Pokémon GO Gym Update Rolls Out, Brings New Hacking Penalties

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A much-anticipated update to Pokémon GO is rolling out across iTunes and Google Play which includes re-designed gyms and an all new badge system, but those trying to illicitly catch Pokémon may be less than pleased. Posted to Reddit by A Niantic staff member, the game’s developer has a new plan to combat use of third-party programs in order to keep gameplay fair.

With the announcement of Raid Battles and the new battle features, we are staying true on our commitment to ensuring that Pokémon GO continues to be a fun and fair experience for all Trainers. Starting today, Pokémon caught using third-party services that circumvent normal gameplay will appear marked with a slash in the inventory and may not behave as expected. We are humbled by the excitement for all the new features we announced yesterday.This is one small part of our continued commitment to maintaining the integrity of our community and delivering an amazing Pokémon GO experience.

While short on details, it certainly seems like a step in the right direction to make the game more fair for players who spend time exploring he real world to catch Pokémon.

In addition, the Fire &a Ice Solstice Event has been extended by 24 hours!

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  2. I love how the description for the Tribolt arm includes the line
    “Highly recommended if you have bad aim”

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  5. Tips for each character in ARMS
    Mechanica: She’s a little bland, are you sure you wanna play her?
    Spring Man: Don’t depend on your ability, try to avoid dropping that low but if you do, make sure you know what to do
    Ribbon Girl: Don’t gloat, you’ll be a bad person if you do
    Twintelle: Learn to use your ability at the right times, you’ll be godly if you do
    Helix: Learn how the physics and flow of your ability work, it’s REALLY hard to master but you can do a LOT of scary tech if you know
    Byte and Barq: Barq is your god, use him to block grabs or gain a height advantage. Know the field at all times
    Kid Cobra: Master your speed and use it to deal high damage in bursts but know when to retreat
    Master Mummy: Don’t play him…. he’s in desperate need of buffing
    Ninjara: Learn where your teleports make you go. A miscalculated teleport makes you an easy target
    Min Min: I can’t offer help here

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      • I just realized something for you, You said you would be giving in if you went to lower levels, but if you start at level 1 difficulty then learn all the fields and learn opposing maneuvers of opponents then move to level 2 and test yourself to see if you improved after you’ve learned then after you have beaten every character in a difficulty level move up 1 if you lose go back one and challenge only that character again till you learn more then go back and destroy till you are on top!

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  7. SWEEEET!!! I’ve been waiting anxiously to see what kind of penalty Niantic will place on spoofers. This is FITTING.

    Though I’m actually rather worried too, because it’s unclear what kind of method the company will implement to determine who’s spoofing and who’s not.

    “Fire &a Ice Solstice Event has been extended by 24 hours!”
    Meeeeh… boring event! -_-

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          • Because I’m incapable of being calm or happy, I all feel is wanting to hurt myself and others until the feeling burns out

          • That’s not true. I see you calm often. Go listen to like… Studio Ghibli compilations or something. Just try to do something to help yourself

          • I rather just beat the living daylights out of something or bite their neck open
            I’m just so sick of feeling like a loser every single day

          • Do something to help yourself. Go calm down. Please. I don’t want to pretend to know how you feel but just make small steps like that. Meditate or something man, I hate it when you get like this

          • Meditation just makes me angry and the only thing that calms me down is beating somebody in contest, otherwise it’s just an unending cycle of me losing and feeling even worse

          • what’s it gonna do for me honestly, they won’t understand what I do and how much it means to me, none of the people I worked with didn’t understand this

          • Earthen, I’m gonna be blunt with you. You are straight up fucking wrong about therapy. Their job is supposed to be understanding, and it takes time to find a therapist that works with you. It seems to me you expect change in a matter of days and not over time. You really, really need to get out of this horrid mindset and actively try to change yourself. Stop doing little things, one at a time, and you’ll find yourself getting better. Take a walk outside, do SOMETHING.

          • Keep looking. A therapist’s job is to help people in your situation. There are no negatives to looking. It’s either that or staying miserable and angry.

          • You have lots of time, and yeah, I understand money can be an issue. But if you find the right therapist so much change can come from that, and make your life so much easier for you. You gotta be open to this man, please.

          • Actually u should focus on those angry feeling and observe them I mean try to like witness on ur feelings don’t react with them just witness them ….that wat Meditation is about.

