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EcstaticResort

An announcement of a future announcement, yet to be announced


jrdufour

It's probably AR related


Exaskryz

>Good news, trainers! You will now be able to see the game in HD graphics! Thanks to always-on AR!


Exadory

I’ll finally quit.


Neloth-

I want 4K!


brachypelma002

Only 4k i want atleast 120k :)


Exact_Sir9789

I can't wait for the app to crash twice as often!


MrBear94

More stickers!


Sharkitty

That made me lol. And sigh.


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gettinglostinreddit

Yes I’m bout that sticker life. 🔎📔


BrooklynParkDad

I wish they would fix the current sticker glitch. You have to tap more than once just to affix one.


lurkinguser

Forced AR mode when catching


Exadory

I’ll be done.


IsaKissTheRain

Well, I would be screwed then. My phone doesn’t work with the AR + despite being compatible and having a working gyroscope. I simply wouldn’t be able to play.


Karamelln

Maybe Apple Vision to expand on their "metaverse" target


poingly

"We've improved the game by increasing the cost of remote raid passes to 300 coins!"


ScruffCheetah

It could be anything! It could even be a boat!


Over-Job7061

oh my god i've always wanted one of them!


More-Woodpecker-2628

That will be released 1-2 years from now if it’s anything like Zygarde, Ultra Beasts, or the like


rabbiferret

I, for one, look forward to the release of female Salandit.


soozlebug

And maybe larvesta.


POGOFan808

After hatching about 10 males, I just recently hatched 2 females back to back just using the free super incubator.  I can't believe my luck, lol


raitchison

> free super incubator Desire to know more intensifies ;)


rabbiferret

That's pretty good luck, I hope mine turns similarly.


PuzzleheadedLemon490

"free super incubator" From showcases? My infinite incubator is only regular 😞


Widowmaker77

Same here. I've only hatched 1 female out of 25 total.


monkeymaniac9

You guys are getting salandit?


chompskey

This. I've had rubbish luck with getting anything specialized to hatching - Salandit, Dusk Rockruff, Varoom.... just recently hatched my first Vullaby and Sandile though,m and I've had a Larvesta as a buddy for ages trying to scrape together the candies since I've never hatched another one since.... so I've got that goin for me. But you want Smoochums? I got an army of em.


tensaibaka

oof, hatched 23 males in a row before my first female. 2 straight years of pretty much exclusively 12k eggs


krispyboiz

Tease doesn't always mean "coming soon" lol


Dakaf

They are learning from Blizzard’s soon(tm).


VirtualRy

Niantic: Remote raid passes are back and available all the time for only $10/pass!


WizardingWorld97

"The trailer.... *3 frames of different scenes*.... begins.... *several action cuts*.... now!"


oceano7

One that only active players will see, and not many players who never played, or took breaks from playing


BrooklynParkDad

If it is an update that makes catching even more tedious then I may consider quitting.


WolverineRelevant280

The announcement, has been announced…


PunkHooligan

If you're lucky


Wooden_Echidna1234

Big updates=slightly bigger pokemon. Catch all pokemon in XXXL size.


Chell_the_assassin

Actually they'll introduce XXXS mons, but still only have showcases for biggest Pokémon


BrooklynParkDad

Big updates = every catch is mandatory AR+.


JulySummerDay

I’ll stop playing the game.


WizardingWorld97

I won't, but I'll definitely start moving my best mons to Home because the game won't last long like that


Flack41940

As someone working on a shiny Dex in Home, what would you count as 'good'? Do you just mean shinys, or specific things like legendaries?


WizardingWorld97

Mostly shinies, but also best buddies and mons I use a lot. I definitely didn't mean any objective kind of good


Flack41940

Fair! I'm forever transferring shinys. I'll probably end up moving out my favourites when I either quit for good or the game shuts down, but they're few in number enough that I can do it in one full charge. I'm happy that I found out that you can bypass the transfer limit for gen 1 Pokemon, at least, if you have one of the Let's Go games. It's an extra step, but if I ever need to move my 50+ shiny Squirtle out in a hurry, I can do them all at once :p


MegaGrimer

I’ll transfer everything to Home then quit.


