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Ultra Rizz #4 | Community Spotlight
Recorded: Nov. 14, 2024 Duration: 1:01:10Space Recording
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Hi everyone. Hello, hello. We are going to wait five more minutes until everyone is joining. Let me send the link in the different channels and we will be
starting soon.
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I want you guys to listen to my stream music so you will know it.
Okay. Does this work?
Yes. I am afraid the sound won't be that good. So you tell me. If I see a lot of heart, it means that the sound is good and you can laugh at me if you want to tell me the sound is very bad.
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I will warm up my voice.
Okay.
Okay.
So, maybe we can start, guys.
So, welcome back, everyone.
Ultra Reels number four.
Today, we have a unique show for you.
It is a community spotlight, so we will have a lot of insights today
and some, as you can say, hot seat action.
As you know, I am God-given, and I needed some help today, guys,
because we are a really touching subject you want to hear about.
So, today, we have Fabio with us.
Fabio, that is Ultra OG.
Hi, Fabio.
Hi there.
We are from NeuchΓ’tel in Switzerland.
Okay, okay.
Sorry, I had to turn down the sound because maybe there is an echo with my mic.
I'm sorry.
So, yeah, thank you, Fabio, for being here.
And we have also Rod today.
Hello, Rod.
Hello, hello.
Hello from Germany, Hamburg, Germany.
Hope everybody is doing.
All right.
And lock and load for this session.
Let's go.
I don't think I have to say where I'm from.
I can speak like this if you want, but I will try to make some effort, you know.
And, yeah.
So, yeah.
Quick update on what happened this week, guys, on my side.
We had some testing that was really interesting.
I am preparing some stuff to show and to post on social media.
So, you can, guys, have more insight on the game we tested.
It's called Ashes of Mankind.
I don't know if you guys know that game.
I'm sure you do, guys.
I'm joking.
But, yeah.
So, today, we really have some stories to tell.
And Rod has some answers for us.
So, we will dive into, first, knowing more about our guests.
So, Fabio, it's really good to have you here.
And you are part of Ultra community.
We want to know more about you.
We want to know who you are, what you do.
And if you can tell us a bit more about you, I will let you introduce yourself so we can have more insights.
So, hello again.
My name is Fabio.
I'm Italo-German, but I live in Switzerland.
I've been in crypto for a very long time.
And I'm the CEO of CoinNexus.
It's a Swiss company.
We do crypto consulting and crypto investing.
We used to be a broker before the regulatory burden became too high.
And back then, in 2021, we were the first ones to list native UOS for euros at our company.
And I personally, I found Ultra doing research on the TETA network.
I saw they had partnered with TETA and then I dug deep into everything I could find about Ultra, fell in love with it because I think it has the potential to be the first really mass adopted, like with lots and lots of millions of users because it's so easy to use.
And gaming is the perfect, gaming and blockchain are the perfect matches.
So, currently, I'm also one of the moderators of the German Telegram channel.
We are quite small as a community compared to the French community, for instance.
But, yeah, that's about it.
This is the French power, you know.
But, yeah, I can hear a lot of, like, stuff that we have in common.
Like, you really think the Web3 gaming is inevitable and I have, like, the same ideas.
And it's interesting because you came from the crypto world and I am not at all from the crypto world.
And we kind of met in the middle at Ultra, like, we are both of us true believers of Ultra.
So, you told us how you discovered Ultra, you told us what you liked about it.
But, you said 2021, right?
Yes, it was April, about April 2021 when I found Ultra.
So, yeah, we can consider you as an Ultra OG.
It's been, like, three years and a half, actually.
So, yeah, you have one of us.
Great.
Yes.
I feel part of the team.
And it's not been easy always.
But let's hope for the best for the future.
Man, we are here to talk about it.
We are here to talk about it.
But first, before talking about what's not have been easy, can you tell us your best memories
or moments you had with us, with Ultra, with the community, with everyone?
I think my personal highlight was February of this year when I attended NFT Paris and was
lucky to meet David in person and he took a lot of his time, of his free time to talk to me.
And, yeah, it was quite a fanboy moment.
And, yeah, that was my personal highlight in my Ultra history.
Oh, yeah, I can understand that.
Pretty, pretty.
Yeah, yeah.
No, I had the same in 2021, too.
We had a French conference about crypto and I met with David and a lot of people from
the crypto community.
And it was really interesting because you feel like a monster sometimes in the normal
world.
So, yeah, gathering between monsters using big, big, yeah, gathering between us is a
bit, yeah, satisfying, if you can say.
I know, Fabio, that you really love this project and you have been a true supporter of the, of
Ultra, of Ultra community.
And maybe you can share some stuff you are doing for the community because you said you were a moderator
in the German channel, right?
Yes, correct.
Yes, correct.
I'm the moderator of the German speaking Telegram group.
