Ingress Updates [ENG]

2021-02-13 01:36:03 This is how the new Portal History looks like in the newest update! Red shows Portals you have captured, Purple is portals you have visited, and Yellow shows all portals you have claimed Scout Controller at. With this update, the markers for the volatile Scout Controller portals have been hidden from the normal map view unless you enable the Scout Controller layer.

Thank you @InvestigateXM for reporting

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2021-02-13 00:01:30 A new update has been released for Ingress Prime!

v2.65.1 brings the previously announced Portal History feature to the Ingress app!
After all Agents will have access to this new update, the markers you can see in the picture above will be added to the game to highlight visited, captured or scanned Portals.

N.B. The team is already aware of a known issue where Portal History rings disappear when a Portal's Level changes, and are working on a fix.

The only bugfix reported in the changelog involves the regional scoreboard timer, which went negative after a septicycle ended.

Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/13571/ingress-2-65-1-release-notes

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2021-02-12 19:48:14 After their commitment for a change, pledged following the rise of the anti-racist movement #blacklivesmatter, Niantic has undertaken actions aimed at "supporting our Black and underrepresented minority employees, empowering all employees to combat systemic racism and social injustice, and creating powerful, scalable impact through the culture, ideas, and role models we help to create."

As one of the multiple results of this effort, Niantic has created the Black Developers Initiative program (BDI), providing access, opportunity, resources, and mentorship to Black game and AR developers.

"The BDI mission is to fund new projects from Black game development teams - ranging in size from newer, indie teams to larger, veteran studios - for the purpose of building game prototypes that can live on the Niantic platform. Selected BDI teams will be provided with funding for five months of development, executive mentorship, and development support from members of the Niantic team. They will also join a growing community of peers and program alumni who they can continue to build relationships with beyond the duration of the program. At the end of the five months, development teams will have created a playable prototype and a pitch deck for a real-world augmented reality game."

In the article, John Hanke stated that Niantic has already signed a Black and Women-led game development studio, W!CKED SAiNTS Studio, and shared a youtube video which presents the new entry in the Niantic world and explains the partnership between the two. It is visible at

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Source: https://nianticlabs.com/blog/black-developers-initiative/?hl=en

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2021-02-12 02:53:39 A new special event has been announced in the Community Forum!

To celebrate the Lunar New Year, the following features will be enabled from Friday, February 12th @ 5PM UTC to Tuesday, February 16th @ 5PM UTC:

• Deploy up to 4 L5 and 4 L6 Resonators per Portal
• L4 to L6 XMP will deal 1.5x damage (while not increasing attack radius)
• 2x Resonator and Power Cubes drop rate from friendly Portals
• 100AP for Portal Recharge

Additionally, the following bundles will be available in the in-app store:
Wrapped in Red Bundle (0 CMU)
1 Portal Fracker
1 Resistance Fireworks
1 Enlightened Fireworks

Lucky Resonator Bundle (2,000 CMU)
20 Level 5 Resonators
20 Level 6 Resonators

Special discount: 1 Portal Fracker (2,000 CMU)

As always, we join Niantic in recommending all players to follow health and safety guidelines while playing Ingress. Be safe out there!

Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/13552/coming-soon-special-lunar-new-year-weekend-event

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