Draconius GO: Catch a Dragon! for Android
Came to play this game after being an avid Pokemon go player (almost lvl 36). This game has one hundred steps in the right direction that Pokemon Go refused to take a year after it's initial release. I love Pokemon and always will, but having Pokemon in a game isn't going to keep my interest in an AR game like this. There's still room for improvement, but Draconius Go is still a better AR game than Pokemon Go in my opinion. I highly recommend this game. The mechanics are fun and exciting. I stayed out till 4 am playing this game with my girlfriend when we both downloaded it. 5 stars all around.
I have a list but overall a good experience for me: 1. Power-saving mode should turn the screen completely to black in order to really save power for OLED-type displays. 2. Don't be stupid like Pokémon GO and allow us to catch and spin when we indicate that we are passengers. 3. Your "you are moving too fast" tracker is super sensitive. It triggers even if I am just standing still but my device experiences GPS drift.
Giving my honest opinion here, played this game for about couple of minutes here and i can already tell that many of the things I always wanted implemented on PoGo are here. For example, overall smoothness and performance, although there are some animations that can be added/improved, the feel of the game ia really pleasing, something that i always felt that PoGo lacked. It really impresses me that a new company (at least for me) could do such a good work on cool features such as pvp. Personally i won't stop playing PoGo, cause, pokemon... But congratulations on the game! Hope you can take the interested of some of the rural players!
I started playing this after trainer tips did a spotlight on it, and I must say that I am very impressed. It seems that draconius actually listens to what the community wants. The battle system is definitely better than other AR games. If I could change 1 thing then it would be to add a Bluetooth device that could spin pillars for me and track my distance. Thank you for making this game elyland.
Overall I like the game, I think the locations of the buildings need tweaking. They are outside areas where people can safely walk. Behind fenced in areas and on private property away from roads. Spawns are few and far apart. The game has great potential. It offers all the things that Pokémon Go lacks. I look forward to the game improving, offering more spawning and placing the buildings closer to where people can actually walk. In my area the buildings are actually outside the parks, in outer parking lots and in the middle of wooded areas where I work.
Overall great. They seem like they actually want their players happy. I have one huge request. Make it so if I run to a stop it doesn't tell me I am moving to fast! I am not saying make it 37km/h so Usain Bolt can still play but something more reasonable like 20km/h(12.5mph)
So far so good. But needs more spawning, more players in my area, and fewer inaccessible stops, gyms, libraries, etc. Haven't really gotten to play this game much, as there are no other players in my area (I've been in a gym for a week and will be forever I'm sure... Maybe allow us to recall our dragons?)
Needs more work. I like the idea and features, but it definitely needs to be more balanced. Random monster encounters have too high of cp for me to defeat it even when I have powered up my monsters to maximum. PVP is the same way, the CP difference between me and my opponent are too large to make the game fun for beginners.
So far so good! Very eager to see more of the game, as others have said, the game has implemented many things PoGo should already have done. Some mechanics need fixed, one for me is the curve ball.. if you throw too far to the side it flies off screen. Probably ball throwing in general could use a little tweaking but overall no complaints! Keep up the good work!
Pretty good, it takes a lot of steps that Pokemon Go didn't that make the gameplay more entertaining. The graphics are also very well done. However, I found some of the monster designs a bit too goofy looking. Sure, this game is meant for kids, but even as a kid I know I preferred cooler looking designs. The games strong suit is in the aquatic, felinoid, and actually draconic looking creatures.
The mapping sucks so bad. Im from a rural area in the mountains. All of the pilars, libraries etc are in the mountains where there's no roads, no way to get to them. I absolutely love this game but the mapping needs work....edit to previous comment. I was very impressed that someone replied to my post here. You really dont see that often enough. I love this and think you've got a real winner on your hands here. Im a level 35 on pokemon go and would much rather play this as I would that now. Please change the speed cap. Its 20 on Pokemon go. I cap when I am just walking or jogging. Otherwise thank you for this game and best of luck for its future
As a long time (and current) player of Pokemon Go I will honestly say I am very taken by this game. It is well made, clear thought was put into what features they wanted before implementation of the core game and it is its own thing; not just some rip off.
Good job introducing new elements, but the world feels empty. For using the real world, I don't feel like there's too much going on. I don't come across spawn nests or random spawns in the wild like in Pokemon go. I feel like you have to walk way too far to specific spots to get spawns. Please update so it's more fun to explore.
