Ingress Updates [ENG]

2021-04-07 19:20:30 Niantic announced a new global challenge: Hack the World!

From Friday, April 9th 16:00 UTC to Monday, April 12th 16:00 UTC, we will be required to hack 3,500,000 unique Portals cumulatively (drone hacks will count)! Reaching this goal will unlock bonuses for the following event, from Friday, April 23rd 16:00 UTC to Friday, April 30th 16:00 UTC.

During the Event Agents will have the following bonuses
- 60 minutes 10 minutes cooldown time of Drone Mark l
- 2x AP for Glyph Hacking (Drone included)
- 100AP per hack on friendly Portals

Source: https://bit.ly/3rYTFFS

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2021-04-04 02:13:56 The IUENG staff wishes to all our followers a serene and, most importantly, healthy Easter!

We know that this period cannot be the happiest for obvious reasons, but we hope you will at least be able to spend this holiday safely with your loved ones.

Ingress Agents celebrated Easter as well! For example, a group of 11 German Agents from both factions created this awesome X-Faction field art depicting an Easter Egg! According to their SITREP, posted on the Community Forum, the design took from Wednesday until Friday to complete, and it is still visible on the Intel Map! Congratulations and Happy Easter, Agents!

SITREP
Video@Twitter

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2021-03-30 23:08:41 Brian has opened a thread on the Community Forums where Agents can write to have their NL-1331 Meetups medal removed, after it was found to be awarded even with normal hacks.

Please, only respond to this thread if you want your medal removed. Niantic probably runs an automatic script to remove the medal to everyone who commented under a thread no matter the content of their comment.

NL-1331 Meetups removal thread: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/14253/nl-1331-meetup-medal-awarded-for-normal-hacks

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2021-03-30 20:07:47 Niantic is aware of some issues in incrementing the NL-1331 medal and is trying to solve them. We will update this post once the issue is cleared.

Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/comment/135750/#Comment_135750

Edit: the issue is now resolved and the event has been extended until April 1st @ 18:00 UTC

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2021-03-30 19:01:18 The Global Virtual NL-1331 Meetup starts now!

Remember to glyph hack a Portal to obtain one point on your NL-1331 Meetups badge and to select the default avatar in game to see it change to the NL-1331 avatar!

The Event will end on April 1st at 16:00 UTC!

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2021-03-29 23:57:06 #rumors

John Hanke, Niantic's CEO, published a tweet about one hour ago, featuring a picture of what looks like a pair of (smart?) glasses with Niantic branding on its frames. Niantic's partnership with Microsoft and their HoloLens department was already announced at the start of March, and the progress on their new mixed reality technology seems to be proceding swiftly!

"Exciting to see the progress we’re making to enable new kinds of devices that leverage our platform..."

Source: https://twitter.com/johnhanke/status/1376624749787242499

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2021-03-29 20:43:16 Ethan Lepouttre, the famous NL-1331 van driver, directly contacted buyers of the NL-1331 Anniversary Pack which, as reported from several Agents, appear to have loadout cards missing or Character Medal codes not printed on their respective cards.

Ethan stated that a VR loadout card will be mailed by the vendor, for every purchased pack.
Additionally, in address to missing codes from Character biocards, it will be required to provide a picture of the blank cards in order for codes to be e-mailed to the buyer.

We advise that you reply to the e-mail providing the necessary details if you find that your NL-1331 Anniversary Kit is missing such codes.

Source: @InvestigateXM

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2021-03-28 14:58:10 Earlier today, Niantic's Brian Rose addressed some issues with passcodes for the NL1331 2020 medal (in the picture) not working. The codes on the new NL1331 fleet cards can now be correctly redeemed.

Additionally, Brian reported that, after distributing all the physical merch still in stock (several waves of packs to be sold), the NL1331 2020 medal will be made available to agents via a Digital Kit in the in-app store.

In case of any further issue with your packs, the Niantic shop has a support link containing a phone number or e-mail to which send your inquiries.

Sources are linked. Image by @dedo1911

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2021-03-26 23:27:27 Niantic has published the release notes for Ingress Prime v2.68.2!

In this version, a new message will appear in the COMM after a new Agent completes the tutorial: "xxxxx completed their Agent Training"

As far as bugfixes are concerned, the Layers button won't turn on anymore on the Portal Details and Mod Details screens, the inventory count will be displayed correctly on Capsule Management and Inventory Details if greater than 2000, and the C.O.R.E. Medal title now has a period after the letter E.

The team is still working on fixing COMM so it doesn't jump back to the oldest update when new updates come in, in addition to an iOS softlock when uploading a Portal Scan.

Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/14181/ingress-2-68-2-release-notes

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2021-03-26 19:08:59 Further Niantic adds:

"Thank you for your overwhelming support and interest in the 2021 NL-1331 Birthday Kit.
As a direct result of Agents’ interest in this special Kit, we’re working on restocking a new 2021 NL-1331 Birthday Kit (2.0) and anticipate having them on the Niantic Shop as early as next week."

Kindly note that some of the contents will differ from the first edition 2021 NL-1331 Birthday Kit:

- 1 *New* NL-1331 2021 fleet card and medal code.
- 1 2019 Stein Lightman card and medal code.
- 1 2019 Misty Hannah card and medal code
- 1 2015 ADA card and medal code
- 1 2019 NL-1331X Cherry Blossom pin
- 1 2017 EXO 5 lapel pin
- 1 Mobile Command Center patch
- 1 NL-1331 Global patch
- 1 NL-1331X sticker sheet
- 2 retro VR Load Out cards

At Price of $25
(shipping in the US only)

EDIT: There will be a limit in place of 10 25 packs for each order.

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