{"id":100645,"date":"2016-08-05T08:21:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T06:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=100645"},"modified":"2016-08-05T08:21:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T06:21:50","slug":"latest-pokemon-go-bug-makes-it-more-difficult-to-catch-pokemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/100645-latest-pokemon-go-bug-makes-it-more-difficult-to-catch-pokemon","title":{"rendered":"Latest Pokemon GO bug makes it more difficult to catch Pokemon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been struggling more than usual to catch Pokemon, you&#8217;re not the only one.<\/p>\n<p>The official Pokemon GO Twitter account has acknowledged the existence of a bug that makes it more difficult for players to catch Pokemon.<\/p>\n<p>The new bug affects throw accuracy, increasing the odds of escape and making trainers miss out on valuable experience points.<\/p>\n<p>The company says\u00a0that it is currently working on a fix for the frustrating bug.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, you probably shouldn&#8217;t try and catch rare Pokemon with valuable Ultra Balls in case you also run into this annoying bug.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trainers, a new bug affecting throw accuracy increases the odds of escape and omits the XP bonus. We are working on a fix, stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pok\u00e9mon GO (@PokemonGoApp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PokemonGoApp\/status\/761301330967326720\">August 4, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Amazing tech and gaming specials\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/100547-amazing-tech-and-gaming-specials.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazing tech and gaming specials<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to AMD Radeon RX 470 benchmarks revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/100627-amd-radeon-rx-470-benchmarks-revealed.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">AMD Radeon RX 470 benchmarks revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Awesome Razer gadgets coming soon \u2013 South African pricing and release date\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/99318-awesome-razer-gadgets-coming-soon-south-african-pricing-and-release-date.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Awesome Razer gadgets coming soon \u2013 South African pricing and release date<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niantic has acknowledged a frustrating bug that makes it far more difficult to catch Pokemon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":100066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,6],"tags":[31,475,21043,20506,21045,21041,777,20314],"class_list":["post-100645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-nintendo","tag-active","tag-bug","tag-cant-catch","tag-catch","tag-difficult","tag-no-xp","tag-pokemon","tag-pokemon-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}