0.269.0 APK Breakdown: Shadow Raids, Master Ball, Routes, and more!

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Hello Trainers! Pokémon GO 0.269.0 update is rolling out to a device near you and it brings with it more on Shadow Raids, a potential introduction of the Master Ball, more on routes, and more!

Please read through all of this with a grain of salt – we often post data mining reports that take months to release, and we don’t want our readers disappointed. Be smart, read this like speculation, and be happy once it goes live.

💡 Disclaimer: You know the drill by now, everything in this article is data mined, and therefore subject to change or not even being released at all. All this information is publicly provided by the PokéMiners and includes some of my commentaries.

Update with Caution

Marty from the PokéMiners was mentioning that when they upgraded one of their devices kept crashing on the loading screen, they seemed to fix the issue with a fresh install but upgrade with caution.

New Assets

Two separate sets of assets.

More on the Master Ball

Cut Scene

MasterBallQuestRewardCutsceneCamera
MasterBallCamera
SetupCutscene
MasterBallThrowCutscene

MasterBallCatchSummaryBackground
MaybeShowMasterBallCatchBackground

EncounterMasterBallCaptureState

Video Courtesy the PokéMiners

A cut scene was added for the Master Ball, including this awesome animation. They also added a capture state for the Master Ball, likely to account for its 100% catch rate.

Pokeball Updates

Last Ball Warning

ShowLastBallWarning

When you are on the last ball of an encounter you’ll get a warning

Pokeball select button

pokeballSelectButtonImage
countDefaultColor
lastBallTimeout
lastBallUI
eligibleItems

You’re able to “Select” a ball during raids now, the only option currently is the Premier Ball. This is likely to support the Master Ball.

It also creates an interesting bug if you have the “remember last ball” setting enabled your next wild encounter will default to a premier ball.  No, it doesn’t actually work. The capture fails.

New Ticket

ITEM_EVERGREEN_TICKET
ITEM_EVERGREEN_TICKET_TO_GIFT

A new Evergreen ticket was added, the asset is in the two infographics at the top of the article.

Shadow Raid and Raid Updates

shadowBossFXControllerPrefab
set_TransitionEffect
get_AuraColor1
get_AuraColor2
set_AuraEffect
set_EnragedAudio
get_DamageAttackWaitInSeconds
get_TransitionTimeInSeconds
get_DebuffEffect
get_DebuffAudio

AuraEffect
DebuffEffect
DebuffHitEffect
DebuffOngoingEffect

DebuffForm

This appears to lend credence to the PokéMiners theory that the shadow raids will feature Pokémon that undergo some sort of form change, likely some sort of enrage when the raid boss gets to a certain HP percentage.

Using Items

BattleItemButton
TryUseRaidItem
battleItemCooldown
battleItemCount

The GUI for using items

In Battle Form Reversion

DEFAULT_TRANSITION
SHADOW_ENRAGE
SHADOW_SUPPRESS
ATTACKER_FORM_REVERSION
DEFENDER_FORM_REVERSION

Tutorial!

RAID_TUTORIAL_SHADOW_BUTTON_PROMPT_SHOWN

Shadow Raids? There’s a tutorial for that!

Shadow Gems & Rocket Leaders

IncidentLeaderStringType
ONBOARDING_SHADOW_GEM_FRAGMENT
ONBOARDING_SHADOW_GEM_1
ONBOARDING_SHADOW_GEM_2
ONBOARDING_SHADOW_GEM_3

This is all part of the group of things the Team Go Rocket Leaders can talk about, so if they’re talking about them it’s likely that you’ll get the gem fragments from them as well. Because any good villain can’t help but talk about their new toys.

Pokemon Sleep

BUDDY_ACTIVITY_WAINA_SLEEP
WAINA_GET_REWARDS

A new activity for your buddy sleeping with the Plus Plus and rewards

Onboarding

title
WainaOnboardingGuiController
pikachuSliderCanvasGroup
pikachuSliderRectTransform
dynamicHeightController
onboardingConfigs
deviceLightGuideGuiControllerPrefab

Some onboarding stuff, including a guide on what the lights mean.

Route Updates

Just a reminder on Routes, the PokéMiners mentioned last APK that the code looked like someone new had taken over.  So don’t hold your breath that its release is imminent.

Path Types

PATH_TYPE_ACYCLIC
PATH_TYPE_LOOP

Two types of new paths.

Route Actions

ADD_POINT 
REMOVE_POINT 
CANNOT_ADD_POINT

SET_AS_NEW_START
SET_AS_END
SET_AS_NEW_END
REMOVE_CURRENT_START
REMOVE_CURRENT_END

Three actions were removed, and five new ones were added. Again, someone new is working on this.

Contests

Can’t collect reward

PENDING_REWARD_NOT_ALLOWED

So apparently there are going to be circumstances where you can’t collect your rewards? Maybe when your item box is full?

GUI

contestButtonVisibilityController
contestButtonAppearDelay
contestCoinVisibilityController
contestTransitionCoinImage

Gui for the contest

Contest status’

IsRunning
IsPreContest
IsPostContest
HasEntered
Empty
Full
FullCanReenter

Some status’ for the contests, you can apparently re-enter a contest that was previously full?

Style Shop 

Custom Hair colours?

DisplayHairOptions
ChangeHairOptions

NEUTRAL_GROUP_HEAD 
NEUTRAL_GROUP_BODY 
NEUTRAL_GROUP_SKIN 
NEUTRAL_GROUP_HAIR 
NeutralAvatarColorSwatchWidget 
NeutralAvatarSkinGuiController 
DisplayColorPicker

Are we getting the ability to pick our own hair colours? 

Icons?

 HeadDisplacementMaps
.get_SquareHeavy
.get_CircleSlim
.get_DiamondSlim
.get_Diamond
.get_Kite
.get_SquareSlim
.get_KiteHeavy
.get_DiamondHeavy
.get_TriangleSlim
.get_OvalHeavy
.get_OvalSlim
.get_Square
.get_Circle
.get_CircleHeavy
.get_KiteSlim
.get_TriangleHeavy
.get_Oval
.get_Triangle

Along with the customizable hair colours these look like icon background shapes. If I had to guess we’re going to get the ability to customize how our avatars show up on people’s friend lists.

Full-Screen Avatar 

AvatarScreenTakeover
React
BossVictory
BossDefeat

Looks like your avatar will be able to get right in your face… for some reason? Why aren’t you catching Pokémon right now? Get up and GO!

Quest List

TodaysEvents 
HappeningNowEvents

The quest list has been given two new sections

Today View

TodaysEventsBonusController

HeadlineText 
StartTimestamp 
EndTimestamp 
BannerUrl 
IconUrl 
ListOrder 
HappeningNowEventEntry

A bunch of stuff was also added to the Today View Bonus Event Controller

Parting Words

I’m excited that they’re still working on Routes, but we’ll have to see how long we have to wait for them to actually get released.

Also, Shadow Raids? Master Ball? What is Giovanni up to?  I’m going to throw together my speculations in another article so stay tuned for that!

That’s all for this time, stay safe out there

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Glawhantojar
Glawhantojar
I've been playing Pokemon Go since the game launched way back in 2016, I am a loyal Valor player and also a content creator on YouTube going by the name Professor Glaw.

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