The #BuriedMemories #BonusWeek is now active!

All actions performed in game will now yield 1.331x the normal AP and hacks on friendly Portals will yield 1.331x the normal amount of gear!

Its the perfect time to level up after your Recursion or farm again after the Anomalies!

These bonus effects will remain active until July 1st @ 16:00 UTC!

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-buriedmem#bonusweek-n-iap

@IUENG

Niantic has clarified how the AP bonuses will stack during the Buried Memories Bonus Week and 2x AP 2sday.

Just like for the previous Bonus Week, the two bonuses will not stack.

The 2x AP bonus during Tuesday afternoons (16:00 - 21:00) local time will override the 1.331x AP from the Bonus Week.

However, Apexes will double the AP bonus of 2x AP 2sdays up to a 4x multiplier.

Source: https://news.1rj.ru/str/NianticOfficial/735

@IUENG

Niantic has published the events #schedule for #Q3 2024!

July
6th | #IngressFS (Registrations)
12th - August 5th | Shared Memories Global Shared Link Challenge
14th | #Ingress2s
26th to August 12th | Operation “Pursue. Human. Potential | Evolution. Unbound”

August
3rd | #IngressFS
11th | #Ingress2S
17th | XM Anomaly - 🇸🇬 Singapore, 🇳🇱 Rotterdam
24th | Shared Memories: Shard Skirmish (AMER)
31st | Shared Memories: Shard Skirmish (APAC)

September
7th | #IngressFS
8th | #Ingress2S
14th | Shared Memories: Shard Skirmish (EMEA)
21st | XM Anomaly - 🇯🇵 Hakodate, 🇺🇸 Seattle, WA

Notable facts on this quarter's schedule
🔸 During Operation “Pursue. Human. Potential | Evolution. Unbound" Agents will experience double AP, double deploy on L8 Resonators, Drone cooldown reduced to 8 minutes.
🔸 Niantic announced that, after September, Second Sundays might shift to a new set of challenges in place of the current 6 unique missions to be completed
🔸 Shard Skirmishes will now feature 19 cities per region instead of 25.

Additionally, Niantic announced the locations of Q4 2024 XM Anomalies!
November 2nd, 2024
🇹🇼 Tainan, Taiwan
🇪🇸 Valencia, Spain
December 14th, 2024
🇳🇿 Christchurch, New Zealand
🇺🇸 Nashville, TN, USA

More details on events and global challenges will follow in the next weeks!
All these events are available on our Events Calendar!

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-q3-events

@IUENG

Niantic has released a new update to Ingress Prime, version 2.144.1!

In this version XM was "moved to a more efficient infrastructure", hopefully implying a reduction in cost for Niantic and better performances for the game.
Moreover, the background tiles shown upon loading behind medals in the Agent Profile were updated as shown in the picture above.

This update will roll out to all Agents in the next few days!

Ph: @VAIN_vurxof

@IUENG

🇪🇸 Ingress #XMAnomaly #Valencia, Spain - November 2nd, 2024

Agents! On behalf of the Spanish Ingress Community, we are proud to share their invitation to the only European XM Anomaly of Q4 2024 and the first ever for the capital of the Comunitat Valenciana! This city will be the focus of all Ingress Action for the European continent on November 2nd!

Valencia, situated on Spain's east coast, is a dynamic city that seamlessly blends tradition and modernity.
It is famed for its futuristic Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, expansive golden beaches, and world-renowned paella!
Wander through its charming historic streets, where centuries-old architecture meets contemporary design, or indulge in its vibrant culinary scene. Valencia's lively festivals, warm Mediterranean climate, and rich cultural heritage make it an enchanting destination the perfect scenery for the Ingress battle that promises to unfold!

📣 Be ready, Agents! This will be a memorable event for the whole European Ingress community!

Registration, channels and official groups will be published soon. Check out the Resistance and Enlightened Anomaly Registration websites for more info, when available!

@IUENG

Niantic has updated their channel picture for the official Ingress Telegram channel, revealing the new app icon for the Shared Memories anomaly series in Q3! While it is currently not visible on the App Stores or the App itself we assume that the next update will add this icon to the Scanner.

