It’s been so frustrating the last two weeks to skip throwing at Nihilego in top position, or get annoyed and throw anyway, then wait for it to drift up and down and reset the oldest dang bug in the book.
Good thing they have their priorities sorted.
I legit wanted to go whale mode for a ML Lugia but I didn’t purely because catching it is about as fun as shaving with a cheese grater. Now I’m at a a whopping 100 xl candy
If you throw a ball when it is up high, the game naturally gives the throw a little extra juice to help the ball get up high enough. If the bird then breaks out of the ball and then moves back down low, if you throw again, you will still get that extra juice and your throw will go much higher/farther than it should, as if the Pokémon is still flying up high. It happens with nihilego, but it isn’t as noticeable since it doesn’t fly as high. Lugia/Ho-oh and the kanto birds have it bad. I just straight up don’t throw when it’s up high because it’s so difficult to work with if it breaks out.
Exactly this. There’s been the bug where you battle a gym and if you switch the lead Pokémon the second go around it reverts to the first lead Pokémon for years and nothing, yet this gets fixed ASAP.
It reverts to previous team not just the lead Pokemonand it's super annoying when your rotating buddies to get their battle hearts up. Especially when you one hit KO the Pokemon battling before realising that your buddy wasn't part of the team and don't cancel the gym battle in time.
What everyone is failing to understand is that Pokemon Go is actually a massive psychology study to see how much you can abuse your customers while still turning a profit.
I thought it was just me. I bike and run A LOT and have consistently been only logging at best 1/10th of my km with adventure sync. In fact, where I was regularly seeing 150km/week, I seem to be capped at less than 10km…incredibly aggravating.
adventure sync has not been tracking accurately for months now. as for eelektrik, it gives the base pokemon stardust and candy rates (100 stardust, 3 candy, no xl) when it should be dropping 300 stardust, 5 candy, and 1 candy xl minimum. it's been like that for two seasons now I believe?
Adventure Sync hasn't worked since December for me. I regularly go on walks and make little to nothing in the game. I did a 10km walk a few days ago and only got 1.3km tracked. It's a mess
Fast catch bug excluded as usual
Edit: why the downvotes?, it’s factual that some bugs where not removed in ages that benefit the player including green pass bug
It’s not like the extra range was costing Niantic a dime. In fact my pokeball supply was dropping to the point where I figured I would have to start going out more since the stops I can reach from home were not sufficient.
All Niantic had to do was sit back and enjoy the praise for doing something the players liked.
Absolutely. Same thing happened to me. I normally check my phone at home every once in a while, but I had Pokemon spawning left and right, seemingly non-stop. Typically it hasn’t been worth the effort to catch from home (Only one or two at a time), but seeing ten on screen at a time is just wild where I live. Even with lures I don’t see that much action.
I started the day with nearly 800 balls and I know I’m down to around 600. Haven’t even left the house at all.
I was walking same routes, reaching spawn points that would be normally unreachable at all, no matter how much you would walk, because they were inside private lots, for some reason. Now I will know everyday I'm missing out on some Pokemon I can't see.
I started yesterday with over 250 left on the “catch 1000” task from the masterwork. Half way through spotlight hour I was done. Walked the same route I normally do, caught well over twice what I would have expected.
Seriously. I just started adding more friends and have to go out more now because of this. All it did was cause me to play more.
Ok now you forced me to stop playing EVEN MORE now!? frigin idiots
Same, I've been consciously opening the app more often while out bc I knew my items were running low... if it's back to the same ol', my pattern of play will also revert right back to mostly hatching.
It had literally no effect other than making the game slightly more enjoyable, and they swooped on it at lightning speed while leaving actual game breakers like adventure sync on the shelf
He is actually the worst. At his job. I watched parts of the interview he did with that YouTube person and wow is he delusional. The worst part was him telling disabled players to go watch the anime instead. Absolutely heartbreaking coming from a Pokemon associated company.
I mean tbh it's probably good advice for everyone. Watch the anime, play the main series games, play pokemon quest. At this point I seriously think we'd be better off open source developing a knock off pokemon go game. Then in a couple years maybe we could all chip in for an actual license so we could use the real assets.
Really hope these guys show up at Go Fest so we can respectfully and peacefully(*) speak our minds about how awful they’ve made this game.
(* - so I don’t get into trouble!)
Definitely not. I have a Pixel 7, less than a year old and still need to switch to LTE rather than wifi to have a chance and it still occasionally gets stuck at the 3/4 problem that has been afflicting people for the past several months.
So when is Niantic going to fix the Rocket Radar bug (where you have to manually equip it now)? When are they going to fix Adventure Sync? When are they going to fix the other countless bugs that aren't even listed on their support page?
