raid Battles and New Gym Features are Coming!
This is very exciting :O !!
This is very exciting :O !!
It's happening!
http://pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/en/post/raids
Trainers,
The biggest update to Pokémon GO is nearly here! Very soon, Trainers around the world will be able to participate in a revamped Gym gameplay experience, including the opportunity to join together with others to battle against powerful Pokémon in the new Raid Battle feature!
New Gym Features and Updates: Starting soon, Gyms are undergoing a major facelift. You'll soon be able to spin the Photo Disc at Gyms to acquire items just as you do at PokéStops—but that's only the beginning. More updates to Gym battles are also just around the corner. Gyms are no longer based on Prestige and training. Instead, they now feature six permanent slots that can be filled by the controlling team's Pokémon. Each Pokémon assigned to these slots must be unique. For example, only one Blissey can be assigned to a Gym at a time. In addition, opposing teams will battle the Pokémon in the order they were assigned to the Gym.
At the heart of the update is a new motivation system that will significantly change how you interact with Gyms. When a Pokémon is assigned to a Gym, a motivation meter will be displayed. Pokémon assigned to defend a Gym lose motivation over time and as they are defeated in battle. As a Pokémon loses motivation, its CP will temporarily decrease, making it easier for opposing teams to defeat. To help keep the Pokémon motivated and in tip-top shape for their next battle, Trainers can treat their team's Pokémon to some Berries, which restore their motivation. If a Pokémon loses all motivation, it will leave the Gym and return to its Trainer the next time it loses a battle, so you'll want to keep your team's Pokémon motivated by giving them Berries frequently!
Gym Badges: Now you'll be able to earn Gym Badges when interacting with the many Gyms around the world. Gym Badges serve as mementos of your Pokémon GO adventures and reflect your contribution to a Gym's success.
You'll be able to level up your Badges by battling, giving Berries to the Pokémon in the Gym and spinning the Gym's Photo Disc. You can earn the opportunity to receive bonus items and increased rewards from Gyms by raising the level of your Gym Badge.
New Raid Battle Feature: All around the world, you'll soon be able to participate in the new Raid Battle feature at Gyms. A Raid Battle is a cooperative gameplay experience that encourages you to work with other Trainers to defeat an extremely powerful Pokémon known as the Raid Boss. Before a Raid Battle begins, all Pokémon assigned to the Gym will return to their Trainers, and a large Egg will appear atop the Gym. When the countdown above the Egg reaches zero, the Raid Boss will be revealed.
Before you can battle the Raid Boss, you'll need a Raid Pass. You can get one free Raid Pass per day by visiting a Gym, but you can only hold one at a time. You can also get Premium Raid Passes from the in-game shop. Upon using your pass to join the battle, you and up to 20 other Trainers work together to defeat the Raid Boss. If you successfully defeat the Raid Boss within the five-minute time limit, you'll have the chance to catch an extra powerful Pokémon of your own!
New Items: After defeating a Raid Boss, you'll receive a collection of rewards, including some new items obtained only by defeating a Raid Boss: Rare Candies, Golden Razz Berries, and two types of Technical Machines—Fast and Charged. A Rare Candy is a mysterious candy that, when used on a Pokémon, turns into that Pokémon's Candy. Golden Razz Berries will greatly increase your chances of catching a Pokémon you encounter in the wild and can also be given to a Pokémon assigned to a Gym to fully recover its motivation meter. Technical Machines are items you can use to permanently teach a Pokémon a new Fast Attack or Charged Attack.
To put these exciting changes in motion, we'll be temporarily disabling all Gyms. Once the update has been rolled out to players around the world, Gyms will return. The Raid Battle feature will then be rolled out slowly over the next few weeks, starting as a beta, with raids visible only to a subset of players at certain Gym locations. Over a few days, we'll invite more players to participate and enable raids at more Gyms around the world. Keep an eye on our social media channels for updates on when you'll be able to start battling in raids. We can't wait to see you outside battling at your local Gyms!
http://pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/en/post/raids
Bedameister
Member
Holy shit that's way more than I'd ever expected. Sounds so good. Hope it will be as good as it sounds.
