#Pokemon scenery close up update

Oh, and there’s a Pikachu in a witch hat (the aforementioned Halloween variant, perhaps?) thrown in for good measure. It features Sableye (bottom left) and Duskull (upper right) - both Gen 3 Pokémon, neither of which are currently in the game.

Halloween music, presumably meant to play as part of the above-mentioned eventĪaaand… as even further proof, this image has been popping up in the App Store:.Mentions of a Halloween event hidden amongst the list of Pokémon variants, suggesting that there could be at least one variant of an existing Pokémon that’ll only spawn around Halloween.A badge meant to be unlocked by catching Gen 3 Pokémon.A bunch of sound effects unique to Gen 3 Pokémon.Meanwhile, a bunch of other gems found hiding in the data: The splash screen also seems to show the player wearing an as-of-yet unavailable in-game Halloween hat.

The catch? Only a few of them (Gengar, Murkrow, Caterpie and Zubat) are actually in the game right now. This new splash screen, found hiding within the latest update, shows a bunch of Pokémon standing about, silhouetted by a massive moon. Ever since they added multiplayer group raids back in June, for example, the splash screen has shown a group taking down a Tyranitar. Pokémon GO shows a static splash screen while the game is loading, usually representing whatever is currently the “big thing” in the game. Perhaps most significant is this splash screen:

#Pokemon scenery close up update

Our friends at The Silph Road (a community of GO players who connect the game’s many invisible dots, digging through the data for insight on why things like spawns and curve balls work the way they do) have done their thing on the latest update and unearthed a ton of details in the process. Good news! It seems Niantic is getting really, really close to adding Gen 3 (or “Hoenn”) Pokémon to the game. If you’re still poking around Pokémon GO, there’s a good chance you’ve caught most of what’s available by now.