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๐Ÿšจ Attention to Agents using Facebook to log into Ingress

While we have already mentioned it in the previous post, we want to make absolutely sure that everyone is aware of the following:

Facebook will be removed as a log in method for Ingress and all related services like the Intel Map and the Mission creator.

If you are currently using Facebook as the only method to log in, you must link either a Google or an Apple account to your Ingress profile as soon as possible. If you don't, you will lose access to your account.

If you are unsure how to link another log in method, you can read through this Support article: https://niantic.helpshift.com/hc/faq/418-linking-additional-login-providers-to-your-ingress-account-1600717969/

If you already have a Google or Apple account linked in addition to Facebook, we would still strongly suggest to test if you can log in without Facebook. Any problems need to be fixed before Facebook is removed, so double and triple check that your choosen method is working.

We will update you once Niantic announces when the removal will take place.

If you don't use Facebook to log in or are absolutely sure you have another method linked, you don't have to do anything.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/getting-ready-for-niantic-spatial

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Niantic has released an announcement on both the Ingress scanner and their Telegram channel mentioning reports of a decrease in Machina's activity and Portals returning slowly to neutrality.

At the moment no further info is available, but our Intel map screens are fired up and monitoring the situation!

Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/921

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The Ingress Team has highlighted the provisional playboxes for the +Theta XM Anomalies in Manila, Philippines and Providence, RI, USA on May 17th 2025!

The playbox in Manila is roughly 1.6 by 1.0 kilometers wide. In the US, the playbox is about 1.6 kilometers by 800 meters.

If you are planning to participate in one of these events, make sure to sign up to your faction's websites in order to ensure a perfect strategical and logistical organization!

๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญManila, Philippines
๐Ÿ”ต willbe.blue
๐ŸŸข enl.rocks

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธProvidence, RI, USA
๐Ÿ”ต willbe.blue
๐ŸŸข enl.rocks

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The decrease in Machina's activity and diffusion has been proceeding at a steady rate in the previous 5 days.

Agents investigating the matter are speculating that in a few hours the population of Machina Portals will be at zero.
During this last period, Machina has visited many more portals but for less time, and its linking activity was much reduced due to the weakness of newly "infected" Portals.

In the image, you can see the current situation in a big city such as Milan, where the red links have been disappearing rapidly. You can also compare it with the situation on April 5th, in this post.
The latest message appeared on Niantic's Facebook page has teased a 'potential for rapid re-emergence', suggesting that the entity may re-appear stronger in the near future.

We will keep watching the Intel Map and the NIA's communication channels for more hints about this 'new phase' for Machina.

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Niantic has released the rules for the upcoming +Theta Anomaly Series, which will accompany us throughout Q2 2025!

Here are the main attention points for this series:
๐Ÿ”ธThe +Theta Anomaly Medal will be a 3-tiered one!
๐Ÿฅ‡: 6,000 +Theta Tokens
๐Ÿฅˆ: 4,000 +Theta Tokens
๐Ÿฅ‰: 2,000 +Theta Tokens

๐Ÿ”ธ+Theta Tokens can be obtained through Daily Bounties, the Global Campaign, +Theta Skirmishes and a special Anomaly Campaign! An additional campaign will grant rewards throughout Q2 2025 as Agents obtain +Theta Tokens.

๐Ÿ”ธ+Theta Skirmishes will take place in EMEA on May 24th, in AMER on May 31st and in APAC on June 7th, with similar rules to the +Alpha seasons. Differences will be analyzed in a separate post.

๐Ÿ”ธGlobal Shards return! Shard Singulars are a new challenge that will take place during the Series with 16 Shards spawning around the world which will score points when they jump on links! Details to be examined in a separate post.

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

@IUENG
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Machina has lost all its Portals (for now)!

The Now tab in Machinas profile is reporting 0 Portals Owned by our red friend, with about 1800 "Links Active" still shown likely due to a bug. From posts on Social Media by NISP it is clear that this is not the end of Machina and that it'll return soon, likely with new behavior.

