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"It is with a heavy heart and great sadness that we report the untimely passing of our dear friend Kuang, Panda, Hydrotherion. Kuang passed peacefully at home on 03/12/2022.

Kuang was a fierce opponent, a team player and leader, and the defender of Panda Country - Where No Shard Shall Pass.

Known for his stunning designs, Kuang was a talented swag creator and provided signature content for events worldwide.

Above all, Kuang was a dear friend to many of us. We will miss you Kuang. You will live on in our heart forever.

The Wolves of Belgium

Light a Beacon

In Kuangs memory, light a beacon on Thursday evening, as a last goodbye. Beacons and message:
https://t.me/+ujodr2NEsBQwOWI8

Donate

We invite everyone to donate to the Cancer Research Institute to help their fight against cancer worldwide:
https://www.cancerresearch.org/"

From the staff, our condolences to his family and friends.

@IUENG
Ingress Updates [ENG]
The 10th Anniversary of Ingress is coming, and Agents are looking forward to participating in the celebrations! We would like to point out this awesome initiative by the cross-faction community, spearheaded by Agent @MrChics. They are coming together to createโ€ฆ
The community promised, the community delivered!
Last October, we shared with you the call to action for Agents to send a video telling about their favourite thing about Ingress.

Here is the final video created uniting the contributions from Agents all over the world!
A big big thanks to Agent @MrChics for sharing with us this awesome initiative!

"Thanks Ingress for ten years of great experiences and for unite humanity ๐Ÿ’™๐ŸŒŽ๐ŸŒ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ’š

Let's go for another 10 years!!"

https://youtu.be/Gyl3QPP_3qs

@IUENG
๐ŸŸข At the After Party in Yokohama, Japan, Niantic announced the scores for the third phase of Epiphany Dawn!

With the score of
ENL 250 - 132 RES

The Enlightened win the third phase of this Anomaly Series, bringing the final score to
ENL 617 - 351 RES
and capturing the Epiphany Dawn Anomaly Series!

Congratulations, Agents! We hope you enjoyed the series!

Detailed scores will follow soon!

Source: https://twitter.com/ingress/status/1601520777760628737

@IUENG
Epiphany Dawn: Yokohama - Detailed score

Connected Cells
ENL 58 - 42 RES
Battle Beacons
ENL 108 - 62 RES
Shards
ENL 84 - 28 RES

Phase 3 Score
ENL 250
- 132 RES

Epiphany Dawn Series Score
ENL 617
- 351 RES
The ENLIGHTENED capture the Epiphany Dawn Anomaly Series!

A big thanks to agents @absolute119966 and @NikaKor for reporting the scores!

@IUENG
FevGames has announced the return of the new and improved On-site Ingress First Saturdays!

There are a few changes compared to on-site IFS events from 2019.

๐Ÿ”ธAttendance verification
To verify your attendance at the events, you'll be required to check in with your local IFS organiser in person. You will also be required to earn at least 10.000 AP during the Event.

๐Ÿ”ธDecoding Challenge
During the Event, 11 Portals around the Base Portal listed on the FevGames website will drop media items.
Keep track of them and their origin Portal, follow the Scavenger Hunt guide provided by your local organisers and win a valuable passcode!

๐Ÿ”ธ Restocking Portals
30 minutes after the end of the event, two Portals at your Restocking location will have Frackers deployed on them. You can choose to coordinate with your fellow Agents to have one ENL P8 and one RES P8 to refill your inventory!

Online events will remain available!

Event verification requirements are about the same as for IFS@Home, including submission of the group photo, the participant spreadsheet with participation checkmarks and passcode verification.

More details, including the Organiser's Guide to IFS Events are available at the following link:
https://fevgames.net/2023-ingressfs-update/

@IUENG
Niantic has announced the schedule for Ingress Live Events in Q1 2023!

The new Anomaly Series will be called MZFPK, and will be the last one where the Anomaly Medals will be obtainable globally.
For subsequent Anomalies, medals will be only obtainable locally and the Niantic team will try to publish cities and dates 2 months in advance.

