I have a card to reveal today:
And it's no less than the top of the Syndicate Contract!
The Legendary Kumicho
... leader of the entire Syndicate faction.
And the original art by @shinoxl :
The Kumicho is as exceptional as a card can get:
She has unique implants equipped, and there is a long story behind this; in short words, the Kumicho Implants have been hereditary for more than a 100 years and receiving them is part of being promoted Kumicho.
The implants make her extremely durable, among other things.
The Kumicho is also marked 'Slow', and this is because she is not here to do your usual trivial tasks. She is also a Passenger - she is not here to load your cargo, and does not take a crew slot!
Instead, she relies on "her own crew" - all your Syndicate agents.
Leaving the story behind, she also has synergies. Now this is something huge, reserved to some cards only; as this keyword is usually reserved to Origin Cards.
This means that:
- all Syndicate cards, (but not herself)
- and all characters with the Narcophile trait (a negative trait)
... receive a +1 in Quality.
Narcophile?
The Syndicate has a lot of enhancement medicine to provide: some recreational drugs, such as the "Holidays" drug, are mocked by Syndicate agents. Your citizens may have it.
But the Syndicate uses combat drugs, such as the N-prime pills and others.
Let's take another look at Ayumi, a Syndicate officer.
She was revised today.
The new card has +1 Quality but also the Narcophile trait.
Ayumi received this because of her training as a Syndicate fighter.
Yes, you read that well: in EXODE you can use drug as enhancers. Narcophiles must receive drugs to survive - in the Colony gameplay, that is.
That's a negative trait, but with the Kumicho, it can be time to put all your agents as pharmajackers (another term in EXODE) and get some huge boosts thanks to her synergy!
Because, if you read that well: Ayumi gets +1 QL for Syndicate, and +1 for Narcophile, and gets up to QL 9 with a Kumicho.
More news from our new Galactic network!
To allow myself to work more on our coding, we now have another channel - eXode News!
That's our new Galactic News Network channel, so please remembner to follow it as it will soon release many more articles.
See you soon in EXODE!
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The art for Ayumi and the Kumicho have been created specifically for EXODE by @ShinoXL, a top artist and one of our two HIVE blockchain artists.
Our collection also has creations by Ignacio (@nachofigx) to be displayed to you soon, but also many, really many stockarts handpicked from Luca Oleastri, MerryDesigns and other artists.
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EXODE is a space colonization game on HIVE.
Playing it needs a 8 USD Starter and the game accepts HIVE coins, STEEM coins and Paypal.
It is currently in playable alpha. We are still two weeks in its alpha and many features will be added in May. You can discover the game with its concept video or its alpha footage!
More information about EXODE can also be found on our website, 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 .
There are many other reviews I like, such as this one too from @blueeyes8960 . It was from April and we added so much since!
Need some directions? @jacobpeacock made a tutorial here.
Need more? feel free to ask on our Discord!
Looks great!
Wow, this looks more and more promising every release!
I really must dive in at some point, looks like good progress being made!
@tipu curate
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She is So beautiful 😍.
Love the artwork, and thanks for the mention!
Narcophile!!! Watch out! She is amazing!
Narcophiles! I love it! Kumicho looks awesome!
Thanks for helping us on the keyword quest for pharmajackers!
You are welcome! Not too bad for just waking up and sipping my morning espresso! I guess that I dropped into the conversation at just the right moment!
That is some awesome artwork
Kumicho is sexy as hell. Wouldn't mind getting killed by her 😄
What is the droprate of this card?
Drop rate is 1%. (same as legendary rarity in boosters)
Syndicate contracts will each draw 3 cards per week.
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The rarest card in all the alpha collection should be the Elite Kumicho: considering every card has 2 % chances to be Elite. An Elite Kumicho is QL 13, meaning it is the maximum Quality in the game already.
such a cool card, really like the design 😜
do you need to open a contract or just holding it in your account gives you a chance of getting it?
The drops stack on all contracts you have.
But to receive the drops, you have to "open your contract loot" (which opens the open pack feature!). Opening the contract makes sure it is bound to your account.
This means contracts stack up their loot, but only for you.
Transferring or selling an unbound/unopened contract does not transfer its stacked loot. It's burnt/disappear when doing that (so far it is to avoid disturbing the market, stacked loot there will disturb drops single card value, and also unstacked contracts value).
However, a feature to "unbind" contracts you opened will also be made available at some point in later weeks. It will allow you to resell a contract you opened and exploited before, thus giving you excellent liquidity options!
Unbinding will put the contract on a long cooldown (ie 3 or 4 weeks) before it can be sold.
Sorry for all these details, I shared more than requested here ;)