12-18-2019, 08:19 PM
Pokémon GO’s New Buddy Adventure Update Brings Your Favourite Partner To Life
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<p><a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/games/mobile/pokemon_go"><strong>Pokémon GO</strong></a> developer Niantic has revealed a brand new feature for the game called ‘Buddy Adventure’, alongside a mushy trailer that’s sure to get nostalgic fans a little teary.</p>
<p>This new update will give players the ability to interact with their Buddy Pokémon in all-new ways, bringing them to life in a way that we haven’t seen before. If you enable the AR+ mode, you’ll be able to play with and feed your Buddy Pokémon to level up your friendship and even earn powerful boosts to their CP. Your friendship levels will rise as follows:</p>
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<p>– Good Buddy: Your buddy will join you on your map, and appear on the new Buddy Profile page.<br />– Great Buddy: Your buddy can also appear in Pokémon encounters and bring you items.<br />– Ultra Buddy: Your buddy will point out “interesting places” nearby and bring you Souvenirs – new items found on the Buddy Profile page.<br />– Best Buddy: Your buddy will sport a Best Buddy Ribbon and gain a CP boost in combat while still assigned as your buddy.</p>
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<p>In a lovely touch, the Pokémon will also walk around with you on the map, similar to the fan-favourite feature found in mainline games like <a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/games/ds/pokemon_heartgold_and_soulsilver"><strong>Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver</strong></a> and <a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/games/nintendo-switch/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee"><strong>Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee!</strong></a>. If your chosen Pokémon doesn’t walk, they can fly, too. Take a look at the Lugia in the screenshots below.</p>
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<div class="col"><a title="Pogo2" href="http://images.nintendolife.com/dbd5520996abf/pogo2.original.jpg"><img class="lazy" src="http://static.nintendolife.com/blank.gif" data-original="http://images.nintendolife.com/dbd5520996abf/pogo2.original.jpg" alt="Pogo2"></a></div>
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<p>Not enough? Here’s a Wailord swimming about, presumably destroying your local town in the process:</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><span lang="ro" dir="ltr">Serebii Video: Footage of Wailord in Pokémon GO’s Buddy Adventure on the map <a href="https://t.co/gDbXkHSvkT">https://t.co/gDbXkHSvkT</a> <a href="https://t.co/umdmx5S0Il">pic.twitter.com/umdmx5S0Il</a></span>— Serebii.net (@SerebiiNet) <a href="https://twitter.com/SerebiiNet/status/1206943721356431363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 17, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>We don’t have an exact release date for the update yet, but Niantic promises that it’ll arrive by next year. Sometime after its initial launch, a Shared AR mode will also allow up to three players to take a group photo of their buddies together – expect social media to see the full force of that with immediate effect when it drops.</p>
<p><em>A nice update? Do you have a Buddy Pokémon that’ll be perfect for this? Let us know in the comments below.</em></p>
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https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/2019/12/...r-to-life/
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<p><a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/games/mobile/pokemon_go"><strong>Pokémon GO</strong></a> developer Niantic has revealed a brand new feature for the game called ‘Buddy Adventure’, alongside a mushy trailer that’s sure to get nostalgic fans a little teary.</p>
<p>This new update will give players the ability to interact with their Buddy Pokémon in all-new ways, bringing them to life in a way that we haven’t seen before. If you enable the AR+ mode, you’ll be able to play with and feed your Buddy Pokémon to level up your friendship and even earn powerful boosts to their CP. Your friendship levels will rise as follows:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>– Good Buddy: Your buddy will join you on your map, and appear on the new Buddy Profile page.<br />– Great Buddy: Your buddy can also appear in Pokémon encounters and bring you items.<br />– Ultra Buddy: Your buddy will point out “interesting places” nearby and bring you Souvenirs – new items found on the Buddy Profile page.<br />– Best Buddy: Your buddy will sport a Best Buddy Ribbon and gain a CP boost in combat while still assigned as your buddy.</p>
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<p>In a lovely touch, the Pokémon will also walk around with you on the map, similar to the fan-favourite feature found in mainline games like <a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/games/ds/pokemon_heartgold_and_soulsilver"><strong>Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver</strong></a> and <a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/games/nintendo-switch/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee"><strong>Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee!</strong></a>. If your chosen Pokémon doesn’t walk, they can fly, too. Take a look at the Lugia in the screenshots below.</p>
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<div class="col"><a title="Pogo2" href="http://images.nintendolife.com/dbd5520996abf/pogo2.original.jpg"><img class="lazy" src="http://static.nintendolife.com/blank.gif" data-original="http://images.nintendolife.com/dbd5520996abf/pogo2.original.jpg" alt="Pogo2"></a></div>
<div class="col"><a title="Pogo3" href="http://images.nintendolife.com/9585a12d28823/pogo3.original.jpg"><img class="lazy" src="http://static.nintendolife.com/blank.gif" data-original="http://images.nintendolife.com/9585a12d28823/pogo3.original.jpg" alt="Pogo3"></a></div>
<div class="col"><a title="Pogo1" href="http://images.nintendolife.com/3823faa4d81c2/pogo1.original.jpg"><img class="lazy" src="http://static.nintendolife.com/blank.gif" data-original="http://images.nintendolife.com/3823faa4d81c2/pogo1.original.jpg" alt="Pogo1"></a></div>
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<p>Not enough? Here’s a Wailord swimming about, presumably destroying your local town in the process:</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><span lang="ro" dir="ltr">Serebii Video: Footage of Wailord in Pokémon GO’s Buddy Adventure on the map <a href="https://t.co/gDbXkHSvkT">https://t.co/gDbXkHSvkT</a> <a href="https://t.co/umdmx5S0Il">pic.twitter.com/umdmx5S0Il</a></span>— Serebii.net (@SerebiiNet) <a href="https://twitter.com/SerebiiNet/status/1206943721356431363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 17, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>We don’t have an exact release date for the update yet, but Niantic promises that it’ll arrive by next year. Sometime after its initial launch, a Shared AR mode will also allow up to three players to take a group photo of their buddies together – expect social media to see the full force of that with immediate effect when it drops.</p>
<p><em>A nice update? Do you have a Buddy Pokémon that’ll be perfect for this? Let us know in the comments below.</em></p>
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https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/2019/12/...r-to-life/