Optima and Lucida challenges - any news??
@NianticBrian @NianticCasey Can you give us an update on the two missing challenges in the series?! Please!
Peolpe need something else to do than just building fields 🙄
Or did Covid19 infect the Nemesis sequence?! 🤔😂
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Yeah. Can do global challenge with the drone hacking instead of doing missions
and the other well.... we already done fields,explore,deploy, glypinh, shards, focused badge soooo
Last one could be forused on XM recharged?
cmon think of doing global challenges while still,promote stay at home or social,distance
A good example of how people want something more than just drawing triangles! Keep it up! Well done!
The Nemesis sequence has come to a close. Instead of doing challenges for those characters Agents instead did decoding and other puzzles to gain intel and ‘compete’ against those Nemesis members. You can see the challenges we faced in The Tessellation subboard in The Investigation.
Niantic just needs to update the social media and other places to reflect that the Nemesis Sequence has concluded.
I disagree with you. The tesselation was something that only 'hardcore' players and IT nerds were doing. Not the usual player. Many didn't even know about it at all!
I have no interest in decoding at all - and the badges are not in the Nemesis sequence design. Also, there was no ingame notification and the timeframe was huge...you had to use Internet sites in order to take part...
A global challenge is something you do with your scanner - and only with your scanner. Has always been like that!
I'm open for new ideas, like unique portal drone hacks or something... But tesselation was NOT a global challenge in the original sense.
There were some in-scanner global challenges, like the Anomalies, Hexathlons, Shard Challenge, Field Challenge, and Deploy Challenge. All of those were part of the Nemesis Sequence. However, the Tessellation as a whole took place both outside the scanner and within it, with the chase after the Tesserae.
Also, many of the global Tesserae drops occurred by having to hack portals In the Scanner, only recently did that change
However, due to COVID and restrictions on going out we’re placed nearly worldwide, the game had to change and adapt. For the remaining challenges they were all based on the Intel Map, decoding challenges, and more. In order to keep the story going, the game had to change and adapt. That was only since March, and the Tessellation ended in late July.
Over half of the Tessellation timeframe involved the Scanner, and only the final four months were intel map-based.
The Tessellation was an attempt to blend in both in-Scanner items and outside-Scanner elements like puzzle solving, as has always been. There’s been outside-Scanner elements since the early days, such as the Mind Palace event, the Anomaly Decodings, and much more. Participating in the Tessellation did require more dedication, but there were many more people than “hardcore” players and IT Nerds. Believe me, there were people of all walks of life, levels of play, of all occupations and ages involved.
I asked Brian on twitter the other day about this.. guess they are cancelled maybe now that tesselation is over :( i hope not i want them
I find it incredible, people are just being selfish and forget we are still in the middle of a pandemic.
The badges that were planned to be monthly challenges showed a Nemesis character...
Optima and Lucida challenges never happened because of covid and Tessellation was improvised to become a badge after the fact (don't like how it was done but live and learn). More focus was done with the Tessellation via codes to acquire pieces versus hacking a portal.
They could,offer the last 2 badges as store loadout kits feat more cubes and some flip cards if any pretty please :)
Plenty of other character badges they can sell for that, no need to do that to earned badges.
From memory the challenges were related to Trekker and Spec Ops (missions). It would be great if Niantic can give some indication as to whether these events are going to resume when the pandemic is over. I for one, would really like to go out and do some missions when we are allowed outside again - but if there is a going to be a challenge related to missions, I would rather wait for that.
If they are big on the whole Drone thing, why not have a special Drone setup that can do up to say 100 missions (or a set amount under the Onyx Tier). Speed them up so can move up to say 6 kph? (that should be a brisk walk). Then allow them to hack to be able to do (most) missions...
2 Special badges
Tiers for
Something like that. Just a thought...
What if a mission ask for a portal not in view eh
but we never had global challenges based on trekker or doing missions, so even if tesselation and nemesis is over we can still get them? i miss challenges... or do something with drones.. safe to do from home and no need worry keep distance to people....
Drone challenges could be heavily impacted by the geographic disparities between high-density and low-density areas, so a challenge that involved them would have to be very carefully crafted to avoid those limitations. I'm lucky enough to live in an area where getting my drone 50km from home is a trivial endeavor but for someone who lives on a small portal "island" it could be difficult to go more than 1-2km.
Number of hops in a single flight might be an interesting one. How many times can you move your drone before it gets sent home?
No idea. Just an idea. I had to go drop my drone off elsewhere because I can't use it from my house. It's wandering around a few green L8 portals. 100 bonus AP per gylph!
Well actually...if they had a menu or interface for the Drone that would allow you to leave it somewhere based on their own sandbox, or if you had the coordinates?