๐ŸŽ– Medal available

๐Ÿ”ธJanuary
1st - 10th
| New Year 2023 Medal ๐ŸŽ–
7th | #IngressFS
8th | #Ingress2S

๐Ÿ”ธFebruary
4th
| #IngressFS
12th | #Ingress2S

๐Ÿ”ธMarch
4th
| #IngressFS
12th | #Ingress2S
18th | MZFPK Anomaly - Earn your MZFPK Anomaly medal by completing the IQTech HexQuest. ๐ŸŽ–

Regarding Mission Days, the application form for 2023 will open soon.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2023-q1-events/

@IUENG
The lovely folks behind the Wayspotters Podcast, a podcast dedicated to exploring Niantic's POI database, have realized a special Christmas episode, where they interviewed former Niantic Product Manager for Wayfarer Danbi Lee, known to most as NianticDanbocat!

During the episode, the hosts had a chat with Danbi about her vision and view of Wayfarer during her time at Niantic, the Community Forums, S2 cells, and much more!

We invite you to hop over to your favourite podcasting platform and have a listen to this very interesting episode!

https://anchor.fm/wayspotters/episodes/50--In-Conversation-with-Danbi-Lee-former-head-of-Niantic-Wayfarer-e1n9ko7

๐Ÿคซ An even more special guest is rumored to make an appearance on the podcast in the new year!

@IUENG
The IUENG staff wishes to all Agents a Merry Christmas! ๐ŸŽ„๐ŸŽ…

...and we would like to do so, sharing with you this awesome Field Art of an angel recently created by Agents from both Factions in Haarlem, the Netherlands! ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’™

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ingress/comments/ztbpgn/a_couple_of_dutch_ingress_players_have_created_a/

The IUENG staff will take a break from the channel until January 9th (except for emergencies), to allow them to enjoy the holidays properly.
We hope that, for this festivities period, you will be surrounded by your loved ones, spend some quality time with them, but most importantly... eat plenty!

Once again, our most joyful wishes for a Merry Christmas to the whole Ingress Community, from @GigaThunder, @GloomyQueen, @InvestigateXM, @SmurfHunter, @Ishira and yours truly, @carlobolla!

@IUENG
New Year celebrations have started in the Ingress App!

The New Year 2023 badge is now available in the store for 2.500 CMU, along with a 15.000 CMU Lucky Bag Bundle containing 10x Portal Fracker and 10x Fireworks of both Factions.

Additionally, Niantic awarded the Dual-Core Badge to Agents who have subscribed to C.O.R.E for 2 years! You can see how it looks in the picture above!

Dual-Core Badge photo: @ioHpeiH

@IUENG
As 2023 is starting in the island of the Pacific Ocean (lucky you, Chatham Islands! ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ), the IUENG staff wishes a fantastic New Year to all Agents!

It's time to welcome this 2023 with joy and high spirits, remembering the best of the closing year and leaving the worst of it behind.
Enjoy the fireworks, the light shows, the toasts and why not leave your own wishes in the comments? We have plenty of Spumante!

Happy New Year! 2โƒฃ0โƒฃ2โƒฃ3โƒฃ๐Ÿฅ‚๐Ÿพ

@IUENG
Niantic has announced the retirement of the Quantum Capsule and it's replacement with Rare Kinetics Capsules.

The Quantum Capsule will no longer be hackable from Portals, and passcodes that included a Quantum Capsule will now return a Rare Kinetic Capsule in its place.

Niantic stated that the contents of any existing Quantum Capsules will be moved to the Rare Capsule.

The Rare Kinetic Capsule will also be available via the in-app Ingress Store at 2,000 CMU.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/retiring-quantum-capsule/

Forum discussion: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/20921/retiring-quantum-capsule-discussion

@IUENG
Agents have brought to our attention an interesting sweepstakes organized by Niantic: the Golden Shoes Challenge!

The lucky winners of this giveaway will win one of these prizes:
๐Ÿฅ‡a pair of custom Niantic-branded shoes! (1x)
๐Ÿฅˆ$100 gift codes for the Niantic Supply store (5x)
๐Ÿฅ‰$25 gift codes for the Niantic Supply store (10x)

Now for the fun part: how do you enter this sweepstakes?
All you need to do is download any of the Niantic games, and record at least 150KM walked by the end of the month (ET timezone)!

