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Pokémon Go is live on the Google Play Store
- Thread starter DeathSparks
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Taco_Human
Member
Play store link says it's incompatible with my 6p Wut
Friend of Sonic
Member
Any Platinum coins for playing this?
Hippo_PRIME
Member
I'm impressed with how the PokeStop system works. This bird statue in my area is listed, no idea how they pull that info into their game.
Niantic started their foray into AR games with Ingress. I used to describe it as geo-caching meets capture the flag. Played that game for years. Users could submit new "portals" that were usually interesting landmarks, such as local art installations. I would not be the least bit surprised if many (if not most) of the old Ingress portals are now PokeStops.
Shadow Broker
Banned
I guess it isn't available in NA yet?
No accurate measurement but I went from 87% -> 80% playing around with it for about 10 minutes on a Nexus 5X. There is a battery saver mode you can toggle in the settings.
Is this link okay to post? http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/nianti...lease/pokemon-go-0-29-0-android-apk-download/
Because the actual Pokemon battle system is extremely intricate so there was little to no chance they were translating that to a mobile game of all places.
You weren't expecting to be using Trick Room teams in this game were you?
Platinum Mad
Banned
A bunch of PokeStops and Gyms are in the super dodgey part of town.
Yeah I'd rather not walk around out there.
Yeah I'd rather not walk around out there.
PhazonBlazer
Member
Hopefully a worldwide release is soon on iOS
Inviusx
Member
Seems pretty heavy on the battery use. It's utilizing the camera, GPS and wifi/mobile data at once.
You now catch them all. literally.
AR mode works fine but I found it to be a bit of a battery drain and performance hog.
My kid and I walked around for about 45 minutes or so catching Pokemon. She could see and catch everything that popped up on my phone and vice versa. Pidgeys and Rattatas EVERYWHERE. Like, if I look at my "around me" right now, there's 8 pidgeys and a doduo, which I've already got. The big shocker for me was catching a scyther and a venonat which was neat. Aside from that, standard fair. There's another bird pokemon (looks like a fearow?), pikachu, and pinsir in my neighborhood but I couldn't find them.
The downside is that I live in Texas where I pretty much run the risk of dying for being out walking for hours at a time. During the winter I'll probably take 3 and 4 hour walks and drive to different places to try and catch more exotic pokemon.
Gameplay definitely doesn't feel deep, but I enjoy it and it got me to go out and walk around after a long work day so mission accomplished there.
Battery life improves if you turn AR off. On my S7 Edge I went from 88 to 70 in about an hour. My daughter's Nexus 5 did not do so well though so the older your phone the worse it may hog battery life.
Vanillalite
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GiantBreadbug
Member
I mean, it wouldn't be that hard. Literally just copy/paste.
The reason they likely did it is so phone gamers don't have a hard time learning battle mechanics.
BluePikmin11
Member
Man, I wish this game came out in the U.S. now.
My hype for the game is dying
My hype for the game is dying
I really doubt that's why, considering a massive section of the target audience for this is people who have played the handheld games - That is to say, people who have already spent some amount of time learning those mechanics.
It chewed through 1000 mAh in under 2 hours with AR, GPS, data, and the screen was on for 95% of the time.
Inviusx
Member
So this is the in game map. It's obviously based on your location. It really wants you to go outside and walk around. The blue cubes in the distance are PokeStops, they are about a 10 minute walk from where I'm sitting right now. The silver thing is a gym which you need to be level 5 for. If you're just sitting at home you probably wont be able to do much.
I'm using the scent item on my character right now but you only start with 2 and they only last 30mins. The scent items are of course purchasable with real world money. They cost 80 PokeCoins which translates to roughly $1.20 AUD. You can buy 20 PokeBalls for $1.50AUD or 100 PokeCoins.
Majukun
Member
is it safe? also, is it the right version? shouldn't e version 1 or something?
It is totally safe. My current version is .29
Vanillalite
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Fucking Pidgey everywhere in my hood.
Anyways more pics...
Anyways more pics...
Karspankey
Banned
I want to meet dude in an alley and trade him for his stardust.
Thank you, do I delete it first before downloading from store?
Do you actually battle the random pokemon that pop? It seems like I'm just throwing poke balls at them
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Based Medal
It's not actually released in NA. Most of us have sideloaded the APK. It's available to the Oceanic region and to previous beta testers in NA.
It also DOES NOT work on the Andorid N developer preview.
Don't wanna backseat mod but any way someone can change the title to reflect the actual release status? -
I found a Pinser near me and I have the same problem.
This game is having me walk into the middle of the road or in front of my neighbors house for a Pokémon.
I feel like a creep. But I already caught a Ratata, Psyduck, and Kakuna.
I'd imagine you get a notifications. That's what the little pokeball watch is for so I imagine you can set that up without it.
Vanillalite
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Level 3 yo!
Well of course. Thought it would be absolutely hilarious to destroy clueless mobile gamers with a Gale Wings Talonflame.
Oh that's right, only crappy Kanto Pokemon in this game lmao
starpiercer
Banned
Everyone is complaining about the game not being on the store. Here I am sitting down, wondering why I brought a windows phone,lol.