Ingress game rules in Russian. Ingress: how to play? Description and instructions
Preface
Now I will tell you about the beta version of the game, which has an English interface, access to which is provided only by invite. So in one sentence I made you think “why do I need this?” and move the cursor to the "cross" active tab. Take your time, it may not be as scary as it seems!
First of all, you can’t just pass by the only game whose developers include Google (or rather, its small division called Niantic Labs), and the number of installations has exceeded 500,000. Despite the fact that this is just a beta, in addition to gameplay invented the whole world and even several books have been published.
The uniqueness of this game is also that, unlike 99% of entertainment applications, Ingress will not require you to develop finger dexterity and speed of reaction, but good physical fitness, orientation to the area, knowledge of the sights and a desire to wander around the memorable places of your hometown.
There are also no difficulties in obtaining an invite. Most easy way- just send a request on the Ingress website.
The only downside is the English interface. Therefore, in this review I will try to dwell in as much detail as possible on the very initial stage of the game, which often becomes a stumbling block and scares away Russian-speaking users with many scary and incomprehensible terms.
Preamble
So let's start with the basics. Ingress- a multiplayer online game with augmented reality elements. To implement the gameplay you need a device with installed application and the presence of a constant connection to the Internet and GPS satellites (determining your location via Wi-Fi is supported, but the accuracy is very, very poor, so we will assume that this possibility is completely absent).
There are two factions in the game, affiliation to which is visually shown in blue and green flowers objects on the map. Your primary tasks are to capture free and enemy portals and create connections and fields between your portals. As you perform game actions, your level increases, which gives you additional opportunities and advantages. The most effective are organized team actions, for coordination of which there is a built-in chat.
Legend
Oh, these scientists! They can't sit still forever! This time, too, they distinguished themselves: during an experiment in the next Collider, some exotic matter (Exotic Matter, abbreviated as XM) was obtained, which scattered throughout the world. But instead of being driven by the wind and damaging the ozone layer, it was quietly and peacefully drawn to monuments, libraries, museums and other treasures of knowledge, where it began to self-restore and multiply. Over time, Portals to somewhere in another world appeared in these places. And some strange creatures climbed out of them - Shapers. Who they are, what they look like and what they need from us is unclear. But they really want to change our world.
Once again, ordinary people will have to sort it all out. But not to everyone, but only to those who are generally aware of what is happening and have special scanners (since XM and portals are not visible to the ordinary human eye). But it so happens historically that it is not possible for everyone to come to the same opinion, and as a result, two factions are formed - the Enlightened ( Enlightened) and Resistance ( Resistance).
The first are firmly convinced that Shapers bring goodness, joy and happiness. They found out that Shapers have controlled creative people since ancient times and helped humanity develop. And if the opportunity has arisen, then let them influence people directly, leading humanity to a bright future.
Resistance, as you might guess, is not happy with the rosy prospect of such close communication with an unknown mind. For them, these are invaders who manipulate human consciousness, bring nothing new, and now (thanks to experiments) can also take over human bodies (they don’t have their own in our world).
To prove the correctness of their point of view, each faction seeks to gain control over a large number of Thinking Units (Mind Units, abbreviated as - M.U.), and speaking Russian - ordinary people. To do this, portals are captured and connected by links. The zone inside the triangle created by any faction (where the portals are the corners and the connections are the sides) forms a field, which contributes a certain amount of MU to the faction’s total treasury. And whoever has more MU is right!
Step one - install and launch the game
First you need to get an invite using one of the previously mentioned methods. The invite is a small code that must be entered when you first start the game. To receive it through the website http://ingress.com, simply click on the “request an invite” button and enter your email address.
After you have received the invite, you can go to Google Play and install the game. Currently, there are very few devices incompatible with Ingress, however, if you do not find this application, you can search in thematic groups on VKontakte, Google+ or forums, since many builds have already been created for weaker phones (craftsmen even ported it to the iPhone, but that’s a completely different story).
The installation process is standard and does not cause any difficulties. However, problems may arise during the first launch. And the most common of them is the need to disable fictitious locations in the settings of your device.
This option is especially often enabled in custom firmware (for example, in CyanogenMod). In Android 2.x, this option is disabled in Settings -> Applications -> Development.
