Quest System, Deoxys, And Castform Datamined In Pokemon GO

As reported earlier, Pokemon GO has received a brand new update today, adding a bunch of new features.

The folks at The Silph Road have discovered that the Pokedex has been updated with new buttons for Deoxys and Castform to handle toggling between forms, genders, and shininess, which means you can expect both Pokemon to appear in Pokemon GO in the future.

Behind the scenes, the app now stores a trainer’s latitude and longitude in a new attribute, potentially for anti-cheat measures. New quest functionality has been added, suggesting that story and challenge quests are on the way. Even Professor Willow seems to be involved in these quests!

Here’s a rundown on the quest system:

We see two types of Quests appearing:

• STORY_QUEST
• CHALLENGE_QUEST

Which appear to simply be dependent on the mechanics required to complete the objective!

Quests have been expanded from 2 objectives to 10

The previous two objectives were:

• QUEST_FIRST_CATCH_OF_THE_DAY
• QUEST_FIRST_POKESTOP_OF_THE_DAY

We now see new objectives for:

• QUEST_CATCH_POKEMON
• QUEST_SPIN_POKESTOP
• QUEST_HATCH_EGG
• QUEST_WALK_BUDDY
• QUEST_FEED_POKEMON
• QUEST_WIN_GYM_BATTLE
• QUEST_COMPLETE_RAID_BATTLE
• QUEST_LEVELUP_BADGE

And excitingly, a new

• QUEST_MULTI_PART

Which should lend well to combined objectives.

Quest Attributes

We see the following attributes of quests:

• Creation Timestamp
• Completion Timestamp
• Rewards
• Status (Active / Completed)
• Multipart
• Context
• Seed
• Goal

Quest Characters?

We see new references to Quest characters, firstly Professor Willow!

They also appear to have Character Expressions, though only two so far: UNSET and HAPPY.

Perhaps you must complete the quest to make the NPC happy!

Quest Pre-Conditions

It appears that some quests may be gated behind pre-conditions. The following appear:

• QUEST_PRECONDITION_UNSET
• QUEST_PRECONDITION_QUEST
• QUEST_PRECONDITION_LEVEL
• QUEST_PRECONDITION_MEDAL

So we may be required to earn a medal, achieve a certain Trainer Level, or even have completed a different quest before embarking on a new one.