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Kythera Phase FINAL Niantic has updated the score of Kythera Phase 3 as of Jun 26 9:00 UTC: Agent-deployed Battle Beacon: ENL 42,958 RES 37,812 Projected score: ENL 138 - RES 122 NIA-deployed Rare Battle Beacon: ENL 36,371 RES 29,356 Final score ENL 700.5 - RES 599.5 Shard: ENL 88 vs 34 RES
After two years, double L7 Resonators deploy is now officially over!
Niantic Social is now Niantic Campfire! Campfire will still be available in Ingress, but in addition, a separate app will be released soon.
Niantic would like to thank all the agents who have tested Niantic Campfire in the open beta so far. The ability to create new groups in Campfire will be temporarily disabled. Inactive Campfire groups has be removed? as of June 23, 2022. All active Ingress groups will remain on Campfire and owners/admins will continue to have full control over the groups. Your Campfire map will not display any Ingress groups or events until further notice. Regional chat will be temporarily removed. Finally, Niantic will be introducing a Choose Your Own Adventure experience in the near future, led by K... Stay tuned for more information and instructions on Campfire.
Niantic has announced that starting with Ingress 2.95 scheduled for mid-July, Ingress will require Android 8 and iOS 14 to run.
In a new statement about their gameplay policy enforcement, Niantic stated they have "invested in becoming better at observing cheating behaviors, and can now more reliably pinpoint these activities with higher speed and accuracy, preventing legitimate players from being punished incorrectly. As a result, we will be ramping up enforcement against these behaviors across our games, and rolling out our improved approach to anti-cheat." These changes will be implemented across all games, starting with Pokémon Go.
Munich “Anomaly” - Superposition (was Requiem?) The Superposition Anomaly medal will be awarded by interacting with 10 NIA-deployed or Agent-deployed Battle Beacons: During the July event weekend, and Munich will be the only city in which NIA deploys Rare Battle Beacons that weekend? Friday July 29 NIA TKO Stealth Ops (hosted by GORUCK) Saturday 30 Battle Beacon and City Shard battles NIA TKO Urban Ops (hosted by GORUCK) Cross-Faction after-event party! Expect: Agent Marketplace (apply here (https://forms.gle/GMvNSES1H6MPtB9W6) for a space by 3 July), stat games, food & beverages. Sunday 31 Operation Clear Field (hosted by GORUCK) Mission Day (in collaboration with local Agents) During the August event weekend, and the 10 selected impact zones will be the only areas in which NIA deploys Rare Battle Beacons that weekend Get in touch with your faction players before the event: 🟢 ENL: https://requiem-munich.rocks/ 🔵 RES: https://munich.willbe.blue/ August Primary Sites: 10 preselected Impact Zones Want your location to be considered for hosting a Superposition anomaly on this day? (Day?) Apply by July 3rd: https://forms.gle/iA2V4jDcATzuvguS8 An enlightened and a resistance point of contact are requested. Sunday 28 Battle Beacon and City Shard battles
NEW WORLD RECORD - 456 layered fields On 26 June 2022, Resistance agents from Perth, Western Australia completed Operation KiloMAF. Operator was an agent we have had on before 57Cell!
Today on the show: Kythera Phase 1 What is the Kythera Mechanism and its purpose? https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/18786/kythera-phase-1 Ornaments showing up on the map! Phase 1 on 15-18th Apr – Rules: Worldwide: BOLO NIA-deployed Rare Battle Beacons on Sun 17 Apr Worldwide: 72-hour of Agent-deployed Battle Beacons Score weighted by Battle Category For more details: https://bit.ly/ING-Kyth-P1-39ND-EN SCORING … 93: Vainless in Kythera Read More »
Today on the show: Today we discuss the even schedule rolled out, a giant record breaking field thrown up by the resistance, and Kureze Phase 3 If you want to have us play your audio comment, you can leave us a message at: https://www.speakpipe.com/AgentAcademy Listen on iTunes Listen on Spotify WHAT’S IN THE CAPSULE? Submit … 92: Upcoming Live Events, Kureze Phase 3, Anomalies, and Ingress News Read More »
Today on the show: Sony and Niantic team up to bring you open backed ear buds for AR experiences with a teasing of an Ingress edition. We discuss Kureze Round 2, and what is coming up in round 3. And it’s official Toast Day! So Get Toasted. Welcome to the Academy, Agent. If you want … 91: Ingress Ear Buds, ENL wins Kureze Effect – round 2, and it’s TOAST Day! Read More »
Today on the show: Ideas for Ingress. We discuss ideas submitted by agents as well as some of our own ideas. Do we want crafting? Media storage capsules? Those are just a few ideas. Listen to find out more of what could be coming in future updates. Want to add your own idea, click on … 90: What’s in the Capsule? Read More »
Today on the show: Talking about Niantic’s AR game, Ingress. Tonight, Black History Month, Q1 Announcements, and FitRep coming to Ingress. Next week is a “What’s In the Capsule” Episode. We want to hear your ideas for Ingress, so leave a comment with #WiTC idea. Or if you want to have us play your audio … 89: Ingress Q1 Update, Black History Month, & FitRep Read More »
Today on the show: Kureze Effect Second Sunday New Medal – Year of the Tiger Decode Clue Arts Cow – Custom Printed Swag Listen on iTunes Listen on Spotify WHAT’S IN THE CAPSULE? Submit your own idea for Ingress CONTACT & SUBMISSIONS SpeakPipe | Telegram | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Twitch PROMOS Print Merch for your community VIDEO … 88: Kureasy & Generating AP Read More »
Today on the show: Jan 7th was Sojourner Day 2,500! Kureze Effect – Phase 1 (January) https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/17846/kureze-effect-the-formation-phase-1 Kureze Effect Phase One Cities https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/17901/kureze-effect-the-formation-phase-1-locations/ Close to us – Chicago – Atlanta – Philly – Boston – Minneapolis? The XM Researchers may identify some of these Portals and ornament some of them in the Scanner during the … 87: Battle Beacons & the Kureze Effect Read More »
Today on the show: Discussion on Fielding during the COVID Crisis Upcoming Virtual #FS events Other ways Niantic can help gameplay Speedlock – has it been fixed? Listen on iTunes Listen on Spotify WHAT’S IN THE CAPSULE? Submit your own idea for Ingress CONTACT & SUBMISSIONS SpeakPipe | Telegram | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Twitch PROMOS Print Merch … 83: BAFS, Is this the time for them? Read More »
Today on the show: Upcoming Virtual #FS Listen on iTunes Listen on Spotify WHAT’S IN THE CAPSULE? Submit your own idea for Ingress CONTACT & SUBMISSIONS SpeakPipe | Telegram | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Twitch PROMOS Print Merch for your community VIDEO Get your Badge Notice: JavaScript is required for this content.