We are, as I said, quite small.
Otherwise, also professionally as a CEO of, of Kimexis, we recently invested in, in BlackEye
Studios and yeah, follow the project to do quite a lot of networking in the background.
I'll try to help Ultra as best, as, as good as we can.
That's super interesting, super interesting.
Okay.
I want to, before I give you the lead, my dear, can we have like an insight from, from you?
What do you like about other platform you absolutely want to see on Ultra?
Is there a functionality, is there something that you use a lot and you want to see on
Ultra or do you have an idea, an insight?
I don't know.
Like, is there something that you deeply wish for to have on our platform?
Well, first of all, of course, I'm, I'm, I can't wait for all the functions that have
been already announced to, to, to come and to go live now with Ashes of Mankind.
We will have the, the very first example of Ultra actually, yeah, showing what, what it's able
to do.
One, I, one thing I'd like to see, I don't know if it's possible, but I've been, the blockchain
I've personally used the most is the, the Hive blockchain, which is, uh, technically, uh,
kind of cousin of, uh, Ultra, um, uh, similar to EOS.
Um, and, uh, they, they do social media and maybe one day, uh, when, when, uh, Ultra grows,
uh, having some micro blogging or something similar to X on, on Ultra might be cool because,
uh, of the whole mechanism that, uh, incentivizes, uh, activity.
And one could, for instance, uh, stake Ultra to get more visibility on a feed, uh, with
Ultra power and stuff like that.
That, that's something I'd, I'd love to see.
Yeah.
Super interesting indeed.
I like your idea, man.
And yeah, I can't wait to see if we can do that because, you know, guys, I'm not a dev
at all.
So I'm just asked you for a functionality, but I cannot say if it's, yeah, I don't know.
So guys, um, today with us, we also have Rod.
Rod, uh, is, uh, has a very, very familiar voice, right?
Rod, are you here?
Hello.
Hello.
Hello.
Do you like my voice?
I like it a lot, man.
I already heard it somewhere.
I think I am mistaken.
No, man.
Thanks.
Thanks for, for bringing me in.
Uh, I really, really like this initiative.
We should, we should have it more often.
This community spotlight is always interesting to, to learn, um, more about the people that
have been part of our community for a long time and supporting us and so on.
So I think we should do this, uh, more often.
Pleasure to meet you, Fabio.
Now informally, it's, uh, awesome.
Awesome.
To have you here.
Hi, Rod.
Hello, sir.
And, um, yeah, let's do it.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Let's go.
So Rod, you are, um, can I say a promoted intern or should I say?
Yeah, man.
So, so, uh, a quick, quick intro.
I never had the opportunity to make a formal, formal intro.
So I'm, I'm Rod, uh, formally known as the ultra intern, AKA the janitor, AKA, uh, the
coffee guy, AKA the Swiss army knife of, uh, of, uh, ultra.
So I do a little bit of everything at ultra.
Yes.
I'm also in charge for marketing and comms and so on, but I wear many hats at ultra.
And, uh, just, just for context, because after hearing Fabio, I feel a bit, I need to
give a bit more.
So I, even though I'm part of ultra, just, um, a bit more than three months.
So, so almost four months I've, uh, I've had ultra on my radar for a good two years,
two, maybe two, three years initially.
I never, to, to be honest, I never had a, you know, a good grasp of what ultra was doing.
Uh, I know that ultra was building a gaming ecosystem, but, um, I never, yeah, it was,
I had it on my radar, but it was nothing that I actually really explored until, until recently,
until a year ago, uh, I've came across, uh, an article and I started reading more about
ultra, got interested.
Um, then, uh, you know, the stars aligned fast forward and, and I'm here.
Um, so yeah, so my, my background really quick.
So, uh, I mainly come from the games industry.
That's my, my background.
And, uh, and, uh, what else can I say?
And I've been in the crypto space since 2017.
Um, so yeah, I've been around for, for a while.
Yeah.
And that's already a good start.
Thank you, Rod for this presentation.
We are happy to have you with us like, uh, now officially.
Uh, so, okay guys, today, uh, we wanted to make this special episode.
Uh, we gathered some question.
I'm sorry.
I couldn't gather them all because there is so much and we don't have five hours for
this.
So I had to squeeze them.
I had to make some, uh, uh, shortcuts to try to answer them all.
Um, that's why I asked Fabio to be here today because I wanted the game, uh, sorry, a community
voice to help me asking those questions because, you know, guys, I'm part of the community too,
but you are now starting to sending me questions to ask.
And I always want to, this to be the most, uh, transparent, uh, space.
It's all about trees.
It's all about us, the community.
So yeah.
Um, Fabio.
Yes.
Yeah.
Perfect.
I, um, we have some questions for Rod coming from the community.
