Ingress Updates [ENG]

We have drawn the winners for our Badge Giveaway!
Big congratulations to Agents:

-MjkingSF
-OriginCode
-13a13
-gnarfer
-Kyrio1007

We are contacting them to ask which Badge they'd like to be awarded, in case we don't receive a response within 24 hours, we will be moving down the list of drawn names.
Thank you all for participating!

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The livestream where we'll draw the lucky winners of 5 Ingress Badges will be held tonight, Jan 16th @ 20:30 UTC in our discussion group!
If you won't be able to make it, don't fret! We will contact each winner and update the original post with their names!

You can join the discussion group here: https://t.me/+NusvgkAOLD1hYmZk

Good luck, Agents!

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Niantic has announced that, in an upcoming update, they will drop Ingress' support for 32-bit devices. This announcement comes shortly after the same decision was taken for Pokémon Go, and enables the development team "to streamline their development process and focus resources on supporting newer operating systems and technologies."

End of support is scheduled for June 2025.

On the source article, you can find some examples of devices that will not be supported any longer after this deadline.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2025-deprecate32bitclients

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The Annual New Year Celebrations on Ingress: A Shift in Tradition

The annual celebrations for the New Year on Ingress have been met with contrasting opinions from the player base.

This year, Niantic has introduced a new twist on the final days of December with the 'Countdown to 2025' Campaign, which rewarded Agents with items after completing specific in-game bounties. However, many Agents voiced their disappointment with the new mechanics in our discussion group. The criticism wasn't primarily directed at the Campaign structure or tasks themselves, but rather at the rewards, which were considered insufficient motivation to complete the daily campaigns.

Up until 2023, Niantic traditionally published passcodes (whether hidden or visible) on their social platforms or hosted free packs on the in-game store. However, as many players have pointed out, this method was vulnerable to exploitation by players using multiple accounts to accumulate gear. In this light, the switch to Campaigns appears to be a logical step toward limiting cheating behavior.

A comparison of rewards between 2023 and 2024 clearly illustrates the scale of the reduction in rewards to players:

2023
- 3x Beacon
- 1x Apex
- 1x Kinetic Capsule
- 13x R Portal Shield
- 1x Aegis Shield
- 3x R Heat Sink
- 3x R Multi Hack
- 3x R Link Amp
- 5x L4 Power Cube
- 25x L8 Power Cube
- 15x Hypercube
- 25x L7 XMP Burster
- 25x L7 Resonator
- 50x L8 Resonator

2024
- 900 AP
- 4x Beacon
- 6x Firework
- 1x Apex
- 2x Portal Fracker
- 2x Aegis Shield
- 2x Kinetic Capsule
Notably, no rewards were distributed on the final day of the 2024 campaign, not even AP rewards.

While Niantic's shift to Campaign-based rewards represents a positive step toward combating exploitation and giving a fun challenge to Agents, the significant reduction in rewards has led to widespread disappointment within the community. This change aligns with Niantic's recent trend of reducing item rewards across various aspects of the game. Our hope is that future iterations of these holiday events or future reworks of Campaign rewards will benefit from a middle-ground approach that both prevents exploitation and provides meaningful rewards to legitimate players.

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