Got kicked out of the very first 1920s portkey and was not rewarded a fragment. Clicked the 5 wrackspurts, clicked yes to enter the special encounter, and crash - - the game went bye bye. Upon reopening, back on the map. Not a single fragment showing on the 1920’s page, so that was a wasted 1 km walk as far as the game goes. Don’t think I’ll even bother with these pages. Just a lame way for Niantic to try and get people to spend money on keys. Well maybe I would have bought keys Niantic if the game wasn’t so buggy and didn’t constantly crash and rob players of the time they put in! Fix the game!!!!! It played so well at the beginning. The weekend in Indy was awesome. Now....phhtttt.
I walked to the supermarket while ingame at all times , about a mile or 1,7 km and none of the 5 ports I stuck a silver key into got unlocked. They all got to 0.7km. Then I set on the porcelain throne for about 5 minutes with lowest accuracy settings for gps and got the other .3 in with gps drift. @HPWUTeam this is a joke right?
@HPWUTeam Thank you very much for this new way of getting foundable fragments. I liked Newt's Menagerie the most because of the moving birds by the open door. I hope I didn't mess anything up for clicking on the birds and trying to catch them.
I do feel that you should pair this event with the Adversaries Event because we get a lot of spell energy while walking and through the wrackspurts. Or maybe you should reconsider having 1920s runestones for fortress challenges.
How are we supposed to complete this "great" addition of another page when the only way to get fragments is by opening portkeys when they won't open and adventure sync not working. Rather than release a page noone can get, fix a problem we all need. Pokemon Go is hot hot hot right now and WU is not not not.
@Not4u13 i was out last doing raid hour for pokemon go. I was out in my community interacting playing another niantic game while trying to get my portkeys that I bought keys for to open. Pogo hatched eggs WU ZERO credit on portkey. Both are supported by niantic one works the other doesn't. I was in and out of my car all night walking to gyms why ZERO credit on portkey when game open. Not all of us complainers are being lazy.
Ignoring the fact that this would be way more fun with Adventure Sync...
This is just...
Too
Much
RNG!
It's just no fun getting encounters of which the stickers are already shiny, and again, and again, and again, hoping for that one bonus fragment.
This game relies heavily on RNG already and this is just taking it several steps too far. A drop rate of at least 25% would make a lot more sense. Otherwise this is content the more casual players will finish in, well, never. And where's the fun in that?
It would be very very much appreciated if this could be tuned up asap!
I (IceP) have encountered a weird glitch and so has my daughter (PrincessCapri). When we click to open the 1920’s port key, it takes on a “tour” around the port key which is cool except it is a loop and we can’t click on anything. We have to close the entire app and restart. When it does, the port key has disappeared and we don’t get any of the rewards of encounter. This has happened 3 times on her acct and twice on mine. I took a video screenshot of one of mine but I can’t attach it as it is a video. Please let me know how I can send it over. This stinks as we don’t have a lot of keys left and it has wasted 5 keys as it is. @hpwulola
Up to 48 x 1920s portkeys opened and still only one of the rare/dropped fragments! I'm out of keys now and really annoyed! Can't prestige the pages so don't want to waste coins on keys that give me nothing I need!
I lost an encounter when the game stalled and ever gave me the environment. I also had two long- about five minute delays with only four wackspurts appearing at first.
Walking 2 km equals about .3 registering even while trying my spouse's new jobs new work phone vs my old phone. Please fix the counting. A physical pedometer and an app all confirmed my regular 2k walk to portals isn't registering actual footsteps for portkeys even w the delays lately seen.
I wish I had drift. That never happens. Also it refuses to count on our home wifi. Please fix!
I have walked and biked over 30km in last few days and ZERO miles recorded. I have not been able to complete daily tasks and have a full inventory of portkeys that I cannot open for event or outside of event.
If we cannot gain distance - adventure sync or even walking with app open (that didnt work yesterday), how can we gain rewards from events and daily challenges.
The game is broken and we need issues resolved or work-arounds given.
Have now had two 1920’s portkeys that crashed making me miss out on the opportunity of returning a 1920’s foundable. I had collected 10 total portkeys, and only show 8 foundables collected due to the two crashes. If the game is going to crash and close 1/5 of the time we try to battle a 1920’s foundable, then we should get automatic credit for those foundables.
@BartemiusHooch This is the only one I managed to take, in addition to the ones shown in an earlier comment. Hope this helps. It's info we already knew but if you didn't get the chance to read it yourself it does feel like you're missing out on something!
Wish there was a big "X" button on pop ups, narrowing down the chance you accidentally tap them away.
