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Pokémon GO Halloween 2017 event confirmed - Gen 3 Pokémon coming December
- Thread starter JoeM86
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Charlie0108
Member
Gen 3 not coming until December is shitty, that's 10 months after Gen 2.
Like the hat?
Banned
Makes sense, people will be out shopping for the holidays.
MrChocolate
Member
Not bad, but it could be a lot worse. We have Suicune on November, so there is time to get more coins from gyms, and to get more candies before 3rd gen. After that, it will be harder to get some pokemon.
Blam
Member
Because then it'll drop even more.
If they dropped everything instantly rather than gradually to retain interest, then they'd have high interest for a bit and then it drop with nothing ever able to pull it back up
Living Proof
Member
This sounds nice, but it seemed like a lot of people were expecting a staggered release of gen 3, with ghost types first and the full launch a few weeks later, not unlike the gen 2 babies in december-full launch in february or whatever.
This sounds like they're going to be drip-feeding gen 3 to us.
Heartskips
Banned
Because that's how mobile games works. The game is still huge anyway.
TRUE ORDER
Member
Great news even though I don't play the game anymore hahah
Serpens007
Member
Good! Was expecting these news, excited since I'm playing it again since a few weeks ago
Vanillalite
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Legit!
I've been banking my coins too vs buying incubators with the idea that we'd have special boxes to buy when the event comes. I have like 450 coins banked.
I've been banking my coins too vs buying incubators with the idea that we'd have special boxes to buy when the event comes. I have like 450 coins banked.
Icyflamez96
Member
I was hoping some kind of battle system update came before gen 3 so we could at least have working abilities since they are so important here. We need that and some rebalancing to the system instead of these weird targeted nerfs where certain pokemon just don't abide by the forumulas.
Without truant, Slaking is going to have like 5000+ CP unless they decide to just keep him out of the game like was done with certain other pokemon, or just nerf it specifically. Both being lame options.
Without truant, Slaking is going to have like 5000+ CP unless they decide to just keep him out of the game like was done with certain other pokemon, or just nerf it specifically. Both being lame options.
MrChocolate
Member
At least on 20km eggs. I wouldn't mind. Or at least let us trade. I'm missing Tauros, Kangaskhan, Mr. Mime and Farfecht'd.
I'm talking about stuff like the raid system that assumes a bunch of people are still hanging out around that 7-Eleven that's a gym down the street to catch the Entei.
You'd be surprised, it still happens
Yeah there's a Discord for my city that has regular groups go around raiding weekdays at lunch/weekends.
Serpens007
Member
Yep. Everytime there's a raid I can see people gathering. Even for more common ones. A few days ago, my GF, two random people and I formed a group on site and catched a Muk. Same with a Raikou, but coulndt catch it due to errors in the app
It doesn't seem to happen over here unless it's an area that draws in large crowds regardless or you put in extra effort. Legendaries have occasionally shown up at the gym closest to me but no one is ever there (great for farming gyms for coins, not so much for raids)
Search for telegram / discord groups
We have a 100+ raid group in my relatively small city of 30k people
I'm pretty convinced Mewtwo will turn into a regular raid for a week or something next year.
The EX Raid passes are fine in theory. If you live in a large city and are lucky enough to get an invite. In execution it's probably not as good though.
chrominance
Member
It's worth noting that the gen 2 announcement had similarly vague language. I'll be a little surprised if they don't follow a similar model here, with the ghost types coming first, then most of gen 3, then legendaries and special pokemon (kind of like how Ditto and presumably Delibird/Smeargle were separate releases).
The one thing that could complicate things is abilities, which aren't in Pokemon Go at the moment. But besides implementing new mechanics (if they are indeed adding abilities to the game), I don't really seem much reason for them to drip-feed gen 3. I think it's a lot harder to get people excited to catch 12 pokemon at a time, as opposed to 100+ all being released at once.
Might be different in the States because of the sponsored ex-raids, but in Canada we've actually seen ex-raids mostly avoiding city centers in favour of suburban gyms instead.
I've never heard of a Mewtwo raid nearby, and even though there were some local raiding groups for the birds (with associated inter-group drama), I do hate the legendary system with its insane number requirement, low catch rate, and limited time.
It took me something like 7 raids to get a single legendary, and I never got Articuno. That combined with how very few people seem to do raids anymore and how high the numbers still are makes it pretty frustrating to try to play the game.
It took me something like 7 raids to get a single legendary, and I never got Articuno. That combined with how very few people seem to do raids anymore and how high the numbers still are makes it pretty frustrating to try to play the game.
spyroflame0487
Member
Would still like for some way to be able to catch Legendaries outside of raids. Make them super rare like Unown is, or allow the ability to join up with people online for Legendary Raids or something.
Because as of right now there's not enough people in my area playing that I'll ever be able to get any of the Legendaries....
Because as of right now there's not enough people in my area playing that I'll ever be able to get any of the Legendaries....
chrominance
Member
The low catch rate, that's legitimately a pain in the ass. The other two, though, I think are symptoms of having a raid system that caters very well to a group of players (organized urban players) and not very well to anyone else.
A week seems too short to put out legendary raids on a regular basis; I think it only worked well because of the fervor surrounding the birds, but it's easy to burn people out that way when they feel like they won't have another chance at a legendary bird for a very long time. On the other hand, if my neck of the woods is any indication, a month might be too long. People tend to go very hard on legendary raids at the beginning, but then trail off over time. If you're one of those unlucky people who's trying to catch a legendary beast at the end of the month, good luck. On some level, the deadline only matters so much; after about two weeks, player interest is the limiting factor, not the deadline.
As for the number of players: you can defeat an Entei with five reasonably geared people and a Raikou with six. And those are generous numbers; I've done an Entei with four, and that's with two people getting network errors and delays during the fight. I think the real problem is not everyone is able to get six people together, especially in rural areas. But there are only so many options to make raids work better for those people, and most of them involve making things easier. I think Niantic's goal is to avoid making all the raid content soloable, which I think is a fair goal. But that means the toughest raids are going to need more people, full stop. If you make the beasts easy to fight with, say, three people, then all the other raid content has to be doable with two or fewer. That's not a lot of wiggle room to work with.