Ingress Updates [ENG]

Niantic has officially announced the Countdown to 2025 event!

You'll be able to complete sets of Bounties each day for special rewards, with the Bounties refreshing each day. They don't carry over to the next day, so make sure to complete them all each day! The event will run from the 22nd to the 31st of December local time.

Also, starting January 1st at 00:00 UTC, the "New Year 2025" festive medal will be available in the store for 2500 CMU!

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-newyearcountdown2025

@IUENG

Erased Memories - Nashville, TN, USA

Battle Beacons
Raw Score
ENL 287 - 141 RES
Total Points
ENL 62.4 - 30.6 RES

Shards
Raw Score
ENL 11 (1 unscored) - 0 RES
Total Points
ENL 93.0 - 0.0 RES

Special Ops
Stealth Ops
ENL 4 - 3 RES
Urban Ops
ENL 5.6 - 1.4 RES
Total Points
ENL 9.6 - 4.4 RES

Covert Cache
Percentage Boost
ENL 7 - 0 RES
Season Points
ENL 1 - 0 RES

Final Event Score
ENL 171.3 - 35 RES

Final Series Score
ENL 916.6 - 686.9 RES

🟢 The Enlightened capture the Erased Memories Anomaly in Nashville and win the Erased Memories Anomaly Series!

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

@IUENG

The fifth and final challenge of the GORUCK Urban OPS, a run with weights, ended with the Enlightened coming out on top!

The final score of the event is ENL 4 - 1 RES, and the Season Points awarded to each Faction are:
ENL 5.6 - 1.4 RES

The series score now stands at:
ENL 754.8 - 656.4 RES

Congratulations to all participant Agents! Now give it your best in the Anomaly Event!

Ph: @Himav

@IUENG

The fourth challenge at Nashville's Urban OPS involving pull-ups on the rings, was won by the Enlightened!

Score is now ENL 3 - 1 RES.

Ph: @Himav

@IUENG

After three challenges where steps walked by Agents were tallied, push-ups on metal bars were counted and a mental challenge on the average distance from the Agents' hometowns was held, the score of the Nashville GORUCK Urban OPS stands at

ENL 2 - 1 RES

These Agents are putting everything on the line for their Faction, with the maximum level of effort. Great work, folks! We admire you! 💪

Ph: @Himav

@IUENG

The second round of the Erased Memories Bounty Blitz has terminated!

🔵 The Resistance captures Bounty Blitz II with the score of ENL 45.5 - 54.5 RES

They slightly close the gap in the series score, which now is the following:
ENL 749.2 - 655.0 RES

The Anomaly in Nashville will decide the winner of the Erased Memories Series! The final event will start at 20:00 UTC!

@IUENG

Nashville is gearing up for GORUCK Urban Ops!

18 Agents, 9 from both teams, will go through challenges provided by the Cadre to earn up to 7 series points. Good luck, everyone!

Ph: @Himav

@IUENG

During the night, we received the final report from Agent @Himav at the Nashville GORUCK Stealth OPS, including the final score after the last three challenges featuring push-ups, sit-ups and... rock-paper-scissors!

The Enlightened clinched the win in this nocturnal physical challenge by 4-3!

Congratulations to all Agents participating! We hope they can get enough rest before the Urban OPS this morning!

Ph: @Himav

@IUENG

The second and final Bounty Blitz for the Erased Memories Anomaly is underway!

Until 17:00 UTC, Agents can complete the Bounty Blitz campaign to help their Faction earn up to 100 Season Points!

Complete at least 2 of the following Bounties
🔸Capture any 40 Portals
🔸Create 20 links
🔸Upload 5 Portal Scans
🔸Earn 20 Overclock Hack Points
🔸Earn 80 Glyph Points

These points can be crucial in deciding who wins this Erased Memories series! It's time to move!

@IUENG

The latest reports from the GORUCK Stealth OPS in Nashville say that the Enlightened are now leading the score by 3-1.

Agents have undertaken some interesting challenges such as physical exercises duels, uphill runs to the Nashville Capitol with weights on their backs, but also lots of questions on Nashville's history!

Ph: @Himav

@IUENG

🇳🇿🇺🇸 The final and decisive Erased Memories Anomaly weekend has begun for Christchurch, New Zealand and Nashville, TN, USA.

The first points have already been scored in these events, with Agents showing their strength and power in the GORUCK challenges!
The GORUCK Stealth OPS in Christchurch have concluded several hours ago with the score of ENL 2 - 5 RES.

At this time, the same event is ongoing in Nashville, with Agents reporting that the Resistance is currently leading the score, having won the first challenge! ENL 0 - 1 RES

Ph: @Himav

@IUENG

Niantic will hold a "Countdown to 2025" event! This event will run from December 22nd to December 31st and will offer special bounties to complete.

The specific details of this event, such as the Bounties, Rewards as well as other potential bonuses are unknown at the moment. Please note that this post should be seen as a rumor until Niantic officially announces the event on their news blog.

EDIT: This post earlier mentioned that the event will start on December 15. Niantic has removed the cell that mentioned this start time, which means that the event is supposed to start December 22 instead.

@IUENG

Alex, a Technical Artist for Ingress, shares details about a significant graphics update in Scanner version 2.156.1. The update upgrades the game’s rendering system to Unity’s Universal Render Pipeline (URP), focusing on performance optimization, stability, and reduced battery usage. Key improvements include:

🔸 Performance Enhancements:
- Optimized lighting and rewritten shaders to reduce processing overhead.
  - Updated rendering assets to disable unnecessary features like shadows and minimize post-processing.
  - Applied object pooling for better map performance.
  - Adjusted animations for faster app startup and interactions (e.g., faster drone moves and profile loading).

🔸Native Refresh Rate:
  - Devices now render at their native frame rate for better battery life and reduced overhead, leveraging native APIs like Metal on iOS.

🔸Results:
- The update significantly improves app startup (2.3 seconds faster), drone move times (1 second faster), and profile loading times (0.5 seconds faster).

Alex emphasizes that while some visual elements may differ slightly and there may be some bugs, the goal is to ensure long-term scalability and performance for Ingress as the team is quite small.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024dev-scannerrenderingupdate

@IUENG

Niantic has released Update 2.156.2 into the App Stores!

As already teased by Brian, the render pipeline of the scanner has been improved which should result in a faster start up time when opening the app as well as general performance improvements. First reports by Agents indicate that the improvements are noticeable.

Interestingly, the app icon which has been changing for every anomaly season since the Echo Anomaly series has been changed back to the standard purple app icon instead of being given a new look for the +Alpha Anomaly series.

@IUENG

The Events section of the Intel map is now active!

Using the Events tab will show you the events with a confirmed start date that are also currently shown in the Campaign tab in the Scanner. As of right now this only includes the Second Sunday, but should show the upcoming 2sDay and the second round of the Bounty Blitz once their start time is added as well. You can add these events into your Google Calendar as well with a simple click!

Note that there seems to be a bug which prevents some Agents from viewing the Events page due to a misconfiguration involving time zones when trying to access the page. You can use this link in the meantime, but note that the times shown are UTC, not local time.

@IUENG