The point is for your faction to control the portal each time the timer runs out (5 times max). But since you have no competition (and the portal already belongs to your faction) you are the defacto winner.
You can buy these in the store and Niantic will place them on portals at the end of the scoring cycle if 7+ scans have been done on that portal.
Battle Beacons, like every other new feature in the last few years hasn't really lived up to its full potential.
These Battle Beacons currently only show which faction won that little battle. In recent years Battle Beacons have been used to help players know during an Anomaly event how much time they have left to capture and hold said portal. When Battle Beacons won mattered for these events.
For the most part these battle Beacons are useless.
Once you have Recursed by getting to L16 you will have access to the Very Rare Battle Beacons.
These have a lot of power, as one can make a lot of layered fields over and over again quickly raking up the AP at the same time.
I've never heard of anyone using a battle beacon for their intended purpose. The very rare ones are great for getting ap with layered fields but still not the intended purpose. I'm not even sure why they still exist.
No point calling them battle if nobody is actually battling at them lol. Maybe they could throw in machina to simulate human players if nobody around ?
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It's a battle beacon.
The point is for your faction to control the portal each time the timer runs out (5 times max). But since you have no competition (and the portal already belongs to your faction) you are the defacto winner.
You can buy these in the store and Niantic will place them on portals at the end of the scoring cycle if 7+ scans have been done on that portal.
Battle Beacons, like every other new feature in the last few years hasn't really lived up to its full potential.
These Battle Beacons currently only show which faction won that little battle. In recent years Battle Beacons have been used to help players know during an Anomaly event how much time they have left to capture and hold said portal. When Battle Beacons won mattered for these events.
For the most part these battle Beacons are useless.
Once you have Recursed by getting to L16 you will have access to the Very Rare Battle Beacons.
These have a lot of power, as one can make a lot of layered fields over and over again quickly raking up the AP at the same time.
You can also activate these by doing scans instead.
I've never heard of anyone using a battle beacon for their intended purpose. The very rare ones are great for getting ap with layered fields but still not the intended purpose. I'm not even sure why they still exist.
There isn't any point. It's basically an anomoly minigame
No point calling them battle if nobody is actually battling at them lol. Maybe they could throw in machina to simulate human players if nobody around ?
No
then rare battle beacons have very little reason to exist in today form
You're not wrong.
I would love to get some numbers on the amount of end of cycle installed Babs that are actually contested...
My guess is close to zero.