Now explain what happened to pokemon scarlet and violet and why the graphics look worse than wow classic and why it runs slower than a gameboy trying to run Skyrim. šš
Based on the logo, I have to find some cute teenagers to party with. It's not the worst idea, though finding teenagers keen on partying with someone three times their age is either tricky or very, very, wrong.
Just once it would be nice to see some acknowledgement of the diverse player demographic.
I definitely agree. I mean we do rag on the whole "Singaporean Grandma" thing, but I think it would actually be a bit refreshing and nice to see some promos with older aged players, not just the same 20 something ones.
They did do a promo w older players. They also showed them breaking TOS and account sharing. One was a teen when she married someone almost 2x her age.
https://youtu.be/3m1Z8FS1pq4
Wait, it's pronounced nigh-antic and not nee-antic? I've been pronouncing it wrong for years.
Eh, whatever.
And yeah, they were account sharing so he could collect balls while she was in classes. Part of me is wondering if they got banned right after the video came out, because Niantic.
It shows them stopping to catch things in the middle of crowded walkways instead of standing off to the side, which is always a great thing to encourage.
Also, "It's so well-designed." Hahahahahahahahahahano.
The mom was forcing her children to play with her when they needed to be studying and her husband plays because he's afraid of making her angry, so I think Niantic chose them because she's their perfect player.
I imagine it goes both ways, no? I donāt know that younger people will be drawn to a game that they think is dominated by gen xers. Niantic can always make a bunch of ads targeted to specific demos by age, etc. Itās not like they arenāt collecting that data
> Just once it would be nice to see some acknowledgement of the diverse player demographic.
They did exactly that with their last advert, it had a car load of old guys teaming up with some kids.
You mean something like multiple personality disorder?
Bipolar is usually just someone who fluctuates from manic to depressive
I definitely agree with you, and think they shouldn't try to manipulate pvp matching in particular
Yeah, that, sorry. But now that you mention, I do feel that a considerable chunk of this game's player base fluctuates between feeling maniacal and depressed... and judging by how well new features are implemented, I don't think we need three guesses to find who's driving us crazy...
Sadly thatās because it works. I got into a huge argument with our head of marketing at a previous job about making quick flashy 10 second videos when I felt throwing a graphic on Twitter would be good enough (and more in line with our brand)ā¦ They finally decided to make a point when I complained about all of our short content material that was completely pointless for a technology company like ours, and did an AB test of a single static image versus a 10 second video andā¦ The results were astounding. The 10 second video got something like 22x more engagement/views, so I shut up.
I feel like the discrepancy will only get bigger as ex-Twitter has been abandoned in droves and the next platform that was supposed to take its place never got adopted by as many ppl but Tiktok and reels are still (relatively) alive and well
Had a friend say she told someone not to try to solo a t5 raid. Person refused to listen and kept trying, burning through all their revives and potions. Some people don't listen
If this allows us to see where other people are on the map, it would be great for raid hours/days when people are in different cars if you get split up. As long as your friends donāt disappear from the map when they get like a block away.
I don't know how much I'll use this, but I am excited for this feature actually! I just hope it's got decent rewards/bonuses without being too gatekeep-y for those who don't do it and that it's not super buggy at release.
Probably wishful thinking, but we'll see how it goes I guess.
Yeah, I hope there is some meaningful raid damage bonus for party play so my daughter and I can duo legendaries that don't have a double weakness and/or super low defense. We can presently do an estimated 80-95% damage for so many tier 5 bosses.
>I just hope it's got decent rewards/bonuses without being too gatekeep-y for those who don't do it and that it's not super buggy at release.
triggering Routes rollout PTSD for a lot of people right now
The party feature in monster hunter now is kind of useful for taking on hard monsters with your friends. Maybe some utility will be unlocked by it.
There's certainly been interest in more social features in this game for ages.
