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        <title>Battle Beacon — Ingress</title>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Battlebeacon is frozen in last round.</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/20424/battlebeacon-is-frozen-in-last-round</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2022 06:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Report a Bug</category>
        <dc:creator>EllipisScorn</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>I deployed a battlebeacon </p><p>in the last tound i did a flip before the countdown was completed and then it was completely frozen.</p><p>the portal is now green but the outgoing blue links are sort of ghostlinks.</p><p>the portal is immune for bursters since.</p><p>8! hours later situation is unchanged </p><div data-embedjson="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031689\/uploads\/46EDAI4OE5A7\/a65263ad-21b8-43f1-bc35-31249cd4957c.jpeg&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;A65263AD-21B8-43F1-BC35-31249CD4957C.jpeg&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:241953,&quot;width&quot;:323,&quot;height&quot;:700,&quot;displaySize&quot;:&quot;medium&quot;,&quot;float&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;embedType&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}">
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        <title>Battle Beacon cannot be deployed on a portal with a fracker (and vice versa)</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16575/battle-beacon-cannot-be-deployed-on-a-portal-with-a-fracker-and-vice-versa</link>
        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2021 15:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Report a Bug</category>
        <dc:creator>isorhiza</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Battle Beacon (BB) cannot be deployed on a portal with a fracker effective.</p><p>After the fracker is expired, BB can be deployed immediately.</p><p>Similarly, during BB is in effect, a fracker cannot be deployed on the portal.</p><p>Ten minutes after BB is finished (just after enhanced output is finished), fracker can be deployed.</p><p>Are these expected behaviour?</p><p>The announce of BB says that "A Battle Beacon can be deployed on a Portal with Fireworks or a Portal Fracker already deployed, because these effects will end prior to the conclusion of the 15-minute battle."</p><p><a href="https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/12271/new-feature-battle-beacon" rel="nofollow noopener ugc">https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/12271/new-feature-battle-beacon</a></p><div data-embedjson="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031689\/uploads\/EFDA68JAR05X\/img-2082-png.png&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;IMG_2082.PNG&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:2409183,&quot;width&quot;:394,&quot;height&quot;:700,&quot;displaySize&quot;:&quot;medium&quot;,&quot;float&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;embedType&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}">
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        <title>Battle beacon flip leveling a portal?</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/13761/battle-beacon-flip-leveling-a-portal</link>
        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
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        <dc:creator>Brit0martis</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>So me and a couple of friends asked the question between us, "Can you flip level a portal with a Battle Beacon to level 8 alone?"  After a little experimenting, I can answer that one now as Yes and No.  You can, but it takes a lot of beacons (which is expensive at 5000 cmu each) and it's probably more trouble than getting 8 agents together.</p><p>First thing you do is flip your portal with a(n) ADA Refactor/Jarvis Virus then activate the battle beacon on it.  </p><p>When the beacon flips the portal it remembers the resos on it before the flip.  So if you upgrade the portal when it comes back to your faction color, it will remember those after the next flips.  So you can't re-upgrade it after that initial battle beacon flip.  </p><p>Also, the portal is still inoculated against ADA/Jarvis after the beacon expires, so you need to still wait an hour after to flip it back.</p><div data-embedjson="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031689\/uploads\/MDK3C2ZSZPEC\/screenshot-20210301-130007.png&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Screenshot_20210301-130007.png&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:2012283,&quot;width&quot;:307,&quot;height&quot;:700,&quot;displaySize&quot;:&quot;medium&quot;,&quot;float&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;embedType&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}">
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        <title>Battle Beacon Virus Abuse</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/12477/battle-beacon-virus-abuse</link>
        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2020 02:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>General</category>
        <dc:creator>cometstarmoon</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Niantic needs to develop a fix so agents can't use a combination of battle beacons and viruses to upgrade portals to level 8. </p><p>They flip to their color. Deploy resonator. Battle Beacon flips it back. Rinse and repeat until level 8. This is an additional unfair advantage for agents with couch portals. </p><p>It's still possible without viruses but would require purchasing $30 worth of Battle Beacons instead of one. </p><p>A simple fix would be to remove the ability to virus a Battle Beacon portal for up to an hour after the battle completes.</p>]]>
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        <title>[Just For Fun] IRL Battle Beacons?</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/12350/just-for-fun-irl-battle-beacons</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2020 17:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>General</category>
        <dc:creator>Bihotz</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Doesn't the Japanese sport bo-taoshi seem like IRL Battle Beacons? I wonder if Battle Beacons were inspired by this sport.</p><p><a href="https://community.ingress.com/en/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FWmJ4ouUJ-T4%3Ft%3D229" rel="nofollow noopener ugc">https://youtu.be/WmJ4ouUJ-T4?t=229</a></p>]]>
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        <title>Battle Beacon Playtest</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/11753/battle-beacon-playtest</link>
        <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2020 00:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Events</category>
        <dc:creator>NianticOfficial</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Starting this weekend, we’re working with local Vanguards VanJeffery and DLKoikingu to playtest Battle Beacons in New Zealand and Taiwan. We look forward to hearing valuable feedback from playtesters so we can continue to tune and iterate on the feature before making it more widely available on the Ingress Store in the future.</p><p>Battle Beacons are competitive, Faction-based challenges for Portal ownership. Your objective is to control the Target Portal across 5 Checkpoints, at 3-minute intervals between Checkpoints. Scores are visible to Agents in the Ingress app on the Map Screen and Portal Details. Giving Agents an option to host their own scored battles isn’t a replacement for Anomalies, but it’s a new way to play Ingress that we can experiment with right now. </p><p>Battle Beacons are still in-development and subject to changes, and the playtest is designed to experiment with different mechanics and values. When deployed on a Target Portal, any Agent within range will be able to see and interact with the Battle Beacon.</p><p>We’re beginning with playtests in New Zealand and Taiwan to start, and may expand the playtest to more Agents in more regions. If you’re interested in participating, stay tuned for more info after this first wave of playtesting.</p>]]>
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