So I will jump in at some point if you want me to, but I think you can take the lead from
here and, um, let Rod.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Are you putting me on the hot seat right now?
I didn't even ask your, uh, opinion about it.
I'm not prepared for that, man.
I'm sweating already.
I'm so sorry, Rod.
But yeah, this was, uh, the kind of surprise we want to have for the community.
So that's a nice, a nice one.
Uh, okay.
Bring it on.
Uh, be, be, don't, don't be so bad.
Huh?
Don't be so harsh with me.
No, shoot.
It's the Fabio, Fabio style now.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Well, I can say, I got, uh, the, the guys are a list of very, very hot, uh, questions.
And I'm really looking forward to this one.
So, uh, the first one, uh, it's a very good start.
Hey, Mr. Transparency, can you give the community an update on the AMD and Chinese partnership,
please?
What's about that one?
Oh, klar again.
Um, we are not starting like with small steps, you know, we're not Mr. Transparency.
I love that.
Who's Mr. Transparency?
Was it, was that for me directly?
Yes.
Yes.
Of course.
I love that.
Okay.
Uh, so was, uh, an update on AMD was, was that AMD and, and what else?
Um, an update on AMD and the Chinese partnership, please.
Okay.
Please, just because the person used, please, I will, I will answer that.
So AMD, um, so let, let's put it this way.
We engage and we have conversations with, uh, with, uh, many partners and potential partners.
And, um, we work close with many of them, including a AMD and, and even others that are not mentioned.
Uh, uh, in the past, uh, we were, uh, quite engaged.
We, uh, with the AMD because of, uh, some, some acquaintances of our founders.
And of course we explored some, some collaboration opportunities.
Unfortunately, they never came to fruition.
Uh, so AMD at the moment is not on the radar, but maybe because something bigger than that is coming.
Uh, but to be clear, to be clear, uh, the question was about AMD.
So it's not on the radar at the moment, uh, for, for, uh, different reasons.
But I think, I think it's, it's, uh, it's clear, uh, Chinese partnership.
I, I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with this, but it's possible that at some point we, we have explored, we've accompanied as, uh, we have explored some, uh, games distribution or any other, uh, collaborations locally in China.
Also because our founders have a very rich, uh, um, experience in, in that country.
So it's possible that at some point we have been actively engaging, uh, into, you know, conversations, uh, to, to bring in these partnerships.
And it's also possible that at some point things were looking good.
Uh, but at the moment we don't have any, uh, Chinese partnership and, or if we had, uh, it never came to, to fruition.
Um, also because, uh, at this point we are, we are, uh, repositioning ultra and recentering ultra strategy.
So this market at the moment is not a priority for us.
Um, is it a good answer?
Did I answer your question?
Yeah, perfectly.
Uh, thank, thanks a lot.
Maybe, uh, uh, quick follow up on, on the AMD subject, uh, as it's been known, uh, to the community that there is another big name appearing on, on, uh, screenshots, et cetera.
Uh, namely Intel, any, any update on, on that one or, or maybe, uh, yeah, more details on, on the Intel partnership.
Don't, don't be tricky.
Yeah.
The, the question was about AMD and Chinese partnership.
Uh, I can't confirm or deny any, any other, uh, brand.
Um, okay.
Fair enough.
Fair enough.
Fair enough.
So, uh, well, uh, we started big.
Why not, uh, go for the second biggest question here on the list.
Is the secret sauce still cooking?
What, what is secret cooking?
Is the secret sauce still cooking?
Oh, the secret sauce.
I've read, I've, I think I've bumped in a couple of tweets, uh, talking about the secret sauce.
I, I, I look, I don't know exactly what, what are they trying to infer.
Maybe it was something, a quote that, uh, someone, someone, one of our founders used, um, the secret sauce is always cooking.
Always.
It's always cooking.
Maybe it's a different recipe.
Um, maybe it's different of, uh, what was planned five years, uh, four years, two years, and last year.
Uh, you know, we are, we are, we are always cooking and, uh, um, we are a company.
We are, um, we are evolving.
We are, we are, as I mentioned, we have, we are repositioning and recentering our strategy.
So the secret sauce is there.
Maybe it's even more spicy than before.
Uh, but it's different.
Um, I'm, I'm not sure exactly what the person meant with secret sauce.
Maybe I think this was just a provocative question.
I'm trying to assume that.
Yeah.
Well, uh, it's been, it's been going around for, for quite some time.
Um, but yeah.
Okay.
Let's, let's, let's see what, uh, if I can, if I can really jump in, um, real fast.
The, yeah, the secret sauce was more of a, of the vision.
Uh, the vision of the founders wanted to, um, put in ultra.
So, um, I can, maybe I can try to, uh, make a small, uh, resume about what we said.
But the secret sauce is still cooking and it's, uh, moving with time.
Right.
Is that what I understood?
