[230921]Pokemon GO Reveals Major Changes Coming for Routes

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Niantic announces a number of major changes that it's making to the Pokemon GO Routes feature following extensive player feedback.

Niantic revealed a number of major changes coming to Pokemon GO Routes in the near future. Its latest update is another attempt at a direct response to the frustrations that some Pokemon GO players recently expressed about Routes.

Originally introduced in late July, Pokemon GO Routes were meant to further incentivize exploration and deepen the sense of community among the game's vast player base. The basic idea behind the feature is for players to share their favorite walking paths with others, who can complete them in order to earn Route Badges, XP bonuses, and a variety of in-game items. While braving a Route, players also have a small chance of stumbling upon a Zygarde Cell, which allows them to change the form of any Zygarde in their collection.

In practice, the feature received widespread criticism from the fandom due to a number of limitations and idiosyncrasies that made it a frustrating experience for a vocal portion of the player base. After already making some adjustments in response to those grievances, Niantic has now outlined more changes that await Routes, having done so as part of its Out to Play event announcement. The newly shared list of upcoming tweaks is frontlined by a pledge to allow more trainers to create Routes, presumably by further lowering the current level 40 requirement for doing so. The developer also intends to up the frequency of Pokemon GO Zygarde Cells that can be found while following a Route.

A notification informing players when Routes are available nearby is also in the works, as are multiple other quality-of-life improvements, Niantic said. The developer's latest announcement made no mention of a specific time frame, making it unclear when its planned changes to the polarizing Pokemon GO feature are slated to roll out.

While the outlined adjustments are likely to improve the overall availability of Routes, none of the promised tweaks will fundamentally change the way that players discover them via the Nearby menu. The ability to circumvent that extra layer of interaction and glance community-created paths straight from the overworld has been a highly-requested Pokemon GO improvement to Routes since the feature first launched in mid-summer.

The upcoming tweaks will add to the growing pile of changes that Niantic made to Pokemon GO Routes in recent weeks. The studio already upped the overall number of globally available Routes, lowered the trainer level requirement for submitting them twice, and made the Nearby menu more informative by expanding its visible item limit and adding directional arrows to its listings.

Pokemon GO is available now on mobile devices.

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根据广泛的玩家反馈，Niantic 宣布对 Pokemon GO 路线功能进行多项重大更改。

Niantic 透露了 Pokemon GO 路线在不久的将来将发生的一些重大变化。 它的最新更新是对一些 Pokemon GO 玩家最近对路线表达的不满的又一次尝试。

Pokemon GO 路线最初于 7 月底推出，旨在进一步激励广大玩家群体的探索并加深社区意识。 该功能背后的基本理念是让玩家与其他人分享他们最喜欢的步行路径，其他人可以完成这些路径以获得路线徽章、XP 奖励和各种游戏内物品。 在冒险路线时，玩家还有很小的机会偶然发现 Zygarde 细胞，这使他们能够改变收藏中任何 Zygarde 的形态。

在实践中，由于许多限制和特性，该功能受到了粉丝们的广泛批评，这使得它对于部分玩家来说是一种令人沮丧的体验。 在针对这些不满做出一些调整后，Niantic 现在概述了等待 Routes 的更多更改，并将其作为 Out to Play 活动公告的一部分。 新分享的即将进行的调整列表的最前面是承诺允许更多训练师创建路线，大概是通过进一步降低当前的 40 级要求来创建路线。 开发者还打算提高 Pokemon GO Zygarde Cells 的出现频率，这些 Cells 可以在沿着路线时找到。

Niantic 表示，附近有可用路线时通知玩家的通知也在制作中，其他多项生活质量改进也是如此。 该开发商的最新公告没有提及具体的时间框架，这使得人们不清楚其计划对 Pokemon GO 功能的改变计划何时推出。

虽然概述的调整可能会提高路线的整体可用性，但承诺的调整都不会从根本上改变玩家通过附近菜单发现路线的方式。 自仲夏首次推出该功能以来，绕过额外的交互层并直接从主世界浏览社区创建的路径的能力一直是人们强烈要求的 Pokemon GO 对路线的改进。

即将到来的调整将增加 Niantic 最近几周对 Pokemon GO 路线所做的不断增加的变化。 该工作室已经增加了全球可用路线的总数，降低了提交两次路线的培训师级别要求，并通过扩大其可见项目限制并向其列表添加方向箭头来使“附近”菜单提供更多信息。

Pokemon GO 现已在移动设备上推出。