Ingress - Augmented Reality. Beginner's Guide

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, "and why do I need it?" and move the cursor to the "cross" of the active tab. Take your time, maybe everything is not as scary as it seems!

First of all, you can’t just pass by the only game, in which developers Google is specified (or rather its small division called Niantic Labs), and the number of installations exceeded 500,000. Despite the fact that we only have beta, in addition to The gameplay invented a whole world, and even released several books.

The uniqueness of this game also lies in the fact that, unlike 99% of entertainment applications, Ingress will require you not to develop finger dexterity and quick reaction, but good physical fitness, orientation to the terrain, knowledge of sights and a desire to wander through memorable places of your native city.

Difficulties with obtaining invites also does not arise. The easiest way is to simply send a request on the Ingress website. Have you ever hearing about ingress shop? I think no. So visit it and make some good purchases for you lovely game!

In addition, many players have invites, and they can always share them.

Remains of the only cons of the English interface. Therefore, in this review I will try to dwell at the most initial stage of the game, which often becomes a stumbling block and scares Russian-speaking users with a lot of scary and incomprehensible terms.

Preamble

So let's start with the basics. Ingress is a multiplayer online game with elements of augmented reality. To implement the gameplay, you need a device with an installed application and a permanent connection to the Internet and GPS satellites (support for determining your location via Wi-Fi is supported, but the accuracy is very, very lame, so we assume that there is no such possibility).

In the game there are two factions, the affiliation to which is visually shown in blue and green colors of objects on the map. Your primary tasks are to capture free and enemy portals and create links and fields between your portals. In the process of performing game actions, your level increases, which gives you additional features and benefits. Organized command actions have the greatest efficiency, for which coordination a chat is built in.

Legend

Oh, those scientists! Forever they can not sit quietly! So this time they distinguished themselves: during the experiment in the next Collider, some exotic matter was obtained (Exotic Matter, abbreviated XM), which scattered throughout the world. But instead of chasing the wind and spoiling the ozone layer, it quietly and peacefully attracted to monuments, libraries, museums and other wealth of knowledge, where it began to repair itself and multiply. Over time, Portals appeared in these places somewhere in another world. And they got some of these strange creatures - Shapers (Shapers). Who they are, what they look like and what they need from us is unclear. But they really want to change our world.

To clear up everything again will have to ordinary people. But not to everyone, but only to those who are generally aware of what is happening and has special scanners (since the XM and portals are not visible to the simple human eye). But it’s historically so that it’s impossible to come to the same opinion, and as a result, two factions are formed - the Enlightened and the Resistance.

The first piously believe that the Shapers are good, joy and happiness. They found out that the Shapers from ancient times controlled creative people, helped humanity to develop. And if there is an opportunity, then let them influence people directly, leading humanity to a bright future.

Resistance, as it is easy to guess, is not the joyful prospect of such close contact with an unknown mind. For them, these are invaders who manipulate human consciousness; they bring nothing new, and now (through experiments) they can 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 MU), and speaking Russian, ordinary people. For this, portals are captured and connected by connections. The zone inside a triangle created by a fraction (where the portals are the corners, and the connections are the sides) forms a field, which adds a certain amount of MU to the total fraction of the fraction. And who has more MU - he is right!