To disable fake locations in Android versions 3.x and older, go to the "Developer Options" section in the settings menu (in some Android versions To activate this mode, you need to go to the “about phone” section and click on the firmware build number 10 times in a row - this is foolproof).
Also, the game will not work if there is no Internet or satellites. If the Internet connection is not established initially, the game will not start at all. In other cases (if GPS satellites were not found or the Internet was lost) - it will inform you about the problem that has arisen.
Step one and a half - learning the basics
To those who know well English language, you can immediately move on to the next step - training. ADA will tell you everything much better there than I can. However, if you have difficulty with languages, then it is better to read this section very carefully.
During the game, your location is displayed on the screen on a stylized map (without street names), as well as additional game elements (portals, XM, etc.). The map is controlled with two fingers, as, for example, in conventional navigation programs (you can change the scale and viewing angle). Game elements are strictly tied to the map, that is, in order to interact with them, you need to come to the place where these elements are located.
Let's delve into the gameplay itself. In the beginning there was matter, and it was called XM. These are white flickering dots on the map. In order to perform any actions, you need to have a sufficient amount of XM. To find out how much XM you currently have, you need to tap the bar at the top of the screen.
In most Russian-speaking communities, XM is also called energy, which, in principle, most accurately characterizes the essence of this element of the game.
Your device turns into a scanner ( Scanner), as it "scans" the area around you and shows game elements. As you might guess, your exact location is displayed on the map in the form of an arrow indicating the direction of your movement. The scanner runs on XM, so if there is an acute shortage of it, it will turn off (ripples appear on the screen and all game elements except XM become unavailable for interaction). However, not everything is so bad - the scanner attracts XM if it falls into a zone with a radius of 35 meters around the player (displayed on the map as a circle around an arrow).
Most XM can be collected from portals ( Portals). This is understandable - it is the portals that are the main “nodes” of the game, on which the entire gameplay rests. And it is precisely for their maintenance that all of XM will be spent.
The main actions that can be performed with portals are:
Almost all of these actions can be mastered during training; the main thing is to understand what is actually expected of us.
Hacking portals is necessary in order to obtain items used in the game ( Items) (resonators, weapons, mods, keys and other goodies).
You can hack both your own portals and those of others (however, in the second case, more XM is spent on hacking, and the likelihood that you will not receive anything is high). You can hack once every 5 minutes, you are allowed to make 4 hacks within 4 hours (then the portal overheats).
Resonators indicate the portal's faction. A portal without resonators is a draw; it is displayed in silver on the map. In total, you can install on the portal ( Deploy) 8 resonators. If there is at least one resonator of another faction on the portal, then it is impossible to install your own without destroying it.
The resonator has such a characteristic as charge. As you might guess, this is an indicator of the amount of XM in a given resonator. If it drops to zero, the resonator is destroyed. To prevent this from happening, the resonators on the portals must be recharged ( Recharge), that is, place the XM you collected into them.
As I already wrote above, in order to capture someone else’s portal, you need to destroy all the resonators on it. This is done with special bombs ( Xmp Bursters). The power of the blow directly depends on the distance from you to the attacked resonators.
Mods are additional elements, for which the portal has 4 slots. Until recently, only shields were mods ( Shields), but others will appear soon.
Shields enhance the portal’s defense, other mods affect both the defense (allowing the portal to painfully “snarl” in response to attacks, taking away XM from the opponent) and other properties of the portal (for example, allowing the portal to be hacked more often than once every 5 minutes).
But we have moved away from the main goal of the game - to expose more people to the influence of our faction. For this, just capturing portals is not enough. They need to be connected. To create connections, keys are used ( Keys), which drop out most often when hacking portals.
A connection is created from the portal you are on to the one you have the key to. To link two portals, several conditions must be met:
In addition to connections, keys can be used to remotely recharge the portal.
The field is formed when three portals are connected to each other. On the map, connections are displayed as stripes between portals, and fields are shown as flickering zones in the color of the faction that created the field. Sometimes field creators get carried away and add an element of creativity to their creations. ☺
There is a lot of information and it sounds scary, I agree. But in practice, already on the second day of the game you clearly understand what can be linked with what and what cannot. In general, all these seemingly complicated rules turn out to be very simple and logical, and any questions that arise already have answers on thematic resources.