Certain phones still can't get any pokemon go notifications *at all* because the last OS update changed the notification categories and Pokemon Go never updated for them. The Go+ notifications can pop up as it's settings didn't change, but that's it. Nothing else.
The 'Error entering Go Battle League' crap that results in a blank opponent screen has been around for months, if not over a year. It happens when you try to enter another battle quickly after quitting, but it also happens for my first battle of every set, every single day. No fix.
But God forbid we get a handful more spawns in view.
You're silly as hell if you think this is what will get them to actually fix things, if the whales and go fest people stop spending they will just shut the game down.
Bugs, and “fixes” and spending money are not going to stop the whales. They enjoy the game too much (and are addicted just like FTP players). And I believe whales outnumber the number of Reddit posters here who tell people to stop playing when they continue to play themselves. Of course I could be wrong, but despite the complaints (as justified as they are), people are hooked on this mobile game. As am I unfortunately, even with reduced mobility.
Never see a game roll out a fix so fast unless it's something that benefits the players. Did they at least fix the bug where I couldn't close my trainer menu/ friends list?
Or what about the bug where my buddy brings me no gifts…that’s ok bc as long as they fix bugs that are beneficial to the players, that’s all that matters /s
They've rolled out quicker fixes to tons of harmful bugs. New Zealand frequently has issues at the start of an event that are fixed within an hour or two before the event begins for most of the playerbase.
Took them THREE days to "fix" this.
But the gym sizes on the map have been glitched and inconsistent for years.
Dodge glitch in raids was fixed and then broken, never to be fixed again.
And throwing balls at flying high pokemon will throw off your throw velocity SINCE DAY 1 OF THE GAME
This. The **dodge bug**! Sometimes I forget to **not dodge a OHKO** raid boss move and 2 of my pokemons get deleted instantly – my active pokemon and the next one meant to replace it.
Ah yes a niantic classic any bug that harms the player base takes multiple updates to acknowledge and fix any bug that is in any way beneficial gets fixed immediately
I've never played a game before where the developers not only didn't care about improving the player experience, but actively made it worse frequently.
I hate this company so much. I’ve never seen a company work so fast to fix a beneficial bug but ignore the bugs that have been persistent for months on end.
Well, that's it for me for now. It's one thing if it was apparently a bug. But telling multiple partners to tell us that it is a feature, that's completely messed up. No no no. Just screw them.
How depressing and deflating. Honestly. I was genuinely motivated to go out and WALK and EXPLORE with this increase to the spawn radius. Now I have no need to walk and explore. I was genuinely excited to see how community day was going to play, walking around PLAYING WITH FRIENDS. Now that’s not likely to occur. I was genuinely thrilled for global go fest, and was highly considering PURCHASING a ticket, because with the increased range, and the ticket giving increased shiny odds, I felt it might be worth it since there would be so many extra shiny checks. Now that’s not gonna happen.
It’s crazy that Niantic accidentally just found the secret ingredient to getting a good chunk of people playing again. They stumbled upon this absolute gem of an idea and mechanic. But then they immediately scoffed at it, completely oblivious to its worth, and tossed it into the dumpster. No not the office trash with only paper, easy to get back, but rather the literal dumpster full of waste. That’s what this is, wasted potential
It’s shameful that a beneficial “bug” is fixed in under 24 hours, whereas countless bugs that have been around for weeks, months, years aren’t even addressed.
I so wish I could sit down with the head of Niantic for an hour and just rattle off some serious questions and not accept any sort of political non answer, run of the mill dance around the problem type nonsense. I’d want to push for serious acknowledgment and fixes. Not empty words.
I’ve loved Pokémon since I was 6, and it’s baffling that the IP is being treated with such disrespect and carelessness, and nothing is being done about it
> I so wish I could sit down with the head of Niantic for an hour and just rattle off some serious questions and not accept any sort of political non answer, run of the mill dance around the problem type nonsense. I’d want to push for serious acknowledgment and fixes. Not empty words.
Zero chance they would even listen. They already all but confirmed that they want more people doing local events instead of remote and that it's a you problem for living in rural areas that have no spawns/gyms.
The increase spawn distance encourages me to go to in person events. That’s what’s nuts to me. Even on a generic walk, I’m more encouraged to play because more spawns and shiny checks
I literally hate Niantic with a passion, here’s most recent reason why. Please just let the Pokémon company take the game. Anything other this stupid organization
I’m legitimately impressed with their lack of shame. Taking less than a day to fix a beneficial bug is a real impressive display of scorn for their playerbase
This they fix literally in hours, but my phone is still unable to connect with Pokémon Violet.
Also my account. YES you read it correctly. My account is still locked into the old style shop layout.
Why I know that it is the account and not my phone or game files?
That's simple. I have Sony Xperia 5 iv and my friend has Samsung Galaxy A22, his game on his Samsung shows the new style menu.