Machina profile link: https://link.ingress.com/?link=https://intel.ingress.com/agent/__MACHINA__

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Niantic Spatial has shared more details about the upcoming split and its effects.

Next Tuesday, April 15th at 17:30 UTC, Campfire and the Niantic Profile will be disabled and removed from the game. In addition, new Portal Submission and edits will be paused together with the creation of new Missions and edits to them. This pause will persist until a new system is in place. This will likely be your last chance for a while to affect the game board via submissions, edits and missions!

Additionally, there will be a temporary disabling of creating, linking or unlinking accounts as well as a pause on distance tracking on Thursday, April 17th from 17:30 UTC to 23:30 UTC. During that timeframe you may also experience problems logging in with Apple, however Google should not be effected.

Finally, Facebook will be removed as a log in method starting with Ingress 2.165.1, the version after the next.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/getting-ready-for-niantic-spatial

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The NIA is detecting a "significant resurgence" of Machina activity!
Theories from the NIA predict that Machina will repopulate the Portal Network to the same levels as seen before.

This change comes shortly after the complete disappearance of Machina-controlled Portals from the network.
At this time, Machina still appears to control no portals, meaning that the resurgence of this entity should begin shortly.

Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/928

@IUENG
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A new Wayfarer Challenge has been announced, including rewards for Ingress!

Even though new submissions and edits will be turned off today the newest Wayfarer Challenge will still involve reviewing from Agents in exchange for an OPR Live badge tick, and this time the challenge is global! It doesn't matter from where you review the Wayspots during the challenge timeframe for them to count, and you'll also have the opportunity to switch your home and bonus location as often as you'd like.

The Challenge will run from tomorrow, April 16th, 19:00 UTC to April 23rd, 19:00 UTC. The detailed reward structure and how much you'll need to review will be announced later.

Source: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/t/global-wayfarer-challenge-discussion/85397

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+Theta Anomaly Series Rules Summary

The rules for the upcoming +Theta Anomaly Series were published a few days ago.
We've taken the time to create a summary of the most important points for each of the events which will take place in Q2 2025.

You can find our rules summary on telegraph, at this link.

The guide is divided into small chapters:
๐Ÿ”ธ+Theta Anomaly Medal, +Theta Tokens
๐Ÿ”ธ+Theta Global Campaign
๐Ÿ”ธShard Singulars
๐Ÿ”ธPortal Immunity Instability
๐Ÿ”ธ+Theta Skirmishes
๐Ÿ”ธ+Theta Anomalies - Challenges and On-site Events
๐Ÿ”ธPremium Rewards Campaign and Store Medals

We hope this tool will be useful during this series! If you have any feedback on it, let us know!

@IUENG
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Among the many layoffs that involved many in the former Niantic team, we got news that Alex Stamm, Technical Designer for Ingress has also been let go from the company. He has been the creator (or discoverer?) of many features of the Ingress Scanner, including Overclock, the Dispatch feature and many more. He was also the presenter of Overclock and Lightship VPS at AWE 2023.

(He's been sneakily hiding in our discussion group for quite some time, thinking to be invisible to our powerful systems ๐Ÿ˜)

We would like to extend to him our most heartfelt gratitude for his invaluable work for our beloved Scanner, and to all of his colleagues whose adventure in the Ingress Team is coming to an end.

Thank you for having made Ingress more than just a game! We wish you good luck on your next adventures, and hope to see you on the field!

@IUENG
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The +Theta Global Campaign has begun in the easternmost time zones of the world!

