The Scanner is currently experiencing some issues related to Bounties and tasks not counting. Niantic is aware and is investigating.

Source: https://www.tg-me.com/NianticOfficial/697

UPDATE: Agents are reporting that the Bounties have caught up again and are now once again counting.

@IUENG

Niantic shared the official 2024 template for Agent Biocards!

The style of this new design is inspired by the Buried Memories Series which will accompany us for this period.

In the picture above, we can see an example of all the four variants available in the template pack, featuring the POCs for the Naha Anomaly!

We think they look awesome, if you want to check the files out for yourselves, visit this link to download the Adobe Illustrator files.

Source: https://www.tg-me.com/NianticOfficial/699

@IUENG

🇯🇵 Niantic has revealed the playbox for the upcoming Anomaly in Naha, Japan on May 18th!

This playbox is incredibly big, so we expect a very high number of players will be in the city to control all those Portals!

Check out the playbox on the Intel Map at this link!

@IUENG

The Earth Day 2024 event has started! Until Tuesday, 23 April 1600 UTC all XM gained from recycling is doubled. This includes XM from Power Cubes, making them essentially x2 effective as well as long as you recycle them from your inventory!

The Earth Day 2022 medal is also now in the store for 2.500 CMU and includes not only the medal but also three Via Lux and Via Noir Beacons each as well as four Peace Beacons for a total of ten Beacons.

@IUENG

🇺🇸 The playbox for the upcoming Anomaly in Chicago, IL, USA has been ornamented!

This Event will take place on May 25th, one week after the Anomaly in Naha, Japan.

Check the playbox out on the Intel Map!

@IUENG

Niantic has added a new Store bundle for the current Buried Memories Field Op: the "Link + Field Supply" kit!

Included in the kit are 300 L1 Resonators as well as 10 Rare Heat Sinks. The kit can only be bought once, however this limit will be reset regularly at a as of yet unknown schedule.

You can get the kit in the Ingress in-app store here!

@IUENG

Niantic added up to three small, free item bundles in the store! These bundles are not visible to everyone, but members of our discussion group speculate that they are shown based on these factors:

🔶2x L4 Power Cube bundle - Everyone
🔶1x L8 Power Cube bundle - Recursed Agents only
🔶1x Rare Kinetic Capsule - C.O.R.E. agents only

Let us know what bundles you can see and help us confirm our speculations!

Tap on this link to quickly open the store in the Scanner.

EDIT: Thanks to the comments we can confirm that there seems to be some unknown criteria for choosing which bundles are visible to agents. Feel free to comment to help us get to the bottom of this!

EDIT 2: Niantic confirms that the Rare Kinetic Capsule is for CORE Agents and that "Recursed Agents and Regular Agents also have something waiting" for them: https://www.tg-me.com/NianticOfficial/702

@IUENG

It seems like we will regularly get new, free items in the store going forward! When these items rotate, whether it'll be the same bundles each time and what the requirements are for seeing specific bundles is still unknown, but we encourage you to check back into the store from time to time!

📷: @Polarsight

EDIT: Niantic seems to confirm that the visibility of the packs does seem to depend on whether you're a Regular Agent, Recursed and/or subscribed to CORE: https://www.tg-me.com/NianticOfficial/702

@IUENG

Niantic published the first score update for the Buried Memories Global Link and Field Op!

About halfway into this challenge, the Resistance is in the lead, with the score currently standing at

ENL 97.6 - 102.4 RES

This challenge will continue until May 6th @ 18:00 UTC! (Time extended due to scoring issues at the start of the Event)

All details in our previous post!

Source: https://twitter.com/ingress/status/1783232197110927585

@IUENG

In just a few hours the first round of Shard Skirmishes will take place in the APAC region, bringing more points to the Factions in the Buried Memories Anomaly series! Here are the starting times in UTC for all the involved cities!

