Niantic has also altered a bunch of things to somehow be worse in the new update including:
removal of ALL footsteps instead of fixing the 3 step glitch
decrease in spawn rate for all pokemon
increase in fleeing rate for all pokemon
pokeballs now are altered slightly so throwing niche mechanics must be re-learned and will now sometimes curve without prompting
battery saver mode removed because why not lol
nice/great/excellent catch bonus exp removed
certificate pinning (WHY)
scan radius for pokemon reduced by 30% so you see even less at any given time
I honestly can’t believe Niantic is this out of touch with their own app and userbase. RIP PokemonGo
What the fuck 🙁
Most of these aren’t true. Like, literally just completely made up.
-They removed the three steps from showing WHILE they are working on a new tracking system. The live tracking updates were destroying their servers and they are working on a client-side feature instead of server-side.
-Spawn rates were not decreased.
-Fleeing rates were not increased
-They LESSENED the random curving of throws. You need to grab the pokeball while it isn’t in the middle of a flip, and move your finger in a straight line.
-Battery saver caused the game to freeze if it was in the darkened screen and a pokemon spawned.
-The throwing exp is still there. IDK where this one even came from.
This is literally all made up except the first one which is the only thing on here actually in the patch notes.
Actual changes that happened:
-Water type Pokemon were slightly nerfed
-Faster pokemon (i.e. Jolteon) were buffed
– Editing your character
-Various bug fixes
I DO AGREE that Niantic are being horrific with their handling of PR and openness with everyone. I am sad pokevision and pokehuntr were shut down, but they were technically cheating and against TOS and Niantic has that right.
Thousands of people are getting refunds on all the money they spent in game. Seriously, you can go to apple or google support, file a complaint, and likely get your money back. This is good, I guess. Except the fact that Niantic are severely losing their ability to work on the game with the loss of revenue.
