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What better way to start 2026 than with Reality Thread 6 coming online inside #Earth2🌍✌️ Wishing everyone all the very best for 2026! 👉earth2.io/news/reality-threa…👈 Just over 2 weeks since Reality Thread 5 release, did not take a single day off during the break but instead focused on getting #RT6 out as quickly as possible with some of the key team members who worked through with me🙏 There is a lot packed into this release, more than I had expected, but as always it's rewarding to see it go live! I get excited every time we release a Reality Thread - such a good feeling! Remember these releases are typically spread across E2V1, multiplayer, API & BE systems being deployed without any downtime, so please give the team space if any issues arise! 🍜 Chapter 3: Cooking & the Cooking Pot Set 👕Clothing craft & equip system goes live 🕺New emotes & an updated emote wheel UI 📒Inventory, Mentar Inventory & Action Bar stability improvements 🌍Global Property Sync system overhaul for faster feet on ground 🎖️Continued Badge Holder access expansion 🔎 Discovery, runes & previously hidden systems explained Hope everyone enjoys the updates! As always we will monitor & fix any urgent issues that arise. Just be aware that some of the new recipes may appear progressively over the next few hours as we gradually release them, so if you're not sure how to craft something, it may be because we have not released the recipe yet. #Earth2 #Metaverse #Chapter3 #RealityThread6 #OpenWorld #E2V1 $ESS #PlayerDriven

#Earth2 Reality Thread 5 is coming online🌍✌️ Another big Earth 2 release spread across E2V1, multiplayer, API & BE systems being deployed without any downtime, so please give the team space if any issues arise! earth2.io/news/reality-threa… The implementation that took up the most time for this release by far was the foundation for the Global Building System, which will pave way to all building placement systems inside E2V1. So that took up a little more time than expected but we're very excited for it to go live now so we can monitor & improve on it. The teleportation system was also a feature I knew that would be complicated & time consuming to implement, which is why I initially flagged it for a later release, however, I wanted to get it out now as it paves the way for upcoming features & also makes community meet ups a lot easier to participate in. It is incredible to look back & realise we have kept our multiplayer & server integration systems live for the E2V1 pre-alpha for 116 days straight now. Over 99% uptime with multiple hot releases & next to zero downtime .. for a Pre-Alpha!! Really proud of this! In addition to the above you will notice there are numerous other feature releases, too much to cover so be sure to check out the article! #Earth2 #E2V1 #Metaverse $ESS #PlayerDriven #RealityThread #OpenWorld #Explore

#Earth2 Reality Thread 4 is coming online🌎✌️ This is a big update so please be patient as not only the client is being updated but also our multiplayer server code along with numerous other new BE systems. Reality Thread 4 - earth2.io/news/reality-threa… ESS Report - earth2.io/news/ess-30-sep-20… Two articles to catch up on as the plan was to release the report along with #RT4 which took a little longer than expected due to additions and optimisation improvements . I am running late for a flight but hope everyone enjoys testing it out! The team will be keeping an eye on things & I will also keep an eye out as much as possible. Again, please be patient if there are bugs or issues, it is to be expected & we will fix them - as always! Oh, and Happy Birthday Earth 2🎂🌍2⃣ #Earth2 #Metaverse #E2V1 #OpenWorld #Progress $ESS

