After racking up 300 million gamers, hit Telegram tap-to-earn sport Hamster Kombat launched its HMSTR token on The Open Community (TON) in late September. Now the crew has shared a greater sense of when the sport will start its subsequent full-fledged season of gameplay, which is able to include its personal future airdrop.
Season 2 of Hamster Kombat is ready to reach “very quickly, on the finish of October,” the sport’s nameless growth crew informed Decrypt this week.
Forward of the airdrop, on September 20, the builders launched what was deliberate to be a brief “interlude season” that may solely final a pair weeks or so earlier than the subsequent full-fledged content material season. It’s nonetheless operating as of this writing, with a simplified gameplay loop that revolves round incomes in-game diamonds reasonably than the cash from earlier than.
The builders promised that enjoying the interlude season would offer some type of benefit for the subsequent full season forward. No additional particulars have been shared, however the crew emphasised that will probably be a significant profit for gamers.
“Gamers ought to put together themselves for a big enhance at the beginning,” the builders informed Decrypt, including that particulars shall be shared shortly.
It’s not the one profit that Hamster Kombat gamers can doubtlessly safe proper now. Earlier this week, Hamster Kombat revealed a staking-like characteristic that lets gamers maintain their airdropped HMSTR tokens throughout the sport reasonably than withdraw them to a pockets.
Whereas the profit is akin to staking—that’s, locking tokens inside a protocol to realize rewards resembling yield—the crew clarified that it isn’t an on-chain staking mechanism. Nonetheless, it’ll present some profit for the subsequent season of the sport, plus gamers who withdrew their tokens will have the ability to deliver them again into the sport.
“If gamers determine to maintain their tokens as an alternative of withdrawing them, they won’t solely retain their tokens but additionally obtain a big enhance at the beginning of the brand new season,” the crew stated. “Those that need to return them to the sport could have a chance to deposit tokens.”
Season 2 of Hamster Kombat is deliberate to have its personal airdrop for gamers, which is at present set for subsequent summer time. The builders additionally plan to broaden Hamster Kombat past its Telegram house through the launch of internet apps for numerous platforms, together with future integrations with desktop PC video games.
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