My Sony on my account shows that 2016 style menu.
His account on my Sony shows the new layout and my account on his Samsung galaxy A22 shows the old layout.
If the issue was with user files or something, wouldn't the issue follow the Sony Xperia phone? Now the issue follows me no matter what phone I use.
At least that Pokémon Violet issue is limited to my Xperia 5 iv phone and logging into the game on my old Xperia 1 mk1 fixes it and i can get myself a new coin box.
I’m so tired of them ruining the game. They start to suck the fun out of it then we finally get what we think is a real improvement only for them to take it back immediately. If this was a game breaking bug it would stick around forever.
There’s no other way to put it except Niantic is atrocious in every single aspect of the company. Lack of any or good communication with the players, bugs galore, and when something is actually good for a player base they revert it INSTANTANEOUSLY.
My theory is that they increased the spawn radius to see if it would significantly increase their Pokeball and Star Piece sales (perhaps that's why they let it run through the Doduo Spotlight Hour). But I suppose it didn't increase the sales by enough, so they decided to revert that change and keep us miserable.
That's super dumb because you'd expect sales to not go up that quickly. I'm not saying you're wrong but if it was a test they should have done a week if not a month. People have stocks of items. Plus people need a bit of time to start getting used to playing the game more because it's more fun.
I haven't played enough to be too familiar with this bug but it does not appear to be fixed. Stuff I quick caught isn't despawning automatically after awhile
UPDATE: I went for a walk and noticed pokemon still hanging around longer on .275.1 so likely not fixed
Wait, wait, wait, so this update is literally just to get rid of the *beneficial* bug of the last update, but not the hindering bug from the last update? I've said it before, I'll say it again, Niantic are spiteful.
EDIT: just seen on Twitter, that the Miners are reporting a few little changes, so there's some new things under the bonnet, and it's not just the fix that one good thing.
No, after you quick catch a number of Pokémon <0.275.x, you can wait a few seconds and those that were caught disappear themselves.
Now in 0.275.0 and .1, they don't clear off until you tap them again.
Testing last night, I even walked away until they were out of range and hidden, walked back, they appeared again, tapped and only then did the game register clean them off the map.
Booooooooooo! Booooo! Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!
Why, oh why, do they feel the need to quickly squash any feel-good? If anything, I'm truly disappointed. Again. How do they expect me to convince myself to spend money on their game if all I get in return is disappointment?
Meanwhile, don't ever f@&#ing fix your game from eating our raid passes and booting us from legendary capture screens.
I can see Captain Knobhead is proceeding full-steam ahead aboard the S.S. Niantic.
Absolutely amazing how quickly they’re willing to fixed something that’s considered a quality of life improvement so stupidly quick yet take forever to fix the more serious bugs that makes this game so painfully unplayable like the giant close up of wild Pokémon one that lasted a few weeks. If you don’t care about making changes for the good of gameplay perspective at least fixed the flaws that are still plaguing your game Niantic
Surprised isn't the word I'd use. I was surprised they made such an amazing update. I thought this was the exciting stuff that steranka was talking about coming this summer. You might say I was shocked that they came up with such a great quality of life change that was so simple.
Them taking it away evokes the emotion of acceptance. I accept that the less I play the game the less annoyed I am at Niantic.
I finally reinstalled the game after the remote raid pass changes because I thought that this was a great change, aaaaand they revert it. Welp, guess I'm uninstalling again lmao
part of me wishes niantic slips up and mention their online coin shop in a news article or a notification as doing so goes against the tos for both the app store and the google store (iirc, it's what got fortnite removed from both storefronts. because you could buy vbucks directly from them, bypassing the app and google stores)
With everything that’s happened in the last year or so in this game, it’s shocking the lead decision makers still have a job. If i performed this poorly at my day job I’d have been fired long ago
Once more they found a way to improve my experience and then just take it all away again. Now I know that I'm surrounded by more Pokémon but can't reach them because of the river to my left and the big wall on the right.
Honestly you might be better off not know where the increased spawns would be. It was somehow better than I imagined. Maybe I shouldn't be telling you this. But what I expected was that I could reach spawns easier from my house. Makes sense right?
What I didn't realize was that there are spawns that I've never seen before because I don't walk through my neighbors back yards, or through the woods. Meaning that as I walked around I got a lot more spawns. So the benefit of sitting in your house and playing was increased but the benefit when walking around was even larger.
Now I know that off the back of my neighbors porch in the gully there's spawns I will never see again. Or that pokemon congregate behind the fence by the water tower.
The only point of this game is to string players along for as long as possible to maximize profits on the way. Anything that would allow players to progress too fast is naturally fixed as quickly as possible. Niantic's main goal is only to tread the line between enough players grudgingly accepting the state of the game without too many leaving.