Important Update for all E2V1 testers 🌍✌️ This is an important update for all testers. Please download the new E2V1 version 0.1.3.2 released about 1 hour ago - we have set it so the previous build 0.1.3.1 will not have access to the multiplayer so you will need to download the new version to connect. If you are testing the multiplayer with other Players and you cannot see the other Player/s you think should be visible, please save your Character and respawn. If that does not work then restart E2V1 and reconnect. We are working on improvements to intermittent multiplayer connection drops for Players without stable internet which will be updated in next versions. Remember, generally if you can see your Ping in the lower right corner, it means you're connected to the multiplayer server, however, there are some cases where you're ping doesn't clear when a disconnection occurs so just follow the above steps if you're not seeing other Characters you expect to see. If you are steaming or posting videos, please try to note your actual real world location (where you are using E2V1 in the real world) and also note you're testing on a server in Singapore. This will help us and others understand the ping we see in the lower right corner for the stream or recording better. If you are closer to Singapore, you should get lower ping but the ping will increase the further away you are. As you can see in the video I posted on X/Twitter yesterday my ping is in the lower right corner, I usually get 18-25ms ping based in Australia to the Singapore server on a standard NBN connection. So individual Ping WILL CHANGE depending on where you are located in the world, what your internet connection is like, whether you use WiFi or ethernet cable and how far away you are from the current multiplayer location server we're using which is in Singapore at the moment (we will change to Europe and America to test results in those locations as well later). Also important, local time zone time inside build 0.1.3.2 may update one every 5 minutes from the time your Character spawns. That is 5 real world minutes, so equivalent to 20 minutes inside E2V1. The dev team are just testing something and so just keep this in mind if you are comparing times with other Players if you don't see the exact same time in the same E2V1 time zone it might be because the dev team is testing something. The multiplayer is back on now so go for it again everyone and the team will keep monitoring! Try and gather as many testers as you can in one area so we can see how E2V1 handles the rendering (multiplayer network side should handle it fine but we'd like to see the in game rendering limitations with real testers). Enjoy and we'll keep improving and fixing issues as they come up! #Earth2 #E2V1 $ESS #Metaverse #Multiplayer #PreAlpha

After years of R&D + months of relentless work through Q2, super excited to finally share a detailed breakdown of the very first playable #E2V1 release! 🌎✌️ 🧬Character Synthesis v1.0 🧳 Inventory System v1.0 🌿Foraging v1.0 🎧 Immersive Audio v1.0 🕓 Day Cycles v1.0 ❄️ Seasons v1.0 ❤️ Character Vitals v1.0 🎮 Action Bar v1.0 🌐 Multiplayer server-side architecture 📜 Quests v1.0 (website deployed) Check out the full article here with a detailed breakdown on each & every aspect, plus some insight into what's coming next: earth2.io/news/e2v1-chapter-… I know I was a little quiet throughout Q2, as was #Earth2 in general, but it's because we're so busy designing, implementing, testing, building. Remember, we are still in Pre-Alpha & this will be our first playable release of #E2V1, probably our biggest software release to date! We are still a few days away on the build, just fixing a few known bugs, mainly bugs around the new inventory system, specifically regarding management between the Discovery Box & the Inventory. The article explains the purpose behind testing, so our expectation is for #Players to stay close to their properties to test a few things out because you will be prone to dying easily the further you stray, especially if you don't have a natural water supply close by & food to forage & sustain you. I guess some might be up for the challenge to see how far they can go but that is not our expectation for this initial #RealityThread release! Apparently the article is a 60+ min read (according to our news article publishing tool) so make sure you have a spare moment when you dig in! Though we know it will be buggy, as expected, we are so excited to see #Players running around inside #E2V1 & streaming. It's only the beginning! #Earth2 #Metaverse #E2V1 #PreAlpha #OpenWorld #Chapter1 #RealityThread1 $ESS

Don't miss the final #LimitedEdition character skin drop leading up to the #Earth2 early access #Chapter1 release! A community design submitted skin (congratulations @MegaFrontman!) which our talented team modeled to life in 3D, ready for use in the #Metaverse 🌎✌️ These #LimitedEdition character skin drops are all we've released to date, so people have gotten used to them, but just a reminder that in the future any new #LimitedEdition character drops will be a lot fewer & farther between once #E2V1 is live, reserved mainly for very special events or collaborations. We want all #LimitedEdition drops to be become more rare & sort after as the platform grows. As mentioned in the past, we will move to a more traditional style system releasing character skins with unlimited editions that are only available for limited times throughout each year. There are a few other important points we'd like to share before the first variation drops: 1⃣ For this drop $ESS skin options will be based on a fixed $0.06 $ESS value. 2⃣ As mentioned in the past, any #LimitedEdition skin drops that don't sell out could be released again in the future until they sell out, but only after the #P2P skin trading store is live. 3⃣ #LimitedEdition skins that have not sold out & are released again will be at least double their original release sale price, sometimes more depending on which skin it is. So it's ok if skins don't sell out, they're just something available for early supporters. 4⃣ The last remaining Luna skin, not yet released, will be released at a future date, which could be any time. 5⃣ We know we still need to release the Cybercore-X weapons. 6⃣ There might be a one or two surprise drops throughout this final #LimitedEdition release 7⃣ How freaking cool is this Cheok Jun-Gyeong #skin! The Korean community requested it and #Earth2 delivered! When you consider the fact that #Players will be able to use these skins not only on their Characters but also on their #NPCs, these #LimitedEditions may be in higher demand & rarer as the platform grows. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%27%… Some very cool history behind this historic #Korean figure & it will be very cool to have him roaming the #Metaverse! #Earth2 #E2V1 $ESS #Metaverse #OpenWorld #cosmeticskin #Collectible

