Game Development Updates - April 6, 2022
Open Beta v2, Hero NFT Sale, Sealed Heroes, Battleground, Dungeon, Renting and more
Dear Summonnians,
We are escalated by the priceless feedback from the Summoners community during the past few months! These are the driving motives for Summoners Arena team to master your game journey and deliver what we believe is the soundest to our beloved Summonians. As the official launch is coming by, let’s get on to learn more about major development updates with us!
What’s New?
Timeline Updates: Open Beta v2, Roadmap update, Hero NFT Sale
Gameplay Updates: Sealed Heroes, Battleground, Dungeon, Renting and more
Timeline Updates
Catching up with the route we share ahead, Summoners Arena would love to give a screenshot of the upcoming timeline with you all.
Open Beta v2
Open Beta v2 with several new features will be available to play at 7 AM (UTC), April 7, 2022.
It will come with a bug bounty program and there will be no entry requirement.
Another article with further details and install instructions for new players will be available at launch.
Updated roadmap
As we are implementing several new features and need some extra time to tune the game up a notch, we have decided to extend phase 2 of the roadmap for another month. See the new roadmap above.
Production is expected to launch in early/mid May.
More Heroes are coming!
From the beginning, our vision was to limit speculative behaviors and enable as many players as possible to have the chance to join us and enjoy the game. However, the current price for high-tier NFTs is creating an entry barrier for new players. Hence, we have decided to have another batch of Heroes added to the initial supply.
In order to reserve advantages for Genesis owners, the new Heroes in the upcoming sale will come with a rarity of 3 or higher body parts. Genesis Heroes have a rarity of 5 or higher body parts.
The sale will happen around late April/early May before Production launch. More details to be announced!
Gameplay Updates
Set out to deliver pure excitement and enjoyability, we breathe, eat and sleep new features. April has been a huge month for Summoners Arena as we implement those new features and are now super excited to introduce them to our beloved players.
With the release of Open Beta v2, several new features have been added and those features will also be available at Production. Read below to learn more about those features.
See the demo of the new features in our Dev Update footage on Youtube.
Sealed Heroes
Sealed Heroes are Non-NFT Heroes that have similar attributes and gameplay mechanisms (upgrade, evolve, etc.) to the NFT ones, with the exception that Sealed Heroes have no body parts.
Can be summoned from Sealed Scrolls.
Several new features and resources to be released along with Sealed Heroes. Some features will only allow Heroes, some will allow both Heroes and Sealed Heroes. See below for more details.
Battleground
A PvP mode similar to Arena but players will be able to use both Heroes and Sealed Heroes to fight their way up the leaderboard
Battleground Shop: a seasonal shop where players can buy various resources using Battleground Coin, a Battleground-native currency.
Dungeon
A PvE game mode where players can utilize both Heroes and Sealed Heroes to advance through Waves and Stages in the Dungeon.
Stage & Wave: Each wave, players need to use a single Hero to defeat the opponent’s 5 Heroes. Wave difficulty will gradually increase over time. A stage consists of 100 waves
Buffs & Potions: Every 10 Waves, players can use a Dungeon-native currency called Gold to buy at most 3 buffs/potions to power up their Heroes. Those buffs/potions are effective in Dungeon only.
Merchant: After finishing a stage, the Merchant will show up and offer players to buy resources with Relic Fragments. Relic Fragment is also a Dungeon-native currency.
Renting*
A renting system coming with a management dashboard will be made available during a later patch of the coming Beta. Hero Owners can lend their Heroes in either the following ways.
Single Lending: Players can choose to list their Heroes for rent one-by-one, each with a fixed price paid upfront and a fixed lending period.
Team Lending: Players can choose to arrange their existing Heroes into teams and list those teams for rent (or directly to another player) and share profits (in %) with the renters.
New quest and mission system
Several new quests and missions will be added.
7-day mission: During the first 7 days after the first login, players will be prompt to finish special one-time missions in return for exclusive rewards.
Daily Login reward: A reward system that offers players rewards for logging in the game daily.
New in-game resources
New resources will be introduced during Open Beta v2
Sealed Scroll: Opening a Sealed Scroll summons a Sealed Hero of random tier and faction
Soul Drop: Used to evolve Heroes along with other materials
Awaken Book: Sealed Heroes require a certain amount of Awaken Books to unlock their upper-level cap
Hero Fragment: A full set of Hero Fragments can be used to summon a Sealed Hero of the same tier
Revitalize Stone: Revitalize Stones when used will reset and return all resources ever been consumed by a Hero
Eternal Crystal*: Belongs to the Ancient Summoner himself, those crystals lend the Summoners its power and can be used to upgrade Summoners’ skills
Other Updates*
SAE will no longer be used to unlock & upgrade Summoners
Evolving a Hero to 8-star will now require SAE
In-depth details regarding the new features will be updated onto our whitepaper in the coming days so keep an eye out!
In all sincerity, in good faith for the Summonia.
*These features will be released later during Open Beta v2 through patch updates
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