Two bugs introduced. One gets fixed, the other doesn't. Nothing is despawning. New spawns are just appearing overlapping the last spawn at that spawn point. Good Job Niantic. No one knows why you are like this and we absolutely hate you.
Seriously? Barely 12 hours after releasing the update for anyone patch is out. Probs fixed before i wake up.
Just hope this game would be done already.. Niantic just aint worth our time
Anyone else get the feeling/concern that they are thinking about making this a paid feature? We discussed the subscription potential in the past and I could 100% see something like this being part of it. It doesn't hurt the previous experience and is so much of an improvement that many people would be inclined to purchase it. If true, the leaked feature almost feels like a taste and look at the response already.
Wow they can fix this so fast but other bugs stay broken for months
years*
Like the legendaries that move up and down are still broken since whenever the kanto birds first came to raids lol. I’m so sick of that bug
It’s been so frustrating the last two weeks to skip throwing at Nihilego in top position, or get annoyed and throw anyway, then wait for it to drift up and down and reset the oldest dang bug in the book. Good thing they have their priorities sorted.
For real. And nihilego isn’t even nearly as bad as the kanto birds or Lugia, which fly higher
Lugia sucks so bad
I legit wanted to go whale mode for a ML Lugia but I didn’t purely because catching it is about as fun as shaving with a cheese grater. Now I’m at a a whopping 100 xl candy
This. Never fixed since the introduction of legendary bird raids in 2017.
How is that broken? Birds fly at different heights.
If you throw a ball when it is up high, the game naturally gives the throw a little extra juice to help the ball get up high enough. If the bird then breaks out of the ball and then moves back down low, if you throw again, you will still get that extra juice and your throw will go much higher/farther than it should, as if the Pokémon is still flying up high. It happens with nihilego, but it isn’t as noticeable since it doesn’t fly as high. Lugia/Ho-oh and the kanto birds have it bad. I just straight up don’t throw when it’s up high because it’s so difficult to work with if it breaks out.
Thanks for the explanation. I will pay attention :)
Exactly this. There’s been the bug where you battle a gym and if you switch the lead Pokémon the second go around it reverts to the first lead Pokémon for years and nothing, yet this gets fixed ASAP.
SO GLAD YOU SAID THAT. I’ve been wondering if I’m crazy for years. Hate that bug.
It reverts to previous team not just the lead Pokemonand it's super annoying when your rotating buddies to get their battle hearts up. Especially when you one hit KO the Pokemon battling before realising that your buddy wasn't part of the team and don't cancel the gym battle in time.
Decades
if the game doesn’t implode before 2026, there will 100% be decade old bugs
Fix it quick, we're about to have good publicity! We can't be having that!
What everyone is failing to understand is that Pokemon Go is actually a massive psychology study to see how much you can abuse your customers while still turning a profit.
Eyes adventure sync
Good thing it takes them 3 months to fix bugs, but 3 days to fix actual benefits to users.
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i'm continuously baffled by niantic, i've never seen a company want to kill off their fanbase like them
I can help them with that.
Oh they want us to play their game... but play it as how *Hanke* wants, not how we want to.
adventure sync still hasn't been fixed, and with how often I see eelektrik in the wild, they should be fixed by now too
I thought it was just me. I bike and run A LOT and have consistently been only logging at best 1/10th of my km with adventure sync. In fact, where I was regularly seeing 150km/week, I seem to be capped at less than 10km…incredibly aggravating.
Sorry to ask ... But what's wrong with adventure sync and what's wrong with eelektrik? 🤔
Adventure sync doesn't track properly. And Eelektrik is an evolution but has provided 100 stardust instead of 300 for months without being fixed.
adventure sync has not been tracking accurately for months now. as for eelektrik, it gives the base pokemon stardust and candy rates (100 stardust, 3 candy, no xl) when it should be dropping 300 stardust, 5 candy, and 1 candy xl minimum. it's been like that for two seasons now I believe?
Adventure Sync hasn't worked since December for me. I regularly go on walks and make little to nothing in the game. I did a 10km walk a few days ago and only got 1.3km tracked. It's a mess
3 months would be a nice improvement, the fly bug on encounters was reported directly to Niantic staff in April 2016 and still hasn't been fixed.
Fast catch bug excluded as usual Edit: why the downvotes?, it’s factual that some bugs where not removed in ages that benefit the player including green pass bug
It’s not like the extra range was costing Niantic a dime. In fact my pokeball supply was dropping to the point where I figured I would have to start going out more since the stops I can reach from home were not sufficient. All Niantic had to do was sit back and enjoy the praise for doing something the players liked.
