The Drone apparently got upgraded with an afterburner! The animation for moving the Drone has been sped up, drastically reducing the waiting time before hacking the new Portal.

(GIF not sped up)

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Dev Diary about the new Scanner Rendering has been posted!

https://ingress.com/news/2024dev-scannerrenderingupdate

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Some interesting stuff:

- Greatly reduced post-processing, which might fix the bug some people experienced when OCing that causes thin Glyph lines to appear
--> If you updated and still experience this bug, please open a bug report in the app

- Average Scanner app startup time from cold start is 2.3 seconds faster
- Average Drone move time is 1.0 second faster
- Average Agent Profile open time is 0.5 seconds faster

- Native Refresh Rate is the standard of the new rendering system Unity uses, as the native refresh rate of a device is generally best for the battery life as it reduces extra work to "throttle" Ingress

- Niantic mentiones once again that Ingress is intended to "stay long-term", even though the team working on it is quite small

Do read through the full article, it is quite interesting anyway: https://ingress.com/news/2024dev-scannerrenderingupdate

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We are aware of a login issue affecting Facebook login for all Niantic apps. We are working with Facebook to address this issue. In the meantime, please try another login method if one is available.

If you are unable to access Niantic Apps after upgrading from Android 14 to Android 15, please double check that location services are enabled for each application.
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The latest update changed a lot of code related to rendering in the game which also came with a few bugs. Some of them have been confirmed by Niantic via various Social Media comments from Brian and Alex, the technical designer that has worked on the update. We have compiled a small list below.

🔸No colors when scanning
When recording a Portal Scan, the camera feed does not reflect the color of the Portal and you cannot see which area you have already scanned.
NIA comment (Brian): "This is a known issue [...]. We're still investigating different options here."

🔸Thin glyph lines during Overclock
Even though Niantic hoped that it was fixed with the latest update, it sadly still appears from time to time.
NIA comment (Alex): "Ah, thats a shame. It seems to be the most elusive bug."

🔸Visibility issues under multi-layered fields
In an area with multiple layered fields, other Links, Portals and roads are hard to see.
NIA comment (Alex): "Signal received. I am investigating this issue now. [...] We will definitely fix this in the next update."

(Note that these comments come from the personal Social Media accounts of Brian and Alex and are therefore not written 'professionally'. Don't mind the more casual wording.)

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Attending an Anomaly today and hacking Covert Caches? Make sure to upload your Media to ingress.plus/media after the Anomaly is over to help in the preservation efforts of Media!

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A new Campaign awaits every day from 22 Dec to 31 Dec!
Unlock special rewards and get ready for the "New Year 2025" medal, coming to the store on 1 Jan.

Read more: https://ingress.com/news/2024-newyearcountdown2025

#Ingress #NewYear2025

🤖 ML AUTO DECISION ISSUE

NianticTintino has shared a post that the ML system had an issue causing some incorrect auto-accepts and incorrect auto-rejects.

It has now had it’s auto-reject feature re-enabled but the auto-accept of ML is still being investigated so you won’t see any quick accepts now.

In the meantime, all nominations and edits that are not automatically rejected will continue to be reviewed by the community.

Niantic is sending out their annual survey asking Agents for feedback and opinions on some questions. This year the survey includes some interesting "What if" questions such as what would need to be included in a higher tier of C.O.R.E. for you to subscribe to it or how you feel about some ideas regarding new features.

Check your emails and make sure to fill out the survey! We will post interesting questions here once we get access to it as well.

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The Countdown to 2025 event has started ! These are the assignments for Day 1:

Assignment 1/2
Complete 1 Bounty to advance
Reward: x1 Firework

- Hack any 25 Portals
Reward: 25 AP

- Destroy 25 Resonators
Reward: 25 AP

Assignment 2/2
Complete 1 Bounty to advance
Reward: x1 Firework

- Deploy 25 Resonators
Reward: 25 AP

- Recharge Portals with 2,025 XM
Reward: 25 AP

Remember that you have to complete this Assignment today, as it will expire at midnight and will be replaced with a new set of Assignments!

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