When you’re living in an endless time loop, trying to save the world from a destruction that already happened at the hands of the now ruthless superheroes that used to look out for you, picking the right weapons is always important.
In an ironic twist of justice, the chief weapons used by the Resistance against the power-crazed super villains are their own powers turned against them. With the help of the robot Bartender and a complicated Juice extraction/injection system, each mission gives you a chance to power up with certain powers collected from the dead bodies of previously slain superheroes. The whole process is pretty unpredictable, but what have you got to lose?
“It’s better than the old method. That one used a suppository.”
-The Bartender
Every vial of Juice results in a single new superpower for the round when you visit the Juice Injector in the bar. You’ll get your pick–One of three powers, unless you use a Reroll, then you’ll get three new random choices.
Powers 101
Skill will only get you so far when the baddies start swarming. That’s why it’s crucial to select powers that will continually enhance your ability to smash and bash greater numbers of enemies.
The most important powers are those that enhance your primary abilities of Jump, Dash and Attack.
You can hold one power per round within each of those primary abilities. For example, Xeno Cycle is a Dash power that transforms you into a motorcycle form that speeds through enemies to cause immense damage as you run them down. Fire Jump is of course a Jump power that shoots flames from your feet, allowing you to jetpack around and burn enemies on the ground. Ghost Jump lets you teleport upward and hover for a time.
You’ll notice that each of the powers listed above are part of a different family. You’ll almost always get more from your combined powers by stacking new powers from the same families, but as you play more, you’ll also start to notice interesting ways in which different power families can work together in deadly combos.
Power Families
Fire
Ice
Shock
Xeno
Ghost
Force
At the bar’s Upgrade Station, you’ll often find upgrades that enhance various stats based on which power families you’re running in that round. You can buy those upgrades for Credits, which you’ll collect during the round.
Once you’ve injected a primary power from a particular family, you’ll start to see more specialized power upgrades that will work together with the powers you’ve already collected. In the example above, Feast is a Xeno ability that lets you permanently gain health when you kill 7 enemies within 5 seconds. WIth Xeno abilities, such massacres are simpler than they seem.
You’ll also have opportunities to grab powers that enhance your proficiency with certain types of weapons by attaching super powers to them. For example, Burning Shot will inflict Burn on targets of your Precision Weapons like pistols and certain rifles.
Experiment and Find Your Power Groove
There are ideal strategies for every one of the endless power combos you’ll come across in the game. If you’re having a hard time in a round, always ask yourself if it’s due to a poor combination of powers or simply falling short on finding the right style of play for those powers. And when you have an easy time, always remember the combination of power upgrades that got you there, as well as the way you played.
Playing Alone?
Keep in mind that you’ll need to rely on different strategic choices when you’re playing alone or with other players. When you’ve got a full team of 3 hunters, do your best to complement the upgrade choices of your teammates. When it’s you alone versus all the bad guys, just go for the combination that will help you kill the most bad guys as fast as possible!
The bottom line when it comes to Superior powers is that there’s always something unique and exciting to play around with every round. You’ll continually find unique new ways to maximize your score and kill more enemies, especially as you grind up your Skill tree and increase your Infamy level!
Play Superior in Early Access
There are two ways to get into Early Access gameplay now on Gala Games:
Pick up an Early Access Pass – Holding one of these handy tokens in your GalaChain Inventory will allow you to play with any of the 5 characters currently available in Early Access, including 2 characters that aren’t yet available as Primes (Renegade and Specialist). NOTE: Bridge your Early Access Pass to GalaChain to unlock access to the characters.
Please note that your Early Access Pass must be bridged to GalaChain in order to unlock gameplay! Prime Character NFTs are playable from your connected Ethereum wallet.
Once you’re grappling for leaderboard position with the best hero hunters in the game, you’ll know you’re among the Superior elite. Ready for Challenges?
All About Speed and Kills
Superior’s Challenge runs are not for the faint of heart, and low level characters should enter at their own peril. Updated weekly, these special runs won’t cut you any slack.
Your Challenge score is determined by two equally weighted components: Your speed and your number of kills throughout the run. Finding the right balance is up to you, but in the words of the Ronin, your mantra should always be “Kill more, kill faster.”
Each Challenge run will cost you a Challenge Key. Challenge Keys are accumulated by saving any level of Earth in normal gameplay mode.
Just like the various Private Lobby “Earth” gameplay modes, a Challenge run goes through a complete sequence of specially assembled stages.