At 00:00 local time of April 19th, the Campaign will begin in your time zone as well and will run until May 11th, 23:59 local time.
Here is the list of tasks that are available for this challenge:
๐Ÿ”ธRecharge 100,000 XM
๐Ÿ”ธCapture 50 Portals
๐Ÿ”ธDeploy 200 Resonators
๐Ÿ”ธUpgrade 100 Resonators of other agents
๐Ÿ”ธDeploy 10 Portal Powerups (Fireworks, Beacons, Frackers)
๐Ÿ”ธUpload 2 Portal Scans
๐Ÿ”ธHack 80 Keys

1000 +Theta Tokens can be obtained by completing all 7 tasks, 100 Tokens per Bounty plus 300 Tokens when the assignment is completed. They can be repeated up to a maximum of three times.
200 Season Points will be distributed between Enlightened and Resistance based on the total number of Bounties claimed by their members!

The +Theta Season has officially kicked off!

IUENG's +Theta Guide
+Theta Global Challenge Rules (ingress.com)

@IUENG
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Ingress Updates [ENG]
The +Theta Global Campaign has begun in the easternmost time zones of the world! At 00:00 local time of April 19th, the Campaign will begin in your time zone as well and will run until May 11th, 23:59 local time. Here is the list of tasks that are availableโ€ฆ
๐Ÿ”• Update:

Thanks to the Ingress team we can now see the +Theta Tokens that you'll get as a reward for Bounties. We can therefore now confirm that each Bounty awards you with 100 Tokens as well as an additional 300 Tokens after at least 5 Bounties are completed and the Assignment is claimed.

Haven't done your Daily Bounties yet? The rewards for them have been changed to the +Theta Tokens globally, replacing the usual item rewards. If it's still Friday for you that means you can get a small head start of 60 Tokens if you manage to complete every Daily Bounty today.

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The +Theta Rewards Campaign was also enabled in-game!

This campaign will reward Agents with some in-game items based on how many +Theta Tokens they collect during the series!

Here are the rewards for this Campaign:
๐Ÿ”ธ 100 +Theta Tokens - 4x C Multi Hack
๐Ÿ”ธ 200 +Theta Tokens - 3x R Heat Sink
๐Ÿ”ธ 300 +Theta Tokens - 1x SBUL
๐Ÿ”ธ 500 +Theta Tokens - 1x Kinetic Capsule
๐Ÿ”ธ 800 +Theta Tokens - 1x JARVIS Virus + 1x ADA Refactor
๐Ÿ”ธ 1300 +Theta Tokens - 1x Apex
๐Ÿ”ธ 2100 +Theta Tokens - 4x Kinetic Capsule
๐Ÿ”ธ 3400 +Theta Tokens - 4x Portal Fracker
๐Ÿ”ธ 5500 +Theta Tokens - 20x VR Multi Hack
๐Ÿ”ธ 8900 +Theta Tokens - 30x VR Portal Shield
๐Ÿ”ธ 14400 +Theta Tokens - 25x Aegis Shield

Additionally, the Campaign can be upgraded to the "premium" tier at the cost of 30.800 CMU, which unlocks the following extra rewards:
๐Ÿ”ธ 100 +Theta Tokens - 1x Aegis Shield
๐Ÿ”ธ 200 +Theta Tokens - 2x VR Portal Shield
๐Ÿ”ธ 300 +Theta Tokens - 10x L8 Ultra Strike
๐Ÿ”ธ 500 +Theta Tokens - 30x L8 XMP Burster
๐Ÿ”ธ 800 +Theta Tokens - 1x JARVIS Virus + 1x ADA Refactor
๐Ÿ”ธ 1300 +Theta Tokens - 10x Hypercube
๐Ÿ”ธ 2100 +Theta Tokens - 4x Kinetic Capsule
๐Ÿ”ธ 3400 +Theta Tokens - 80x L8 XMP Burster
๐Ÿ”ธ 5500 +Theta Tokens - 100x L8 Resonator
๐Ÿ”ธ 8900 +Theta Tokens - 30x VR Portal Shield
๐Ÿ”ธ 14400 +Theta Tokens - 25x Aegis Shield

Agents are currently sharing screeshots of the Rewards Campaign in our Discussion Group!

@IUENG
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As previously announced by the NIA, Machina appears to be making it's resurgence!

