The one giant omission from the patch notes is any reference to legendary Pokemon nor more Gen 2 Pokemon. Disappointing for sure.
The Apple Watch “fix” is so that the Apple Watch displays eggs obtained from PokeStops. The biggest concern to players seems to be a tweak for the “GPS drift.” The notes detail change of distance tracking for GPS drift which will have a HUGE impact to gaining km’s for eggs, buddy, anything distance based for the game. Some users including this writer like to open the game even when not actively being played as the character will randomly move around acquiring location from the GPS within the phones. Not a “hack” or major glitch by any definition as on guesstimates alone there’s no way people are getting more than maybe 1-3 kms extra out of GPS drift, that’s again having the phone open ALL day. Let’s hope the folks at The Silph Road have some existing data to see how big an impact this has on players. They seem to be pretty awesome on picking apart updates, getting data, and analyzing the game very well, check them out here and sign up to help ID nests around your area as well.
Seems to be yet another squeeze to push folks to only get the km’s from either walking or biking. Let’s hope we’ll at least see something new and exciting here soon…
