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:
For the next two weeks, Aura is literally crawling with new opportunities for Hunters and OPs alike. Think you’ve got what it takes to clench a leaderboard spot?
The game’s current Mission Ready build is still 100% free and ready to play, but in order to access Premium servers with enhanced prizes and leaderboard competition, players must purchase a Premium Pass for 3 Core Chunks (LECC), which can be collected from successful extractions.
The event has now officially started, so Premium Pass purchases are open in-game. If you haven’t had a chance to collect the LECC you need, remember that you can pick them up on GalaSwap by swapping for $GALA. Get an early start on things today, the event runs through August 14!
By playing on a Premium server for the next two weeks, you might find:
New creatures to kill
Character Coin (Common to Legendary)
Additional XP Drops (Common to Legendary)
“Fire” Weapon Skins
Additional prizes (LEMIN, LEFC and more) for top 10 finishers on the Premium leaderboard
Upgrade to Premium
Node Operators (OPs) are invited to purchase an OP Premium Pass (for 3 LECC) to temporarily upgrade their server for this event. In addition to an extra 25% of LEMIN, LECC and LEFC from matches, all OPs will receive:
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!
It’s true. I survived an expedition on Aura. I faced alien creatures that would make your worst nightmares shudder. And somehow I made it out.
The credit goes to my skilled extraction team. I went down, but they were there to pick me up. Even with only four of us on the field and threats coming at us from every direction, we located the Notari fragments and extracted the core. I even managed to pick off a couple loafers from a competing extraction team. Like they say on the platform, we’re all on the same team until we hit the surface. Then it’s every hunter for himself.
I was keeping watch while Jasper mined the core. I guess I was watching the distant Porcupines too close, dodging their acid-tipped quills so carefully that I didn’t notice the deadliest predator bearing down on me. When a Ravager’s coming at you hard, you don’t have time to run. So I got eaten.
I’d heard plenty of stories about getting swallowed by these monstrosities, but descriptions don’t really do the experience justice if you know what I mean. They swallow their prey whole and alive. The goal is to make it past the teeth without any major gashes. Something on the inside of the Ravager’s belly reacts violently with human blood and makes things even worse.
In the repulsive, vile darkness, your slimy hands tremble as you try to chamber a round. Trapped within the belly of a Ravager, your journey on Aura is drawing to an end. Play now https://t.co/7gibu03Qu2pic.twitter.com/kYrL67ycbV
The Ravager’s belly sack closes around you like a squishy and burning wet blanket. Once you’re in there, the Ravager will buck around like mad, but try to keep your cool. I was only inside that thing for probably 10-15 seconds, but I had time to question an entire lifetime of bad choices. Maybe there’s some kind of psychoactive toxin in its stomach acid to make sure the experience is unimaginably horrible, or maybe it was just my life flashing before my eyes. Who knows, but in that moment I decided I was never coming back to this Godforsaken planet if I got out alive.
Next thing I knew, a big hole was blasted in its side and the Ravager fell down dead in a pile of putrid gore. “You’re welcome,” Jasper said with a grin, holding the core under one arm and his weapon under the other. We took off toward the dropship, and we made it. We came out richer and I learned some valuable lessons about watching out for Ravagers – I just wish I could get the damn thing’s stink off me.
Am I going back for more? You bet your ass I am. I’ll see you on the surface.
Last Expedition Mission Ready
You can never be totally ready for a mission to Aura, but it’ll happen sooner or later. That’s why you’re out here in the outer limits of known space on The Platform.
Get ready for Mission Ready’s first big update, coming in the next couple weeks with a leaderboard competition, node upgrades, special drops and more!
Solve the Mysteries of Aura.
Plunder the most powerful alien tech in the universe.
