The channel @NotNianticUpdates has received a small package, and in between pieces of bread was a small thumb drive containing only this video. To ensure that nothing stays hidden, they have elected to share an Ingress Report of Alicia Moyer.

While this is not an official episode of the Ingress Report, it perfectly captures the feel of one and recaps the event of the Cryptic Memories anomaly series as well as giving a look ahead towards the Buried Memories series. If you miss the Ingress Report you don't want to miss this episode. At the moment, it is unknown who has created this episode and why they elected to share it with @NotNianticUpdates.

Watch this Ingress Report here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiwcXOhpxRI

Update: The creators have revealed themselves! Huge thanks to @KodBilenAdam and @Katvinci for their great work! You can find more designs from @Katvinci in her channel @KatvinciDesign. We look forward to the next episode if another one is planned!

@IUENG

Agents are reporting the silent introduction of a new Kinetic Capsule Program!

This program is 8km long and will transform 1x Apex into 20x L8 Resonators.

While this may not seem like the most advantageous trade, some Agents have been complaining about having too many Apex in their inventory that they don't want to activate as it would be "undeserved" AP. With this program they can finally start to chop away at their Apex pile and start to free up some inventory space.

@IUENG

Don't want to walk 8km and don't need L8 Resonators? Niantic has also enabled the option to now directly recycle Apex from the inventory! It will show a new message before you recycle them to make absolutely sure you want to delete them.

This is the only premium item that is recyclable at the moment. It's not known if there are plans to enable this feature for other Boosts.

@IUENG

Swag lovers, we have some good news for you: Ingress Agents @MrChics strikes again!

This time, he created this new t-shirt design inspired by the design of the Founder Medal.
This is the right piece of clothing for old-school Agents, who've known the game since its inception!

The t-shirt is available in sizes from S to 3XL and it costs 25$, and it is possible to customize it by adding your Agent name on the back side of it for 5$.
This price excludes shipping. Contact @MrChics on Telegram to learn about payment methods, calculate the shipping price or ask for by-hand delivery at the Chicago Anomaly on May 25th!

Source: https://t.me/IngressMrChics/6

@IUENG

The Ingress Forums have been set to read-only mode in preparation for their dismissal.

To help you find your way in the Ingress community, we have collected some of the services which have been highlighted as a possible alternative for the time being. We encourage you to help us expand this list by suggesting any service which could be useful to the community.

🔸Social interactions
Niantic has advised to get involved in the r/Ingress subreddit for SITREPs, stories, event pictures and such.
Many alternative platforms also exist such as Telegram, with many cross-faction (such as ourselves, @IUENG) and faction-oriented channels.
The #ingress hashtag is usable on all social media and is monitored by Niantic.

🔸Bug Reports and Status
The procedure for reporting new bugs to Niantic is now initiated from the Scanner App. Access the help center and start a chat with the support bot to report any problems with the scanner. (Gameplay Help > Report a Bug)
The ingress.plus website has a specific section dedicated to collecting bugs from the community: this list is not monitored or used by Niantic, but gives the community an idea of what bugs are known at the moment.

🔸Official News and Announcements
The main source for all Ingress announcements is the News section on the Ingress website.
Ingress social pages are also available on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Telegram.

@IUENG

🟢🔵 Ingress Mission Day & First Saturday: Alessandria, Italy - 04/05/2024
May The 4th Be With You

The Italian Ingress community awaits you in Alessandria, a historic and vibrant city in the heart of Piedmont! Here you will be able to admire the Baroque cathedral of St. Peter and the legendary Cittadella: a magnificent star fort that dates back to the 18th century and houses a military museum with more than 1,500 uniforms, weapons and other memorabilia.
Alessandria is also home to the Borsalino Museum, historic luxury hat manufacturer that displays 2,000+ pieces of Italian high-quality head wear!

🔸Mission Day: map
Complete at least 6 of the 18 MD missions between 00:00 and 23:59 to earn a Mission Day tick/medal!

POCs:
🟢 @Danynad
🔵 @Fr3nk1

🔸First Saturday
IFS will be held at 14.30-16.30 CET, starting in Piazza della Libertà, with check-in and group photo!

POCs:
🟢 @DinoCantoia
🔵 @Swisscom84

A detailed schedule will be published in the event chat 🔜

This is the way.

@IUENG

Niantic has just revealed the details for the Buried Memories Anomaly season!

