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Massive update: Odd One Out, specimens and the first season#
A new game mode, a new scoring system, unique specimens, frames, the Field Case, rebuilt achievements and the first Expedition Season.
New mode: Odd One Out· Nouveau
You get 4 skulls, 3 of them are from the same group and 1 is the intruder. You have to find it.
5 rounds, starting at class and going down to species. The intruder is always from a close group, so it's not as easy as it looks.
If you find it, you can also guess the group of the other 3 for bonus points.
Available in free play and in the dailies. The Daily Challenge now has 5 modes, and you still only need 3 to keep your streak.
New scoring system· Nouveau
All modes now go from 0 to 10,000 and use the same formula: accuracy, speed and how rare the skull is.
Getting a hard skull right on the first try is worth a lot more than an easy one.
The score is calculated by the server now, so the leaderboard is fair.
Streak doesn't multiply your points anymore, it multiplies your XP instead.
Matches only start after all the photos are loaded, so the timer is fair even on slow internet. In Speed Run the timer also pauses while the next skull is loading.
If you close the page in the middle of a daily, you come back to the same match (same options, same mistakes, same timer).
Leaderboard· Nouveau
New tabs: Today, Week, Season and All-time (Level, Collection and Streak).
Week and Season use your average score and how many days you played.
Specimens· Nouveau
Every card is now a unique specimen, with its own record: where it was collected, who collected it and when.
Some specimens come in special preparations: engraving, cyanotype, radiograph, cleared & stained, CT scan, glass negative, UV fluorescence and daguerreotype (this one is really rare).
Type series: each species has only one Holotype and one Allotype in the whole game, plus up to 10 Paratypes.
There are also anomalies, record size skulls and old collection pieces.
All the cards you already had were converted automatically, you don't need to do anything.
Frames· Nouveau
Around 3 in 10 cards come with a frame (field notebook, expedition crate, display case, jar, diorama and others), each one with its own number.
You can swap frames between two of your cards of the same species.
Field Case· Nouveau
Your own case where you show your best cards, medals and completed display cases. You can buy different covers for it with bones.
If you make it public, you can share the link and other players can admire it.
Every week some public cases show up on the home page.
Achievements· Nouveau
Redone from scratch: 215 achievements in bronze, silver, gold and platinum, each one showing your progress.
Some are secret, with a hint.
You can see the % of players that have each one.
Everything you already did before counts, they were given to you automatically.
Season I: Beagle Expedition (starts Tuesday, 10/13)· Contenu
Seasons are expeditions that last 2 months, each one in a different region. The first one follows Darwin's trip through South America.
Cards from packs that were collected in the season's region can give you an Expedition Ticket. There are 13 per season, released little by little.
Field Log: 16 species from the region. Reveal 8 and you get a stamp and a pack, reveal all 16 and you get the gold stamp and another pack.
Each season has its own leaderboard.
Other improvements· Amélioré
New end of match screen, showing everything you did in the match, your mistakes and how your score was calculated.
Animal info at the end of the match: weight, continents, diet and conservation status.
New look in all game modes.
The album now has 3 tabs: Collection, Display Cases and Species.
The Daily Archive now has Skull Match and Speed Run too.
Loading screens, mobile improvements, performance and a lot of bug fixes.
Remarque
P.S. Keep collecting. Soon your cards will be more than a collection.