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://t.me/IUENG/6657

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

@IUENG

The Buried Memories Global Link and Field Operation has concluded!

After the end of the event we stand at a final score of:

ENL 96.5 - 103.5 RES

🔵 The Resistance take the win for the Buried Memories Global Operation!

The blue Faction gains the lead by one point as the Series Score now stands at

ENL 159 - 160 RES

Source: https://twitter.com/ingress/status/1787693590384189686

@IUENG

Heading to Fantasy Basel someday from May 9th to May 11th? Keep your eye out for an NIA operative in Hall 1.1!

The NIA will conduct field monitoring at Fantasy Basel! An NIA operative will assume the cover of a Niantic staffmember to not stand out in the crowd, should you come across them you can come into contact with them via the following passphrase:

"Agents everywhere, all at once"

Giving this passphrase to the NIA operative will result in them giving you a small support package from the NIA. Keep an eye out!

Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/711

@IUENG

Just less than 48 hours remain before the first round of Shard Skirmishes will take place in the EMEA region!

Niantic has enabled ornaments on Portals where a shard will spawn during the event.

Here are the starting times in UTC for all the involved cities!

16:00 UTC
Reykjavik, Iceland 🇮🇸

15:00 UTC
Belfast, UK 🇬🇧
Norwich, UK 🇬🇧
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain 🇪🇸
Setubal, Portugal 🇵🇹

14:00 UTC
Basel, Switzerland 🇨🇭
Bonn, Germany 🇩🇪
Bydgoszcz, Poland 🇵🇱
Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦
Gävle, Sweden 🇸🇪
Haarlem, The Netherlands 🇳🇱
Hof, Germany 🇩🇪
Montpellier, France 🇫🇷
Nantes, France 🇫🇷
Ostrava, Czech Republic 🇨🇿
Pisa, Italy 🇮🇹
Stavanger, Norway 🇳🇴
Tromsø, Norway 🇳🇴
Valletta, Malta 🇲🇹

13:00 UTC
Doha, Qatar 🇶🇦
İzmir, Turkey 🇹🇷
Jyväskylä, Finland 🇫🇮
Thessaloniki, Greece 🇬🇷
Ventspils, Latvia 🇱🇻

12:00 UTC
Yerevan, Armenia 🇦🇲

⚠We have also received rumors that certain individuals will be on ground in Bonn, Pisa and İzmir, engaging in unusual activities with attending Agents. We suggest that you keep an eye out for any strange behavior.

📸 Ph: Pisa, Italy

@IUENG

Niantic released Ingress Prime v2.141.1 to the App Store and Play Store!

In the changelog for this new version, the introduction of icons for the Attack, Inventory and COMM swipe gestures is mentioned, although we were not able to find any difference in these icons comparing this new update and the previous one.

Bugfixes for this update involve the retry logic for purchases in the in-app store, the new Beacon Icon in Kinetic Capsules and the display of long titles in the News Feed list.

The update is on rollout, so it might be a little while before it reaches your device.

@IUENG

Niantic has announced a new Wayfarer Challenge!

This time the focus of this challenge are edits! Wayfinders will need to work together to resolve as many outstanding edits as possible to reach a global goal for rewards as well as to reach personal goals for personal rewards. The rewards themselves are not known yet and, although likely, the presence of an OPR Live badge tick among personal rewards has not been confirmed yet.

The countries that will be visited are Japan, USA and Germany which have the biggest backlogs of edits at the moment. While you'll still recieve normal nominations to review you'll see a higher number of edits than normal during the challenge.

This challenge will take place starting May 15, 2024 at 20:00 UTC through May 22, 2024 at 20:00 UTC.

Source: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/t/global-reviewer-challenge-race-around-the-world/10821

@IUENG

Niantic has released a new Seasonal Character medal for this year's Mother's Day: the 'ADA - Mother's Day 2024' medal!

Included with the badge is an assortment of items:

🔶2x ADA Refactor
🔶2x Jarvis Virus
🔶2x Portal Fracker
🔶5x Rare Kinetic Capsule

As this is a Character medal it is priced at 30,800 CMU (~23€). It'll be in the store from 12 May 2024 00:00 UTC to 26 May 2024 00:00 UTC.

