The Beacon continues to develop their pre-alpha, action RPG game, recently introducing a new game currency known as Lux Shards. Lux Shards are in in-game currency only that players earn by completing dungeons. Players then use the Shards to purchase chests or special seasonal items from the Bazaar. The seasons will last for eight weeks.

The Beacon offers four new dungeons to explore and conquer every week. Players can complete each dungeon once per character per week. Free to play characters only have access to two of the four dungeons. NFT characters can visit all four each week.

Loot is only found from a dungeon run once it’s been completed. And if a player dies during a run, they have to start at the beginning and try again. Luckily, The Beacon does offer a option to exit early during the run. Though the chances of receiving good rewards are lowered if you take the “Coward’s Exit”! Once a character successfully exits a dungeon, that dungeon is closed for them until the next reset.

Owning a Founding Character provides various game bonuses such as the ability to find items that can be minted into NFTs. Players can also own pets known as Moonfae. Moonfae provide a bonus number of Lux Shards at the end of every week based on their yield boost.

The dungeons reset at 14:00 UTC on Mondays.

What is The Beacon?

The Beacon is a web-based, pixelated, action RPG. Players adventure through dungeons, win treasure, and decorate their homes. The Beacon runs on Arbitrum, a sidechain for Ethereum.

The game is free to play, though players receive significant bonuses when using character NFTs and Pets. The game is action-oriented, with each dungeon excursion also running on a time limit. Also, all players have access to a house which they can decorate with items they find from dungeon runs.

The Beacon plans to have many more features such as procedurally generated dungeons, multiple play modes, and a multiplayer, social hangout area. The Beacon currently has no plans for new mints or releasing a token in the near future as they work on bringing their game up to alpha status. At the moment, The Beacon is still in an early, pre-alpha state. Though it is very playable.

To learn more about The Beacon, visit their website, follow them on Twitter, and join their Discord.

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The Beacon is the latest hit among the retro Web3 games. It belongs to the TreasureDAO ecosystem that includes other Web3 Games like Tales of Elleria and Knights of the Ether. In this top-down RPG, players must adventure into dark dungeons filled with gruesome monsters and survive all the dangers. Dungeons are randomized so no instance will feel the same. By slaying all the monsters and surviving their traps players earn loot.

Even though this is an RPG, it is entirely different than other games of the same genre. Characters can be upgraded during a run, but, these upgrades do not carry over after the run is complete! This makes The Beacon entirely skill-based. Also, available upgrades on each instance will be randomized increasing the replayability of the game.

Fast reflexes and good timing are vital to ensure success in the game. Players will often feel overwhelmed by the number of dangers that pop up every second in an instance. Skeletons jumping at the character, arrows crossing the screen, traps, and explosions are just some examples of occurrences that may happen, sometimes all at the same time! The Beacon is not for the faint of heart!

Game Modes

The Beacon will have three game modes. Single-player PvE, co-op PvE, and MMO-like social gameplay. I got a bit disappointed because there is no PvP mentioned so far. Hopefully, the team will develop it at a later stage.

In PvE players go into a dungeon, slay the monsters, kill the boss and grab all the loot. The difference is that in Single-Player PvE players go alone and in co-op they form a party. When it comes to the social game mode, there is a tavern where players can meet and virtually hang out.

Is The Beacon a Paid to Play Game?

Not at all. The Beacon is a free-to-play game that will be available for desktop and browser. Nevertheless, players who own NFT characters will have certain advantages in the ecosystem. There will be three types of players. F2P players, paid players, and blessed players.

F2P players as the name suggests are those who do not invest any money in the ecosystem. They will be able to earn non-NFT cosmetics and some tokens. This is for those who just want to play the game and do not care about earning.

Paid players are those who own a founding character. They will have access to all F2P players with a few extras like being able to earn NFT cosmetics, more rewards, and they also start with a set of character cosmetics.

Then, Blessed players are those who own a founding character and a pet and they will access everything paid players have with more extras. These extras include early access to the versions of The Beacon and higher rewards. Pets can be purchased from the secondary market, and founding characters will start being traded on January 30th. There are only 4096 pets while Founding characters have no limit.

Every player will always get 1 character and 1 house. The difference in housing is that Paid and Blessed players start with NFT cosmetics and F2P players do not.

Last Thoughts on The Beacon

The Beacon seems like an amusing game for its genre. Unfortunately, I did not play it but I liked what I saw in a few videos. It looks like a really dynamic and fast-paced game. The graphics are old school and bring me some nostalgic feelings from when I used to play games on the PlayStation X. If you have played Tollan Worlds it has the same style and vibe.

If you are into retro RPGs then I definitely recommend it. When it comes to “play-and-earn” it is too soon to talk about its tokenomics and ecosystem sustainability, so what I can tell you is only invest what you can afford to lose and always do your own research. I will leave you a video with some gameplay so you can have a clearer picture of The Beacon.

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