I Played The #1 Crypto Game... (Illuvium Private Beta 2)

What is up? I am Crypto Mason and welcome back to the Crypto Mason YouTube channel. Shout out to the Gold Squad. We look for gold in every single aspect of our lives and we always find it. Now today we got a very unique video here. We have— we actually have a blockchain gaming gameplay. Like, I'm literally gonna play the game. Is this the start of Crypto Mason Gaming? Who the hell knows? But this is going to be a very fun video. We're going to be playing the Illuvium Private Beta 2 for Overworld. Uh, we're out— we're also gonna dive into the Illuvium Arena a little bit. Full disclosure, Illuvium is sponsoring this video, so shout out to them for that. Uh, and this actually is my second time filming this So the first time I got stuck in the arena, I just did the arena the whole time and didn't even explore the overworld. But let's do that. We've downloaded the private beta with our beta code. If you signed up to receive a beta code or won our giveaway, we gave away a ton of beta codes in our VIP section in our Discord, as well as on Twitter in our public— in the public giveaway. So if you did, check your email. You might have a beta code in which you can download the game and start actually playing. So let's hop in here. This is the loading screen, and boom, we are in. Look at the beautiful graphics right off the bat. It's just absolutely insane. Obviously, you know, there's a lot of money behind this project in general, and I believe this is one of the front runners for blockchain gaming. as a whole. But as we run through here, you know, you can see these type of graphics. Uh, we're lagging a little bit, we're lagging a little bit, but other than that we are good. You can now fly and combine your boost. There's a bunch of new movement mechanics, uh, in here. I love how the sprint looks as well. You know, you got the gun and everything. We're actually gonna travel, uh, to some new locations to start off. we're gonna see the new, uh, regions. So let's head over to the teleporter over here. So here we are at the teleporter. Let's interact. Right now we're in Sanctum Mesa. We've got Abyssal Basin, uh, Taiga Boreal is coming soon, Shard Bluff, Crystal Shores, Halcyon Sea. So a bunch of new ones coming soon, but the new ones we have are the Brightlands Depths and Abyssal Basin. So let's go here. Uh, we're going to click travel to stage 0, uh, and we're going to travel. So, you know, those stages, you need more, uh, you need to rebuild your ship a little bit more, I believe. This is my second time playing this, and I didn't even travel to the other worlds. I stayed in Sanctum Mesa, and I went to the freaking arena and made it to wave 14. We will do, uh, an arena battle most likely in this video. But let's see where these— what these new regions are looking like, and let's see what we can do in the first-person, or I guess it's third-person, uh, shooter version of this. Here we are, uh, in the, uh, Abyssal Basin. Very, very cool looking. Oh my goodness, like, I would like to live here, to be honest. Let's check our map though and see what is going on with Abyssal Basin. Look at how unexplored and massive that is. So I guess we got to go find stuff. Let's jump out here and see if we can land on this lily pad right here. Let's go. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I have no idea what my little drone thing is or what the— what are these things? I'm gonna shoot them. Okay, so shooting them, what does it give me? I have no idea, but let's hop over here, see if we can fly all the way. Can we make it? Oh, oh yeah, we made it. What is this? Press E. What is this thing? Error encounter. Hold E to scan. Hey, I just found an alluvial and now I'm gonna fight it. Okay, how do we fight this? Found an alluvial, folks, and, um, we're going to go into this fight. Okay, it is an arena-style thing. I have 500 mastery points, uh, and holy cow, why do I have so many? Okay, I have 500 but I can't even buy anything. Okay, let's see what happens here. Oh, it's just a basic fight. Okay, we're easily going to win this. Easily going to win this. I love how that is— the arena mechanic is integrated like into the actual gameplay as well. Uh, purified shard, we got 3 of them. What's happening here? Um, Oh, I get to— oh wait, use cured shard fragment to capture. Oh, I'm going to capture the alluvial and my little robot is capturing it right now. Wow, like this is honestly better than any blockchain game I've ever played