Since yesterday, Holozing Alpha vials—which can still be purchased in-game for a while—are openable, after a long building process of the game, in good part due to the hard market conditions, especially for alts, uncommon this late in what was previously considered the bull market part of the cycle. Note that the game itself hasn't been opened to public yet, but Acid mentioned some time ago that it will, soon(ish?) after pack openings, for holders of at least one pack (or their contents, I suppose).
If you have some Alpha vials, you can go open them right now if you want. When deciding how many packs to open for the time being it could be a factor in your decision to know that rewards for creatures and items haven't been activated yet, and from Discord we learn they will be in a few days. After that point, collection rewards will be distributed 50/50% between unopened packs and creatures and items you hold. Right now it's still 100% rewards for unopened packs.
But... the process of opening alpha vials is worth it. I've read some complains about the mobile experience needing to be improved, but I opened my vials from my laptop, and you can see they put some effort into the animations and effects.
It's worth to see them, rather than a few images, but that's all I have for you.
Here's how it looks a static frame screenshot from the animation before opening the Alpha vial:
Looks cool, but it's also quite resource-heavy for those who mind that. I still love to see it attempted in a Hive game! They probably will need to find a story or an explanation (if there is one provided, I am not aware) about how did this:
turn into a cube.😉
I opened 2 of my 7 Alpha vials for now, since I have a pretty tight ZING-related goal in the LP and time is running out quickly, so I might not afford to miss on a few days of rewards. After that, I will probably open the rest.
I like the idea of showing the card from the side until you click to reveal it. Like many, I still don't understand some of the elements shown on the cards, but that will come. But before I talk about that, let's see what I've pulled from my two Alpha vials.
This is the first one:
And this is the second one:
And now the questions I've had at first hand: * my Walle doesn't have good stats, but is it a diamond creature? seems like it from the frame. * my Zappit is quite bad at its stats too, but is it a radiant creature? Still not sure how to distinguish radiant from regular creatures.
Then, when you turn your cards, for creatures and I think for empty capture cards too, it shows the front of the card, and then the back. What's on the back of the card?
Now, regarding my pulls... My creatures aren't great so far. The biggest synergies I have for Walle so far, even though it wouldn't probably be my favorite creature, but I have 1 gold capture card which works for any creature type and 5 epic capture cards for water. Then, I have an epic Ocean Starter Gloves, with the other being for Forest, for which I don't have a creature yet. The problem is the Backpack is for Forest, so I either need another Backpack for the class I'll end up using first, or I'll need Wrackoo to come up in one of the following vials.
The other thing to consider is that I may have capture cards and ammo, but I don't have a capture device yet. Without one, there's no capturing, regardless of class.
Hard to figure out where I stand before I open the other Alpha vials. Right now... I'd say not great. But things can improve. There will be the 3rd party market to trade what you don't need for what you need.
I've seen a few much better creatures. But at the same time, others opened many more vials already.
Have you opened any? How do you stand?