Step two - training and choosing a faction
Now that we generally know the essence of the game, we need to get comfortable with the interface and learn how to perform all the actions described above ourselves. By completing all the training missions one by one, you will immediately understand what exactly needs to be done in a given situation. To start the mission, select "View Briefing", accept the message and, after listening to the task, click "Start".
The following tasks will be assigned to you:
1. Listen to the ADA, make sure it communicates with you and conveys the message that this is not just a game (no action required).
2. Collect XM around you (walk around, tracking your movement on the map - XM that falls within your range of action will be attracted to you).
3. Install a test portal, approach it and hack it (touch the screen next to you - a portal will appear, press the Choose button; then approach the portal so that it is within your range of action, touch it and press the Hack button in the right column).
4. Install a test enemy portal, approach it and explode the resonator (touch the screen next to you - a portal will appear, press the Choose button; then approach the portal to get as close as possible to the resonator, hold your finger on the screen for a few seconds and when the menu opens , move your finger to Fire Xmp).
5. Install a test portal, approach it and install a resonator (perform similar to hacking, only at the end, instead of Hack, click the Deploy button).
6. Install a test portal, approach it, hack it, install the missing resonators and recharge the existing ones (the first steps are already familiar to you; to recharge, use the Recharge button in the portal menu).
7. Create a connection between portals (you need to hack an already installed portal, then hack the neighboring one, install all 8 resonators on it, press the Link button, select the portal highlighted by the rotating petals and confirm the creation of the connection).
8. Create a field (similar to the previous mission, only we capture not one, but two resonators and make not one, but three connections, connecting three portals into a triangle).
After the tutorial, you will be asked to choose which faction you want to play for. Since it is more interesting to play when the forces of the factions in the region are approximately equal, it is preferable to choose the one that is currently in the minority. You can find out by going to the page http://ingress.com/intel and selecting your city there. In Orel, for example, the Enlightened are ready for the arrival of the Shapers, so it is better to join the Resistance.
The last step is the game
Finally, you were allowed into the main playing area. Now you have enough knowledge to start leveling up. Your level is determined by your Action Points. AP). They are added every time you perform certain actions in the game. You get the most points for creating fields. You can view your AP amount by touching the circle in the center of which your current level is indicated. There are 8 levels in total. The higher your level, the more “cool” items you can use. Walk around, hack portals, create connections and fields, communicate with more experienced players.
During the game, a problem may arise that there are either very few portals in your city or no portals at all. To solve this problem, the game has a built-in function for sending an application to register a new portal. Read in advance what kind of objects can be portals and what the photo of the portal should be. Then take a photo of the desired object and send an application either from the game or from the gallery (after indicating the name of the portal and its location on the map). Within 2-3 weeks, the application will be reviewed and (in most cases) approved. Many players are mostly engaged not in capturing territory, but in creating new portals.
If there are few or no players in your city, then don’t worry! It’s quite easy to create initial conditions with a couple of dozen portals, and from personal experience I can say that many friends begin to become interested in such an unusual hobby and subsequently get involved in the game.
In addition to the game itself, the developers are constantly developing its legend. This is done for a reason. There are so-called pascodes in the game ( Passcodes), giving rare (or even unique) items, experience and XM. Decoding is a difficult but interesting task. And besides, there are many (including Russian-speaking) communities where new codes are posted almost daily. You can enter the code in the items section by clicking on the field at the bottom of the screen.
The more you immerse yourself in the game, the more interesting and unusual it will seem to you. Every day, players from all over the world coordinate to carry out operations to create huge fields, sometimes uniting countries. In general, the scale of the project is simply amazing. Periodically dropping reports will help you keep abreast of events ( Ingress Reports). They also inform you about upcoming innovations, give lessons for players of different levels, and yes, hide secret codes.
Recently, you can constantly keep abreast of events about the state of portals in your city. Pop-up messages will notify you that a portal is under attack, which in some cases helps you quickly respond and take action. However, these notifications can always be turned off in the game settings.
But despite this, the game does not look crude. On the contrary, plunging into her world, you wonder why it is not yet available to everyone?
Conclusion
My husband and I have been sick with Ingress for six months now. And I must admit that this is the most useful game that I can imagine on Android. Walking around the city and visiting sometimes completely unfamiliar places cannot fail to leave an impression. In addition, these are new acquaintances and, unlike other online games, real acquaintances, when you accidentally (or by agreement in advance) meet at a monument or in a park with one, two, or maybe ten other players and develop new plans for taking over the world.
