Axie Infinity: Origin

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Axie Inifnity: Origin also known as "Battles v3" is the new update of Axie Infinity a video game developed by Sky Mavis, a technology company based in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam.

Unlike the older version of Axie Infinity: Origin also known as Axie Infinity or "v2", Sky Mavis launches Axie Infinity: Origin as a free-to-play title just after a week of the announcement that 173,600 in Etherium (worth US$594.6 million) and US$25.5 million with the total of US$620 million was stolen from their Ronin Network. Although Axie Infinity Owner quotes to be "Fully Committed" to reimburse Players after the hack.

Gameplay

Axie Infinity: Origin is a turn based rougelike deck-building game where the players battle with a pre-made team consisting of 3 Axies. Players are given 3 starter Axies to play and another 2 extra Axies can be unlocked inside Adventure mode. In arena players can choose practice, ranked or Tournament Mode. In Practice Mode, players fight against other players without the fear of reducing your stamina or loosing rank stars and can also get EXP. In Ranked Mode, players can get crafting materials and runes or Charms when winning, players also spend 1 stamina point per ranked game as well as collecting rank stars to boost their rank in the leaderboards.

Axie infinity: Origin gives playes the ability to import Axies they have bought in the Axie Infinity Marketplace to use for battle.

Cards In Axie Inifnity: Origin has been changed and is very different compared to the cards in the previous Axie Infinity version. You have a total of 18 cards in your deck. Each turn you are given 5 random cards from your deck to play. Each card has different effects such as dealing damage, and providing shield as well as healing. Using a card depletes your energy and each card can cost 0-2 energy. Each turn lasts 45 seconds and will end after you have exhausted all your energy, timer runs out, or if you decided to end your turn prematurely.

Gameplay Changes

Gameplay moved from being a competitive game with an "idle battle" system into a real time strategy rouge-like card building game which is seen as a more competitive game because of its complex nature. And according to Timothy Craig, a journalist from Aberdeen, Scotland

"Compared to the original version of Axie Infinity, Origin has implemented several highly-requested improvements. Turns are sequential, allowing for faster, more dynamic gameplay. Additionally, a player's energy and cards are reset every turn to encourage more aggressive playstyles. Several other gameplay elements have also been revamped. A Rage mechanic has replaced critical hits, Axie's eye and ear attributes now have their own cards, and the new rune and charm mechanics add depth to the game."

New gameplay features as stated in the official Axie Infinity Substack includes:

• Free starter Axies. Let your friends and family fall in love with Axie before needing to touch crypto and NFTs!
• Upgraded Axie art makes each Axie more visually distinct and special.
• Sequential turns for a faster, more dynamic experience.
• Energy / cards are reset each turn to encourage aggressive play-styles.
• Card changes. We've kept most cards in line with their original spirit.
• Eye & Ear Cards. This is the first time that eyes & ears have ever had cards!
• Runes / Charms as power-ups. Our first glimpse of Axie progression and upgrading is here!
• Critical Hits have been replaced by a Rage mechanic.

Battle System

At the start of a battle, the order of turns will be randomly determined at the start of every battle against other players. The player who goes second will have an extra card that gives them free energy, this card will not be discarded if not used. Each turn lasts for 45 seconds, running this timer out will automatically end the turn. A player that has been inactive for 2 consecutive turns will have 10 seconds to be active again or else they will automatically forfeit the match.

Adventure Mode

Adventure mode is the PvE component of the Axie Infinity: Origin gameplay. According to the official Axie Infinity Support page, this is where you explore the main storyline of the game as you battle different creatures called Chimera to collect rewards, level up your Axies and collecting stars that improves your foraging rewards and unlock milestone rewards. Foraging rewards can be accessed inside the adventure mode on the top right of the interface. Foraging rewards are rewards you earn after time passes, the reward can accumulate even when the game is closed. Foraging is also capped at 12 hours if not claimed.

Arena

This is where you battle against other players with their own Axie teams. In Arena there are currently three modes, Practice, Ranked, and Tournament Mode. Practice Mode does not have a ranking system unlike Ranked Mode and you only get EXP as a reward. Similar battle systems are implemented in Practice mode and Ranked Mode. Ranked mode, as the name implies, has a ranking system that ranks players to the lowest which is Egg IV to the highest that is Challenger. You start at the very bottom and you earn Victory Stars per win. The higher the Victory Stars you get the higher the rank you will go. In-game tournaments will also be held periodically during the Alpha phase on the Tournament mode which is similar to the Ranked Mode.

