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'Pokémon Go' Updates With Avatar Customization, Removal of Footstep Counter, and More
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Rural Pokemon hunting was painful as it was even WITH sites like PokeVision as often the nearest Pokemon would be longer walking distance away than the time left on his timer.
Now there's no way of knowing what areas Pokemon are in and the tracking function no longer exists at all.
Rural Pokemon go players just got shafted by niantic even more.
Now there's no way of knowing what areas Pokemon are in and the tracking function no longer exists at all.
Rural Pokemon go players just got shafted by niantic even more.
App seems to be more responsive. However, the app as a whole has been a shambles. Too buggy and you can tell that it's been poorly/inefficiently coded. They need to do rewrite the code from the ground up to speed up the app imo.
So footprints are gone completely, and tracking sites like Pokevision now are useless. They are actually encouraging users to walk around more aimlessly than ever just to find the Pokemon now, as we have no way to track how far away they are. Combine that with the new, blurry text, and this is one disappointing update :/
Great! Now I can't login. I put in my Google info, but it takes me to a Google support screen about cookies. Even if I change Safari settings to allow all cookies all the time or the allow cookies on websites I visit. Then I uninstalled the app and reinstalled it. Nope, keep getting the Google support page or the white screen of death.
I believe you'll find the number directly below your avatar is the total XP you have accrued throughout the game, while the numbers under the bar indicate the amount you've collected towards the next level. So, yes, you've collected 1,345 XP of the 200,000 needed to level up from level 16 to 17, but that 1,345 is the last bit of the 121,345 XP you've collected since first starting the game. Subtracting one number from the other, that would indicate that it took 120,000 XP to progress from game start to level 16. I'm quite pleased they added this, actually.
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I expect they'll put the footsteps back in when they can get them to work reliably for all umpity-million players. Better to shut the feature off for a while rather than getting 50,000 support messages a day saying it isn't working.
You are free to write your own game, or, if you can't bear to use this one, simply stop. No one is forcing you to play, are they? A lot of the rest of us are having fun with what works so far. The app is in its early stages. Given the trajectory that Ingress took, I strongly suspect that Pokémon Go will get a bunch of new (and returned) features and bug fixes as time progresses.
On a positive note, this is fourth update to PoGo since it was released 26 days ago. Who else here is happy that the App Store is getting updates pushed through so much quicker now? Wasn't too long ago we'd be looking at just the first patch at this point.
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Industry slang for a button to access a menu, where the label on the button is three horizontal lines. Some developer thought it looked vaguely like a list (of, say, menu choices). Some comedian thought it looked more like a hamburger.
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How about the Pokémon just appear in front of you and climb into the PokéBall themselves? That would make it even easier.
I understand that in the beta, they gave distances in meters instead of the more vague footprints. Clearly they thought that was too easy. I expect the footprints will return once they have the mechanism working 100%.[doublepost=1469989018][/doublepost]
Many people are playing Pokemon without paying a cent. It is most definitely not pay-to-win. The PokéStops and Gyms are all Ingress portals, submitted over the years by Ingress players, and removing objectionable ones will take actual review/research by actual humans. You might not have noticed, but Niantic kind of has their hands full right now. They'll get to it as they can. If folks are trespassing or behaving poorly, how about blaming the people who are showing poor judgement rather than the game. Your level of righteous indignation suggests that either you have not really played the game, or you simply are so outraged by the mere thought of IAP that you can't discuss its use rationally.
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As you level up, the Pokémon that appear to you can be much more powerful, and yes, they get harder to catch. This happens to everyone over time, I don't think the new update changes much in that regard.
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You can tell that it's been poorly/inefficiently coded? So, presumably, the one you've written works better? Perhaps you could give them some specific, detailed coding/architectural suggestions on how to speed the game up? Or even just list a half dozen other worldwide realtime GPS-based games that have done better? Pokémon Go is largely based on Ingress, their other game, which has been up and running for several years, but with an order of magnitude fewer players. Clearly they're having scaling issues, and I'm guessing their hand may have been forced a bit on when to launch by a desire to bring it out for the summertime crowds, since it's an outside game. But, as a software developer, I've been pretty impressed by what they've pulled off. Buggy? Sure. All software is. It's always a question of quantity, severity, and their impact on the user. Pokémon Go will improve over time, just as Ingress has.
A neat update! I like that Transferring has moved, and I hope that they'll eventually add unlockable personalisation items. Something with the depth they had in Pokemon X and Y would be nice.
You could just get a 3DS, they can play all the main Pokemon games except Gen 2. I personally don't bother much with mobile phone games but I find Pokemon Go loads of fun and a nice distraction from the main games, with it's IAP and all that.
Yeah, so functionality wasn't lost, but it's disheartening to see the canned the feature altogether instead of fixing it. It worked well in the first couple of days. Perhaps in a future update.
Not really important, but all generations are playable on a 3DS, including Gen 2 with HeartGold and SoulSilver. But if you don't count the remakes, then yeah, Gens 2 and 3 are not playable on a 3DS.
That sounds like the page where Google is asking you "is it okay that we give the game access to these items from your profile?"
At the bottom of that Google page there should be a button labeled something like "Accept" or "Allow". Click on it and you can start playing.
I imagine it's coming back later. But there are so many more important bugs that need to be fixed first. Better to remove this now and put it back later.
The rustling leaves mean nothing, at least in my experience.
Okay, is the nearby list at least in order? Back when the footsteps worked it very reliably was, upper left is the closest, bottom right is the furthest. Or is it meaningless too just like the three footsteps we had before?
I wish Niantic wasn't so sucky at software. They rushed this too, I think. Honestly this is still probably in beta. The software version on android vs iOS really makes that apparent. I think on android it is version 0.31 but on iOS it is 1.1.0. Apple doesn't let beta apps in the App Store so they had to "fake" the version number. It even says in the app in settings "0.31.0" in the bottom right corner. Honestly this shouldn't have been released until like next July. Would have given PLENTY of time for good servers and they would have actually been releasing a near finished, or at least well established game.
I wish Niantic wasn't so sucky at software. They rushed this too, I think. Honestly this is still probably in beta. The software version on android vs iOS really makes that apparent. I think on android it is version 0.31 but on iOS it is 1.1.0. Apple doesn't let beta apps in the App Store so they had to "fake" the version number. It even says in the app in settings "0.31.0" in the bottom right corner. Honestly this shouldn't have been released until like next July. Would have given PLENTY of time for good servers and they would have actually been releasing a near finished, or at least well established game.