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= Extraordinary Ones (video game) =

Extraordinary Ones (Chinese: 非人学园; Japanese: 非人類学園 Fei Ren Xueyuan) is a free-to-play 3D, third-person multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game developed by HK Hero Entertainment and NetEase, Inc. It is available for download both on Android and iOS.

Players control a character ("hero") with unique abilities and battle against a team of players or AI-controlled units, with the goal of destroying the opposing team's turrets and base. Heroes can increase in strength by accumulating items and experience over the course of the game. The game and characters are influenced by the anime genre. The battle happens in real time with varying matchmaking wait and 15-30 minutes matches. Featuring traditional battle arena gameplay, players in the blue and red teams must fight over three lanes to take the enemy's tower and defend their own. The game describes itself as an innovative anime 5V5 MOBA game with Traditional Chinese and Japanese styles. Other sources also note the "exaggerated characteristics, incorporating some contemporary Gen Z elements and memes, giving players a game packed with mold-breaking comic style.”

The Global version includes the regions of Americas, Europe, Oceania, Middle East, Central Asia and India and is divided into 2 servers: NA-SA-EU (North America, South America and Europe) and Asia-Oceania. The Chinese server also has exclusive collaboration or crossover characters from known animes such as A Certain Scientific Railgun T, My Hero Academia, Mob Psycho 100, Durarara!! and KonoSuba. Characters from other NetEase games are sometimes brought into Extraordinary Ones, either as playable heroes or skins. The global version doesn’t include the servers of China, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia.

The global version of Extraordinary Ones was officially launched on January 15, 2020 for both Android and iOS devices, with pre-registrations beginning as early as December 2, 2019.

Gameplay
Extraordinary Ones is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game designed for mobile phones. The game is free-to-play and contains in-game purchases like characters, skins, pets, taunt moves, dyes, gacha rolls and the Chosen One Handbook, a pack that gives players some rewards plus a themed skin.

The objective of the game is to take down the opposing team's base. Each match is played by ten players who are distributed in two teams for a 5v5 confrontation. To win the match, teams work together to destroy the enemy team's base, bypassing a line of defensive structures called turrets.

Player can accumulate experience and gold by destroying lane mobs, or minions, jungle mobs, turrets and enemy heroes.

Matches give players rewards, such as experience, gold and coins, which can then be used to buy a variety of heroes, fan-club members and gacha coins.

Hero Roles
Extraordinary Ones started with 36 heroes and has since expanded the number to 93 heroes as of June 20, 2022.

Each player can control a selectable character, called “Hero”, with unique abilities and traits. All heroes are classified as one of six categories, with some heroes overlapping multiple categories: “Tank”, “AD (Attack Damage or Fighter)”, “ASN (Assassin)”, “ADC (Attack Damage Carrier or Marksman)”, “AP (Ability Power or Mage)”, and “Sup (Support)”.

While most crossover heroes from another animes weren't made available outside the Chinese server, crossovers from other Netease games have been occasionally added to the global server, either as playable heroes - as in the case of Seyui, Viatin (Eternal City) and Flora (Wildfire) - or skins, as in the case of Mercy and Synchron - Sign (Akasha of The End)

Fan System
Extraordinary Ones' Fan System is like Mobile Legends' Emblem sets. Your Fan setup provides passive stats for your hero during the game. The Fan System allows you to combine different attributes to maximize your hero's potential during the game. Fan bonuses work at the start of the combat. You can choose the Fan Captain, Vice Captains and Fan Crowd themselves. Your Fan Club is composed of 1 captain, 2 vice captains, 5 catfans, 5 boyfans, and 5 girlfans. All different Fan characters will be unlocked as your progress throughout the game. You can also purchase Fans using the clappers.

Game modes
There are currently 7 game modes in Extraordinary Ones: Intense Match, Ranked, AI match, Wildfires, Heavenly Realm Brawl, Campus Duel and Spy War, with "5v5" most commonly referred to as Casual, Classic or Cas. The most popular of those are ranked and casual modes. Players compete in these matches which on average last for around 15 – 30 minutes. Players aim to destroy enemy's turrets on the map and securing objectives such as killing Brother Owl (also known as Toad or Froggy) and Boss Wolf (also known as Big Meow), with the victory condition being to destroy the enemy's base.

Intense Match (Classic), Ranked and AI Match
Intense Match, Casual or Classic is a mode where players are formed into two teams, red and blue, with five players on each team. All players begin at opposite sides of a map at their team's “fountain”, "birth place" or "base". There are three "lanes" running from one side of the map to the other, the bot lane, the top lane and the mid lane, in addition to the 2 jungle areas in each team’s side. The maps are mirrored.

In Ranked mode, the battlefield, play style and map are all similar to classic mode, but players are matched by a ranking system. The system is divided into 8 tiers, representing a school graduation path: Kindergarten, Primary School, Middle School, High School, University, Grad School, Campus Legend and Elite Legend. Of these, all players who enter Campus Legend tier will be ranked across all servers according to their number of stars.

