Hey everyone! This week’s Friday Night Fight is just around the corner, and with it comes more in-game changes and community events!

We’re bringing back Turbo Ascension in its new, 3.0 form - take an extra minute to gather your arsenal on Floor 2 before the beacons spawn - or use the spare time to seek out the Destroyer Crown, a powerful new relic. 

New to Friday Night Fights? 

• Play Arkheron Now: We’re currently playable on our Experimental Client! Grab your key here to download, and start practicing in training, bots, and custom games before the Friday queues go live. See queue times for your region here!

• Join the Hub: A lot of the action - including Dev Q&As, custom games, and team finding - takes place on Discord! Join the Arkheron Discord here!

Arkheron’s Friday Night Fights is how we play, learn, and grow alongside our community, while testing out exciting new features and fine-tuning the game to its optimal state.

During these playtests, you can expect us to experiment with a variety of limited modes and activities to help us better tailor the experience, and better understand how you all like to play Arkheron. 

That said, here’s the lineup for this week:

Limited Mode: Turbo Ascension 3.0 

Turbo Ascension is back - 8 teams of 3 skip the ground floor and drop straight into the Second Floor of the Tower.

What’s new? 

We’ve added an extra minute of looting time to Floor 2 only, before the beacons spawn. This aims to allow players to have a little more time to workshop their builds and hunt down that final piece of loot before the fights begin. We’ve also introduced the new Destroyer Crown global objective (see more below)!

Give it a shot and let us know what you think - Turbo Ascension will be the primary queue for Friday Night Fights this week. 

The Destroyer Crown

For this Friday Night Fights, we’re giving a peek behind the curtain with an item we’ve been testing: The Destroyer Crown. 

As you drop in on the second floor, you’ll see a segment of the map highlighted pink. This is where the Destroyer Crown will spawn mid way through the level, in a mythic chest. Careful - the location is revealed once the Crown spawns, and you may not be the only team looking to pick it up. 

[NEW] DESTROYER CROWN

• [Active - Doppelganger] Summon a doppelganger and become Invisible. Taking an action causes the doppelganger to disappear. 

• [Passive] This item is a Destroyer Relic. While carrying, players automatically unlock the respective set Bonus for Each Eternal Relic that they carry - culminating in a possible 3 set bonuses' 

We’d love to hear what you think of the Destroyer Crown! Give it a try, and let us know how it feels.

Custom Game Beacon Time Adjustments

With the feedback we’ve gathered from earlier Friday Night Fights tests, we’ve decided to make some changes to bring a more polished experience to custom games. We’ve adjusted for beacon timing, depending on which floor you choose to start on.

• Floor Two Start: One extra minute of looting time has been added to Floor Two, but not to Floor Three.

• Floor Three Start: One extra minute of looting time added to Floor Three.

If you choose to start on Floor One, expect Ascension mode to remain unchanged.

Developer Livestream - Come Hang Out with Bonfire

We’re back with another dev livestream during our NA Queues! Jump into chat, ask questions, or roast our gameplay - we’d love to have you.

• Where: Bonfire-Presents Discord Channel & Arkheron’s Twitch 

• When: Friday, from 7PM - 9PM PT 

• Who: This week, our lovely Bonfire hosts are:

  • Elliot "Tetragon” (Character Art)

  • Charlie "Ahab" (Publishing)

  • Braden "Nyquist" (Audio)

Solo Queue Leaderboard Returns

We’re bringing back the Solo Queue Leaderboard!

Our goal is to provide a low-stakes, fun incentive for high-skill players to solo queue. We know the system isn't perfect, so we ask that everyone respect their fellow players, have fun, and play fair! 

Here’s How Scoring Works:

Queue up solo and rack up points based on your top three games. Points are earned by racking up Major Eliminations (awarded to the player who dealt the highest percentage of damage to a downed target). 

Scoring Breakdown:

• Floor 1 (Drop Floor) Major Eliminations - 1 point each

• Floor 2 Major Eliminations - 2 point each

• Floor 3 (Final Floor) Major Eliminations - 3 point each 

Leaver Penalty: Solo players who leave matches will earn a score of zero for that match. This penalty score will not be replaced by a higher-scoring game later; it is automatically tracked as one of your "top" scores for the night.

Pro Tip: Your overall score is based on your highest scoring three individual games. If you play a fourth game and out perform your lowest score, it’ll be replaced automatically. Note, leaver penalties scores will not be replaced. 

Join our Discord to keep up with the leaderboard as the night goes. 

Dev-Hosted Customs

Starting at 9PM PT / 12AM ET, as normal queue hours end, join the Bonfire team and our community in the #Bonfire-Presents channel of our Discord for custom games! This week’s host is none other than Bolbi, a top player whose name you might’ve spotted on multiple leaderboards in the past few Friday Night Fights.

Come play with us, or sit back and watch on the livestream.

Looking for a Group? 

Interested in learning from a dev? We’ll have team members across many skill levels playing alongside you during the NA queues again. Drop a request in the #looking-for-group channel and, if someone is available, they’ll buddy up with you.

See you in the Tower!