+Beta Anomaly Series Guide
+Beta Anomalies - Challenges and On-site Events
These are the main events for every Anomaly Season! Agents will be able to live an action-packed weekend by participating in an Anomaly Weekend.
As far as Anomaly Points distribution is concerned, three main challenges will take place during the Anomalies, spanning across a total of 3 hours. These will distribute 300 Season Points per Anomaly to the Factions.
⚠️ Portal Immunity Instability will be in effect during these events!
Anomaly Zone Event: Battle Beacons - 100 points total
NIASection14 will deploy Rare Battle Beacons inside the Anomaly Zone in 6 waves, lasting 30 minutes each.
Agents will attempt to win the three checkpoints of Battle Beacons to earn up to 2+3+4 Beacon Points.
A subset of the Portals on which these Beacons will be spawned, will be activated as a Volatile Battle Beacon worth 3x the regular score, so up to 6+9+12 Beacon Points.
Battle Beacon Category will not influence the score.
The waves with the highest score for each Faction will be used to distribute the 100 Season Points assigned to this challenge.
The difference between Volatile Battle Beacons and Non-Volatile ones on the Scanner
Anomaly Zone Event: Flash Shards - 100 points total
6 waves of 13 Shards each will spawn at 30 minutes intervals, along with 4 fixed Target Portals per Faction.
Agents will attempt to score a shard by linking it to their Faction's Target Portal.
Points distribution
1 point awarded to the Faction owning a Link a Shards travels on.
1 point awarded to the Faction owning a Link longer than 499.5m a Shard travels on.
6 points awarded to the Faction scoring a Shard in their respective Target Portal, for each of the first 4 Shards on that Portal. Subsequent Shards will not score.
- Shards only travel along Links connecting L4+ Portals
- If multiple links to L4+ Portals exist on a Shard, it will randomly select one.
- Shards will not backtrack to a Portal they've been on in the prior 25 minutes.
- Shards will teleport to another Portal if not moved for 25 minutes.
- The waves with the most Shards captured per Faction will be used to distribute the 100 Season Points assigned to this challenge.

A Shard, an ENL Target Portal and a RES Target Portal, seen on the Ingress Scanner
Anomaly Bounty - 80 Points Total
Agents who are located close to the Anomaly Zone, will receive an Anomaly Campaign via their Dispatch system.
This Campaign will include 7 bounties and it's not restartable. The 7 bounties are:
- Hack a Portal → 3,000 +Beta Tokens
- Destroy 30 Portal Mods → 500 +Beta Tokens
- Destroy 60 Portal Mods → 300 +Beta Tokens
- Earn 30 Anomaly Unique Hacks → 500 +Beta Tokens
- Earn 60 Anomaly Unique Hacks → 300 +Beta Tokens
- Earn 100 Anomaly Unique Hacks → 200 +Beta Tokens
- Earn 150 Anomaly Unique Hacks → 100 +Beta Tokens
Completing the entire campaign, awards Agents with an additional 100 +Beta Tokens
An Anomaly Unique Hack is intended as a Hack on a Unique Anomaly Zone Portal, each Anomaly Zone Portal will count only once towards these bounties, unless it is in a hidden Recursive State.
In the Anomaly time window, a Portal may enter a Recursive State. This will have no visual impact on a Portal, but will award a one-time “Anomaly Unique Hack” bonus ranging from 10 to 50 to all Agents who hack said Portal while in its Recursive State. Each Agent will only receive one bonus per Portal.
The Campaign will expire at 17:10 local time.
The average number of Anomaly Bounties each Agent has claimed, excluding Agents who did not complete at least 1 Bounty, decreased by 3, will be used to distribute the 80 Season Points assigned to this challenge.
GORUCK Urban OPS and Stealth OPS - 20 points total
GORUCK Urban and Stealth are a series of optional, ticketed, competitive, physical challenges which are disputed respectively in the night before or the morning of the Anomaly. These events contribute to the score of an Anomaly Site, distributing 10 Season Points per challenge to the two factions.
!~A good amount of physical preparation is recommended before undertaking this challenge.!~
GORUCK also hosts Operation Clear Field, a competitive, optionally cross-faction, service-themed scavenger hunt with Ingress exploration. Usually held the morning after the Anomaly. This events yields no Season Points.
All these are paid events hosted by GORUCK, and participants will obtain a patch of the event they participated in, and a point on their respective Ingress Badge.
Tickets are available at these links:
🇪🇸 Valencia, Spain
GORUCK Stealth
GORUCK Urban
Operation Clear Field
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
GORUCK Stealth
GORUCK Urban
Operation Clear Field
🇳🇿 Wellington, New Zealand
GORUCK Stealth
GORUCK Urban
Operation Clear Field
🇺🇸 Houston, TX, USA
GORUCK Stealth
GORUCK Urban
Operation Clear Field
🇹🇼 Taoyuan, Taiwan
GORUCK Stealth
GORUCK Urban
Operation Clear Field
🇳🇱 The Hague, Netherlands
GORUCK Stealth
GORUCK Urban
Operation Clear Field