Relic Arena 1.6 Update

Welcome to 1.6, our final major update before Season 2 arrives in September. Be sure to check out the full patch notes here.

Welcome Back Chest

When you open the game, you'll be greeted with a welcome back quest, which gives a free random Epic chest (no duplicates). In addition, there is an additional quest of "Play 5 games", which will reward you with 10,000 coins and 100 Leader tokens!

Rank Reset

Because our inaugural season is unusually long, we've implemented a soft-reset to ranks. Your first 20 games will give accelerated MMR in order to catch you up faster.

End of season rewards

The Leaderboards will now show what end of season rewards will be for those that qualify. If you end the season with a General or higher rank, you will receive the exclusive Golden Abraham Lincoln Surfer Skin. The top 3 on the Leaderboard will also receive special click effects to show off.

In addition, each rank now has a safety net, meaning you can't downrank below any of them. We've also added number ranks for when Supreme Overlords surpass 3 stars.

As stated, you can check out the full notes here. But to sum it up, we had 4 goals for this patch:

1) Nerf level 2 shop: We're aware that this has been an extremely common strategy (which we don't mind), but we feel it has definitely gone a little too far. Being this consistent with a strategy should never be a thing. In the end, the game is about thinking on your feet and adapting to what is happening in your specific game.

As a result, we've lowered the scaling on most standard relics, nerfed some of the egregious Juicies, and lowered shop upgrade costs. In addition, we've added more unbanned relics into the pool, which will make a smaller shop less attractive on average. Hopefully this will address the issue at hand. If it does not, then you can expect more aggressive changes in Season 2.

2) Reworking unpicked Supers: We've looked at the stats and completely removed or reworked Supers that we felt underperformed or were too niche to run. We're hoping this will lead to more diversity in upgrades and less instapicks.

3) Reducing dead time: We have tweaked how round timers work. Firstly, the Leader selection time has been increased, allowing you more time to view the banned relics and make educated decisions. Round timers for the first 5 rounds have been lowered (new players will have longer rounds). We're hoping this makes things more fluid for newer and veteran players alike.

4) Mute function: You can now hover over the player list and click a cog icon that will show some of the player's info, including a mute button. This will now mute a player's leader voice lines, emotes and click effects (which are now audible by default).

Season 2 will be our biggest update ever. Along with the quality of life changes being made to monetization, the season will bring with it a brand new battlepass, new leaders, new relics, a new game mechanic, and perhaps an even bigger surprise.

Thanks to everyone who has provided feedback for our current season, as many of your suggestions will come to light in September!