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Pokémon Go |OT| As in "Go Outside"

Kaname

Member
I was out hunting pokemon with my son, on his shitty android pad. He loves it and Im hating myself for being on a windows phone right now but there is another problem.

We cant spot pokemons in AR mode. I get a audio clue that I guess means im aiming the camera at the pokemon but I cant see it. I can still catch them without using AR but I think it would be more fun to catch them using AR. Any one got a fix?

Maybe your device doesn't support AR mode with the Photocamera? I have a friend with the same problem on the old gen Moto G.
 
KreyGasm

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Ragnaroz

Member
I was out hunting pokemon with my son, on his shitty android pad. He loves it and Im hating myself for being on a windows phone right now but there is another problem.

We cant spot pokemons in AR mode. I get a audio clue that I guess means im aiming the camera at the pokemon but I cant see it. I can still catch them without using AR but I think it would be more fun to catch them using AR. Any one got a fix?
Yeah, get a phone with a gyroscope. Mine doesn't have one either so I feel your pain.
 

UberLevi

Member
Went out to the campus today and snagged a bunch of pokemon. Apparently there was a Snorlax on the campus bridge earlier but we went at night so I guess it wasn't there anymore. Might check it out tomorrow afternoon and see if he shows up again.
 
Seeing these high CP pokemon make me sad, here i am thinking i was doing well for having a nearly 500 Golbat and plus 400 Fearow and Hypno :(
 
Hey Ingress players, how much did Niantic add to the game since release? Was Ingress pretty bare when it launched?

They have struck me as a small team. Big ideas lack of resources...

These server issues are expected and might only get worse.

However they do get round to it but I just get the feeling they lack people . They took ages to deal with new portals in ingress taking longer and longer until they stopped portal creation to catch up. Which they did by just declining all but a handful. New things arrived at a very slow rate.
 

UberLevi

Member
Seeing these high CP pokemon make me sad, here i am thinking i was doing well for having a nearly 500 Golbat and plus 400 Fearow and Hypno :(

I know how you feel. A 240cp Jolteon is the pride of my roster currently and I see all these local gyms showing off their 400cp+ pokemon.
 

Teknoman

Member
Two questions:

Are Pokemon classifed as XL in weight / height better to keep i.e. higher CP threshholds?

Should I keep the Pigeotto with Aerial Ace or Air Cutter?

EDIT: "Music by Junichi Masuda

Pokémon GO will feature all-new music composed by GAME FREAK’s Junichi Masuda. Mr. Masuda has worked on Pokémon games since the very beginning and has composed many of the classic and memorable songs that have inspired fans for decades."


Ok now I really cant wait till my first Gym battle.

I wonder if legendaries will have special battle themes...or how they'll appear?
 

ffvorax

Member
I was thinking... are the battle managed with the same rules of the main games?
I mean: Leaf beats water, etc...

And for what I understood, the moves names don't have the same effects of the main games... no poison effect etc., so it's just important to see the power and the load time.

Am I right?
 
I know how you feel. A 240cp Jolteon is the pride of my roster currently and I see all these local gyms showing off their 400cp+ pokemon.
I mean if people are catching them thats crazy but even if they are raising them to that level its crazy too since the stardust cost getts pretty high it seems. For my Golbat it costs 1k to level up the CP.
 

Cynn

Member
Is there some trick to getting passed the loading screen after putting in my login information? I was able to play a quick bit yesterday when I first started, but haven't been able to login since.
Currently the trick is to use a google account.
 

Teknoman

Member
I was thinking... are the battle managed with the same rules of the main games?
I mean: Leaf beats water, etc...

And for what I understood, the moves names don't have the same effects of the main games... no poison effect etc., so it's just important to see the power and the load time.

Am I right?

Thats what i'm thinking at least. Only type, power, and charge time for specials matter.

Also:

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/featu...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

I guess those grass shake special effects just mean there is a strong pokemon in the immediate area, not right on top of the grass?
 
I wasn't going to download it because I thought it would run bad on my phone. Then I decide to try to download it and sure enough, can't because my phone is too old (iPhone 4). :(
 

PSFan

Member
Are they going to fix the login servers for the trainer club accounts? I still haven't been able to log in and start the game. And I really want to use my trainer club account for this, since it should tie in with other Pokemon games that way.
 
Ugh I feel like I'm only catching shitty pokemon of one of my least favorite type (flying). I'm going on vacation next week though and super ready to ignore everyone I'm with to catch em all
 

JoeM86

Member
Are they going to fix the login servers for the trainer club accounts? I still haven't been able to log in and start the game. And I really want to use my trainer club account for this, since it should tie in with other Pokemon games that way.
They say they're working on it.
 

Shoyz

Member
I went on a long walk yesterday and managed to grab a total of 6 gyms, just to see the PTC login go down all day and not be able to redeem the bonus in time.

Woke up to go out at sunrise again thinking it'd be fixed for sure by then..
 

ViciousDS

Banned
my experience this morning


Throw pokeball......freeze at catch, Throw pokeball........freeze at catch, fail to load pokemon in area.......grass still doesn't work.


The fucking server issues of this game just piss me off so much......also server issues at 4 in the morning.....what the hell!

