Niantic has rolled out a new update for Pokemon Go with version number 0.165.0 & it 102.55 MB in size. Popular Pokemon Go data miner, Pokeminer has done a complete breaking down of the latest update. You can check its details down below. For official patch notes, check here.
Highlights
*AntiCheat Features
* Refactoring of Forms and new forms
* Shadow Eggs
* XP Milestone
* Poffin Bundles
* Blacklisting from POI Edits
* PVP Buffering and Queued moves
* GO Battle Hub creation / showing
* Several Buddy fixes
* Avatar shadows
* Best Buddy Badge
* Friendship tracking
* Great Box is officially dead – replaced with Adventure Box
* Weather handling updates
* Sprites for Shadow and Purified Pokemon
# Anticheat Features
We won’t go into this one too much but there’s more Anticheat features added to the game. Including tracking of in game warnings and acknowledgements
# Refactoring of Forms
IsPokemonsNormalForm
NORMAL_FORMS
ALOLAN_FORMS
GALARIAN_FORMS
ARCEUS_FORM_TYPE_STRINGS
NUMBER_TO_FORMS
AssociatedForms
Alola
Purified
Galarian
TwentyNineteen
Forms have a new way of being handled, likely just makes the game more efficient in the way they handles and with more forms coming probably makes adding them easier
FRILLISH_NORMAL
FRILLISH_FEMALE
Frillish have also been split into separate forms for the genders
# Shadow Eggs
ACTIVITY_HATCH_EGG_SHADOW
ACTIVITY_HATCH_EGG_GIFT
Looks like we’ll soon be able to acquire a new kind of egg, which contains a Shadow Pokemon. Maybe will be dropped by a rocket or obtained when spinning a rocket stop?
# New Rocket Radar Sound
[This new rocket sound](https://soundcloud.com/pokeminers/se-go-sys-r-search) plays when clicking on the radar and zooming out the map
# XP Milestone
xpRewardsForMilestone
The Milestones are the overlay messages such as lucky friend, buddy level and friend level up. This could just be an adjustment or they could be adding XP to more than friend level ups.
# Poffin Bundles
Poffins now have assets for a pack of 3 and pack of 5, this could mean we are getting bundles in the store soon. However we’ve also had the same bundles for raid passes for nearly 2 years and they’ve never been used.
# Blacklisting from POI Edits
Looks like you’ll be able to get blacklisted from submitting or editing POI `.get_BlacklistedOs` bare this in mind when submitting stops and pay attention to waypoint criteria #BanAllPostboxes
# PVP Buffering and Queued moves
TryExecuteBufferedAction
QueueSpecialAttack
combatBuffer
Buffering and Queues for both fast and charged moves in PvP, likely to help improve missed inputs and also what to do before/after charged move.
HasActiveAndAlivePokemon
IsSpecialAttacking
IsFinishedWithSpecialAttack
IsWaitingForSwap
ISingleCapacityBuffer
ICombatBuffer
CombatBuffer
CombatCommand
There is also improved handling of Combat states which should make less unregistered inputs
# GO Battle Hub creation / showing
BattleHub
goBattleLeagueTutorialGuiControllerPrefab
battleHubUiWid
Open the Battle Hub and handling for the tutorial to show you how the Battle Hub Works
.get_SeasonEndTime
.get_SeasonEndTime>m__0
contentText
dynamicHeightController
SeasonEndTime
Get the season end time and display a countdown
.get_ShowVsSeeker
.get_ShowQrCode
.get_ShowPreviousSeason
stardustEarnedText
Display your VS seeker which appears to show your battle QR Code, stardust earned and show previous season results.
NUM_VS_SEEKER_CHARGES
SEASON_NUMBER
Further confirmation you’ll be able to store multiple charges in your VS seeker.
pokemonEncounterImage
AvatarRewardIds
Part of the rewards sections it looks like you’ll be able to get Pokemon Encounters as part of the rewards and maybe Avatar items too
# Buddy fixes
.set!Tried to show level up notification for buddy
.{0}, but current level not available!Level up notification for buddy
.{0} exceeds current, skipping for now.Level up notification for buddy
.{0} stale, marking as read.buddy_milestone_notification_toastbuddy_level
Fixes for some of the errors regarding buddies, unregistered level increases, and other general buddy issues. Lots of changes here we wont list but hopefully we see much fewer bugs in this version
# New filter
A new filter has been added `filter_key_can_evolve_with_tradingtradeevolve` this will allow you to filter by Pokemon which can evolve for free though trading. It can be used by searching the term `tradeevolve`
# Avatar shadows
.get_ShadowDirection
ShadowDirection
Your avatar now has a shadow, this shadow also appears to move based on the time of day as well.
# POI Submission and Edits
Trainers will be able to submit edits for sponsored stops.
SUBMIT_SPONSOR_POI_REPORT
SUBMIT_SPONSOR_POI_LOCATION_UPDATE
Additional error handling has been added for POI submissions and edits to make sure everything is processed as it should be and nothing is missing
MISSING_FILE_CONTEXTS
DUPLICATE_FILE_CONTEXT
MISSING_SUBMISSION_TYPE
MISSING_SUBMISSION_ID
uploadStatus
UPLOAD_DONE
UPLOAD_FAILED
Also added some changes to how the game handles when you click on a sponsored stop `OnUserSelection` , could do something when interacted with in addition to the buttons for offers etc found in previous updates
# Best Buddy Badge
BADGE_BUDDY_BEST
New badge to show off how many Best Buddies you managed to get.
# Friendship tracking
TwoWaySharedFriendshipData
Looks like you’ll soon be able to track things about friendship stats, including how many times you been lucky and a score of some sort.
# Weather handling updates
A major weather rework which will hopefully improve the weather system in game. More than we can fit in this post but added items such as
.get_WindLevel1Speed
.set_WindLevel1Speed
.get_WindLevel2Speed
.set_WindLevel2Speed
.get_WindLevel3Speed
.set_WindLevel3Speed
which could be allowing different levels of weather?
# Sprites for Shadow and Purified Pokemon
shadowSprite
purifiedSprite
Looks like soon in the Pokemon Storage we might see Sprites for Shadow and Purified Pokemon instead of just the symbols.
# Additional Changes
* Great Box is officially dead – replaced with Adventure Box
* Slight changes to how the game syncs with servers for notifications and more
* Old unused telemetry removed.
* `HasQuestDialogBeenShown` \- Trying to fix Willow constantly showing up when doing quests/research
* Nintendo and Apple log in methods
* Better handling for the Party Tab `CreatePartyTab` \- Could be to allow more tabs in the future
* `SwitchOrientation` \- This could be allowing you to play in more than just portrait
Not as much Go Battle stuff as we were hoping for but it could be the game is in a state to turn it on now. Time will tell on this one. It could also be haven’t had an update in so long they forced one out.
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