Niantic continues its plan to enable features without leaving home for players to maintain their daily in-game activity.
Niantic, as promised weeks ago, will enable the possibility of participating in Pokémon GO raids without leaving home. The measure, of an exceptional nature due to the confinements of society derived from the coronavirus (COVID-19), is now expanded, detailing how it will work and what aspects we must take into account. Let's get to know the remote Raid Passes.
- Find out here everything you can do in Pokémon GO without leaving home.
Remote raid passes: the access key to raids from home
Raids are the jewel in the crown of Pokémon GO: a gathering of several people – especially the highest-level, where going alone is almost certain defeat – to face an especially powerful Pokémon. To participate you need a Raid Pass; We receive one daily, while the rest must be purchased under normal conditions. The current situation goes against these activities, but from Niantic they have specified how the raids will be without leaving home, although without giving, of course, the expected launch date of this measure.
- Remote Raid Passes will be a special modality with a price of 100 Pokécoins (one euro); although they have confirmed that there will be boxes of 1 Pokémoneda where there will be one included.
- The forays that can be done remotely will be those that are closest to our home. When we open Pokémon GO and see the closest raid on the map, it will be that we can play remotely. Up to twenty coaches may participate at the same time.
- On the occasion of the launch, the Raids carried out with remote Raid Passes will keep working as usual; however, in the future, those who continue to participate remotely will do less harm than those who are on-site at the site of the upcoming raid.
- Players will receive a research task daily as long as they can't spin a PokéStop, a situation that affects all users who live far from a photo disc.
- The Pokémon companion that we have selected can bring us gifts without the need to turn a PokéStop.
- We can use more than one Lucky Egg, Star Piece and Incense at the same time to increase the duration of its effects.
Pokémon GO Raid Passes
Doubts and aspects that we cannot explain yet
Up to here the information arrives, not the doubts. We also wonder how aspects such as the operation of Pokécoins will work. We know that the Remote Raid Pass will cost 100 Pokemon, but the only way to get Pokemon without paying is by defending a Pokemon Gym. If we don't leave home, how can we participate in the Gyms? Increasing the range of interaction with them is not enough.
Finally, we also have doubts about what will happen to those who don't have any PokéStop turned into Raid within their range. In that case, will they depend on others to play? What will be the maximum distance?
All these doubts will be resolved, hopefully, soon. We will keep you informed.
