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brightknightie) wrote2017-08-14 07:39 am
brightknightie) wrote2017-08-14 07:39 am
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Surprise Mewtwo and Articuno overshadow perfect Zapdos
There's an Articuno raid at the park nearest me right now. What's happening? Is Articuno back, or is this a glitch...?
I'd planned to post briefly this morning to share that I was so very lucky as to catch a 100% IV Zapdos yesterday! Yay! And then I was going to say that I actually hope summer legendary season will end tonight; I'm game-exhausted by these limited-time-only availabilities of the legendary birds. And then I was going to comment on the rampant Ho-Oh speculation. But...
Apparently, Mewtwo has been a raid boss at Pikachu Outbreak! People have caught Mewtwo! And clearly there's this Articuno right now, here, when we all thought that Articuno wouldn't be seen again in the game for many months, if not a year, if not ever.
Why does Niantic do these things on Mondays (work days) instead of weekends?
If all the legendaries are back in the game at high availabilities, I may perhaps feel a little ill-used or tricked for having invested time and effort in catching them while we were told they were limited-time-only. Hmmmm.
Addendum 10:56 PM: Niantic has spoken: Mewtwo and "other powerful pokémon" are coming soon to "Exclusive Raids," and all 4 legendary birds are back through the end of August. Read all about it.
I'd planned to post briefly this morning to share that I was so very lucky as to catch a 100% IV Zapdos yesterday! Yay! And then I was going to say that I actually hope summer legendary season will end tonight; I'm game-exhausted by these limited-time-only availabilities of the legendary birds. And then I was going to comment on the rampant Ho-Oh speculation. But...
Apparently, Mewtwo has been a raid boss at Pikachu Outbreak! People have caught Mewtwo! And clearly there's this Articuno right now, here, when we all thought that Articuno wouldn't be seen again in the game for many months, if not a year, if not ever.
Why does Niantic do these things on Mondays (work days) instead of weekends?
If all the legendaries are back in the game at high availabilities, I may perhaps feel a little ill-used or tricked for having invested time and effort in catching them while we were told they were limited-time-only. Hmmmm.
Addendum 10:56 PM: Niantic has spoken: Mewtwo and "other powerful pokémon" are coming soon to "Exclusive Raids," and all 4 legendary birds are back through the end of August. Read all about it.
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Long story short: For the past 3 weeks, the game's makers have been releasing 1 powerful, story-heavy, limited-time-only, "legendary" pokemon per week. Catching each is a 2-part challenge: (1) coordinate and cooperate with enough other players to collectively beat a huge, mega-strong version of the pokemon, and then (2) individually capture a smaller, scaled for player-versus-player version of the pokemon.
The base capture rate is extremely low (~4%). Even the best players can get it only so high (~25%).
These engagements -- "raids" -- pop up randomly between sunrise and sunset local time, at various real-world locations, most often in parks or near public art or landmarks. They last 1-2 hours, but there's no way to plan ahead for them. (Those of us who mostly work between sunrise and sunset are a bit limited, and the northern hemisphere has been watching our window narrow over these weeks.)
Today, to everyone's surprise, the makers of the game introduced into this system (with some gameplay enhancements) one of the most powerful and famous/infamous pokemon ever. They also brought back, for the rest of August, the pokemon who had previously been billed as one-week-only availabilities.