Feature requests
They've probably been requested before, but it would be nice if drone ready and kinetic capsule complete alerts were added. The amount of times my capsule has been done amd I've carried on with my life for an extra few hours without knowing lol. As for the drone, it's just helpful to know, especially when events that shorten the time happen
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Kinetic Capsules have a notification outside the game already, and an alert in the Alerts channel.
And Drones and KC's being ready turns the Action Ring center into a red dot. Tapping on it, there's a red dot beside the DroneNet for the drone, and the Inventory for the KC.
Kinetic Capsules have a notification outside the game already
I have yet to receive such a notification, despite having all push notifications (and emails and whatever else) enabled.
I receive them almost every time, if the client is closed. There's currently a bug where the notification goes off *too early* but I think that's more related to the client being open in the background, than the notification firing early.
They definitely exist. I'll screenshot next time I see one.
For reference:
Enabled Dec 13.
Yeah, I remember that post (I was the first to comment on it). And I remember being mildly disappointed, but not surprised, that it didn't actually end up working as advertised. Others reported the issue, and I guess no one at Niantic has bothered to squash the issue.
The red dot in game for drone isn't a push notification though ......
Well I hadn't seen thst update patch, but literally everyone I've spoken to hasn't had a push noti about their kinetic capsule
I have never once received a push notification about a kinetic capsule.
In fact, in the last couple of weeks I completed four KCs without any notification anywhere other than the red dot (that is, since May 15th I have completed 10 KCs but I only have 6 KC messages in in-game alerts). It may be that if I claimed the KC too quickly after it finished then the message never arrived, but I don't know if that's the case because I don't know what time the KC finished at because there's no message for it...
The red dot in the action circle means two different things, so the KC red dot signal is pretty much drowned out by the drone red dot signal at the moment. It also disappears if you touch the action circle for any reason. Yes there's also a red dot by "Inventory" but that's hidden away off the main screen.
I'm pretty sure on iOS it works the other way around. If the client is not running in the background (anymore), you do not get a notification. Even if the notification works, it comes in too late (and at the moment there is a bug that will show the capsule incompleted until restart).
So yeah, I'd love the notification that my drone is ready to move, but I doubt it would work correctly. The kinetic thing still has issues; and even the attack notifications don't work as intended. You get a notification, click it, the game opens and goes to the alerts tab, but it doesn't update until a random interval later. (usually 30-60 seconds)