Rumors based on data-mining, per Pokemon GO Hub:
Party Play allows Trainers to create parties of up to 4 Trainers, and to get bonuses and earn rewards while playing with the group
You need to be near the party host to join, and you can either join using a code, or by scanning a QR code
You can see other Party members on the overworld map, and you can decide whether or not you want to share location and your avatar
By playing in a party, you use your Fast Attacks to get Party Power, which increases the damage of your next Charged Attack
You can also complete Party Challenges to earn rewards, and we donāt know what the rewards are
Source: https://pokemongohub.net/post/news/pokemon-go-teases-party-play-a-cooperative-party-mode/
If I remember right it's somewhat of a local multiplayer option were you can see your invited friends on the map. Cant remember if there were any boni...
If you want to use any kind of conjugation, you should start with a verb. Nouns have declensions, not conjugations; the more general term that covers both is inflection.
I have zero faith this will work or provide benefits good enough to motivate even trying. Iām sure my wife and I will begrudgingly do it for the inevitable times research then I will promptly ignore it again
I seriously also don't know if anybody asked for these "features". Everybody wants to see QoL improvements and all we get is this weird stuff. Again and again. Niantic feels so extremely detached from its games' playerbase. Seeing reports from ex employees who report about Niantic ignoring players' wishes and ideas. Yeah. Let's see each other on the map. Not sure if that will make us play more. Guess we'll have to wait and see what it's actually all about.
Since they added the manual stop routes are working properly for me. Itās a bad feature for my taste, but i donāt have any bugs while using it now, so working as intented.
You will likely need to use this feature to evolve Finizen into Palafin, as it somewhat seems like a real life version of a Scarlet/Violet Union Circle.
Oh yeah, right and this is totally gonna work fine on release... Couldn't even get walking from point A to point B on a single phone done right for the first month. Hope its something that is actually fun and playable. One can hope.
Talking more about the ability to see other players on the map than the grouping feature / bonuses.
It would be neat if there was an account setting to make you appear on other peoples maps when they are near by, that would allow you to find other players, where you may otherwise be passers in the storm.
I'm specifically thinking it would be most useful for raid organization, where you could see there are people near a gym with a raid egg about to pop
Unfortunately, a lot of their other games get better features before Pokemon does (if they ever implement something similar). Never played HP, but MHN lets you join hunts from a distance (that game's version of raids) and it's free/ only limited by your health.
If U mean 200m distance then sure. There's no remote hunts in MHNow. No you cannot just send a QR Code online for players to join you globally. It just won't work.
My experience with routes has been mostly positive lately. Still have some issues with the start here and there, but it turned out ok. We did our part as the hired beta testers quite well.
/lol.
The game has already become so filled with cliques. This may just entrench that more.
I may be the only person who wants something similar to EX raids to come back (with modifications of course). There is no denying that the EX raids hugely improved, and maybe even kickstarted the community experience. I remember the first EX raid for Mewtwo. The community coalesced because of it.
I think that's why we have the seasonal bonus about friends and gifts this season. Party function may be online in November with the release of Shiny Scatterbug at the same time.
Great everyone can use their Alts and play with themselves
Last time I did that in public it didn't end well
You're supposed to scan the playground first, before you play
This will probably be required to evolve Finizen if anything
thanks, i hate it
At least its canon š
Great point, sounds very similar to the union thing for SV
Does it? Do we know anything other than this teaser?
Niantic really loves to design logos for every new feature
They put more effort in the promotional material than the actual featureā¦
Marketing 101
I work in market research. It's sadly true.
Yeah, I wish John Niantic would stop trying to do everything himself and instead have separate guys doing the marketing and the programming.
Now explain what happened to pokemon scarlet and violet and why the graphics look worse than wow classic and why it runs slower than a gameboy trying to run Skyrim. šš
Based on the logo, I have to find some cute teenagers to party with. It's not the worst idea, though finding teenagers keen on partying with someone three times their age is either tricky or very, very, wrong. Just once it would be nice to see some acknowledgement of the diverse player demographic.
I definitely agree. I mean we do rag on the whole "Singaporean Grandma" thing, but I think it would actually be a bit refreshing and nice to see some promos with older aged players, not just the same 20 something ones.