already. Um, And you guys know we did some disc giveaways as well. Discs are basically like booster packs. They can contain Illuvatars and different NFTs, uh, but we just got a Lesser Water Flish. Interesting. Okay, now let's see if it just pops us back into the gameplay, uh, where we were. I bet it does. But yeah, we gave away some discs. I opened some Mega Discs on my video as well. And we, you know, I still got a bunch of stuff in there. I'd love to transfer it over and use it in-game. So we've popped back into Abyssal Basins right here. So there's lots of these little fly— what is that red thing? Hold on, what's this red mushroom? What is this? Hold E to harvest. Ooh, getting some materials or something here. Depleted. Um, I guess I got it. I guess I got it. I don't want to fight that one yet. Let's just keep exploring for now. What's this? Let's harvest this right here. Hold E to harvest. Okay, harvest started. Mozart. Oh, I, I got some jellyfish tendrils. I don't know what any of this stuff does, uh, but this, this region looks very, very cool. I love that they added this. Hold E to scan, hold R to extract. Let's hold R. Feldspar deposit. And you know, you can— there's crafting as well with the forge. You can use to craft certain things. What are these? Gotcha. Another check of my map and see. Okay, empath encounter, feldspar deposit. So Wall Popper. And that's where I came from. So you can see our path. Look at how much unexplored area there is. I wonder what— whoa, like, what is up there? Very cool region. Like, there you went above and beyond, uh, with this. And I could probably explore another 30 minutes just inside this one region. Oh, you can run underwater? Oh, I'm taking damage though, aren't I? What the heck? What are these? Oh my goodness, this— I just died. I just died. So it looks like it brings you back to the main menu or the main, uh, spot if you die. Here's my deck so far. I do have these two shards, so I can go capture two different things. We got these, uh, a lightweight pale blue stone. Interesting. Gumbo Baby. Okay, interesting. So I'm probably doing a disservice to this new region, uh, by not actually exploring it too far, but I do want to go and check out the other one before I die again. Oh, I'm going to die. I died again. All right, let's go to the other region. Let's see what's up with the, um, the— what's it called again? The steps. Uh, Steps 1, Home Base. No, I don't want to go to Home Base. You still have— looks like I had to travel back to Home Base maybe to get over to Brightland Steps. Um, but let's— oh, this spends your power right here, I think. Let's go to Stage 2. Let's see what happens. I, I guess I could do it. I have enough power, um, in my ship apparently, I think. I'm still learning the game out. I would definitely play this though, like, especially because you actually own your assets and they're all NFTs. I love that aspect of it. Let's see how they did on the second new region though, Brightland Steps. And then we're gonna hop into some arena gameplay as well, uh, in this video. But let's explore the Brightland Steps a little bit, uh, and then get into some arena, see what wave I can get to. Okay, here is Brightland Steps. Oh my goodness. So, okay, let's go and see what the heck these things are. What is this? Can we interact with this? Can we? Nope, I guess that's just a tree. And there's a bubble. What's that? There's a bubble up there. Can we get to it? Oh, there's, there's a ton of bubbles. I'm lagging a little bit, but that, that is okay. Oh, it looks like there's a bubble machine right here. Let's test out the bubble. Let's test it. We have to test out the bubble. Let's see. Okay, I'm in a bubble. Can you actually move, or am I— what can I do in this? Okay. Oh, oh, oh, we caught another one! So how you exit is you shoot, I guess. But this is going to give us a nice view of— and it looks like they go all the way up here. I love this idea. Um, we're getting kind of close to the cliff. Let's see if we can we can hop up to on top of this mountain. Oh my goodness, the view! You think we can make it to that over there? When do they pop though? This is a great view of Brightland Steppes though for you guys. Um, and I see bubbles everywhere, so this might be like the main way to get up here. But this makes for very cool transport. I am gonna jump— try and jump off the top, folks. That's what I'm trying to do. So let's get to the absolute top of this. How do I get out? Oh, oh yeah, okay, we are on the top. We are on the