The next Enigma Cat? Take you into the elf world of Axie Infinity
Original author: 0x13, Rhythm BlockBeats
Recently, as the popularity of the NFT sector has gradually declined, and PayPal announced support for encryption The new round of bull market started after the currency has further reduced people's attention to the niche field of blockchain games. When everyone's attention was attracted by the price of Bitcoin breaking through one high after another, the leading trading platform Binance Launchpad announced that it will soon launch a blockchain game project token: Axie Infinity's native governance token AXS.
As soon as the news came out, it quickly attracted widespread attention. What is so unique about this game that will be on Binance's IE0? On the other hand, the veteran players of Axie Infinity are rejoicing that their long-cherished "treasure" will finally be known to many crypto users, which is a good thing for the project or its users. Axie Infinity also took a snapshot on October 26 to distribute AXS airdrop rewards to old players.
At present, many new players have expressed their interest in Axie Infinity, and they all want to try this game that can "Play to Earn" game, to experience whether it can really help poor Filipino families live comfortably (Rhythm Note: A Filipino user previously claimed to use this game to get rid of poverty and become rich).
According to statistics from nonfungible.com, in the last seven days, the transaction volume of Axie Infinity was about 655,900 US dollars, accounting for NFT 33% of the total market turnover, ranking first.
Introduction to Axie Infinity
According to the Axie Infinity white paper, the game Axie Infinity was inspired by the famous Nintendo game "Pokémon", so the gameplay of the two is similar to a certain extent. For example, players can use their own "Pokemon" and other Play against players or NPCs. However, after experience, there are still many differences between the two.
Each elf in Axie Infinity is unique, including dragons, sea monsters, etc., and each elf’s body There are various imaginative and interesting elements in different parts of the game. And the elves can also produce the next generation of elves through breeding, much like the popular CryptoKitties back then, but the diversity of Axie Infinity gameplay is much richer than it.
Getting Started Guide
Before entering the game, buy Three Little Elves
Like all blockchain games, the assets in the Axie Infinity game are also in the form of tokens Existence, such as elf is NFT, little love potion (necessary potion to help elves reproduce) is a homogeneous token (FT), so players need to prepare a digital currency wallet and deposit some ETH as a token purchase or For transfer use. It should be noted that a digital currency wallet is different from a bank account. Once the mnemonic is forgotten, it cannot be retrieved, and the assets inside will disappear, so be sure to keep your mnemonic.
Register on Axie Infinity official website: https://axieinfinity.com/
Complete registration After that, you can go to Axie Infinity's market to buy elves: https://marketplace .axieinfinity.com/axie
In addition to the cost of the elf itself, the user needs to pay a certain handling fee (Gas fee) when purchasing the elf. The Gas fee paid will affect the elf The entry speed of elves (which can be understood as affecting the transaction speed), the higher the Gas fee is paid, the faster the elves will enter the account.
As for how to choose an elf and what its various attributes mean, we will introduce them in detail below (impatient Users can choose which elf to buy after a brief understanding of the following).
After purchasing the three elves, wait for them to enter the account, and then go to the Axie Infinity official website to download and install the application. Get ready to play!
Download link:
MacOS: https://axieinfinity.com/downloads/axie_infinity-latest-macos.dmg
Windows: https://axieinfinity.com/downloads/axie_infinity-latest-windows.zip
Android: https://axieinfinity.com/downloads/axie-infinity-android-latest.apk
iOS: https://axieinfinity.com /community-alpha Click "Download for iOs" to get the invitation letter, which will be sent to the registered email address.
Enter the game!
After entering the game, you will see the following interface:
The center of the interface is the three elves that the player just bought, There are three buttons in the lower left corner, which are "AXIES", "TEAMS", and "INVENTORY".
There are daily tasks in the center of the top of the page. The game mode is divided into "PvP mode" and "adventure mode". The adventure mode does not consume stamina, and the PvP mode requires a little stamina per round. The stamina value can be viewed in the upper left corner of the page.
Before entering the battle, players need to form a team with the purchased elves, and the battle can start after the formation is arranged .
The formation needs to be arranged according to the attributes of the elves. For the same three elves, different formations will have completely different Combat strength and specific strategies can learn from the famous Chinese "Tianji Horse Racing", and the excellent formation ratio can help the elf combination to exert its maximum effect.
Elf detailed explanation
Now let's talk about the elves.
Each elf has four ability values, which are "Health", "Will (Morale), "Skill" and "Speed". The total of the four abilities of each elf is 164 points, and different distributions determine whether this elf is more suitable as a "tank" or "output".