❕This is not the anomaly medal for the Shared Memories anomaly.

Source: @NianticOfficial

@IUENG

Niantic seems to be testing in-game store rewards for reaching a certain number of recursions.

Have you achieved the monumental feat of Recursion five or more times? Head to the shop to receive a free Hypercube!

At the moment, it is unknown how often these offers refresh, if they change or if more rewards will be available for Agents who recursed a different number of times, so visit the shop from time to time to check if anything new appears.

@IUENG

Niantic has published the #rules for the #SharedMemories Anomaly Series which will span across Q3 2024!

The notable changes for this wave of Anomaly Events compared with the Buried Memories series are the following:
🔸Global Shared Link Challenge: The first of this season's global Challenge will start in 3 days and will be focused on Linking! Points will be awarded for creating and destroying links and bonus points will be awarded for creating Linkstars with your team! Season points for this challenge will be awarded based on the number of Global Challenge medals earned by the two Factions as well as the total number of points warned by Agents.
🔸August Daily Bounty Challenge: The second Global Challenge will focus on bounties! Season points for this global challenge will be distributed to the Factions based on the number of Research Days and Research Bounties completed by Agents!
🔸Shard Skirmishes and Anomaly Scoring: No significant change was recorded to the rules for these events

📸 Along with the rules, the design of the Shared Memories Anomaly Medal (left) and of the Global Shared Link Challenge Tiered Medal (right) have been revealed. You can see them in the images above!

As always, we will cover all the rules in detail in the coming days, in particular:
- All events for this Anomaly Series
- Global Shared Link Challenge scoring
- August Daily Bounty Challenge scoring
- Anomaly Event scoring
- Portal Immunity Instability
- ...and more!

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-sharedmem#bountyop-rules

@IUENG

Niantic has released Update 2.145.2 to the App Stores!

Ingress has been updated to Lightship ARDK 3 which promises support for more devices and improved stability. If you can scan in Pokemon GO, you should now be able to scan in Ingress as well according to Brian on Reddit a short while ago. Report in the comments after you have updated!

The UI has also been optimized and closing out of screens now feels snappier. Among the bug fixes for this version background audio from other apps now will no longer stop if you're starting Ingress.

@IUENG

Shared Memories Rules - Pt. 1
Global Shared Link Challenge

The first Event for the Shared Memories Anomaly Series will take place in just 2 days!

We are talking about the Global Shared Link Challenge, which will start on July 12th @ 16:00 UTC and will end on August 5th @ 16:00 UTC!
During this challenge period, Agents will be able to obtain points towards the Global Shared Link Challenge Medals by creating and destroying links!

Medal Tiers
🥉Base: 2000 points
🥈Advanced: 10000 points

3 medal points will be awarded to a Player for each link created
1 medal point will be awarded for each enemy (or Machina) link destroyed

Additionally, bonus points will be obtainable if Agents team up to create Linkstars from a single Portal!
Once the star reaches 400 links on the same portal, for each new link, the following bonuses will be awarded to a random Agent who created at least one link in the Linkstar:

400-499 Links: 20 Points awarded to a random Link creator
500-599 Links: 30 Points awarded to a random Link creator
600-699 Links: 40 Points awarded to a random Link creator
700-799 Links: 50 Points awarded to a random Link creator
800-899 Links: 60 Points awarded to a random Link creator
900-999 Links: 70 Points awarded to a random Link creator
1000-1100 Links: 80 Points awarded to a random Link creator
1100+ Links: No further Bonus Points awarded.

Based on the performance of Agents, Niantic will award 200 total Season Points to the Factions with these criteria:

100 Season Points will be distributed based on the number of Advanced (Silver) Medals obtained by each Faction
70 Season Points will be distributed based on the number of Base (Bronze) Medals obtained by each Faction
30 Season Points will be distributed based on the cumulative number of Challenge Points obtained by each Faction, but only by level 10+ Agents!

Niantic will announce the results of this challenge one week after the end on their blog, and we will repost them here once they're available!

