Summary
APokemon GOplayer had found a unique way to utilize the mobile game’s new Party Play feature, aside from catching in-game creatures with friends. The massively popular monster-catching mobile game from Niantic has seen a variety of new features and functions added over the more than seven years since the game initially launched. From Raid Battles and the GO Battle League toPokemon GO’s in-game trading system, Niantic has introduced plenty of ways to make players feel more interconnected with their fellow trainers. Now, the game’s newest feature is seeing an unusual use from one fan.
The recent introduction of Party Play saw a new way forPokemon GOfans to play the game together with friends and family. The new feature allows players to join a Party with up to three others, granting new challenges and sharing the group’s activities like catching Pokemon and battling with Gyms.Pokemon GOalso added exclusive challenges to the Party Play mode, encouraging players to focus on specific tasks to earn bonus rewards. One fan, however, was particularly enamored with the new game mode’s GPS functionality.
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Reddit user TueboEmu315 shared their unique usage for the new Party Play function on the officialPokemon GOsub-reddit. The user criticizes the lackluster rewards offered byPokemon GO’s Party Play systemwhile explaining its use as a GPS function to find their husband within a store. Using the Party Play function will cause other members of a player’s party to appear on the in-game map, making them easier to find in large stores like Wal-Mart or Target. The user did also point that players could opt out of the GPS display function.
Many fans in the comments of the post praised the unique idea from the poster, finding an alternative use for the party-focused system. Some fans suggested the GPS system would simply show themselves waiting in the car outside the store, which the user pointed out that it could be an easy way to find where they parked.The new Party-focused function fromPokemon GOhas not been free of criticism, however, with many players feeling the system’s addition has been mediocre in terms of rewards and its hard time limit.
Party Play serves as the most recent example of several new features added toPokemon GOthroughout 2023. Niantic officiallyadded the long-rumored Routes system toPokemon GOearlier this year, allowing players to record theirPokemon GOpaths and offering increased EXP and rewards.Pokemon GOalso introduced the first Pokemon fromPokemon Scarlet and Violetthis year, slowly adding more creatures from the Paldea region. While not every addition is a hit with fans,Pokemon GOhas continued to innovate and add more features to the beloved mobile game.
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