Health (Health): the amount of damage the elf can withstand in battle, the elf will be killed after the health value returns to 0 Will be eliminated from this game;
Will (Morale): It will affect the crit rate of the elf's attack, the higher the value of the will, the more likely the health value will be zero Then enter the "Last Stand" state, and the number of battle rounds in this state is also related to the will value;
Skill (Skill): determines the elf's ability to fight The "combo damage (Combo)" value when two or more cards are used in one round;
Speed (Speed): determines the order of the elf's moves in the battle, the speed Pokémon with higher values will attack first and are less susceptible to critical damage.
The distribution of elves’ ability values depends on their "Attribute (Class)" and "Body Parts".
Body Parts
The body of each elf is divided into 6 parts, which are eyes (Eyes), ears (Ears), horns (Horn), mouth (Mouth), back (Back) and Tail.
Among them, the horns, mouth, back and tail determine the skill cards that the elf can use in battle, Each elf has four skill cards. Each skill card has different skill effects. On the right side of the card, there are two values of "attack power" and "shield value", which are the damage caused to the enemy and the value of your own shield. When the shield is broken, the enemy's attack will directly reduce the health of the elf.
Attribute
Elf There are nine types of attributes, namely "Reptile", "Plant", "Dusk", "Aquaic", "Bird", "Light" Dawn), "Mech", "Bug" and "Beast".
And the body parts and skill cards of the elves also have different attributes.
There is also a relationship between the attributes of the elves, as shown in the figure below:
Example For example, plant-based skills will cause an additional 15% damage when attacking water-type elves, and plant-based skills will reduce 15% damage when attacking beast-type elves.
When the attributes of the elf’s body parts are the same as those of the elf itself, the ability of the elf will be added The values are as follows:
Plants: health +3, will +1
Water system: HP +1, speed +3
Crawling system: HP +3, speed +1
Beast Type: Will +3, Speed +1
Insect Type: HP +1, Will +3
Flying Type: Will +1 , speed +3
When the attribute of the skill card used by the elf is the same as its own attribute, this skill card Also increases attack damage and shield value by an additional 15%.
Generally speaking, our team needs tank-type elves to take damage in the front row, and output-type elves to The back row continues to output. When selecting elves, it is necessary to comprehensively select their various ability values, skills and attributes.
Start the battle!
After understanding the attributes of elves, I believe you already know how to select elves and array them. Now let's get into the actual battle.
After entering the battle, you will come to this interface, the three elves on the left belong to the player (you), and the one on the right Three are opponents. You can see the attribute and life value of each elf. The sorting at the top of the page is based on the speed value of the elf, which is the order of the elf's actions, the bottom is the skill cards drawn in this round, and the energy value and card number are in the lower left corner.
< p line="suJS">The battle of Axie Infinity adopts a turn-based system. The goal is to reduce the opponent's elf HP to 0. Players need to predict the opponent's strategy in each round and formulate a countermeasure to win.
The elf battle deck consists of 12 skill cards of the three elves in the team, each skill There are two cards. The player will have 3 energy points and 6 random cards in his hand, and then draw 3 cards and increase the energy value by 2 points in each round. As long as the energy value is sufficient, the player can play any number of skill cards in one round. But each elf can only use its own skills.
The elf with the higher speed value will act first, and it may even move before the opponent elf Knock it out of the game, however, some skills are suitable for second-hand use, such as rebound damage, healing, etc.
Every round, players have 60 seconds to play cards, and the unused hand cards and energy value at the end of the round will be discarded Remains, but the maximum number of cards in hand is 9 cards, and the maximum energy value is 10 points. Cards will enter the discard pile after use. After all the cards are used up, the cards in the discard pile will be reshuffled and put into the deck.
The rich skills and various special effects of the elves in the game are not easy to understand for novices, and the editor is "destroyed" because of this. However, the editor was pleasantly surprised to find that in the Chinese Axie community The Great God has sorted out the relevant information, very detailed, it is recommended to collect it!
"Axie All Skill Names and Descriptions, Chinese and English"
"Axie Infinity game Buffs and Debuffs name and description, both Chinese and English"
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Battle skills recommended by Rhythm:
1. Novice lineup recommendation: Tank x1+ Output x2
2. The characteristics of an excellent tank-type elf:
(1) High health value; (2) Possess two The above skill cards with high shield value
3. Plant-type, crawling-type, and water-type skills are suitable as defensive cards
4. The characteristics of an excellent output-type elf:
(1) Having more than two high-output skill cards; (2) Low health and shield values
5. Speed is very important for output-type elves. They can attack and eliminate opponents before they act.
6. Beast-type, insect-type and flying The elf is suitable as an output
"Pacifist" players
Axie Infinity players are also divided into two types. In addition to the "warrior" players mentioned above, there are also some "pacifist" players who play Axie Infinity for collection.