So, okay.
So now, now I got it.
It's a metaphor, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah.
So, uh, man, if you wanna, I can put it in other ways.
Uh, ultra is the sauce.
Ultra is the spicy sauce and ultra is the platform.
Yes.
We have been, uh, uh, through, through ups and downs.
Um, yes.
Um, who always sometimes is not the most exciting.
Yes.
I'm very well aware of it.
Um, we are, we are, uh, taking measures to, to mitigate that.
Um, but bear with us, bear with us because good things are coming.
Um, there's, um, like I've mentioned, we are repositioning the company.
We are re-centering our business strategy.
We are evolving.
We are more mature.
Um, so bear, bear with us because this is gonna be, especially for you guys that, that
have been with us for, for, for a while.
I understand that sometimes can be frustrating guys have been waiting for news and so on.
Where are the news?
Where are the things?
Why are the things not coming?
Uh, and I understand the frustration because I'm also part of the community and other communities.
And when things don't come, uh, sometimes you get a bit emotional or less rational and
you start ranting, um, and so on.
But, um, we are cooking.
Uh, as I said, maybe it's a different recipe, but the ride is going to be exciting.
Um, that's what I can say for the moment.
Perfect.
Great.
Thanks a lot.
So, uh, yeah, let's just keep grilling him with the tough questions.
Uh, is the current, uh, UOS price a problem for Altra's future?
Um, that's, you can answer this in so many different ways.
So the answer is, uh, no, no, the, the future of UOS is not, uh, directly, there's no correlation
between Altra as a company and, and UOS or the future of the company and UOS.
But the question, the answer can also be, yes, of course.
Are we pissed off that the, the price is not pumping when the market is pumping?
Yes.
Do we need to make more for that?
Also?
Yes.
Um, are, are, are the lack of, of news maybe, uh, reflecting on the, on the, the U.S. price?
Uh, maybe yes, as well.
So, so we are paying attention to it.
We are working on it.
Um, but no, to answer, to answer the question, the question was if the price, uh, the U.S.
price problem, uh, is correlated with Altra's future?
Uh, but, uh, we are paying attention to it and, uh, we are taking, uh, measures to, to improve
this.
Okay.
Thanks a lot.
That's, uh, great to hear.
And, uh, um, to stay, um, kind of on, on, on the subject, are, are there, uh, any news
on, on, on staking, on the Altra games, uh, lifting, ah, the facelift, um, and the sports
games?
Maybe let's start with the staking.
That was a question.
Yeah.
And I think I'm quite sure I've seen here some thumbs down.
So I will call out some people because I'm looking at, I'm giving my answers, but looking
at the screen.
So I've, I've seen here, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Some crypto.
Let me see if I can find, ah, the person disappeared.
Drop me a thumbs down and disappeared.
Ah, crypto ghost.
Thumbs down.
So I, I'm assuming you didn't like my answer.
So you still have time to drop a different, a new, a new question under the thread.
I will be happy to, to answer your question.
So, uh, in regard to the, to the US staking, I think this was answered by Patrick, uh, a couple
of days ago, but, and was introduced, uh, was mentioned on the tokenomics revamp.
So we are actively working on it and people will hear about this.
Uh, man, I don't want to use the word soon, but we are working on it.
We are working on it.
We are working on it.
It's incoming.
Ah, the other day, someone suggested the word that I should use the word incoming.
So it's incoming.
Um, and it's one is not, it's one of our, our priorities for, for UOS.
Uh, and, uh, we are working on the UOS staking and Ash staking.
So both, uh, both, uh, will be kind of, it's the same contract for both.
What was the second part of the question, Fabio?
Sorry.
Uh, so it were, ah, the, the, um, ultra games facelift and, uh, last but not least the, the
sports game.
Sports.
So the facelift facelift.
Ah, okay.
Uh, I have good news for you.
This is full steam ahead.
Um, and, uh, maybe we will tease this Friday on ultra reload.
My colleague Gopal.
Uh, so if you guys are not familiar with ultra reload, I definitely recommend that you guys
watch the show.
It's every Friday is just 30 minutes.
It's just a coffee, coffee pause.
And you have, uh, a quick rundown or updates on, on product roadmap.
And every week we bring a different person that give talks about a different aspect of
what we are doing in building.
So this Friday we will actually tease, uh, the new ultra branding or my, well, not complete
ultra branding, but, uh, I, I can definitely confirm that you will be able to see the little
bit of the new design of the, um, of the, the client.
And, uh, with it, it's not just, we are not only the redesigning the client.
So we are redesigning ultra.
So we'll have a new website.
Uh, we are modernizing our brand as well.
And with it will come also a, a new, uh, redesigned games client and other bits and pieces.
So these things take time.
Uh, but Friday, this Friday, this Friday is actually tomorrow.