@hpwulola 1920's started few days ago, I've picked up one event portkey around midnight just as event started - still can't open it as it is stuck on 0.9km. Steps don't count app opened or closed. I've uninstalled the game, and re-installed back - no use. 0 page spawns, since from discussions I understand it can be collected only through porkeys... well, tough luck since portkey is stuck... any help please
@Grazatan , I don’t use AS, I just keep the game open, but I noticed that portkey distance doesn’t update if I don’t interact with the landscape. Doing an encounter or picking up ingredients seems to fix it.
For the most part, I think this event is pretty interesting (though I’m lucky not to have the same issues lots of others are). I really like the idea of an “event exclusive” foundable family. But it’s not a very active event.
For instance, in the dragon event, you obviously want to walk a lot to open all the port keys possible, but when walking you are likely to find dragon foundables, so walking held some interest. I walk a lot as part of my regular life, but during events I’ll walk even more for foundables.
i think I’d enjoy this event more if it was more active in some way. For instance, if we could get runestones for the 1920 family, and if we play them in forest chambers or higher get an encounter with a foundable. Add some way to get 1920’s family points on the map and this would be the perfect event.
Two days into the event and 30 portkeys down after walking with the app open - I've been very deliberate to avoid any issues that might cause a crash (putting potions on before opening the portkey, making sure I'm on stable wifi) and luckily no crashes thus far. Here are my observations:
First, for the good: The graphics people did spectacular job on the MCUSA portkey location and on the Newt's Menagerie foundables - they are gorgeous! Also, I like that the spell energy is so bumped up as portkey rewards, I nearly doubled my amount of spell energy so I'll be good for awhile. Finally, I've noticed a lot of emergency foundables and adversaries on the map, so that has been nice.
For the bad:
1) The portkey format is extremely frustrating, and not just for the bugs with AS. With the added encounter its been taking me about 10 minutes to get through using 10 portkeys, which is the antithesis of what you're trying to accomplish. Its obvious that this is a pure money grab between not providing a free store pack to having the portkeys disappear without putting a silver key in them, but it fails even as a money grab given that extra time it takes and all the bugs you've introduced. Even if I wanted to, there's no way I'm getting through as many of these as the dragon egg portkeys.
2) Whoever decided to not color code the portkeys by page should be fired, because the balance is incredibly frustrating - 16 of mine have been the Circus Arcanus (7 of those were Credence, too, ugh), 9 of them Newts Menagerie and just 5 for Paris. @HPWUTeam PLEASE FIX THIS BALANCE FOR FUTURE EVENTS, color code the portkeys, or have future events focus just on one page.
3) I've only gotten 3 non-encounter fragments for a 10% return rate - is it really supposed to be that low?? Its frustrating given that all the other portkeys in the game GUARANTEE a fragment.
4) Aside from the plethora of spell energy, the "valuable rewards" promised in the portkeys have been lackluster - I consider potions, gold, DADA books, and silver keys "valuable," not dittany and wormwood. XP is boosted, but since I'm level 60 that is worthless to me.
5) Finally, and I think most disappointing for me, is the total lack of story or explanation why this "convergence" is happening or how it fits into the game. It's like Niantic said "make us some money" and they plopped in this clunky game mechanic without any thought to how it works with the broader story. Super disappointing.
TLDR; while the new locations/foundables look great, its a super clunky game mechanic with incredibly unbalanced rewards, bugs galore, and is a blatant cash grab. If you can't participate because your AS isn't working, you're not missing a lot.
I am bedridden and cannot open any portmanteaus and 2 days is NOT ENOUGH time for all this. Will they still have these 20’s portmanteaus around after this event? This was bad timing since the weekend is a new event.
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Got kicked out of the very first 1920s portkey and was not rewarded a fragment. Clicked the 5 wrackspurts, clicked yes to enter the special encounter, and crash - - the game went bye bye. Upon reopening, back on the map. Not a single fragment showing on the 1920’s page, so that was a wasted 1 km walk as far as the game goes. Don’t think I’ll even bother with these pages. Just a lame way for Niantic to try and get people to spend money on keys. Well maybe I would have bought keys Niantic if the game wasn’t so buggy and didn’t constantly crash and rob players of the time they put in! Fix the game!!!!! It played so well at the beginning. The weekend in Indy was awesome. Now....phhtttt.
None of the new 1920's foundables are appearing on the map.
@Nyxnlumos they won't. they're exclusively in portkeys
No portkeys either, and my steps aren't registering to open the port keys I have. I do have a slot open for new port keys btw.
