Tomorrow 5 PM UTC (Monday, November 15th), we are recruiting participants to our next 'Away Teams Challenge'.
To participate, you need to have any EXODE starter and successfully landed on a planet.
If you don't know how to get a planet: there are some guides here to help you out!
But do you have a planet already?
Then we only have good news for you!
And you can check all of it here:
(note: youtube is still trying to compile its HD version... since 30 minutes! I guess its coming some day, please have a cookie :P)
Before we get to the challenge, as a reminder we have an interview with Cryptomaniacs on Tuesday 16th, at 1 PM EST! This will be kindly hosted by 
For direct live feeds, please follow:
... or click here to get to his Twitter!
And there is DYGYCON on November 20th!
Now let's get back to our Away Teams!
A new action will be made available on your Colonization Pass in the 'My Games' section.
The time it will be available is planned to be Monday 15th November, at 5 PM UTC.
In case of a technical delay, it will be announced on our discord server.
You just have to click and confirm your participation to the Away Teams Challenge.
This confirmation will be broadcasted to HIVE.
The first step, called 'warm up', is planned to begin the next day.
During 'warm up', you will be able to review all assets in your game (including generated characters and their details) and confirm that everything is in order.
In addition, you will receive 'Away Teams tickets' (which allow you to launch missions in Step 2) and different choices to make.
These decisions are about 'advantages' to get in preparation of Step 2.
They include food, materials, experience in roles, or intel on your planet.
You will be allowed to pick the type of bonus you would like to get!
Some bonuses prepare you for the Away Teams Challenge, while others may even stockpile some resources for the Colonization Challenge to come!
Step 2 should begin a few days after.
Its opening time will be confirmed at least 48 hours in advance too.
As soon as step 2 begins, all players will be allowed to deploy their teams and start accumulating Exploration Points.
Exploration points are given according to the rule presented in the video above, however please note that the video is a "rough idea" of the scoring system, to give some understanding of it, but that the final scoring system will be confirmed when Step 2 will begin.
Step 2 will only last for a set time of a few days. (we suppose for 3 days)
Away Teams take a few hours to complete their mission, so you are free to eat, sleep and enjoy your daily life while your crew members are busy ;)
Step 3 is planned to begin after we have gathered up scores for Step 2 and checked that everything is ok for players. Its opening will be announced a few days in advance too.
Step 3 will allow you to replace your deck with a new game and begin an "optimized Away Teams gameplay", where you will try to gather the most points with the most effective team.
Step 3 will have a separate leaderboard.
All active participants with a score above 0 will receive an alpha booster!
It will be an unbound booster for players with a generation 1 planet (acquired before July 12th), and a bound booster for players with a generation 2 planet (acquired after July 12th).
But there are other rewards of course!
There will be leaderboard awards as well, with several hundred HIVE coins and a few more boosters. Leaderboard rewards will be made public when Step 2 will begin.
In addition, Exploration Points will actually "upgrade" your test planet. This update is part of the process to unlock more weekly rewards after alpha.
And as you can anticipate, after leveling it up with Exploration Points, you will also be allowed to level it up further with Colonization Points, thanks to a Colonization Challenge to come!
We want the contest to be as friendly as possible: away teams face events and dangers which while not being totally random (they are actually generated with your planet) are still very unpredictable, especially to first time testers.
So we know there is some kind of "death lottery" involved with so many unknown parameters!
Your planning ability will be challenged, and your ways to test risk or be cautious!
But player skill is not the only factor.
We know players are mostly 'dropped into the unknown' here!
So the victorious players will also benefit from some luck.
So... good luck pilots! and get some fun, and be fair and gentle to all winners and losers!
This is a challenge, but also a space adventure!
But you can expect to name a team Leader, 0 to several Guards, and 0 to several collectors. And to specialize each collector in collecting food, materials or to try to discover something new (and gather research elements). There are other support roles, such as Scouts. More to be revealed later!
So we call for your understanding in case we have to call some delay at one step, or in case you find some unfair Alienobugosaur has devoured your birthday cake, and all your team with it!
That's all captains!
That makes a lot of information already!
There are still many questions you may have.
I may be less available on discord while working on these programs, but the community has always been helpful!
If you are not yet an EXODE captain: you can check our website and click on "More Info" for links such as our White Paper and our Game Manifesto !)
Feel free to react and to comment and reblog.
Thank you again for your amazing patience!
More information about EXODE can also be found on our Discord, or multiple posts such as this one about our epic characters, or this trailer made by a fan, or this review or this one . A summary of latest posts and events is also here.
Also running a witness node:
You can check the post about it here and if you like what this means you can:
See you soon in eXode!