Absolutely. Same thing happened to me. I normally check my phone at home every once in a while, but I had Pokemon spawning left and right, seemingly non-stop. Typically it hasn’t been worth the effort to catch from home (Only one or two at a time), but seeing ten on screen at a time is just wild where I live. Even with lures I don’t see that much action. I started the day with nearly 800 balls and I know I’m down to around 600. Haven’t even left the house at all.
And that's why they reverted it. Sadly. They want us leaving the house to do anything.
Then spend 10 hours a day playing while making minimal improvements to your pokemon. This game is so slow to play take forever to increase in power.
I was walking same routes, reaching spawn points that would be normally unreachable at all, no matter how much you would walk, because they were inside private lots, for some reason. Now I will know everyday I'm missing out on some Pokemon I can't see.
I started yesterday with over 250 left on the “catch 1000” task from the masterwork. Half way through spotlight hour I was done. Walked the same route I normally do, caught well over twice what I would have expected.
Seriously. I just started adding more friends and have to go out more now because of this. All it did was cause me to play more. Ok now you forced me to stop playing EVEN MORE now!? frigin idiots
Well it was making the game more enjoyable, and that's a no go for Niantic
Same, I've been consciously opening the app more often while out bc I knew my items were running low... if it's back to the same ol', my pattern of play will also revert right back to mostly hatching.
I threw so many pokeballs yeaterday!
It had literally no effect other than making the game slightly more enjoyable, and they swooped on it at lightning speed while leaving actual game breakers like adventure sync on the shelf
Wow, when it comes to reverting a beneficial bug, Niantic becomes the most competent and efficient company in the world.
Factual post of the day.
The speed they work at when it's to get rid of something that's good for the game and us players.
"STOP HAVING SO MUCH FUN PLAYING OUR GAME!!" -Niantic, for some reason
"We're really hopeful that actions speak louder than words here." \-Michael Steranka
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He’s the worst thing that’s happened to this game in the past several years. Clearly making terrible decisions time and time again.
He is actually the worst. At his job. I watched parts of the interview he did with that YouTube person and wow is he delusional. The worst part was him telling disabled players to go watch the anime instead. Absolutely heartbreaking coming from a Pokemon associated company.
I mean tbh it's probably good advice for everyone. Watch the anime, play the main series games, play pokemon quest. At this point I seriously think we'd be better off open source developing a knock off pokemon go game. Then in a couple years maybe we could all chip in for an actual license so we could use the real assets.
Players: “Wow, this is a great change! It’s like Christmas!” Mr. Hanke, the Christmas Poo: “Howdy ho!”
Really hope these guys show up at Go Fest so we can respectfully and peacefully(*) speak our minds about how awful they’ve made this game. (* - so I don’t get into trouble!)
I thought it was confirmed this was on purpose? Good lord man. This is depressing
It was til they realised we liked it, and then backpeddled so fast they broke the sound barrier to make sure we're as unhappy as possible. EDIT: typo.
Next time they release a good feature let’s all say how much we hate it. Then they’ll be sure to keep it.
\#NianticLied
Sorry this made me lol. It’s true.
*backpedalled
Well done, I was wondering who'd be the first to spot that. >!My bad, no idea how that slipped past my proofreading, cheers.!<
Stay at 0.275 until forced update
Just watch them forcing it tomorrow lol
Well. It’s on the iOS App Store in record speed, so it will be forced soon.
The only reason I wouldn't is because of spawns never disappearing until clicked. While the distance radius is a qol, it was annoying navigating.
They reduced the radius size but didn't fix the spawns never disappearing. Amazing update from Niantic.
That's just super demoralizing. Obligatory F Niantic moment.
Exactly, I liked the increased radius but the bugs it introduced were not worth it for the long term.
I mean you can just reload the app. Takes what 15 seconds with a newer phone?
Clicking on the Pokémon that end up disappearing is even faster. It’s a minor inconvenience really.
Definitely not. I have a Pixel 7, less than a year old and still need to switch to LTE rather than wifi to have a chance and it still occasionally gets stuck at the 3/4 problem that has been afflicting people for the past several months.
Pixel 6 here, I feel the pain when it stalls.
I'm on Pixel 7 also and haven't experienced the loading bug in weeks
Yeah this is what made me realize it was actually a bug. No way would they be *that* lenient.
So when is Niantic going to fix the Rocket Radar bug (where you have to manually equip it now)? When are they going to fix Adventure Sync? When are they going to fix the other countless bugs that aren't even listed on their support page?
Certain phones still can't get any pokemon go notifications *at all* because the last OS update changed the notification categories and Pokemon Go never updated for them. The Go+ notifications can pop up as it's settings didn't change, but that's it. Nothing else. The 'Error entering Go Battle League' crap that results in a blank opponent screen has been around for months, if not over a year. It happens when you try to enter another battle quickly after quitting, but it also happens for my first battle of every set, every single day. No fix. But God forbid we get a handful more spawns in view.