I have full bars everywhere I live!!!!

I was lucking enough to even the Ryhorn walking into work
 
Time to go hatch some eggs then.

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Doesn't work for me ;_;
I have 9 eggs to hatch and I commute 20km on the bike every day for 3 days since "release", the first egg is barely at 4 out of 5 km required. The phone is stored at thigh level, it's a Oneplus One so it should have all the required sensors...

I was sort of miffed when I saw the latest trailer with the girl happily hatching eggs on the bike, I almost wanted to scream, "FRAUD D:<"

As usual with these things I must be doing something wrong or missing some piece of information about how the software recognises walking/biking.
 

JoeM86

Member
Doesn't work for me ;_;
I have 9 eggs to hatch and I commute 20km on the bike every day for 3 days since "release", the first egg is barely at 4 out of 5 km required. The phone is stored at thigh level, it's a Oneplus One so it should have all the required sensors...

I was sort of miffed when I saw the latest trailer with the girl happily hatching eggs on the bike, I almost wanted to scream, "FRAUD D:<"

As usual with these things I must be doing something wrong or missing some piece of information about how the software recognises walking/biking.

The app needs to be open for egg hatching to count
 

3phemeral

Member
Are they going to fix the login servers for the trainer club accounts? I still haven't been able to log in and start the game. And I really want to use my trainer club account for this, since it should tie in with other Pokemon games that way.
Google accounts aren't fairing any better in my experience. Log on, map shows up, no towers or Pokémon. Fight at a stadium? Game stops responding when the mon's hp drops to 0. PokeStop sign image doesn't load. Etc
 

adamy

Banned
Doesn't work for me ;_;
I have 9 eggs to hatch and I commute 20km on the bike every day for 3 days since "release", the first egg is barely at 4 out of 5 km required. The phone is stored at thigh level, it's a Oneplus One so it should have all the required sensors...

I was sort of miffed when I saw the latest trailer with the girl happily hatching eggs on the bike, I almost wanted to scream, "FRAUD D:<"

As usual with these things I must be doing something wrong or missing some piece of information about how the software recognises walking/biking.

you're biking too fast

If you bike pretty much faster than the speed of a quick jog it won't work

Gotta bike pretty slow or skateboard or just walk

Some website I read said to keep it under 5mph

Edit: and yeah, game has to be active screen
 

ViciousDS

Banned
Open as in... screen unlocked and phone in hand versus app started and logged in but phone is locked ? WELP. Guess it's time to invest in a sturdy bike mount for my phone. Thanks for the info !

turn on battery saver mode in the settings and flip the phone upside down. The screen will go black and the app will run. But yes it must remain the active window
 
I saw atleast 50 people playing pokemon go in the city today, was pretty crazy. A few of the parks had 5-7 people standing around

you're biking too fast

If you bike pretty much faster than the speed of a quick jog it won't work

Gotta bike pretty slow or skateboard or just walk

Some website I read said to keep it under 5mph

Edit: and yeah, game has to be active screen


Can still get them on a bus/train, think you just get lucky when the area refreshes. Also pokemon take like 5secs to depawn, so you can catch them 100metres away
 
So signing in with Trainer Club is entirely broken? Lame. :| That's how I made my account, but now I can't get in at all, just stuck with a spinning Poké Ball... Can you not link both Google AND Trainer Club to the same account by the way? If not, that's... Really lame. Even Nintendo got it right with My Nintendo and its 4 possible login methods...
 

JoeM86

Member
So signing in with Trainer Club is entirely broken? Lame. :| That's how I made my account, but now I can't get in at all, just stuck with a spinning Poké Ball... Can you not link both Google AND Trainer Club to the same account by the way? If not, that's... Really lame. Even Nintendo got it right with My Nintendo and its 4 possible login methods...

I completely agree. They need to make it so a Google account and the PTC access the same GO profile.

This is ridiculously bad by them, and their near silence on it is bad image too
 

KingBroly

Banned
I completely agree. They need to make it so a Google account and the PTC access the same GO profile.

This is ridiculously bad by them, and their near silence on it is bad image too

I feel like this wasn't supposed to be released yet at this point. Like they were going to release this thing around the dongle.
 

Kaname

Member
So signing in with Trainer Club is entirely broken? Lame. :| That's how I made my account, but now I can't get in at all, just stuck with a spinning Poké Ball... Can you not link both Google AND Trainer Club to the same account by the way? If not, that's... Really lame. Even Nintendo got it right with My Nintendo and its 4 possible login methods...

I just gave up and went back to my Google character; losing a few pokémon but still better than waiting forever.
 

Cynn

Member
I completely agree. They need to make it so a Google account and the PTC access the same GO profile.

This is ridiculously bad by them, and their near silence on it is bad image too
Surely they aren't going to favor one user account vs another. It says nothing about that in the app and it even has Google listed first as the log in options. It's Nintendo though so who knows.
 
Different color pokemon. Gold charmander instead of orange which are extremely rare. Doubt they are in this game though. the shinies in this game are pokemon like legendarys and final evolved starters and stuff
I think i remember someone posting a picture of a green looking zubat so they may actually be in this.
 
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