Welcome Universe Architects,
We last left off dissecting the remains of massive stars. Their supernova explosions left behind beautiful nebulas. Yet, not all nebulas form this way.
As we venture through interstellar gas and dust, what could Semblance find in such chaos? It’s time to rock the cradle. A new star is born in:
Beyond E24: Cosmic Cradles
Chaos Meets Beauty
Death leads back to new life. Some nebulas leave remnants of their explosive past lives and form into cradles that become the harbingers to new activity. Zoom in close and marvel at this strange afterlife in the Beyond garden.
- Nurture the beginnings of new life featuring four famed generators — Eagle, Pillars of Creation, Orion and Horsehead.
- To date, a total of eight real life nebulas have been brought to life in 3D.
Congratulations, it’s a Baby Star!
The Ancient Maya called the Orion Nebula- the “cosmic fire of creation.” It is the closest stellar nursery close to Earth. Now let's follow Semblance beyond the familiar and uncover where stars are born.
- Learn how stars are formed with eight new enhancement trait cards such as Proplyds, The Spire, Trapezium Cluster and more.
- Discover stable stars on a new Astronomy Mission with Protostars.
Star of the Show
As new stars are born, more constellations and achievements begin to surface. Mark them on your map of the universe and find them all.
- Collect ten new achievements — two for each nebula and one for each constellation.
- Two constellations have manifested in the night sky: Serpens and Auriga.
- Experience the benefits of the Auriga constellation as it shortens the red dwarf mission duration up to 6 hours.
Additional Features:
- A tutorial has been added to the Beyond to improve first time user experience.
- Revised difficulty of early Beyond ranks.
- Changed the color of the confirm button to the original blue.
- Want an ads free experience? Introducing a new in-app purchase, available in the Darwinium store for iOS, Android and Steam: Infinity Pass.
- Note: Boosts, Dwarfs and Geodes, costing 2 Darwinium, are free with an active Infinity pass. The pass will run for 30 days after purchase and will not automatically renew. It is available for re-purchase after it expires.
Beyond E24: Cosmic Cradles is available to play now on Steam and will be available to all Android and iOS players by Monday, 04/29/2024 at 11:59 PM EDT.
With E24, Semblance has concluded her journey with the stars. The life of a star is a continuous cycle of death and rebirth. Isn’t evolution on Earth much the same? Built from the changes of the past, something new arises. As Semblance ventures out for more answers, what lies beyond nebulas? Find out in the next episode of the Beyond.
It’s been almost a year since we started working with Steph, from Pariah Interactive, on the creation of the nebulas. We hope players enjoyed learning about the nebulas as we enjoyed designing them. While this is not the end of the Beyond, we will be saying goodbye to nebulas as we move on with Semblance.
We will also be releasing our next Explore Event soon. Thank you to our beta players for their continued feedback. We enjoyed the discussions and commentaries regarding the content. For those who are interested in other potential event topics, we released a survey on Monday asking for player opinions: link. We encourage our players to fill out the survey, if they have not done so already. We are curious to learn what our players are interested in.
Lastly, as a reminder to players from our last dev diary, we will be sunsetting the Research Race in favor of a new leaderboard system. We have redesigned this system from the ground up and are analyzing the data that has been collected in the backend. We are also closely monitoring the feedback we’ve received from beta. We are happy to report that we have a much more robust system that can identify cheaters and take appropriate action. We believe this new system will be a successful evolution to the Research Race. We will share more in our upcoming livestream in May.
Looking ahead, stay cellular!
The Cells Team