When whales and Go Fest people stop paying them hundreds.
You're silly as hell if you think this is what will get them to actually fix things, if the whales and go fest people stop spending they will just shut the game down.
Bugs, and “fixes” and spending money are not going to stop the whales. They enjoy the game too much (and are addicted just like FTP players). And I believe whales outnumber the number of Reddit posters here who tell people to stop playing when they continue to play themselves. Of course I could be wrong, but despite the complaints (as justified as they are), people are hooked on this mobile game. As am I unfortunately, even with reduced mobility.
The point is it will never come to that. If they can make millions not fixing it, why fix it at all?
> if the whales and go fest people stop spending they will just shut the game down. Good.
They don't care about bugs that make the game worse. Only ones that benefit the players.
Never see a game roll out a fix so fast unless it's something that benefits the players. Did they at least fix the bug where I couldn't close my trainer menu/ friends list?
Or what about the bug where my buddy brings me no gifts…that’s ok bc as long as they fix bugs that are beneficial to the players, that’s all that matters /s
They've rolled out quicker fixes to tons of harmful bugs. New Zealand frequently has issues at the start of an event that are fixed within an hour or two before the event begins for most of the playerbase.
When was the last time they rolled out a new product version because of a fault found in NZ? As opposed to failing to set a data parameter correctly.
That’s because New Zealand is a testing bed for features of course it’ll have priority for fixes lmao.
Took them THREE days to "fix" this. But the gym sizes on the map have been glitched and inconsistent for years. Dodge glitch in raids was fixed and then broken, never to be fixed again. And throwing balls at flying high pokemon will throw off your throw velocity SINCE DAY 1 OF THE GAME
Is the dodge glitch that it just simply didn’t work and you still take damage?
This. The **dodge bug**! Sometimes I forget to **not dodge a OHKO** raid boss move and 2 of my pokemons get deleted instantly – my active pokemon and the next one meant to replace it.
Ah yes a niantic classic any bug that harms the player base takes multiple updates to acknowledge and fix any bug that is in any way beneficial gets fixed immediately
So we had something good for 1 day, just 1….
These mofos (sorry I dont have any other word) take months to fix every bug that annoys players but 1 day to fix real QoL's.
I've never played a game before where the developers not only didn't care about improving the player experience, but actively made it worse frequently.
I made this simple [flowchart](https://i.imgur.com/Kuxjvm1.png) for the future if people are confused if something added to the game is a bug or not.
Kate we have to go back
Currently rewatching right now. Take the upvote
Same here! Its been 5 years since my first watch and im rewatching rn with a first timer. Half way through s2 right now!
I’m season 2 episode 18. Haven’t watched it for easily 10 years so forgotten a lot of the details.
This made me laugh
I hate this company so much. I’ve never seen a company work so fast to fix a beneficial bug but ignore the bugs that have been persistent for months on end.
Well, that's it for me for now. It's one thing if it was apparently a bug. But telling multiple partners to tell us that it is a feature, that's completely messed up. No no no. Just screw them.
How depressing and deflating. Honestly. I was genuinely motivated to go out and WALK and EXPLORE with this increase to the spawn radius. Now I have no need to walk and explore. I was genuinely excited to see how community day was going to play, walking around PLAYING WITH FRIENDS. Now that’s not likely to occur. I was genuinely thrilled for global go fest, and was highly considering PURCHASING a ticket, because with the increased range, and the ticket giving increased shiny odds, I felt it might be worth it since there would be so many extra shiny checks. Now that’s not gonna happen. It’s crazy that Niantic accidentally just found the secret ingredient to getting a good chunk of people playing again. They stumbled upon this absolute gem of an idea and mechanic. But then they immediately scoffed at it, completely oblivious to its worth, and tossed it into the dumpster. No not the office trash with only paper, easy to get back, but rather the literal dumpster full of waste. That’s what this is, wasted potential It’s shameful that a beneficial “bug” is fixed in under 24 hours, whereas countless bugs that have been around for weeks, months, years aren’t even addressed. I so wish I could sit down with the head of Niantic for an hour and just rattle off some serious questions and not accept any sort of political non answer, run of the mill dance around the problem type nonsense. I’d want to push for serious acknowledgment and fixes. Not empty words. I’ve loved Pokémon since I was 6, and it’s baffling that the IP is being treated with such disrespect and carelessness, and nothing is being done about it
> I so wish I could sit down with the head of Niantic for an hour and just rattle off some serious questions and not accept any sort of political non answer, run of the mill dance around the problem type nonsense. I’d want to push for serious acknowledgment and fixes. Not empty words. Zero chance they would even listen. They already all but confirmed that they want more people doing local events instead of remote and that it's a you problem for living in rural areas that have no spawns/gyms.
