Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Discussion

[Katherine Alicastell]

Hello friends and acquaintances!
So! Wizard Pokemon Go just came out as a pre-release in some places and I'm a little bit excited.
At the moment the game is very basic (No character customisation as of yet ) but its still early stages so its not very surprising. You basically get to make a character for it though, and can choose your house, wand and occupation among other things, which is really cool. There's also voice acting which surprised me, and it seems to take place in the current year, with HP and friends present as adult characters. I'm excited to see where it goes, though I haven't had a chance to use the actual Go part considering its like 11pm here, and thats practically half the gameplay, but I'm looking forward to my walk to work in the morning to try it out.

Here's a little preview of what it looks like (My guy is green now however, since I picked his house):

Whos excited?

 

[Professor Adorah Zumwalt]

I hadn't even heard of this. What exactly do you try to catch in this game since we don't have Pokemon in the HP universe?

 

[Professor Cyndi Kingsley]

I have heard of it but admittedly know next to nothing about it aside from it being Wizard Pokemon Go.
So...tell us more Jesse and others with early access.

 

[Amber Chou Wilson]

I had no idea this was happening I'm not sure yet if I'm excited or not, but I'll definitely check it out.

 

[Katherine Alicastell]

So I had to close and open the app because I was traveling but for some reason it still thought I was at home

But now I've finally had a chance to play and for now I'm still mostly confused by what I'm supposed to be doing. I've encountered like four "Confoundables" but two ran away because I was apparently not strong enough to fight/capture them, even when I boosted my attack with a potion (Which are like berries in Go). I think I can brew more potions from the ingredients I seem to randomly find in the world. I think there's a few different encounter types, from dueling wizards/creatures to rescuing them, and you have to trace spells with your finger, the more accurate the shape the better (Which is really hard to do while on a bus )

I found an inn (Basically a PokeStop for those who know) and you can recover energy there (Every spell you use in an encounter uses WIZARD ENERGY and if you run out I guess you can't cast a spell!). There's a sticker book that you fill out with every successful encounter, though it seems like you can do the same encounters multiple times (as if you were catching multiple of the same Pokémon). There's also these portmanteaus that are basically chests that unlock when you've walked a certain distance. I'm still waiting for mine to open so I can figure out what the heck is inside

And that's about where I'm at! I'm sure it'll hopefully make more sense later, but for now I'm still figuring things out

 

[Kara Munn]

I'm excited about this and am now impatient again.

thanks for the info

 

[Monty Pendleton]

Aaahh I'm so excited for this when Pokemon GO came out I did soo much walking and made some friends so I'm hoping this will be the same!! (especially as I actually know stuff about HP and knew nothing about Pokemon)

 

[Professor Cyndi Kingsley]

I received an email about this last week...but I haven't read it yet
Maybe I have early access too??

 

[Katherine Alicastell]

I think someone else mentioned receiving an email to me but they still couldn't download it. Meanwhile I've still been enjoying wandering around fighting dark wizards and things

 

[Leda Layton]

That may have been me.. I got an email the other day but I’m still waiting for it to be released in the UK ;-;

 

[Nora Seville-Maxwell]

Sooooo, it was released today and it sucks that I live in the middle of nowhere. For now it's pretty slow as it's the first day of release. I might play it while me bf drives me around town

 

[Elizabeth Fletcher]

It's also pretty slow for me here, but there is a lake in my apartment complex that seems to spawn some events. I get a lot of potion ingredients but haven't really been able to travel anywhere.

Is there something like incense in pokemon go?

 

[Professor Cyndi Kingsley]

It seems fun so far! I actually have the day off so I'll be out and about. Will post more thoughts tomorrow!

 

[Leda Layton]

I finally got this up and running today Making the most of being by the sea in the US before I go back to the UK, never know, maybe there’s other things I can get

 

[Professor Cyndi Kingsley]

There's an achievement for playing in two countries so you'll get that!

 

[Sara Moon]

It's finally available in Ireland, so just downloaded it to find there's nothing around me for miles

 

[Ainsley Lynch]

I was really excited for this game because I don't like Pokemon so I missed the whole Pokemon Go hype, but it turns out my phone isn't compatible for some reason apparently there's a long list of phone models it just doesn't function on for some reason, even though they were compatible with Pokemon Go...

 

[Kara Munn]

That stinks! That was a problem with Pokémon go when it first came out. You’d think Niantic would’ve been able to figure it out by then.

 

[Nora Seville-Maxwell]

One thing is that, but not a problem for me, is them putting monuments or whatever you call them that actually doesn't exist anymore. We have a city water tower that was torn down just a couple blocks from my parents house and it's still registering on the game. It has been 4 years

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[Nicolas King]

very spell you use in an encounter uses WIZARD ENERGY

Duelling points are now canonical!
Thanks, JKR!

That stinks! That was a problem with Pokémon go when it first came out. You’d think Niantic would’ve been able to figure it out by then.

Ya, that's very odd because with Pokémon Go they imported their stops from their previous AR game, so you'd think they'd have imported all the stops from Pokémon into this new one, as well.