A Pokémon Go player encounters a Dragonite on his lawn. (Photo : YouTube)
Pokémon GO cheats, tips and tricks are readily available to players mostly to cut down on the basic element of the gameplay - walking, or avoid it altogether. But using these hacks, per warning by Niantic Labs and Nintendo, will lead to soft or permanent ban from the game. Thankfully, there are ways to make the game easier and more optimal while avoiding getting banned and spending your hard-earned money.
While GPS spoofing or faking a gamer's real-time location has emerged as the most effective way of fooling the Pokémon GO app, Niantic has stepped up on its effort to catch cheats. In most cases, players trying to modify the gameplay are getting caught and then thrown out of the new augmented reality game.
According to Gotta Be Mobile, when choosing this hack it's best to play on jailbroken iPhone or rooted Android handset as the modification performed on the devices will allow two things - users can easily hide their devices' jailbroken or rooted (as the Pokémon GO app is programmed to detect mods on devices) state and then install GPS spoofing or location faking apps.
This method, however, is far from being fault-free that GO fans can seriously consider the cheat shared by an unidentified Pokémon gamer via Twitch, Polygon reported. The player opted to side load a modified build of the Pokémon GO APK.
True, such route is littered risks, the most prominent of which is malware infection, but the gamer claimed that the resulting benefits outweigh the hazards. For one, he was able to effectively fake his location and scour cities and places that are identified as teeming with all kinds of Pokémon - the most popular and even the rare types.
The same player also said that with the tweaks afforded by the APK sideloading, everything about Pokémon GO was accelerated. Growing or levelling up collected pocket monsters became faster than usual, more items became available to collect and more eggs were being hatched. And everything happened with fewer walking mileage or nothing at all.
But the best thing that came with the Pokémon GO hack was the doing away the in-app purchase or IAP component of the game. That would mean the game progress happened with speed and the player did not even spend a single dollar.
Now if jailbreaking, rooting and APK sideloading or any other form of modifications is out of the question, one cheating tool that players can use is the drone. With the accurate and careful use of the device, players can simulate walking and the Pokémon GO app will not detect anything anomalous.
"A drone could potentially fly slow enough that it registers on the game as time spent walking," Polygon said on its report. So there will more things to collect, more eggs to hatch and more powerful Pokémons on the GO but less walking and spending.