Read the full rules text at: https://ingress.com/news/2024-sharedmem#globalop-rules

@IUENG

Shared Memories Rules - Pt. 2
Events Schedule

The Shared Memory Anomaly Season will span across all Q3 2024. Here is the schedule of all Events that are tied to this Season and some denoscriptions for those Agents who never participated in these events!

🇸🇬🇳🇱 Singapore and Rotterdam, Netherlands XM Anomalies (August 16th - 18th 2024)
⚠️ All times are local
All weekend: NL-1331X Portal: Mobile research lab (📍Singapore) (📍Rotterdam TBD)
Aug 16th, 17:00: NIA TKO Stealth Ops (🎟 Singapore) (🎟 Rotterdam)
Aug 17th, 10:00: NIA TKO Urban Ops (🎟 Singapore) (🎟 Rotterdam)
Aug 18th, all day: Ingress Mission Day
Aug 18th, 10:00: Operation Clear Field (🎟 Singapore) (🎟 Rotterdam)

🇯🇵🇺🇸Hakodate, Japan and Seattle, WA, USA (September 20th - 22nd Sep 2024)
⚠️ All times are local
All weekend: NL-1331X Portal: Mobile research lab (Locations TBD)
Sep 20th, 17:00: NIA TKO Stealth Ops (🎟 Hakodate) (🎟 Seattle)
Sep 21st, 10:00: NIA TKO Urban Ops (🎟 Hakodate) (🎟 Seattle)
Sep 22nd, all day: Ingress Mission Day
Sep 22nd, 10:00: Operation Clear Field (🎟 Hakodate) (🎟 Seattle)
🇯🇵 (Hakodate only) Sep 22nd, time TBD: Agent-organized Marketplace. Apply for a booth at this link

Factions Anomaly Registrations
Register with your Faction in advance to ensure the correct strategic organization of the Event!
🇸🇬Singapore: ENL - RES
🇳🇱Rotterdam: ENL - RES
🇯🇵Hakodate: ENL - RES
🇺🇸Seattle: ENL - RES

Event Denoscriptions
🚚 NL-1331X Portal: Hack the special NL-1331X Portal during specified times to earn a point on the "NL-1331 Meetups" medal.
🏋️NIA TKO Stealth Ops: Ticketed physical challenges by GORUCK. Agents will earn a point on the "Stealth Ops" medal and a GORUCK Stealth Ops patch.
🏋️NIA TKO Urban Ops: Ticketed physical challenges by GORUCK, Agents will earn a point on the "Urban Ops" medal and a GORUCK Urban Ops patch.
♻️Operation Clear Field: Ticketed scavenger hunt with Ingress exploration, Agents will earn a point on the "Operation Clear Field" medal and a GORUCK OCF patch.
🗺Ingress Mission Day: Complete six specified missions to earn a point on the "Mission Day" medal, no registration or tickets required.
🛒Agent-organized Marketplace: a swag trading and selling post organized by Agents.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-sharedmem#site-activities

@IUENG

Shared Memories Rules - Pt. 3
August Daily Bounty Challenge

The second Global Challenge for the Shared Memories Anomaly Season is the Daily Bounty Challenge, which will kick off on August 1st at 0000 UTC and will run until August 31st at 2359 UTC.

Participation in this challenge won't earn you any Medal, be it the Shared Memories Anomaly Medal or the Global Challenge Medal, both of which were shown in a previous post.

Niantic will distribute 200 Season Points to the Factions based on the performance of Agents during this challenge:
🔸140 Points will be allocated based on the total number of “Research Days Completed" (days in which all 4 Bounties were completed) by all Faction members.
🔸60 Points will be allocated based on the total number of “Research Bounties Completed” by all Faction members.

Niantic will announce the results for this Global Challenge one week after the end on their blog. We will share the results on this channel once available!

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-sharedmem#bountyop-rules

@IUENG

⚠️ PSA to Android users ⚠️

The newest Ingress update 2.145.2 added scanning support for a lot of phones thanks to ARDK v3. However, this update also added new phone requirements to the app that are marked as mandatory to install or update Ingress via the Play Store.

