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Superior

Superior Early Access is Live!

Gameplay



  • New Content!

    • New boss: Revolt
    • New map: Bunker
    • Added Volt Powers

  • Xeno and Fire powers damage reigned in a little bit
  • Added a deposit all button to the ATM
  • Added base interest rate to the ATM
  • Gig and Goal amounts rebalanced to be more attainable
  • Amount of XP required per level significantly reduced
  • Added hot new music tracks and sound effects


Challenges



  • Added a kill counter and a timer to the hud during a challenge
  • Challenges are now seeded to help reduce randomness

    • Enemy spawn groups are fixed
    • Objective locations are fixed
    • Powers, Items, and Weapons offered to the players are random

  • Time spent in the bar no longer counts towards your total time. Take your time :)


New Feature: Branching Paths



  • After defeating a major boss, the teleportal can be configured to take you to new worlds in need of saving… with an added challenge!


New Feature: Snacks



  • Collects snacks from completing missions. Eat snacks in the bar to gain a temporary boost!

    • One Pound Burrito - Gain +10 Max Health for 3 Encounters
    • Really Hard Hard Tack - Gain +25% Melee Damage for 3 Encounters
    • Brutewurst - Gain +25% Overall damage for 3 Encounters
    • Kaiju Burger - Gain 1 self revive for the rest of the run


Characters



General

  • Added automatic scaling for character’s overall damage scale up to level 30
  • Juicy Surprise now gives a Power Damage Boost Kit instead of a random Power Family booster.


Ronin
While we enjoyed the power fantasy of Ronin, his damage potential far outclassed his comrades by a staggering amount. We reduced the damage bonuses from many of his damage oriented skills to bring him more in line with Murmur and Nomad.

His early tree tankiness was also a bit too much, and could propel a Ronin much further into a run than anticipated. The minor adjustments to Energy Efficient and Energizing Blade will make aggressive players approach situations more tactfully while not robbing him of his tank potential.



  • Base stats adjusted to 10 Armor and 20 Health
  • Reduced Energy Efficient damage reduction from 75% from 50%
  • Reduced Energizing Blade melee damage bonus from 25% to 15%
  • Reduced In Your Face close damage from 10/20/30% to 3/6/9%
  • Reduced Get In There close damage bonus from 10/15/25% to 2/4/7%
  • Reduced Energizing kills “Overshield” bonus from 5 per close kill from 3


Nomad

  • Base stats adjusted to 10 Armor and 10 Health
  • Devastate now stuns armored enemies if triggered


Murmur
Diving in and out of combat and circling around enemies is a fun gameplay loop, but a bit too tricky to pull off for the reward. Fade Away now makes building for flanking much easier while the new Explosive Exit stun gives her a unique CC angle and sets up her enemies devastating backstabs!

Quick Recovery in the late tree was a little bit too nutty, allowing players to essentially become immortal. Players can now only stave off the inevitable before having to retreat and catch their breath for a second pass, playing into her more rogue-ish nature.



  • Base stats decreased to 10 Armor and 15 Health
  • Changed “Backstab” to “Flank” to better indicate what the player has to do to get the bonus.
  • While using Fade Away, all enemies are counted as flanked
  • Reduced Explosive Exit damage
  • Explosive Exit now stuns enemies for 5 seconds
  • Reduced Quick Recovery armor regen amount from 25/35/50% to 10/20/30%
  • Removed the “Mark” from Flatfooted
  • Holo Swarm changed to greatly reduce After Image’s cooldown instead of immediately spawning 5 holograms


Bug Fixes



  • Fixed Ice Melee not applying its held attack damage
  • Fix Fire reapplication trigger Hot Burn too often
  • Patched some holes in the world
  • Improved Orbital Laser replication
  • Fixed Murmur’s holograms not replicating their firing animations and not firing as often
  • Fixed crash after loading screen
  • Fixed matchmaking falsely saying all servers were full
  • Optimized the pretty graphics
  • Other misc bug fixes and improvements


Nov 16: Game Launches with the Rise of Revolt!







Developer notes:

WELCOME TO EARLY ACCESS! Superior has been our labor of love for the last two and a half years, and we’re all tremendously excited to finally get it into your hands today. We have big plans for new features and content that will be added to the game over the coming months, and we look forward to making the best game possible with you! We’ll kick off the collaboration by sharing our roadmap.

Early Access Roadmap:

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[th]Winter 2022[/th]
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[td]Early Access Launch[/td]
[td]Welcome to Superior’s Early Access! We are launching with a ton of content right out the gate: 5 power sets, 3 playable characters, 40 weapons, 26 mobs, 6 bosses and more.[/td]
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[td]The Growth Update[/td]
[td]This update is massive! A whole new alternate earth to explore with new bosses, new powers, and new environments. We’ll also be raising the level cap to level 30 and adding the new Infamy system.[/td]
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[td]The Turret Update[/td]
[td]Unlock new strategies with deployable turrets, and special augments that allow you to configure completely new builds.[/td]
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[td]The Melee Update[/td]
[td]We have some big plans for taking the melee system to the next level in the core combat loop.[/td]
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[th]Spring 2023[/th]
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[td]Offworld Update[/td]
[td]This will take us to a whole new world! New boss “The Bulk Bros”, new powers “Duo Powers”, and new environment, “Offworld”.[/td]
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[td]The Renegade Update[/td]
[td]The first of many new characters will be added to our roster. The Renegade is a close combat bruiser who draws in his enemies with Taunt abilities and takes them out with shotguns.[/td]
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[td]The Ambush Update[/td]
[td]This update introduces randomly roaming boss ambushes and team-ups, new ways to synergize your abilities and weapons, and significant item and weapon expansions.[/td]
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[th]Summer 2023[/th]
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[td]The Robot Uprising Update[/td]
[td]Explore a new alternate earth ruled by our robot overlords. New environments, objectives, powers, playable characters and adversaries will appear throughout the summer![/td]
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We’re looking forward to going into way more detail about all of this very soon, but for now, we wish you luck hunting down your first super heroes!