- Sep 25, 2003
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Any reason why they switched up the community day to start at 3pm? I was able to do it this weekend, but I’m usually working at that time.
Pokemon Go (ios and android) - TEAM ROCKET
- Sep 22, 2007
- 12,929
- 1,587
started playing today again, was at the park in the morning and noticed it been filled with pokestops, almost kept walking to hatch an egg lol.
- Dec 13, 2004
- 74,859
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- Dec 13, 2004
- 74,859
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- Sep 16, 2003
- 31,468
- 1,915
I think because of daylight savings
- Apr 10, 2014
- 4,188
- 15,503
Anyone in here play still, add me
- Feb 23, 2010
- 23,421
- 26,524
Still don’t understand Pokémon sleep. It’s a device, not a game? A poke ball plus with a sleep tracker?
- Jul 31, 2004
- 2,220
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Dublay and @litflynt912 pop an egg next time you start up I opened our gift
- Dec 13, 2004
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harry potter version out today
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Improves On What Makes Pokémon Go Great
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is the amount of game that I wanted Pokémon Goto be at launch. It’s polished, there’s lots of stuff to do, and it sometimes really makes you feel like you’re a wizard.
Having been a Harry Potter fan since I was around 11 years old, I am constantly combating the feeling of being a Harry Potter snob. I’m not a huge fan of any of the things J.K. Rowling has done with the series after the publication of the last book, and feel like the video games set in the Harry Potter universe have been largely missed opportunities. I especially grew to resent Hogwarts Mystery, another mobile Harry Potter game, for constantly asking me for money.
Wizards Unite, developed by Niantic of Pokémon Go fame, is a different beast than Hogwarts Mystery, and this time, I feel enthralled by it. It’s a step above Hogwarts Mysteryand the perplexing Fantastic Beastsmovies, and also seems like a refinement of the formula of Pokémon Go.
The similarities between Wizards Unite and Pokémon Go are hard to ignore if you’ve played both games. In Pokémon Go, you catch Pokémon that appear in locations in the real world, finding them by walking around and tapping your phone’s screen when you’re close to them. You can visit Pokémon Centers for resources, and battle other Pokémon in gyms.
In Wizards Unite, you find Foundables, which appear in locations in the real world, by walking around and tapping your phone’s screen when you’re close to them. You can visit Inns for resources, and battle dark wizards and other magical creatures in Chambers.
The difference between these two games is how you do those things, and how the games make themselves available to players who live in different places. This week, I’m in Los Angeles, which is not the most conducive environment for on-foot urban exploring. In fact, while fighting a Confoundable in order to capture a Foundable—the terminology of this game is incredibly dumb—the security guard of a nearby movie studio lot had to ask me to move out of their driveway. But even during the times that I was stuck in my room waiting for a chance to get out and see what Los Angeles had to offer in terms of wizardry, I would still find Foundables nearby. They seemed to pop up if I had the game open and hadn’t changed my location for a few minutes.
Chambers, Wizards Unite’s analog to Pokémon Go’s gyms, can be completed solo, which I’d never been able to do at a gym. In Pokémon Go, leveling your Pokémon is what makes it easier to complete gyms, and you’re incentivized to team up with other players to bring down powerful monsters. I just never had enough friends that played Pokémon Go to do it myself. In Wizards Unite, completing chambers is more reliant on your personal player level. Foundables give you experience, but they’re not at all related to how strong you are.
Unlike catching Pokémon, which soon becomes a bore if you were at all good at flicking a Pokéball, fighting Confoundables in order to find Foundables is a varied activity that has managed to be fun and just challenging enough that I want to keep doing it. The plot of Wizards Unite has Harry, Hermione, and a new character named Constance Pickering trying to set the wizarding world right after the Calamity, which is an unknown spell that’s displaced people, objects, and memories throughout time. Foundables are those memories, and Confoundables are the specific spells that are being used to displace them.
One of my Foundables was a memory of Ron Weasley fighting a Dementor, from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, my favorite book in the series. In order to put Ron back into the right place in time and space, I used a spell, which I completed by tracing on the screen. Spell effectiveness is based on how accurately you trace the spell, and a timer that is shorter or longer depending on the difficulty of the Confoundable. Now that I’m level 5, I’m a smidge better at fighting Confoundables than I was at level 1.
