Optima Kinetic Challenge II
The Second part of the Optima Kinetic Challenge is this weekend Agents! Are you ready for the challenge? If you didnt get to participate in the first challenge, you will now have your chance to earn one of the tiered Optima Medals!
Event Details
The second part of the Optima Kinetic Challenge will take place from Friday, 17 September at 1600 UTC to Monday, 27 September 1600 UTC. With this second part, the tiers to the Optima Medal will be unlocked and able to earn for the duration of the event.
The Optima Kinetic Capsule metric will return to your Scanner to track progress with any in game action. Like the previous event, in order to earn points to your medal, you must complete Kinetic Programs.
Kinetic Programs
To help with Agent efforts during this challenge, the following Program updates have been made:
Existing Programs
- Very Rare Portal Shield; Heat Sink; Multi-Hack; SoftBank Ultra Link Programs: Kinetic energy distance reduced from 8km to 2km; Kinetic energy reduced from 6000XM to 4000XM
- Hypercube Program: Kinetic energy distance reduced from 4km to 2km
Re-Activated Programs
- JARVIS Virus, 8 L8 Resonator Programs
- Kinetic energy distance reduced from 8km to 2km
New Program: ADA Refactor
- 1 JARVIS Virus + 10 L6+ XMP + 4,000 XM + 2km
The reduced 2km Kinetic Capsule distance only applies to newly run Programs, and does not apply to Programs already running prior to the start of the Optima Challenge.
Optima Medal Tiers
With the Second part of this event we have now unlocked the tiers to the Optima Medal! You’ll have to work hard for the last tier Agents, and if you participated in the first event, your medal count should start where you stopped before.
Bronze
- 4 Kinetic Capsules Completed
Silver
- 16 Kinetic Capsules Completed
Gold
- 50 Kinetic Capsules Completed
Kinetic Bundles
Kinetic bundles are returning to the in App store for the duration of the event to help encourage Agents!
Free Kinetic Program Bundle (0 CMU, limit 1 per Agent)
- 3 Rare Shield
- 3 Rare Heat Sink
- 3 Rare Multi-Hack
- 3 Rare Link Amp
Optima Kinetic Program Bundle (1,000 CMU)
- 3 Rare Shield
- 3 Rare Heat Sink
- 3 Rare Multi-Hack
- 3 Rare Link Amp
If you choose to participate in this event, follow all of your areas local health and safety guidelines.
The header image and Optima badge tiers were made and posted by Niantic.