I love this game and have been playing it since I saw it on Nick TrainerTips channel. It's a ton of fun. I think it's got everything that has been asked for in the other game everyone's play. I don't have complaints but a few suggestions to maybe help. 1. When getting a boost from a quest or treasure maybe have it go to our items bag and let us pick when to use it. ( I used the dragons eye thing and was able to open 5 chest 4 outta the 5 had 30min for best sphere from pillar. It kept restarting the time each time I got it. 2. Maybe daily and weekly quest. 3. Evolutionary line when you go to creatures instead of just CP, name, recent or the " stars " red, yellow or green. Hope the feed back helps in some way as I really do enjoy this game and hardly play the other game now.
A Great game, many more features than Pokemon Go and it is about 10 times more fun to play. No disadvantage to living in a rural area as the stops are everywhere. Hopefully the devs organise big events in city's around the world in future. The creatures look and animations are awesome, if I had to criticise anything it would only be that the map and interface could use a bit of a spruce up ;)
Love the game and all the unique challenges and parts of play. I do think the speed cap should be set higher because we need to be at a complete standstill for spawn rate and to collect pillars. The spawn rate is really low. We live in a rural area and enjoy the rural game play but still need to be able to stay warm in a vehicle during winter play. Coming to a full stop to play is dangerous and inconvenient.
Seems fun but the speed restriction is so low that I am getting restricted even when walking. Also, some of the placement of pillars and others are in areas that are not accessible. Definitely a normal pay to play game, more so then PoGo. Has way more features then PoGo and may have a future in the AR gaming area. Edit: Since trying the game some I have now lowered my rating to 2 Stars. Some of the quests are undoable due to the fact that the pillars of abundance and other items are in restricted areas like people's houses, backyards or businesses. If they could increase the speed limit up enough where GPS drift didn't get you the speed limit warning and make it so that the pillars aren't unaccessible. That I could see this game getting 4 stars. Until then 2 stars. Edit2: it's nice to see the developer responding to reviews. Just for that 3 stars. It means they're interested in their games future.
Nice game.. But lot of lag in updating my location when I walk around, I literally had to wait for 5 min at a pillar waiting for the character to walk there. Also spawn is focused majorly at pillars and altars, if you can regularise spawn better and improve location tracking, I'd stick on to this <3 Waiting for bug fixes and improvements
Great game. The only issue is the spawn rates are terrible I have only seen two dragons since I installed a couple of days ago, one was my starter. So I haven't really gotten to participate much. Just need more Dragon spawns and I'd give up that last star.
Beats Pokemon Go hands down. Doesn't cook your phone either like PG does. As for throwing mechanics, don't - players don't force Ely land to change to copy of pogo. Don't expect 1 ball catches. That's too easy. Plenty of pillars for more balls. Just need to block pogo out of your mind and learn this game. No need to do curves 100% of the time. Each dragon is different to catch.
Walked the 1.5km route through my neighborhood I do for pokemon go that nets me 15+ pokemon and encountered ZERO dragons. All were 3 to 5 blocks away from my neighborhood and mostly located in awkward to go to areas. No way to farm stardust equivalent with so few dragons to catch.
The game is ok, better than PGo in a lot of ways. The problem is not enough dragostops. Pogo has stops and gyms conveniently placed at all hotels and most restaurants, this game has them far and few in between. I stay in hotels when I travel and it's convenient to have them at hotels. Esp one's like the Hyatt in Perth, hell Pogo even has a gym and stop in the park by my house in Canberra, this game has nothing nearby.
Love it so far. My biggest complaint is the map treasure hunt. Both times now I've been unable to do it because the areas it wants me to search are on private fenced in property. Also, more spawns would be nice, as well as the ability to sort creatures by bestiary number and by element type would be awesome!
Much better than Pokemon go which constantly tells its users they don't care what they want, this company actually replies to questions and concerns. A ripoff of Pokemon go would feature "perkachu". This is much better and imaginative as niantic only took Pokemon skins and draconius has great artwork.
1. Disbale the speed cap! I cant play as a passenger over 5 mphs! Ruins the point of clicking a passenger button. I would like to switch to this game since pokemon go is getting stale, but an even lower speed cap? Nevermind. Isnt there a legal way to have no speed cap? Like seriously. Its the risk of the user. Not your fault if someone is dumb. Dont passengers have the right to play? Fix this please and 5 stars all the way. 2. Stop my navigation bar from disappearing. Super annoying. Please add an option to keep it on always. Cant do it from my phone settings. Its the app. 3. Fix speed cap! This would make the game 100 times better than pokemon go instantly. I will play this instead of pokemon go gladly with these fixes. Looking forward to it honestly.