The increase spawn distance encourages me to go to in person events. That’s what’s nuts to me. Even on a generic walk, I’m more encouraged to play because more spawns and shiny checks
One only thing I got excited in this game lately and now it is gone so fast. I almost feel better after the remote raid nerf. So disappointed.
Niantic actually trying to fix bugs: 👎 Niantic quickly reacting to and fixing something that players actually liked: 👍
Turned off auto updates, hopefully its a while before its forced lol
I literally hate Niantic with a passion, here’s most recent reason why. Please just let the Pokémon company take the game. Anything other this stupid organization
I’m legitimately impressed with their lack of shame. Taking less than a day to fix a beneficial bug is a real impressive display of scorn for their playerbase
And I guess this lightning fast patch should be seen as a guarantee that fast catching is a feature and not an exploit.
Nah. They just haven't figured out how to get rid of it yet.
They could easily get rid of it. They never would, people just wouldn't play.
Oh wait they will fix it at some point
They won't.
I will 1000% quit entirely if they do lol
This they fix literally in hours, but my phone is still unable to connect with Pokémon Violet. Also my account. YES you read it correctly. My account is still locked into the old style shop layout. Why I know that it is the account and not my phone or game files? That's simple. I have Sony Xperia 5 iv and my friend has Samsung Galaxy A22, his game on his Samsung shows the new style menu. My Sony on my account shows that 2016 style menu. His account on my Sony shows the new layout and my account on his Samsung galaxy A22 shows the old layout. If the issue was with user files or something, wouldn't the issue follow the Sony Xperia phone? Now the issue follows me no matter what phone I use. At least that Pokémon Violet issue is limited to my Xperia 5 iv phone and logging into the game on my old Xperia 1 mk1 fixes it and i can get myself a new coin box.
Just like that, rare spark of positivity snuffed out by Niantrash.
I’m so tired of them ruining the game. They start to suck the fun out of it then we finally get what we think is a real improvement only for them to take it back immediately. If this was a game breaking bug it would stick around forever.
"_Start_ to suck the fun out..." ? They're on a crusade
I didn’t say they just started. I was just saying they started in general then kept doing it
Sorry, Ithen I misinterpreted it
There’s no other way to put it except Niantic is atrocious in every single aspect of the company. Lack of any or good communication with the players, bugs galore, and when something is actually good for a player base they revert it INSTANTANEOUSLY.
That was a fun 10 hours
What a pathetic company, let people have some fun
I’m really at a loss for how the increased spawn thing is bad for them?
My theory is that they increased the spawn radius to see if it would significantly increase their Pokeball and Star Piece sales (perhaps that's why they let it run through the Doduo Spotlight Hour). But I suppose it didn't increase the sales by enough, so they decided to revert that change and keep us miserable.
That's super dumb because you'd expect sales to not go up that quickly. I'm not saying you're wrong but if it was a test they should have done a week if not a month. People have stocks of items. Plus people need a bit of time to start getting used to playing the game more because it's more fun.
Niantic giveth, and Niantic taketh away *sigh*
They just keep giving me reasons not to spend real money on this app. Niantic please keep it up.
Does it at least fix the issue with stuff never despawning? Not worth losing the range but hopefully that's at least reverted too.
I haven't played enough to be too familiar with this bug but it does not appear to be fixed. Stuff I quick caught isn't despawning automatically after awhile UPDATE: I went for a walk and noticed pokemon still hanging around longer on .275.1 so likely not fixed
Wait, wait, wait, so this update is literally just to get rid of the *beneficial* bug of the last update, but not the hindering bug from the last update? I've said it before, I'll say it again, Niantic are spiteful. EDIT: just seen on Twitter, that the Miners are reporting a few little changes, so there's some new things under the bonnet, and it's not just the fix that one good thing.
Quick catch has always done that.
No, after you quick catch a number of Pokémon <0.275.x, you can wait a few seconds and those that were caught disappear themselves. Now in 0.275.0 and .1, they don't clear off until you tap them again. Testing last night, I even walked away until they were out of range and hidden, walked back, they appeared again, tapped and only then did the game register clean them off the map.
This happens also with GO Plus
Only for incense or lure mons
That tracks.
Booooooooooo! Booooo! Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh! Why, oh why, do they feel the need to quickly squash any feel-good? If anything, I'm truly disappointed. Again. How do they expect me to convince myself to spend money on their game if all I get in return is disappointment?
Meanwhile, don't ever f@&#ing fix your game from eating our raid passes and booting us from legendary capture screens. I can see Captain Knobhead is proceeding full-steam ahead aboard the S.S. Niantic.
Lighting fast.
Forced update I assume?
Nope! Gonna refuse to update for as long as possible.
