Trainers, A new version of Pokemon GO 0.211.0 is rolling out slowly for Android and Data Miners have found a lot of new upcoming updates and statement this as the largest update so far in terms of code changes and it includes New Raid Stadium, Planets, New Pikachu forms and much more…

Credits to PokeMiners for Data Mine Report, If you haven’t followed them on Twitter, Do follow them, they do incredible work!

Here’s the Summary from the Data Mine report:

  • 4 New Pikachu forms and GO Fest 2021 Costume Pokemon
  • New Badges for GO Fest, Raid Stats and Trading Cards?
  • Raid Stadium – Something huge is coming for this year!
  • Raid Achievements
  • Meloetta Stage and Meloetta Encounter
  • Planets and Skies
  • Raid Logging
  • New Loading Screen

Pikachu and GO Fest 2021 Costume Pokemon

Two new Pikachu’s were expected for GO Fest, but miners have found two additional Pikachu forms which might get released during the GO Fest 2021 or later.

PIKACHU_POP_STAR 
PIKACHU_ROCK_STAR

PIKACHU_FLYING_5TH_ANNIV
PIKACHU_KARIYUSHI

Niantic has released images for both Pikachu Pop Star and Pikachu Rock Star.

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It also appears that all the GO Fest 2021 Costume Pokemon will not be evolvable including the other Costume forms which are going to be released.

GOFEST_2021_NOEVOLVE

New Badges

A lots of new badges were found including the GO Fest 2021 Test and Global badge, Raid Stadium Badge and Trading Card Badges.

BADGE_RAID_BATTLE_STAT

BADGE_GOFEST_2021_TEST 
BADGE_GOFEST_2021_GLOBAL 

BADGE_TRADING_CARD_0001 
BADGE_TRADING_CARD_0002 
BADGE_TRADING_CARD_0003 
BADGE_TRADING_CARD_0004 
BADGE_TRADING_CARD_0005 
BADGE_TRADING_CARD_0006 
BADGE_TRADING_CARD_0007 
BADGE_TRADING_CARD_0008 
BADGE_TRADING_CARD_0009 
BADGE_TRADING_CARD_0010

Raid Stadium

Get ready for raids, Something new and a big upgrade is coming to the raiding system. From leaderboards, stats and challenges, to a new in-game Stadium with screens to battle.

Currently, it is unknown how and when it will be implemented.

PokeMiners have found a lots of new assets for the Raid Stadium and texts to support in the new APK.

Let’s go with the Assets first to bring up some excitement.

A lots of supporting texts have been found in the new APK.

Stats

A lot of new stats now will be stored like a number of charge attacks used, tallest Pokemon and many other parameters.

These are used to help calculate the stats. In addition, raid_player_stats are now stored after every Raid or Gym battle.

tall_pokemon_id
number_of_charge_attacks_used
last_player_join_time_ms
last_player_quit_time_ms
player_id

UNSET_RAID_STAT
FINAL_STRIKE_PLAYER
DAMAGE_DEALT_PLAYER
REMOTE_DISTANCE_PLAYER
USE_MEGA_EVO_PLAYER
CUSTOMIZE_AVATAR_PLAYER
NUM_CHARGED_ATTACKS_PLAYER
SURVIVAL_DURATION_POKEMON
POKEMON_HEIGHT_POKEMON

Leaderboards and Transitions

The Leaderboard will be used to show off the trainers stats for the raid battle or the complete raid stadium.

SetStadiumTeamMaterial
SetTeamBanner
SetCrowdTexture
teamBannerSettings
TeamBannerSetting
RequestStadiumMesh
RequestStadiumPropsInstance

RaidLobbyTransitionView
colorSchemes
solidRing
dashedRing
thinRing
emblemParent
GoSequence
ring1
ring2
ring3
cameraShakeDelayInSeconds
playerFloatingNameplate
enemyFloatingNameplate

Just like gyms, the Stadium can change team colours as well with banners and crowd updates.

Raid Achievements

Get Ready to brag in raiding groups, New Raid Achievements are coming to Pokemon GO and it seems trainers will be rewarded some achievements at the end of the raid will be presented in the summary screen.

RESOURCE ID: mvt_title 
TEXT: Trainer Achievements 

RESOURCE ID: mvt_featured 
TEXT: Featured:

RESOURCE ID: mvt_go_to_summary 
TEXT: Go to Summary

Here are the few achievements texts found by the miners

UNSET_RAID_STAT 
FINAL_STRIKE_PLAYER 
DAMAGE_DEALT_PLAYER 
REMOTE_DISTANCE_PLAYER 
USE_MEGA_EVO_PLAYER 
CUSTOMIZE_AVATAR_PLAYER 
NUM_CHARGED_ATTACKS_PLAYER 
SURVIVAL_DURATION_POKEMON 
POKEMON_HEIGHT_POKEMON

Hardest Hitter

This probably for the one who dealt the maximum damage in the raids.