As far as we can tell, phones now need to support ARCore as well as the DepthAPI of ARCore. If your phone does not meet the requirements you cannot install or update Ingress via the Play Store.

This change is not intended. Niantic is looking into the issue: https://news.1rj.ru/str/NianticOfficial/741

If you see the error above, you can follow these steps to see if your phone is currently supported:

🔸Head to this list and check if your phone is included
🔸If your phone is included, check if it also has the note "Supports DepthAPI"
🔸If your phone supports DepthAPI, check if ARCore is installed and updated via this link

If one of these steps fail your phone is currently not supported. Fixing this issue requires another app update, however as long as Niantic doesn't force the 2.145.2 update you can continue to play on the previous version.

🤓 Specifically. the "android.hardware.camera.ar" and the "com.google.ar.core.depth" requirements were added to the Android app manifest and were marked as mandatory. Changing the manifest requires an app update as it is part of the app itself, not a server side setting from Google.

iOS is not affected by this change.

@IUENG

⚠️Update: Niantic has (privately at first, then publicly a couple minutes ago) acknowledged the issue, and has clarified that the introduction of these blocking requisites on devices was not intentional.

The company states that they are investigating the issue, instructs to remain on v2.144.1 for the time being if a Play Store error message is shown, reassures that a force update will not be enabled until the issue has been resolved completely and that they will advise players when this will happen.

Source: https://news.1rj.ru/str/NianticOfficial/741

@IUENG

Investigator @Miketrevis has found that the star in the Shared Memories Anomaly medal actually represents the Goryōkaku fortress in Hakodate, Japan!

The fortress was built in the 1860s and was designed in a star shape to allow for a greater number of gun emplacements than a traditional Japanese fortress, and reduced the number of blind spots where a cannon could not fire. Today, Goryōkaku is a park declared as a Special Historical Site, being a part of the Hakodate city museum and a citizens' favorite spot for cherry-blossom viewing in spring.

How does that tie into the Shared Memories anomaly? Hakodate will be the site of the final anomaly battle on September 21st, together with Seattle! While it is unclear if the fortress holds a specific meaning during the anomaly itself, it certainly seems interesting that it is included in the anomaly medal. Agents should keep a close eye on the battle during September 21st!

Big thanks to Agent @Miketrevis who was able to locate the fortress! He wrote down his investigation into it here (in Italian): https://ingress.mkvs.it/2024/07/11/shared-memories/

@IUENG

Niantic has released 2.145.3 on Android, fixing the problem with ARCore blocking phones that were not compatible! If you had problems with updating or installing Ingress you should now be able to grab the newest version.

@IUENG

Shared Memories Rules - Pt. 4
Shard Skirmishes

At Shard Skirmishes, agents will participate in a 100-minute Shard-based operation across 57 cities in August and September.

August 24th - AMER Region (19 cities)
August 31st - APAC Region (19 cities)
September 14th - EMEA Region (19 cities)

During the event, 25 Shards will manifest in 5 waves, one every 20 minutes. Agents must move each Shard over 249.5m in the only jump these Shards can perform to score 0.5 Season Points for their faction.

Chosen cities will be revealed approximately 10 days in advance by means of an Ornamented Portal, which will appear in the center of each city. The Portals on which each Shard will spawn will be ornamented approximately 48 hours before the event begins!

Agents will be able to earn the Shared Memories Anomaly medal by hacking any Portal where a Shard is present or by interacting locally Rare Battle Beacons which will spawn on Shard Spawn Portals approximately 18 minutes before the planned jump. Remote recharge does not count for the medal.

⚠️ Portal Immunity Instability will be in effect during these events! We will explain this mechanic in a later post.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-sharedmem#skirmish-rules

@IUENG

🇯🇵 Are you in Shinjuku City, Tokyo, Japan on Monday at 17:00?

The Game Director of Ingress, Brian Rose, will be visiting the area and is looking forward to a spontaneous meetup with other Agents and a battle over the area to see which faction will come out on top! The exact location will be announced on Monday itself, keep an eye out for it on Brians Twitter page.