Tomorrow morning, you will be able to, to see a little bit of it.
And I, I hope you will be happy because we are putting a lot of effort on the new design.
So I think everybody will be satisfied.
Uh, the other part of your question was the sports game.
I think people are inferring to the, I think it was a football game.
So the football game, um, is actually interesting because I have this, this project in particular
on my desk.
Uh, the game, uh, at this point is, uh, is on pause.
Um, so, and we will reassess, uh, uh, the, um, the next step, uh, of this project in December.
So we, we had now to reprioritize other things such as the redesign that I just mentioned.
Um, and we had to hit pause on the game.
Uh, not because we are not ready.
Uh, not because we are not ready is because that the game developer was having some issues
with some parts, some, some aspects of the game.
So the user onboarding was not, uh, super polished.
The, um, to UI UX still requires some, some, some work there and some other bits and pieces.
So we've decided to, to hit pause there, uh, focus, recenter in what we need to recenter.
In December, we will reassess the game and then, uh, come up with a proper plan to launch next
year.
Okay.
Thanks.
The, that's, uh, great news.
Um, one other question, uh, any news, uh, regarding, uh, the AGA airdrop and maybe related
that, uh, uh, any news on, on the DEX, uh, situation in, in general?
Uh, this question, I'm quite sure that everything regarding, uh, airdrops, um, AGORA, um, this
has been thoroughly answered by Patrick a couple of times, uh, even last week.
Um, so I will please, I will invite everybody to read these answers.
This, uh, it starts getting a bit, uh, frustrating for me to answer the same thing over and over
again.
Plus he's the right person to answer this.
Um, but this is work is, it's, it's work in progress.
It's working.
There's some intrinsicacies that are not simple to solve.
Um, it's being worked out.
Uh, the second part that Ash airdrop, uh, yes.
EOS holders will have benefits of course on, on Ash.
Uh, they will be communicated, uh, in due time.
Okay.
Great.
Um, maybe a good given, uh, do you want, is there any question you, you absolutely want
to have answered?
I, uh, indeed I had, there is one that I like a lot, uh, that is asking about why isn't, uh,
razor making any comes about us because we, I'm sorry, I know there is a lot of questions.
We already answered, but I've seen them too much to ignore them.
And I know people are here to, and count on me to, to, to ask those questions.
So guys, I may, uh, try to make a resume of all the answers we have and try to post it.
So we try to move on and stop asking the same question again and again.
So maybe this is our last chance to do this.
And Rod, can you please, uh, give us your insight about why razor is not making any comes about
When are you asking about my favorite color?
Uh, if I liked football and, uh, what games am I playing?
I want the easy ones as well.
There is.
Um, so about, about, uh, razor, look, uh, let me tell you first, this is a, an amazing partnership
and, um, everybody at, at ultra and black eye studios that we are super proud of it because
let me start by saying razor isn't partnering with everybody out there.
Let's just have a look.
Uh, they, they are very, they have a very, um, um, um, selective process to, to choose the,
the partners, the, the, the projects that they engage with and so on.
So I'm very proud of it.
And even though this, we didn't had a lot of, uh, fireworks with this announcement, there's
a reason why.
Uh, but the part you, one part of your question was why is razor not talking?
Why is razor not talking about it?
For a very simple answer.
When we, when we have this, this partnerships, this collaborations, each brand has their own
requirements.
And, uh, we, we sign NDAs and we sign agreements, all this stuff.
And, uh, and, and with razor in particular, and you can check their, their Twitter channel,
for example, they don't talk about any partnerships.
It's their policy to not talk about partnerships.
They only talk about razor, the razor brand and, or razor owned projects, unless, uh, it's
very specific.
And then there's a co press release, very formal press release, but on socials, they don't
talk about this type of partnerships also because when there's a web three element, a lot of
these big brands, especially web two brands, they're not super excited, uh, with partnering
with web three.
This is not the only reason I'm just dropping there.
One more reason.
So first, uh, uh, is not their policy to, to be talking about other brands or their, their
partnerships and whatnot.
And second, because many brands, uh, they have a bit of reluctance and, uh, and in, in
talking about, uh, web three projects or projects that are powered by crypto or whatever.
Uh, this doesn't mean that they are not proud of us.
And this doesn't have a proud of having this partnership and this collaboration.
And also this doesn't mean that they will not be supporting us and not talking about
It's actually the opposite.
Uh, a razor is a big part of the Kickstarter, Kickstarter campaign that we just announced,
uh, a couple of days ago, and they will be actively engaged in this campaign.
And next year expect a lot of communication from razor and in razor products about ashes on
mankind citadels.
Um, yeah.
And anyway, we are really looking forward because the, the partnership with razor, uh, has, uh,
two components, the digital component and the offline component.
Um, and both are quite exciting.
