Within the lead-up to the discharge of the Shining Revelry enlargement for Pokémon TCG Pocket, the builders touted additions like shiny Pokémon and a brand new Ranked mode. However on Thursday, the builders added a time-limited function known as “sneak peek” that improves Surprise Choose in a giant method — so in case you’ve been accumulating Surprise Hourglasses, now is a good time to do an entire bunch of Surprise Picks.
The Surprise Choose function in Pokémon TCG Pocket permits gamers to take a look at the playing cards opened from packs of their buddies and random individuals on-line and decide one from it at random. Normally, you simply faucet on the again of considered one of 5 playing cards, and hope you get the cardboard you need. Nevertheless, the brand new “Sneak peek marketing campaign” modifications the method so you possibly can take a look at a card earlier than you choose one to maintain.
The occasion began on Thursday, April 3, and can run till Thursday, April 10. All through the sneak peek marketing campaign, you get an additional guess when you choose a card. So once you load up a pack for Surprise Choose, you get to faucet one card and the sport will reveal which card it’s. If it’s a card you need, you possibly can faucet it once more and add it to your assortment. If not, you possibly can decide one of many different 4 choices to attempt to get the cardboard you need.
The occasion successfully ups your odds everytime you do a Surprise Choose. As a substitute of a one-in-five likelihood of choosing the cardboard you need, this occasion ups it to two-in-five (which is fairly dang good). Moreover, you don’t must do something particular to activate this function, simply Surprise Choose as common whereas the occasion is energetic and it’ll offer you a sneak peek.
The one catch is that the sport may not provide the sneak peek each single time — and it’s unclear how typically it applies to your Surprise Choose.
To check it out, I Surprise Picked 3 times, and obtained a sneak peek each single time. Nevertheless, a Polygon colleague additionally Surprise Picked 3 times, and solely obtained a sneak peek two of these instances. The occasion language says that gamers will get a “likelihood” at getting a sneak peek, however the builders weren’t clear about how typically this is applicable, and data concerning the occasion stated that “availability intervals and particulars are topic to alter with out warning.”
Regardless, it’s positively a stable purpose to pay nearer consideration to Surprise Picks for the following week since it might probably drastically assist enhance your odds. And after it’s executed, who is aware of, possibly this may turn into a daily factor just like the Drop Occasions and different Surprise Choose occasions.
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