Ingress Updates [ENG]

2023-03-06 16:19:26 Is it now possible to purchase a subscription to the Ingress Origins collection! As a reminder, each kit will cost 27 USD + shipping.

Head over to https://nianticsupply.com/pages/ingress-origins!

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2023-03-01 23:51:51 Our sources managed to find some more info about the Ingress Origin collection on the Niantic Supply website!

Information in this post may change before the kits are released. Treat this as a rumor.

- Each kit will cost 30 USD if purchased separately (assuming it will be possible to do so)
- The subscription including all 8 kits will cost 216 USD (27 USD x 8, 10% off)
- The first kit will be shipped by March 28th, 2023.
- By purchasing the subscription, you commit for at least three months. After those you may modify or cancel your subscription anytime.

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2023-03-01 21:40:04 The following Exclusive Items will be randomly distributed among the total amount of kits ordered by Agents:
50 Silver Cards per Character
25 Gold Cards per Character
10 Onyx Cards per Character
10 VR Link Amp Cards per Kit

Source: https://nianticsupply.com/pages/ingress-origins

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2023-03-01 21:35:52 The Niantic Supply store has listed a new Swag Kit collection named Ingress Origins!

The collection features 8 exclusive kits containing new biocards of the characters and companies that gave life to the Ingress Lore:
Kit 1: IQTech + Yuri Nagassa
Kit 2: Hulong Transglobal + Victor Kureze
Kit 3: Visur Tech + Stein Lightman
Kit 4: NIA + Agent 855
Kit 5: Omnivore + Yuen Ni
Kit 6: Enoch Dalby + Susanna Moyer
Kit 7: E. Allan Wright + Ezekiel Calvin
Kit 8: Tycho + Roland Jarvis

The content of the first kit were also revealed:
- IQTech and Yuri Nagassa Character Cards (new!)
- PAC Character Card
- VR Loadout Card
- Battle Beacon Card
- IQTech Embroidered Patch and Enamel Pin
- IQTech Sticker Sheet
- Ingress Origins Envelope

Agents will be able to subscribe and receive all 8 kits as they become available, one per month! By subscribing, you will obtain:
- 10% off each kit
- One exclusive, limited-edition collectable mystery gift!

Source: https://nianticsupply.com/pages/ingress-origins

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2023-03-01 01:47:42 Organizing a field or starburst is always fun and exciting, but for these Agents, organizing something for a beloved member of their community has been, in their own words, "an absolute privilege".

This starburst was created in honour of Kuang, Agent @hydrotherion.

With him in mind, we decided to pick anchors important to him, and bring together people from both factions to collaborate and celebrate his life. As a true testament to the spirit of fun and care Kuang brought to ingress, members of both factions spent days in the lead up letting things decay and clearing the playing field.

The competition was set aside as Antwerp saw the starburst slowly begin to grow. With three green quarters and a blue one, the burst grew out then agents gathered back to the center to share laughter and the love for the game.

From the staff of IUENG, congratulations to all contributing players for their sharing your love for the game, each other and, most importantly, for your beloved friend Kuang.

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2023-02-16 10:41:39 Niantic has posted a news post where they formalized the newly introduced features: the Dual Core badge and the new Kinetic Capsule programs.

Additionally, the Ingress team announced that soon the amount of AP gained from recharging a Portal will become proportional to the quantity of XM recharged.

Finally, the team acknowledged an issue with the level of output items not being shown correctly in the Kinetic Capsule carousel. This will be fixed in the next update.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/q1-2023-misc-updates/

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2023-02-15 22:04:16 New Kinetic Capsule recipes have been added to the game!