Um, the offline component component includes, uh, even, uh, not only peripherals, uh, co-branded
by, uh, AOM and razor.
Um, also some offline events, offline tournaments.
Um, and then we also have a mix of some, um, uh, digital co-branded digital products, uh, being
featured on, on, on their, uh, on their platforms as well.
As well.
So they have a couple of things ongoing, but they have a proper, a proper, we have a proper
timing to, to talk about them.
And here we have to respect also razors timing.
Now it's not that they are, they are not still super relevant at this point, but, uh, early
next year, you will hear a lot about them.
Okay.
Okay.
That's, uh, I can't wait for it and I, it will be really, really interesting.
Um, I see still one or two questions.
I want to ask you, um, if Fabio allows me, of course, Fabio, may I?
Of course.
I, I, I only have one left, but let's see which one you pick.
Okay.
Um, I, I, I almost want to hear yours before, but you know what?
I will go with, um, uh, Rod.
Uh, Rod, we want to know, um, the community want to know if, um, Ashes of Mankind is your
only, this is how it's written, right?
Is your only bet to get rich and visibility or do we have other strat for the bull run?
And he added a question for the AOM publisher, but I think this, uh, Adrian David answered it
already, but yeah, I will leave you answer it if you want.
I'm not sure I understood completely the question.
Sorry.
Is, uh, can you repeat that?
Yes.
I will repeat.
Um, is Ashes of Mankind the only bet, uh, we have to get rich and visibility out there,
or do we have another strategy for the bull run?
To get rich, rich of money or to get rich of, uh, amplification?
Rich.
Rich.
Yeah.
To me.
Okay.
Sorry.
My French accent.
Um, there's a two ways of answering that.
So no, it's not because ultra is, uh, its own thing.
Uh, we are a games company and we have been repositioning, uh, ultra as a, a gamers by gamers
company.
So we will hear, uh, more news on this soon.
But the second I could also answer, yes, this is a fucking awesome game.
And I'm sorry, pardon for my French, but I have to shield the game now a little bit.
This is an awesome game that, uh, we have been play testing.
So a couple of people here have had access to the game.
So only those that have seen it know how cool the game is.
And, um, I can never stop.
Uh, it's never too much to, to give creds to, to, to, to the team that is behind this
game.
So black eye studios and Adrian, I've, I've hopped in, in some Twitter spaces with him.
I think they are doing an amazing, an amazing job.
Uh, it's a small team and they are, they are.
They are, they are on par with big studios and, and huge budgets.
So of course, I'm sorry if I'm biased.
And, and I, I say that, uh, Ashes of Mankind has, uh, the potential to be a huge game and,
uh, and, and, and, and grows exponentially to, to bring a wider web to audience.
And of course, if everything goes well with Ashes of Mankind, obviously, uh, ultra will benefit
from it.
Which platform wouldn't benefit from having such an awesome game?
The same way Epic benefited with Fortnite, uh, uh, steam with, uh, with Counter-Strike and
Half-Life.
So the same will be for, uh, ultra benefiting from the success of Ashes of Mankind.
By the way, if you are not, uh, for those of you who don't take it as an, as an offense,
but for those of you living under a rock, if you haven't seen that, we just announced
a Kickstarter, uh, we already explained the reasons of that Kickstarter.
Um, but please give us a follow on the Kickstarter page because this help us, uh, getting, uh, visibility.
And we want to have that page, uh, trending.
Uh, so go there, give us a follow, give us a thumbs up, uh, support the game because the
game deserves it.
The team deserves it.
The team deserves it.
And you deserve it.
All right.
All right.
I will make sure everyone here has the link for the Kickstarter.
Uh, as I said in, uh, the beginning of the space, I, I tested the game.
I love it.
I have some video guys to show you.
I'm just working a bit on it to make it not so long so I can post it and you guys can
see it.
And I will share the link to the Kickstarter at the same time.
Um, thank you.
Thank you, Rod, for your answer.
Uh, Fabio, I heard you had a question you wanted to ask.
Yes.
Yes.
Uh, just to prove that this is a completely uncensored, uh, our beloved community member,
Lord Wu, sent me a question just before, uh, the, uh, restarted and I'm allowed to ask
So we have a super transparent today.
Uh, he wants to know any news on the grand program, uh, the 10 million USD that was announced
in one of the recent, uh, roadmap updates for 2024.
I think it was about attracting, uh, developers from the outside.
Uh, yeah, there, there was a grand program announced.
Oh, that's a very good question.
Easy for me to answer.
I wasn't aware of it.
Um, and this, this, uh, is this type of programs is dealt, uh, by, by other, other team.
Uh, and I would probably, my best answer would probably be, I'm not the right person to answer
this.
What I can say is, um, we are working on a couple of things, um, to attract the, to make
ultra more attractive to, uh, game developers.
