Found an easter egg in Prime
in General
So I was flying my drone around, and was hacking a portal. Out popped a strange error message.
Oh great, another cryptic error message, I thought. I posted the screenshot to a local chat, and @MrsSpectrum jokingly suggested that it's a passcode.
It was a slow day for me yesterday, so what the heck. Let's do it for laughs and giggles. To our surprise:
I don't know if there's a redeem limit on this, so I'm not posting it in clear in order to give those who stumble on it a chance to redeem it.
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This is the first time I've seen it mentioned outside of faction chats. It's pretty cool
haha funny
I think I figured out how to trigger this. First, deplete your XM by recharging portals. Then drone hack. You have to be fast to catch the screen. But if you miss it, just hack again. Since it's a failed hack, there's no cooldown / burnout.
Hah, Niantic actually made it a passcode. That string of letters mostly pops up when there is an error for which the Scanner doesn't have an actual error message (like "No XM available"). It has been around for a while, and agents have been joking that it's a passcode since it was discovered, however it never actually was. Looks like Niantic saw the joke and put something behind the code not long ago.
I attempted this and ... failed. Oh well I get to try again in an hour.
I used up my XM, then moved my drone and attempted a hack. Hack failed, but I completely missed seeing any error messages or getting a screen capture of it.
So smart me decided to try taking a video capture of my screen for the process. Started that up, tried to hack again, and ... the hack succeeded. Dangit, I must have picked up some xm off the ground.
Will try again, if I can find enough things to charge for my next attempt...
So, a full fail. I managed to record my screen while being totally out of XM, and I only got two messages on screen:
"Scanner disabled. Collect more XM." "Need more XM."
Repeated attempts to hack didn't change that. So no passcode for me :-(
Says fully redeemed, nice find though.
Yeah, I saw the code being posted on a passcode channel :(