Pokemon GO Task Tells Player to Go to Mexico

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A Pokemon GO player has recently taken online to express their confusion with the fact that the game wants them to go to Mexico. This unexpected suggestion appears to be linked with the recent arrival of the Choose Your Fighting Type Pokemon GO Research Task.

The newly introduced Pokemon GO Season of Rising Heroes runs from March 1 through June 1. As was the case with such quarterly events in the past, this latest season introduces a plethora of a new content, including raid battles, events, Pokemon, and time-limited Research Task missions.

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And while one of the latest such quests is currently only available to players in Mexico, it would appear Niantic has also extended the offering beyond the North American country, albeit inadvertently. Namely, at least one U.S.-based player has recently taken to social media to report that Pokemon GO tasked them with going to Mexico over this past weekend. Elaborating on a viral Reddit post from March 5, user Baroque1750 explained that they received the unexpected Timed Research tasks while they were in San Diego, which is located some 17 miles (27km) from the Mexican border.

Much like Niantic's previous GPS-powered title, Ingress, Pokemon GO uses a grid-based map with predominantly square region boundaries to determine player positions in the real world. As such, the game isn't always able to identify the correct country in which a given player is residing if they are close to a border. Its geolocation issues can be further exacerbated by the technical limitations of consumer-grade GPS solutions, as underlined by the fact that GPS drifting has been troubling Pokemon GO since its 2016 debut.

That combination of factors