Head over to the Store to purchase the medal!

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

@IUENG

The Shard Skirmishes for the EMEA region are over! While we prepare the post for the results we would love to see your pictures from the event! You can send them to our @IUENG_Submission_bot if you want us to post them on the channel.

We have already received images from Pisa, Izmir and Bonn (Top left, bottom left and right respectively). Notably, these three locations were part of a rumor that unknown individuals would attend the event for a, as of yet, unknown purpose. Have you noticed anything unusual? Let us know in the comments!

📷: @carlobolla (Pisa), @KodBilenAdam (Izmir), @suedschwede (Bonn)

@IUENG

The final score for the Buried Memories Shard Skirmish in the EMEA region has been announced. At the end of the day, the event concluded with a score of:

ENL 28.0 - 93.5 RES

🔵 Congratulations to the Resistance! With this event the Resistance now leads with an advantage of 66.5 points. The current series score is as follows:

ENL 187 - 253.5 RES

We'll share the detailed score results in a bit!

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

@IUENG

Here are the detailed scores for the second round of Shard Skirmishes in the EMEA Region! U stands for uncaptured shards.

🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia
ENL 4.0 - 1.0 RES U: 3
🇶🇦 Doha, Qatar
ENL 0.0 - 5.5 RES U: 2
🇹🇷 İzmir, Turkey
ENL 0.0 - 6.0 RES U: 1
🇫🇮 Jyväskylä
ENL 0.0 - 5.0 RES U: 3
🇬🇷 Thessaloniki, Greece
ENL 0.0 - 6.0 RES U: 1
🇱🇻 Ventspils, Latvia
ENL 0.5 - 4.0 RES U: 4
🇨🇭Basel, Switzerland
ENL 0.5 - 4.0 RES U: 4
🇩🇪 Bonn, Germany
ENL 0.5 - 4.5 RES U: 3
🇵🇱 Bydgoszcz, Poland
ENL 1.5 - 2.0 RES U: 6
🇿🇦 Cape Town, South Africa
ENL 0.0 - 6.0 RES U: 1
🇸🇪 Gävle, Sweden
ENL 1.5 - 2.0 RES U: 6
🇳🇱 Haarlem, Netherlands
ENL 3.0 - 2.5 RES U: 2
🇩🇪 Hof, Germany
ENL 1.0 - 4.0 RES U: 3
🇫🇷 Montpellier, France
ENL 4.5 - 1.0 RES U: 2
🇫🇷 Nantes, France
ENL 3.5 - 2.0 RES U: 2
🇨🇿 Ostrava, Czech Republic
ENL 2.5 - 2.5 RES U: 2
🇮🇹 Pisa, Italy
ENL 0.5 - 5.0 RES U: 2
🇳🇴 Stavanger, Norway
ENL 1.5 - 4.5 RES U: 1
🇳🇴 Tromsø, Norway
ENL 1.0 - 1.0 RES U: 9
🇲🇹 Valleta, Malta
ENL 0.0 - 0.0 RES U: 13
🇬🇧 Belfast, UK
ENL 0.5 - 4.5 RES U: 3
🇬🇧 Norwich, UK
ENL 1.5 - 3.5 RES U: 3
🇪🇸 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
ENL 0.0 - 4.5 RES U: 4
🇵🇹 Setubal, Portugal
ENL 0.0 - 6.0 RES U: 1
🇮🇸 Reykyavik, Iceland
ENL 0.0 - 6.5 RES U: 0

Total Score
ENL 28.0 - 93.5 RES

🔵 The Resistance captures the second Shard Skirmishes of the Buried Memories Anomaly!

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

@IUENG

We are heading into the first Anomaly weekend of the Buried Memories series! Agents from all across the world will battle it out in Naha, Japan to earn important points for their faction.

Niantic has added two new Store items to prepare for the event: A pack of 5 Aegis Shields and a pack for 10 VR Portal Shields for 9,500 CMU each. As far as we can tell there is no purchase limit imposed on these packs.