          • It’s just all my failures and shortcomings screaming at me and I can’t do anything to change them

          • The past is the past man, and while there’s nothing you can do to change it, you definitely change the future. Not even trying to be corny here man. Change comes in so many forms and you don’t let yourself see it. You need to stop doing this to yourself.

          • Losing, not being good enough, failing,
            I already have problems that will always put me in a disadvantage so I need to win all the time to feel good about myself

          • I had a big issue with win all the time in the past …..but I need really know wat ur definition to the win?

          • That’s very paranoid .u can’t be better than everyone in everything u should separate ur self from ur ego

          • I have to be otherwise somebody is better than me and I’m sick of always being second best, some people may not give a crap but when you have absolutely nothing that fills yourself with a sense of accomplishment or self worth it’s just a painful experience of always feeling that you’re never gonna get anywhere or be good enough

          • There is no such thing as being the best. Someone will always be better than someone else. There are better artists than me. There always will. Artists that are better than me and younger than me. But it doesn’t matter. What matters is that you do something out of love of doing it and not to be better than others

          • That’s not my case, the very idea just keeps me up at night knowing that I failed or was bested, and that pain keeping me up at night, you think I would just drop it and forget but no I never forget. I need to be the best otherwise I’m just some antisocial loser sitting alone in his room wasting the days away

          • Earthen if gaming is negatively affecting you and it’s not making you feeling good then you NEED to stop. You need to listen to these people and explain yourself like you do here

          • I can’t stop gaming it is my lifeblood
            I rather go down fighting reduced to a maddening pulp if I have to

          • Humanz born with double-edged sword that’s called brain u can make great thing with it but if u let it control u ..u will be drawn in hell ……u should be aware ur not ur thoughts ……I don’t believe in god and these shit but we r here for a reason and that reason is to figure out who r really r …….and how all these energy r really one.

          • Right now you’re the best at being an antisocial loser sitting alone in his room wasting the days away. Take control of your life, do something about it, and don’t expect immediate results. It’s going to be a process. And wipe out the illogical thought that you’re a failure if somebody is better than you. There’s always someone better than you, what matters is you still put in the effort to be the best you can be.

          • Sometimes you need to realize when to quit. Not dwell and continuously beat yourself up over it.

          • If you think that way, you’ll honestly never accomplish anything. You complain and that doesn’t do anything man. It takes time to change, you can’t expect miracles man…

          • I just don’t see it happening, I’ll still get angry over a lot of things, be at each other’s throats and still will have bad luck

          • It’s okay to get angry but you need to dedicate yourself to changing. Make baby steps first.

            Even if you don’t think so, you can change your life. But you have to do it. If I could totally change your outlook then I would. But I can’t. You have to. And you can do it.

          • You’re only in your twenties right? Your brain is still fairly malleable and you can change dude. The human mind & body are incredible in how flexible they can be. You’re just being stubborn towards getting better it seems.

          • No it can’t, I’m always going to be angry and depressed and a overall loser
            I can’t even be around people anymore, I just don’t belong anywhere

          • For fuck’s sake man, stop saying that. That’s a lie, and you’re making yourself believe it. That’s what I used to tell myself, before I got help for my clinical depression. You can’t keep using these to control your happiness. Please dude, for your sake, stop.

          • It’s the damn truth, I’ve been angry and unhappy for over 8 years, things never get better and any attempts to change it fall flat

          • Dude!! It’s not the truth. Stop being stubborn about this. Things take time to change, do you not realize this? Do you not understand that things do get better, but to make them get better you have to put effort in as well? You really need to stop this way of thinking, for Christ’s sake.

          • Earthen. Listen to me. Yes. You. Can. Say that to yourself right now. You can change.

            I fucking know it. And you need to tell yourself that. Don’t let your anger get in the way. Say it until you believe it.

  10. Ngl I always find it weird to see people have been posting the entire time I’ve been asleep when it’s also late for them ?