But there is no honey without a fly in the ointment. And this spoon is energy consumption. The combination of Internet + GPS + screen kills any, even the longest-lived phones, and the specifics of the game make it impossible to recharge the batteries. Therefore, having a spare battery (or a spare device) is a necessary necessity. However, things can still improve - this is a beta after all!
It is impossible not to mention some other unique disadvantages associated exclusively with the “real” component of the game. People around you react extremely suspiciously to single players or entire groups who, with their eyes glued to their phone screens, are running circles around monuments or museums, and sometimes it takes time to explain that you are not looking for a place to plant a bomb. In some cases (while driving and on deserted streets late at night) Ingress can even become dangerous. In the USA there were cases of real clashes between representatives of factions, but I have never heard of anything like this anywhere in our country. On the contrary, in most cities the war is exclusively virtual.
It makes no sense to even talk about analogues. Yes, they exist, but not on such a scale, not with such prospects and not of such quality. Ingress is unique, if not in essence, then in implementation. And the pace of development hints that the current form of the game is just the beginning.
As for the assessment... Once upon a time, at school, the teacher was so pleased with my answer on the subject that she gave me not 5, but 6. Now I would like to give this game 11 points out of 10. Because this is the most tangible step over the past 10 years in an era of completely new entertainment, where game and reality are closely intertwined.
Starting from level 7 (and sometimes earlier), Ingress agents begin to lack inventory (mods, boosters, ultrastrikes) and here glyphs come to the rescue
Ingress glyphs are mysterious symbols that have their own style and name (and sometimes even several names).
An example of the results of a level 6 or 7 portal hack - you need to enter 4 glyphs.
Tips for hacking portals with glyphs:
1. Enter all the characters correctly, then you will get more bonus and points for the Translator medal
2. Input speed - it also gives a plus to the bonus, but the main thing is point 1, otherwise it’s one mistake and it’s not the same (although it will still add more than without a glyph at all).
3. An incorrectly entered glyph can be canceled and redrawn (this button was introduced not so long ago, very convenient)
4. Among the tricks - if suddenly you stuck a symbol or got lost in thought or were distracted, then if you are within the radius of accessibility of the portal, it is better to repeat the hack - to do this, simply lock the screen with the button and then unlock it and the hack will be interrupted and will allow you to repeat the hack again without a waiting period.
5. Glyphs have names and these word-names are assembled into meaningful sentences: for example, the combination of shapers - past - present - future.
6. Based on point 5, it makes sense to remember the original names of the glyphs (preferably in English, if you don’t know English, you can listen to the pronunciation and learn the words or at least the Russian translation of the names) in any case, it will be easier to enter and it will work out better.
7. There are tables with glyphs - you can print them out and learn them little by little.
8. You can play glyph emulators if you don’t have home portals at hand (I didn’t really like this method, but it’s also not bad)
9. There are sites with lessons on glyphs, I liked this one
Good farming on the farm, who hasn’t taken it yet, take 8 lv
0 Introduction
The first thing you need to know when leveling up your agent is how much game experience (AP) is awarded and for what. Creative actions (installation of resonators, connections, fields, etc.) give approximately twice as much AP as their corresponding destructive actions (destruction of resonators, connections, fields). Typically, constructive actions require more time, while destructive actions require more demands on the player's level and equipment. The following lists the main items of AP calculation that are relevant for a player in leveling up.
Resonator installation - 125 AR, in addition:
bonus for installing the first resonator in a neutral portal (capture) - 500 AP
bonus for installing the final resonator (full capture) - 250 AP
Increasing the level of someone else's resonator – 65 AP
Installing the mod - 125 AR
Creating a connection - 313 AR
Field creation - 1250 AP
Charging resonators - 10 AR
Hacking the enemy's portal - 100 AP
Destroying the resonator - 75 AP
Destroying communications - 187 AP
Field destruction - 750 AP
Knowing how much and for what you will receive AP, you need to decide where you will do it. Minimal planning is desirable, in which INTEL can provide invaluable assistance. This is a map of the area indicating the portals and their current status. Having familiarized yourself with it before going out, it becomes clear what changes can be made to a typical route in order to follow the available AP sources.