So far, I’ve only had a repeat Foundable once or twice. In Wizards Unite, finding those repeats can lead to greater rewards. Some Foundables are split up into multiple fragments, meaning that you’ll have to fight the Confoundable multiple times in different places in order to send them home. Once you do, you’ll gain more experience and rewards for setting things right in the wizarding world. But part of the fun is seeing how much of the wizarding world has leaked into our world.
In my short jaunt through Los Feliz, I discovered that Wizards Unite really does try to make the game feel magical, and that’s especially present when you’re fighting dark wizards. These fights are tricky to get the hang of at first, but once you find the trick of it, they settle into a ping-pong rhythm that makes you feel like your spells are really landing.
Unlike Foundables, where you only have to trace a spell, when you fight dark wizards you first have to drag a cursor on your phone’s screen to aim at their weak spot, then quickly trace a sigil in order to hit them with a spell. When you’re being attacked, you’ll have a short window of time to throw up a protective spell to keep you from taking too much damage. That back-and-forth begins to feel like a real wizarding duel as you progress to deeper parts of the chambers, where the chances to protect yourself are on a much shorter timer.
All I have ever wanted in life was to get my letter to Hogwarts. Wizards Unite isn’t quite that engrossing, but it’s close enough for now. At least I know how to rope my non-Harry Potter obsessive friends into playing: “It’s a lot like Pokémon Go, but better,” I’ll tell them.
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Improves On What Makes Pokémon Go Great
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is the amount of game that I wanted Pokémon Goto be at launch. It’s polished, there’s lots of stuff to do, and it sometimes really makes you feel like you’re a wizard.
Having been a Harry Potter fan since I was around 11 years old, I am constantly combating the feeling of being a Harry Potter snob. I’m not a huge fan of any of the things J.K. Rowling has done with the series after the publication of the last book, and feel like the video games set in the Harry Potter universe have been largely missed opportunities. I especially grew to resent Hogwarts Mystery, another mobile Harry Potter game, for constantly asking me for money.
Wizards Unite, developed by Niantic of Pokémon Go fame, is a different beast than Hogwarts Mystery, and this time, I feel enthralled by it. It’s a step above Hogwarts Mysteryand the perplexing Fantastic Beastsmovies, and also seems like a refinement of the formula of Pokémon Go.
The similarities between Wizards Unite and Pokémon Go are hard to ignore if you’ve played both games. In Pokémon Go, you catch Pokémon that appear in locations in the real world, finding them by walking around and tapping your phone’s screen when you’re close to them. You can visit Pokémon Centers for resources, and battle other Pokémon in gyms.
In Wizards Unite, you find Foundables, which appear in locations in the real world, by walking around and tapping your phone’s screen when you’re close to them. You can visit Inns for resources, and battle dark wizards and other magical creatures in Chambers.
The difference between these two games is how you do those things, and how the games make themselves available to players who live in different places. This week, I’m in Los Angeles, which is not the most conducive environment for on-foot urban exploring. In fact, while fighting a Confoundable in order to capture a Foundable—the terminology of this game is incredibly dumb—the security guard of a nearby movie studio lot had to ask me to move out of their driveway. But even during the times that I was stuck in my room waiting for a chance to get out and see what Los Angeles had to offer in terms of wizardry, I would still find Foundables nearby. They seemed to pop up if I had the game open and hadn’t changed my location for a few minutes.
Chambers, Wizards Unite’s analog to Pokémon Go’s gyms, can be completed solo, which I’d never been able to do at a gym. In Pokémon Go, leveling your Pokémon is what makes it easier to complete gyms, and you’re incentivized to team up with other players to bring down powerful monsters. I just never had enough friends that played Pokémon Go to do it myself. In Wizards Unite, completing chambers is more reliant on your personal player level. Foundables give you experience, but they’re not at all related to how strong you are.