Source: https://twitter.com/brianrose/status/1812171597442428963

@IUENG

The battle of Shinjuku is over! Agents and NIA members of both factions did their best to control Shinjuku, but with an advantage in numbers of about 3:1, the Enlightened won with a score of 25 captured Battle Beacons to 1 from the Resistance!

NIA members Brian and Masashi have also announced that they will attend the Shared Memories anomaly in Hakodate later this year.

Ph.: @absolute119966

⚠ This battle was a spontaneous meetup organized by Brian and will not have any effect on the Shared Memories anomaly series.

@IUENG

Shared Memories Rules - Pt. 5
Anomaly Events

These are the main events for every Anomaly Season! Agents will be able to live an action-packed weekend by participating in an Anomaly Weekend.
As far as Anomaly Points distribution is concerned, two main challenges will take place during the Anomalies, spanning across a total of 3 hours. These will distribute 200 Season Points to the Factions.

Anomaly Zone Event: Battle Beacons - 93 points total
NIASection14 will deploy Rare Battle Beacons inside the Anomaly Zone in 6 waves, lasting 30 minutes each.
🔸Agents will attempt to win the three phases of the Battle Beacons to earn up to 2+3+4 Beacon Points.
🔸A subset of the Portals on which these Beacons will be spawned will be activated as a Volatile Battle Beacon worth 3x the regular score, so up to 6+9+12 Beacon Points.
🔸Battle Beacon Category will not influence the score.

The waves with the highest score for each Faction will be used to distribute the 93 Season Points assigned to this challenge.

Anomaly Zone Event: Flash Shards - 93 points total
In each Anomaly Site, 6 waves of 13 Shards each will spawn at 30 minutes intervals, along with 4 fixed Target Portals per Faction.
🔸Agents will attempt to score a shard, by linking it to their Faction's Target Portal.
🔸Shards only travel along Links connecting L4+ Portals
🔸If multiple links to L4+ Portals exist on a Shard, it will randomly select one.
🔸Shards will not backtrack to a Portal they've been on in the prior 25 minutes.
🔸Shards will teleport to another Portal if not moved for 25 minutes.
🔸Maximum 4 Shards per wave can be scored on a single Target. Successive Shards will be worth 0 points.

The waves with the most Shards captured per Faction will be used to distribute the 93 Season Points assigned to this challenge.

The remaining 14 Season Points will be distributed during NIA TKO Stealth and Urban Challenges. More on this later 💪

⚠️ Portal Immunity Instability will be in effect during these events! We will explain this mechanic in a later post.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-sharedmem#site-rules

@IUENG

Shared Memories Rules - Pt. 6
Portal Immunity Instability

For Shard Skirmishes and Anomaly Events, Portals will experience instability in their immunity periods for ADA Refactors and Jarvis Viruses.

Starting times
Shard Skirmishes: approx. 15:00 local time of first city
Anomaly Events: approx. 13:00 local time of first city
Ending times
Shard Skirmishes: approx. 17:40 local time of last city
Anomaly Events: approx. 18:00 local time of last city

During these windows, the “Current Immunity Period” will be modified, globally, approximately every 30 minutes, affecting all portals immediately, regardless of when they were last flipped. Immunity times will vary between 5 and 55 minutes.

When a Portal flip is attempted using a Jarvis Virus or ADA Refactor, the time of the last flip will be compared to the “Current Immunity Period”, not the Immunity Period from the time of the last flip.

Here is a practical example:
-At time 15:00:00 the immunity period is set to be 50 minutes.
- An Agent successfully flips a Portal at 15:22:00.
- At 15:30:00, the Immunity Period changes to be 10 minutes long. Since the last flip happened 8 minutes ago, 2:00 minutes of immunity remain.
- At 15:31:00, an Agent attempts to flip the Portal again. The flip fails since one more minute of immunity remains.
- At 15:32:01, an Agent attempts to flip the Portal again. The flip succeeds.

ADA Refactors and Jarvis Viruses will be expended during both failed and successful flip attempts, as usual.

Nobody will be able to know these values before or during the event.
The list of values will be released after the conclusion of each event. A hash of this list will be released prior to each event, to verify that all values were pre-planned.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-sharedmem#fliptime-rules

@IUENG