With staggered feature rollouts planned throughout 2025, #Earth2 is building the foundations of a persistent, open world Player driven #Metaverse that is powered by $ESS & bridges between our physical world & virtual reality🌎✌️ 👉earth2.io/news/e2v1-core-des… #Earth2 #metaverse #E2V1 #OpenWorld $ESS #utilitycoins #design #foundations #P2E #p2egames

Foundations for #Earth2 are coming together 🌎✌️ Don't forget to catch this sneak peek on recent progress coming in 2025 & beyond to #E2V1 in 4K youtu.be/RWY4YbqmFNw Follow up article this weekend will cover: 1⃣details on new energy types #F2P #Players can earn & how these systems overlap with various parts of game play & the #EcoSim 2⃣ in depth details about the #EggHunt system including the Game Master & what it means for #LandOwners & #Resource miners 3⃣ important details about the crafting system including various ways to gather & craft and how environments might influence results 4⃣ key information about dynamic environments such as day night cycles, weather & seasons and how some links are formed between Earth 5⃣ details about wildlife including interaction, utility & capture 6⃣ details about the early transportation methods & how this might expand 7⃣ information about the initial building options & possibly ways they link into early global game play The article contains a lot of information & will help #Players form a picture of the short term plans I have for #E2V1 & how they link together in various ways. People tend to see one thing they might not like & not realise there are probably 5 other things they will enjoy. As I have always reiterated, over time there will be so many things to do inside #Earth2 & I think that will become more apparent as we start to release some of these early open world mechanics which will be designed to create more real time desirable #Utility for $ESS which will also include more burn mechanisms. There is probably enough to discuss with the $ESS report & latest progress video for a few days, but keep an eye out for the article this weekend as I'm sure there are a number of key details #Players & #LandOwners alike will want to learn about. #Earth2 #E2V1 #Metaverse #OpenWorld $ESS #PlayerDriven #sneakpeek #videogames #P2E

Check out the latest $ESS report for #Earth2 containing key statistics about our #ERC20 Utility Token 🌎✌️🔥 earth2.io/news/ess-31-mar-25 Also don't miss our latest #E2V1 sneak peek on #YouTube in about 3 hours: youtu.be/RWY4YbqmFNw As #E2V1 comes online we will see more hands on interactive ways to use $ESS on the platform, many of which will come with more #burn mechanics. We also have an article scheduled for release later this week providing additional details about footage content in the #E2V1 sneak peek. The article will provide a clearer picture of the short term plans we have for #E2V1 including new #utility for #Land & $ESS, new game design mechanics and important information about crafting, early transportation, new energy types and dynamic environments amongst other things. We are committed to turning this vision into a reality so we're putting everything possible into #Earth2. The team is doing the best we can to develop features for release & we appreciate your ongoing support 🙏 #Earth2 #Metaverse $ESS #UtilityToken #E2V1 #burn #openworld

Some important details about #Teleportation inside #Earth2 including expanded #Utility for $ESS & #Earth2Land + a new $ESS burn 🔥🌎✌️ 📰earth2.io/news/teleportation We're building & setting up systems for key long term foundations of the #Earth2 #Metaverse. Teleport Upgrade Chips will be one of the items craftable in #Chapter1. I know sometimes it feels quiet but we have a lot going on in the background & not too much longer before there will be a lot to do & a number of core mechanics kick off inside #E2V1 for #Earth2Land & $ESS #Utility. #Earth2 #Metaverse #foundations #E2V1 $ESS #Utility #beginnings #PlayerDriven

