Niantic has introduced some huge adjustments for Pokémon Go, together with a discount in paid occasion tickets and the power to catch completely different coloured variations of your last developed Pokémon within the wild.
In a weblog put up detailing a slew of adjustments coming to Pokémon GO when the following in-game season launches on March 3, developer Niantic stated it will likely be taking out its current concentrate on paid tickets, which have turn out to be a staple of practically all in-game occasions.
Though non-obligatory, tickets are continuous and provide further Pokémon encounters and premium gadgets to accompany in-game occasions for costs starting from $1 to $5.
However Niantic stated it will as a substitute “transfer from paid tickets to Occasion GO Passes,” a Battle Go-like mechanic for video games that has been used extra sparingly for the sport’s largest annual occasions like Go Fest and Go Excursions, in addition to main vacation occasions round Halloween and Christmas.
GO Passes are sometimes dear, starting from $8 to $20 relying on what you get, however they offer you entry to a few of the recreation’s most coveted collectibles, together with Golden Bottle Caps, Fortunate Trinkets, and Poké Cash.
Different huge adjustments to the sport’s common schedule embody a extra “common” tempo of occasions, all weekend occasions (possible together with Group Day) being targeting Saturdays, and the introduction of an in-game calendar later this yr.
Pokémon GO’s weekly expertise has additionally been expanded. Along with the present Max Monday, the brand new Quick-Monitor Monday bonus doubles your GO Go factors. Tuesdays will concentrate on common showcases. Raid Hour continues on Wednesday. GO Battle Thursday affords 4x Stardust and 2x Battle Units for successful particular person battles. On Friendship Friday, you can also make two particular trades that enhance your probability of fortunate trades, barely scale back the price of Stardust, and assure you two Sweet XL.
However by far the largest change right here is that, finally, Lastly Make all developed Pokémon out there within the wild as soon as your loved ones makes their Shiny debut. Which means that whereas beforehand solely the fundamental types of Pokémon corresponding to Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Charmander might usually be modified in shade, creatures corresponding to Ibisaurus, Wartortle, and Charmander can now be modified in shade (with some minor occasion exceptions, costumes, and species able to mega evolution).
Advanced Pokémon have at all times been topic to completely different colours in the primary collection of Pokémon video games, and followers have lengthy complained concerning the completely different approach issues are finished in Go. No extra! In actual fact, off-color Pokémon will turn out to be extra prevalent in Crew Rocket battles, as each Shadows and common creatures may have species with off-color potential. Good.
Final week, videogameaddicted spoke with Niantic concerning the huge rollout of recent Mega Pokémon species, battle mechanics, and a brand new in-game forex.
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