Overall we (my fiance and I) love the game. The problem we have is just not the game has crashed twice. We used a lure and pheromones. We are now missing 15 minutes worth of those. Our weekends are the only time we have to play this game together. It is really ruining the experience for us. I'm wondering if the game will continue to crash during the week when we play separately. I would hope not. Please fix your bug issues.
Nearly 5 star out the gate. Quantity of pillars,libraries,etc is perfect but placement is a bit of a hazard. Semi-boondock player that has a arena in the middle of a highway and a library in a ravine.with a reliable source of in game currency and better asset placement I would sink some money into this easy. And I would like to catch the monsters that attack me.
It's fun when it works correctly. I was an avid Pokemon Go player and found this game. My only complaints are NO response from support and the game forced me to surrender 2 battles I would have easily won and it just ate one of my lures. Not happy! I seriously hope the bugs get fixed or I'll just go back to Pokemon Go.
Great concept. Alot like Pokémon go lvl 33 in Pokémon go, but you have to walk so far before anything spawns. Still learning alot about the game burr u now play it more thrm Pokémon go More spawns please and continue to make the fun an interesting.
Not bad.. If youre sick of pokemon go this presents a nice alternative with a fantasy setting. Its got everything niantic has failed to deliver on.. And its easy to expect more to come.. Hopefully they can add a bit more mons in the world.
Game has potential. Here is the downfall and both make the game miserable to play. There is a 5 miles speed lock and very few beasts spawn and I mean at all! Makes it extremely frustrating and a bit boring. I cannot see putting money into game like Pokemon Go. However there is more variety in playing options. Spontaneous battles, 2 different lands, 2 different style gyms. There are quest but the hunt quest to get a golden egg is very confusing and I lost all my shovels trying.
If youre gonna blatently rip off a game...atleast take one of the core features and not bugger that up. The catch/throw mechanics are just awful. Fix that and it will be a real close contender for the game it is so very much a clone of. Edit: judging from the reply, you dont plan on fixing the issues with the sphere mechanics. Thats too bad. Wasting inventory because the games physics dont make sense is unfortunate. Wasting them because the developers made them terrible on purpose is even worse. The monster isnt the problem with catching. Its the poor throwing mechanics youve implemented.
Really loves playing at first, but now speed controls are killing it. I walk a block and im going to fast. Also a lot of the different events are unreachable. Dont want to go thru peoples yards to play the game. I hope the speed issue will get fixed soon
similiar like Pokémon go but more way better... some pillar is no way to reach because in the jungle and hope you can make more stable place rather than random like middle of highway, private place... looking forward for next update... keep up the good work
I love the game. I think it's pretty funny how Niantic is acting about competition. They don't own AR games, they're just annoyed that they can't scam the people playing this game. Only complaint would be it seems to register very slowly when you're in a car and the spawns tend to be minimum and the things that do spawn are way too far away. Other than that it seems really nice. Glad someone is competing with Niantic finally. All they care about is your money
Looks good, how there can be claims there's been no copying of Pogo I have no idea. Even my 4year old thought it was new graphics for Pogo. Still more competition is good for everyone. One very big flaw though meaning I will never let my kids play it. Dragons and 'gyms' slap bang on busy train tracks by our house?????? No thanks. My kids wind me up sometimes but I don't want them squashed or electrocuted.. ....
Very great game.. was really impressed to be honest and I'm glad I tried it out... Only issue I have is that the spawn rate is very terrible makes it hard to pay at times cause I can't hardly find things to catch.. but other than that it's a awesome game.
It's pretty cool, and I love all the creatures you can catch. But the throw mechanic doesn't feel good. Whenever I try a straight throw, it just goes off to the side for some reason. Also the ball feels heavy like a rock after throwing it. Other than that, the game is pretty awesome.
Thank you Trainertips Nick. I've now been playing Draconius Go for about 3weeks and loving it. Progressing at a steady pace. Only problem I have is I can't do the abundance quest as many of the pillars of abundance are behind restricted places. Where I'm from that's almost everywhere. Just a few more pillars of abundance on the sides of roads and more in parks would be great. Otherwise amazing game keep it up.
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Great game but still needs a bit of work. Every now and again it doesn't seem to want to pick up my location and tells me to adjust my settings but no matter what I do it just doesn't work. Additionally when battling other players it occasionally forces me to surrender, particularly when at the end of the match. Once those issues are fixed it'll be a brilliant game with more depth than other games of similar premise.