And this may be, uh, a grand program may be on the pipeline.
Um, uh, what I can say for now, because the question, did you mention this year or is there,
uh, was, was announced for this year, right?
Yes.
Uh, 2024.
2024.
So what I can say for now, so I can't give the specifics about the plan because I am
not the right person to, to answer about it.
But this year, the, we are not coming out with, with any grand plan, at least not this
year.
Uh, again, uh, let me piggyback to my initial answer.
Uh, we are repositioning the company.
We are recentering our strategy.
So a couple of things, uh, have been reprioritized and deprioritized.
And this may have been one, one of them.
This doesn't mean that we are not fulfilling what has been communicated.
We will, but maybe not, is, is not this month.
Uh, this month, of course, uh, you can see that, uh, the year is just the end of the
2025 is just around the corner.
So there's so much we can deliver this year.
Okay.
Great.
Um, thanks a lot for, for the transparency and, and for this new format, uh, by the way,
I like it a lot and can't wait for reload tomorrow.
Yeah.
Thank you, Fabio, for, for joining us.
We should, uh, we should, uh, we should have him more often.
Let, let's bring, let's bring more people in, uh, controversial people as well.
I like, I like, you know, that meme, I like problems.
So guys, you heard the man, the man asked you if you want to come, you just have to send
a DM and we will make it happen.
Uh, thank you a lot, Fabio, for joining us today.
I clearly needed some community voice next to mine to make them, uh, to make the question
more interesting and more, uh, uh, true, real to the community.
Uh, Rod, thanks a lot.
Guys, if you want to, um, have a last word before, uh, we end up the space.
Now is the time.
Fabio.
Uh, have you, have you, have, do we have any comments and any, uh, question from the, from
the audience?
Did we miss anything?
Uh, otherwise I'm, I'm quite happy as it is.
Great.
I don't see any comments on the space.
I think there was cryptoghost that wanted to ask a question.
Cryptoghost, you can send the question to me.
I will make sure we ask it, uh, the next time we have this community spotlight.
Um, uh, Rod, you want to add something?
I was expecting to be asked what's my favorite dish, uh, my hobbies and stuff like that.
But, um, no, I, I seriously, I, I hope I, I managed to, to, uh, answer your questions.
Maybe, you know, sometimes the answers are not always what we are hoping for, um, for different
reasons.
Um, but I, I'm trying to bring, uh, people wanted transparency.
So I'm bringing that transparency.
Um, however, the fact that I've mentioned and what, that one thing is not being, uh, prioritized
at the moment, yada, yada, yada, yada, guys, please bear with us.
We are, uh, kind of, uh, um, reshuffling a couple of things that we did in the past.
Uh, we are re-centering the company.
We have news.
In fact, we will have news, uh, very, very, uh, very soon.
Uh, and, um, oh, I just, just saw Adrian joining.
Wow.
We have ashes of mankind in the house.
The man, the myth, the legend.
Who interrupt me?
Hey guys.
No, I just wanted to hijack the space just for a quick sec here.
Uh, because I just wanted to know, Rod, what's your favorite color?
Is the ashes of mankind yellow.
That's the favorite one.
Awesome.
Uh, it's good to break the ice.
Um, no, just, just wanted to add that, uh, we will have, uh, news.
Uh, they are around the corner.
So ultra specific news.
Um, and I think everybody will be, everyone here will be very, very happy and pleased with,
with, with them.
So, uh, we, we really appreciate the community.
We really appreciate your support.
Uh, you guys have been with us on this journey through all ups and downs.
And sometimes I know it's, it's frustrating like hell, but good things are coming.
Bear with us.
Ashes on mankind is around the corner.
If you guys bump into any ashes on mankind content, please.
Uh, the only thing you have to do is just make your retweet, make a comment.
This, this is already very helpful.
Follow the Kickstarter page.
Check tomorrow ultra reload.
If you want to have news on the sneak peek on the new client design.
And that's it.
Uh, and that's it.
I will end up my monologue here.
Uh, see you, see you everybody next week.
Uh, it's always a pleasure.
Yeah.
Thank you, Rod.
Thank you, Adrian.
Thank you everyone.
Guys.
Uh, that's it for today.
Indeed.
You heard the man ultra reload tomorrow.
So if you want to have the latest development updates, this is the place you don't want to
miss.
And yeah, we will be back with, uh, more problems, more fire for our friend Rod.
And yeah, guys, don't, uh, feel free to send me DMs.
If you, I didn't ask your question, I will add it to the list.
Um, thanks.
Thanks a lot.
Have a great week.
Uh, be ultra and to tonight we're playing on the, on the ultra stream guys.
Feel free to join in and thanks a lot guys.
Are you playing?
Hey, hey, hey.
God given.
Are you playing?
Ashes of mankind today?
Oh, someone told me I cannot stream it.