Yeah, once again rural players get screwed because they are likely not going to have enough active players around them to take down these raid bosses.
Those in urban areas should be fine though. It looks like the game does a good job notifying players in the area of a raid so I'm sure you will get 15-20 people fairly regularly.
I don't have many people still playing this in my group of friends but I live in a city and there's a gym like 10 steps away from my flat so that's good.
BUT :
-it sucks for people in areas with low population density for sure.
-some shit is bound to happen when you get that many nerds in the same place at the same time.
Even so, it will knock pokemon out, so at very least will give chance for others to get in gym after.
I could imagine lesser areas, depending on the people, might eventually influence how hard a raid battle is. So perhaps a rural raid would be less then a urban one.
Fright Zone
Member
Cautiously optimistic about it all except the raids.
I'm a solo player and it's pretty quiet out where I live, can't imagine 20 people gathering in the same place within a 5 minute time limit.
I'm a solo player and it's pretty quiet out where I live, can't imagine 20 people gathering in the same place within a 5 minute time limit.
Yeah, I do like that the raid takeover will keep the gyms from stagnating.
And perhaps the Raid Boss will actually scale with the raiding party's size? Like if only 2 people show up for the raid it will be a 6000 CP Tyranitar instead of a 25000 CP Tyranitar?
Alright, I'm hyped! I'm honestly more excited for gyms acting like Pokéstops, since that'll make getting items a touch more easy. Raids sound really cool, I just hope there's enough players around me for when a mysterious egg pops up. And of course, the new gym mechanics are awesome. No more Blissey Bases is reason enough to celebrate, and it lets lower level players participate in gyms without worrying about being on the bottom. TMs are a bonus; my 100% Arcanine can finally reroll for Fire Blast, and no more Bullet Punch Machamp! Absolutely cannot wait for this update!
IXI FalcoN
Member
Wow, this is really exciting! I'm a big skeptical of how a few things will roll out, but overall this is a good update. Gyms have a lot of functionality now.
The one thing I didn't like is that Gym defenders still rely on CP for battle prowess. Granted it doesn't matter for placement anymore and there's a 1 species limit now, but I think the better move would have been to just eliminate CP and make it level based. I have a feeling most people will still just dump their highest CP mons into the gym. But the species limit will extend the lineup a little.
I'm also a little bothered that my prestige squad is now worthless. I hope you can feed berries to teamates and not just your own. Because then people can coordinate who monitors gyms for their team. I would hate to drive all over town to babysit my mons.
Raids are a great solution to stagnation. You lose your gym, but you get a shot at a big reward.
I love this update!
The one thing I didn't like is that Gym defenders still rely on CP for battle prowess. Granted it doesn't matter for placement anymore and there's a 1 species limit now, but I think the better move would have been to just eliminate CP and make it level based. I have a feeling most people will still just dump their highest CP mons into the gym. But the species limit will extend the lineup a little.
I'm also a little bothered that my prestige squad is now worthless. I hope you can feed berries to teamates and not just your own. Because then people can coordinate who monitors gyms for their team. I would hate to drive all over town to babysit my mons.
Raids are a great solution to stagnation. You lose your gym, but you get a shot at a big reward.
I love this update!
The post does mention that you feed Berries to your team's 'Mons and not just your own. It seems instead of prestiging you now just feed Berries to keep your team's gyms intact.
Which I'm more than happy about. I can now clean out my Pokemon storage of all these prestigers I've been carrying around. You really only need to carry a couple of each of the meta relevant Pokemon now and the rest of your storage can be used for mass evolution fodder and/or living Dex stuff.
HammerOfThor
Member
Do we have any idea what the Pokémon Go festival is supposed to entail?
Complistic
Member
Hopefully the raids scale to whoever's around. With like a low minimum (more than 1 or 2) otherwise this isn't going to work at all.
