Humankind is turning two (anniversary update and community challenge)

[The_J]

It now has been 2 years since the release of Humankind, and Amplitude has released an anniversary update!
The above video summarizes shortly the deveopments over this time frame.
But that is not it yet, obviously, another update is to come next month, and until then, you get a community challenge where you can discover some things about the new features which you will be getting.
The full post:

Hey everybody!

Humankind was released two years ago today, so it's time for a little celebration. Just a little one, though, as we’re quite busy working on the next update.
For those of you who haven't been following our regular news, here's a little summary of what we've worked on in the past year:

We know many of you are excited to get your hands on the trade rework, improve naval combat, and poaching ability, but that’s not quite ready to ship yet. (Don't worry, it's not that far off now. You'll get a hold of it next month.)
To get you in the mood to mess with your enemies once the new update hits the waves, we prepared a little community challenge: From today (August 17th) until next Tuesday (August 22nd), we’ll be tracking the number of districts all of our players ransack together. As you burn and pillage more districts, you will progressively unlock Humankind-themed rewards, alongside a few hints about the final in-game reward.

• Goal 1: A hint of what’s to come
• Goal 2: New G2G Badge
• Goal 3: A second glimpse of the future
• Goal 4: New Humankind wallpaper
• Goal 5: The final clue
• Goal 6: New free in-game content

The hints will be revealed as you reach the goals, but all other rewards will be delivered with the naval update.


Have fun stealing your neighbor’s riches!

The original post can be found here.

 

[grug]

My theory on these coordinates:

It's not exact, but the coordinates of the shipwreck of the Whydah Gally off the coast of Cape Cod are Latitude: 41.8920 Longitude: -69.9620. Google maps won't give me much information but this seems to be very close to the given coordinates in the Cape Cod Ocean Sanctuary.

The Whydah Gally was a slave ship which carried a cargo of slaves and gold from Africa to the Caribbean in 1715, before being seized by the pirate "Black Sam" Bellamy in 1717 off the coast of Cuba. Bellamy took the Whydah Gally as his flagship, raiding his way up the North American coast but taking storm damage along the way. In April of 1717, the ship ran aground on a sand bar in a storm off the coast of Cape Cod, sinking with the crew and gold and leaving only 2 survivors. Salvagers set upon the wreck, but while mapping the site found much of the cargo scattered along 4 miles of seabed.

Flash forward to 1984, an archeologist using the maps made by salvagers searched for and found the wreck of the Whydah Gally, with the stolen treasure still in place. A bell inscribed with the name of the ship made it the first recovered shipwreck in which the name of the wrecked ship was confirmed definitively.

So we've got a treasure ship, pirates, a shipwreck, a treasure map, and underwater archeology. Given that this is a naval update and the event is a treasure hunt, my bet is the coordinates have something to do with that.

 

[The_J]

And the reward is a new culture?
Could be interesting, as it's clearly distinct from the rest.

Source:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694363955328598283