I walked to the supermarket while ingame at all times , about a mile or 1,7 km and none of the 5 ports I stuck a silver key into got unlocked. They all got to 0.7km. Then I set on the porcelain throne for about 5 minutes with lowest accuracy settings for gps and got the other .3 in with gps drift. @HPWUTeam this is a joke right?
@HPWUTeam Thank you very much for this new way of getting foundable fragments. I liked Newt's Menagerie the most because of the moving birds by the open door. I hope I didn't mess anything up for clicking on the birds and trying to catch them.
I do feel that you should pair this event with the Adversaries Event because we get a lot of spell energy while walking and through the wrackspurts. Or maybe you should reconsider having 1920s runestones for fortress challenges.
How are we supposed to complete this "great" addition of another page when the only way to get fragments is by opening portkeys when they won't open and adventure sync not working. Rather than release a page noone can get, fix a problem we all need. Pokemon Go is hot hot hot right now and WU is not not not.
@Not4u13 i was out last doing raid hour for pokemon go. I was out in my community interacting playing another niantic game while trying to get my portkeys that I bought keys for to open. Pogo hatched eggs WU ZERO credit on portkey. Both are supported by niantic one works the other doesn't. I was in and out of my car all night walking to gyms why ZERO credit on portkey when game open. Not all of us complainers are being lazy.
32 x 1920s portkeys opened so far, and only 1 of the non-encounter fragments! That's really poor and very frustrating...
Is this going to be raised for the rest of the event @hpwulola ?
@BartemiusHooch You’re not missing much. There’s no story to the 1920’s event. It just tells you that one is on.
I have those two screenshots if that helps.
I have any cases for hate this game but…
this 1920 FOR ME its all right.
i never was kicked, my synk is work, no bugs.
the 3 new pages is balanced - i used 67 keys (all my silver and gold keys) :
1 page = 22 fragments
2 page = 23 fragments
3 page = 22 fragments
Ignoring the fact that this would be way more fun with Adventure Sync...
This is just...
Too
Much
RNG!
It's just no fun getting encounters of which the stickers are already shiny, and again, and again, and again, hoping for that one bonus fragment.
This game relies heavily on RNG already and this is just taking it several steps too far. A drop rate of at least 25% would make a lot more sense. Otherwise this is content the more casual players will finish in, well, never. And where's the fun in that?
It would be very very much appreciated if this could be tuned up asap!
No portkeys appearibg for me.
I (IceP) have encountered a weird glitch and so has my daughter (PrincessCapri). When we click to open the 1920’s port key, it takes on a “tour” around the port key which is cool except it is a loop and we can’t click on anything. We have to close the entire app and restart. When it does, the port key has disappeared and we don’t get any of the rewards of encounter. This has happened 3 times on her acct and twice on mine. I took a video screenshot of one of mine but I can’t attach it as it is a video. Please let me know how I can send it over. This stinks as we don’t have a lot of keys left and it has wasted 5 keys as it is. @hpwulola
Up to 48 x 1920s portkeys opened and still only one of the rare/dropped fragments! I'm out of keys now and really annoyed! Can't prestige the pages so don't want to waste coins on keys that give me nothing I need!
Hi,
I lost an encounter when the game stalled and ever gave me the environment. I also had two long- about five minute delays with only four wackspurts appearing at first.
Walking 2 km equals about .3 registering even while trying my spouse's new jobs new work phone vs my old phone. Please fix the counting. A physical pedometer and an app all confirmed my regular 2k walk to portals isn't registering actual footsteps for portkeys even w the delays lately seen.
I wish I had drift. That never happens. Also it refuses to count on our home wifi. Please fix!
@hpwulola
I have walked and biked over 30km in last few days and ZERO miles recorded. I have not been able to complete daily tasks and have a full inventory of portkeys that I cannot open for event or outside of event.
If we cannot gain distance - adventure sync or even walking with app open (that didnt work yesterday), how can we gain rewards from events and daily challenges.
The game is broken and we need issues resolved or work-arounds given.
Have now had two 1920’s portkeys that crashed making me miss out on the opportunity of returning a 1920’s foundable. I had collected 10 total portkeys, and only show 8 foundables collected due to the two crashes. If the game is going to crash and close 1/5 of the time we try to battle a 1920’s foundable, then we should get automatic credit for those foundables.
Hey @IceP I had your issue. Do you have Gyroscope off for Portkeys? As in you drag your finger around instead of using the device?
If so, turn it on for now, and then try again if you can. Worked for me. Hope it does for you.
