When is another generation of Pokmon coming to Pokemon GO?!
Its a question that the games players (including myself) have been shouting since well, pretty much immediately after the game launched.
Weve finally got an official answer: later this week.
The once oh-so-shaky servers have stabilized. The game is now available in most of the world. And now, about seven months after the games initial launch its finally time for a bunch of new Pokmon.
Niantic tells me that players will be able to find over 80 new Johto Pokmon (those from 1999s Pokmon Gold and Silver games, otherwise known as Generation II) within the next few days.
I asked for a date more precise than later this week, but the company declined to get more specific. When asked whether the new Pokmon would be added all at once or rolled out gradually, though, a rep replied that they would all be discoverable as soon as the update goes live.
Better news: the 80 they mentioned will all be discoverable in the wild, as they should be not just from eggs, unlike the handful added in December.
A few other things the company confirmed:
- New evolution items required to make certain Pokmon evolve are being added. Niantic tells me that evolution items will come from PokStops, much like eggs/Pokeballs/etc. I wish theyd gotten a bit more creative there its a good opportunity to add some sort of new gameplay mechanic.
- Two new types of berries are coming: Nanab berries, which make Pokemon slower and thus easier to hit, and the Pinap Berry, which doubles the amount of candy you get if your next catch attempt is a success.
- New avatar items new hats, shirts, and pants are mentioned specifically.
- They mentioned new encounter gameplay, but they didnt shed too much light on what that means
They also released this trailer:
Though theres not much in terms of new encounter gameplay mechanics on display there, worth noting is the new berry shortcut button at 0:16, that the backpack is seemingly now a dedicated Pokball drawer, and that the camera button got moved up to the top of the screen (until 0:29, at which point its suddenly back at the bottom right. Whoops!)
Also worth noting: from 0:20 to 0:26, people are very clearly shown playing the game in mountains, woods, etc the sorts of areas that the game has notoriously been pretty bad at populating, instead dumping lots and lots of Pokmon in Walmart parking lots. Wishful thinking by the trailer directors, or something more?
Alas, not mentioned thus far with regards to this update: a better tracking system, trading, or player-versus-player battling.
Anyway: this is by far the biggest batch of Pokmon added to the game since launch we got Ditto back in November, a goofy little Pikachu in a Santa hat in December, and a handful of baby Pokmon that you could frustratingly only get from eggs (read: walking + random luck + maybe some premium items to speed up the process).
But wait, Greg! Didnt Generation II originally add 100 Pokmon, not ~80?
Yeah, thats where things get a little fuzzy. Niantic tells me over 80 are being added, which leaves 20 sort of up in the air. 8 of those remaining 20 are the aforementioned babies(/their evolutions), and are already in the game. That leaves 12 some of which will probably require those evolution items so Niantic isnt counting them as discoverable in the wild, and 6 of which are presumably the Gen II Legendary Pokmon. Based on what weve seen with Gen Is (still absent) Legendaries , those seem to be poker (Pok?) chips Niantic is hanging onto for later plans.
How exactly itll all break down, though, will be figured out as soon as the players (Shout out to Silph Road and r/PokemonGo!) actually get their hands on the new content. That sense of discovery as everyone works together to catalog everything is half the fun.
Will this update spark the same level of insanity that was seen with the games initial launch? Probably not. Does it need to? Nah. Itll bring back a chunk of players who dropped off because they ran out of things to do, for sure but striving for that same degree of ubiquitous and game-breaking popularity would be a fools errand.
And for the folks whove made it this far and thus might care about the nitty-gritty, a few things I noticed in some screenshots they sent over:
1) Sup, Murkrow?
2) Thats the new berry drawer, as teased in the trailer
3) Looks like berries can be purchased now, given the Shop icon in the upper right
1) Pokmon in GO seem to have genders now, with an icon marking which gender-variant youre looking at.
2) That silhouette on the Evolve button, assuming its part of the final release, suggests the button will now show what a Pokmon will evolve into when its tapped. With the addition of evolution items allowing one Pokmon to have multiple possible evolutions, this should help prevent any surprises.
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