Moonton is an ever growing company, they may not be known by most standards, but their community and games are spreading like wildfire worldwide. This morning they announced a number of new updates, events and a new game. Being the creators of the wildly popular Mobile Legends Bang Bang, the growing Mobile Legends Adventure and their older hit Magic Rush, Moonton has a lot of influence on mobile gaming and they announced much more this morning. We are going to break it down here for you, give you the real meat of the global conference.
Mobile Legends Bang Bang 2.0
With 500 million registered players to MLBB and roughly 75 million players regularly active, this game is quite the Goliath. The entire population of Shanghai, Sao Paulo and Delhi combined doesn’t even hit 75 million, just to put some perspective to the popularity of this game. So a massive update to the game was inevitable.
The press conference was filled with a massive amount of stats throughout with a lot of fun discussion, but we’re going to focus on what updates are going to affect the players. First thing will be the revamped character models, high polygon count, more dynamic lighting and advanced texturing. The characters will all get a very nice face lift.
The maps will also get a great upgrade in better lighting, texturing to make the plants look like plants and the structure like their respective materials. The main map is also being redone with a whole slew of newly built structures and other things.
MLBB is a pretty fast loading game for all the things it does. However, the 2.0 update should reduce all load screen by about 60%, so a faster start up and getting into games faster should be great.
The UI is also getting refined. The clutter is being minimalized. The colors will be softened and the important things with be even easier for players to access. This advancement in the UI didn’t seem necessary, however, it is a great quality of life change and extra nice gift for the players.
Moonton has also worked on optimizing the computing for the game to be about 10% smoother in game, keeping frame rates high and cutting down lag by 10%. Again, not something that seems super necessary, but is awesome and will just make the experience of playing the game even better.
They also teased some new heroes (literally just silhouettes for most of them) and a new story that follows a squad of heroes new and old. This is just about all for MLBB’s real updates, if you want more information, the press conference is on Youtube and it is pretty great to check out.
Playing With a Larger Audience
No, the game isn’t coming to consoles or anything, they just spent the next large segment talking about Healthy Gaming, various esports events, community leaders, streamers and cultural connections.
They spent a good bit talking about healthy gaming which includes three things; an active lifestyle (working out), family time (quality time socializing with people close to you), and competitive gaming. Moonton discussed that balancing these things is best for gamers and a healthy community both physically and mentally. I think it is pretty awesome for a game company to care enough about the community to spend a real chunk of their global conference talking about health.
The next main section of the time was devoted to discussing/praising/announcing the content creators on Facebook, various streamers and specific esport and community events happening all over the world. They basically wanted to show that they are devoted to the community and want to make a game for all people to enjoy all over the world.
IP Expansion and Discussion
Their last section was focused on expanding on the IP of Mobile Legends Bang Bang. They talked about a bunch of stats showing the amazing growth of Moonton as a company and the expendential boom of MLBB. They then talked about the various types of media they were expanding upon: Merch, Literature, Music, Game and Movie/Animation/Comics. Quick previews about comics, lore, and animated videos.
Apparently there has also been a shortage of detailed figurines and merch in general that Moonton wants to produce more for the community, got to keep the people happy!
Moonton then spent awhile talking about Mobile Legends Adventure, their fairly new mobile idle adventure game. This game is a hero collecting game with a lot of fun ways to play and use your heroes in battle. The game is slowly coming out to all countries world wide and announced it’s release in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar and Cambodia on August 1st.
They announced the M1 MLBB World Tournament with a grand prize of $250,000. The tournament will be in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on November 11th this year. It will consist of 16 teams to find out who is the best in the world.
Lastly, Moonton teased a new game, Magic Chess. That’s right everybody, Mobile Legends Bang Bang is moving to Auto Chess. There was no release date or window, but it is coming!
So let’s recap, MLBB is getting a major visual update and UI upgrade. Moonton is focusing on community outreach and putting out media and merch for the people. Mobile Legends Adventure is gaining momentum and Magic Chess is on the way one day. Let us know what you’re excited for and want from Moonton’s new games and updates.
