When: October 1 at 18:00 UTC to October 28 at 18:00 UTC
The event consists of two separate competitions – a Faction one and a Personal one!
ABOUT BATTLE BEACONS
Two types of Battle Beacon items (BBs) exist – Rare Battle Beacon (RBB) and Very Rare Battle Beacon (VRBB) – find them in the “Boosts” section of your inventory…
Both of these count towards both of the competitions – Agent and NIA-Section14 deployed!
RBB – 10 minute countdown + 3 checkpoints (one every 3 minutes, for 2,3,4 BB points respectively)
VRBB – no countdown – 5 checkpoints (one every 3 minutes, for 1,2,2,3,4 BB points respectively)
Who can purchase Battle Beacons?
- Agents with at least 1.2 million AP can purchase RBB
- Agents with at least 40 million AP can purchase VRBB
Any Agent of any level can participate in a Battle Beacon battle once it is deployed on a portal!
Additional Notes:
- Be aware that the VRBB flips after each checkpoint (except the last) – keep re-making it blue!
- After losing control of a portal with a VRBB, you cannot immediately deploy on it again!
- A victory visual beacon is displayed on a portal after BB concludes (RBB = 1 hour, VRBB = 4 hours)
- Deploying a visual beacon (fe: Meetup, Target, Toast) blocks BB from being deployed for 4 hours
- NIA-Section14 (scans & official events) deployed BBs override any existing beacons on any portal
- Portal that has been scanned 7 times will spawn an RBB at the end of a cycle – check the Intel map for portals ornamented with a circular arrow to see where this will happen – identify clusters!
FACTION COMPETITION
The Resistance and the Enlightened compete over the control of ALL Battle Beacon checkpoints…
Goal: win as many Battle Beacon checkpoints as possible – make all BBs BLUE đź’™
Procedure: fight over all BB checkpoints – do whatever you can to make all of them blue!
Reward: 2000 Season Faction points will be distributed between the Resistance and the Enlightened based on the sum of all of their Battle Beacon checkpoint points!
With the absence of Anomalies, this will make an essential difference in winning the Season!
Additional Notes:
- When arranging BB meetups, make sure that the Resistance wins as many of the BBs as possible!
- Avoid deploying BBs when it is likely that you will not able to win them!
- Try to disrupt ENL BB meetups and make as many of the checkpoints of their BBs blue!
- The last checkpoint of any BB is worth the most points – use ADAs if necessary – every point matters!
- Be aware that the VRBB flips after each checkpoint (except the last) – keep re-making it blue!
- Check your area on Intel for portals that have been scanned for extra BBs at the cycle end!
PERSONAL COMPETITION
Agents around the world compete over the number of Battle Beacons they interacted with…
Goal: interact with as many Battle Beacons as possible
Procedure: complete Assignments in the Global Battles scanner campaign to gain rewards
Reward:
- Assignment 1 (5 BB interactions) – Bronze medal, 1000 tokens, 6 RBBs
- Assignment 2 (50 BB interactions) – Silver medal, 2500 tokens, 11 RBBs
- Assignment 3 (200 BB interactions) – Gold medal, 4500 tokens, 17 RBBs
- Campaign can be repeated once for additional item rewards, but no extra tokens…
What counts as an interaction?
- Deploying a resonator or upgrading a resonator of another player
- Attacking or destroying a resonator
- Destroying a mod
- Destroying a link
- Recharge (even remotely)
Additional Notes:
- Interaction within the 10 minute countdown of an RBB also counts!
- Meetup with other Resistance Agents and deploy BBs together to reach the Gold medal easier!
- Use the RBBs gained from bounties together to keep the momentum going…
- Never forget that you also need to win these BBs to add to our Faction score!
- 1 BB = 1 interaction in the campaign
ADDITIONAL PERSONAL COMPETITION
Agents around the world compete over the number of Category 6 Battle Beacons they interacted with…
Goal: interact with as many Cat-VI Battle Beacons as possible
Procedure: Agents from both Factions need to compete over a BB to increase its Category
Reward: 100 highest scoring Agents will be listed on the Ingress blog…
Additional Notes:
- A precise number of actions needed to reach Cat-VI is unknown, but it requires an intense battle
HOW TO GET MORE BATTLE BEACONS?
CORE Subscription – all recursed CORE members receive one free VRBB every month
Free RBB – claim for yourself one RBB provided for free in the in-game shop
End-of-cycle RBBs – portal that has been scanned 7 times will spawn an RBB at the end of a cycle
Kinetic Capsule Programs:
- 1 RBB – 15 Common Shields + 10 level 4+ resonators
- 2 RBB – 3 Rare Force Amps + 3 Rare Turrets + 3 Rare Shields + 20 level 7+ XMP
- Up to 13 Kinetic Capsule programs can be activated in parallel during the event…
Special passcodes – Ingress posts on social media contain public passcodes for Battle Beacons (fe: AFreeRBBbw53c) that you can redeem in the in-game shop as well as hidden clues for passcodes that require decoding!
RBB Load-out cards: you may have got these as part of the Anomaly / Year 10 / Origins etc… packs or you can buy them at the Ingress Merch shop
In-game shop offers:
- 1 VRBB – 5000 CMU
- 8 VRBB – 30800 CMU
- 8 RBB – 16000 CMU
GOOD LUCK AGENTS – THE RESISTANCE RELIES ON YOU!
#EveryPointsMatters #EveryAgentCounts #CygnusGlobalBattles #ResistanceUnited
Sources:
- https://ingress.com/news/2026-cygnus-globalbattles
- https://support.ingress.com/hc/en-us/articles/41140407434651-Battle-Beacon-FAQs