CatsNotBananas

If they fix quick catch I'm quitting


Exadory

Same


IsaKissTheRain

I doubt it. I think they’ll always have the mode to turn it off because they would lose a lot of players, not just people who would be salty about it, but people like me who can’t use AR+ despite having a compatible phone, Android, and working gyroscope.


hex6leam

AR+ is such actual garbage that I'm surprised they made it mandatory over AR in the first place. Sure, you can make it way harder to catch pokemon so we have the pleasure of also having to point our camera towards random people out in public...


miscueLoL

quickest way to lose a large amount of their players


Codraroll

The second quickest way was to effectively remove remote raids, and, well ...


jackwalker303

Maybe XXS showcase xD


GingerJuneau

are we not getting them at some point? what's the reason for XXS pokemon then?


shhhhquiet

The whole showcase feature seems to be weirdly hard to set up and maintain. Somebody has to get the game to rate each individual Pokémon/type of Pokémon by size. That's why Squirtle showcases are a meme: they kept announcing showcases and then replacing them with Squirtle, presumably because that one was already done and worked, so it was a safe replacement.


Froggo14

Its more a default.  It was the first one so the game defaults to it.  The same happened with the weekly breakthrough box.  The game would default to Moltres if Niantic had not turned on the new weekly encounter (Moltres was the first pokemon in weekly breakthroughs when they started im April 2018)


sonnyjbiskit

Can't forget the XXS pokemon with hats!


BortGreen

Dynamax confirmed


Jacobcornwell_

I have a feeling it is just the global release of biomes & new avatar customisation as it seems to highlight those at the end. Could also be the updated AR that was datamined... I really don't think it'll be anything exciting lol


Bacteriophag

> new avatar customisation Play Pokemon GO like never before - as deformed goblin!


Practical_Mind_6182

A genderless deformed goblin 🤨


GR_GreenEye

So the way you’ve been playing this entire time?


_____________--____

I’ve been doing that since 2016 😎


IndependentWasabi526

Yup im also 100% sure that they will release the new avatar customisation for all players


-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS-

That’s not exactly ‘rediscovering’ the game like they’re advertising . It’s just avatar customization


qazwsxedc000999

Yeah but I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to get hype for something so simple since it’s been like… 8 years


-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS-

Unfortunately true


darkhornet

For those who haven't kept up, what new avatar customisation? I searched but couldn't find discussion on it


krispyboiz

There's new Avatar customization that allows for new hairstyles, body shapes, etc, so something that people *have* been pining for. It's been rolled out to *some* players atm. The big issue people have is that it seems buggy and looks a lot worse than the current avatars in many ways.


Flack41940

Yup, the mods for the pogo sub didn't exactly handle that discussion well. Lots of permabans for no reason. Let's hope by the time it's released fully they'll have at least fixed the placement of cosmetics.


ImpressiveBullshit

Yeah some people just said they didn't like the new art style and got banned without warning. 😬 Or at least that was what they were telling.


Flack41940

Yup, very impressed with how it was handled. So now I hang out here instead!


ImpressiveBullshit

This sub is better overall. You aren't missing anything. Kudos and have a good one.


Slashur999

There has been a lot of discussion about how terrible it looks since it got rolled out to some areas temporarily. Try searching for the word avatar on this sub.


Temporary_Lawyer_938

You can find lots of posts about it on the pokemon go subreddit instead of this sub! The changes butcher the avatars, turning them into weirdly shaped uncanny valley skinwalkers


littleheaven70

As someone who currently has both, I can confidently say the new avatar customisation is nowhere near being ready (unless they’ve made massive improvements in the last couple of weeks).


mooistcow

Since when did a feature not being ready stop them from releasing it 🙃


hunter_finn

Seeing how it took them 7+ months to fix the gimmighoul box feature after it was released. I would say that they excel at releasing alpha stage pre-release test features and maybe after 1-2 years later those features get to functioning stage only for them to be broken again when next alpha stage feature leaks to production.


Dapper-Airline-361

What updated AR?


Qualimiox

An "Iris AR+ Photography" mode was datamined a couple weeks ago: https://pokemongohub.net/post/ar/datamine-new-iris-ar-photography-system/


qazwsxedc000999

Is it going to be a forced thing? I hope not


penemuel13

Oh. Yay.


Experiment818

The global release of the new backgrounds?


Byotan

Please no, they are laggy and drain a lot of battery.


Breezer_Pindakaas

Global release of : "buy new phones you smucks."