Leveling up to level 6 alone
When controlling an agent of a still low level, the main source of AP can be creative actions, that is, installing resonators and mods in portals, as well as creating links and fields. Of course, you can try to bring death and destruction by trying to destroy enemy portals, but in most cases this will take a lot of time and equipment with an unguaranteed result. Open INTEL and find the area where you live and your daily routes. You are interested in nearby clusters of portals of your faction that are not connected by links or, who knows, neutral ones. Upon arrival, install the missing resonators in them, if you want all portals to have eight resonators and make them available for linking, and hack them along the way. When you receive keys from hacking, connect the portals that are closest to each other. Your goal is to get the smallest possible triangular network of connections, that is, the maximum number of fields made up of links connecting three portals with a triangle. If somewhere there are not enough keys for this, do not change the linking plan, because in just five minutes you can return to hack the portal again, get the key and complete the “network”. And vice versa, if a portal requires several keys and you already have some, remember that when hacked, the portal can only give a key if it is not already in your inventory. This means that before the next hacking of such a portal, it is necessary either to use the keys by establishing the appropriate connections, or to drop the key(s) to the ground before the hacking, picking them up from there after completion. You can see if there is a key to the portal and how many, in the right top corner open window of this portal, and by clicking the key icon located there, you can quickly go to the interface for resetting it. Without taking into account the installation of resonators, the creation of each even smallest field gives you about 2000 AP, which means the 300,000 AP required for level 6, when it becomes possible to break almost any portal, is not so far away.
It is quite possible that during the process of leveling up, you will meet players of the opposite faction, about whose actions against portals with your participation you will receive notifications in the scanner, and the result of whose actions will be displayed as quickly fading links of resonators and portals, and your portals themselves turning gray . Don’t be upset, in this case it’s not so bad, but maybe vice versa, because you can manage to capture and install resonators in these portals over and over again, which means getting AR over and over again. Do not try to recharge your portals, it will be a pointless waste of energy, just as you should not try to break the resonators of portals that have already acquired the color of the opposite faction. If they are installed by a player who is not much higher than you in level, then it will be possible to do this later. And directly in the process of the enemy’s destruction of your portals, it is better to try to have time to capture portals that have become neutral before the enemy, and in the temporary absence of such, quickly install the missing ones in the slots that have become free. It is advisable to be and move as close as possible to the intended or established location of the enemy player himself. If the enemy destroys a single portal near which you are located, do not immediately install resonators in all available slots. After all, powerful boosters can destroy all installed low-level resonators with almost one blow, and there will be no opportunity to install a new resonator until the scanner updates the information, which can happen with a delay. Under continuous enemy fire, it is better to install one resonator every ~2 seconds, while observing whether the previous ones are destroyed. If they quickly disappear, maintain the pace of installation; if the strength of your resonators decreases gradually, increase the pause between installing new ones. If at some stage the enemy pauses, then leave a couple of free resonator slots, use it to replenish energy using a cube, you can install a shield or a pair to slightly delay the destruction of your resonators when the “fire” resumes and give a little more time to react to This. Leveling up starts to bring special fun and generate adrenaline! It is quite possible that in the process of fighting for the portal you were able to visually identify your counterpart. Be as polite and friendly as possible while keeping at least one eye on your scanner. If the enemy managed to capture your portal, or he gave up such attempts, and there are other portals of your color nearby to which he presumably or established was heading, then unobtrusively follow him, or better yet, 10-15 meters ahead in order to have time to play again into this fun game that quickly adds the AP you need.
Does it exist a virtual reality, which forces people to leave the house? Will you say no? - you just haven't played Ingress. More and more people are leaving the comfort of their beds and going outside, even though winter is coming! You should know this!
After staying at home all summer, there seemed to be no prospects of going outside. And as soon as it started to get colder and the nasty autumn rain drenched passers-by running home, we came across the game Ingress on Google Play, which forced us to wander around the city with an umbrella in search of portals.
Where to begin?
To get started to go out to play Ingress you need:
- Phone with Android version 2.3 (or later) or iPhone with iOS 7.0 (or higher)
- Working GPS navigation in the device
- Mobile Internet
- Umbrella
What's the point?
The plot of the game is that a mysterious energy penetrates into our world, which can change people's thinking. You need to choose one of the sides:
Resistance(blue) - for those who want to fight it.
