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seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal
One of the Seattle maps has a great raid map that allows you to note that you're going, and automatically dumps you into that raid specific discord chatroom. Everyone used it when legendaries first came out. Now, no one does sadly.

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Willsun
Dec 9, 2006

I willed too hard again...

Amish posted:

He also frequently starts rumors about how having more people in a raid gives you a poorer chance to get a good IV and various other crap that leads to people being excluded.

Local Pigeon Believes Less People At Raids Helps Drop More Bird Seed, a study by B.F. Skinner

Tell him that excluding him from any raid improves game enjoyment by 400%.

Psychobabble!
Jun 22, 2010

Observing this filth unsettles me

Willsun posted:

Local Pigeon Believes Less People At Raids Helps Drop More Bird Seed, a study by B.F. Skinner

Tell him that excluding him from any raid improves game enjoyment by 400%.

:vince:


Psion posted:

hahah what the gently caress, that's ridiculous

It's insane. My partner found it and


:stare:

So glad my local discord isn't crazy like that. You just need an invite code.


New APK datamine: https://pokemongohub.net/post/breaking-news/pokemon-go-0-87-5-data-mine-new-way-catch-pokemon-coming-called-ar-plus/

Niantic: What do the people want?
Literally Everyone: Trading and PvP
Niantic: How about a whole new game method utilizing a feature hardly anyone uses anymore!

:suicide:

vvv that was my same thought

Psychobabble! fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Dec 20, 2017

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

Buried in that link: an "I'm safe" button for extreme weather.

gently caress... Yes?

Datasmurf
Jan 19, 2009

Carpe Noctem
I need that now. It's raining cats and dogs, both IRL and ingame, but since somewhere in the mountains far away probably has snow and some minus degrees, it's avalanche time, baby. ><

kensei
Dec 27, 2007

He has come home, where he belongs. The Ancient Mariner returns to lead his first team to glory, forever and ever. Amen!


Water and Ice, plus maybe Xmas bird, dropping Friday?

TVs Ian
Jun 1, 2000

Such graceful, delicate creatures.
Looks like the latest update broke the "hold down the button for auto mode" on the Go+. It actually triggers the catch/spin when you release the button now. It does, however, react right away now instead of after a delay like it's been doing since iOS 11. A modded Go+ would probably still work though, since it should release the button after the vibrating stops.

Even weirder, it apparently fixed the Go-tcha's auto mode that broke in the last update. I don't have mine on me to test it though.

[edit]Once you start a catch, you can press the button again to stop the vibrating & flashing.

TVs Ian fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Dec 20, 2017

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



AR+ now available for Apple, coming Soon™ to iOS.

Kheldarn fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Dec 20, 2017

endlessmonotony
Nov 4, 2009

by Fritz the Horse
Agg, a 2320 Groudon decided to not be caught with ten Great curveballs.

loving hell I ain't gonna see better.

Boywunda
Jun 25, 2003


Where does it say it's available for Android? Or are you being facetious?

dwarf74
Sep 2, 2012



Buglord

Boywunda posted:

Where does it say it's available for Android? Or are you being facetious?
There was an app update. I don't know if this is in it though - nothing to capture here.

e: Also, Calcy IV got updated. It can handle over-leveled weather-boosted Pokemon now. Woot.

dwarf74 fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Dec 20, 2017

DizzyBum
Apr 16, 2007



Wow, didn't expect that to get released so suddenly.

At least there'll be a reason to go into AR mode now aside from taking pictures.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Boywunda posted:

Where does it say it's available for Android? Or are you being facetious?

Welp. I misread it as using Google's ARKit, not Apple's ARKit. I was wrong. I should have know, since Android never gets the cool stuff first. :(

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin
god loving damnit, took 10 minutes to just get down the elevator, to the absol raid, then come right back after starting the fight. and of course the stupid loving game glitches and i dont get a capture screen. so either i spend another 10 minutes going back or i hope and pray i can drift over to the right spot. I physically can walk within my building to within range of the gym, but the game can't figure that out so it's just hoping for random drift and its infuriating there isn't a way to control drift around high rises with all this poo poo that bugs out all the time ARHGHHHHHHH

Chairman Mao
Apr 24, 2004

The Chinese Communist Party is the core of leadership of the whole Chinese people. Without this core, the cause of socialism cannot be victorious.
Sounds like you walked out of range of a raid on purpose, you knew the risk you were taking.