So, which elves have higher collection value? Rhythm will list some for you here:
1. Origin Axies
The number of Origin Pokémon is only 4088, which is extremely rare, and it is also the reason why countless players flock to it.
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< p line="dvpz">2. Mystic Axies
Mystic Axies refer to the body parts There are elves with "Mystic Parts", and mystical parts will only appear on the original elf, and they cannot be inherited, and the development team will not create them again. In addition to having a distinctive appearance, the magical parts can also evolve into "Legendary Parts".
Each part of the original elf has a 1/18 chance of having a magical part, that is to say, there are 33 % of Origin Pokémon have a chance to become Pokémon, and some Pokémon can have more than one Pokémon. The price of elves with magical parts is often much higher than that of ordinary elves. The more magical parts, the higher the price.
< p line="FGnB">3. The elf with the top ID
4. Meo Corp Elf
"Meo Corp elves" can only be obtained by hatching elf eggs obtained from "Axie Egg Lab", and the Axie Egg Lab will only release new ones in a certain season from time to time , the hatched elves will have an exclusive "Meo Corp" label.
< h4>The next generation with high hopes
Of course, in addition to buying elves, you can also "breed" them yourself.
Elves are like real pets, they can breed new life through reproduction, and their offspring can also participate Fight or sell at the market. What's more interesting is that the breeding mechanism in Axie Infinity is not like that of "Pokémon". Two Pokémon can only give birth to pet eggs, and then hatch the pet eggs to obtain the same Pokémon as their parents. In Axie Infinity, there are Its exclusive genetic mechanism.
Elf Biology
As mentioned above, the elf is composed of 6 body parts, and each body part corresponds to three genes, namely dominant gene (D), recessive gene (R1) and sub-invisible gene (R2), As with real-world biological theory, the dominant genes in each part will determine the physical characteristics of the elf.
The inheritance probability of the three genes is as follows:
Dominant gene: 37.5%
Recessive gene: 9.375%
Second recessive gene: 3.125%
The attributes of an elf depend on its parents, and each parent has a 50% chance of passing on the attribute to the next generation.
Each "newborn" needs three days to grow from "infancy" to "mature" , at this time, you can see the genes possessed by the elf; and then it will take two more days for the elf to grow from the "mature stage" to the "full body". At this time, the elf has successfully grown and completed , ready to go into battle.
How to reproduce
In order to control the number of elves to avoid "inflation", breeding elves also needs to pay.
Each elf can only breed up to 7 times, each breeding needs to use a different number of "Small Love Potions" (SLP), it should be noted that , you need to pay a handling fee for each breeding.
There are two ways to obtain the SLP required for breeding elves:
1. You can get SLP by playing adventure mode or PvP mode and winning, but you still need to pay a fee to sync it from the game (Sync) to the digital currency wallet;
2. Because SLP is a homogeneous token, it can be traded on a decentralized exchange (such as Uniswap). Similarly, the SLP obtained through method 1 can also be sold.
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Note: The picture shows "Potion", not "Small Love Potions", 1 Potion=100Small Love Potions
Game experience sharing
In order to write this guide, the editor also "spend a lot of money" to buy The three cute elves have experienced it for a while, let's share some game experience below.
First of all, Axie Infinity is not very friendly to new players, because players need to learn about the game in detail before buying elves You can only choose "powerful" elves based on the various attributes, ability values, and gameplay in the game. If you buy three elves at random just to experience the game, it is very likely that it will be difficult to win the game. Of course, after reading the detailed introduction and gameplay strategy of Rhythm BlockBeats, I believe this question will not trouble readers.
When the wizard selection or the battle array selection is wrong, it is difficult for the user to win. Not being able to win means not being able to earn SLP, and not being able to give birth to a cute new energy baby. The natural law "Play to Earn" can only rely on receiving rewards from daily tasks every day. No rewards can be received.
The picture below is the record of the rhythm editor as a novice....
In addition, Axie Infinity does not have a Chinese version at present, so players need to have a certain English foundation to ensure that they can understand the gameplay, the attributes of the elves, and various skills and other information.
Rhythm understands that Axie Infinity will launch a new game mode soon, and players can purchase the "lots" required in the new mode (Land)", various game resources and governance tokens AXS may be produced on the land, and you can team up with other players to challenge the instance. The editor is looking forward to the launch of the new mode!
Okay, about Axie Infinity for beginners This is the end of the tutorial rhythm, let’s go and experience the fun of blockchain games!
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