80: Stay in and don't move. Ingress News and Discussion

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Ingress Prime Teardown – v2.44.1 –
- Thank you Fevenir and all of the folks at FevGames for this article.
- Source and full article we encourage you to read: https://fevgames.net/ingress-prime-apk-teardown-2-44-1/
Battles are coming, and fast.
New variables were added in the game:
- comm_alert_your_portal_battle_beacon_deployed
- comm_notification_battle_beacon_deployed
- comm_header_deployed_battle_beacon
- comm_preview_deployed_battle_beacon
- Comm_preview_finished_battle_beacon
which shows how battles will be announced on COMM, like Beacons or Frackers.
Battle Beacons! (See attached picture (https://i.imgur.com/KNkRluM.jpg), the two beacons combined) Much larger than regular beacons, might mirror the same functionality as Raid indicators in that game with Pocket Monsters. A NIA version of the beacon seems to exists, perhaps pointing to both player-made and NIA-generated Battles.
- Scoreboard and rounds are implemented: 6 rounds to be precise, with points per round. What is a round based on? It’s not known (for now).
- Rewards (attached to the beacon) and a tutorial were found.
  - Capacity Rewards
  - The string InventoryCapacityReward was spotted in the game. Is this a reward for battles? Paid subscriptions mentioned in the previous teardown? One thing is certain: 2000 items may not be your constraint for long.
POI – Some code was noticed to implement “Sponsor Locations” in the game. It was already a thing in Ingress v1 (AXA, Lawson, …), but their look may change in Ingress Prime. Some of you may already know them from that other game with Pocket Monsters…
Subscription – We’ve heard Niantic members saying to bring them ideas for subscription services in Ingress, and some strings were found that seem to lay down the foundations for those.
Tweaks
- EnableMapAvatarSound – Yup, the NL1331 van horn (which we all love so much, btw) makes use of this.
- EnableResonatorNorthIndicator – You guys asked, Niantic may deliver soon!
- EnableShowOtherMapAvatar – This one is way more interesting: seeing other Avatars on the map? Our colleagues at FevGames say they are not sure what that means. We dream, hope, pray that this is what we are thinking…
Van as the Avatar! (Beep Beep)
Resembling a SIM card, the new “Access Point exploit” — Apex Boost — temporarily modifies the Ingress Scanner to multiply AP earned for 30 minutes.
- While Apex is activated, a 30:00 minute timer is visible on the map screen. Returning to the Boost category of the inventory carousel allows Agents to extend Apex for an additional 30:00 minutes, up to 2:00:00 hours. (It isn’t possible to stack multiple Apex 2X concurrently for 4X AP.)
- Please note that Apex are not hackable XM objects via the Portal Network. One Apex 2X will be added to each NEW ACCESS field kit when Agents level up (L2-8). Apex will also be available to all Agents in the Store.
- Apex was available in the Store at 0 CMU to Agent accounts older than eight days starting April 1 through April 9.
Lots of server updates the back end