Additional Information from the official Axie Infinity: Origin Guide

• Practice Mode: This is the training area where you hone your skills without any rank penalties where you are paired against real players or bots if players are not found. Practice mode also gives you the freedom to play without the use of Stamina.
• Ranked Mode: This has a similar battle system as Practice mode with the added feature of being able to join the leaderboards and climb the ranks.
  • Ranking System: The Ranked mode has 8 Ranks. Which is called the Egg, Chick, Hare, Boar, Wolf, Bear, Tiger, Dragon, and Challenger ranging from lowest to highest respectively. Each rank is subdivided into 4 Tiers, Tier I, II, III and IV, with the highest tier being I and the lowest being IV. In the Challenger rank, no tiers exists.
  • Victory Stars: These are collected by winning battles in Ranked mode. A win gets you 2 Victory Stars, draw gives 0 Victory Stars and a loss deducts 1 Victory Star from your total number of Victory Stars.
  • Stats: Inside Ranked mode, you are given 2 new stats that impacts your earning potential. these are:
    • Stamina: This is recovered every 00:00 UTC everyday and is the equivalent energy in Axie Classic (v2). Each game of rank costs 1 Stamina. Stamina is caped at 60 and is calculated by using this formula $0.5*NumberofStarterAxies+3xNumberofPersonalAxies$. Running out of stamina does not exclude you from battling in Ranked Mode, however, when battling with 0 Stamina you will not get rewards.
    • Ronin Spirit: This determines the amount of SLP you can win from battles. The Ronin Spirit has 4 levels: 0 - I - II - III, which is based in the number of Personal Axies you have on your Ranked mode team.
  • Challenger Sphere & Leaderboards: For the players who have reached the upper ranks of Dragon I or higher, they will be entered into the Challenger Sphere where they will have their names appear on the leaderboards. The Challenger Sphere does not have any Tiers. Instead players will be ranked from lowest to highest depending on their Victory Stars collected from the Challenger Sphere. If a tie occurs where two players have equal amounts of Stars, the win-rate of the players will be the first tie breaker, followed by the total number of Stars collected, then the time required for them to reach the highest Star rank. Any upsets that may have happened such as if a lower-ranked player beating a higher-ranked player happens, the lower-ranked player will receive a Victory Star Bonus and the latter will receive a Victory Star Penalty. And finally if a player from the Challenger Sphere reaches 0 Victory Stars and proceeds to lose the next match, they will be removed from both the Challenger Sphere and the leaderboards.
    • Victory Star Bonus formula: $0.5*(Higher-RankedPlayerVictoryStars-Lower-RankedPlayerVictoryStars)$
    • Victory Star Penalty formula:$-0.5*(Higher-RankedPlayerVictoryStars-Lower-RankedPlayerVictoryStars)$
• Tournament Mode: Tournaments will be held after the initial Alpha launch of Origin periodically. Information about Tournament Mode will be released after Alpha.
• Seasons and Rewards: Ranked mode has two different seasons each lasting 2 months with a 1-month off season break. Each season players can receive 2 types of rewards, First-Time rewards which is received each time a Player is Promoted to a new Rank or Tier and End-of-season rewards that are received after the end of the Season.

Cards

An Axie in Axie Infinity: Origin has 6 different cards from its 6 different body parts which is the mouth, eyes, ears, horn, back, and tail. Each card has a different effect ranging from healing and damage, to shields. Stats on each card can vary. A card in Axie Infinity: Origin has 7 parts:

• Card Name: Shows the name of the card, this can be found at the center of the card.
• Tags: Card tags indicate how cards will behave in battle. This can be found under the Card Name and above the Card Description. There are a total of 9 Card Tags currently present in Axie Infinity: Origin
  1. Attack: This card deals damage
  2. Power: Enhance this Axie's abilities in future rounds
  3. Innate: Start each battle with this Card in your hand
  4. Skill: This is a utility Card
  5. Retain: Does not discard this Card at the end of your turn
  6. Banish: Remove the card from your deck until the end of the battle
  7. Ethereal: When your turn ends, banish the card if its still in your hand
  8. Secret: This Card applies an effect that comes into play next turn
  9. Unplayable: This Card cannot be played
• Card Description: Describes what the card does, this can be found under the Card Tag
• Body Part: This can be found leftmost of the Card Name, it is shown as a logo of the body part this card is on.
• Energy Cost: This is shown at the top left of the card inside a noticeable blue circle
• Card Stats: This can be found at the rightmost part of the Energy Cost indicator. This is shown as a number with either Red, Blue, or Green background.
  • Red: Deals damage
  • Blue: Creates shield
  • Green: Provides healing
• Class: This shows what the card class is. It is shown as a little icon that corresponds to its class.

Cards also has Special Words that appear in yellow. You can hover your mouse cursor on these words to show more information about them in game.

• Banish: Remove the card form your deck until the end of battle
• Cleanse: Remove debuffs from target, up to 5 stacks
• Dispel: Remove 1 buff from target, up to 5 stacks
• Ethereal: When your turn ends, if the card is still in your hand, banish it. Banished cards are removed from your deck until the end of battle
• Initial: The first card played in a turn
• Innate: Start each battle with this card in your hand
• Retain: Do not discard the card at the end of your turn
• Scry: Look at the top cards of your draw pile. You may discard any of them
• Revenge: Transformed from a Dead Axie's Card based on its Original Type

More information regarding Cards in Axie Infinity: Origin here.

