Pokémon TCG Pocket is closing out January with a bang. The hit cell recreation is getting a much-needed content material refresh later this month within the type of a brand new set referred to as House-Time Smackdown. Two separate booster packs will characteristic Dialga and Palkia on their covers, the legendaries from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. The set arrives alongside the addition of card buying and selling, an extended awaited characteristic we additionally simply acquired some extra controversial new particulars about.
House-Time Smackdown goes stay January 30. Along with Dialga and Palkia, the set will characteristic different Pokémon new to TCG Pocket, together with Lucario and Sinnoh area starters Turtwig, Chimchar and Piplup. A trailer for the enlargement teased different playing cards and new illustrations for present ones as effectively. There’ll seemingly be over 140 playing cards out there from the brand new packs, making House-Time Smackdown smaller than the beginning Genetic Apex set, however twice the dimensions of the Legendary Island set launched in December.
In the case of buying and selling, which can be added to the sport on January 29, we already knew that gamers can be restricted to exchanging playing cards at 1-star rarity and beneath. This was already rubbing gamers the fallacious method, since crown rarity playing cards—like gold Charizard Ex—are the toughest to get and the one ones many diehard followers are nonetheless chasing.
Now, Creatures Inc. and DeNA have revealed the currencies gamers might want to commerce with each other along with the rarity restrictions. The event crew revealed gamers will want each commerce hourglasses and commerce tokens to trade playing cards. Given present cooldowns, it definitely looks as if this may restrict gamers to only a few trades per week except they spend cash, although we nonetheless don’t know if or how TCG Pocket’s premium foreign money will issue into the brand new social mechanic.
Gamers additionally received’t be capable of commerce playing cards from First House-Time Smackdown to start out with both. The event crew beforehand instructed followers it was trying on the adverse suggestions for the buying and selling guidelines, however it doesn’t appear to be it plans to vary course anytime quickly.