absolute top of the world right here. And let's get up this. Can we? Oh yeah, we can. So this— the bubbles make for a very interesting mechanic here. And look at that view. This is the one of the new regions they added, Brightland Steppes. I'm not sure why we have guns. I guess for the alluvial— alluvials. Um, but let's try— where do we want to go? Let's see on the map, uh, if we can see anything. So we're only in— we've only went this area. Like, there is like— what is this? Should I try to make it to that, guys? And then we'll go play arena. I'm gonna try and make it to that. So that means we gotta go behind us, or what? We gotta go. Can I land on this, please? Yes. Okay, I'm facing this way. Oh no, that's the wrong way. Very risky what I'm doing right here. Where's a bubble? Oh my goodness, can I even— oh, I'm going to die if I don't get a bubble. How did I not die? Okay, we're headed towards the dragon head, and it's— oh, it's right there. It's not as far as I thought. It is actually right there. What did I just turn on? Some kind of black and white mode. Very weird. Uh, but let me get over there. Oh my goodness, there's that dragon head. We're gonna go there, and then we're, we're gonna go to do some arena. Let's see if we can make this gap though. Yes, we can, very easily. I love the flying mechanics. All the new movement mechanics are very good, like extremely high quality. But let's go try and get up onto the top of this. I love the sprinting as well, how it zooms in. Very nice, uh, mechanics here. This, I— this is my favorite area of this map, at least. Also, one of my favorite parts is these bubbles. All these bubbles are very, very cool. But let's go stand on the face of this, then we're going to transfer over to arena and I'm going to show you guys some arena gameplay. Oh my, I just fell, but there's the dragon head. Let's try land in that. Oh wow, what can I harvest from here? Okay, let's switch over to Arena. Let's see if I can even teleport, uh, to another region. I don't even think we can. How do we teleport? We gotta teleport back to the main, the main, um, area, then we'll play Arena for a little bit. Mesa here. We're gonna go over to the map and just teleport to the actual arena. So E to interact, and then we're gonna do R this time for competitive survival. And now I have to beat my record of wave 14. Okay, and I saw the top dude has like wave— that dude has waves, um 34 or something. So we're actually going to try beat him. I'm going to start off with just a Beast. I'll spend all my Mastery points basically on this Beast. Let's click Start and see what this guy can do. Um, are we going to get wrecked right off the bat here? This is bad. Did I pick the wrong one? Oh my goodness, if we lose, that's it. We lost. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to insert my, my other gameplay right now, so enjoy that where I get to level, uh, wave 14. What is up? I am Crypto Mason and welcome back to the Crypto Mason YouTube channel. Shout out to the Gold Squad. We look for gold in every single aspect of our lives and we always find it. Now today we have a very, very unique video. Is this the start of Crypto Mason Gaming? Uh, it could be. We are doing a full-on gameplay of Illuvium, the private overworld beta. We're also going to test out the Illuvium Arena and Illuvium Overworld. Uh, this is a sponsored video by Illuvium, so shout out to them. We've done a few, uh, different things with them. We've given away some discs, uh, and we've done some Twitter posts about them, but we're going to be playing a gameplay here, uh, of the private beta. So if you did enter to get a private beta code, please check your email, that should be in there. But drop a like if you love to see, uh, the blockchain gaming content. So let's get into this right away. So I've booted up the game. I had to download this, it was 17 gigabytes, so, you know, reserve some space for this. We're going to start by going into Alluvium Overworld. So my, uh, My name on here is Mason Versluis 17— or 1717. Let's click play overworld. We'll get this nice loading screen, um, and let's go right into this game. Like, right off the bat, these graphics, you know, it gives me Fortnite vibes, but it's a little bit different, uh, and I've already jumped in here just for a few minutes before this to test it out, and they've got this very— like, there's very interesting mechanics in here. You can see at the bottom of the screen, there's that little, like, energy bar. And if I start to fly, which