– If a Pokemon despawns before you find it, it finally actually disappears from the Nearby/Sightings drawer. Hopefully they figure out some system that also helps rural players who don’t have many Pokestops to begin with.) It could very well change drastically before most people get it. (Note: Niantic specifically notes that this system is a test. Most people outside of a few major cities just see the “Sightings” section, even if they’ve got Pokestops nearby.
For now that seems to largely mean people in San Francisco - though some players in other major cities also report seeing it. Yeah - that’s the catch: it’s only been rolled out to that aforementioned “subset” of users. “But wait, Greg! I updated the app, and I don’t see any ‘Nearby’ section!” Tapping a “Sightings” Pokemon doesn’t seem to do anything at the moment, and they don’t necessarily seem to be sorted by distance (hopefully this changes)… so you’ll still be walking a bit aimlessly, albeit with the knowledge that it’s not near a Pokestop. Pokemon in the “Sightings” section have grass behind them rather than a Pokestop image - this means they’re in the wild and not immediately near a Pokestop, and you’ll have to hunt for them without any built-in guidance.
Pokestops now have circles around them similar in sizing to the one around the player’s - if a Pokemon is within that circle, it counts as “Nearby” that Pokestop. It’s like they looked at the now-banned Pokevision and said “Well, if you can’t beat’em…” The Pokemon you’re looking for should be near that Pokestop according to most reports, they’re usually within about a block. Tap one of those and the map zooms out to an overhead view, showing you which Pokestop you should head towards. “Nearby” Pokemon are those which happen to be close to nearby Pokestops. The “Nearby” drawer now has two sections: Nearby, and Sightings. Here’s what that beta nearby system looks like in action, as demonstrated in a video grabbed by Dogecoin creator Jackson Palmer:
#POKEMON GO LIVE MAP OF ATLANTA UPDATE#
It went from kinda working with a functional-if-confusing “footprint” system (three footprints = far, one footprint = close) to not working at all (all Pokemon showing three footprints regardless of distance) to just being totally removed.Īn update rolled out for Pokemon Go users tonight, and the change log mentioned that a new nearby tracking system was being tested with “a subset of users”. The “Nearby” tracking system in Pokemon Go - the one that’s supposed to let you actually figure out where Pokemon are hiding without walking aimlessly - has been broken since day two or three after launch.
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