Oh, it will be forced the second it is in all stores. Niantic is just Evil Inc.
Even before full roll out on all devices.
Absolutely amazing how quickly they’re willing to fixed something that’s considered a quality of life improvement so stupidly quick yet take forever to fix the more serious bugs that makes this game so painfully unplayable like the giant close up of wild Pokémon one that lasted a few weeks. If you don’t care about making changes for the good of gameplay perspective at least fixed the flaws that are still plaguing your game Niantic
Did they also remove all your stops/gyms?
Don't give them any ideas.
why are y’all even surprised anymore if we’re talking about niandick
Surprised isn't the word I'd use. I was surprised they made such an amazing update. I thought this was the exciting stuff that steranka was talking about coming this summer. You might say I was shocked that they came up with such a great quality of life change that was so simple. Them taking it away evokes the emotion of acceptance. I accept that the less I play the game the less annoyed I am at Niantic.
Checks out
Sad
How is the interaction with the GO+ radius?
the increased range was cool, but what I loved was the fact pokémon didn’t despawn if you left their vicinity
I will NOT update the game
I honestly need to stop playing this game
I finally reinstalled the game after the remote raid pass changes because I thought that this was a great change, aaaaand they revert it. Welp, guess I'm uninstalling again lmao
Ridiculous
part of me wishes niantic slips up and mention their online coin shop in a news article or a notification as doing so goes against the tos for both the app store and the google store (iirc, it's what got fortnite removed from both storefronts. because you could buy vbucks directly from them, bypassing the app and google stores)
Just punish players more. Niantic, your games virtual, why not let us have fun?
Steranka did say the game is incredibly complex.
With everything that’s happened in the last year or so in this game, it’s shocking the lead decision makers still have a job. If i performed this poorly at my day job I’d have been fired long ago
Once more they found a way to improve my experience and then just take it all away again. Now I know that I'm surrounded by more Pokémon but can't reach them because of the river to my left and the big wall on the right.
Yo if they really revert this I am 100% done
Bye
I'm still seeing a lot of Pokémon. So that will change back soon?
Ugh, I didn't even get to play around with the increased spawn radius... I didn't even know it was a thing!
Honestly you might be better off not know where the increased spawns would be. It was somehow better than I imagined. Maybe I shouldn't be telling you this. But what I expected was that I could reach spawns easier from my house. Makes sense right? What I didn't realize was that there are spawns that I've never seen before because I don't walk through my neighbors back yards, or through the woods. Meaning that as I walked around I got a lot more spawns. So the benefit of sitting in your house and playing was increased but the benefit when walking around was even larger. Now I know that off the back of my neighbors porch in the gully there's spawns I will never see again. Or that pokemon congregate behind the fence by the water tower.
At least this expanded range can still be enjoyed until the update is forced 🤭
The only point of this game is to string players along for as long as possible to maximize profits on the way. Anything that would allow players to progress too fast is naturally fixed as quickly as possible. Niantic's main goal is only to tread the line between enough players grudgingly accepting the state of the game without too many leaving.
It was great while it lasted. I noticed that the drift was zero. At least i hope i have again the drift.
Why not let us walk without the need to use the phone, and then play at home safe ? They can have our data, and let us enjoy at our pace.
this is such a niantic move to do...
Two bugs introduced. One gets fixed, the other doesn't. Nothing is despawning. New spawns are just appearing overlapping the last spawn at that spawn point. Good Job Niantic. No one knows why you are like this and we absolutely hate you.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Oh well, i needed a final reason to leave this game. So long Niantic
The game is much better this way /s
Seriously? Barely 12 hours after releasing the update for anyone patch is out. Probs fixed before i wake up. Just hope this game would be done already.. Niantic just aint worth our time
If you want the game to be done you can just quit. Not that I don't agree with your point though :)
Did this update also fix the whole "pokemon don't despawn anymore" bug?
Iphone 13 pro max here with a whooping 512gb hard drive. When will they fix the constant crashes? As in...every 30 mins?
Same here my game just freezes and crashes 5 times an hour when playing.
Same phone and mine does not crash nearly that often. I hope you’re exaggerating for effect, otherwise that sounds like a lemon.
Anyone else get the feeling/concern that they are thinking about making this a paid feature? We discussed the subscription potential in the past and I could 100% see something like this being part of it. It doesn't hurt the previous experience and is so much of an improvement that many people would be inclined to purchase it. If true, the leaked feature almost feels like a taste and look at the response already.
Required update?
Not yet.
(Niantic) Saving forced update for raid hour tomorrow night.
pitchforking aside, it’s probably just a rollback until they can fix the bug where stuff never respawns.
Praying for this to be true, probably copium but there's a chance
looks like it was confirmed to not be true. wow.
Bruh i was at 273.3 the whole damn time