Agents have already tried interacting with the newly infected Machina Portals and found that no relevant difference is immediately observable, but we are monitoring the situation and will advise if anything new surfaces.

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Editor's Note: The following represents views expressed by community members and doesn't necessarily reflect the position of everyone in the editorial staff of IUENG. However, these concerns appear to resonate with a significant portion of the Ingress player base.

Part of the Ingress Community voices concerns about the recent Anomaly Badge changes

A Reddit post published a few days ago by community members sRamsli and Dremosdur, in representation of part of the Ingress Community, highlights concerns about Niantic Spatial's changes to the Ingress anomaly badge system. The key issues they highlighted include:

- The removal of recharge rooms from anomaly badge qualification
- The new point-based system allowing badge earning through daily activities rather than actual anomaly participation
- Lack of communication and community consultation before implementing these changes
- Insufficient community representation following the departure of key community managers.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ingress/comments/1jzzxaj/feedback_niantic_spatial_the_new_anomaly_badge

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For the first time ever, Ingress features a paid "Premium" Reward Campaign. Do you think you will purchase the upgrade?
Anonymous Poll
14%
Yes / I have bought it
3%
Yes, if it had less items and cost
17%
No, but I think it's a good feature
66%
No, and I think it's a bad feature
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Niantic's Tintino announced an early stop to the current Wayfarer Challenge!

Due to the Wayfarer Community's effort, the backlog queue has reduced significantly, causing many locations around the world to exhaust nominations and edits to review, which, in turn, were the cause of errors and slowness to Wayfarers.

Due to this, the end of the challenge has been pulled back to April 22nd, 2025 @ 5:00 PM PDT, in less than 2.5 hours.

To compensate for this, the individual rewards have been tuned and now, for example, the tick on the OPR Live medal can be obtained with 400 reviews instead of 500.

All details are available at the original source: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/t/thats-a-wrap-the-global-wayfarer-review-challenge-is-ending-ahead-of-schedule/88861

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Niantic has released Update 2.165.1 into the App Stores.

With this update, the team is preparing to move from Niantic to Niantic Spatial, which also includes the removal of Facebook as a login method.

If you haven't yet linked a Google or Apple account as a login method, do not update Ingress and link one now. This is your last chance to do so, if you keep your Ingress account linked to Facebook only you are at risk of losing your account permanently. We once again invite you to check if your Google and Apple account actually work when trying to log in. If you're unsure how to link another login method, you can read through this post: https://t.me/IUENG/7086

If you already have linked either Google or Apple as a login method and you're confident that you can log in via these methods then you are good to go and can update.

@IUENG
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On the hunt for Ingress contributions - Who still has them?

Some Wayfarer Ambassadors have noticed that their contributions from Ingress which were submitted before the cutoff a while back did not yet get decided on, even despite the challenge.

Do you still have something open that you submitted through Ingress? Is your submission stuck in NIA voting? Then let your nearest Wayfarer Ambassador such as @Kawin240 or @Tehstone know! Don't take too long though, as no one really knows when the line will be drawn and the final Ingress sync will happen.

@IUENG
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Niantic has ornamented the cities that will host a +Theta Skirmish in the EMEA Region on May 24th, 2025!

Shard Skirmishes
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Lahti, Finland
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท Istanbul, Turkey
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช Uppsala, Sweden
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด Drammen, Norway
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Randers, Denmark
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ธ Belgrade, Serbia
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Orlรฉans, France
๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Glasgow, Scotland
๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Cardiff, Wales
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น Braga, Portugal

Beacon Skirmishes
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ช Tartu, Estonia
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Lublin, Poland
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Palma de Mallorca, Spain

In the remaining two regions, AMER and APAC, 32 Shard Singulars will spawn on the same day. Locations will be revealed on May 21st.

A summary of the rules for Skirmishes and Shard Singulars is available at this link!

More info: https://ingress.com/news/2025-plustheta-skirmishsites

@IUENG
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