According to Niantic, many players were facing issues with their Team GO Rocket encounters in-game, leading to bugs that made their play experience unenjoyable. In a statement on Twitter, the company revealed that all Team GO Rocket encounters would be unavailable for the time being.
“Trainers, while we investigate errors associated with Team GO Rocket encounters, they will be temporarily unavailable,” the tweet read. “We’ll update here with more information. We apologize for any inconvenience.”
This means that for the moment, players won’t be able to find the Team GO Rocket balloons once every six hours or find grunts at their local Poké Stops. Rocket Radars will also not work at the moment, since none of the Team GO Rocket grunts will be available for battle until further notice.
Many players reportedly found that during encounters with the balloons and grunts, their game would freeze, forcing many to come up with workarounds that were not readily known to most players.
As of this writing, Niantic has also removed the previous announcement stating that there would be an increase in Team GO Rocket appearances during Rivals week. It does not appear like there are any other opportunities being substituted in place of Team GO Rocket right now. In the meantime, players will have to pursue some of the other challenges and activities while waiting for more news.
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