70: An Ingress Christmas from the Agent Academy
Today on the show: Andrew Krug is leaving Niantic at the end of the month/year Scanners getting borked – Don’t freak when it asks you to choose a faction?! Shut down – move – wait – reboot New Decoding challenge Destroy / Deploy event https://www.agentacademypodcast.com/ingress-news/new-ingress-event-from-dec-20-2019-to-dec-30-2019-good-ol-destroy-deploy/ Clarifications: Deploys – not upgrades – will count towards to […]
69: Dreaming of Ingress
Today on the show: Operation Essex now has a badge on the Agent Academy. You can find out how to get it by going to the page: https://www.agentacademypodcast.com/community-badges/operation-essex/ Decoders contest – new leaderboard to run alongside original leaderboard Problem was traced back to those Agents who entered the passcode via Intel Map. No Time Stamp […]
68: 2 Frozen Hosts Who Learn, What’s In The Capsule
Today on the show: Swag from Krug/Niantic – Expect Give away Event – DEC 9 – Over the next 13 weeks (one per week) encoded challenges will be released on http://community.ingress.com , in the Decoding Challenges section. Who among you will solve these Archetype challenges? The first challenge will be posted at Dec 09 17:00 […]
67: Ingress subscriptions, Seven year event, Catan World Explorers and much more!
Today on the show: Ingress Update v2.35.2 Agent Stats Group: https://www.agent-stats.com/groups.php?group=5a166782396828.47041194 Added updated safety messages to app loading screen. Increased XM brightness on high-end devices Added portal names to long-press menu on map screen (Also key and no key hack) Added help text to indicate why a portal link cannot be created Some store items […]
66: Ingress update on Umbra, Tessellation, Shards, Field Test and Agent Vain joins the show!
Today on the show: UMBRA Giving cmu to everyone with a paid ticket, and you can get a refund Refund will not impact receiving the medal Umbra goes to enlightened Badges were pushed Paying for badges As a former enl poc, niantic never asks pocs to set up hotels, swag, after parties. We do it […]
65: New Ingress Vanguards chosen, Ingress Prime Updates, Field Test Hexathlon and MORE!
Today on the show: Website – we haven’t had time to add news lately. Not sure that will change till after september. New Vanguards have been notified. There are 19 new ones to round out those who have been retired. We’ll hear about who they are later. Big UI overhaul coming in 2.31 – Portal […]
64: Aurora Global Hack Challenge, RES MI Event, Ingress News and New RES Host Joins the show
Today on the show: Global Hack Challenge Infographic & Timer Prime update – The contrast slider is here! (IOS only?) TG Ingress Updates discussion – 360 agents and Andrew Krug in the chat when it opened up Fast and furious – like a live AMA for Andrew In a month they may be starting up […]
63: Ingress bans 8000 accounts
Today on the show: Wave of Bans, False Positives, Producer Brian mentions a possible update next week Field Tests city submission form opens up. http://bit.ly/2YY7Xbm GORUCK announces big changes are coming, focus on international events. Release feedback form: Vanguard program opens up more slots: http://bit.ly/2GUWmni Level 8 Day, 2x AP until the 10th (7pm CST): […]
62: Myriad Recap w/ Special Guest Host, Resistance Agent DeweyJ
Today on the show: Myriad Global Hack Challenge Status Report: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MVpakaZk6X_p8Cog5ZXINp2fOSfSG1DhWiMYeEqvBCk/edit#gid=0 Success – double 8’s/7’s, Quad 5’s/6’s, 4min hack time till August 7th at 5pm UTC: https://t.co/YcXHdDa0gU?amp=1 Rewards Extended 2.5 hours due to a delay in enabling the rewards Field Trip being retired – Andrew Krug mentioned in his TG channel that the word he […]
61: Harry Potter Wizards Unite Doubles the AP for Ingress
Today on the show: 1.975x AP event until June 24th at 7PM UTC to celebrate the release of HP:WU Multi-colored XM in the scanner to celebrate #PrideMonth Scanner update https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/1619/ingress-prime-v-2-25-2-release-notes includes: Compass Use of photo that is already on your phone Increase in distance of portal location from agent to 25km In-App access to support […]