Mid-Week Update!

[inkstone]

The nest migration took place last week and as predicted, Niantic rolled out an in-game update. If you haven't received it yet, be patient. They began sending it out to the app stores last night.

The official patch notes are:

• Trainers will be able to transfer multiple Pokémon at a time to Professor Willow. To use this function, press and hold on a Pokémon.


• Pokémon type icons have been added to the Gym battle approach and Gym battle screen.


• The total Candy count for your Buddy Pokémon has been added to the buddy information screen.


• The total kilometers a buddy has walked has been added to the information screen of each Pokémon that has ever been your buddy.


• Minor text fixes.

As for what those minor text fixes might be, the good folks at The Silph Road compiled findings from the data mine of this latest update. Some highlights:

• genders!


• shiny variants (players of the original games can probably explain this better than me)


• more avatar customization! (both unlockable & purchasable -- will I finally be able to buy my trainer girl pigtails!!!)


• pokémon costumes

Keep in mind that this is stuff that's been found in the code and gives no indication of when these features will go live.

That said, Niantic just announced its first U.S. partnership -- with Sprint! 10,500 gyms & pokestops will be added across the country.

Niantic will also be making an announcement about new pokémon on December 12. Will we be getting Gen 2? There have been reports of the data mine revealing holiday-related code, so will we be getting a holiday event? To launch Gen 2?

Guess we'll find out next week!

(Oh! And gym prestige has returned to its previous values.)

Comments

[lilacsigil]

All very exciting! I haven't got the update yet, but I look forward to seeing what's in it!

[yuuago]

Transferring multiples is going to be a godsend. I've been catching so many pokemon that I don't want to keep ever since Ditto came out, it's nuts.

The possibility of eventually having more avatar customization makes me excited, even though there's no ETA on it. Specifically, more hair length options. Long hair for the guys has been at the top of my want list since day 1. (The likelihood of actually getting it, well, I dunno about that.)

[kaberett]

I mean to be fair to them, they did go for "pick your style" not "are you a boy or a girl?" which... I was tolerably impressed by. So MAYBE.

[tyger]

OH MAN GEN2 FOR CHRISTMAS WOULD ACTUALLY MAKE A LOT OF SENSE.

Because DELIBIRD:

[inkstone]

Omigod. It's a Santa bird. Is that a first tier evolution or does it evolve from something else?

[tyger]

It's a single pokemon, actually, doesn't evolve to/from anything! :D

[kaberett]

Update just happened for me in London... :D

ETA ... okay I am not enjoying the frequent phantom vibrations as of A Pokemon Just Spawned Ha Ha Just Kidding No It Didn't.