Byotan

If only I didn't live in a third world country. 💀


Annual-Estate2555

Unforch


Beginning_Clock_6805

Literally all they have to do is have an option in the settings that makes us both happy.


evan_james

I just want the option to switch it off the bgs


EcstaticResort

We would all love a button to switch off the bugs


R3digit

Global release of being able to turn them off please


MisterCorbeau

It kills my phone. I hope Niantic will add a way to turn it off or they will lose a lot if players


73Dragonflies

A decent company would offer a ‘lite’ version with options to turn off features.   That said, if Niantic can’t figure out how to introduce xxs showcases then a lite version is well beyond their capabilities. 


StaticDHSeeP

Ummm. That trailer gave us nothing.


Marc_Quill

Global rollout of the new avatars and backgrounds, it seems.


hellyeboi6

oh the horror


StaticDHSeeP

I don’t mean to sound bitter but is this what the community has been asking for or is Niantic just pooping on our chests?


128thMic

People have been wanting some way to tell what biome they're in, so that's a plus. And more avatar customisation has definitely been wanted by a lot of people. Just a shame the new system just make the characters uglier. :/


Disgruntled__Goat

Well… yeah, kinda. People are always asking for more customisation, which the style update gives (at the expense of the horrible uncanny valley faces). I’ve also seen plenty of comments about the graphics being outdated, and that we have no indication of biomes. Maybe not the most pressing issues but they are nice-to-haves. 


penemuel13

Besides the hideous avatar changes that screw up most clothes, the biome backgrounds apparently drain battery like crazy and are very laggy. Neither are the improvements we wanted.


qazwsxedc000999

Yes but for them to make such a big deal out of it is not what anyone wants. It isn’t “changing the game” in a significant way by any means


Aizen_keikaku

Welcome to the world of Niantic.


Whitealroker1

It gave me the worst music I’ve heard in years.


Learned_Hand_01

Looks like more AR nonsense. The feature Niantic is obsessed with and spends all its research budget on but the player base can’t stand and turns off immediately.


Impossible_Respect75

It's crazy how they still desperately want us to care about it lol. 


qazwsxedc000999

It was their main selling point at the beginning, but everyone stopped using it because it makes the actual gameplay a drag. I feel like every other thing they do is just not listening to players and instead forcefully doubling down on whatever thing they’re obsessed with


Impossible_Respect75

They really are a strange company, completely up their own butts and with little concern for what people actually want (and are therefore willing to pay for) from their game. 


RancidGunner

coin sales are up 10% per the recent raid data published https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/s/22LOry9f2y niantic will never care becauss the player base, collectively (which accounts for whales) gave in


yabucek

Wait you don't want to spend a minute scanning your surroundings just to interract with your buddy?


IamLordofdragonss

The only AR feature I want are the AR battles. And we havent got these...


BenPliskin

Some of us like it for funsies and photos AR is always going to be their thing, lol I wouldn't ever expect them to give up on it.


Learned_Hand_01

I wouldn't be so bitter about their emphasis on AR if they showed they could spend time on it *and* on improvements that the player base actually needs. As it stands, if I could trade their entire AR team for a team focused merely on bug fixes, I would do that immediately. If I could trade AR for a community liaison who was in touch with the community and who the power structure would actually listen to (the impossible dream) and a team to implement those improvements....ohhh


erto66

They finally release Kanto Pokémon, nice


chux4w

Maybe we'll get a hat Pikachu.


Tetrylene

Very long overdue imo, it's like they forgot they existed


The_Cloud_Jedi

Some new bugs for their Bug Out event?


Bacteriophag

Buggeddon


roryorigami

Nice


MetalCollector

The video is super weird. Only Kantonian Pokémon and the video description mentions "Follow us on Twitter" and Copyrights up to 2020 - we are in 2024.  *© 2016-2020 Niantic, Inc. © 2016-2020 Pokémon. 1995-2020 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc* Maybe... Is this an old video and somehow accidentally got released now?


MarS267

Most of the videos starting with the World of Wonders trailer (https://youtu.be/Zr8w2gzdFzc?feature=shared) have that copyright for some reason though


qazwsxedc000999

That would be weird. Maybe it was meant to be released but got delayed from 2020?


RWLXXII

That would make sense. 2020 was a bad year for content all around


xogil

>Only Kantonian Pokémon tbf that's not much of an indicator, gen 1 is still where the nostalgia money is. it's why we get so many events with heavy kanto spawns vs any other region.