@BartemiusHooch This is the only one I managed to take, in addition to the ones shown in an earlier comment. Hope this helps. It's info we already knew but if you didn't get the chance to read it yourself it does feel like you're missing out on something!
Wish there was a big "X" button on pop ups, narrowing down the chance you accidentally tap them away.
@hpwulola 1920's started few days ago, I've picked up one event portkey around midnight just as event started - still can't open it as it is stuck on 0.9km. Steps don't count app opened or closed. I've uninstalled the game, and re-installed back - no use. 0 page spawns, since from discussions I understand it can be collected only through porkeys... well, tough luck since portkey is stuck... any help please
@hpwulola Thank you! I like this "event" but non-encounter fragments are too too too rare.
The game back to “normal”.
i opened 102 portkey and just 3 non encounter.
all others fragments in the 3 pages is placed but i cant prestige because the non encounter is a joke spaw.
I've now opened 30 port keys (luckily walking with game open works for me, though AS would sure be better).
I have a grand total of *zero* non encounter foundables. Are they really supposed to be that rare or could this be a glitch of some kind?
@Grazatan , I don’t use AS, I just keep the game open, but I noticed that portkey distance doesn’t update if I don’t interact with the landscape. Doing an encounter or picking up ingredients seems to fix it.
For the most part, I think this event is pretty interesting (though I’m lucky not to have the same issues lots of others are). I really like the idea of an “event exclusive” foundable family. But it’s not a very active event.
For instance, in the dragon event, you obviously want to walk a lot to open all the port keys possible, but when walking you are likely to find dragon foundables, so walking held some interest. I walk a lot as part of my regular life, but during events I’ll walk even more for foundables.
i think I’d enjoy this event more if it was more active in some way. For instance, if we could get runestones for the 1920 family, and if we play them in forest chambers or higher get an encounter with a foundable. Add some way to get 1920’s family points on the map and this would be the perfect event.
Two days into the event and 30 portkeys down after walking with the app open - I've been very deliberate to avoid any issues that might cause a crash (putting potions on before opening the portkey, making sure I'm on stable wifi) and luckily no crashes thus far. Here are my observations:
First, for the good: The graphics people did spectacular job on the MCUSA portkey location and on the Newt's Menagerie foundables - they are gorgeous! Also, I like that the spell energy is so bumped up as portkey rewards, I nearly doubled my amount of spell energy so I'll be good for awhile. Finally, I've noticed a lot of emergency foundables and adversaries on the map, so that has been nice.
For the bad:
1) The portkey format is extremely frustrating, and not just for the bugs with AS. With the added encounter its been taking me about 10 minutes to get through using 10 portkeys, which is the antithesis of what you're trying to accomplish. Its obvious that this is a pure money grab between not providing a free store pack to having the portkeys disappear without putting a silver key in them, but it fails even as a money grab given that extra time it takes and all the bugs you've introduced. Even if I wanted to, there's no way I'm getting through as many of these as the dragon egg portkeys.
2) Whoever decided to not color code the portkeys by page should be fired, because the balance is incredibly frustrating - 16 of mine have been the Circus Arcanus (7 of those were Credence, too, ugh), 9 of them Newts Menagerie and just 5 for Paris. @HPWUTeam PLEASE FIX THIS BALANCE FOR FUTURE EVENTS, color code the portkeys, or have future events focus just on one page.
3) I've only gotten 3 non-encounter fragments for a 10% return rate - is it really supposed to be that low?? Its frustrating given that all the other portkeys in the game GUARANTEE a fragment.
4) Aside from the plethora of spell energy, the "valuable rewards" promised in the portkeys have been lackluster - I consider potions, gold, DADA books, and silver keys "valuable," not dittany and wormwood. XP is boosted, but since I'm level 60 that is worthless to me.
5) Finally, and I think most disappointing for me, is the total lack of story or explanation why this "convergence" is happening or how it fits into the game. It's like Niantic said "make us some money" and they plopped in this clunky game mechanic without any thought to how it works with the broader story. Super disappointing.
TLDR; while the new locations/foundables look great, its a super clunky game mechanic with incredibly unbalanced rewards, bugs galore, and is a blatant cash grab. If you can't participate because your AS isn't working, you're not missing a lot.
where are the reward only foundables?
RNG sucks 😅
Bad lucky or 0,0001 % in 38 portkeys opened?
I am bedridden and cannot open any portmanteaus and 2 days is NOT ENOUGH time for all this. Will they still have these 20’s portmanteaus around after this event? This was bad timing since the weekend is a new event.