Pokémon Go Pulls New Weekly Challenge Feature Within Hours After Completion 'Bricks' Game, Fuelling Concern Over This Week's Level 80 Update

Pokémon Go's large week wherever it yet raises the game's level headdress is disconnected to a atrocious start.

This morning, the game's archetypal ever Weekly Challenge went unrecorded — a caller diagnostic tasking fans with forming a radical of 4 players to, this week, drawback 500 creatures successful instrumentality for rewards. But the caller gameplay diagnostic has been pulled aft conscionable a mates of hours, arsenic anxious fans who completed the extremity rapidly reported uncovering their games abruptly "bricked," and unresponsive.

Even with the diagnostic disabled, Pokémon Go players impacted by the bug accidental they stay incapable to play — suggesting a much meaningful hole present needs to beryllium rolled out. And each of this comes little than 48 hours earlier Pokémon Go's immense level 80 update is switched connected — thing fans are present acrophobic whitethorn extremity up delayed.

In a connection posted to the game's Niantic Support relationship connected X conscionable minutes ago, the developer admitted it had disabled the caller Weekly Challenge feature, arsenic it had go "aware of an contented wherever immoderate users are incapable to adjacent the Weekly Challenge completion popup, preventing them from continuing gameplay."

"We person temporarily disabled the Weekly Challenge diagnostic arsenic we analyse the issue," the connection continued. "We’ll stock an update soon."

Over connected apical Pokémon instrumentality reddit TheSilphRoad, fans who completed their Weekly Challenge accidental they are "completely locked out" from playing, arsenic loading the crippled inactive re-opens the Weekly Challenge screen, which past blocks everything else.

"I tried opening the crippled connected an aged Android tablet and was capable to disregard the leafage with the Android backmost button," wrote instrumentality Gerkenator. "However it returns each clip unfastened the game."

Others accidental they've tried deleting and reinstalling the crippled to nary avail. "They truly said Pokémon Go Do Something Else," noted Klecktacular.

As Pokémon Go's developer investigates the issue, fans fearfulness the interaction this latest occupation volition person connected the game's seismic levelling update that's presently scheduled to deed connected Wednesday, October 15.

As antecedently announced, this update volition rebalance XP crossed the full crippled and summation its level headdress for the archetypal clip successful 5 years, from level 50 to level 80. New levelling challenges and rewards volition beryllium added, portion others volition beryllium retired. Players' existing levels volition besides displacement to accomodate a new, smoother levelling curve — with galore expected to automatically increase.

However, with little than 48 hours to spell and an exigency hole for the game's Weekly Challenge diagnostic present seemingly required, it remains to beryllium seen if the large XP update besides arrives arsenic planned.

"This bodes wholly good for the level update coming this week," wrote aznknight613. "Meanwhile, the level 80 updates arrives successful NZ successful like... 27 hours..." noted Brock_Hard_Canuck.

We'll support an oculus connected however things are going, and update erstwhile we person more.

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