'Pokemon Go' cheats, tips and tricks: No Ditto Easter egg yet; game causes chaos in Tokyo
"Pokemon Go" fans have been talking about the possibility of a Ditto easter egg in the mobile game for awhile now but it appears that there are no signs of it in the latest update.
According to the "Pokemon GO" Hub, who says that it data-mined the global-metadata.dat from the 0.37.1 APK, there are no references whatsoever to a Ditto easter egg in the update. The website points out that there isn't even a vague network request for it nor anything Ditto-related other than for Pokemon name and Pokemon family name. The data miners also reveal that they only found general game settings as well as placeholders in the Pokedex.
"Pokemon GO" Hub further explains that they found more references to legendary Pokemon rather than ones that mention Ditto, citing "POKEMON_CLASS_LEGENDARY," "ITEM_EFFECT_CAP_CHANCE_LEGEND," and "ACTIVITY_CATCH_LEGEND_POKEMON."
The website also assures fans that they are not hiding the easter egg and invites players to run the same test as they did to prove this for themselves.
As for those insisting that "Pokemon Go" creator John Hanke revealed during a TechCrunch event that there was a way to get Ditto, "Pokemon Go" Hub says that Hanke was merely joking about the host getting Ditto.
Meanwhile, players of the game have reportedly been getting themselves in trouble in Tokyo, with crowds showing up to catch Lapras, a rare Pokemon, in the city's Odaiba district. The "Pokemon Go" horde has become so massive that police had to be called in to regulate the chaos.
The incident is being referred to on Twitter as the "Lapras panic."
According to Kotaku, people have been blatantly ignoring traffic rules in their bid to catch the elusive Pokemon. They have reportedly been putting themselves at risk and causing all sorts of problems, including potential accidents. Photos of the "Lapras panic" show people crowding the streets and spilling over into traffic, obstructing roads and making it impossible for vehicles to pass.
NHK reports that the authorities have been in contact with the "Pokemon Go" developers and have sought their cooperation to move the Pokemon to a safer area.