Prime a week before of Redacted shutdown
Hi Folks,
Probably not many will care about this, but i felt that i had to wrote it down, I have to say that I am not a big far of redacted or prime, I am an ingress player.
I used to play many hours switching beewting redacted or prime, but this last saturday I tried to use only Prime on my way to La Jolla Mission Day and thats why I am writting this. Short Conclusion: App is not ready. I undesrtaid that there will be a lot of updates coming that will improve prime, but as it is right now, its not ready.
I had to drive about 2 hours to arrive to the city that hosted de MD, so I put my phone on the car mount and started driving, on my way I noticed that the game was not updating correctly but I was driving so i let it go, before entering to SD county my wife asked me to pull over to Viejas Casino, I looked at my scanner and saw nothing, weird, but I said yes to her, we pulled over and start walking, few minutes later, about 2-3, whooo about 30-40 gray portals showed up, and a big big big enemy field over me, big anchor was about 20 miles where i drove(checked intel map). This is the speed lock that many has talked about, and this should be fixed, I am not asking you to allowed me to hack, fire xmp while driving, but It would really nice to see if you are driving near of an enemy field or potencial new portal for Explorer and Pionner. This was my very first issue with the app.
Next issue was the battery drain, I spent about 20 minutes or less with prime open, and only prime and whatsapp, when I finished capturing the portals and started to wal to my car I noticed the battery I could not believe it, it was un 77%, more than 1% per minute of play, by this point I have to say that most of my ingress time is on car and some walking with redacted, i have played IFS 2-3 hours on redacted and managed the full event with no battery issues. But at this point, battery would last me about 1:30 hours, even with my 10k mh bank power it would not last the whole planned day.
At this point I had to switch back to redacted for almost the rest of day to prevent major battery issues.
The MD and the NL-1331 was excelent on redacted no issues at all, when event finished I was with my team exchading keys. And here comes the next problem, probably not an issue, but on events like this, it could be an issue, refreshing on prime is not the best, when they dropped the capsule I was not able to see it for many seconds, not even with the "fix" touching a portal and leaving, so they grab the capsule and I switched to redacted, to do a manual refresh, because the capsule with keys could be grabbed by another agent, and yes, we walked away from the van to exchange.
Loading speed should be also be fixed, I understand that it wont be like redacted but, opening prime takes too many time in my opinion.
Glyph hacking, with past updates this was not an issue, but with this very last update there is a common issue: When i open channel and request key or no key, it keeps frozen, sometimes with clicking on "Done" fix the problem but many many times it does not. It may be REALLY frustrating this issue when trying to farm key and the hacks output no keys ;/
YOLO: Yes I love yoling, Yolos used to be very good before this few updates, only clicked on link, and press so many times to send links to anywhere I had key(Yes i know only 8), but with this updated, it sends the first link, and then waits to send some other links, i loved when "i am passenger" to send in a second or less send too many links. And now you cant.
I know there may be a lot of other issues with prime, but to my gameplay those are the ones. At this point I am not saying that I will leave when redactes dies but I believe shutdown redacted next week is not the best option. Maybe, and I say maybe, if there is another update that fixes many bugs. But the glyph hacking I hate it. And more because i am on my way to try to get the Platinium badge of translator and this will be a disaster for me.
The best regards!