r/TheSilphRoad • u/SilentKiller2809 South East Asia • Aug 10 '25

Discussion Raiding is RUINED

With the 200m raid joining "exploit" getting patched, raiding as we knew it has been ruined.

1) The raid ended in the overworld, but if you are in the lobby (120s) or if the battle has already started, you could do the raid no problem. Now if you try to heal your pokemon by exiting out to the lobby, or if they all faint, you'll get kicked

2) If you happened to be in the lobby when the boss dies, you would just automatically get to the "raid win" screen and get the encounter. Now, nothing happens automatically, okay, not the end of the world. But rejoin battle doesnt work either. The raid timer keeps counting down in the lobby, even though the raid has been defeated by other players, you think ok once it gets to 0 it will realize the raid has been won and give me the encounter. No, nothing happens. If the raid is over you don't even get the raid "rewards", much less the encounter. And you just wasted a pass and revives + potions.

And this is all in 3 raids. I was planning to go join my nearby community meetup around 2 pm to do atleast 30 raids, and do the active raid at my home gym in the meantime. This is a nightmare. Raiding is the thing I enjoy most and it has been ruined for me. Not to mention they keep recycling these origin forms with only a "chance" at the moves and apparently they are not even shiny boosted this time.

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u/sbenfsonwFFiF Aug 10 '25

Isn’t that the same without the glitches? Unless you’re saying about bunch of glitchers glitch to the same raid when they see others there, all while everybody sits at home

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u/pkmdpoint Aug 10 '25

No, as a solo player I rely on inviting strangers through apps like Genie. The queues on genies for the hosts are usually 30/40 minutes long: staying at home, with the glitch, I could easily host while doing other things at home and waiting for the lobbies to fill up. Now there’s absolutely no way I’m waiting 40 minutes under a gym just for a raid. I stopped raiding all together: they’re missing all my green tickets and the remote ones of the people I was inviting.

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u/candyhorse968 Aug 10 '25

My comment was about why someone might not use the free raid pass every day

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u/Thulack Aug 10 '25

Which has no bearing on the actual discussion.

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u/BrightNooblar Aug 10 '25 edited Aug 10 '25

You don't need a community to use the glitch. You can be sitting in the office or your apt/condo, see the raid pop 2 blocks away, and just keep an eye on it.

Maybe the people who started it are on a walk, or working in that building, or one dude with four phones. Doesn't matter to me, I can slip in and use my free/premium pass. Basically, it lets me be interested in the game and raiding while not actually out on a walk. Meaning M-Thursday I'm not just trying to hope for a 1-3 star raid at the end of my block to raid, and then otherwise getting one catch and one spin on those days.

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u/sbenfsonwFFiF Aug 11 '25

So while the community is out walking, you benefit from glitching without walking? No surprise they’re getting rid of it

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u/BrightNooblar Aug 11 '25

Everyone could benefit from it. The sight distance is longer than people can reasonable traverse in time for a raid, even if they are already out walking. No more pulling up 30 seconds late after hoofing it down a city block only to catch the 'Do not walk' indicator.

Also, again, the point for me was not that it replaces walking. Its that it lets me engage with it on work days, or while I'm making dinner, or some other day that I don't have time to dedicate to walking.

Really, they should just 3-4x the radius for joining a raid/power spot, and then remote passes are for when there are major events going on and you can't make it to a meetup. No one is remote raiding a 3* raid anyways.

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u/sbenfsonwFFiF Aug 11 '25

I agree it would be nice for the radius to be bigger, maybe by 50% more, though I think 3-4x is pretty excessive