AI match is similar to Intense Match but the players are matched agains bots. A player can either go together with a team of bots or team up with real players, but the enemy red team will always be the AI.

Arcade
Arcade includes the modes Wildfires, Heavenly Realm Brawl, Campus Duel and Spy War. Older versions also included the mode Observer Operations, where players fought in 4 groups of 3.

Wildfires
Wildfires is a 5v5 game mode where all heroes are granted permanent buffs to speed up the pace of the match. The main buffs are 80% cooldown reduction; 100% attack speed bonus and 50% critical hit bonus for ranged heroes; 25% resilience and 15% move speed bonus; 50% gold and experience acquisition bonus; 100% HP and attack speed for the jungle bosses. This mode also provides the removal of all mana and energy costs from abilities.

Heavenly Realm Brawl
Heavenly Real Brawl is a 5v5 game mode where players are given randomly selected heroes. Players may choose to re-roll once and receive a different hero or use gold for subsequent re-rolls. The game map only has one lane, with two turrets and a core base at each side, with no jungle area. Items may only be purchased in the birth place or upon death and hero healing as well as mana regen at the team base is disabled. There are health regeneration items that appear next to each turret and at the place of death of lane mobs, which provide heroes with a small regeneration effect. This mode is similar to ARAM (All Random, All Mid) in League of Legends: Wild Rift.

Campus Duel
Campus Duel is a 1v1 game mode where 3 different types of challenges and 2 different types of requirements can be chosen. The challenges are: both sides use the same hero to duel and the hero will be selected randomly; Both sides will choose one hero to duel; Each side chooses three heroes and the opponent decide which one of the three he will fight against. The requirements are: Destroy base; or Destroy base/Be the first to defeat opponent 3 times. The challenges and modes should be decided before the creation of a room.

Spy War
Spy War is played like a 6v6 battle where the team defeats the opponent’s base to win the match. In each team there are 2 spies from the opposing side, along with with 4 non-spies, known as nice guys. Before entering the match, the player is assigned the role of a spy or nice guy. While a spy, the player must keep their identity secret, at the same time helping their true faction to achieve victory. As a nice guy, the player must try to uncover the spy hidden among their team and get them voted out. The player with the most votes will be kicked out. After voting ends, if the spy hasn't been eliminated they will continue playing until the 10-minute mark and then switch factions. After a spy changes factions, turrets will stop attacking, fountains will stop restoring and the spy will receive gold and damage buff bonus.

Plot
Extraordinary Ones is set in a fictional city called Esper City, where 3 races, namely monsters, supernatural beings and humans coexist. The battlefield is set in an academia with places like classrooms, podiums, basketball courts, gyms and more. Many of the heroes are students or teachers in one of the 2 different academias: Metta High School and Jade Academy. Characters also come from an underworld city called Necropolis and the Watchtower Bioresearch Institute, a tower hidden among the mountains.

Pre Release
On December 2, 2019 Netease announced that pre-registration for the global version was opened. The goal was to achieve more than 150.000 signatures, with the promise of log in rewards after the official release.

Release
Extraordinary Ones was released in China on June 26th, 2018 and in Japan on January 3rd, 2019. The game was officially released globally on January 15, 2020. Extraordinary Ones had over 150,000 pre-registrations since the opening day, meaning that everyone would receive extra rewards when they first logged in to the game.

The global version doesn’t contain voice acting in English, instead they are imported from the JP version of the game, which includes japanese voice actors like Natsuke Hanae, Osaka Ryota, Sho Hayami, Aki Toyosaki and Koyasu Takehito.

Post-release
The game is updated weekly at Wednesdays, with heroes, skins and handbooks being released regularly, as well as plot developments and events. Although the game updates still come weekly, the official channels have all stopped to release updates and announcements. On November, 18, 2020 the official website for the global version posted the last official update, not having released any official announcements until the moment. The official Twitter page made its last post on November 20, 2020  and the official Facebook page made only two posts on 2021, the last being on August, 10.

Reception

The game currently holds a rating of 3,9 stars out of 5 on Google Play, 4,2 stars out of 5 on App Store and 6,6 stars out of 10 on TapTap , with generally favorable reviews, most praising the game aesthetic, art style, 3D graphics, hero design and uniqueness. On the negative side, users often complain about the waiting times for matches, especially in ranked mode, with queue times taking up to 3 hours, complains also note the overload of bots and ping problems, as well as the low player base and the seemingly abandonment of the global community by NetEase.

The site Online Game News says that "the supporting features of the gameplay are made as attractive as possible” and praises "the unique gameplay” and the "cool school themed map"

while also pointing that "low-end devices can “cry” to run this game” and "lag during team fights"

Level Winner remarks that “Players familiar with MOBA gaming will definitely love the new feel and atmosphere of Extraordinary Ones, while those who are anime fans but haven’t played anything similar will love this game as well"