Just like in standard gameplay, players will progress through the sequence above, completing a variety of missions, killing enemies and collecting Juice for new superpowers. Between every stage, you have a chance to take a rest in the bar, spending your Credits on perks or healing, swapping out weapons and injecting new superpower for each Juice canister you’ve collected. But you’ll need all the additional powers and upgrades you can get, because as you progress through the stages toward the boss fight, the levels get more challenging.
For completing Challenge runs, you’ll still collect character XP and level up, but it’s still a good idea to do as much leveling as possible before you start taking on the week’s challenge. Rest assured that competition for the top leaderboard spots will be tight.
Advice for the Resistance
Taking on power-crazed super heroes on multiple timelines of the ruined earth is one thing, but going up against Resistance hunters from other timelines is– well… challenging. Don’t forget that every Challenge run costs a Challenge Key.
We suggest grinding up your skills and XP taking on the different earths in Private Lobby mode. As you do this, you’ll accumulate a nice pile of Challenge Keys for the week. Then once you’re almost ready to upgrade your favorite Prime’s Infamy, spend your Challenge Keys and give yourself the best shot at the Leaderboard. The Bartender is sure to raz you hard if you don’t measure up at the end of a Challenge. For a bucket of bolts, he sure likes to cop an attitude.
Weekly Refresh
The Challenge leaderboard resets weekly, giving you a new opportunity to secure a spot on the leaderboard and get your hands on the week’s awesome prize. Challenges rotate weekly between different objectives, bosses and themes, always keeping you on your toes.
Duos and Trios
Even in Challenge mode, you can team up with your fellow hunters. You’ll find separate Leaderboards in each category (Single, Duos, Trios), each with prizes for the top finishers.
Here are a few things to keep in mind when hunting with friends:
Don’t waste time passing and sharing items, unless you can do it fast.
Share items you don’t need by clicking your mouse wheel in front of them.
Don’t wait for each other, but stay close enough for a revive if needed.
One weak link can end your run in a hurry.
There are more baddies when you have more players… Lots more.
Use gestures and graffiti for voiceless comms in-game.
A Challenge is Waiting
So how about it? Think you have what it takes?
There are two ways to get in the current early access build:
Ever imagined what it would be like to take on a band of rogue and maniacal superheroes, mad with power and hell-bent on turning the world into a post-apocalyptic hellscape?
With Superior, you can live out that fantasy in an exciting and fast-paced roguelite gaming experience.
Save The World
In Superior, it’s already too late, but through advanced teleportal tech (and with the help of the rebel Bartender robot to guide you), we can travel through time and do our best to stop the takeover at various crucial stages of its progress in the past.
The superheroes got carried away, and now it’s time for a bold group of hero hunters to use their own powers against them.
Basically, they run around killing evil heroes and collecting their Juice. Yep, it’s just as gross as it sounds. Then our Primes (the real heroes) turn themselves into freakish experimentation subjects, loading up on Juice-based enhancements that let them use various powers wielded by the baddies they’re up against.
Killing Baddies & Collecting Powers
As you progress through a mission, you’ll smash and slaughter hundreds of freaks, which will come harder and harder at you as you progress toward the boss hero on your hitlist. As you go, you’ll collect all sorts of power ups that enhance your movement, firepower, abilities and more. Choose from a variety of deadly weapons, or use your melee attacks for a more up close and personal approach.
Collect experience from each mission to upgrade and customize your Skill tree to the needs of the next battle. Then once you’ve reached the max level, upgrade your Infamy to start over with a higher max Skill level, raising the ceiling of your success.
Play with NFT Prime Characters
Here’s the fun part. Get in on Early Access only by owning a Prime character. Currently there are three Prime characters available: Ronin, Nomad and Murmur.
NOTE: Prime Character NFTs must currently be held in your account’s connected Ethereum wallet to appear in the game. If purchased from OpenSea, the item will already be available in your Ethereum wallet, but if purchased on GalaChain, you’ll have to bridge it to Ethereum to use it in the game.
Here is an example of each of the three available Prime characters in a different rarity, with a link to the OpenSea item page of each:
Based on your Prime’s rarity, you’ll start the game with boosted Infamy, which can otherwise take dozens (if not hundreds) of runs to grind out the necessary experience. With each new Infamy level, your character’s max Skill Points are increased by one, giving you access to even more of the Skill Tree and preparing you for more effective Challenge runs!