#Earth2Day2025 is officially #supercharged! If you're a land owner on #Earth2 be sure to login & claim your mined E-ther over the next 24hrs before it becomes unstable & #Raiders have a feast! 🌎✌️ 📰 earth2.io/news/earth2day2025 Check above article for full details. #Earth2 #Metaverse #Rewards $ESS #mining #landowners #E2V1 #EarthDay #EarthDay2025

Over 67M $ESS actively staked on #Earth2! 🌏✌Above all its a great sign of the wider community demonstrating long term belief in the platform! Check the article for key details & how to stake: 📰earth2.io/news/mentar-stakin… To put this into perspective, it would currently take a single #T1 tile over 50M years to mine 67M $ESS, a #T2 tile over 150M years. Currently a single base #T1 tile takes around 277 days to mine a single $ESS, a single base #T2 around 833 days - and this is with daily logins to claim and transform! Keep in mind these figures are only relevant before the first halving event which will more or less double all duration above making it longer to mine each single $ESS. We had a big backlog to get through from easier days in the past, but at some point I believe this reality will catch up.. and on top of that we're lingering on the dawn of #E2V1. It's inspiring to see so much #land & $ESS locked up, even for the short term rewards & incoming #Earth2Hordes minigame. Seeing the long-term belief & support #Players have for not only for the platform, but also increasing the #Utility of their land is really driving. But I believe in the not too distant future some #Players will have to start making more calculated choices on how they want to use their #land, $ESS & other byproducts as we continue to introduce features & mechanisms that expand the #utility for $ESS, #Land & more across the platform. #Earth2 #Metaverse #E2V1 $ESS #staking #rewards #PlayerOwned #Land #mining #future

🗺️#Explore a 1:1 scale #virtual Earth & collect hundreds of materials to #Craft & keep your character alive & equip to discover #minigame hot spots on $ESS staked #Player owned #properties like #Hordes inside the massive 510,072,000km2 #openworld of #E2V1✌️🌏 Earn loot drops, collect energy types or Farm E-ther which can be converted to the utility token $ESS or used to synthesise #characters amongst other things. This is just one facet of the #Earth2 #Metaverse, as life starts to come online inside #E2V1 this year. To learn more about Chapter 1 & the early life system check out: earth2.io/news/dawn-of-life To learn more about the latest #Earth2Hordes update check out: earth2.io/news/combat-mechan… To watch the latest Vol. 3 combat mechanics video check out: youtu.be/ceJitSlT2RA To learn how to stake $ESS on your properties, check out: earth2.io/news/mentar-stakin… Or to follow $ESS, tradable on the #DEX #UniSwap, check out: coingecko.com/en/coins/earth… Features set for release this year inside #E2V1 will introduce numerous new #Utility cases for $ESS, new burn mechanisms & new reward systems for #F2P #Players & land owners alike. From there we have more exciting features releases such as #EggHunts & early stage building. I have designed the systems we're releasing this year to work together & provide opportunities in ways people might not realise just yet, will be cool to see how this develops & whether these predictions naturally occur or need more work. #Earth2 #Metaverse #E2V1 $ESS #P2E #openworld #game #F2P

Check out the latest progress on the #Earth2 #Hordes Combat Mechanics. Still very early days but it's coming along 🌏✌️ 📰earth2.io/news/combat-mechan… 📽️youtu.be/ceJitSlT2RA The article above has some more details so be sure to read it through. This does not change release plans for #Chapter1 but some of our community might like to see the progress on the combat system as some are interested in the #staking system, combat game play & #P2E. When we have #Chapter1 live, which will include the entire life system, exploring, crafting, surviving plus the early teleportation system (specific details of that system to be released, and then #Earth2Hordes Q3.. the foundations really start to take shape. I am not sure people realise who much just these 3 systems will bring into #E2V1, and they are literally only the beginning! We set the video to premiere just in case some in the community wanted to watch it together, otherwise we would have just instantly released. Hope you all enjoy the footage & progress on the combat system. I love the custom animations we made for the #SMG, just feels cool when slow or fast running with it! For those who have seen the #E2V1 footage being shared by early pre-alpha testers on YouTube etc - just imagine having your characters, exploring the massive open world of #E2V1 then coming across #Hordes to battle .. along with all of the other mechanics that will be implemented at the time. Cannot wait to #play! #Earth2 #Metaverse #E2V1 #OpenWorld #Combat $ESS #p2egames