Enlightened(green) - for those who want to master this energy.
As a result, both factions fight for intelligence units (the area of the controlled territory). And all this exists in the real world. Perhaps your home or a nearby store has already become a portal.
I would like to clarify that people who play Ingress are usually adequate and only fight in the game. And sometimes they even get together and make joint drawings on the map (field art). The picture above is just an example of field art.
Your goal is portals
Portals are places where energy leaks into our world.
The portal can be of three colors:
- Blue if controlled by the Resistance
- Green if controlled by the Enlightened
- Gray if no one controls it
To gain control of a no-man's portal, you need to install a resonator on it. This process is called deployment. If the portal belongs to another faction, then you will have to first destroy the enemy resonators.
This is what our portal looks like, which we captured the other day:
On one portal you can install from one to eight resonators of different levels (1-8). You can also improve resonators (not even your own) installed in the portal. They determine the level of the portal. It is calculated as the arithmetic mean of the resonator levels, rounded down.
For any actions in the game you will need items that can be obtained from the hacking portal. To do this, you need to approach the portal at a distance of 35 meters, select the portal on the map and press the hack button. After a second of waiting, various goodies will rain down on you, which we will tell you about below.
You can’t get buns indefinitely, and to hack again you will have to wait 5 minutes. It should be taken into account that in 4 hours one person can hack one portal only 4 times.
For advanced hackers, there are glyphs - special figures that need to be remembered and repeated (seen in the photo above). If you do everything right, even more goodies will fall. To try yourself as an advanced hacker, you just need to hold down the hack button longer.
In addition to more goodies, glyphs give you experience points - this is important, especially for novice players.
Mana - walk and get
All actions in Ingress cost Exotic Matter (XM), which we simply call “mana.”
Mana seeps into our world from portals, settling around them in the form of blue balls. All you have to do is approach and it will come together on its own. Mana can be found even far from the portal, but in very small quantities. The screenshot shows the distribution of mana depending on the distance to the portal.
The largest amount of mana is spent on attacking enemy portals, as well as on recharging your own. Portals need to be recharged because they lose their energy: due to enemy attacks, or simply over time (the portal completely loses its charge in 4 days and turns gray).
Mana can also be replenished by discharging the PowerCube, an item that sometimes drops when hacking.
Links and fields - earn mind points
Points in the game are counted based on the area (field) the factions control in the game. More area - more points. To capture the area, you need to connect 3 portals into a triangle (no other figures capture the area). Not any 3 portals can be used for these purposes.
The following conditions must be met:
- Each portal must have 8 resonators installed.
- You must have the key to the portal with which you connect this one (the key drops out of the portal when hacked with a 50% probability). It is not necessary to have the key to the portal near which you are standing. When connecting two portals (link), the key to the portal you are connecting to disappears.
- A link from portal to portal can only be established if it does not cross other links.
- Depending on the level of the portal, you can extend the link over a certain distance (from 160m to 655 km).
Experience is awarded for creating links and fields: 313 per link and 1563 per field.
Mods - help the portal become better
You can install 4 mods in your portal. There are such mods:
- Protective (portal shield) - reduces damage to the portal.
- Attackers (force amp, turret) - increase the damage of the portal to the enemy.
- Extension link (link amp)
- Improving hacking (heat sink, multi-hack) - allow you to hack the portal more often.
Here's how nice the mods look in the game:
Weapons - expand your control area
The most effective thing in the game is to destroy the enemy portal, especially if it was part of the field, and create your own in its place. For these purposes, you will need a weapon, which, like everything else, falls out of the portal during hacking.
There are 3 types of weapons:
- XMP Burster - drops most often, hits a large area.
- Ultra strike - drops rarely, the strike is concentrated and strong.
- Virus - drops very rarely (1 time in 1000). Allows you to repaint the portal in a different color (depending on the type of virus).
And I got the blue virus at level 2 :) I'm waiting for a reason to use it. It looks like this (right):
In general, when using XMP, you should stand so that the blast wave covers several resonators at once.
Levels and achievements - level up and show off to your friends
The player's strength depends on his level, which can be upgraded by receiving action points (AP). The higher the level, the more powerful weapons and powerful resonators the player can use. In addition, as the level increases, the amount of mana the player can collect increases.