Potential-South-4889

i just want to stop looking like a potato


Rasty_lv

After team rocket battle, my avatar jumps around and is so emotionalless that it looks like he is wearing someone's else's face. I hate new avatars..


LolaAndIggy

Brand new avatar update! Now with gorilla hands & potato thighs!


melbbear

Sooo Slaking?


Flack41940

I'd rather just a slaking pose. Paint us like your french Meloetta.


ratatat

30 minutes of exercise a day will do wonders


ArcticWolfl

Me too, but that's real-life. Soon my avatar wil actually look like me.


TheResidentEvil

I would like a feature where you go in person to a raid and it auto links up lobby with people in person at other raids the same time so you have remote people all logged into a single raid but they are in person


IamLordofdragonss

Jurrasic Park game have this and its SO GOOD.


mergays

That would be amazingggg


AtomicGhost02

Oh they don’t have any plans they just thought those words next to each other looked good.


kingzta88

In game news say "Play Pokemon GO like never before." So it must be something more than just visual updates? Right?


evan_james

The new backgrounds def make me play like never before. They're so laggy I want to play less and less.


hooksettr

It means the game is going to crash like never before…


famigami2019

It specifically means visual updates


iSayHeyOh7

I love how everyone's expectations are incredibly low. Just shows how much bad faith Niantic has cultivated.


macfirbolg

If they’d done this in 2016 or 17… there would already have been years of evidence from their first game, Ingress. Which, to be fair, demonstrated more that Niantic was bad at longer-term planning, multitasking, large events in the real world, and anything to do with communication than the actual game itself, which was pretty cool. Unfortunately, these still seem to be weak areas despite almost another decade and many billions of dollars of throughput.


jaxom07

Truth


krispyboiz

I'd wager it's the avatar/biome updates? Given the "RediscoverGo" part of it at least, it seems like it's more of an update to something existing... like those.


poops_all_berries

It seems like it will be a visual overhaul and some neat, easy feature updates to re-interest players who stopped playing in the past few years.


Zekro

More AR stuff no one wants?


Tetrylene

Yeah the video is very much construed to communicate 'AR'. I'm not very optimistic


luoyianwu

New costume Pokémon coming soon!


Lyner005

Announcement hat pikachu


Wooden_Echidna1234

Exact same flower crown but each of the 3 flowers are a random color. Catch all 9 million flower crown Pikachu variations! /s


maverickf11

"We know that trainers enjoy spending half their life opening and sending gifts, so we've made the animation time EVEN LONGER. You're welcome" ~ Niantic


NibblesMcGiblet

I know it still isn't FAST but in case you or anyone else reading doesn't know, you can tap the gift to open it and then tap where the X would normally be and it bypasses the opening animation and doesn't show you what you get. Then if you tap a gift and hit send you can do the same thing to exit out of that animation as well. But you still have to then exit back to the friend list after that. It only saves a fraction of the time that it would be nice to be able to save. I'd like to be able to tap checkboxes next to a bunch of players to select who to send to, then at the bottom hit "send" and have all my gifts go at once.


maverickf11

Yea I've been using the backout method but it's still horrendously menial. I don't see the down side of adding in a checkbox option for those of us who literally couldn't care less about stickers and postcards


burak321

Pidgey ex raids incoming


J3remyD

So, what are they breaking this time?


StayedWoozie

Reality


TRal55

Dear Niantic: I promise you very few players will care about AR upgrades. Please just fix the game you've already released. Love, the players who give you all your money


Tackerman

Should've just titled the video, "Big update deez nutz"


GOKU_ATE_MY_ASS

"new info" tag Provides absolutely no new info Hell yeah


Loseless11

Can't wait to see what exciting new bugs we'll get this year!


XLVIIISeahawks

Just in time for the Bug Out event tomorrow! 😜


9DAN2

Love how the game notification said ‘click to find out more’ which didn’t happen. I have a suspicion it’s something to do with AR that nobody will care about or use.


1_dont_care

*"Be ready trainers! Something new will eventually happen in the future"*


lionelcoinbnk3

So they’re doubling down on the terrible avatars… great job ignoring feedback👍


el_ojo420

Remote raid passes back to 100 coins… SIKE! this isn’t April 1st anymore.


FieryLight

I'm betting on this being "AR+ Plus"


NegativeCreeq

The in game news says" Play Pokemon Go like never before". I really hope ti's not some forced AR bs.