New video showcasing some of this stuff! Oh, and I do like that all 6 spots will open up immediately. No longer boosting up Pokemon rocks. Using berries much better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB_JAiAv2DI&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB_JAiAv2DI&feature=youtu.be
Not really. We should hopefully learn more later today, when tickets go on sale.
Yeah. Coins are going to be even harder to acquire after this. Hopefully all the portals being added to Ingress will make their way over to PoGo soon in the form of new gyms.
I wonder how long it takes to decrease motivation so that gym turnover takes place. You could hypothetically put six Pokemon in, feed them dozens of berries to make them stronger and making it a hell for opposing teams to bring down. Not sure how this is going to stop spoofers...
Fright Zone
Member
OK, this does look awesome. When is this going live again!?
I'm at a festival with no phone from the 21st-26th and worried I'll miss getting a head start on all this!
Oh, I hatched 3 10k Pokemon over the weekend. 2 Chanseys and a Dratini. I've now hatched 4 Chanseys since launch, crazy.
Gyms get disabled today (like VERY soon), and prob go back up in a few days once everyone gets the new update I'd assume. And looks like Raid Battles will slowly roll out over next few weeks, mainly to small sub-group of players to help test it.
Gyms get disabled today (like VERY soon), and prob go back up in a few days once everyone gets the new update I'd assume. And looks like Raid Battles will slowly roll out over next few weeks, mainly to small sub-group of players to help test it.
Didn't they say "weeks" before this rolls out? i don't think it will be that imminent
Well this is interesting...
http://massivelyop.com/2017/06/19/e...-revamp-badges-and-an-interview-with-niantic/
http://massivelyop.com/2017/06/19/e...-revamp-badges-and-an-interview-with-niantic/
That's good to hear. I can't wait to catch some legendary Pokemon!
I think that was for the raid battle stuff only I believe.
I think that was for the raid battle stuff only I believe.
IXI FalcoN
Member
I hope CP decreases in gyms are done proportionally. It could make Lapras viable again along with other pokemon designed for defense like Poliwrath, Slowbro, Slowking, Steelix, etc. Otherwise people will just dump in their highest CP squatters like before because they will last longer.
New interview & such: http://massivelyop.com/2017/06/19/e...-revamp-badges-and-an-interview-with-niantic/
Really goes into details. Sound like Raid Battles will have multiple groups available, just that each group is up to 20 players.
Edit: Same interview as above. lol
Really goes into details. Sound like Raid Battles will have multiple groups available, just that each group is up to 20 players.
Edit: Same interview as above. lol
I think it will start with a base number and goes up after it eats berries or goes down when it faints in battle. Kind of like how it works in Ingress. You can actively defend your gym as long as you have berries. So save those berries people.
CP is only a number to tell you how strong its stats are.
deanote666
Member
So if pokemon aren't knocked out of a gym after 1 round, the owner of it can just sit there and feed it berries so the gym will never fall?
Yes, but they will run out super fast.
spyroflame0487
Member
mfw I'm going to have to actually update the OP for once
Hey by the way, I was legit almost going to go to that Go Event in Chicago. If anyone is going, please post some pics of the event, i'd be happy to add them into the OP or something!
Hey by the way, I was legit almost going to go to that Go Event in Chicago. If anyone is going, please post some pics of the event, i'd be happy to add them into the OP or something!
deanote666
Member
But what if the defending pokemon is a high CP Blissy? Who will run out of gas first? Especially if you can use berries on other team member's pokemon.
By the sounds of it, high CP Pokemon will go down quicker then low CP Pokemon. And regular berries will only help a little bit and worthless to try to upkeep on a failing gym long term. So that strategy might work a little bit. But eventually gym will get knocked down. Esp if attacking all 6 pokemon.
Other then that, won't really know more till it's all live.
Also, really like that this get rid of all bubblestrats. Prob even makes it so you can't battle your own gym. So those 10 filled horsea gyms will be all gone soon! (Granted, since last year haven't seen that happen any)
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Edit: Gyms are down! Interesting my Pokemon haven't returned quite yet. lol
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
tiiiiimber and there goes the gyms