Heroes Hangout: Airdrop & Pre-Alpha Playtest 3 Recap
Greetings, Heroes! 🌟
Our town hall in Discord, “Heroes Hangout” recently featured Co-founder and Creative Director Max Fu and Community Lead Tyler Nolin. Max shared exciting updates from the development team, highlighting new features they’ve been working on since Pre-Alpha Playtest 2, what players can expect in the next Pre-Alpha Playtest, and some major details about Nyan Heroes’ next Airdrop.
If you missed the Hangout yesterday, we got you covered. We have summarized the major reveals and news from Max and Tyler below. More details about each of these new features will be shared in the weeks leading up to Pre-Alpha Playtest 3.
What’s been happening
Since the end of last the Nyan Heroes pre-alpha, the studio has focused on further developing the game and implementing core gameplay features such as new classes, game modes, and progression systems; all of which will be included in the next playtest. To help with this, the studio has made notable additions to the team including a sound designer, 3D artists, a gameplay programmer, an art director and a pivotal new role: lead economy and monetization systems designer. The lead economy designer, previously the Economy & Monetization Director for EVE Online, joins an already tenured team of developers at Nyan Heroes. The new lead designer will oversee the design and implementation of monetization, progression systems, rewards, and the integration of the $NYAN token into the game’s ecosystem.
Pre-Alpha Playtest 03
Nyan Heroes’ next Pre-Alpha Playtest begins on September 4th, with an early access for Nyan Genesis NFT holders and KOLs starting August 22nd. This playtest is our largest update yet and includes several new features and improvements to the game. 🚀
New Classes
Not one but two new classes are coming to Nyan Heroes! The first class, which we have shared on our socials previously is the Scout. A zippy and nimble Guardian that can do zoomies all around the Battledome and use it’s electric-charged abilities to stop others in their tracks.
We’ve also been secretly developing a new Guardian for the upcoming playtest — the Mage. This introduces a new class type to the game featuring a fragile yet powerful mech that uses arcane-like abilities to overwhelm its enemies and quickly evade from harm. The name and first-look at it’s gameplay will be revealed later this month!
New Game Mode
Introducing Payload: a new mode where two teams either attack or defend a single objective. The attacking team’s mission is to escort the payload to the final checkpoint point before time runs out, while the defending team aims to stop them.
New Map
To accompany the new Payload game mode, is a new location called Erebus. The Battledome will transform into an icy secret weapons base located in Antarctica where Nyan researchers were inventing new technologies to turn the tide on the war against the machines. It includes new level design features such as pathways exclusive for Nyans to either escape from danger or reposition themselves to re-enter the fight once their mech is respawned.
Add-Ons
One of the biggest changes to gameplay is the newly revealed Add-on system that allows players to customize their mechs with unique bonuses to create loadouts. Each mech will have their own saved loadouts that you can swap in and out of for each game. There is a lot to detail about this system, and we will have a dedicated post about it closer to the pre-alpha playtest.
Bug Fixes & Improvements
On top of all the exciting new features that are coming to Nyan Heroes, the team made it a priority to improve existing features that players experienced in previous playtests. Our anti-cheat methods have drastically improved and eliminated ways that would allow others to manipulate data between users and our servers. Also, a bug that caused players ping in-game to be higher than normal was resolved and we have seen better average ping internally.
Airdrop 3
Some details about the next Airdrop were also shared during the Heroes Hangout, which we will go into full detail in a separate post next week. Here is a highlight of key points for the airdrop.
Airdrop 3 will coincide with the Pre-Alpha Playtest on September 4th, 2024. Nyan Genesis NFT holders who gain early access on August 22nd will have a sneak peek at the new features but will not earn points for the Airdrop. The reward pool for Airdrop 3 is 5,000,000 (0.5% total supply) $NYAN tokens.
We are changing the reward structure for this Airdrop to focus on completing daily and weekly missions, moving away from rank-based grinding. A portion of the reward pool is dedicated to an in-game leaderboard that awards the top players based on the percentage of wins they achieve during the playtest.
Stay Tuned
Thank you to everyone who tuned in for our Heroes Hangout in our Discord. We will host more of these on a regular basis and feature other members of the development team to discuss their work and share insights into making Nyan Heroes.
Further details about the Airdrop will be shared very soon. We are excited to show everyone what we have been working on and look forward to your feedback!
