Pokémon Go developer Niantic is taking suggestions following the combined response to its latest participant avatar refresh.
The sport’s new-look avatar system went reside final week, and changed all in-game character designs with a extra adjustable default choice, which now has sliders for weight and particular physique elements, in addition to extra choices for pores and skin tones and hair kinds.
However the change has obtained a lukewarm response, with criticism of how the brand new avatar’s faces look, and the sudden change in artwork fashion. Over the weekend, the primary Pokémon Go reddit was flooded with complaints, whereas one participant who claimed to have been a part of an inner beta check the place issues had been raised forward of time stated these had not been correctly taken on board.
Niantic group supervisor Kestral Riot has since been collating constructive suggestions on social media, whereas reminding the sport’s group to be civil of their response. In a publish on social media platform X, it was said this suggestions was then being circulated to the Pokémon Go crew.
The sport’s avatar replace has landed alongside a extra positively-received refresh to in-game environments, with Pokémon encounters now going down with detailed backgrounds that replicate the pure biome you might be at present in. Subsequent up is an improve to the sport’s AR capabilities – already reside in Australia – which lets you place and pose a number of Pokémon for an augmented actuality photograph.
Eurogamer just lately chatted with Pokémon Go exec Ed Wu on the hugely-popular app’s future, as its decade anniversary approaches.
