Ingress Insights: An Ingress Podcast

Episode 90 - How COVID-19 changed Ingress forever


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This is the 90th episode of Ingress Insights, as well as Season 3 - Episode 15, and was recorded on 1st April 2025 and released on 6th April 2025.

It covers a (rough) timeline of Ingress during COVID-19 and the changes that happened.

Show Notes

  • Embracing real world gaming from home
  • March 2020 updates to events, Requiem postponed
  • What was Requiem?
  • March 2020 Temporary Changes to Ingress
  • Virtual NL-1331X event
  • APEX added to the game
  • Virtual First Saturday begins
  • Double Recon points
  • No Anomalies for 2020
  • Fireworks added to the game
  • Updates to Portal Decay
  • Temporary game changes in October 2020
  • Re-embracing the real world
  • Battle Beacons added to the game
  • Kinetic Capsules added to the game
  • EOS Protocol
  • Kureze Effect Anomaly
  • March 2022 updates to the game
  • Kythera Anomaly
  • Requiem Anomaly revived as Superposition
  • MZPFK Anomaly
  • Virtual First Saturday no longer awards the medal tick
  • COVID changes that remained in Ingress


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