There are several common leveling strategies in Ingress:
- Creation of links and fields. For these actions in the game there are greatest number action points. We are leveling up exactly according to this scheme, since there are many portals in our city.
- Destroying enemy portals. For destroying the enemy's portal and network of links, the points are half as many as in the first option. But this strategy is suitable for a losing team when there are few of its own portals.
- Capturing the gray portal. You can pull a no-one's portal to your side. Points are given for installing each resonator, so it makes sense to initially install the lowest level resonators and then upgrade them.
As a bonus, you can get achievements for actions in the game, for example, for hacking a large number of different portals, for holding a portal for n days, for the number of links made, for recharging portals, for installing and destroying resonators.
All this has no meaning and exists rather to compete with friends. But to level up above level 8 you need to collect some medals.
Our achievements - swing and brag :)
We started playing Ingress 2 weeks ago. We are not playing very actively, but we have already managed to get carried away and achieve something. So far we have leveled up to level 4, earned several achievements and walked 47 km around the city (which can be considered an achievement for our lifestyle).
From our limited experience, we can tell you how to play Ingress more efficiently - namely, while riding a bicycle. This way you can quickly travel around many portals, collect keys and create links.
Ingress, to our surprise, is played by completely different people. One day a man of about 50 came up to us and complained that we were destroying his farm. He has been in the game for a long time and has walked more than 1000 km. And one day a guy rode up to us on a bike; it looked like he wanted to deploy the portal that we had just deployed. It turned out that he was from another faction. Therefore, after talking to us, the guy rushed to another portal to protect it from us.
An interesting incident happened to us yesterday. We were just finishing our dinner when we received a notification about an attack on a portal near our house. Having grabbed our things, we managed to run to him when he only had one half-discharged resonator left, and managed to install new resonators and protective mods. This time we could not see who attacked our portal, but we sympathize with him.
We didn't expect so many people to play in our city. Now, when we see a person walking with a phone, we immediately suspect that he may be playing Ingress. This makes the game even more interesting, it’s just a pity that we have much more blue ones than green ones. Because of this, there is an imbalance of power, and the map in our city is usually almost completely blue.
*Over the year, the situation has changed dramatically and the map is now greener than green. Anyone from Chernivtsi, join the resistance so that the game is more balanced!
Ingress is a really interesting game that deserves attention. It even captivated me, even though I’m not a big fan of games in general. This is not just a game, but a reason to go out, make new acquaintances and have an unusual time. Be sure to try it and write your impressions in the comments! We can even play together if you're blue!
You can watch the struggle between factions in the game Ingress on the official map. And if you want more information about the game, then read the Ingress Wiki.
You can download the toy (for Android) or if you are a happy owner of an Apple product.
Each of us knows what a mobile game is. You download it to your smartphone, install it, and then enjoy the process while sitting in a comfortable chair, on the couch, or even at work or school. But it is worth noting that all these games are monotonous in general terms, although they have different genres, plots, graphics, and so on. If you want something unusual and special, then you should pay attention to Ingress. How to play this extraordinary project? What is required from the player? How does it differ from standard mobile games? All these questions may begin to torment you as soon as you see the description of this game.
Ingress - what is it?
The first thought that may come to your mind when you see Ingress is: “How to play such a project?” After all, he looks really extraordinary and unusual. It’s worth starting with the fact that this game contains elements - this means that you will not just sit at home and enjoy the gameplay, you will have to move. In fact, the Ingress application is not the game itself, it is just a platform for it. All gameplay takes place in the real world, as people move around the area and visit checkpoints to move their faction forward. To make the game more exciting, control points are located not in random places, but in the locations of various interesting objects and attractions. Thus, you can take yourself on a walking tour around the city, while at the same time taking part in a global game that involves hundreds of thousands of people around the world. But so far there hasn't been an answer to a very important question regarding Ingress: "How to play this game?"