43x L3+ Resonator → 20x L5 Resonator
45x L5+ Resonator → 20x L7 Resonator
26x L6+ Resonator → 50x L4 Resonator
28x L8+ Resonator → 50x L6 Resonator

43x L3+ XMP Burster → 20x L5 XMP Burster
45x L5+ XMP Burster → 20x L7 XMP Burster

1x ITO EN (-) + 24x L1+ Resonator → 1x ITO EN (+)
1x ITO EN (+) + 24x L1+ XMP Burster → 1x ITO EN (-)

These programs were already introduced, but they're worth reminding:

5x L8+ Resonator → 40x L1 Resonator
40x L4+ Resonator → 8x L8 Resonator

Many thanks to @RES_1upuk4p4 for the report!

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2023-02-14 12:16:01 During 2017 and 2018, Agents gathered in the Redwoods of California at Camp Navarro and on the castle Schloss Kaltenberg in Germany to team up and build so called "Portal Luminance Projects", sculptures that were brought into the game as portals with the unique opportunity to react according to the in-games state of the portal. Due to the immense work that went into them, Niantic preserved the portals and Portal Keys as memorabilia and moved them to Antarctica after the events were over, promising that these portals would never be deleted.

Now, almost 5 years later, these portals have been deleted. After a report of a player from another Niantic game on the Wayfarer forums, the portals were deleted by Niantic believing them to be a result of Wayfarer abuse. The community immediately challenged this decision with Niantic stating they overturned the decision 4 days later. However, over a week after advising the return of the portals, neither the portals or keys have returned to the scanner.

Agents that visited these events are understandably very angry and have repeatedly asked Niantic why the portals have not been brought back online yet, with a lot of them feeling betrayed and considering leaving the game. However, Niantic has yet to respond to these questions.

Have you visited one of these events or participated in building a PLP? You can voice your opinions and/or support of the restoration of the portals here: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/21058/camp-navarro-portal-removed-due-to-ignorance-of-wayfarer-team

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2023-02-10 02:24:07 As announced in Niantics latest news post, the "Roland Jarvis 2023" and the "Ollie Lynton-Wolfe 2023" loadout kits are now available in the store. Each kit costs 30800 CMU (Minimum: $20 / €24 per badge) and includes the respective medal as well as some items. The kits are limited to 1 per agent.

These medals continue the trend of the characters seemingly being generated using AI. As with the PAC and Hank Johnson medals from the Epiphany Dawn anomalies as well as the Klue and K medals from Superposition, which are also using artwork generated by AI, this does not seem to indicate that new actors were hired. On the NL-1331 site for SXSW, we can also observe the backgrounds being generated by AI, which seems to mark a new trend within the Ingress's team.

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2023-02-10 00:49:31 Ingress 2023 events announcement

MZFPK anomaly - Medal with 6 tasks to complete

18 March 2023
- Global

Echo anomaly - Medal only on site

22 April 2023
- Jacksonville, FL, USA [Primary]
- City of Baguio, Philippines
- Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

20 May 2023
- Brisbane, Australia [Primary]
- Brighton, UK
- Montevideo, Uruguay

17 June 2023
- Athens, Greece [Primary]
- Ueda, Nagano, Japan
- Winnipeg, Canada

Ctrl anomaly - Medal only on site

15 July 2023
- Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia [Primary]
- Bandung, Indonesia
- Rotenburg a.d. Fulda, Germany

19 August 2023
- Oslo, Norway [Primary]
- Charleston, WV, USA
- Songpa, Seoul, South Korea

16 September 2023
- Kobe, Japan [Primary]
- Reims, France
- Tacoma, WA, USA

Discoverie anomaly - Medal only on site

14 October 2023
- Madrid, Spain [Primary]
- Curitiba, Brazil
- Taichung, Taiwan

18 November 2023
- Bangkok, Thailand [Primary]
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Palermo, Italy

16 December 2023
- Honolulu, HI, USA [Primary]
- Colombo, Sri Lanka
- İzmir, Turkey

Other events

11 March - SXSW, Austin, TX, USA - NL1331 & Mission day

19 March - Ome, Tokyo, Japan - Mission day

2023 Mission day form request will be open soon

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2023-mzfpk/

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