Pokémon GO has seen a few changes of late, with the "nearby" tracking system getting an overhaul, monsters being rebalanced and even the elusive Ditto arriving in the game, but if rumours are to be believed December could have something even more significant in store for fans.
Snoopers at PokeVS and The Silph Road have been digging around in the recently-updated code and have discovered references to 100 new monsters, including both normal and legendary variants. For reference, the Gen 2 PokéDex contains 251 monsters, and there are currently 151 monsters in the mobile game at present.
These beasts lack movesets at present, and another update is required before they go totally "live" in Pokémon GO. Data miners have also uncovered evidence of player-vs-players battles, trading and 'mon training, which are all forthcoming features previously mentioned by developer Niantic.
Gen 2 Pokémon have also been promised by Niantic, but it remains to be seen if that will be the meat of a December update. The developer has been trying to tempt lapsed users back with a double XP and Stardust event, which ends soon, so a big update at the end of the year could well be planned to ensure 2017 starts on a high note.
What do you think we'll seen next month? Let us know by posting your predictions below.
[source slashgear.com]
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They need to get the Gen 2 going sometime in the near future. Surely this is getting it ready.
Gen 1 wins baby! Who dat!
@JackD123
On the contrary, I see this as a great move to bring people back. This won't bring back the levels as we saw at launch, but we should definitely see a boost, something that wouldn't have happened if Gen 2 was released months ago.
Gen 2 monster mash, eh? Will it be enough to keep Pokemon Go from having a graveyard smash?
Is there really 151 pokemon in this currently? I didn't think the legendaries are included yet?
It makes no sense for them to release Generation 2 in December (or in early 2017 for that matter). The weather is too cold and wet for people to leave their warm homes to go hunting for Pokemon.
What they have to do first is release an update that adds functionalities that can be used indoor. Such as trading, player versus player or training. Generation 2 should be released in Spring 2017 at the earliest, when the days are longer and the temperatures go up. Only this way will it lapse people back into the game, not during winter.
In addition, it would also make more sense for them to have some kind of event centered around the legendaries from Generation 1 first, before moving on to Generation 2.
My body is ready! Along with my pokedex, my feet, my external battery packs!! Bring on the best generation that ever was and ever will be! 😀
FYI, the double EXP/Stardust event was already over before this article was published.
Hoping for Gen 3 Pokémon as well at some point. When will Gen 2 come to VC? Need that too...
Not sure whether this is a good thing, depends how they implement it. Have 100 new mon spawning could be potentially game breaking. Would be impossible to catch a significant amount of the same mon for evolution. Will have to see how they do it...
About the tracking, I'm in Quebec so I don't have the revamp. Right now, if I tap one, it says "Find this pokemon in the wild".
Is it me or it's rather useless?
@Acein210 This article's about Gen II, though...
Playing Sun has pretty much got me to not even touch Go hardly anymore. It got kind of old after a while anyway, especially with all of the gyms being taken by people who apparently do the game for a living and have Pokemon at a level ofnlike 3700 or something.
They need to announce a legendary event before introducing gen 2 surely? Otherwise there will only be 95 new pokemon to catch maxing out pokedex at 241.
@VIIIAxel A Pokemon GO article on NL without that person's comment about gen 1 would make the article incomplete ;]
This rumour started a few weeks ago (when the full Ditto code was found), and was mentioned in an article at the time, so did not need another one.
And as I said at the time that I think that adding another 100 Pokemon will just cause far too many complications with the rarity of old and new Pokemon... so I think that the code that has been found is nothing more than an artefact from them testing it's viability and looking for a way to make it work without problems... which is not likely to be a quick process even if they do manage to find a way of making it work.
What is far more important at the moment is them actually getting the game to the point it was supposed to be at when it was first released, as we are still missing some features, and they have yet to find a way of properly balancing others.
Nah, I'll stay in Alola and actually train my little critters.
@Acein210 This comment has nothing to do with the article. It just makes you sound like a genwunner.
@Optimumjay The legendaries are in the game, movesets and all, they just aren't obtainable yet.
@Acein210 Ah yes, those bunches of eggs, piles of sludge, weird mime things, and floating magnets are absolutely superior to all these newfangled dragons, foxes, turtles, and lions.
How fast will entei run away now?
It would be the perfect time to do it, just before Christmas.
@DragonEleven The issue is that Niantic have talked about Gen 2 & have made a lot of modifications to spawning which would make it easier for the Gen 2 to be implemented... would also make the recent CP corrections make sense. I also disagree with them simply "testing" implemention as I can't think of a sensible reason for them to work on the ingame models for a test.
As I am finding out from my regional Pokémon Go Facebook group, there is a LOT of doubt & scepticism about anything big happening in the near future. With how Niantic has treated it's player base I don't blame them a bit.
@DanteSolablood While they have mentioned gen 2, they have never said that they would be adding it... only that it was being discussed or that they'd look into it, etc.
Their changes they've been making clearly aren't to prepare for gen 2... they're just trying to fix the existing problems and are creating just as many new ones as a result... and that applies to aspects of the game that would be completely unaffected by the introduction of gen 2 as well... that's just their clumsy way of doing things.
And you seem to misunderstand what exactly was found in the code relating to gen 2... there are no models, only a minimal amount of data (names, evolution chains, etc.)... a very minimal amount of data, but that's all they'd need if they were only running test simulations.
@DragonEleven Actually, I'm not talking about what was found in the code, Niantic confirmed that they are taking new models for Gen 2 from previous Pokémon games, plus the leaked models of Totodile, Cyndaquil & Chikorita were from Niantic. The models have been confirmed as obtained & being worked on. Confirmed by Niantic.
As for the rest of your post about fixing what was broken, the way spawning works was almost completely overhauled (the reason Fastpokémap is dead, not the API or verification)... why fix something which nobody was complaining about if all their updates are only "fixing what was broken"?
Not counting the other regional exclusives and the legendries, I catch all I can from this current gen (still playing), so bring on gen2.
This better be true. I'm getting so tired of Pokemon GO.
@Aryx Remember, this game isn't just playable in the Northern Hemisphere. Just because it's cold in December where you live doesn't mean it's not the start of summer in South America, Australia and Africa.
I'm about two-thirds through the Kanto Pokédex and am seeing a ton of repeats, so an update with 100 new beasties would be welcome.
Hope gen 2 will be released in march/april.
@Aryx I uninstalled in the middle of October because I couldn't find any Ghastly, Haunter, Gengar or Grimer. I live in Texas and my area is considered rural. Have I missed out on anything?
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