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal
Can 2 people take down Absol?

Chairman Mao
Apr 24, 2004

The Chinese Communist Party is the core of leadership of the whole Chinese people. Without this core, the cause of socialism cannot be victorious.
If you're both a decent level you should have no problem, especially if it's cloudy.

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin

Chairman Mao posted:

Sounds like you walked out of range of a raid on purpose, you knew the risk you were taking.

not really because the drift is so bad that just getting to spin the stop at the gym requires multiple opening/closing. So walking off is no different than standing still and praying for the best. Drift loving with downtown raids during the day is just insanely frustrating yet its the best way to do them

there is flat out no reason to require that you stand in one place for the 120 second countdown +3-4 minute fight+several minutes of catching. It's idiotic. Click join and walk off, no different than clicking on a pokemon to catch as you go by

mastershakeman fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Dec 20, 2017

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Stupid
Bread Liar
There is a reason for standing around all that time: so you socialize with people instead of being a monumental neckbeard loser. It's fun to stand for a few minutes and BS with random people.

White Light
Dec 19, 2012

Louisgod posted:

There is a reason for standing around all that time: so you socialize with people instead of being a monumental neckbeard loser. It's fun to stand for a few minutes and BS with random people.

Have you seen his avatar? You're playing a game of wall ball here

Sanford
Jun 30, 2007

...and rarely post!


Louisgod posted:

There is a reason for standing around all that time: so you socialize with people instead of being a monumental neckbeard loser. It's fun to stand for a few minutes and BS with random people.

It’s the reason gyms are largely just ignored round here. There’s one I walk past every day, often more than once, and I have seen another player there literally once other than in the first couple of weeks after the game launched. He didn’t get out of his car.

Psychobabble!
Jun 22, 2010

Observing this filth unsettles me
This new "feature" where it goes all the way to the top of the poke-list any time you transfer(annoying) to evolve(REALLY ANNOYING) really sucks for mass evolves. Doesn't suck as much if you only do eggs on pidgeys but for my mass Evo style, where I evolve all trash mon, it sucks

Psion
Dec 13, 2002

eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS

Parrotine posted:

Have you seen his avatar? You're playing a game of wall ball here

"all these tall buildings"
"this drift argh"

nobody tell him GPS is satellite based

Entropist
Dec 1, 2007
I'm very stupid.

Psychobabble! posted:

This new "feature" where it goes all the way to the top of the poke-list any time you transfer(annoying) to evolve(REALLY ANNOYING) really sucks for mass evolves. Doesn't suck as much if you only do eggs on pidgeys but for my mass Evo style, where I evolve all trash mon, it sucks
Not if you mass evolve in the pro way, by starring the ones you are going to evolve, sorting by favourites, and unstarring each one after evolution. This way the ones you want are always at the top anyway.

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


gently caress Groudon

GTJustin
Nov 24, 2010

shyduck posted:

gently caress Groudon

This. I've had a 100% and a 98% run on me, RNG sucks. Decent catch rate too, just not lucky. Suicune the useless legendary I caught practically everyone

Entropist
Dec 1, 2007
I'm very stupid.
I caught 5 out of 5 so far, but they were all below 80%.

I did catch a lvl 31 100% Mr. Mime, so who needs high-IV legendaries then?
Perhaps it'll be useful for something with its double resistance to fighting... gonna try it on a Machamp raid.

Psion
Dec 13, 2002

eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS

Entropist posted:

Not if you mass evolve in the pro way, by starring the ones you are going to evolve, sorting by favourites, and unstarring each one after evolution. This way the ones you want are always at the top anyway.

way too many taps to unfavorite all that before transferring, highly inefficient. That's like, semi-pro at best.

Psychobabble!
Jun 22, 2010

Observing this filth unsettles me
Edit: ^^^ also this

Entropist posted:

Not if you mass evolve in the pro way, by starring the ones you are going to evolve, sorting by favourites, and unstarring each one after evolution. This way the ones you want are always at the top anyway.