Check out our article explaining the full Character Synthesis system incoming on #E2V1🧬 Life, survival, crafting, vitals, Essence burn, free to play details & much more 🌍✌️ earth2.io/news/dawn-of-life This release will not only include the foundations for life, but include the beginning of other core systems that will become important long term inside #E2V1. It also importantly increases potential rewards & utility for #Players holding their land & farming E-ther, especially higher tier & classes, an approach I recently reaffirmed I wanted to ensure we pursue while designing a number of the upcoming features. This feature release represents one big part of our Q2 2025 #E2V1 version update, but not the only part. The second release scheduled for Q2 will be the initial Mentar teleportation system, another huge foundation being set inside #E2V1. There will be another incoming article covering details of that system including #EPLs, teleportation, perks for T1 & high class land & some other surprises! A quick note, for #Players who have upgraded their land & secured one of the first 125K T1S tiles for each energy type, the T1S (T1 Special) class supersedes any sub-class you may receive. So if you upgrade and you see Class 2 for example, but your land has the T1S icon mark, it is treated as T1S before Class 2. As promised, the article released today highlights the depth of the #E2V1 avatar release, as mentioned in my post earlier this week. It also highlights the multiple systems we are working on for this release in order to provide our #Players with some activities to do short term inside our evolving digital world! It should self explain why things are taking a little longer than first anticipated & how this is no longer a simple #avatar spawn & do nothing update. I am very excited about these updates rolling out & am extremely keen to get this public! I also want to thank our testers who are on standby to begin playing with these updates as they become available this quarter! On a closing note, I know the Free to Play model will receive some discussion & I am sure there will be varying opinions. I wanted to approach it in a unique way that fits in with our #EcoSim & the ideology I've had for #Earth2 from day 1. Not other does this design take an alternative approach to the promise of loot discovered on a #property being split with the owner but also allows the land owner to request exactly what they are looking for in return for providing life to a free to play #Player. I think it's a pretty cool concept, say I might want some health potions for my upcoming #Hordes game (or something else) this weekend, so I'm happy to provide a free to play #Player with some E-ther to get their own character going in return for some potions. Or maybe I want them to capture something for me, or find a specific material. There will be an insane amount of different quests landowners can set over time which I find really exciting. In fact this design approach I've taken is possibly better than the property based loot split as it is not limited to land owned by the #Player providing the E-ther for the quest, which came from the land they own. We have already implemented a number of the systems set for release this quarter and have been testing them behind closed doors inside #E2V1, but there are some more refinements and additions to make. There has been a lot of thought & design put into the systems revealed in the article today, both for the short and long term vision of the platform, so I hope everyone enjoys the update & details on what's coming up! #Earth2 #E2V1 #PlayerOwned #PlayerDriven #LandisKing #Utility $ESS #Future #OpenWorld #Metaverse

