2.90 - Portal scans generate rare battle beacon events???
"Portal Scan Meter: Agents can contribute 7 Portal Scans per Septicycle to schedule a Rare Battle Beacon after the Septicycle ends."
Does this mean if you do a portal scan 7 times, it flips the portal at the start of next cycle? No weapons or flip cards needed? No faction specific requirements?
How about for people who have phones that don't support portal scanning? We're locked out of this ability?
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It schedules a rare battle beacon, which won’t flip portal alignment. Very rare battle beacons are the ones that flip them.
I’m a little confused about having the rare battle beacons spawn at the end of a cycle when the fracker spawns immediately after the 13th scan in a cycle is uploaded. Why not have both spawn immediately after the last scan is uploaded?
I’m a little confused about having the rare battle beacons spawn at the end of a cycle when the fracker spawns immediately after the 13th scan in a cycle is uploaded
The text says "able to schedule" so i don't know if that means they're queuing up the beacon, or whether you'll be able to select when somehow.
The end of the cycle is a randomly bad timing event.
Wouldn't having a Fracker and a Battle Beacon on the same portal be redundant? Battle Beacons create a miniature Fracker-like bonus after they've finished.
Fracker goes off immediately when the 13th scan is uploaded, so not "at the end of the Septicycle". They'll occur at different times.
It’s time for a phone upgrade then or reach out to your local community to have someone scan for you. It’s kinda like telling Sony to stop putting out games because you’re still using a PS2. The game needs to evolve, keep up or be left behind unfortunately 🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
I asked about it on the release notes, but then I read your comment and I realized I misunderstood. Today is not my day 😂
what are the odds someone will actually be at portal when it goes off other then then whoever just uploads the last lol..
Obviously, you need to be aware of it.
If it is like Pokémon, you will have to have multiple agents in order to secure the bonus. It would take seven separate agents for the battle beacon and 13 separate agents for the fracker.
Would be really good at the end of First Saturday to have everyone upload their scans, then flash farm.
Not necessarily a similar analogy. The AR core is completely optional and that depends on the company regardless of the specs. Then there's also Niantic's mesh scanning feature in which they whitelist specific devices. Google abandoning VR hasn't helped either.
They will definitely know for 10 minutes.
Unless it's a fracker, then no one will no, particularly with delayed updates
in pogo you get get the bonus just by scanning on your own, no need for anyone else
That's what I do not understand. I expected the scan-generated beacons to be useful in new anomaly sequence, allow players in remote areas to participate and get the anomaly badge. Now,
kureze window: 18-21 March, closest septicycle end falls on 16 March, out,
kythera window 1: 16-17 April, septicycle end falls on 14 April, out,
kythera window 2: 21-22 May, septicycle end falls on 21 May 08:00 UTC, good for Asia I guess,
kythera window 3: 25-26 June, septicycle end falls on 26 June 19:00 UTC, good for Europe
So, spawn at the end of the cycle looks weird. If beacon spawn can be scheduled by players - that's questionable too, who controls it, should all players agree on the time, etc.?
The post say you are able to schedule it, somehow