Meh. I tried that once, wasn't my thing. I just sort by searching evolve and go through that way. This change still fucks your way up because you have to take time to delete one's after they fill the page. It blows.

dwarf74
Sep 2, 2012



Buglord
Groupon was the first legendary I ever caught. First one was a weather boosted 89% and I consider myself lucky. Second was in the 70's.

Entropist
Dec 1, 2007
I'm very stupid.

Psion posted:

way too many taps to unfavorite all that before transferring, highly inefficient. That's like, semi-pro at best.

Psychobabble! posted:

Meh. I tried that once, wasn't my thing. I just sort by searching evolve and go through that way. This change still fucks your way up because you have to take time to delete one's after they fill the page. It blows.
Unfavouriting them directly after evolving is one extra tap on the star when their menu pops up, and by doing this they will not fill the page of favourites. Transferring can be done after the lucky egg timer has finished, and its easy because they'll have been unfavourited already. You can also switch back to the map easily to catch something and go back to the Pokemon menu without having to scroll around or search because the remaining ones to evolve will be right at the top.

Dr Tran
Dec 17, 2002

HE'S GOT A PH.D. IN
KICKING YOUR ASS!
I would hold off on mass evolves until the next XP event

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal

Dr Tran posted:

I would hold off on mass evolves until the next XP event

If the Christmas one isn't double XP, you may as well go and do it then unless you have the coin to blow on Pokémon storage.

NZAmoeba
Feb 14, 2005

It turns out it's MAN!
Hair Elf

Psion posted:

"all these tall buildings"
"this drift argh"

nobody tell him GPS is satellite based

The satellites aren't directly over your head, they're scattered about the sky, which is how they triangulate you. Tall buildings block significant portions of the sky, thus loving with gps on the ground.

Install an app like gps status and you'll get a little map of where your satellites are in relation to you.

Robokomodo
Nov 11, 2009

Dr Tran posted:

I would hold off on mass evolves until the next XP event

I tried one this evening because I’m low on space and now the screen jumps back to the top after the evolution, wasting precious seconds because you have to look scroll down again to look for the pidgeys. New bug? Or have I never noticed this?

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin

Psion posted:

"all these tall buildings"
"this drift argh"

nobody tell him GPS is satellite based

right. so maybe it shouldn't be required to stand in one spot for 7 minutes to get a catch when the game is using GPS location to determine it. or make the radius bigger once you click the gym. something.

Psychobabble!
Jun 22, 2010

Observing this filth unsettles me

Entropist posted:

Unfavouriting them directly after evolving is one extra tap on the star when their menu pops up, and by doing this they will not fill the page of favourites. Transferring can be done after the lucky egg timer has finished, and its easy because they'll have been unfavourited already. You can also switch back to the map easily to catch something and go back to the Pokemon menu without having to scroll around or search because the remaining ones to evolve will be right at the top.

Meh. My method worked well for my specific style of mass evolves vOv. I evolve literally all useless stuff, not just pidgeys/rats/caterpie/etc. everything that doesn't have another Evo in gen 4/isn't useful for raids or gyms gets mass evolved.
so this change sucks for me.

Dr Tran posted:

I would hold off on mass evolves until the next XP event

I have my gotcha on all the time at work so I fill up fast. I could probably do a lucky egg every week if I wanted to.

Panic Restaurant
Jul 19, 2006

:retrogames: :3: :retrogames:



Pork Pro
As far as the Go+ goes, is the general consensus that it's safe to update to iOS 11 now after the new update? I'm seeing conflicting reports in a few places...

Entropist
Dec 1, 2007
I'm very stupid.

Psychobabble! posted:

Meh. My method worked well for my specific style of mass evolves vOv. I evolve literally all useless stuff, not just pidgeys/rats/caterpie/etc. everything that doesn't have another Evo in gen 4/isn't useful for raids or gyms gets mass evolved.
so this change sucks for me.
Me too. I just favourite anything I can spare the candy for, it goes to the top of the screen, and I mass-evolve it. Easy.

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GonSmithe
Apr 25, 2010

Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Panic Restaurant posted:

As far as the Go+ goes, is the general consensus that it's safe to update to iOS 11 now after the new update? I'm seeing conflicting reports in a few places...

It’s safe. They fixed it. But, they did break it so you can’t binder clip/hold down the button to continue catching now.

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