[Discussion] Ingress 2.96.2 Release Notes
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Audio AR and Head Tracking
- Added Audio AR and head tracking for Sony’s LinkBuds Series. With Sony's LinkBuds or LinkBuds S connected via Bluetooth and head tracking enabled, when you turn your head to the left or right, your Agent Avatar will also turn to the left or right. You can leave your Scanner in your pocket in Battery Saver Mode and hear where Portals are located near you, giving you more spatial awareness of your surroundings.
- Reduced Charge and Charge All volume.
- Increased Portal sounds distance.
Bug Fixes and Other Improvements
- Added item counts to Kinetic Capsule Programs so Agents can see the number of items that will be generated after completing a Program.
- Fixed an issue affecting some Agents when using Sign in with Google.
- Fixed Agent Stats output from the Agent Profile not to use localization.
- Fixed Dynamic Links not to use localization, which caused some dynamic links to fail.
- Fixed flashed Simulacrum medal after earning a new achievement medal.
- Added optional bundles that can be purchased with CMU to the Attack and Deploy carousels.
- Fixed overlapping text for time-limited Loadouts in the Store.
Please note that on Android, Agents will receive version 2.96.2 and on iOS, Agents will receive version 2.96.1.
— The Ingress Team 🤍
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That's cool about leaving your phone in your pocket on battery saver mode... but I'm not buying Sony Linkbuds. I love my Shokz bone-conducting headphones that don't mess with my ear canal!
'Bout time with the recharge volume.
I see where it'd be helpful to know how many items are coming out of your kinetic capsule, if you're approaching capacity.
Agent Stats... localization... is that talking about language? Keeping everything in English?
I don't follow what they're saying about the Simulacrum (recursed) badge.
Agent Stats... localization... is that talking about language? Keeping everything in English?
When playing in certain languages, Ingress copied some links and the agent stats with a , (comma) instead of a . (dot). This broke the links and utilities that used the agent stat output.
I don't follow what they're saying about the Simulacrum (recursed) badge.
When you earn a new medal or tier, you get that shiny pop up that says "Medal gained: X" with the image of said medal. If the image isn't yet downloaded into the cache though, the medal was instead shortly shown as the Simulacrum medal until the scanner downloaded the correct image (which didn't take longer than a second, normally).
Too bad they didn't fix the Kinetic Capsule error where the notification says the capsule is done, you go into the app, and it still has anywhere from a few KM to .4 Km left on it.
Who cares about how many items your kcap produces? Lets fix the actual issues instead.
Bug fixes should be it's own list. Not bug fixes and other new features, err improvements. Seems like you are trying to hide what is actually being fixed with the app.
Edit: I didn't even type a message and bumped Send with my thumb. Why are blank messages allowed to send???
Can someone test if this works on anything other than Sony's LinkBuds? I wanna see what choice I have regarding buds.
* Added optional bundles that can be purchased with CMU to the Attack and Deploy carousels
So now not only for new players but for all? And this "feature" can't be turned off?
About linkbuds and "audio-direction"...interesting.
At the moment, it only works for Sony LinkBuds.
well as they partner with sony it makes sense its exclusive to them for now
Nice.
Though would really need the lag to be sorted, and fix the UI breaking every 10 minutes
Agreed. The tentative fix for the lag is already 4 patches ago and didn’t work. The kinetic capsule issues are increasing although they stated they fixed it.
meh. Another useless update
I'll then wait till it becomes available on other buds with spatial audio.
Already works on the Galaxy Buds Pro
i doubt that, its a sony exclusive for now.
Have you tested?
I can’t get it to work on iOS. I have airdpods pro, and spatial audio setup; but I guess it’s for the 2% of all players that actually have those Sony earbuds.
Anyways, sounds back off; immersion breaks when audio keeps telling me “resonator deployed” when you just open a portal view.
I mean if the correct sounds aren’t even played after 3 years, what’s the point?
I have, yes, working right now with my Galaxy Buds Pro and Ingress 2.95
Just updated to 2.96 and spacial audio is still working on my Galaxy Buds Pro 👍
Ahh, do you mean the portal sounds repositioning when you turn your phone? Misunderstood you in that case. Yes, that is available to all headphones, regardless if its Sony or not. However, specifically the Head Tracking is only available for LinkBuds. With those, Ingress doesn't take the rotation of your phone, but your head into account wgen repositioning the sounds.
don't know why I thought that that's spatial audio 🙈
I don't know how you did it but you wanted to blame Niantic for something that clearly is being tested on Sony devices...
Nope, the orientation of your head, and device
I don't have Sony link buds, but everything that is mentioned that the new update is supposed to be specifically for those headphones, for me, appears to working with the Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro.
/shrugs
That notification thing is so bloody annoying
what? Spatial audio is not a Sony feature and is supported on AirPods on iOS.
It’s like enabling taking photo’s for Samsung phones.
I wonder if you could please capture a vid with media sounds to show how this works? How you turn your head and sounds change? I can kinda imagine but I'm not sure.
Unfortunately you can't, already tried, it is very difficult to get across over a video how the spacial audio works.
I may try again today
This "optional bundle" was the bane of my existence while trying to fully deploy portals and field today.
Why would I want to purchase just 10 resonators when I have a solid 666 resonators in my inventory?! This heavily hindered my muscle memory of swiping all the way left to deploy an L8 resonator, but then accidentally clicking "view" instead of deploying a L8 resonator. This is terrible, and the fact that you can't turn this off at all really turns me off from deploying resonators.
Either allow us to turn this option off in the settings, or maybe toggle this to only appear if the inventory count is less than 10 or if there are no highest level resonators or XMP, or just remove it altogether. I know you want another stream of income from the very rare cashed up and/or rural agent who'll want to buy all their supplies instead of farming them with frackers and glyphs. I will never buy resonators or XMPs with CMU, that is exclusively for nice cosmetic medals that I probably would spend them on. Don't be like Discord and put a permanent "gift" button in the chat.
Yeah, this has been tried before and met with so much friction, because of reasons like muscle memory.
they are pushing this way too hard, the red dot in the store, the bundles, and now this; please disable this! Or make it a toggle, especially for CORE subscribers.
SMH, stop screwing up this game.
"Added optional bundles that can be purchased with CMU to the Attack and Deploy carousels."
I really want someone from the ingress team to say they genuinely believe this is an "improvement ". Thank goodness it isn't a single click purchase because it sure is located conveniently where one might accidentally select it when flicking to the end to select level 8 resonators. Grimy.
I dont like that being there, now u must be cautious so u dont spend cmu by accident or not paying attention..... i had to be careful earlier because i hate buy something because its right next to my r8....
since i always swipe to the right and start from r8 usually now i must have that in mind so that i wont click yes to buy for cmu... awful decision whoever decided to put that there.
* Added optional bundles that can be purchased with CMU to the Attack and Deploy carousels.
Please remove this! This actively has negative effect on the way I play Ingress! It interferes with the standard item layout and adds absolutely no benefit to players.
If I'm on a screen to deploy resonators that means I already have resonators, which means I don't need to buy them from there. If I don't have resonators I can hack them or, at worst, go to ingress store to buy them(🤮).
This addition has 0 benefits to players and is only a predatory behavior by Niantic to make people accidentally spend CMU/money.
I'm also just here to complain about the item purchases being added to the attack/deploy carousels.
Sell the bundles in the store fine whatever, but placing them there is awful.