Anyone decided to give wizards unite a go (or a second go) seeing as it is about to close forever in little under 2 months time?

Help return Brilliant Foundables from the Hall of Prophecy during Part 2 of the Battle of the Department of Mysteries Brilliant Event, starting Tuesday, September 22 at 11 a.m. PT. 

The Brilliant Foundables featured during this event can be found in the following locations:

• Masked Death Eater - Wizarding Challenges
• Ginny Weasley - Brilliant Portkey
• Hermione Granger - Tasks
• Brilliant Harry Potter - Encounter
• Brilliant Prophecy Orb - Encounter

Brilliant Portkeys for this event will be 1.5km. As a reminder, Part 1 Portkeys will give you Part 1 rewards anytime you open them, even if you wait to open them during Part 2. 

Don’t forget to pick up your complimentary store pack which will contain the following:

• 6x Baneberry
• 4x Bulbadox Juice
• 4x Angels Trumpet
• 2x Erumpent Horn
• 25 Spell Energy

Keep an eye out for Bonus Assignments that will be available in game after the main tasks have been completed!

Please note: To enable as many players around the world as possible to participate safely, this event has been adjusted to facilitate playing from wherever you are. Please remember to adhere to local rules and regulations, and be respectful of others and your surroundings.

Update 2.15.0 is a big one for Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and makes some game stability improvements, bug fixes, and adds the much-needed support for Apple devices that are running iOS 14.

Please Note: This update is NOT out yet, so if you’re an iOS user, proceed with caution. You might want to delay updating to iOS 14 until Wizards Unite updates.

Game Updates

Some of these changes may have been reflected in releases between 2.14 and 2.15 and therefore may already be reflected in the app. 

Potions

• Added the ability to purchase Potions directly from the Potion selection menu during Encounters and Wizarding Challenges.

General

• Bug fixes for general app stability and visual issues 
• iOS 14 Support

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue affecting the SOS Training Node: Knowledge Transfer. Players who completed Knowledge Transfer were not receiving Inn Charm charges from Treasure Trunks
• Fixed an issue with threat level visual effects on Traces that appear on the Map
• Made text revisions to the Trace Charm Expertise page
• Fixed a visual issue affecting the Magicum Vitae that cuts off the text for the Tonic for Trace Detection Potion bonus

Known Issues in Wizards Unite

The HPWU developers know about the following issues. They’re working to fix them.

• The Threat meter sound effects and visual effects may continue to loop when selecting a Potion to use following the purchase of a Dawdle Draught
• Android only: Opening the Android back button tray will force the player to exit from the Potion selection menu.
• Sound effects may persist throughout gameplay when the player skips the ‘Walk 0.25 Kilometres’ bonus rewards animation. Restarting the app will resolve this issue.
• The Ministry ID may display a Profession Appraisal rating even if the player has yet to access the Training menu.
• Wizarding level 61 can display in the rewards flow when a player successfully completes an Encounter or Wizarding Challenge after reaching level 60. Wizarding level 60 is the highest achievable level.
• Inconsistent SOS Training badge notifications.
• Traces revealed through Trace Charm can disappear from the Map. Restarting the app may help those Traces reappear on the Map.
• The player may be taken to the Map and receive an error after launching the game via push notification after a Potion has finished brewing.
• Text errors displayed on Greenhouse Charm Expertise page:
  • “Bonus Fragments” instead of “Bonus ingredients”
  • “Bonus Wizarding and Family XP Provided” instead of “Spellcast Duration”

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is an augmented reality (AR) mobile game that will see you immersed into the Wizarding World. You will become a witch or wizard, walking among muggles, defending the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy to ensure that the magic world remains a secret.

The Calamity has caused chaos, scattering magic items across the world and risking discovery by non-magical people. These "foundables" are what you'll be hunting out on your mission as part of the Statute of Secrecy Task Force. Trying to stop you collecting the foundables are "confoundables", dark magic or creatures, which you'll need to use spells against.

The game will involve exploration and discovery, collection, battling, team work - and all in the real world, using Niantic's maps. Wizards Unite gives you the opportunity to develop your skills, choose a wizarding career (auror, magizoologist, professor), and interact with characters, artifacts and themes from the Harry Potter universe. 

It's designed to fulfil the fan fantasy in letting you become a witch or wizard.

How the game works

Like Pokemon Go, the game will see you walking around discovering items. There will be points on the map - inns, greenhouses, fortresses - as well as "traces" scattered around. You can interact with all these things and they make-up the discovery side of the game.

The traces of magic will be places where you can find something magical, called "foundables" in the game. That might be a beast, friend or enemy and once you open them up, you'll move into an AR experience, using the camera on your app to blend the game world with the real world, just like collecting Pokemon in Pokemon Go. Note: You can turn off the AR if you prefer.
 