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  12. Defeated Nacrene’s gym in my Whitelocke :^]

    Team:

    Cid the Pidove lv 18
    Tellah the Munna lv 18
    Roni Figaro the Servine lv 18
    Quina the Roggenrola lv 21

    Rip Sabin the Timburr (I couldn’t save it) and Edward the Panpour (I couldn’t even give a reward)

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    • D:
      Good luck on your locke tho 🙂 I did a White Wedlocke a few weeks ago, and there was so much death.
      Right now I doing a White 2 nuzlocke which is doing much better (probably because it’s less difficult xD). About to enter Drayden’s gym with only 5 deaths so far

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        • I’m suprised myself, considering I’m not overleveled at all and have been on the same levels as the gym leaders. Believe me, I had way more deaths in my Wedlocke (wish I had my sheet of it still so I could tell you how many, but I averaged around 1-2 per gym leader and the E4 killed 4 mons, and N and Ghetsis killed 5 of my remade team)
          And thanks, hopefully the trainers there and himself don’t jinx me and wreck my team xD
          They are:
          Lindy the Ampharos lv 45
          Kaylen the Jellicent lvl 45
          Jack the Raticate lvl 45
          Firestar the Darmanitan lvl 45
          Patch the Gligar lvl 45
          Arya the Lilligant lvl 45
          (once I face all the trainers, I’m gonna train them up to be the level of the Haxorus so lvl 48, so I don’t go in overleveled)

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      • I’m doing a W2 Nuzlocke right now of Marvel hero’s so far 1 death at the first gym

        Black Panther the Purrloin

        In spite I’m over training my team for the Gym so far
        Rocket- Oshawott lvl.11
        Groot- Sunkern lvl.10
        Storm- Mareep lvl.12

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        • Lindy the Ampharos lv 45
          Kaylen the Jellicent lvl 45
          Jack the Raticate lvl 45
          Firestar the Darmanitan lvl 45
          Patch the Gligar lvl 45
          Arya the Lilligant lvl 45
          Patch is a recent addition, who was replacing Yassen the Drapion who had fallen to the triple battle with the Magby and Magmar

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      • Hows white 2? Ive always wanted to nuzlocke challenge mode, but My cousin has my white 2 and I cant get challenge mode with it. Stupid GF and their stupid Challenge mode after post game

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        • I am not doing challenge mode, but even with my 5 deaths, there have been many close calls, so I say it probably will be more so with challenge mode on.
          I also know that when I did my Wedlocke on Black 2 a year or two back, it was more difficult (still without challenge mode)

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  17. Why am i the only one that thinks a Fire/Fairy bipedal Unicorn Warrior would be rad? Imagine him, with a long sword made out of the same thing as him horn, surrounded by pink magic!… this is the only way GF could make a bipedal horse look cool.

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      • I regret reading comments… The worst thing is that a group of motherf*cking a*sholes saying that nobody in Poland wants refugees… I’m f*cking pissed

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          • I know that, I was only joking ;). The same holds true for all ethnicities/nationalities, not all people are like that. The internet is just a sad place for these people to meet up because they are afraid of real consequences in the real life.

            But as an outsider I have to say there’s the appearance of big hostility in Poland towards (muslim) refugees, with many citizens citing that the fact they don’t have refuges is why there’s hardly any terrorist attack in the country. Little do they know that Poland is just not a good target for an attack compared to Brussels, Paris or London.

          • Yeah, it is a sad place. It’s true that we didn’t have so many terrorist attacks, but at the same time it’s like praising china for not having fat people, because there aren’t so many white people there.

  20. I want more USUM news…….I want to know if I was justified in being a bit disappointed or if I was completely wrong and should actually be excited….lol

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      • I mean that’s basically their MO. They announce the game with little or no info and then they show off more later. That much isn’t too surprising lol

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        • It isn’t suprising per se, but that isn’t to say it’s a good business model. Much of the USUM backlash came from people not knowing what the game is.

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          • It’s the general business model of many video game companies tho. I mean freaking Square Enix teases games that don’t come out for a decade later lol. I think a month isn’t too hard to wait. Granted I’m complaining hahahaha Anyway I will agree with you that the fact that no one knows what exactly the game is and it seeming looking like a generic 3rd version has brought a lot of disappointment. I for one am disappointed myself. thus why I’d like more info so I can confirm my sadness or get excited lol

          • The thing is, they’re a big enough company that they’re able to do that. People generally know what to expect from GF, but they can’t expect to show 20 seconds and catch the eyes of everyday fans.

  22. So I switched Seraph (who’s Timid) out against an Umbreon with Pursuit

    Not even half damage and I nearly shat myself thinking he died

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