WELCOME TO OTHERSIDE: The First Persistent Otherside Experience Is Set to Launch In Late June Or Early July, According To Garga

The first phase of an always on Otherside is coming soon, but it’s still a few weeks away, according to Yuga Labs CEO Garga.

It’s been three years since the Otherside mint, six months since Garga first announced that a persistent version of the metaverse would launch this summer, and three months since 2,907 community members broke the Guinness World Record for most concurrent players in a first-person shooter.

Now, with just days to go before June, Garga returned to the Otherside Discord on Wednesday to confirm that the always on version will begin rolling out in late June or early July.

“Big info dump in June, first ODK experience persistent in late June/early July,” he said. “Next one a couple weeks after, and so forth until we get to full persistence for all the main islands (Nexus being the big one, but also The Swamp, Meetropolis). Need to do a phased approach turning on Otherside to make sure we're 1) giving time to squash bugs, 2) moving over to Unreal 5.5 (5.5 is way better for the AI tools that we've been developing, and way better for procedural generation of environments), 3) letting people enjoy all that Otherside has to offer.”

 

While we wait for exact launch dates for the first ODK experiences, Garga confirmed that Bathroom Blitz by Bored Ape Yacht Club member CryptoVonDoom and his CommandLine team will be the first always on Otherside experience. He also teased that more ODK games are in the works.

“BB first, then other stuff soon after,” he said.“Other games we haven't talked about yet, Poker, Bubbles, etc.”

 

 

As the Bored Ape Gazette previously reported, Bathroom Blitz is a team shooter game where Apes are shrunken down and duke it out inside the bathroom of the BAYC clubhouse.

“Batthroom Blitz is crazy little toy soldiers style game,” Garga said on CryptoVonDoom’s FYI Space back in March. “You are the size of a toy soldier and you’re in the BAYC’s bathroom. There is shit everywhere and you got a sniper rifle. You can pick up an AK-47, you can grapple up on the walls. It’s a small team Shooter, 16 by 16. Its fun and kind of an homage to the days of counterstrike, kitchen rats game, and other toy solider mods that have come out for different shooters over the years. Whenever we test it internally or with your team its always a  ton of fun.”

 

 

 

As we wait for more details on Yuga Labs’ always on Otherside and its phased rollout, two things are clear: there will be plenty to do once everything is live and it’ll all be powered by $Ape!

“Excited for Otherside's next milestone: the always-on, persistent world,” Garga tweeted in February. “This won't be our only major release this year, but it's a big milestone, and one we're targeting for June... We'll have our always-on social hub, with achievements, trading, tipping and transacting all on ApeChain. Features like Bubbles, Poker, and the Kodacam, as well as a range of ODK experiences, from Bathroom Blitz to smaller games and features, that we've been methodically building out with a variety of different partners and community builders. And at the center of it all is Nexus, the ancestral home of the Kodas.”

 

The Bored Ape Gazette will keep you posted on all things Otherside and let you know when you can ape into Bathroom Blitz this summer. Stay tuned for updates!