The inns will let you collect spell energy that you'll need to play the game, while the greenhouses will be where you'll get ingredients for creating potions, as well as being able to grow ingredients.

The fortresses are places that have higher-value foundables - likely a collection of beasts to battle - presenting a slightly bigger challenge which in some cases will need collaboration with friends to defeat. It's also here that your career choice matters because an Auror might be better placed to battle a Death Eater than a Professor for example.
 

Everything you encounter will be collected in your suitcase, with a Registry that's a little like a sticker book where you can keep track of everything. There will also be a vault where you keep your potions, potion ingredients and other items.
 

Another thing you'll be able to collect and use is a portkey, which will transport you to a different location. This introduces elements of the game not dependent on physical location. We transported to Ollivanders, for example, with more collection challenges once in the (virtual) famous wand shop.
 

Portkeys need to be unlocked and this is where walking comes into the game - you'll have to walk 2, 5 or 10km to unlock the portkey. However, portkeys mean you can then play some aspects of the game at home or in the garden, for example.

That makes up the basic outline of how the game will work through discovery and collection, but there's a lot more that Harry Potter: Wizards Unite will offer. The best way to discover how the game works is to play it - things are explained as you go along with many first encounters being guided.

Game Features

• Ministry ID

  Players will be able to establish themselves as an official member of the wizarding world and the Statute of Secrecy Task Force by personalizing their selfie with Wizarding World-inspired lenses, frames, deformations, accessories, stickers, and many more customizable features.

• Portkeys

  Upon discovering and activating a Portkey Portmanteau, players will be able to reveal an immersive VR-like experience and transport themselves to explore iconic Wizarding World locations.

• Potion Crafting

  Players can collect ingredients from Greenhouses on the Map, within distinct biomes, and during various weather conditions to brew different Potions that can improve their gameplay.

• Professions

  Players can specialize in different professions: Auror, Magizoologist, and Professor. Players from different professions will be encouraged to work together to defeat Wizarding Challenges and unlock rare content.

• Spell Casting & Advanced AR+ Encounters

  Magical Traces will trigger richly detailed 3D encounters in full 360-degree advanced AR+ where players will need to cast various spells (tracing a glyph on screen) to defeat confounding magic.

• Real World Exploration

  While Players explore the real world, they will find a variety of Wizarding locations on their Map, including Inns, Greenhouses, Fortresses, and magical Traces where Players can trigger specific Encounters.

• Wizarding Challenges

  Synchronous multiplayer challenges in Fortresses on the Map will present a complete RPG experience featuring shared arenas, combat encounters, and group-wide arena effects.

• Mysteries

  A deep, multi-year narrative arc will have players solving various mysteries including the truth behind what caused the Calamity.

You can download Wizards Unite for iOS, Android!

Niantic wrote in their latest Trace Charm update for Harry Potter: Wizards Unite:
 

"We recognize these changes are different from how the Trace Charm has worked since the SOS Training feature launched, and we understand that players feel that these changes degraded this feature. While the bug fix was unpopular, these corrections were necessary to maintain a balanced progression in the game. When we develop new content, we do so with certain expectations of how long it will take for players to complete it. If we release content too fast, the game will feel stagnant while players wait for the next content release. If we release it too slowly, the game will feel too difficult. This change was required to keep this delicate balance in check. Had these errors gone unresolved, there would be long-term implications for the game. We apologize that some of the previous communications on this topic didn't fully capture the scope of the issues and planned changes".

(Image: NIANTIC) - “Magic at Large.”

Over a year of teasing Niantic has finally told fans what they can expect from Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.
NOTE: Players in specific regions can access a Harry Potter: Wizards Unite beta.

Right now, there is a Harry Potter Wizards Unite beta available to download, but only in New Zealand. (we'll be updating this post when more countries are added)
 

To access the Harry Potter Wizards Unite beta, you need to be in New Zealand (for now). Simply visit the Google Play or App Store on Android and iPhone respectively, and search for it in the store.

Apple App Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/harry-potter-wizards-unite/id1452352832?mt=8

Play Store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nianticlabs.hpwu.prod

Note: If you pre-register,  you may get an invite to early access program for this game

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite release date is sometime in 2019

Basic world screen

Collectables. You get something that fills a slot here from most of wild encounters

Name filter appears pretty soft. Port keys are like eggs from pgo, potions and professions are level locked. Vault are you items (like health potions) registry where your collectables go

Karjalan - Reddit User

   
Some screen shots from the game, Vorici - Reddit User
 

With a Harry Potter Wizards Unite beta, expect a slow region-by-region roll out, just like with Pokémon Go.