Y'all need to have Patience :D I for one actually love that Niantic didn't announce anything about a new item for once and left it to us to investigate what the heck it is and how it actually works. Give them until after the Second Sunday to officially announce it.
Instead of people talking about the fun they're going to have with this new thing, people are fumbling around just trying to figure out whether they'll even be in the right place at the right time this weekend. Or they're worrying that portals and links will flip and be destroyed at random.
Niantic doesn't have to spill all the beans up front, but nothing at all is absurd.
Around here most people didn't even go find them cause we didn't know anything was happening today. The "victory" was just whatever alignment they had at the start.
Whatever it was it's already concluded where I live.
Some warning would be nice if people are going to be involved. I was on the way up a mountain when that post happened and by the time I was down it was done.
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Do you see any of this on your map? I'm checking all my portals
This sounds interesting!! Are these going to appear all over the world or just select cities/locations? 🤔
I wish they gave some more details, is this related to some event? Is this permanent?
go to Auckland, NZ u can see some comm action :P
Why it's always New Zealand who get to test the new stuff??
So are these random battle beacons appearing or once the beacon is started, you battle an AI bot? Hoping for the first option.
So, PoGo like raids stuff coming to ingress? 🤨
We got no warning of this.
The Beacons are not visible on the Intel Map either
I mean it is cool and all.
A little more information on what is happening would be appreciated @NianticThia
So is Niantic now randomly killing links?
Or are they only appearing on portals without links?
Edit: Initial reports say that these battle beacons do not flip the portal so no links are killed.
Are they running like a normal bb and flipping (ie losing links and fields)? Or is it just an icon floating above the portals?
This seems fun! Hope to find one :D
They are not normal Battle Beacons. They do not flip on their own
In that I see links already on won portals with links and fields
That’s not how things work around here, in regards to communicating information and/or details
Yeah well, today it is pouring with rain. Reduces incentive to get out
Y'all need to have Patience :D I for one actually love that Niantic didn't announce anything about a new item for once and left it to us to investigate what the heck it is and how it actually works. Give them until after the Second Sunday to officially announce it.
I, on the other hand, despise this approach.
Instead of people talking about the fun they're going to have with this new thing, people are fumbling around just trying to figure out whether they'll even be in the right place at the right time this weekend. Or they're worrying that portals and links will flip and be destroyed at random.
Niantic doesn't have to spill all the beans up front, but nothing at all is absurd.
@NianticBrian Only new rare Battle Beacon we can buy in store soon or it is somthing new same as raid in Pokémon GO?
Neither.
These are event Battle Beacons. Or maybe a Septicycle Battle Beacon.
Can you see them through a key? Through scanner alerts?
Yes
Second checkpoint came and went, with no sign of Battle Beacons
I saw them appeared in Brisbane Townsville Canberra Sydney & Newcastle..... Most were 2pm-2.25pm AEST timeframe
What happend? Better hack output on the portals with rare Battle Beacon or what can agents do with portals have rare Battle Beacons?
Around here most people didn't even go find them cause we didn't know anything was happening today. The "victory" was just whatever alignment they had at the start.
Whatever it was it's already concluded where I live.
Some warning would be nice if people are going to be involved. I was on the way up a mountain when that post happened and by the time I was down it was done.
Not live global yet or?
It is linked to some cities along the timezones that match or similar to Checkpoint times.
Pure speculation at the same