While they wait for May Community Day continues, Niantic has announced that in the coming month Pokémon GO will be enriched with new social features. The goal of these new features, whose arrival is expected over the next few months, is to facilitate the meeting, aggregation and communication between Pokémon GO Trainers, who will be able to organize themselves more easily in view of the events group and form communities without using third-party platforms.
Niantic hasn’t explained these phantom functions in detail, but we can expect something very similar to what it recently implemented for Ingress (another of its augmented reality apps), which is a standalone application specifically designed to simplify communication.
In early May, some Ingress Agents gained access to a separate app that includes features such as:
- Local communities: easily find other players by creating local communities around you;
- Niantic Friends: Easily add and manage friends and other Agents in both Ingress and other Niantic games;
- Private and group messages: organize all your chats with friends in one place and coordinate field operations;
- Real-world events: Quickly create and share local events, collections, or meetings with reminders and invite the community to join and play together.
To make the wait more enjoyable, Niantic has decided to help Trainers by providing Mega Energy and Rare XL Candy as rewards for completing local raids. In addition, with the aim of bringing gamers back together after two years of the pandemic, from May 23 the store’s 1 Pokémon Age event pack will no longer include passes for remote raids, but a series of rotating items.