Social war game Duper has kicked off Season 5 on Abstract Chain, giving players a new opportunity to play to earn in high-stakes free-for-all matches while starting off with a free cash airdrop.

What’s New in Duper Season 5?

Season 5 puts Duper live 24/7 from May 27 to July 28, giving players 9 weeks to compete for real money while attempting to qualify for the upcoming Duper Bowl, which starts after the end of the season and will feature 1 to 2 weeks of intense competitive gameplay for a starting prize pool of $3000.

As for Season 5 itself, the new additions not only include having the game’s Casual mode constantly live 24/7, but also a free cash airdrop, new season passes, a mobile launch, and more welcome improvements.

Casual mode is now live at all times during the season and can be entered by wagering as low as $1. Next to being open 24/7, matchmaking has also been improved by making it possible to enter the recommended time range on the game’s official website, hopefully speeding up the time it takes to dive into some exciting strategic matches. Friendly AI bots have also been added to allow players to queue up faster than before for real-money Custom games.

The free cash airdrop is available to both eligible inactive players and all new ones as well. If you haven’t played in a long time and you only played less than 3 games in Season 4, you should now have been airdropped some free money in the form of 3 1-Chip vouchers that you can use to try playing for free. That’s $3 worth of vouchers in total. This makes it a great way to try the web3 game again before deciding whether you’d like to risk real money.

If you’re a new player who’s not sure whether this is the right blockchain game for you to play and earn in, then good news for you too, because you also get free cash when you sign up, so you can easily jump in and give this title a go for yourself to get a good feel of the game before upping the stakes with actual wagers. This welcome bonus also includes 3 1-Chip vouchers as it does for eligible inactive players, so that’s a total of $3 worth of vouchers you can wager to get your feet wet in the Casual mode. Make sure to use these vouchers, because they are set to expire at the end of the season. The welcome bonus doesn’t stop there though; if you pass the Playground training mode and play 3 Casual games, you will earn 3 more 1-Chip vouchers. If you’ve hesitated playing Duper in Season 4, then now is certainly the best time give it a go for free.

A new season of course means new season passes ready to mint in order to gain access to various neat rewards. You can mint the Gold Pass for $15, and the Platinum Pass for $80. The Gold Pass is recommended for casual players and provides up to $92.5 worth of direct rewards without taking into account earnings from playing matches, while the Platinum Pass is geared towards dedicated players and offers up to $248 worth of direct rewards, also not counting any potential earnings from playing the game itself.

The Gold Pass features instant cashback in the form of $15 worth of Chip vouchers that expire after 1 month instead of the 7-day default, and consists of unlockable milestone rewards such as Gold Keys, Emblems, Sparks, and more Chip vouchers. You get daily claims and various quests to complete, alongside the ability to participate in loss subsidy raffles, which seem to be available after going on a losing streak of 2 games in Ranked/Casual mode. These raffles give you a chance of getting Chip vouchers or Sparks, which is an earnable in-game currency used for trading Emblems and buying items that now also include Gold Keys. Gold Keys are used to open up Lootboxes that award 1 item, which may include an Emblem, NFT, or Chip voucher. Emblems are the game’s core utility assets that allow players to up the stakes for potential bigger gains by committing to extra fees in order to get special bonuses during a wagered match. Even if players use Emblems, the game is said to remain fair for everyone as the effects associated with the assets cannot “directly determine the game outcome,” per its official documentation page.

All of the same benefits and rewards from the Gold Pass apply to the Platinum Pass as well, but with the addition of exclusive in-game chat stickers. The instant cashback with the Platinum Pass is $80 in Chip vouchers instead of $15, while the quantity of milestone rewards is larger.

If you start off with the Gold Pass and want to move to Platinum, there is an option to upgrade for $65 whenever you want to during the season. Taking this upgrade path will give you 9 5-Chip vouchers and 10 2-Chip vouchers.

Next to all these additions that make the game more accessible than before, a mobile launch of the game is planned to take place on Android and iOS very soon. The plan seems to be to go live on mobile 1 to 2 weeks after the start of the season, so you’ll likely be able to play and earn on the go at some point during June.

Various other improvements have been made as well, including adding new tutorials, overhauling the UI/UX, refining the season pass rewards system, making Chips the unified currency for Ranked and Casual games, and enabling bank payments and withdrawals for US players.

Learn more about everything included in Season 5 by checking out its dedicated documentation page.

How to Participate in Duper Season 5 and Qualify for Duper Bowl

If you want to join in on Season 5 of Duper, you can get started playing for free on your web browser by signing up on the game’s official website via your Abstract wallet, email, phone, Google, or Discord. From there you just have to choose your username and you can then start completing the tutorial before you dive into tactical 5-player free-for-all matches inspired by games such as Teamfight Tactics (TFT), Catan, and Among Us.

To qualify for the upcoming Duper Bowl, you will need to hold a season pass, fill your Duper Bowl balance to $160, and reach at least Bronze Status before the start of the tournament.

There are a total of 5 Status Tiers: Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Super Duper. Everyone starts off at Iron and you have to earn 500 XP to get to Bronze. You can earn XP by depositing Chips to get the same number of XP by up to 2500, so if you deposit 1000 Chips, you will be awarded 1000 XP. You can also earn XP from Volume, which is the sum of all the entry fees you paid for Casual and Ranked games. It also counts Gold Key purchases too using the purchase value in USD.  For entry fees, if you spend 1 Chip for a Casual game, you get 1 XP, while spending 10 Chips to enter a Ranked match gives you 10 XP if you play without raising in the Ranked mode.

To fill your Duper Bowl balance to $160, you can do so by contributing $100 from gameplay during the season, with Duper team matching $60 after reaching $100. Just make sure to toggle “Contribute” on when playing Ranked and Casual games, as 50% of your net earnings from each game will then go towards your Duper Bowl balance. There’s no contribution if you lose though, and contribution stops automatically once $100 is reached. When it comes to withdrawals, the rules state that withdrawing is available between $20-$100 contribution with a 20% fee, and that you can restart contributing at any time. Another way to fill up your balance if you don’t have a lot of time to play during the season however is to directly top up $160 using regular Chips, which you won’t be able to withdraw.

The starting prize pool for the Duper Bowl is set to $3000 and is set to grow as players contribute to their own Duper Bowl balances. Everyone who qualifies gets a chance at winning a share of the prize pool, “regardless of skill.” Further details on everything you need to know about the Duper Bowl is planned to be revealed mid-season, but for the time being, dive into Season 5 of Duper and start working your way towards qualifying to this upcoming competition while playing to earn real money in the process.