Runes

Runes are special items that can be equipped to an Axie that gives it unique passive effects such as health up, bonus damage, bonus shield and many more that activates automatically in battle with each Axie having a single rune slot that can be fitted with runes of the same class or with a Neutral Rune. Neutral Runes are runes that does not have any specific class requirement to be equipped. Runes also come in 4 different rarities, Common, Rare, Epic and Mystic.

Seasonal Runes and Non-Seasonal Runes

Some runes are seasonal, meaning they can only be used in the current Arena Season. After the Season is over, those Seasonal Runes cannot be used for gameplay and becomes a collectible unlike Non-Seasonal Runes that can be used in the current and future Seasons.

Runes as NFTs

At launch, only Runes that are not considered as non-fungible-tokens can be collected and crafted. These Runes are in-game items only and cannot be traded or sold on the Marketplace. All Runes that are not non-fungible-tokens are all Neutral Class.

On the other hand, non-fungible-token Runes or NFT Runes can be traded on the Marketplace and have a specific Class and required additional crafting materials to mint as non-fungible-tokens.

At the time of writing, is not yet released. These NFT Runes will be released in later versions of Axie Infinity: Origin.

Charms

Charms are special wearable items that provide bonus effects to Axie abilities i.e. cards. These Charms comes in 10 different classes, one for each Axie class plus the Neutral Class that can be used by all Axies in any class. Each Axie has 6 cards that can each be equipped with 1 charm. To equip a charm, an Axie must have sufficient Potential Points, Potential Points comes from an Axie's body Class and body parts. With the body of an Axie considered as a part, If an Axie has more than 3 body parts of the same Class, it gains bonus Potential Points of that Class. Equipping a Charm reduces an Axie's available Potential Point of the same equipped Charm Class, if the Charm Class equipped is a Neutral Class, then the Potential Point Class that will be deducted will be based on what the Class of the card that Charm was equipped to.

Seasonal and Non-Seasonal Charms

Similar to the Seasonal and Non-Seasonal Runes, Seasonal and Non-Seasonal Charms work the same way, where Seasonal Charms only work in the current season and can't be used after the current season is over which turns it into a collectable unlike Non-Seasonal Charms that can be used in the current and later Seasons.

Charms as NFTs

Similar to the Runes, only non non-fungible-token Charms can be collected or crafted. All non-fungible-token Charms are Neutral Class. These Charms can't be sold or traded in the Marketplace unlike non-fungible-token Charms or NFT Charms that can be sold and traded in the Marketplace.

At the time of this writing, non-fungible-token Charms is not yet released. These NFT Charms will it be released in later versions of Axie Infinity: Origin.

Crafting

Crafting is a feature in Axie Infinity: Origin where you convert the materials you gathered from Adventure or Arena mode. When crafting items such as Runes and Charms you use either Moonshard or SLP (Smooth Love Potion) as these are considered to be the primary materials used for crafting. Currently there are two Rune/Charm recipes, basic and intermediate. When crafting, you will receive either a Rune or Charm.

According to the official Axie Infinity: Origin Crafting Guide The probability of getting a high or low rarity Charm or Rune is based on Rarity and Class with Runes being rarer than Charms.

• Basic: Crafts a random Common Rune/Charm
• Intermediate: Crafts a random Rare, Epic or Mystic Rune/Charm. Drop rates:
  • Common: 60%
  • Rare: 35%
  • Epic: 4.5%
  • Mystic: 0.5%

Ingredient slot for crafting can be unlocked by leveling up your Crafting Level. Crafting Level is different from the Player's account level. As you level up, you will unlock more crafting recipes. crafting EXP can be obtained by doing crafting and missions. At the start of a new Season the crafting level will be reset and new Runes and Charms might be introduced.

Development

Axie Infinity: Origin is currently on its Alpha stage with Bug Fixes, Polishing, Balancing Tweaks and the APK Release being currently In development following the Axie Infinity: Origin Roadmap.

Plans and Ideas

According to the official Axie Infinity: Origin Roadmap Many plans and Ideas are currently being developed with at the time of this writing consists of bug fixing and gameplay optimization and improvements such as the implementation of the ability to gain SLP, AXS Leaderboard rewards, Onboarding around NFT Axies, In-App Purchases and many more.

See Axie Infinity: Origin Roadmap for more details.

Release

Axie Infinity: Origin was officially released in Alpha version at April 7, 2022 by Sky Mavis for macOS and Windows users via the Sky Mavis Hub. This is the latest game that they released so far after their first game Axie Infinity.

See also

• Axie Infinity
• Non-fungible-token
• Software development process

External links

• https://cryptobriefing.com/team/timothy-craig/
• https://axie.substack.com/p/axieorigin?s=r
• https://support.axieinfinity.com/hc/en-us/sections/4556737399451-General-Knowledge
• https://support.axieinfinity.com/hc/en-us/articles/4615894125595-Origin-Adventure-Mode-Guide-Alpha-
• https://welcome.axie.tech/cards
• https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/smooth-love-potion-token-slp-crypto-axie-infinity-game
• https://axie.notion.site/20e27a672e7c4b079fdd83d18b4ce45b?v=22059abc00234eeeb50ae95ab86c65d3
• https://axieinfinity.com/axs/

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