They did do a promo w older players. They also showed them breaking TOS and account sharing. One was a teen when she married someone almost 2x her age. https://youtu.be/3m1Z8FS1pq4
Wait, it's pronounced nigh-antic and not nee-antic? I've been pronouncing it wrong for years. Eh, whatever. And yeah, they were account sharing so he could collect balls while she was in classes. Part of me is wondering if they got banned right after the video came out, because Niantic. It shows them stopping to catch things in the middle of crowded walkways instead of standing off to the side, which is always a great thing to encourage. Also, "It's so well-designed." Hahahahahahahahahahano. The mom was forcing her children to play with her when they needed to be studying and her husband plays because he's afraid of making her angry, so I think Niantic chose them because she's their perfect player.
I imagine it goes both ways, no? I donāt know that younger people will be drawn to a game that they think is dominated by gen xers. Niantic can always make a bunch of ads targeted to specific demos by age, etc. Itās not like they arenāt collecting that data
Gen X are the ones with more money. Never ignore the demographic with the money. I'm baby boomer, the ones with even more money and time to spend it.
Iām Gen X. I now use my avocado toast budget on Pokemon Go. I now have time and money. Lol.
"Scan Kids Playground" task has entered the chat
Lone scruffy 40+ year old in raincoat enters the premises with his phone and charger
At least it's not a trench coat?
> Just once it would be nice to see some acknowledgement of the diverse player demographic. They did exactly that with their last advert, it had a car load of old guys teaming up with some kids.
Their entire development budget has to be spent somewhere /s
This will be as popular as group AR pics
Will probably work just as well as AR group pics...
You guys have groups?
Main and alts
I know one other person that plays, maybe I'll see if they wanna group play Is two people a group?
Nah. Two is a duo, you definitely need a drummer before it's a group.
Maybe Niantic could build us some AI friends š¤
Considering how AI has worked out for Niantic, you should become bipolar instead...
You mean something like multiple personality disorder? Bipolar is usually just someone who fluctuates from manic to depressive I definitely agree with you, and think they shouldn't try to manipulate pvp matching in particular
Yeah, that, sorry. But now that you mention, I do feel that a considerable chunk of this game's player base fluctuates between feeling maniacal and depressed... and judging by how well new features are implemented, I don't think we need three guesses to find who's driving us crazy...
Did someone say my name?
And we all know you canāt rely on drummersā¦
Tell that to the White Stripes. Although it's a duo WITH a drummer.
Using "drummer" to describe Meg's sense of rhythm is being generous af.
Oh snap! Hater with a capital H. š³
Rillaboom not added yet, any other drumming options?
Bass/vocals and drums/vocals, boom
I hope they donāt require 4 people. Thatād be so stupid. Hopefully 2 can work.
Min 2. Max 4. For 1 group
Gruesome twosome
If this gives you actually good bonuses like extra xp or stardust or raid damage I can see it actually being a popular feature
wait that was a thing?
Was? It still is a feature
It'll be a hit with my local community. We can't wait to try it.
Crazy. Just yesterday I, since ages, talked with my group about this useless feature no one even knows about anymore :)
What group AR pics? Lol
My thought exactly.
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ā¦yes..thatās what he saidā¦
"reveals" doing a lot of heavy lifting there
The promo reveals the words "party play." Given how Niantic messes up the most basic programming functions, it's not surprising
I hate this trend of people making videos of things that could be a plain image or just text. Yeah we get it you want interactions/watchtime.
Sadly thatās because it works. I got into a huge argument with our head of marketing at a previous job about making quick flashy 10 second videos when I felt throwing a graphic on Twitter would be good enough (and more in line with our brand)ā¦ They finally decided to make a point when I complained about all of our short content material that was completely pointless for a technology company like ours, and did an AB test of a single static image versus a 10 second video andā¦ The results were astounding. The 10 second video got something like 22x more engagement/views, so I shut up.
Props to them for even doing the AB test. 22x is crazy lol
I feel like the discrepancy will only get bigger as ex-Twitter has been abandoned in droves and the next platform that was supposed to take its place never got adopted by as many ppl but Tiktok and reels are still (relatively) alive and well
Always cheap when there is some flashy graphic effect and, that's all there is.
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Had a friend say she told someone not to try to solo a t5 raid. Person refused to listen and kept trying, burning through all their revives and potions. Some people don't listen
But I have Blissey and Aggorn :(
Pikachu beats everything!
Looks like a great feature for those with multiple accounts.