The season will consist of four distinct parts:
🔸 Global Link and Field Op
🔸 Shard Skirmishes
🔸 XM Anomalies
🔸 Bonus week

We will explain each of these parts in more detail in separate posts, but if you don't want to wait you can read through the rules for this season here: https://ingress.com/news/2024-buriedmem

@IUENG

Buried Memories: Global Link and Field Op

The Buried Memories: Global Link and Field Op is a global operation in which all Agents can take part in. The main goal of the operation is to create links and fields together with allied Agents as well as destroying enemy links and fields. A medal available in two tiers will be awarded and depending on the amount of medals each faction gains Season Points will be awarded. It will run from 12 Apr 1600 UTC to 6 May 1600 UTC

Once the event starts a new Buried Memories Global OP Points will appear in the Profile and will track points as follows:

🔸Destroying one Link: 1 Point
🔸Creating one Link: 2 Points
🔸Destroying one Field: 4 Points
🔸Creating one Field: 4 Points + Bonus Points

Bonus Points for Field creation are awarded based on two factors: MU of the created Field and a "Collaboration Multiplier".

🔸<20 MU: 1 Point x Collaboration Multiplier
🔸21-400 MU: 2 Points x Collaboration Multiplier
🔸401-40000 MU: 4 Points x Collaboration Multiplier
🔸> 40000 MU: 5 Points x Collaboration Multiplier

Bonus Points based on Collaboration:
These bonuses are awarded when more than one Agent is involved in the creation of a Field (based on unique Link owners).

🔸2 unique Agents collaborating on Field (2 owners over 3 Links): 2x multiplier of MU bonus
🔸3 unique Agents collaborating on Field (3 owners over 3 Links): 3x multiplier of MU bonus.

The maximum amount of points for one field is therefore 4 + (5 * 3) = 19 points. All Agents that have created a link for a field will be awarded with these points.

The two tiers will be awarded after reaching these thresholds:

🔸Bronze (Base): 1000 Points
🔸Silver (Advance): 10000 Points

200 Season Points will be allocated proportionally based on the number of Agents who earn one of the two Season Operation Medals. Agents who earn the Silver Tier will be worth 10x the value of Bronze tier Agents in this proportional allocation, and the score will be rounded to 1 decimal place.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-buriedmem#globalop-rules

@IUENG

Shard Skirmishes

These are hour-long Shard based operations in which Agents will score points by moving 13 Shards over links longer than 250m.

The events will take place in the following days:
🔸April 27th: 25 APAC cities
🔸May 11th: 25 EMEA cities
🔸June 8th: 25 AMER cities

Shards will manifest in three waves of 3, 4 and 6 Shards every 15 minutes starting at 16:00 local time, and will attempt to jump once 15 minutes after their spawn.

Each shard which completes a jump greater than 250m will score 0.5 Season Points for the Faction owning the link. The maximum amount of points obtainable at one of these events is therefore 6.5.

Cities where these events will take place will be revealed 10 days before the start of the event. Two days before the start of the event, the 13 spawn portals will be revealed.

🎖 Earn the Buried Memories Anomaly Medal by Interacting with the Battle Beacons spawned by NiaSection14 18 minutes before the planned Shard Jump time and by Hacking the Shard Portals. Remote support WILL NOT earn the medal.

⚠ Portal Immunity for ADA Refactors and Jarvis Viruses will experience instability globally during Shard Skirmishes. This mechanic will be explained in a future post.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-buriedmem#skirmish-rules

@IUENG

Buried Memories Anomaly sites
Agents will battle over the control of 4 cities during three separate days.

May 18th: Naha, Japan 🇯🇵
May 25th: Chicago, IL, USA 🇺🇸
June 15th: Kuching, Malaysia 🇲🇾 and Budapest, Hungary 🇭🇺

The rules for the Anomaly Site Battle Beacons haven't changed much, but there are some variations to the Shard Battle rules. Each Anomaly Site is worth up to 200 Season Points.

Anomaly Zone Battle Beacons
🔸 6 Battle Beacon waves in 3 hours, one every 30 minutes.
🔸 Each Battle Beacon is worth 2+3+4 = 9 points, based on checkpoints won.
🔸Battle category does not affect the score.
🔸Volatile Battle Beacons are worth 3x the base points.
🔸The maximum score for each faction from any of the Battle Beacon waves during the Anomaly Period is their raw score. 93 points are divided in proportion to the raw score, rounded to 1 decimal.