@IUENG

The first Wayfarer Challenge of 2024 has started! Starting now, you should receive edits and nominations from Japan and other challenge countries that, once reviewed, will count towards both your personal as well as the global counter.

Depending on the amount of edits and nominations that will decided on you will receive different rewards. We will list the rewards relevant to Ingress and Wayfarer here:

Global Rewards
🔸 10000 Resolutions globally:
- 20 L8 Resonators
- 20 L8 XMPs
- 20 L8 Power Cubes
- 1 Rare Shield
- 1 Rare Heat Sinks
- 1 Rare Multi Hacks

🔸 45000 Resolutions globally:
- 25 L8 Resonators
- 25 L8 XMPs
- 30 L8 Power Cubes
- 6 Rare Shield
- 3 Rare Heat Sinks
- 3 Rare Multi Hacks

🔸 90000 Resolutions globally:
- 30 L8 Resonators
- 30 L8 XMPs
- 30 L8 Power Cubes
- 6 Rare Shield
- 6 Rare Heat Sinks
- 6 Rare Multi Hacks

🔸 145000 Resolutions globally:
- 30 L8 Resonators
- 30 L8 XMPs
- 30 L8 Power Cubes
- 8 Rare Shield
- 8 Rare Heat Sinks
- 8 Rare Multi Hacks
- 1 Rare Kinetic Capsule

Personal rewards
🔸 100 edits/nominations reviewed by yourself:
- 1 Rare Kinetic Capsule
- 1 Wayfarer Upgrade

🔸 250 edits/nominations reviewed by yourself:
- 2 Rare Kinetic Capsule
- 3 Wayfarer Upgrades

🔸 500 edits/nominations reviewed by yourself:
- One badge point towards the OPR Live medal
- 3 Rare Kinetic Capsule
- 5 Wayfarer Upgrades

Note that edits will only count towards these counters if they come from one of the challenge countries while they are active! At the moment, Japan is active, but we will head towards the USA, Germany and back to Japan over the duration of the challenge according to this schedule:

Japan
5/15/2024 20:00 UTC - 5/17/2024 20:00 UTCT
USA
5/17/2024 20:00 UTC - 5/20/2024 20:00 UTC
Germany
5/20/2024 20:00 UTC - 5/21/2024 20:00 UTC
Japan (+ USA & Germany)
5/21/2024 20:00 UTC - 5/22/2024 20:00 UTC

Source: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/t/on-your-marks-get-set-takeoff-the-wayfarer-challenge-has-begun/12279

@IUENG

The Buried Memories Supporter badge as well as the Jack and Jahan 2024 badges are now available in the store! Each badge comes with the following assortment of items:

🔶Buried Memories: Supporter
- 3x Jarvis Virus
- 3x ADA Refactor
- 1x Portal Fracker

🔶 Jack Norman 2024/Jahan 2024
- 5x Kinetic Capsule
- 2x Portal Fracker

In addition to these Niantic has also re-released 2 older badges: the 855 Origins 2023 and Jahan 2016 badge! Each of them come with 10x Kinetic Capsules.

All of these bundles cost 30.800 CMU (~23€).

If you are a new badge collector, now is the perfect time to stock up on some you might have missed with 6 badges available on the store! You can check them out in the game via this link.

@IUENG

🇯🇵 This weekend is an Anomaly Weekend!

Agents have gathered in Naha, Japan for the Buried Memories XM Anomaly which will take place tomorrow, May 18th!
Here is the timetable for all that's about to happen in the Japanese city!

Ongoing
GORUCK Stealth Ops

10:00 Local / 01:00 UTC
GORUCK Urban Ops

14:00 - 17:00 Local / 05:00 - 08:00 UTC
XM Anomaly!

Ingress Mission Day and Operation Clear Field will be held the next day, May 19th!

The undivided attention of the Ingress Community will be on Naha this weekend!
We are looking forward to seeing which Faction will capture this event.

📸 Send your pictures and reports in our discussion group or to @IUENG_Submission_bot!

@IUENG