It is nearing Halloween and even "Pokemon GO!" is going to join in on the action with their special event coming up on the spooky day itself. Over the weekend, the game's developers Niantic announced that they would be bringing in an update comprised of bug fixes for the game.
However, it seems that there is going to be more than just bug fixes, because some fans managed to discover hints in the game that suggest that new Pokemon will be coming in on the event. The Pokemon in particular are the Generation Three.
As revealed by The Silph Road, the update featured a new loading screen which includes five third generation Pokemon; Dusclops, Banette, Shuppet, Sableye, and Duskull. Whether Niantic will release all the Generation Three Pokemon to the game at once or bit by bit remains to be seen.
These followed the additions of Generation Two Pokemon Mewtwo and the three Johto legendary beasts. Niantic has yet to release the rest of Generation One and Two Pokemon.
Generation Three of Pokemon was first introduced with the Hoenn region in both "Pokemon Ruby" and "Pokemon Sapphire." Both games originally arrived to Game Boy Advance in Japan back in 2002 and in the West in 2003.
Alongside the new loading screen as well as the possibility of the arrival of new Pokemon, there are also some notable changes that the developers have made to the game in its latest update. First of which, players will now be able to receive a notification if their EX Raid gets cancelled.
This change in particular follows a previous report regarding an EX Raid that happened. "Pokemon Go!" seemed to have cancelled an EX Raid because the gym that it was going to happen in was dropped from the game. This earned a negative response from players.
Another notable update is that it will now have a blacklist tool which is designed to catch players using GPS Spoofing Apps.
Why? Apparently these spoofing apps allow players of the game to trick the game into thinking that they are in another location which will give them access to a place filled with Pokemon without leaving their homes. If the spoofing apps are paired with bot programs that can automate actions, then players can take over gyms and therefore ruin the competitive play.