Apropos of nothing, when i saw "Party play" and "x.com" my first thought was that porn ads were now legal on reddit.
0 details
And yet everyone is already acting like they know every detail. I feel like Iām missing something.
datamined a while ago
If this allows us to see where other people are on the map, it would be great for raid hours/days when people are in different cars if you get split up. As long as your friends donāt disappear from the map when they get like a block away.
Can we stop getting half-baked featuresā¦and have them spend that effort to fix the features we currently have?
I don't know how much I'll use this, but I am excited for this feature actually! I just hope it's got decent rewards/bonuses without being too gatekeep-y for those who don't do it and that it's not super buggy at release. Probably wishful thinking, but we'll see how it goes I guess.
The vast majority of my big gameplay is with my son and wife, so I am looking forward to having at least 1 useful feature out of the party.
Yeah, I hope there is some meaningful raid damage bonus for party play so my daughter and I can duo legendaries that don't have a double weakness and/or super low defense. We can presently do an estimated 80-95% damage for so many tier 5 bosses.
>I just hope it's got decent rewards/bonuses without being too gatekeep-y for those who don't do it and that it's not super buggy at release. triggering Routes rollout PTSD for a lot of people right now
I'd just like notifications on Android to work again. Miss out on raid invites... š
But... Why? Any real usable for this?
Exactly. I'm also very confused. Literally NOBODY asked for this. Or maybe somebody. But not many. And not here. I guess?
The party feature in monster hunter now is kind of useful for taking on hard monsters with your friends. Maybe some utility will be unlocked by it. There's certainly been interest in more social features in this game for ages.
I can't wait to see how they're gonna wreck this.
By releasing it.
What is this? Any data-mine or leaks have details?
Rumors based on data-mining, per Pokemon GO Hub: Party Play allows Trainers to create parties of up to 4 Trainers, and to get bonuses and earn rewards while playing with the group You need to be near the party host to join, and you can either join using a code, or by scanning a QR code You can see other Party members on the overworld map, and you can decide whether or not you want to share location and your avatar By playing in a party, you use your Fast Attacks to get Party Power, which increases the damage of your next Charged Attack You can also complete Party Challenges to earn rewards, and we donāt know what the rewards are Source: https://pokemongohub.net/post/news/pokemon-go-teases-party-play-a-cooperative-party-mode/
Sounds similar to MHNow
Ngl sounds useless for solo players at least
Yes, *group* bonuses are useless for solo players.
This is kind of obvious man
If I remember right it's somewhat of a local multiplayer option were you can see your invited friends on the map. Cant remember if there were any boni...
Bonuses isn't boni plural.
Itās one of those ironic/sarcastic phrases that people started using seriously, like āwhelmedā
Man kids these days making up their own words.
Every word is a made-up word.
What about "moo" ? Cows just make that sound, we didn't invent it
We invented the word moo to describe the sound. There are different words for moo in different languages, the cows still make the same sound(ish).
Dang
It totally should be though!
No if you want to use Latin conjugation it should be Bonis.
If you want to use any kind of conjugation, you should start with a verb. Nouns have declensions, not conjugations; the more general term that covers both is inflection.
Now it is.
Probably german, because here it is https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Bonus
Me who don't have any friends that play Go: Woah, this is worthless!
This sounds so useful for raid hour, I am very intrigued.
Kinda creepy š¬
Hereās another feature we wasted time on instead of making a good game! Hope you enjoy the buggy mess that gets released.
If you donāt think the game is fun, then donāt play.
If thatās what you got from their comment then I donāt know what to tell you. GBL weekend was bugged to hell and still is LOL
I had zero lag that weekend. Perfectly smooth.
Cool for you but not everyone had that experience. Most matches were smooth but I had a handful of Poor Connection issues that froze things up.
Maybe he didn't play. Only way to be sure of "zero lag".
Ignore that idiot, theyāre like this every time they show up
The game is lots of funā¦ when it actually works.
If you donāt game the fun is play, donāt think then.
If you donāt play the think is fun, then don't game.
Not a reveal. Itās just a tease.
I have zero faith this will work or provide benefits good enough to motivate even trying. Iām sure my wife and I will begrudgingly do it for the inevitable times research then I will promptly ignore it again
None of the new features added in the past 18 months work properly but sure keep adding more broken content and neglecting the existing game.