4:00
🇳🇿 Wellington, New Zealand

6:00
🇦🇺 Gold Coast, Australia
🇦🇺 Newcastle, Australia
🇦🇺 Hobart, Australia

7:00
🇯🇵 Asahikawa, Japan
🇯🇵 Akita, Japan
🇯🇵 Matsue, Japan
🇯🇵 Miyazaki, Japan
🇰🇷 Goyang, South Korea

8:00
🇹🇼 Kaohsiung, Taiwan
🇵🇭 Iloilo City, Philippines
🇮🇩 Makassar, Indonesia
🇮🇩 Denpasar, Indonesia
🇲🇾 George Town, Malaysia

9:00
🇮🇩 Yogyakarta, Indonesia
🇹🇭 Phuket, Thailand
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
🇻🇳 Da Nang, Vietnam

10:30
🇮🇳 Kolkata, India
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, India
🇮🇳 Mumbai, India
🇱🇰 Galle, Sri Lanka

11:00
🇲🇻 Male, Maldives
🇰🇿 Almaty, Kazakhstan
🇺🇿 Tashkent, Uzbekistan

@IUENG

The Shard Skirmish events are starting in the APAC region and Niantic added a limited-time Shard Skirmish Supply kit to the in-app store!

This pack costs 11.000 CMU and contains:
-50x L8 XMP Burster
-10x L8 Resonator
-10x L7 Resonator
-30x L6 Resonator
-30x L5 Resonator
-2x Very Rare Portal Shield
-2x ADA Refactor
-2x Jarvis Virus

This package can be purchased more than once per Agent.

@IUENG

Shard Skirmishes are still ongoing in the APAC region, with the next events starting in about half an hour in India and Sri Lanka!

In the meantime, we want to see you in action or posing with your Faction! Send your pictures to @IUENG_Submission_Bot and the best ones will be featured on the channel!

Agent @markymarkmark starts us off with his pictures of the ENL team in Iloilo City, Philippines, after finishing the Event and while waiting for the results! We hope you all had fun today!

@IUENG

Golden hour in Yogyakarta, Indonesia where this group of Resistance Agents battled the Enlightened during this first Shard Skirmish!

We are now waiting for the scores of this event, but we are willing to bet that the Agents enjoyed their afternoon chasing Shards!

Good job, guys and gals!

Photos by: @projectronic, @Yohanes17

@IUENG

Gameplay shots from the Agents on the field in Makassar, Indonesia!

These guys get to the Shards real fast with their motorcycles, be careful on the road!

Thank you for sharing these pictures, we hope you enjoyed this afternoon of fun with your friends and fellow Enlightened!

Photos: Agent TheVoidEmperor

@IUENG

Niantic published the scores for the first round of Shard Skirmishes in the APAC Region! U stands for uncaptured shards.

🇳🇿 Wellington, New Zealand
ENL 4.5 - 0.0 RES U: 4
🇦🇺 Gold Coast, Australia
ENL 2.0 - 1.5 RES U: 6
🇦🇺 Newcastle, Australia
ENL 2.0 - 2.5 RES U: 4
🇦🇺 Hobart, Australia
ENL 4.5 - 1.0 RES U: 2
🇯🇵 Asahikawa, Japan
ENL 2.0 - 3.0 RES U: 3
🇯🇵 Akita, Japan
ENL 3.5 - 1.0 RES U: 4
🇯🇵 Matsue, Japan
ENL 3.5 - 3.0 RES U: 0
🇯🇵 Miyazaki, Japan
ENL 3.5 - 2.0 RES U: 2
🇰🇷 Goyang, South Korea
ENL 2.5 - 1.0 RES U: 6
🇹🇼 Kaohsiung, Taiwan
ENL 4.0 - 1.0 RES U: 3
🇵🇭 Iloilo City, Philippines
ENL 5.5 - 0.0 RES U: 2
🇮🇩 Makassar, Indonesia
ENL 5.0 - 0.0 RES U: 3
🇮🇩 Denpasar, Indonesia
ENL 0.0 - 5.5 RES U: 2
🇲🇾 George Town, Malaysia
ENL 0.0 - 6.0 RES U: 1
🇮🇩 Yogyakarta, Indonesia
ENL 1.0 - 4.5 RES U: 2
🇹🇭 Phuket, Thailand
ENL 1.0 - 0.0 RES U: 11
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
ENL 4.0 - 0.0 RES U: 5
🇻🇳 Da Nang, Vietnam
ENL 0.5 - 4.0 RES U: 4
🇮🇳 Kolkata, India
ENL 1.5 - 2.5 RES U: 5
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, India
ENL 5.5 - 0.5 RES U: 1
🇮🇳 Mumbai, India
ENL 1.5 - 2.5 RES U: 5
🇱🇰 Galle, Sri Lanka
ENL 3.5 - 1.0 RES U: 4
🇲🇻 Male, Maldives
ENL 0.5 - 4.0 RES U: 4
🇰🇿 Almaty, Kazakhstan
ENL 1.0 - 4.0 RES U: 3
🇺🇿 Tashkent, Uzbekistan
ENL 0.0 - 6.0 RES U: 1

Total Score
ENL 62.5 - 56.5 RES

🟢 The Enlightened capture the first Shard Skirmishes of the Buried Memories Anomaly!