RESOURCE ID: mvt_stat_damage_dealt_player_details 
TEXT: Dealt {0} damage 

RESOURCE ID: mvt_stat_damage_dealt_player_title 
TEXT: Hardest Hitter

Style Savant

Best Style?

RESOURCE ID: mvt_stat_customize_avatar_player_details 
TEXT: Dressed to impress 

RESOURCE ID: mvt_stat_customize_avatar_player_title 
TEXT: Style Savant

Final Strike

To the one who delivered the final attack!

RESOURCE ID: mvt_stat_final_strike_player_details 
TEXT: Delivered the final attack 

RESOURCE ID: mvt_stat_final_strike_player_title 
TEXT: Final Strike

The Big One

To the one who brought the largest Pokemon. Largest in terms of height?

RESOURCE ID: mvt_stat_pokemon_height_player_details 
TEXT: Brought the largest Pokémon into battle 

RESOURCE ID: mvt_stat_pokemon_height_player_title 
TEXT: The Big One

Raid Buddy

Be sure to bring your buddy in the raids, this is one for you!

RESOURCE ID: mvt_stat_use_buddy_player_details 
TEXT: Brought a Buddy Pokémon into battle 

RESOURCE ID: mvt_stat_use_buddy_player_title 
TEXT: Raid Buddy

Master of Mega Evolution

Bringing a Mega Evolution will help in Achievement and Damage Boost!

RESOURCE ID: mvt_stat_use_mega_evo_player_details 
TEXT: Used a Mega-Evolved Pokémon in battle 

RESOURCE ID: mvt_stat_use_mega_evo_player_title 
TEXT: Master of Mega Evolution

Meloetta Stage and Meloetta Encounter

As you have all guessed, Meloetta will be the Featured Pokemon during the GO Fest 2021. Like all previous fests Pokemon encounters, Meloetta will also be encountered in some different way.

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Miners have found some stage assets and texts updates, seems this is where Meloetta will be performing and trainers will have it’s encounter during the GO Fest 2021.

ariaPerformanceClipReference
ariaFinaleClipReference
pirouettePerformanceClipReference
pirouetteFinaleClipReference
pirouetteStage

MeloettaEncounter

Planets and Skies

Planets

New Planets and Skies text have been added in the update. Are we getting Planets in the sky?

e_Mercury
e_Venus
e_Earth
e_Mars
e_Jupiter
e_Saturn
e_Uranus
e_Neptune
e_Pluto
PlanetData

Is Pluto still considered as planet?

Skies

New Sky for GO Fest 2021 have been added, We might see different skies during theMeloetta stage performance.

SkyAssetService
oldSkydome
newSkydome
bootAddressablesService
IsSkyOverridden
hdrCurve
astronomyUpdateInterval
sunMoonRadius
moonScale
moonMaterial
celestialRadius
milkyWayMaterial
displayedPlanets
useOverridePalette
overridePalette

Raid Logging

Raid Logging is another massive update in the raid system. Pokemon GO will now log all the activities in raids, which in turn help them to improve the raid system and reduce all sorts of errors.

According to Pokeminers, Following are the activities logged in the Logging System by Pokemon GO/

  • Gym and Raid unique IDs
  • Gym location
  • Network communication between the client and server for the raid
  • Lobby status and any errors you received trying to join the lobby
  • How many invites you still have left to send out
  • All the actions taken during the battle (things like the mon’s energy, attack duration, who it was fighting, etc)
  • What the last received action was
  • What type of pass you used and if you could have gotten a free pass for the raid
  • If the raid was private or not
  • What the weather was
  • What your highest friendship level was
  • If you received your rewards
  • How many balls you still have left
  • Catching the raid boss and if you had any issues completing it
  • The client’s prediction inconsistency data set
  • What happened if you paused or quit the game
  • All the steps it takes to create the lobby like render other player avatars for example

New Loading Screen

And Finally, This update comes with a brand new loading screen!

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Do you know?

You can check out the Countdown Timer of all Events at our All-New Mobile App GO Field Guide for all Countdown Timers, Raid Boss Guides, Egg Hatch List, Shiny Checklist and much more…

 
 
Available for both Android and iOS

iOS – App Store

Android – Google Play Store

 

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