The "Pokemon Go's" most popular feature, the nearby tracker, which was introduced three months ago specific to the San Francisco area, is now being expanded beyond this city. Niantic has taken to Twitter on the official "Pokemon Go" account to announce the release of this feature in Arizona and Seattle.
Niantic announced that "Trainers in parts of Arizona, the Seattle area of the Washington state and the rest of the San Francisco Bay area can now test the Nearby Pokemon feature." The feature, which was originally launched with the mobile application, showed footstep icons that indicated how far a Pokemon was. However, following an abrupt dysfunction of this feature, the company introduced an upgraded version of a nearby tracking system, reported Heavy.
In this nearby tracking system, a nearby Pokemon would be displayed next to the PokeStop they were closest to, which made it easier to figure out where the Pokemon should be hunted for. The feature was however limited to players in San Francisco causing much disappointment to other users. While the good news is that Niantic has decided to expand the feature to other places, the bad news remains that the expansion is restricted to only two more regions.
Besides this, there are several other changes that have been made to the game following intense criticism of the aimless wandering that it seeks to encourage. Niantic has ensured that the Pokemon spawns are constantly rotating so that the players do not see the same nests all the time. Also, a buddy system has been introduced which enables the players to grind candies for a particular Pokemon in order to target evolutions.
In addition, Forbes cites that in the wake of Halloween season, Niantic introduced a Halloween event where it rained candy and players could access different kinds of spooky Pokemon, which were customized builds for the Halloween mania. Further, the number of Pidgey, Rattata and Zubat spawns have been reduced.