Chapter 1 Pre-Alpha "Explore. Craft. Survive." will be dropping this quarter welcoming the very first inhabitants to #E2V1 & introduce early mechanics that will form the foundation of life inside #Earth2🌍✌️ youtu.be/-h0YIYp6POA<-👍💬💪 Read below for important details: This update is no longer a simple avatar release but a significant update to the entire foundation of the #E2V1 world. When I first talked about dropping avatars I was eager to keep things moving and referred to a very simple system to test skins and movement, then to subsequently implement the full version after that. While this approach would have brought new content out quickly, it could have turned into weeks of extra development time with little upside for the wider community, apart from testing the movement and appearance of the avatars, there would have been little else to do until another subsequent update. Therefore I made the decision to focus solely on implementing the core part of the full system we plan to use long term on the platform. I apologise that this release will take a little longer than originally anticipated, having moved away from the initial lower spec'd plan, but I'd like to get this right & ready for a wider audience to start using and enjoying. As much as I'd love to push out updates faster, I will be taking this approach to #E2V1 development in the future as well. The plan will still be to release to our testing group first after our internal QA, test and then stabilise. If all looks good and we're happy with how everything is performing, we will push forward with a public release. There will inevitably be ongoing adjustments, additions and tweaks to these type of systems over time. It may seem like a long time, but #E2V1 was only released to our testing group 7 weeks ago! How crazy is that? I know for me it feels like many months already. Nonetheless, during this short period of time we have not only released a couple of updated versions, and an updated version to the Earth 2 Launcher, but the team has also been working incredibly hard on the #E2V1 and #BE mechanics for the Chapter 1 systems - and there is a lot involved in this upcoming release. We will be dropping an article later this week, which I believe will help our community understand the extensive list of features planned for this release and in turn explain why it is taking a little longer. I'd rather not spoil all of the details, but the article contains a lot of information about the various systems we're developing including rules of life, avatar synthesisation, death, saving, skins, day/night cycles, free to play model, avatar vitals, how land ownership fits in with all of this and much more. It is important to keep in mind that each of these systems needed to be designed and implemented, which takes time. The article will also begin to reveal some of the design plans I have been working on to increase utility for T1 land, which will also include various T1 classes. I also intend to follow through and expand utility on T1 land into other upcoming mechanics on the platform, some of which will be revealed in a separate article in the near future and are also part of the Chapter 1 release. Ideally, all going well, we will be testing early multiplayer at some stage this quarter and as mentioned earlier this year #Hordes in Q3, #EggHunt in Q4 & maybe some early buildings on properties. In addition to these goals, we have a couple of wild card features floating around in between as well. I know I reiterate it from time to time, but the long term goal for #Earth2 has not changed. We are building a #geolocational #metaverse - a platform! We still want #Players building cities, providing more individualised experiences, advertising, trading, shopping, e-commerce, socialising and so forth. And I still have plans to link #E2V1 into #AR and support #VR, but we cannot do all of this at once. I am also looking at ways we can expand the team and setup a studio, probably in East Asia, to speed up development. The current features we're focusing on plan to expand utility for land on a wide scale & introduce various experiences inside #E2V1, providing potential benefits for land owners & #Players alike on a broader level, while at the same time allowing our team to introduce mechanics that will be used throughout the future of the platform, test limitations and work our way around challenges as they arise. Thanks for reading and don't forget to drop a like and comment on the video! youtu.be/-h0YIYp6POA<-👍💬💪 We appreciate the love and support and it also helps with the algorithm! Keep an eye out for the article later this week - a lot of details incoming! I want life to have meaning inside Earth 2 and I believe my approach could change the way #Players consider each action on the platform.. possibly alter the overall dynamics in a number of ways. #Metaverse #E2V1 #OpenWorld #earlyaccess #Earth2 $ESS

I was wondering when someone would discover this. Nice find @E2Obsidian! I wanted to leave these in #E2V1 to show the corresponding locations where we tested the #Megacity, building outposts & terraforming 🌍✌️ The footage in previous showcase videos was not pre-rendered, it was all recorded real time in our engine & @E2Obsidian has discovered the corresponding locations inside #E2V1 to validate this! Be sure to check his whole thread to see the other locations he found which correspond to the same locations from our previous showcase videos! We have a few features & updates rolling out before we get into the building phase, but it really is going to be epic when #Players start building outposts, then towns, then cities and then megacities inside #Earth2 in the future! Also just to be transparent, we have a little feature creep on the #Avatar release. I want to include some of the smaller follow up scheduled updates we had for after the #Avatar release so #Players have a few things to do as we work toward some of the bigger releases. Team is working very hard to make this happen! #Earth2 #metaverse #E2V1 #PlayerOwned #OpenWorld

