Niantic reverses its plan by not canceling all activities that require going outside during the COVID-19 quarantine period.
Niantic has announced that they are removing the requirement to walk to play Pokémon GO's online PvP game mode. The company has revealed this March 24 its intention to allow, for a limited time, Coach Bouts and GO League Fights without leaving home.
The measure, which comes more than two weeks after countries such as Italy or Spain – from the main regions of activity in Pokémon GO in Europe – decreed the state of alarm for the coronavirus, will allow “sending challenges of Trainer Fights to Good friends. and great friends ”.
In this way, all users of the popular iOS and Android game will be able to play with their regular friends without the requirement of having to walk 5 kilometers to get the GO Combat League pass; Coins will not be necessary either.
Requirements to play Pokémon GO online without leaving home and duration of the measure
According to the official statement: "From now until April 13, we have removed the walk and PokéCoins requirements to unlock battle sets in the GO Battle League," they begin by saying.
Likewise, the friendship requirement to send battle requests is lowered. Being good friends or great friends will suffice; it will not be necessary to have the state of greater development (the 30 days and 90 days of exchanged gifts).
For more signs, Niantic has canceled the plans for the Lugia Raid, which was planned for this weekend. Both the special forays from the legendary Johto Pokemon and the planned Raid Hours for this week are also officially canceled. Community Day in March was also canceled.
Standard Raids and gym activity are still not suspended. From FreeGameTips, we will not inform about news in the active raids and we will continue without making guides to win in these events while the state of alarm is decreed in Spain; that we know, until at least April 12, a date that is still far away at the moment.
Source | Pokémon GO Live (2)