Unlike catching Pokémon, which soon becomes a bore if you were at all good at flicking a Pokéball, fighting Confoundables in order to find Foundables is a varied activity that has managed to be fun and just challenging enough that I want to keep doing it. The plot of Wizards Unite has Harry, Hermione, and a new character named Constance Pickering trying to set the wizarding world right after the Calamity, which is an unknown spell that’s displaced people, objects, and memories throughout time. Foundables are those memories, and Confoundables are the specific spells that are being used to displace them.
One of my Foundables was a memory of Ron Weasley fighting a Dementor, from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, my favorite book in the series. In order to put Ron back into the right place in time and space, I used a spell, which I completed by tracing on the screen. Spell effectiveness is based on how accurately you trace the spell, and a timer that is shorter or longer depending on the difficulty of the Confoundable. Now that I’m level 5, I’m a smidge better at fighting Confoundables than I was at level 1.
So far, I’ve only had a repeat Foundable once or twice. In Wizards Unite, finding those repeats can lead to greater rewards. Some Foundables are split up into multiple fragments, meaning that you’ll have to fight the Confoundable multiple times in different places in order to send them home. Once you do, you’ll gain more experience and rewards for setting things right in the wizarding world. But part of the fun is seeing how much of the wizarding world has leaked into our world.
In my short jaunt through Los Feliz, I discovered that Wizards Unite really does try to make the game feel magical, and that’s especially present when you’re fighting dark wizards. These fights are tricky to get the hang of at first, but once you find the trick of it, they settle into a ping-pong rhythm that makes you feel like your spells are really landing.
Unlike Foundables, where you only have to trace a spell, when you fight dark wizards you first have to drag a cursor on your phone’s screen to aim at their weak spot, then quickly trace a sigil in order to hit them with a spell. When you’re being attacked, you’ll have a short window of time to throw up a protective spell to keep you from taking too much damage. That back-and-forth begins to feel like a real wizarding duel as you progress to deeper parts of the chambers, where the chances to protect yourself are on a much shorter timer.
All I have ever wanted in life was to get my letter to Hogwarts. Wizards Unite isn’t quite that engrossing, but it’s close enough for now. At least I know how to rope my non-Harry Potter obsessive friends into playing: “It’s a lot like Pokémon Go, but better,” I’ll tell them.
- Sep 22, 2007
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- 1,587
Finally walked around enough to get 400 magikarp candies n evolved to gyrados...I don’t always open the app but it took 3 years lol
Damn time flies :/
Damn time flies :/
- Jul 31, 2004
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Jumped on the HP Train. Recently hit lvl 40 and 2000 pokes, not too much more I can do
- Dec 13, 2004
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- Feb 23, 2010
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Did some raikou raid day with the extra free passes at Cal State Long Beach. Pretty big turnout had to have been 80+ folks roaming around in groups of 12ish. All ages all colors, kids with parents siblings grandparents etc love it.
Caught 4-6 no shiny
Caught 4-6 no shiny
- Jul 31, 2004
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Same
- May 14, 2002
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1882 8507 9392
Somebody add me who doesn’t already have me lol, I need this research task for a new friend.
Somebody add me who doesn’t already have me lol, I need this research task for a new friend.
- Sep 16, 2003
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I was disappointed I didn't get another shiny, but in retrospect I can't complain. I know a dude who did 40 raids and didn't get one.
Got this too
Stopped playing back in February but some peeps hit me up. We were rolling in a car 5 deep with 8 accounts and everyone got at least 1 shiny. Had a great time going out
Got this too
Stopped playing back in February but some peeps hit me up. We were rolling in a car 5 deep with 8 accounts and everyone got at least 1 shiny. Had a great time going out
- Apr 4, 2008
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Adding you
- Dec 13, 2004
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- Mar 4, 2011
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Add me
3497 8028 0064
3497 8028 0064
- Sep 16, 2003
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3/3 so far
- Jun 3, 2011
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Aint enough people round here still on...no legendary raids for me
- Jul 31, 2004
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I saw a tweet about raid issues. Guess I’m waiting
- Feb 23, 2010
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- 26,524
try to find a PoGo Discord server for your city, make some new online friends to raid with
- Sep 25, 2003
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How’d you guys do with the Entei raids? Found a group to drive around with... 22 raids and 3 lucky eggs later and was able to level from 36 to 37... 3 shinies caught.
- Dec 13, 2004
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finally an iv check system in game?