Today on the show: Ingress Listen on iTunes Listen on Spotify WHAT’S IN THE CAPSULE? Submit your own idea for Ingress CONTACT & SUBMISSIONS SpeakPipe | Telegram | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Twitch PROMOS Print Merch for your community VIDEO Get your Badge Notice: JavaScript is required for this content.
Today on the show: Ingress Prime Teardown – v2.44.1 – Thank you Fevenir and all of the folks at FevGames for this article. Source and full article we encourage you to read: https://fevgames.net/ingress-prime-apk-teardown-2-44-1/ Battles are coming, and fast. New variables were added in the game: comm_alert_your_portal_battle_beacon_deployed comm_notification_battle_beacon_deployed comm_header_deployed_battle_beacon comm_preview_deployed_battle_beacon Comm_preview_finished_battle_beacon which shows how battles will … 80: Stay in and don’t move. Ingress News and Discussion Read More »
Today on the show: March 27 – since about noon (CST) NIA did some backend maintenance starting now and lasting the next few hours. “This may cause increased latency in your Scanner.” They asked to respond to a thread on the community forum (https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/10189/ongoing-backend-updates-may-increase-scanner-latency) Agents reporting being unable to deploy portals and SLOWWWW ness About … 79: Special Guest Agent 57Cell, Ficto, and Everything Ingress Read More »
Today on the show: Cancellations – Postponements All #IngressFS on April 4th are cancelled worldwide All Lexicon Hexathlons on April 25th and linked Mission Days are postponed The Requiem Anomaly on 9th May in Munich is postponed The #NL1331X EU tour and all linked Mission Days from May 9th to July 3rd are postponed The … 78: The Short & Skinny of Ingress Read More »
Today on the show: Hexathlon iSpoofer is finding it hard to spoof location for Ingress and Pokemon – that is a good thing! Top of the page it states “It’s not safe to use iSpoofer for PC to spoof POGO, Ingress, and Wizards Unite.” (Good job Niantic!) Women of Ingress celebrating Women History Month #WomenofIngress … 77: Hexathlon Turn Out, iSpoofer Neutralized, Women of Ingress and the Latest Ingress Update 2.41.4 Read More »
Today on the show: #Didact Challenge In 6 days, agents successfully established 5,511,652 control fields and defeated the Didact global challenge BASE target. If stay on this level of deploys we should hit the stretch Feb 22 or Feb 23 From Level 1 to Level 8 in 10 seconds! Agent @RoLLeOwnZ, used the 2x AP … 76: Didact Challenge Update and Ingress News Read More »
Today on the show: Didact challenge Truthseeker: “We have several Live Drops coming in by the end of February. This Tessera will be in one of the Perpetua Hexathlon cities in the Western Hemisphere. I’m just going to leave it at that for now. Stay tuned. “ Round 7 in Taiwan – https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/9161/tessera-round-7-mystery-live-drop-1#latest 13 Alchemist: … 75: Didact Global Challenge, Alchemist Decoding Challenge and Special Guest LadyAnthrax Returns! Read More »
Today on the show: Diadact Field Challenge: https://www.agentacademypodcast.com/ingress-news/from-the-ingress-community-coming-soon-didact-field-challenge/ 4 New Avatars: https://www.agentacademypodcast.com/ingress-news/niantic-labs-announces-four-new-ingress-agent-avatars-now-available/ Vintage Akira Tsukasa Medal available for 1 more day as of this recording: https://www.agentacademypodcast.com/ingress-news/niantic-adds-vintage-akira-tsukasa-medal-for-1-week-only/ Two vanguards resigned this past week, First mm207a and then directly on mm207a’s heels, pinesinger – both attribute the resignation to losing the magic of Ingress mostly due to … 74: New Ingress Avatars, Ingress Events & Farewell To Two Vanguards Read More »
Weekly content for Enlightened & Resistance about The Niantic Project: Ingress. Basic Gameplay, Items & Inventory, Agent Protocol, Missions, Intel Acquisition, Tips & Tricks, Tactics, and Scanner Etiquette. Bonus Content for Field Ops, Ingress Events (XM Anomaly, NL1331E, Mission Day, GORUCK, Operation Clear Field, Ingress FS and other community events)SUBSCRIBE and become a better Agent today. Your faction is counting on you.