Application for the game
It's no longer a secret that almost all of the gameplay in Ingress takes place in the real world. But at the same time, you need to somehow connect all the events that take place with each other, so you need to download the application that bears the name of the game. It has enormous functionality and will allow you to join the process at any time, choose a faction and start working for its benefit. It is in the application that the map will be displayed, on which all the key points will be marked - portals that were captured by your allies or opponents. Also through the application you can track all events that are generated by Ingress developers. How to play using the application? You can get the answer to this question directly in it, since it contains a rather voluminous manual. Moreover, you can always turn to your familiar players or neighbors whom you find in the game so that they can help you at first. After all, you are working for the common good of one faction or another. Ingress is a game in Russian, Ukrainian, English and other languages, that is, there will be no problems with understanding your comrades. And you will have to communicate, since you will need to generate plans for the capture and defense of your territories.
Enlightened Faction
As soon as you download the Ingress app, the game in Russian (or another chosen language) will ask you to immediately decide which faction you want to join. Don't think that this doesn't matter, the game has a full-fledged plot, according to which events in the game world are determined. So, you have to choose from two factions - the Enlightened and the Resistance. First, it is worth considering the first one, which advocates contact with the Shapers - an alien race. The enlightened seek peace with the aliens, they want them to help people develop with the help latest technologies. Therefore, if you think that the Shapers will be able to raise humanity to a new level of development, you should join this faction. At the very beginning of the game, when you start Ingress, the description of both factions will be before your eyes, so choose wisely - you won’t be able to change anything later.
Resistance Faction
If you are not attracted by the alternative of cooperation with aliens, then you should join the Resistance faction. Its participants believe that the Shapers just want to enslave people, make them into a collective intelligence similar to themselves, and deprive them of everything human. It’s difficult, of course, to imagine that such a small game as Ingress on Android is capable of creating such a full-fledged game world, projected onto the real one. But that's exactly how it is. Right now you can join this game to start the battle for a particular faction.
The main object is the portal
So, you have chosen your faction, and now you see in front of you a map of the area where you are. Keep in mind that you will definitely need a GPS to play Ingress - the instructions state this quite clearly, as does the description of the game itself. It is through GPS that your location is tracked, as well as your gaming actions, so if you do not have this receiver on your phone, and even more so if there is no Internet connection at all, then you will not be able to join the players. If your device is ready for use, then the main goal is portals. As mentioned above, they are located at various attractions. When you get to a neutral portal or to a portal designated by the enemy’s color, you can change it to yours. This is the essence of the game, and it doesn’t matter which platform you use for Ingress - iPhone, Android or something else.
Links
If you haven't figured it out yet, Ingress is like an advanced version of the dot game, where opponents place dots on a board and then try to connect them together to form "their" squares. In Ingress, too, the fight is all about dominance, so you have to mark portals and then connect them together. And the connection that appears between two portals is called a link. Unfortunately, it is not durable, and the enemy can destroy it. So you need not only to capture new portals, but also to defend the old ones, as well as the links between them.
Zones
The best thing you can find in the game is the zones. When you have been able to collect enough portals of your color and connect them together with links into a single whole, your zone appears. It is much more reliable than a link or portal. This is what you and your comrades need to strive for. Therefore, it is necessary to organize mass attacks in the game chat in order to simultaneously capture portals, link and turn the territory into your zone. How larger size territory, the more portals and links are needed, accordingly, this task becomes very difficult to implement. But possible.
What does Ingress give you?
So, you have already understood the principle of the game Ingress, learned that there is a full-fledged application for it, and also understood the fact that the whole world is already involved in this incredible gameplay. Therefore, a logical question arises: “Do I need to register for this game?” If you just want to sit for an hour or two a day playing on your phone, then you’d better give up on Ingress right away, since such an approach will be unacceptable there. In Ingress you play constantly - day and night, at any given time. One day you may not be able to capture at least one portal, while on another you will have to run from one place to another for several hours. You may have a great chance to help a faction, and then you suddenly change your route. In general, Ingress is an active game that does not stop for a second. If there are a lot of people in your area who play Ingress, then it will be easier for you, since someone will always be able to replace you. And, naturally, you will have new acquaintances with whom you can meet to talk about gaming topics. And not only.
Naturally, everyone decides for himself whether he is worth spending time on this venture. But one thing is clear - Ingress is a masterpiece game, a real breakthrough, a project that the world has never seen before. Therefore, it’s worth trying your hand in any case. And if you like it, then you will certainly see that you can reach unprecedented heights together with your faction, and this is precisely what is of great importance. Unfortunately, not everyone will be able to play Ingress - Windows does not support this game, like a number of other platforms. It is best to play on Android, or at least on iOS.
