Kureze is an Anomaly?

GorillaSapiensGorillaSapiens ✭✭✭✭✭
edited January 2022 in General

Was confused by my Kureze effect medal appearing in front of my Anomaly badges. Then was told this is an "Anomaly".

To me, the Kureze thing felt like other similar things. Didact, Courier Challenge, Myriad Challenge, Magnus builder, via lux, etc... Not a full blown Anomaly like past Anomaly events.

RIP big in person Anomaly events then, i guess.

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  • GorillaSapiensGorillaSapiens ✭✭✭✭✭

    me and mum through down a dozen or so rare battle beacons, circled the block once, and then threw down some resos. didn't feel much like and old school anomaly. =(

  • Otrera35Otrera35 ✭✭✭✭

    Yes, with the Omicron variant surge this winter. Were the cities selected for the Kuruze Anomaly based on the number of COVID cases for safety perhaps?

  • ArkFangArkFang ✭✭✭✭✭

    They were all prior Anomaly and/or Event sites in the recent past.

  • Otrera35Otrera35 ✭✭✭✭

    Nice effort on the part of Niantic, but the design of the badge and the Omicron surge in the local area is a "no" go for us.

  • mortuusmortuus ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2022

    I agree the 10min wait makes no sense, it should be 1min not 10 which sucked when its cold outside and all u can do was wait o well...

  • DrHydrosaurDrHydrosaur ✭✭✭✭

    Yeah, I guess the idea is that it gives other local players a chance to come over and join but unless you have a pretty dense player population the odds of that happening are too remote to justify such a delay.

  • The delay gives nearby agents a chance to join the battle. Without the dealy, it would be far too easy to win the battle for the faction that deploys the battle beacon.

  • mortuusmortuus ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2022

    But thats exactly what u dont want, play with the other team since u dont want give away points, i saw 9 local Enl players gather and no single res agent, same with the blue team they played without Enl.. Usually this is planned before so i still dont understand the long wait

  • with only one faction, it is not a battle. they should change the rules so that points and medals are only awarded if both factions interact with the portal during the battle period.

  • I agree with changing the rules, but right now it's still in the pandemic period and still have to keep the crowds not too big.

  • ToxoplasmollyToxoplasmolly ✭✭✭✭✭

    Then the strategy becomes: Interact with a battle beacon only if you think your faction can win it, because otherwise, you're giving the other faction free points. "If my faction can't get the points, then I can at least deny the other faction their points." That's actually worse than the current design.

  • true. if you join the battle and lose, you give the other faction more points because the battle category will be higher.

  • VenomousToadVenomousToad ✭✭✭✭✭

    If you only allow it to count if there's an actual opponent to battle with then the opposing faction would just not compete to deny the badge. That's been an issue too over the years. Badge denial is a thing.

  • ZeroHecksGivenZeroHecksGiven ✭✭✭✭✭

    In response to your lukewarm take. I think in some areas, this looks like it worked well. In other areas, almost no interest because people are waiting to see if their city gets picked for a future phase. I reached out in my local chats and saw very little interest and others said they were waiting. I was actually hopeful to finally meet some of the people I've been chatting with for 3+ years as I never did any FS events before covid. But, again, very little interest.

    In response to your serious take. It's hard for me to remember others parts of the world are experiencing different styles of lockdown and safety measures. Where I live, I'm seeing 65,000 people pack into a stadium to watch people play football. So it seems absurd that Niantic is careful to see 100-200 people go to a park, outside, in the open. I'm disappointed that Niantic held off on announcing the cities for so long. We are adults and should be able to manage our own levels of risk. No one should be blaming Niantic for covid cases. If someone is high risk, they had the option to buy beacons for a solo attempt or plan ahead and get keys to remote charge (it's how I got most of my medal ticks). It's crazy Niantic will listen to the minority about covid risk and plan entire events because the idea of a hundred or two people in an open space sounds dangerous, yet, pleas of updates for latency fixes, drone medals (medals that people can do at home safely) and other fixes have gone largely ignored. I agree, far from perfect, but better than nothing is accurate.

  • I went to the chosen city: Atlanta GA. It was very much like an anomaly.

    The day before, Niantic showed (ornaments on Intel map) which portals would have Battle Beacons, in order. Our operator recorded them, so knew where to send us for optimum effect. We had 5 on foot, and 2 car teams with 2 people each. The playbox was HUGE, but the car teams could claim a portal in advance, and if they couldn't get back to it when its beacon appeared, our faction still got some credit (unless the other faction came by in the meanwhile).

    It was really fun! I was part of an operation! I got to meet old and new agents, and see the world in yet another way. We were outdoors, so no covid risk.

    It was hard to figure out how to read the portals in the field (it was easier for our operator). Some Battle Beacons had a timer on top (counting down until it started). Some had counter on bottom (active, counting down until finished). Some just had a score (done). Others (older) were beacons of its winning faction. Others were thrown by agents who played through. Where portals were thick, EVERY portal was beaconed (good for lots of play) - you had to zoom in and out, and follow lines of beacons, to figure out what was what.

    The other hard thing was explaining the above to agents who just came by. One got very mad because we flipped "his" portal, after its beacon ran out, while a timer was running until its next beacon. He had gotten a point from that portal, and us flipping it took it away! He had no idea how his personal stat worked, that there was a team score, that not all battle beacons were active, that the battle had stages, or that you'd get a second point for a second beacon on the same portal, etc.

  • GorillaSapiensGorillaSapiens ✭✭✭✭✭

    i'm glad you had fun. Atlanta is not far from my current location. i was hesitant to go; there seemed to be no central coordination. i didn't want to turn up in Atlanta (a big berg) and not have anyone direct me to what was going on. Niantic could have chosen to do portals anywhere in the city. what was i going to do? turn up and chase beacons? seemed like a nonstarter, so i decided against it.

  • @GorillaSapiens If you're in any Enlightened groups, someone might have known someone in the Atlanta region. We were organized and could have used your help. One guy came down from Knoxville, thru a mutual friend in San Diego, lol.

  • GorillaSapiensGorillaSapiens ✭✭✭✭✭

    i like what they're doing for phase 2, lighting up the portals beforehand, and in MANY more cities.

    this makes me more inclined to participate (even though i've already got the badge)

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