Flash Shards Challenge
🔸NEW: 78 Shards and 4 Target Portals will manifest over the course of the Anomaly
🔸Shards jump via L4+ links every 10 minutes starting at 14:15 local time.
🔸A new batch of 13 Shards is generated every 30 minutes starting at 14:06 local time.
🔸NEW: Shards will attempt 3 jumps before de-spawning
🔸NEW: The first 4 shards per wave secured on a Faction's Target Portal score 1 point, regardless of which faction controls the target portal at that time. Any additional Shards after the 4th for the same wave on the same target portal scores 0 points.
🔸NEW: The maximum score for each faction from any of the Shard waves is their raw score. 93 points are divided in proportion to the raw score, rounded to 1 decimal.

GORUCK Stealth Ops and Urban Ops
These challenges will divide 7 points each to the Factions, based on the final score of each Event.

🎖 Earn the Buried Memories Anomaly Medal by interacting with at least 5 NIA Battle Beacons deployed in the Anomaly Zone. This medals is different from the "Buried Memories: Global Op" medal that can be gained from the Global Op.

⚠ Portal Immunity for ADA Refactors and Jarvis Viruses will experience instability globally during Anomaly Events. This mechanic will be explained in a future post.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-buriedmem#site-rules

@IUENG

Portal Immunity Instability

For Shard Skirmishes and Anomaly Events, a new mechanic will be introduced to vary the immunity periods on Portals flipped with ADA Refactors or Jarvis Viruses.

Starting times
Shard Skirmishes: approx. 13:15 local time of first city
Anomaly Events: approx. 13:00 local time of first city
Ending times
Shard Skirmishes: approx. 17:45 local time of last city
Anomaly Events: approx. 18:00 local time of last city

During these windows, the “Current Immunity Period” will be modified, globally, approximately every 30 minutes, affecting all portals immediately, regardless of when they were last flipped. Immunity times will vary between 5 and 55 minutes.

When a Portal flip is attempted using a Jarvis Virus or ADA Refactor, the time of the last flip will be compared to the “Current Immunity Period”, not the Immunity Period from the time of the last flip.

Here is a practical example:
-At time 15:00:00 the immunity period is set to be 50 minutes.
- An Agent successfully flips a Portal at 15:22:00.
- At 15:30:00, the Immunity Period changes to be 10 minutes long. Since the last flip happened 8 minutes ago, 2:00 minutes of immunity remain.
- At 15:31:00, an Agent attempts to flip the Portal again. The flip fails since one more minute of immunity remains.
- At 15:32:01, an Agent attempts to flip the Portal again. The flip succeeds.

ADA Refactors and Jarvis Viruses will be expended during both failed and successful flip attempts, as usual.

Nobody will be able to know these values before or during the event.
The list of values will be released after the conclusion of each event. A hash of this list will be released prior to each event, to verify that all values were pre-planned.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-buriedmem#fliptime-rules

@IUENG

Bonus Week and in-app Store

The Buried Memories Bonus Week will start on Friday June 21st @ 16:00 UTC and will end on Monday, July 1st @ 16:00 UTC.

During this period, the following bonus will be in effect for all players:

🔸All actions will yield 1.331x AP
🔸Hacks on friendly Portals will yield 1.331x amount of gear

In the in-app store, the following packs will be available for purchase from May 17th to June 30th:

🔸 Buried Memories Loadout Kit with Jahan 2024 medal (30.800 CMU)
🔸Buried Memories Loadout Kit with Jack Norman 2024 medal (30.800 CMU)
🔸Limited-time Buried Memories Supporter medal kit with Buried Memories: Supporter medal (30.800 CMU)

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-buriedmem#bonusweek-n-iap

@IUENG

Are you worried about losing some important information due to the imminent Ingress Community Forum shutdown on April 15th?

Well, fear no more! The awesome team behind Ingress.Plus, in particular @dedo1911 and @DrJest, have archived the entirety of the Community Forum and uploaded it to the platform!

By visiting the link below, Agents are now able to visit a read-only copy of the Ingress Community Forum and find all posts, announcements and bug reports created up until April 3rd!

Check the archive out at https://community-archive.ingress.plus!

@IUENG

The new Wayfarer forums are online!

Niantic has recently opened access to the new version of the platform.
The forums can be accessed with your Niantic ID, and are not visible without logging in.

Curious to check them out? Visit community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com!

The old version forums can temporarily still be accessed by visiting wayfarer.vanillacommunities.com however, they will be deleted around April 15th.

For the more technical users, the new Wayfarer forum is based on the open source framework Discourse.

Thanks @PkmnTrainerJ for reporting!

