This season, everybody will be rewarded according to the tier they finish!

Ærena Steam keys for the first ten who reach SILVER tier!

To redeem your prize, just make a screenshot of the silver leaderboard and send it to aerena-support@cliffhanger-productions.com ! You can gift or trade this key to anybody you want!

On Thursday, the 12th of December at 18:00 GMT we´ll be in the ingame chat and also play a matches.
Join us, ask your questions and challenge the devs!
We´ll be in the game for a few hours, so there is a good chance you`ll get all the answers we can give and face a few of us in the Ærena :)
We´re looking forward to see you there!

Full patch contents:

• New arena of the faction Incquisition
  
• Improved performance and reduced file size on Android devices

Fixes:

• The shell generation time was reduced from 2 hours to 30 minutes.
  
• The walking animation of Martel has been fixed to let it look less like moonwalk
  
• Highlighted text in info screens and info panels is better readable.
  
• Ship will be correctly removed from the arena at the end of a match.
  
• Coloring on player profile bar now uses correct league tier color.
  
• Shooting and Hitting sound of Mary's super and basic attacks are in correct order now.
  
• Rankings ending in 1, 2 or 3 have the correct ending now (will end with st, nd, and rd respectively except for 11, 12 and 13).
  
• Shadows no longer persist for a while after a character's death
  
• Blocker tiles are no longer shown in action cam sequences.
  
• Player's ship no longer missing in Action cam sequences.
  
• Bloody Mary's basic and super attack show their hit effect on the right lane of the ship instead of the center.
  
• Blaze effect is correctly shown if a character gets killed by it on any aether tile.
  
• Map rotation time decreased to 1 day, so each day another map will be available in ranked play.

We have been working very hard the last few weeks to bring you:

• The leagues
  
• Shell generator
  
• A nice match debriefing with match statistics
  
• A completely new champion - Martel

We are especially happy to finally have the league system in the game and we hope you'll love it. So as it is basically the heart of Ærena we want to give you a detailed insight into how Leagues work.

First of all, there will be several league seasons per year, whereas every season lasts for a predefined amount of time. Within that time all of you have the chance to get to the top and win the season. Whenever a new season starts, the league is reset and a new run to master the leagues starts. The league is split into 6 tiers:

- Æther-Masters

• Diamond
  
• Platinum
  
• Gold
  
• Silver
  
• Bronze

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Winning our first Alpha Season, which will last until the end of december, will be rewarded with a very special price. Check it out in the game if you want to know more!


Along with the new update we introduce major changes on how Æther shells are handled in the game. Currently all shells in the game are available from the beginning and it's possible to use a shell unlimited.

To make them all a bit more exciting, every usage of a shell will consume it.

But we won't let you running out of shells, so you will obtain shells after every match and through the usage of the new Shell-Generator!
The Shell-Generator


Every 2 hours an Æthershell will be generated here, which you are able to pick up.

The storage of the Shell-Generator is big enough for 3 Æthershells and if it is full, the Shell-Generator will stop producing until you picked up some Æthershells.


Martel is a small man with a big rocket powered hammer who makes up for being vertically challenged by dressing extravagantly and taunting the other gladiators, daring anyone to slight him.

Martel joined the AEther Pirates after a lifetime of hard work in the navy and constant abuse from everyone around him, at last finding a place where normal had no meaning. When The Games started he took to them with the glee of someone having nothing to loose but his inferiority complex. Martel and his self-constructed rocket hammer - though he sometimes has issues handling it - command the respect of his peers.


For a detailed list of all other changes, visit the forums or our
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