Developer Neon Machine is gearing up to launch the Shrappy Holidays 2024 for their blockchain extraction FPS Shrapnel. This early access event comes with new features, various improvements, and exclusive rewards to earn. Let’s take a look!
What Is Shrapnel’s Shrappy Holidays 2024?
Shrappy Holidays 2024 is Shrapnel’s upcoming week-long event made in celebration of its community as well as for all the achievements reached by the team throughout this year. In this early access version, players can look forward to exclusive content, a surprise announcement, intense gameplay in the Sacrifice Zone, and even physical reward raffles.
It runs from November 18th, 11 AM PST, to November 25th, 11 AM PST, and requires an Extraction Pack to participate. There are 4 different types of Extraction Packs, and all of them can be bought from the studio through the game’s official marketplace. The cheapest pack is the Basic one for $9.99, purchasable via traditional payment methods. It grants you early access to limited-time playtests, 1 playable MEF Operator, and 1 Gear Pack. The Avalanche-powered game itself can be downloaded through the Epic Games Store and web3 native store HyperPlay.
This festive event is also said to represent the last chance for players to enjoy the game’s Solo Extraction mode before the team announces huge updates that they plan to launch during 2025. The last playtest was the STX3.2 event held back in July this year.
What’s New in Shrappy Holidays?
The event overhauls the map into a festive-themed area, adding atmospheric fog, new textures, and layout changes, while bringing festive decorations and lighting, and covering environments with snow for a Christmas-y web3 gaming experience.
Next to these adjustments to the Sacrifice Zone, you will also get to try out 2 new weapons: the Type 42 Revolver, and CL7 MK II, the game’s 2nd Assault Rifle. The first version of one of the most highly-requested community features will also be included: controller support!
A variety of new rewards will be up for grabs during this holiday playtest by completing daily and event missions, and also by participating in raffles. NFT holders can look forward to earning bonus rewards. As for the prizes that everyone should have a chance of getting through gameplay and raffles, these will include weapon skins, weapon skin fragments, comic books, schematics, physical rewards, and a ‘very special’ Signature Edition skin, according to the official Medium blog post.
Schematics are blueprints of varying rarity that you’ll put through a Printer to convert them into assets such as cosmetics, in-game items, and more. You won’t know what you’ll get until the schematics are transformed. You can look forward to earning schematics mainly as in-game rewards. Different batches of schematics will be distributed over time, with the first series of schematics for this playtest giving you an opportunity to earn Sakura, a rare Zone skin. The rarer the schematic, higher chance of getting Sakura. Various other items for future gameplay will be possible to gain from blueprints as well.
What Can You Earn in Shrappy Holidays?
The developers followed up the initial announcement with a detailed overview of their rewards structure to give you a much better idea of how you could win exclusive prizes. Here we get to specifically see which rewards we can earn from daily missions, event missions, raffles, and from holding certain NFTs.
To earn daily rewards, you will need to complete daily missions that reset each day at 11 AM PST. Below is a list of simple challenges you can complete to earn various rewards, with each daily mission completed also awarding you with the Shrapnel Volume 2 Comic. Complete 6 missions to get the entire Volume 2 collection as an NFT.
Event missions are tasks that you need to complete each day of the event to get their specific prizes. It looks like there will be 5 event missions in total based on the below list, and successfully completing one also gives you a unique event-specific badge. According to the official blog post for the rewards structure, event rewards are planned to be distributed 2 weeks after the event is over.
If you want to win an RTX 4070, wireless PS5 DualShock controller, a Shrapnel Summer Hoodie, or a physical version of Volume 2 comic books, then you’ll want to buy raffle tickets using METAL at the game’s Moku-powered shop for a chance at winning one of these physical rewards. Winners will get a Moku message via their account on the game’s official website in the final week of November, and will need to respond by December 9th to claim their goodies.
Here is the quantity of all the aforementioned physical prizes:
- Branded Controller (PS5 wireless DualShock controller) x 16
- Graphics Card (GeForce RTX 4070 WINDFORCE OC V2 12GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 x16 ATX Video Card or an equivalent 4070) x 8
- Shrapnel Summer Hoodie x 21
- Comic Books Vol 2 — Physical x 12
If you’re an NFT holder of one of the following assets listed below, and you complete the associated mission(s), you can look forward to winning bonus rewards. A snapshot of all BTC Shotgun Skin, BTC Pistol Skin, Heavenly Dragon Skin, and Operator NFTs will be taken on November 18th and November 25th, so make sure you’re holding one or multiple of these on those days while doing the required missions to earn schematics and possibly both comic book volumes.
You also might have noticed throughout these reward distribution lists that Sigma Skins are now called Zone Skins. Zone Skins come in limited quantity, with maximum supply varying from one rarity to another. There are 5 different rarities: Common (5000), Uncommon (2000), Rare (1500), Epic (800), and Legendary (500). The total supply of each will not increase in the future.
By owning or equipping a Zone Skin in Shrapnel, you can earn in-game assets, cosmetics, and possibly other rewards for doing certain gameplay activities. The Heavenly Dragon Skin is a Zone Skin that was previously known as the China Joy Skin, and if you completed “Mission 2: Extract 5 Weapon Skin Fragments” in STX3.2, then you should be getting this skin airdropped soon if you haven’t received it already. If you played in that Shrapnel event but didn’t complete the mission, then you might still end up being lucky enough to get it airdropped as well.
