You can also repair damaged ones using XM from your stash.
As well as this, you can also upgrade resonators that are already deployed to higher levels if you have better resonators in your stash.
Note: There are quite a few other portal mods you can acquire with varying attributes, both defensive and offensive, so make sure you investigate them as you acquire them.Įach portal can have up to 8 resonators deployed for maximum amplification, so if you encounter a portal that your faction controls, make sure you deploy resonators into any empty slots.
(we’ll cover bursters in the attack section) Resonators are defensive items and can be used to amplify the output of your factions portals or used to capture white (neutral) portals. Once you start a hack on any portal, you will be rewarded with a variety of different items, the most common being XMP Bursters and Resonators. To hack a portal simply get close enough to one, tap it once to bring up the menu, then select Hack from the options.
White portals are currently neutral and free from either faction's control. Green portals are portals that are controlled by the Enlightened.īlue portals are controlled by the Resistance. Portals ‘aka’ Control Portals are the games most important aspects and come in three different colours, green, blue and white.
How to Hack and Control Portals in Ingress Prime. After you finish the tutorial, you will more than likely still have a ton of questions that need answering, so allow the following sections to ease you into things. I’d be allocating at least 15 minutes or more if you live in an area without any significant points of interest. Just be warned that the tutorial does have a tendency to restart from the very beginning if you don’t finish it entirely, so make sure you have the time to go from start to finish in one instance. Once you have downloaded and installed the Ingress Prime app, you’ll be thrown straight into a tutorial process which may be confusing as hell for some people, but does try to cover the basics, so persist with it. However for complete newbs and greens totally fresh to Ingress and Ingress Prime, there’s a hell of a lot to take in, so let’s jump right in.
Note: For original Ingress players coming over to Ingress Prime, you probably won’t learn much here. So far in my limited travels within Ingress Prime, I've managed to gather quite a bit of XM and have noticed that the Resistance seems to be the dominant force by a mile, at least in my city. The more you walk around, the more XM you'll gather. In order to use items and attack or defend portals, as well as progress further, you will also be required to gather XM from the world, which is as simple as walking around. The more portals and fields a team controls, the more power they have, thus increasing their dominance. Once captured these portals can then be linked to virtual triangular control fields. Similar to the way Pokestops work in Pokemon Go. Ingress’s gameplay requires both factions to capture portals which are located at significant real-world locations, places such as landmarks, public art, playgrounds, monuments, etc.