{"id":2266,"date":"2016-08-01T19:10:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T18:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2021-03-01T21:58:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T21:58:54","slug":"pokemon-go-curveballs-more-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/01\/pokemon-go-curveballs-more-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Go ‘Curveballs’ (& More Bugs!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pokemon-go\"<\/a>Curveballs – they score you an extra 10 points in the Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/a> game – but when is a curveball not a curveball?<\/p>\n

Literally thousands of people have vented their frustration at unintentional curveballs in the app – they swear blind that there were not trying to do a curveball as they watch there perfect throw suddenly veer off suddenly to the left of the screen. \u00a0A few pok\u00e9balls later and they’ve given up. \u00a0Is it dodgy fingers or is there something more sinister?<\/p>\n

Well, we can’t rule out dodgy throws – we’ve all done them (go on, admit it!). \u00a0But when it seems like time after time, whilst trying to catch the same Pok\u00e9mon your ball curves off at around 60 degrees and flies off the screen it can’t be just a bad throw that’s to blame surely?<\/p>\n

Well, you’re right. \u00a0I have to say that in nearly a month of playing I haven’t encountered the whoopsie curveball phenomenon…. until today.<\/p>\n

I was with everyone else, saying to everyone who was moaning, ‘look, your throw must suck sometimes, you can’t blame the app’. \u00a0Well it turns out you can.<\/p>\n

Now I’m not sure if this bug has been recently introduced (I’ve not experience since the UK launch date until today) but after a little while, particularly if you’ve had your phone in your pocket and you get the buzz or the beep to alert you to a Pok\u00e9mon, you touch the Pok\u00e9mon on screen, thanking your lucky stars that the app hasn’t done it’s favourite trick of ‘freezing’ up<\/a> on you and you throw your first pok\u00e9ball.<\/p>\n

Bam – it flies off the screen. \u00a0 You put it down to a bad throw. \u00a0You try again. \u00a0Bam – it flies off the screen again! \u00a0Your cursing your terrible throw at this point. \u00a0Why can’t you throw pok\u00e9balls all of a sudden? \u00a0You try again and bam! \u00a0It flies off the screen again – and always to the left. \u00a0You then notice that pretty much no matter how you throw it, it ends up curving off at a pretty steep angle to the left – the only realistic chance you have of catching this Pok\u00e9mon now is if you aim way off right, in which case, the pok\u00e9ball might land on the Pok\u00e9mon you’re trying to catch – if you’re lucky.<\/p>\n

When I first encountered this bug, it was coincidentally my first time using a ‘Great Ball’. \u00a0Now they are beasts. \u00a0I thought that maybe they were harder to throw and aim deliberately because they made catching the Pok\u00e9mon easier – however, as I later found out, it turns out I was wrong.<\/p>\n

I quit the app, restarted, and then (luckily) the same Pok\u00e9mon appeared again. \u00a0I throw my ‘Great Ball’ and lo and behold, it’s dead centre and catches the little critter without much ado.<\/p>\n

So guys, in the hard life of a Pok\u00e9mon Trainer, we’ve stumbled across yet another bug (sorry!). \u00a0If you suddenly find your balls all straying drastically off to the left, there is unfortunately only one way to resolve this. \u00a0And that’s the tried and tested way of quitting the app and trying again.<\/p>\n

Of course we shouldn’t have to do this – this is a bug. \u00a0And as it only seems to have started happening recently it may well have been introduced in one of the recent updates. \u00a0Hopefully developers at Niantic<\/a> will track down this non-Pok\u00e9mon bug soon and squash it out of the game.<\/p>\n

Reassuringly, we’re not going mad and our aims haven’t all get 100% worse!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Curveballs – they score you an extra 10 points in the Pok\u00e9mon Go game – but when is a curveball not a curveball? Literally thousands of people have vented their frustration at unintentional curveballs...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[1911,1919,1912,1918,1909,1910,1924,1932,1933],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-app","tag-augmented-reality","tag-niantic","tag-pogo","tag-pokemon","tag-pokemon-go","tag-pokemon-go-bug","tag-software-bugs","tag-software-glitch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3nsfA-Ay","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3101,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/3101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}