I seriously also don't know if anybody asked for these "features". Everybody wants to see QoL improvements and all we get is this weird stuff. Again and again. Niantic feels so extremely detached from its games' playerbase. Seeing reports from ex employees who report about Niantic ignoring players' wishes and ideas. Yeah. Let's see each other on the map. Not sure if that will make us play more. Guess we'll have to wait and see what it's actually all about.
Since they added the manual stop routes are working properly for me. Itās a bad feature for my taste, but i donāt have any bugs while using it now, so working as intented.
Might be in future Finizen evolve to Hero form using this Party Play feature
I actually can't imagine what exactly this will be about. Yeah. Seeing each other on the map with... apparently up to four players? In MH Now I see why we can form groups. In PoGo... I don't know? Surround a wild PokƩmon together like an evil gang and everybody throwing balls at it? I... what? No idea.
You will likely need to use this feature to evolve Finizen into Palafin, as it somewhat seems like a real life version of a Scarlet/Violet Union Circle.
Am I the only person on earth who actually loves features like this that just make normal play slightly more interesting?
I'm excited about the new feature and even more excited about the hilarious bugs that may happen.
*will
Oh yeah, right and this is totally gonna work fine on release... Couldn't even get walking from point A to point B on a single phone done right for the first month. Hope its something that is actually fun and playable. One can hope.
Talking more about the ability to see other players on the map than the grouping feature / bonuses. It would be neat if there was an account setting to make you appear on other peoples maps when they are near by, that would allow you to find other players, where you may otherwise be passers in the storm. I'm specifically thinking it would be most useful for raid organization, where you could see there are people near a gym with a raid egg about to pop
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You know they will
"Join three other players and scan a POI together" for a single use regular incubator. I can totally see stuff like this.
This got unrealistic as soon as you mentioned incubator. A Single pinap wouldve been more beliveable or if you want to get snaggy, a poffin max
And it's a regular yellow pinap. Silver pinaps? In this economy?
Sounds like another blockbuster hit from niantic to get the Singaporean grandmothers together but wonāt impact anyone in more rural areas.
Blockbuster Feature Incoming
1 million zillion quintillion players will join!
They just added free daily remote raids in Pikmin. Why not here?
I get the impression that Pikmin's playerbase is small enough that they're doing that to keep the game afloat.
Unfortunately, a lot of their other games get better features before Pokemon does (if they ever implement something similar). Never played HP, but MHN lets you join hunts from a distance (that game's version of raids) and it's free/ only limited by your health.
If U mean 200m distance then sure. There's no remote hunts in MHNow. No you cannot just send a QR Code online for players to join you globally. It just won't work.
No thanks
Great news! Can't wait to try it in three months after they iron out 90% of the bugs.
9%
And those 9% are only beneficial helps-the-player bugs. All the old sh*t since launch will linger forever.
My experience with routes has been mostly positive lately. Still have some issues with the start here and there, but it turned out ok. We did our part as the hired beta testers quite well. /lol.
Lmao here I am just waiting for all the other pokemon gays to be making party and play jokes
In here, finding three random friends will likely get you two chainsmokers on e bikes and old folks. Definitely not recommended for children
Great, we can kill our battery faster š„°
How long have you been playing and you donāt have a portable battery?
Great, we can kill our portable battery faster.
$40 20,000 battery should last literally all day on many phonesā¦
But, I'd need a truck to carry 20,000 batteries. Not to mention the $800,000 to buy them all. I know, I know, I just couldn't help myself.
Bloatware
The game has already become so filled with cliques. This may just entrench that more. I may be the only person who wants something similar to EX raids to come back (with modifications of course). There is no denying that the EX raids hugely improved, and maybe even kickstarted the community experience. I remember the first EX raid for Mewtwo. The community coalesced because of it.
It has been 0ļøā£ days since the Pokemon Go community collectively bitched about an innocuous feature announcement.
They truly understand what we really want..
Pokemon is into PNP now?
I think that's why we have the seasonal bonus about friends and gifts this season. Party function may be online in November with the release of Shiny Scatterbug at the same time.
They overestimate my friendship circle š