โš  Not everyone may be eligible to participate based on their country or age: check out article 2 of the following rules to ensure you are eligible to enter!

Rules and more info: https://nianticlabs.com/terms-golden-shoe-challenge

It's time to move! ๐Ÿ‘Ÿ

@IUENG
Niantic has published the deadline:

Quantum Capsules will be deprecated and replaced at approximately 17.00 UTC on 24 January

The Capsules will be replaced with one rare capsule and one rare kinetic capsule.
In addition, for one week from that day the distance required for all Kinetic Programs will be reduced by 50%

The Quantum Capsule will no longer be hackable from the XM Network, and any existing passcode that included a Quantum Capsule will now return a Rare Kinetic Capsule going forward.

Additional information: https://ingress.com/news/retiring-quantum-capsule/

@IUENG
Niantic has released the update notes for Ingress Prime V2.108.1!

In this update a couple new features were introduced, such as increased precision on the hack cooldown timer, which will now display the exact seconds remaining!

Minor movements of Portals in Wayfarer will not break the links connected to the Portal (links will still be connected to the original position of the portal and will be destroyed when the portal is neutralized)

The Niantic Labs Settings menu will now host a new toggle to automatically confirm item pickup, making it easier to rapidly pick up items from the ground.

Finally, the layout of the game has been updated to better accommodate iOS's Dynamic Island and camera cutouts in general.

The only note about bugfixes concerns the crashes occurring during the "Report a problem" flow, which have been corrected.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2-108-1-release-notes/

@IUENG
Ingress 2023 events announcement

MZFPK anomaly - Medal with 6 tasks to complete

18 March 2023
- Global

Echo anomaly - Medal only on site

22 April 2023
- Jacksonville, FL, USA [Primary]
- City of Baguio, Philippines
- Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

20 May 2023
- Brisbane, Australia [Primary]
- Brighton, UK
- Montevideo, Uruguay

17 June 2023
- Athens, Greece [Primary]
- Ueda, Nagano, Japan
- Winnipeg, Canada

Ctrl anomaly - Medal only on site

15 July 2023
- Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia [Primary]
- Bandung, Indonesia
- Rotenburg a.d. Fulda, Germany

19 August 2023
- Oslo, Norway [Primary]
- Charleston, WV, USA
- Songpa, Seoul, South Korea

16 September 2023
- Kobe, Japan [Primary]
- Reims, France
- Tacoma, WA, USA

Discoverie anomaly - Medal only on site

14 October 2023
- Madrid, Spain [Primary]
- Curitiba, Brazil
- Taichung, Taiwan

18 November 2023
- Bangkok, Thailand [Primary]
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Palermo, Italy

16 December 2023
- Honolulu, HI, USA [Primary]
- Colombo, Sri Lanka
- ฤฐzmir, Turkey

Other events

11 March - SXSW, Austin, TX, USA - NL1331 & Mission day

19 March - Ome, Tokyo, Japan - Mission day

2023 Mission day form request will be open soon

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2023-mzfpk/

@IUENG
As announced in Niantics latest news post, the "Roland Jarvis 2023" and the "Ollie Lynton-Wolfe 2023" loadout kits are now available in the store. Each kit costs 30800 CMU (Minimum: $20 / โ‚ฌ24 per badge) and includes the respective medal as well as some items. The kits are limited to 1 per agent.

These medals continue the trend of the characters seemingly being generated using AI. As with the PAC and Hank Johnson medals from the Epiphany Dawn anomalies as well as the Klue and K medals from Superposition, which are also using artwork generated by AI, this does not seem to indicate that new actors were hired. On the NL-1331 site for SXSW, we can also observe the backgrounds being generated by AI, which seems to mark a new trend within the Ingress's team.

@IUENG
During 2017 and 2018, Agents gathered in the Redwoods of California at Camp Navarro and on the castle Schloss Kaltenberg in Germany to team up and build so called "Portal Luminance Projects", sculptures that were brought into the game as portals with the unique opportunity to react according to the in-games state of the portal. Due to the immense work that went into them, Niantic preserved the portals and Portal Keys as memorabilia and moved them to Antarctica after the events were over, promising that these portals would never be deleted.