Congratulations @MagicRocks2 for your 2D concept art submission our team then took & brought to life in 3D for #Earth2🌍✌️This skin took longer given the detail & quality of the modelling but was definitely worth it! Read below for more important details & updates: The first variations of #CybercoreX will drop in about 8 hours. As mentioned in the article when we first started releasing skins, after #E2V1 officially launches we will be cutting back on #LimitedEdition skins & will predominantly focus on unlimited skins. In some cases these future unlimited skins will not be available for resale. This was always the plan as these early #LimitedEdition skins were released especially for early supporters. We will still release #LimitedEditions from time to time, but if & when we do so it will be at higher prices - which has also been mentioned numerous times in the past but I am just providing this as a reminder. I think we have 2-3 Limited Edition skins remaining before we transition into the standard skin system with unlimited skins & periodic availability - so there are not many left and these final Limited Edition drops will contain a few more rarer variations. #CybercoreX took a lot of additional work & team members strongly suggested the skin should be sold at a premium price, however I decided to keep the pricing in line with the other pre-#E2V1 Limited Edition releases. It is also important to note that as with many of the other Limited Edition skin releases with guns, the assault rifle & pistol will be sold separately. I'd also like to provide a quick update on the #E2V1 public release. The results from the initial testing group have been good so far, there are some issues we are working on fixing but nothing major. Considering it was our very first ever software release of the #Earth2 Launcher AND #E2V1, anyone with real experience releasing major software products would agree it went very smooth. Some #Players downloaded the launcher and were inside #E2V1 within 20 mins without any issues! You have major game or software developers releasing products after decades of experience & a million things go wrong .. often simple things .. our release was the dream type scenario & a real testament to our teams dedication, talent & ability! I'd like to include the option to spawn #avatars for the pre-alpha public release. The team has implemented the majority of this system with a few things remaining, which are actively being worked on at present. I just want to be clear that this NOT the avatar spawn system you have seen in demo videos to date where we just randomly spawn an avatar anywhere, that is simple & we could easily release that specific feature but it was only for demo purposes to showcase avatars can spawn anywhere in the world. To be transparent, what we are working to release now is the actual avatar spawn system intended for long term use where Players need to synthesise their #avatar from their #Mentar on their property to begin its actual life inside #E2V1. It's important to point out this involves numerous API integration, UI/UX updates and is not a simple random spawn. We anticipate there will almost surely be a number of potential bugs with this release so the plan is to first have it released to testers (WITH BUGS EXPECTED!) then stabilise & prepare for the public #E2V1 release. If you see people publishing footage of bugs online, remember we are in pre-alpha which we released to testers less than a month ago & testers are there to help us test and find issues we need to resolve. Our team is committed to fixing any major problems as they arise to improve the platform and keep moving forward. We should have avatars into the hands of testers this week. Remember, once you are inside your avatar you will not have that free camera flying ability. This makes teleportation very important for #Players who want to travel to different locations. So we will also need to start testing the teleportation system, and there is some potentially exciting news I have been keeping close to my chest which will soon be revealed. As always, thanks for your patience and support! Remember, we are literally less than one month since releasing #E2V1 to testers (less than a month ago there were still those who claimed we pre-rendered everything) so these are still early days! It may feel a little slow at first but we plan to release things to do inside of #E2V1 progressively and before you know it there will be too much to do! #Earth2 #Metaverse #E2V1

Here's a little demo of the refined #Katana #ComboStrike including updated #VFX & added #SFX. A couple of months ago we hired our own talented, fulltime Visual Effects dev & a really experienced Sound Effects team 🌎✌️ This attack demonstrates our own custom made animation from our animators, with our own in house #VFX & #SFX created & then synced with the animation ready to be implemented in game. Although these are initially being created for #Earth2Hordes, they will form part of what I like to refer to as #experiences we are creating for inside #E2V1, as we plan to use them in other areas of the platform as well. Obviously we're working on other things in parallel, but I just thought it was cool & wanted to share it with a little explanation for those who are interested as we mentioned in our article (URL below) from last month that the #VFX for the #Katana were still under development at the time. earth2.io/news/combat-mechan… As I've noted a few times, #Earth2Hordes will be our first mini-game, but importantly it will help us build, implement & test a number of important foundational parts critical for the long term vision of #E2V1 such as multiplayer, animation, network syncing, movement, character controllers, dynamic navmesh, combat, NPC AI, VFX, SFX, optimisation, integration & many other aspects. Any game dev who has experience releasing a game will tell you that making one takes dedication & long hours with a lot of blood, sweat & tears. We will use this experience with #Earth2Hordes as a team to develop & apply similar processes to other facets of #Earth2 for the #EcoSim, #Raiding, #Conquer & general exploration of #E2V1, which will ultimately lead into the creation of other experiences & layers to #Earth2. #Earth2 #Metaverse #E2V1 #development $ESS #OpenWorld #Combat #stepbystep