So, uh, maybe, maybe you need to ask the right person.
You need to ask the guys in the, is here in the chat.
Ask him now.
Sorry.
Mr. Adrian, can I stream please?
Ashes?
I am not the person to answer that.
I love how Rod just put it on me.
And he's the guy actually that's cool to answer that question.
Uh, but, uh, is there a play test today?
Hmm.
We had, we had, we had, we had earlier.
We should, we should make a space to, to talk to what people through the, the, the, the play tests and how they are going, how they are organized.
I think this would be interesting for the folks here.
Hmm.
Maybe a nice idea for the next race.
I don't know.
Adrian, we will bring you in next, next week.
Ooh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was, uh, actually I wanted to tell you, I should probably join at some point, but, uh, since I'm in here and if I can hijack a second time, the, the space for a sec.
My pleasure.
Uh, uh, just want to, uh, say again, that, uh, we are really appreciative of, uh, the ultra community support for us.
So it's, uh, yeah, it's been a, it's been a big thing.
Uh, and it's, uh, it's been amazing.
Cause you know, when you, when you're a small company, when you, you, you create a video game, the hardest thing to do at some point is to actually get a community.
Uh, and, and we were kind of thrown into, uh, an environment where, uh, we already had that amazing community around us, uh, and that is, uh, invaluable.
Uh, so really, really appreciate that thing.
Thank you guys so much.
And it's a pleasure.
Clap, clap, clap.
If I can answer for the community, it's a pleasure to see such a great game done by such a talented team, guys.
It's really, like, it's really.
It's only getting better.
Yeah.
Like, uh, we, we actually fixed, uh, uh, I, I'm giving you guys more information while I match it.
Uh, we, I wanted to make a video and then post it for everyone.
And I'll probably do that today.
Uh, but, uh, we actually had some feedback on the, on the recoil and then realized there was a bug for recoil.
So it's actually already fixed.
Uh, which is why, uh, in parts, Valentin thought he was getting better at the game.
Uh, and we actually just fixed it for, for, for him.
Uh, we made it a lot simpler for you, Valentin.
Uh, I was already killing everyone like this, man.
Yeah.
Should, should we start this space right now and continue here and then talk about AOM?
I think we should.
Yeah, we can, we can.
If you guys want, I don't mind.
We have plenty of things happening.
We can, we can do, uh, an update.
I mean, it, it might not be fair for people that want to listen about AOM and that were not warned about the space happening, but, uh, yeah, I'm happy to do it.
If you guys want to.
Let's, uh, let's, um, uh, our friend here got given.
He has to, to stream.
Yeah.
Let's make next week a new one.
Just, uh, just focus on, on AOM.
Yes.
These guys for me, because I don't want to miss it since I have to stream.
So no problem.
We won't do the, the streaming, uh, for AOM today.
Got given to answer the original question.
Okay.
Uh, because we actually, uh, noticed a pretty big, uh, issue with, uh, with lighting.
Into the game.
So we, we need the fix to, to, to be pushed in today.
Uh, to, before we can, we can look at that.
But I know how perfectionist you are and, uh, your big problem may be just a small flash for me.
I don't.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
I believe you.
It's actually a pretty heavy issue.
Uh, like it's, it's completely different.
It's completely changing the, the lighting of the game.
So I want to make sure this is addressed before we, we do a streaming.
And then, uh, next week we might, uh, we might actually do that.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Now we talking.
Great.
Great.
I love it.
I, I hope you don't forget, uh, the empire players.
Uh, I'm not a shooter player, but I can't wait for, uh, dominating the, uh, AOM economy.
Yeah.
Empires is, uh, is, uh, heavily underway.
Uh, I'm not going to give any timelines here.
I'm just hoping in hijacking everybody's time, uh, and keeping God given.
But, uh, uh, empires is coming fast.
Uh, really, really fast.
I'm not going to tell you that 100% of empires is going to be released at once.
But, uh, the, the first, uh, version and the first few features are coming really fast.
Uh, we should probably actually organize a call with, uh, with David and the committee.
Yeah.
I was about to add, to elaborate a bit further on it, uh, on the next.
So tomorrow's reload, we have my colleague Gopal, but in two weeks reload, I was planning
to bring in, uh, David and, uh, if he's available so he can walk us through to give us an update
on, on the empires development and so on.
So, and maybe even tease.
I don't know.
I'm not making promises, but maybe even tease some, some UI design and so on.
Uh, now, how do you want me to miss that reload episode?
Like I know for sure tomorrow reloads next week reload again, guys.
Thanks a lot for being here.
Uh, I'm sorry.
I have to jump off.
We need to stream tonight.
If you want to join me, we are playing some dungeon of now duck and yeah.
See you next week guys.
And feel free to send question in my DMS.
I will try to answer them all.
Thank you all.
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