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| Community | Winter Challenge is Live! Heroes, New Year’s is a time to let things go. Hit the gym, empty the closet, and maybe send a few unfriend notices. Friendzy has made the list, so let’s get to work. Starting December 18th, you’ll have until the end of January to “Unfriend” 10,000 Friendzy. If you can’t read between the lines here, we want you to savagely destroy Friendzy. We’ve all had enough of them. Do this, and all Heroes… | — | |
| Community | Divio Smacked Down! Claim Your Loot! Heroes, We asked you to go dark and defeat 50,000 Divio for our October CrossPlay Challenge. Good news. Everyone crushed it (We also gave y’all over a month, but we digress). As a reward, the Next Up Hero community will receive DoubleDown’s Gauntlets! Check your inventory over the coming week to claim your item. Stay tuned for our next Community Challenge coming in December. | — | |
| Community | Halloween Challenge Is Here! Heroes, Our October CrossPlay Challenge is live! For this challenge, we want you to go dark! Smack down 50,000 Divio, and we’ll reward the community with DoubleDown’s Gauntlets. You have until Nov 13th. Good luck heroes, and Happy Halloween. If you're looking for a COOP partner, we put Next Up Hero on Sale! Celebrate Halloween together and Cross-platform! | — | |
| Community | Challenge Complete: Reward Inbound! Again our heroes banded together to defeat the Crossplay Challenge. Vale’s Cowl will be delivered in the next 24 hours! A spooky challenge is coming soon... | — | |
| Community | It's Time For Another CrossPlay Challenge! Heroes, Our next CrossPlay Challenge is now live! For this challenge, we want to show you the power of invincibility, so we’re requesting that as a community y’all summon 10,000 Azuza. The reward? Vale’s Cowl, a defensive item for one of our most dangerous assassins. What’s Azuza, you say? Azuza is one of 11 Ancients you can summon in Next Up Hero. Collect enough Echoes, summon the power of inv… | — | |
| Community | Another challenge easily defeated by our CrossPlay Heroes! As promised, Widget’s Goggles will be delivered to your inventory in the next 24-hours. The next Community Challenge will be in September, brainstorm in the comments for the next challenge and the reward | — | |
| Community | August Community Challenge! Heroes! We need you to raise 5,000 heroes to level 10 before 12:00 PM EDT on September 4th. If the community manages to accomplish this feat, all players will be granted Widget Goggles on September 5th Good luck, and start maxing out a new hero! | — | |
| Community | Community Challenge Defeated! Loot incoming! You’ve banded together and defeated our challenge. As promised, Striking Note will be delivered to your inventory in the next 24-hours. The next Community Challenge will be in August, brainstorm in the comments for the next challenge and the reward ːsteamhappyː | — | |
| Community | COMMUNITY CHALLENGE: Do a thing; Get a loot! Heroes! It’s time for the first community challenge. We need you to complete 1,000 ventures before 12:00 PM EDT on July 30th. If you manage to accomplish this feat, all players will be granted Striking Note on July 31! Good luck, and start defeating those bosses! | — | |
| Community | Goodbye Early Access, Hello Free Weekend! Heroes! We're super excited to announce that Next Up Hero has launched out of Early Access today! To celebrate, we're currently in a Free Weekend on Steam! That's right, until Monday, July 2, you can be the next up Hero and test your might in the Spiral Shards. But be warned, Heroes, this game is designed to be hard. In fact, the game is so difficult that we've called in reinforcements from som… | — | |
| Community | Dungeon Maker, Loot & Progression Overhaul, Mixer Interactive, and Analytics, Oh My! Since Early Access launched, we’ve watched you defeat the Champion Trial, suffer to the might of Toppers, and dab on the haters with Mixtape. Take a look at these statistics we’ve put together since our launch. Thank you all for your suggestions, ideas, bug reports, and great videos. Now for the good stuff. Meet the largest update to Next Up Hero yet! Let’s take a look inside: · Dungeon Maker M… | — | |
| Community | Take the Next Up Hero Survey! Heroes! We're doing a brief survey about Next Up Hero. If you could, please take a few minutes to answer our questions. We want to use our valuable time in Early Access to channel your feedback. Help us heroes! You can take the survey via this link And if you haven't joined us in Discord yet, what are you waiting for? Join Up! discord.gg/NextUpHero | — | |
| Community | Submit your pro-tips! Heroes! We're looking for the best pro-tips to use in-game. Help us drop little bits of knowledge to Next Up Hero players by submitting your best tips, hints, tricks, and otherwise in this thread Example of a good pro-tip: Getting stuck on a level? Summon ancients! - roncli If you have a funny/troll tip thats OK too, but the majority of these should be to help players get a better feel for Next… | — | |
| Community | Next Up Hero adds a new Hero and revamps Co-op! Welcome to Early Access week 5 Heroes! We've got some big surprises this week! Co-op Revamped! We’ve heard your thoughts on Echo-op, and we’ve revamped the system! This system is new, and we wanted to push it out to the community as soon as possible, so there will be bugs. Please let us know of any issues via the NUH Discord Channel or in this thread Meet Jett For completing the Champion Trial,… | — | |
| Community | Early Access Week 4! Heroes! Community Highlight! Have you been enjoying the Champion Trial? We’ve been watching as you’ve collaborated and solved a puzzle. ICYMI see this clip! Feedback Target: Champion Trial As you work through the Champion Trial, let us know your thoughts in the Week 4 Feedback thread . What do you like? What can we improve on? Are there elements you’d like to see re-utilized in other parts of t… | — | |
| Game update | Major Content Update And Champion Trial coming this afternoon! Heroes! We've listened, iterated, and pushed a new build out! Expect it to land around 7PM EST! What's new?! · Champion Trial is unlocked! · New enemies, including a new boss! · New enemies means new abilities! · Boss Treasure Chests! (AND a whole lotta loot)! · Changes to Co-Op with even more coming soon! · A ton of tuning and bug fixes based on your feedback on Steam and Discord · Full patch… | — | |
| Community | Early Access Week 3! Heroes, We’ve made it to Week 3 of Early Access! Week 3 Feedback Target: Account Progression This week we’d like to hear your thoughts on account progression ! Let us know what you think about leveling, rewards, potential features, and everything between in this thread Week 3 Community Challenge I’m a Mixtape main, and I need a new desktop wallpaper. This week I’m challenging you to take the mo… | — | |
| Community | Early Access Week 2! Heroes, We’ve made it to Week 2 of Early Access! Last week we challenged you to post a boatload of screenshots (and we’ve seen some epic ones on the Hub). Here’s one of my favorites: Additionally, we asked you to provide feedback on Spectator Mode, and you did! We’re taking all of your thoughts to heart and working through some ideas. More information on that soon! This week we’d like to hear y… | — | |
| Community | Early Access Week 1 (Welcome and Spectator Mode!) Heroes, Welcome to Next Up Hero Early Access! We want to make the best experience possible, integrating user feedback as we march toward our final release. To do so, each week we're going to target an area of the game. So let's get started! Week 1 Feedback Target: Spectator Mode Please let us know your thoughts, suggestions, feedback, and ideas for Spectator Mode in this thread Week 1 Community… | — | |
| Community | Mark your calendars: January 11th Early Access Begins! | — |
Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.