you do by jump and shift, you can see that energy bar go down. But you can also do these little launch pad things and it takes up some of your energy bar. But look at these graphics. I've got this little drone behind me. There's the Illuvium logo. You can even run in third person looking at yourself. Very crazy stuff here. We're going to go and head towards, uh, we're going to go and head towards this building over here. Okay, I don't know what's over here, but we're going to head— oh, we can teleport as well, but let's run there and enjoy the graphics. Hopefully my mic is working with this game. I've never done a gaming video before, but we're going to check this overworld out and then we'll hop into the arena and see what's up. Uh, we did do some live, um, Disc openings as well, uh, which the discs are very cool. They're basically Pokémon booster packs, uh, and you can get Illuvatars. And I, I believe that some of mine are loading in here. Like, here's my deck. I have the Lesser Water Doka right here, and I have the Lesser Water Flish right there. I don't know if those are loading in from my actual, uh, Illuvium wallet, but but this is a play-to-earn, basically blockchain game. So here we are at this building. Let's— what is this? Let's float up in here. Let's float up in here. I don't— this isn't multiplayer, so there's no people on here right now with me, uh, but let's check out what this thing is. What does this say right here? Survival Arena. So it looks like we made it to the arena. Where else is there on the map, uh, that we can go? We can go all the way down here. It looks like another arena. Let's interact with this though. Hold E to enter training survival. Hold R to enter competitive survival. You guys know I don't need no training. We're going straight into competitive. Let's see what this is. Tips: synergies increase the power of your alluvials. So I'm guessing I'm going to be using these alluvials. Uh, oh, here we go. Oh wow, this is on some like Hearthstone stuff right here. So are these all mine right here? What do we have going on here? I want Greater Air Groko. I want this thing. So that's spending 40 of my, uh, mastery points right there, I guess. And, uh, we can spend even more. Who's our enemy though? It's a water guy. What's gonna do good against water? Let's see. Let's get a Lura out as well for 40. Um, and then Let's go with this guy. Oh, am I running out of time here? Yep, my planning just— time just ran out. Let's see what we can do against this guy. So this is— it's kind of World of Warcraft-ish or League of Legends-ish. Oh, we're, we're kicking them, we're killing them. Easy win, easy win. Oh no, there's wave 2. So how much points did we earn right here? We're at 25 only. Uh, we can't buy anything with 25. So let's see, I guess— I mean, these guys are gonna have to do the work by themselves right here, aren't they? What is this thing? Jeez. Okay, we don't need no planning. Here we go, round 2. Uh, that's looking like an easy win again. Easy win again. So we were at 25 points. How much are we going to be at now? Mastery points. We need more. Oh, there is stuff for 25. Okay, we gained 20. or 21. What else can I put down? What's this? Link slashes the target 3 times. Uh, so I have 40 seconds of planning. Um, what's this? Exalted. At the start of combat, the nearest 4 allies gain Indomitable for 6 seconds. Boom, I'm using that. Uh, attack speed. Okay, we just spent our 40 on some kind of power-up. Uh, so let's see how this goes. I hope you guys can hear the sound too. Uh, maybe we can up the sound or something here. Let's up the, the sound maybe a little bit. I hope it's not too loud. I'm gonna keep it lower just in case. 5 seconds remaining. Here we go. We got— I don't even know what these are. 3 incoming. This is wave 3 right here. Let's see what we can do. Can I like click stuff during it, or— oh, I can look around. I can zoom in as well. Did we lose here? Oh no, we're winning. Oh yeah, we just won, didn't we? 26 only I got. Oh, should we put down another Lesser Nature? We gotta get another troop out here. Let's do that. Wave 4, skip the planning, skip the planning. Okay. Oh, see, that Indomitable is, is working right there. So all 4 of our guys are Indomitable right off the bat, which is going to help a lot. How far can we zoom in here? By the way, this is my first time ever playing, uh, Alluvium as well, the actual game. Um, so I guess this is part of the arena part of it. Did we lose? Oh no, we won. Oh yeah, we won. Okay, I'm