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Hey everyone! This is Ben (or Brodrian), the Senior Community Manager over at Mountaintop, and I’m excited to share our first Community Update post with you all.
This will be a bi-weekly series where we highlight upcoming events, important info you may have missed, fan-made Spectre content, members of the community who are going above and beyond, and so much more. Just trust me—they’ll be fun.
We’re going to be covering a lot of ground in this first post, so let’s get right into it.
SUPPORTING GRASSROOTS TOURNAMENTS
In our “What’s Next” post from this week, our CEO Nate shared some insight into how we’re planning on approaching the next few months before we reach Season 1, our next major milestone. One piece of our plan involves providing greater support for your community-led tournaments and events. That means putting up the fewest roadblocks possible, helping you get the word out about your events, assisting with prizing, and getting our team directly involved at times.
We believe wholeheartedly in the impact that grassroots competition can have and we’ve heard loud and clear that you feel the same. For anyone interested in organizing a tournament, you can get started by reading through our Tournament License. These guidelines cover everything you’ll need to know when it comes to:
- Tournament prize pools, rules, and marketing
- Crowdfunding and sponsorships
- Competitive integrity
- Tournament broadcasts
- Licensing and more
If you’d like to request support from our team, fill out the Spectre Divide Event Form and let us know how we can help! You can also reach out to us directly at [email protected] if you have questions or are interested in running an event outside the scope of the Tournament License.
GETTING OUR EVENTS ROLLING
Alongside supporting your events, we’re going to be running weekly events of our own with the goal of sparking creativity and competition in more ways than just traditional tournaments.
That could mean showing off your most overpowered Splinter Grenade lineup, voting on which of our outfit concepts we should add to the game in the future, finding creative Tutorial Speedrun strats, going head-to-head versus developers in a high-stakes Spectre trivia showdown, and whatever else I can get away with.
For this first one, we need help raising awareness for one of Breakwater’s powerhouses: Ryker Industries!
Headquartered in the thriving Port District, Ryker Industries is a truly iconic brand across the city. Santai competitors such as yourselves are likely most familiar with their offshore salvaging operations which directly led to the creation of Hull Mine explosives (or ‘Buoy Kablooies’ as some like to say) and Wave Scan technologies.
Beyond their undersea endeavors, Ryker has pioneered the next generation of packaging and shipping technologies for commercial and personal applications alike.*
Support The Port™️ and trust the experts at Ryker Industries today!
(*Use code Brodrian when booking for an additional 10% off)
Feeling inspired? Head over to discord.gg/SpectreDivide and share your best Ryker creations in the #fan-art channel using the Ryker tag.
Hit us with in-universe ads for something Ryker already makes, blueprints for future product lines, action shots of Santai competitors putting their gear to use, or whatever else you come up with.
You can download some additional Ryker art assets here.
We’ll end submissions next Wednesday (Oct. 16th) at 10:00 AM Pacific Time, and we’ll have prizes to share with our 3 favorites when we announce next week’s event in Discord and on our socials.
- 1st Place: 3,000 SP + Event Winner Weapon Charm
- 2nd Place: 2,000 SP + Event Winner Weapon Charm
- 3rd Place: 1,500 SP + Event Winner Weapon Charm
Actually… I should probably explain the last part of those prizes.
LOOKING CHARMING
A while back we mentioned that we’d be creating exclusive weapon charms for Spectre MVPs and now we’re ready to show them off!
The freshly polished Event Winner Charm will be awarded to everyone who wins one of our own events like this week’s art contest.
Thankfully that’s not all. If you’re planning on running a tournament or competition, you can request these charms for the winners of your event. Just make sure to fill out the Spectre Divide Event Form ahead of time so we can get in touch beforehand.
The Event Winner Charm will also be retroactively granted to the winners of all our Discord tournaments held throughout the Alpha and Beta playtests. Congrats everyone!
Next, we’re giving out some heartfelt thanks with the Community Champions Charm. In each Community Update I’ll be highlighting players who’ve gone above and beyond to contribute to Spectre in their own ways.
The first recipients of this charm will be our Discord volunteers who’ve spent countless hours answering questions in chat, responding to ModMail tickets, organizing events during our playtests, and so much more.
Have someone in mind who you think deserves that recognition in a future post? Nominate them here.
HIGHLIGHTING THE BIG PLAYS
Listen, let’s cut to the chase. Not everyone cares about fan art, tournaments, and everything else that’s distracting them from the Ranked grind. Some of you are simply here to pull off the most jaw-dropping, sheesh-worthy, game-winning outplays ever seen in all of Spectre. You’re here to click heads and take names. We get it.
In each Community Update we’ll highlight our favorite 5 plays from the past weeks and award some SP to the players who popped off the hardest.
- 1st Place: 2,500 SP
- 2nd-5th Place: 1,500 SP
With all that out of the way, check out Episode 1 below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KURPmgZp-IQ
Congrats to this week’s Top 5
Have your own play to show off? Upload your clips here after reading the requirements.
WRAPPING IT UP
That’s everything we have for you this week, but you can expect to see some twists and turns in our next Community Update. There are many differences between the modern day and the 22nd century, but even in Breakwater, this time of year gets a little spooky.