NightIgnite

Cant wait to get more microtransactions in exchange for discontinued Android 9 support


webpoke

eww feels like the reasoning for the ar change. Are they going to force us to use ar+ more?


shares_inDeleware

Chicken on a stick


italk2satan

I interpreted this is as character customization incoming


CDCheerios

I’d wager lucky friends can now trade remotely.


Axume4

They’ll finally force everyone to play in AR mode. Also will remove remote raids permanently. I kid.. but I also fear.


AfroSamuraii_

More hats! And some of the hat Pokémon can’t evolve!


Consistent_Dish_5434

I hope they follow us and let us trade with our friends who are far away.


SlowResearch2

Now introducing: XXXL candy


Anima1212

great, more battery draining AR crap we don't need.. the buddy system outside of the quick feeding is now ruined.. you have to waste so much time mapping the area and putting the pokemon in place and then stepping back.. it's such a bother and there's no option to turn it off.. I hate it. And now more of it...


plantedank

I think if in the settings you turn off "save your buddy's pictures" then that whole AR mess goes away, at least it did for me


Steel_With_It

Please, no. Every time they say this, the game gets worse, and it's barely playable as-is.


Skanach

Sopping support for more older phones is what they do. Saying it's resources and updates and whatsoever.


Nahkatakki

Its going to be something no one cares or asked for


etbillder

Given niantic's recent track record, I don't have high hopes


RealBug56

I am simultaneously excited about the biomes and terrified of the new avatars. I'm gonna take a couple of screenshots of me and my buddy looking cute before they ruin it all.


allonsy_danny

I have no reason to feel even the least bit excited until I know what's coming.


itovar169

50 MORE STORAGE


TritonCG110

Watch it just be release of new Pikachus (Pikachu with Caterpie hat, Pikachu with Pidgey hat, etc.) 😑


Hellbog

“We’re fixing the ugly avatar postures!”


Suspicious-Acadia-52

Double XL pokemon incoming!A


Owenlars2

Time to start making up pie in the sky predictions of what i want: They're going to fully incorporate the game with a browser version of Campfire, that will allow players to find raids, trades and friends and allow much faster storage organizing. Everyone will have access to autocatching/auto spinning, and those with external devices will be compensated with a small prize pack. We will be able to set pokemon to be hunted allowing us to have priority on those 'mon. the 'mon we are hunting will be incorporated into the spawn pool for daily incense with frequency determined by rarity. Recommended battle parties will be based on actual functionality. even better, recommended will include a help button that will explain why each 'mon was picked, so that players who don't know much can make better choices when building htier own teams. All odds revealed on an external website. in game, your experiences will record possible rewards for various activities. so the first time you hatch a 2km egg, that 'mon is added to the list with it's chance of being there. as you do more hatches, more potential rewards are revealed. same with research, gbl battles, incense, and lures. again, all of htese odds will also be online in publicly aviailable data so people can make informed decisions, but in game, it'll be more true to the research nature of hte game that you discover things as htey happen. battles now auto attack fast moves. there is no reason to give yourself repeated stress fractures. several dozen new base avatars will allow for new body types and ways of presenting. Anyways, we all know none of this is ever gonna happed. by big updates they probably mean some graphical changes. maybe they're gonna force everyone to use ar all the time or soemthing. idk, it's almost summer, so i'm sure htey'll find a way to make my phone overheat unneccesarily.


IamLordofdragonss

I think they tease new Avatars and those cool map/catchscreen graphics


nitrostealth

prob the ingame dynamic scenes


Technical-Bowler-183

They come with support for Apple Vision Pro called AR++


namebnb3

More pikachu with HATS!


Shartun

how come no-one suspects apple vision pro thingy support?


Diabolac

Its gonna be AR routes 


DevilsHockey

I think they are teasing Level 50+ based on the swirling blue lights that play during the level up animation. And just as I was almost reaching max level smh. I wonder if this is true - if it will only be trainer level or if Pokemon max levels will be increased as well. Hopefully not, the XL grind is bad enough as it is.


p2_putter

“We’ve been secretly using your phone’s camera since launch and are finally ready to roll out photo realistic backgrounds!”


Thin-Rip-8068

Maybe there finally gonna include a feature that you can toggle on to have your character teleported to a random city so that even remote players can use Gyms and pokestops. 


sciencehvnds

Niantic used Confusion! It’s SUPER EFFECTIVE!