MATR1X Fire Launches Season 3: Thunder’s Awakening

The developers of blockchain mobile FPS MATR1X Fire have officially launched Season 3: Thunder’s Awakening for their web3 title, giving players new content and rewards to enjoy. Here’s what’s new!

What’s New in MATR1X Fire Season 3: Thunder’s Awakening?

Season 3: Thunder’s Awakening brings a variety of new additions to MATR1X Fire, including a new battle pass, the Newbie Pass, seasonal events, exclusive weapon cases, and large gameplay updates.

The S3 Battle Pass comes with a variety of rewards for players to earn, including new Legendary Gloves, an exclusive S3 Weapon Case, as well as limited-time sprays, name cards, music boxes, avatars, avatar frames, and chat bubbles.

For those new to the game, you can look forward to progressing through the Newbie Pass, an entirely new launch geared towards all newcomers looking to jump into the free to play title this season. Through the Newbie Pass, you are given free access to unlocking “essential items” to help you kickstart your initial experience.

When it comes to seasonal events, there are 2 to participate in: Secret Hunt and Spring Wonderland.

Secret Hunt lets you complete a variety of missions in order to earn points that can be used to unlock various rewards, including epic weapon skins, an exclusive music box, and surprise mystery items.

Spring Wonderland is a special exchange event through which players have a chance of collecting limited-time rare festival stickers and Spring-exclusive cosmetic rewards by exchanging points earned from completing challenge missions by joining action-packed matches.

For this season, there are 2 exclusive weapon cases, and 1 free lootbox. The exclusive ones include the Thunder Case and Cyberwave Case. 

Thunder Case is this season’s battle pass exclusive case that has a chance of dropping Advanced, Rare, Epic, and Legendary Gloves and bonuses. Here’s how the drop rates have changed from last season:

The Cyberwave Case is an S3 exclusive through which you can earn weapon melee skins across all 4 rarities, with chances of a Legendary drop more than doubled from 0.64% to 1.43%. Here are the full drop rates:

The free lootbox is the Cyberwave Box. It now comes with Industrial and Common skins, and if you want to unlock these cases for free, you will have to earn points by winning matches from various game modes, and once you get to the required score, you will be able to unlock he Cyberwave Box cases for free. The drop rates for this free case are as follows:

What Gameplay Updates Are Included in MATR1X Fire Season 3: Thunder’s Awakening?

This season comes with various gameplay updates and improvements to upgrade the blockchain gaming experience and make the core loop feel more satisfying than before. These gameplay updates include a full weapon handling overhaul, match mode unlock rebalancing, matchmaking optimizations, and more.

The complete revamp of weapon handling now means that players have more deeper gun control over their arsenal and that aim assist has been reduced to add more realism, while recoil and shooting is now said to feel more satisfying than before. The way game modes now unlock has been rebalanced, so if you want to play matches in Ranked Mode, that now unlocks at level 7, while Casual Match (Hardpoint) and FFA (Deathmatch) both unlock at level 6. Matchmaking should now be quicker than before, and a new store shortcut can now be found in the lobby screen for faster access to gear and cosmetics.

The trading system rules have also been updated for this season and possibly onwards. Now, when players earn a new item, the newly acquired asset will be locked from trading and transferring for a certain period of time, after which it can be normally traded.

The Post-Match Summary UI has also been upgraded to showcase real-time progress of Newbie Pass and S3 Battle Pass missions and growth.

Check out the official Medium announcement to learn more. If you want to play MATR1X Fire during this season, you can do so for free by downloading the mobile title on Android or iOS through the Play Store or App Store respectively, with the store page links included in the official X announcement.