Ingress 2.66.1 Release Notes
NianticBrian
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What's New
• The Invert button on Intel Map enables Agents to flip or reverse the Portal History rings on a selected Layer. We’re aware of a display issue that occurs when choosing a different Layer with Invert still selected. In the meantime, deselecting then reselecting Invert should help.
Bug Fixes
• Fixed: Upgrading a Portal no longer causes its Portal History ring to disappear.
• Fixed: We fixed a hard lock that sometimes occurred when nominating a new Portal.
• Fixed: On Android, we un-stuck the stuck Loading animation after tapping the Back button when Linking.
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@NianticBrian You need to cross Wilshire!
Many of us are waiting for new drone models and the introduction of the storyline into the gameplay. Keep it up!
This is great! With that could it be implemented that the filter selection stays on after closing and reopening the app? The day this feature came out I think I was able to go out and get 250+ uniques in an area I thought I fully explored!
Still no fix for the IOS scanning bug 😳
it makes no fun to restart and loose your scan every 2 minutes
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@FreibeuterKR we now have a speculative fix that we're testing internally. It's a major change so it will still take some time before we can sign off and release this. Thank you for your patience.
@Engrish this is coming soon, stay tuned.
Nice update
Looking forward to more story in the future.
However the XM pulse sweep audio and visual effects have still not come back, which is essential to lore of the game.
However the XM pulse sweep audio and visual effects have still not come back, which is essential to lore of the game.
It's been stated by people including @NianticBrian that this was not a bug, but intentionally removed, to improve the usability of the game, and personally it's removal has meant I'm more often enabling t he background sounds for the game.
Any chance of bringing invert function into the scanner app?
cool
SOon TM as per an earlier comment on another thread.....
Where? I only see "soon" for "keep layer selected after app relaunch".
Any fix scanning portals? In first version 2.63.1 it not works too, but version 2.63.2 works perfect. In 2.65. it's not working now. It's so stupit, because in Pokemon Go I instaled new version yesterday and it's work perfect. But in Ingress nothing, just nothing. 😡
I upload 638 portal scans for the last month and with new update it not working?! I was start scans in December, so i uploaded 1605 scans from there. It's so stupid, that it it working now. 😡
Edit: 2.66.1. still not work. Until work, no money for C.O.R.E., it's simple. 😁
Here ^^^
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I only see "we're working on an invert button for Intel map" and that was released. However there wasn't a word whether it is coming to client, not even saying that it's coming soon. "Investigate" != "actually implement". "Investigate" = "see if it can be done in a reasonable amount of development time and resources".
Why did you feel the need to ping me to disagree?
Look it may be fine for you to have these effects gone, but for others they form very important factors to Ingress, that being story/lore and immersion.
@NianticBrian unfortunately, because there is no related story or lore since they were removed, you have created a serious bug in the game's lore and immersion. Two factors of the game which for myself are just as important as the game app being bug free.
Throwing together some haphazard lore now, like, PA Chapeau received an old memo from an IQ Tech technician, stating that they have discovered a method of passive XM scanning that is more effective at detecting XM, but also with further refinements, will enable the scanner to also show Chaos XM as well.
Is too hand wavy, and is effectively calling it, magic, isn't going to cut it. Especially after all this time.
So right now, the missing XM pulse sweep audio and visual effects, is a bug, when considering the story and lore of the game.
As well as significantly reducing my immersion to the world of Ingress.
I'll keep raising it as an issue until such time there is an adequate fix. Either the return of the effects, or some proper story/lore to satisfactorily explains why after all this time, these effects will never return.
Hope we can get the pulse and audio back. Make it more cool and history from the begining of Ingress.
a) Reply, not 'ping'. You said something, and I replied.
b) The reason I replied, is precisely what you said.
I'll keep raising it as an issue until such time there is an adequate fix.
You'll keep saying it's essential, and I'll keep pointing out that it's an improvement.
I'm happy for them to provide a storyline justification for why it's removed, but the game drives the story. The story does not drive the game. If you could ditch one or the other, it wouldn't be the game that was ditched.
We've paused this rollout to investigate an issue affecting the display of non-Latin/non-English characters reported by Agents here:
We're not able to reproduce this on iOS so we're going to restart the rollout on iOS specifically. We have a fix incoming for Android with Ingress 2.66.2 (which will replace the 2.66.1 release on Android-only).
@Grogyan you can continue to report the removal of the Map Screen pulse a bug, but what I've been trying to communicate is that I consider this specific change working as intended because it was an intentional change I asked our team to make. I'm not sure if I can be more clear than this. Updates aren't permanent or written in stone, but the Map Screen pulse isn't something we're working on right now because there are other bugs and tasks that I feel are higher priority for us to focus on.
And we thank you for it. The pulse was awful.
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iOS has the same problem with overlay
You mean me? @NianticBrian
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The issue with non-Latin characters being garbled or transposed originally reported by JP, CN, KR, and RU Agents should now be fixed in Ingress 2.66.2 on Android (2.66.1 on iOS), which is restarting its rollout now.
I respectfully ask you change the game lore to be in line with the change, as has been requested. As that is the bug, not in the game itself, but with the game lore not in line with the game app.
Even so, I still really need this back, broken immersion makes it less enjoyable for me.
Similar effects are in Pokémon GO and it has never been reported as an issue ever!
@NianticBrian I still really enjoy Ingress over the other games, as the changes in the game, had a story(ish) reason for them.
Part of the immersion I enjoy.
Even though there is less immersion with the removal of the XM pulse, I would have less of an issue with the change, if there was a story/lore reason for the change.
Or even future changes to the game app, personally I need there to be story for them, Battle Beacons have no story either, which also bothers me, but less so than the XM Pulse effects
Battle Beacons have no story either