Now, almost 5 years later, these portals have been deleted. After a report of a player from another Niantic game on the Wayfarer forums, the portals were deleted by Niantic believing them to be a result of Wayfarer abuse. The community immediately challenged this decision with Niantic stating they overturned the decision 4 days later. However, over a week after advising the return of the portals, neither the portals or keys have returned to the scanner.

Agents that visited these events are understandably very angry and have repeatedly asked Niantic why the portals have not been brought back online yet, with a lot of them feeling betrayed and considering leaving the game. However, Niantic has yet to respond to these questions.

Have you visited one of these events or participated in building a PLP? You can voice your opinions and/or support of the restoration of the portals here: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/21058/camp-navarro-portal-removed-due-to-ignorance-of-wayfarer-team

EDIT - 14/02 18:00 UTC

Thia has responded to the concerns of the deleted PLP portals and has promised to get them back online as soon as possible.

Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/comment/185169/#Comment_185169

@IUENG
New Kinetic Capsule recipes have been added to the game!

43x L3+ Resonator โ†’ 20x L5 Resonator
45x L5+ Resonator โ†’ 20x L7 Resonator
26x L6+ Resonator โ†’ 50x L4 Resonator
28x L8+ Resonator โ†’ 50x L6 Resonator

43x L3+ XMP Burster โ†’ 20x L5 XMP Burster
45x L5+ XMP Burster โ†’ 20x L7 XMP Burster

1x ITO EN (-) + 24x L1+ Resonator โ†’ 1x ITO EN (+)
1x ITO EN (+) + 24x L1+ XMP Burster โ†’ 1x ITO EN (-)

These programs were already introduced, but they're worth reminding:

5x L8+ Resonator โ†’ 40x L1 Resonator
40x L4+ Resonator โ†’ 8x L8 Resonator

Many thanks to @RES_1upuk4p4 for the report!

@IUENG
Niantic has posted a news post where they formalized the newly introduced features: the Dual Core badge and the new Kinetic Capsule programs.

Additionally, the Ingress team announced that soon the amount of AP gained from recharging a Portal will become proportional to the quantity of XM recharged.

Finally, the team acknowledged an issue with the level of output items not being shown correctly in the Kinetic Capsule carousel. This will be fixed in the next update.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/q1-2023-misc-updates/

@IUENG
Organizing a field or starburst is always fun and exciting, but for these Agents, organizing something for a beloved member of their community has been, in their own words, "an absolute privilege".

This starburst was created in honour of Kuang, Agent @hydrotherion.

With him in mind, we decided to pick anchors important to him, and bring together people from both factions to collaborate and celebrate his life. As a true testament to the spirit of fun and care Kuang brought to ingress, members of both factions spent days in the lead up letting things decay and clearing the playing field.

The competition was set aside as Antwerp saw the starburst slowly begin to grow. With three green quarters and a blue one, the burst grew out then agents gathered back to the center to share laughter and the love for the game.

From the staff of IUENG, congratulations to all contributing players for their sharing your love for the game, each other and, most importantly, for your beloved friend Kuang.

๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’™ @IUENG
The Niantic Supply store has listed a new Swag Kit collection named Ingress Origins!

The collection features 8 exclusive kits containing new biocards of the characters and companies that gave life to the Ingress Lore:
Kit 1: IQTech + Yuri Nagassa
Kit 2: Hulong Transglobal + Victor Kureze
Kit 3: Visur Tech + Stein Lightman
Kit 4: NIA + Agent 855
Kit 5: Omnivore + Yuen Ni
Kit 6: Enoch Dalby + Susanna Moyer
Kit 7: E. Allan Wright + Ezekiel Calvin
Kit 8: Tycho + Roland Jarvis

The content of the first kit were also revealed:
- IQTech and Yuri Nagassa Character Cards (new!)
- PAC Character Card
- VR Loadout Card
- Battle Beacon Card
- IQTech Embroidered Patch and Enamel Pin
- IQTech Sticker Sheet
- Ingress Origins Envelope

Agents will be able to subscribe and receive all 8 kits as they become available, one per month! By subscribing, you will obtain:
- 10% off each kit
- One exclusive, limited-edition collectable mystery gift!

Source: https://nianticsupply.com/pages/ingress-origins

@IUENG