@IUENG

Niantic has released a statement clarifying some of the rules for the upcoming Buried Memories Series. The main clarifications were regarding the Immunity Window Instability, which we previously reported about. (The previous post will be updated)

Niantic has clarified that the “Current Immunity Period” will be modified, globally, approximately every 30 minutes, affecting all portals immediately, regardless of when they were last flipped.

When a Portal flip is attempted using a Jarvis Virus or ADA Refactor, the time of the last flip will be compared to the “Current Immunity Period”, not the Immunity Period from the time of the last flip.

Here is a practical example:
-At time 15:00:00 the immunity period is set to be 50 minutes.
- An Agent successfully flips a Portal at 15:22:00.
- At 15:30:00, the Immunity Period changes to be 10 minutes long. Since the last flip happened 8 minutes ago, 2:00 minutes of immunity remain.
- At 15:31:00, an Agent attempts to flip the Portal again. The flip fails since one more minute of immunity remains.
- At 15:32:01, an Agent attempts to flip the Portal again. The flip succeeds.

ADA Refactors and Jarvis Viruses will be expended during both failed and successful flip attempts, as usual.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-buriedmem#fliptime-rules

@IUENG

Niantic has released an update regarding supported Android devices.

Starting with the current 2.138 update Ingress only supports devices that pass the Google Play Integrity check with both "BASIC_INTEGRITY" and "DEVICE_INTEGRITY". Users that do not meet this requirements are not supposed to log into Ingress anymore, although this is currently only enforced by disabling the ability to download or update Ingress from Google Play.

Starting 27 May 2024, phones additionally need to pass the "STRONG_INTEGRITY" check to access the scanner. This check will fail if you are not running a stock firmware with a locked bootloader as rooting, a custom OS and an unlocked bootloader will fail this check. As this check uses hardware attestation, it cannot be circumvented and will also fail on older phones that do not have the hardware for this security check.

To check if you are affected by this change, you have two options:
🔸Starting with update 2.140, Ingress will show you a message if your device does not meet strong integrity
🔸You can enable the developer options in Google Play to run a integrity check. Read through https://developer.android.com/google/play/integrity/additional-tools#check-device to see how to run this check. If the check does not show the label [MEETS_STRONG_INTEGRITY] then you'll be affected by this change. The picture above shows the result of a phone that does not meet the requirements.

Should you not meet strong integrity you can try to revert to a stock firmware with a locked bootloader. If you still fail the check you'll need a different device to continue playing.

Niantic has created a Google Form through which you can share your device information and your integrity check results with them. Should you fail the integrity check we urge you to report your results here: https://forms.gle/NyfGSpeqhjCSsjKE6

Source: https://niantic.helpshift.com/hc/en/3-ingress/faq/4495-ingress-is-not-supported-on-this-device-configuration-error-android-only/

@IUENG

⚠ Niantic has announced that, due to an issue with scoring in the first hours of the Buried Memories Global Link and Field challenge, the Event has been prolonged by 2 hours until May 6th @ 18:00 UTC!

Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/696

Want to know if you're on track to earn your Buried Memories: Operation medal?

The Other Room and @SpineyNorman have a very handy web page which shows you how many points you should have at the current time to be considered 'on track' towards each of the medal Tiers.

Visit it now at https://ingress.otheroom.com/!

@IUENG

Niantic has revealed the 25 locations for the APAC Shard Skirmishes on April 27!

🔸Wellington, New Zealand 🇳🇿
🔸Gold Coast, Australia 🇦🇺
🔸Newcastle, Australia 🇦🇺
🔸Hobart, Australia 🇦🇺
🔸Asahikawa, Japan 🇯🇵
🔸Akita, Japan 🇯🇵
🔸Matsue, Japan 🇯🇵
🔸Miyazaki, Japan 🇯🇵
🔸Goyang, South Korea 🇰🇷 (replaces Gwangju due to event conflict)
🔸Kaohsiung, Taiwan 🇹🇼
🔸Iloilo City, Philippines 🇵🇭
🔸Makassar, Indonesia 🇮🇩
🔸Denpasar, Indonesia 🇮🇩
🔸Yogyakarta, Indonesia 🇮🇩
🔸George Town, Malaysia 🇲🇾
🔸Phuket, Thailand 🇹🇭
🔸Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 🇻🇳
🔸Da Nang, Vietnam 🇻🇳
🔸Kolkata, India 🇮🇳
🔸Bengaluru, India 🇮🇳
🔸Mumbai, India 🇮🇳
🔸Galle, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
🔸Male, Maldives 🇲🇻
🔸Almaty, Kazakhstan 🇰🇿
🔸Tashkent, Uzbekistan 🇺🇿

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

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

@IUENG