making it to wave 5. We're gonna see how far we can get. Uh, I'm gonna try save my points on this round. I'm gonna try save my points. What, what, like, what's different about the layout? Like, if we lay these guys out differently, like, how does it affect things? Here, let's make it like that. There we go. Okay, skip the planning. Let's see how far we can get into the waves, and then I wonder what we'll actually get from this. There's my indomitable thing going on again. Interesting. Okay. Oh, I like how you can zoom in this far. It's very cool. Um, yeah, we're gonna win here. So these have been pretty easy wins so far. Wave 6. Can we put down— okay, we got 42, so a lot of things. I'm gonna save up again. I'm gonna save up again. What's this? Select an alluvial. What are these interesting jumpsuits? I think that formation worked good, so let's go again, and then we'll hop out of this in a second here. Okay, we'll hop out of the arena and go explore explore the other, uh, parts of this. Look, what is that doing? Holy— we're getting wrecked. I think it's hard to tell which ones are you and which ones are the other ones. I guess the red actually keep going. Let's get up to— let's see some of these guys, like Ram Fight and all these. So if we win this one, uh, we should be able to afford some of these guys. I want some big— I want some big hitters. So let's skip the planning again. And start it. We've got— this is wave 7, I believe. And let's see. Oh wow, holy— look at that Phoenix! I want this guy. Are we gonna be able to kill the Phoenix? It looks like it. That's a ram fight, or a ram fire. Okay, so next wave looks like we got a Forest, a Adoreus, and a Blotto coming up. Um, oh, we got 37 coins as well. Uh, let's— what is this? Gain 3 energy regen and immune to silence. Gain 50 thorns. No, let's just go for another wave. Let's go for another wave. I hope that this audio isn't too loud or anything. I'm going to lower it a little bit here. That guy's too small. I want the big guys. Oh yeah, let's get him. Oh my, looks like we're actually losing this one. Are we about to lose this one? Oh my, it comes down to our, uh, Revo right here. Oh, oh, come on, Revo! Wow. Nope, we had 2 more guys left there. That was close though, that was close. Now we got 38. What do we need to make us win this next one? Gain 50 thorns 1 second after the start of combat. Gain a shield of 500. And taunt enemies within 25 hexes for 2 seconds. Should we go with that, or should we add another guy? Let's add a, a water Doka right here. There we go, greater water Doka. Boom, start it up. So what's— so I'm guessing there's more strategy to this. I'm kind of just placing and just trying to go ham and place as many guys down But I'm assuming there's different strategies with these hexes that you can do. So I've placed 7 out of 8 alluvials, it says. Holy cow, what's going on? I was missing it. Oh, did we win? Yes, we did win. Okay, wave 12, here we go. I need to save, so I'm going to click start. I need to save my mastery points. Holy, look at that fat geezer over there. Geyser. Oh, so I keep seeing my, my actual female Ranger right here always stand in the back and just shoot things, so I guess placing her in the back could be the best, even though she already goes there by, by choice. Here, let's do, let's do different positioning here. I'm gonna, I'm gonna just stack both sides. Can you like put those guys— oh, you can recall, you can recall for 70. Oh my, should I recall for 70 and get like a one of these? How much can I recall him for? 80. Recall for 25. Recall for 40. Here, this is what we're gonna do. Oh, these are all 40. I don't want to lose that guy. Um, let's keep it with our original strategy. I'm just going to load the corners here, load the corners, and I'm going to move my actual Ranger back. There we go. Let's see how that goes. Let's see how this goes. Oh yeah, that dude is so slow, that yellow guy. I like— I love the geezer guy. Like, like, we got close to losing on one of those, but I mean, it seems like we are dominating somehow here. Um, let's recall one of our guys actually. I'm gonna recall somebody for 80 recall. Boom. So now we're at 146. What can we get that's like the best for— should we get an Umbre? Oh yeah. Okay, let's do one last round with the Umbre. Look at that. One last round with the Umbre, um, and then we will explore some other areas and see what— see what else this game has to offer. This is the Beta 2. I mean, this looks— to review this, I mean, this looks