Parallel Studios is launching its first growth to its namesake sci-fi buying and selling card recreation, including over 120 new NFT playing cards that may be purchased in blind packs and traded earlier than they debut within the recreation, the studio introduced Wednesday.
As Parallel prepares so as to add its Planetfall growth playing cards to its recreation, gamers can select from one among three completely different card bundles. The Participant Pack prices 0.018 ETH (about $32) and the Collector’s Pack will price gamers 0.18 ETH ($320). Each the Participant and Collector’s Packs include 10 playing cards every. The Collector’s Crate, which consists of 10 Collector’s Packs (100 playing cards) in addition to different perks, will set gamers again 1.6 ETH ($2,848).
In Parallel, players should select between one among 5 completely different factions, create their very own card decks, select a “Paragon” or playable major character card, and battle enemies in 1v1 matches the place the primary participant who can get their enemy’s well being factors to zero wins.
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The Planetfall Collectors Drop will happen on October twenty eighth, 2023 at 3PM EST on https://t.co/vGkQt4DV1m. There might be 18,646 whole Packs included in Planetfall. A big portion of those might be reserved for collectors and… pic.twitter.com/N9q4pTanJL
— Parallel (@ParallelTCG) October 23, 2023
Gamers gained’t get to decide on which playing cards are of their packs, however the Collector’s Pack and Collector’s Crate will grant consumers “uncommon” playing cards versus the essential participant pack, which can provide a mixture of widespread, unusual, and uncommon playing cards.
Whereas Parallel is promoting its Planetfall bundles starting with a presale for choose early adopters on October 25 (and a wider presale starting October 28), these new playing cards gained’t truly be added to the sport till someday in Q1 or Q2 of 2024, in line with a press release.
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In contrast to Parallel’s earlier starter deck NFT packs, which have been launched on Coinbase’s Ethereum scaling community Base, Parallel’s Planetfall NFT units will exist on the Ethereum mainnet. Because of this gamers will see greater transaction charges (gasoline charges) when making purchases by comparability—however they gained’t need to bridge any crypto to the Base community.
Subsequent week, Parallel may even launch a new patch for its beta, which can provide gamers a battle move, new beauty skins, and new recreation choices together with emotes and area backs. A brand new in-game retailer may even be added with the patch, which takes impact October 30. The patch additionally addresses some quality-of-life modifications to the sport’s visible structure (UX/UI), and decks will now routinely embrace the rarest playing cards gamers maintain.
Whereas Parallel has been in beta since July, its crew has already launched over 1,200 several types of NFTs totaling almost 6 million property in whole. Since Parallel first launched NFTs in March 2021, the sport has seen virtually 78,000 ETH in whole quantity traded per knowledge from NFTgo, tallying about $237 million value thus far.
Paintings for “Hastati Hovercraft” card and “Earthen Skimmer card. Picture: Parallel Studios.
Along with its preliminary NFT playing cards and NFT starter decks, Parallel has additionally launched an avatar PFP assortment, which offers house owners with extra in-game advantages comparable to further PRIME, Parallel’s ERC-20 token, for wins.