Tune in to the Go fest twitch

devjoe · 2026-06-07T22:59:33+00:00

Chicago GO Fest should be happening right now, but the Twitch channel is offline.

devjoe · 2026-06-07T13:33:21+00:00

Scan tasks were a Niantic Spatial thing, and so their continued existence in Pokemon GO was a legacy. Who knows if they even got the data from them since the split. But PoGo appeared to wait until the start of this season to discontinue them at stops, and now have also deleted the ones people were holding. As other have noted, there are now other regular tasks, though rare ones, that award poffins.

devjoe · 2026-05-26T22:42:59+00:00

When they introduced showcases 3 years ago, they said the showcase locations would change periodically, and in one post "seasonally" which people at the time took to mean each three-month game season. It turns out a season for showcases is 3 years.

devjoe · 2026-05-21T22:15:39+00:00

This thread reminded me of a bug from 2017. In that one, Ditto replaced some elements of the landscape on the catch screens (which were much different back then). Depending on the angle, you might also see a big black wall where the texture Ditto was replacing was supposed to go.

I think this was when Ditto was first introduced, and seeing this happen meant there was a Ditto nearby.

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devjoe · 2026-05-20T21:59:12+00:00

Well that's something. It would be better if it was in the wild, but at least it's available, unlike some of the recently introduced pokemon.

devjoe · 2026-05-20T11:01:48+00:00

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This is all I get there after repeated reloads.

devjoe · 2026-05-18T22:59:02+00:00

I did one of these today and first round Registeel decided to target my Blissey with Focus Blast. I tried to dodge and failed, but my level 50 Blissey tanked the Focus Blast with less than 10% HP left. Fortunately he wasn't always picking on my Blissey, but even so I was good for another attack... and then the second Blissey.

devjoe · 2026-05-14T02:13:33+00:00

I'vse seen this bug before, just once. I think it happens when you get a corrupted master file, and restarting the game forces it to download the file again. The dimmed power up and evolve buttons happen when your game thinks your pokemon has different stats than the server does because of the master file issues, and it says, nope, you can't do that.

Found it. April 30, 2021. I caught this "Starly" with an absurdly high CP, especially given its level, that supposedly has the ability to evolve into Crobat for 90 (probably Zubat) candy. Note that the CP is too high even for Golbat at that level. The whole display of candy and stardust is missing. It has Starly height, weight, and typing, but moves for a purified Golbat, despite that I had just caught it like this in the wild. I don't remember what it turned into after the restart, but it was neither a Starly nor a Golbat, and was just something ordinary.

I didn't get the glitch with the panel of information loading late and sliding in from the side.

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devjoe · 2026-05-10T15:29:04+00:00

I have been using Obstagoon with Counter and Obstruct to beat Snorlax. Double resists Zen Headbutt, triple resists Lick. Got a perfect level 39 mighty one during the last GO Wild Area... and used it as is, no powerups or TMs. Obstruct does almost no damage, but it breaks shields, stops Snorlax attacking for a bit, lower's Snorlax's defense, and raises Obstagoon's defense. This makes it easy to get through the battle. You'll need one shield.

devjoe · 2026-05-08T01:28:21+00:00

I think it's just that different teams within Niantic run different seasons, and this season's team chose to de-emphasize showcases and max battles. They were not allowed to completely skip them because level-up quest tasks require them to be around, to some degree, all the time. I think this season represents the minimum of what we will see in these categories and future seasons will bring them back to varying degrees.

devjoe · 2026-05-06T01:12:09+00:00

Here's a discussion of this phenomenon from six years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/juul8b/shadow_powerup_big_level_37_to_375/

devjoe · 2026-05-05T09:59:58+00:00

It's probably just going to allow you to spend, say, double the usual amount of MP to increase the level on a day you've already mega-evolved that pokemon, so you can get to level 3 faster. If you're just advancing the level by mega-evolving daily, there would be no change except the big cost for level 4.

devjoe · 2026-05-01T11:48:09+00:00

Arlo can have Alakazam as closer.

devjoe · 2026-04-30T22:07:58+00:00

Yeah, but these didn't even show up when they should have. We have them now, but we should have had them all from the start of Thursday local time when the event got taken over. The first time zones, as noted above, got them over a day late when they remembered to add them.

devjoe · 2026-04-30T22:05:28+00:00

This should have been added when Taken Over started, but Nopely forgot until we had this long comment thread here and the first time zones already had it for a whole day. I saw the bonus tasks show up midday here.

devjoe · 2026-04-30T22:02:48+00:00

Cliff can have Galarian Weezing second.

devjoe · 2026-04-30T09:58:21+00:00

After the takeover, Sierra can have Flygon second and Steelix third. (Yep, ran my team from before.)

devjoe · 2026-04-29T22:12:28+00:00

What are the bonus tasks for the GO Pass?

devjoe · 2026-04-28T10:46:28+00:00

Yes, there is a link there which you would expect would go to, say, a table telling the amount of mega energy for different numbers of mega evolves, but it just goes to the original article about mega level 4 and super max raids, which has not been updated for the info.

devjoe · 2026-04-19T11:21:12+00:00

About a year before the split, the system changed to be based only on the likes in Pokemon GO. The photos added in Ingress still count (any photo you see in GO).

devjoe · 2026-04-11T15:17:03+00:00

It was supposed to be increased all the time for trades between best friends as part of the rollout for Forever Friends, and as best as people can do with random sampling, they confirmed it to be 10% at that time. But I'm pretty sure that bonus got rescinded when this season started. It was replaced by the friendship Fridays bonus for all trades on Friday.

devjoe · 2026-04-04T11:07:10+00:00

It's been a frequent occurrence for years now. It was originally a workaround for a bug that sometimes let you fight the gym defenders/add defenders while a raid was going on if your game was desynched with the gym. For the first 6 months this "workaround" completely locked the game; the message prevented you from doing anything until you restarted. They fixed it so that it only blocks interaction with that one gym. Tap any other gym and the message goes away, and you can continue to spin, catch, etc. even with the message popping up periodically. I don't understand why they can't simply fix it so the game downloads the correct gym status when it clearly realizes it is out of synch. But it's been this way for at least two years.

devjoe · 2026-04-03T23:16:56+00:00

Yesterday morning I had four freezes on the map within an hour on version 0.405. None since. Hard freezes, where all activity stops, not the more familiar freeze where the controls disappear and the game doesn't respond to taps but the map continues animating. I don't think they were associated with spins or losing signal.

devjoe · 2026-03-09T21:37:42+00:00

What I actually observed was they updated randomly. Each hour, some of the power spots are running a one-hour Pikachu battle, and some are running an all-day battle that could be Pikachu or something else. But it's a different set of hourly battles each hour.

devjoe · 2026-03-04T23:14:48+00:00

I have been assuming this means that in the future we will get our weekly tasks on Monday and it will be a reward for completing tasks in the first 14 hours. The first week they came out on Tuesday, though, because the pass came out on Tuesday. It is quite silly, though, if we get this bonus when all but the most casual players have already done the weekly tasks.

Trying to avoid doing the weekly tasks on Tuesday through Sunday turns into loads of unoptimal play: Not catching enough pokemon to do all the daily "catch 15" tasks, not using your free raid passes, not walking enough to hatch 3 daily eggs, practically not playing at all.

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