great. Like, everything looks great. The gameplay is fun. I wish I knew more about sort of what's going on, but as I keep playing this, I will definitely start learning. You can also report bugs up here because this is the beta. Oh, okay. I do just find it hard to keep track of who's my guys and who's who was from their side, and that's just due to me not knowing the characters too well. Did we— did we lose? Oh, we did lose! We literally lost on our last one. No way, these dudes made it to 30— wave 34. So this is the leaderboard over here as of May 29th. I only made it to wave 14. You can restart from a checkpoint within 5 minutes. Okay, I placed 7 alluvials right there. Um, very interesting. How did these guys make it to wave 34? That's pretty crazy. Let's give up though. Let's click the give up button and see where, see where we pop out. I want to experience more of the first part, like what is this gameplay? You know, we just experienced kind of the, um— oh, that's in the arena where we just fought. Uh, we just experienced kind of like the Hearthstone, World of Warcraft kind of thing. But what is the actual gameplay with your first-person, uh, character here? Let's try and go to— let's try and get on— what else is around here though? Map. Hold to— let's just hold to teleport on one of these. What is this? This is the survival arena. This is the teleport beacons. And then we've got, uh, what are those? Survival arena. So let's just teleport to this and see what happens. Okay, that brings us— oh, where is this bringing us? Oh, right on top. Okay, so I see two things here. Forge And locker storage. If I interact with this, it shows me the locker storage. I don't have any alluvials apparently. Let's go over to here. Ooh. Now I guess this is where you can create different things. And all of this will probably be available for you inside the actual game. Yes, here's some of the stuff we were seeing. So you can actually build some of this stuff, but you need different items. And what I have— I only have— I don't think I have any items. I need to connect my wallet to this is what I need to do. But that, that we don't have that right now. So those are those. What are these over here? We're gonna check them out over here. This is very beautiful. I love the— I hope there's some kind of gameplay that involves this first person as well. Oh, this is the leaderboard. Okay, what's that for though? And this one is closed, or that one is nothing. So what is this leaderboard for though? Is that for what we just did? Press R to toggle region. Okay, let's go back to the map, because if I go to my equipment, I see I have these guys. Let's go to the map though. Uh, here's the map. Encounter portal. Here, this is where we started from, I bet. Yeah, this is where we started from. Is there anything else over here before we check out the other thing? Uh, I don't see anything else over here. What I'm going to try to do is fly over to this big thing over here. And see what that is. So I'll be back when I'm there. It's absolutely one of the cleanest blockchain games I've ever seen. Um, you know, I had limited knowledge of what the actual game was in terms of Illuvium, and also limited knowledge of how— what can actually cross over. And I believe all of the stuff you get from discs can cross over into here, which is extremely cool and makes it, you know, way better in my opinion. And you actually own all your assets, right? They're in your wallet. Let's lift up here. Let's see. Watch this. Oh my. Okay, it looks like some kind of ship over there. I don't want to get— I want to fly across this. Here we go. Oh, I can't go over there. Hold on, I don't think I can go over here. Oh, maybe I can. Yes, we can. What's over here? You can also shoot a gun, by the way. I don't know why— what that part of this is, but I do have a gun on me. Oh, it looks like it's stopping me. Maybe. Yep, I can't go over there. I cannot go over there. Can we get on top of this thing? Nope. So it does block me. I can't go over there. So we're gonna wrap up the video. Uh, after I go and see what's over here. But overall, very fun experience playing this game. I, I'm, you know, I would love to explore it more, uh, and see what's really up with it. I know I have a stacked wallet. They gave us some discs. We gave away a lot of discs to you guys. But that is all we've got for the Illuvium gameplay. I love every single one of you. Let me know if you want to see an actual gaming channel, uh, But I appreciate all of you, and goodbye.