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-buriedmem

@IUENG

Niantic has released Update 2.140.1 to the App Stores!

Among the updates and fixes in this version an update to brackets around Portals when the Portal is selected in certain situations was included. An unintended overlay of the Portals title in various screens was fixed together with a bug that sent you to the Alerts tab in COMM when tapping on a message you were tagged in in the bottom right of the main map screen.

While not mentioned specifically, this Update should also include a notifications to Agents with Android phones that do not meet the Strong Integrity check of the Google Play Integrity API as discussed here. If you receive this message you will not be able to play Ingress past May 27th on your phone and you will need to either use another phone or remove any modifications done to the phones operating system to ensure that you meet the Strong Integrity check.

@IUENG

Some of the following visual changes made it to the newest update:

🔸The bracket around Portals has been replaced with an animated triangle bracket. This does not only affect brackets during Missions but everywhere else as well, like in Drone View. If the brackets are shown during a mission they turn red if you can interact with them.
🔸The name and level of Portals in the Portal Details screen was moved. It is now part of the box that shows additional gameplay information for the Portal, depending on the screen (Resonators/Mods/Recharge).
🔸The item carousels have received an updated (i) icon as well as an updated restock icon, depending on the screen (Attacking/Recharging/Deploying)

@IUENG

Wayfarer is adding edits to the contribution page!

After announcing this 2 years ago, Niantic will finally list all of your submitted edits to the contribution page on Wayfarer. With this feature you will be able to see every title, description, location edit as well as every submitted picture with their current status. You will be able to upgrade these edits just like with new Wayspot submissions and, should they be denied, appeal to Niantic.

Niantic is also changing the number of available appeals to 2 in 20 days. These can be used for both new submissions and edits.

With the introduction of this feature, Niantic will phase out edit appeals via the Help Chat on May 15th.
Going forward, the only way to appeal a rejected edit will be through the management page.

This feature is expected to be online later today.

Source: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/t/edits-in-contribution-management-page/7780

@IUENG

Yesterday, our Discussion Group hosted a discussion about potential new features that Niantic could add to Ingress. This sparked a question: what are the community's most frequent Feature Requests for Ingress?

We have created a Google Form where you can tell us what new feature you'd like to see in Ingress, which existing feature you'd like to see changed or which feature you'd like to see removed! We'll collect the answers and present them in this channel in a few days. Note that you don't have to answer every question, if you just want to tell us which feature you'd like to see removed, for example, that is also possible: just leave the rest of the questions empty!

You can fill out the form at this link: https://forms.gle/o21BZjkGY727Cn3q8

Please note that this is a survey run by IUENG for the community and Niantic may or may not review the results.

@IUENG

Niantic has revealed the 25 locations for the EMEA Shard Skirmishes on May 11th at 16:00 local time!

🔸Tromsø, Norway 🇳🇴
🔸Stavanger, Norway 🇳🇴
🔸Gävle, Sweden 🇸🇪
🔸Reykjavik, Iceland 🇮🇸
🔸Jyväskylä, Finland 🇫🇮
🔸Ventspils, Latvia 🇱🇻
🔸Belfast, UK 🇬🇧
🔸Norwich, UK 🇬🇧
🔸Bydgoszcz, Poland 🇵🇱
🔸Haarlem, The Netherlands 🇳🇱
🔸Bonn, Germany 🇩🇪
🔸Hof, Germany 🇩🇪
🔸Basel, Switzerland 🇨🇭
🔸Ostrava, Czech Republic 🇨🇿
🔸Nantes, France 🇫🇷
🔸Montpellier, France 🇫🇷
🔸Setubal, Portugal 🇵🇹
🔸Pisa, Italy 🇮🇹
🔸Valletta, Malta 🇲🇹
🔸Thessaloniki, Greece 🇬🇷
🔸İzmir, Turkey 🇹🇷
🔸Yerevan, Armenia 🇦🇲
🔸Doha, Qatar 🇶🇦
🔸Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain 🇪🇸
🔸Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦

Need a refresher on the rules for the Shard Skirmishes? Read our post here: https://www.tg-me.com/IUENG/6657

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-buriedmem#events-map

@IUENG