Arkheron’s two-week Closed Beta begins today! For the first time, you can earn exclusive cosmetics as you play. This is an initial prototype that we’re testing before it evolves into its intended form for launch.
We design cosmetics as a way for players to express themselves. They are also an exciting extension of the world of Arkheron, allowing us to expand on its stories beyond pure gameplay. Cosmetics explore the backstories of echoes, where they came from, who they were in the living world and the emotions that keep them trapped inside the Tower.
These cosmetics include skins to change the way your character looks, as well as emotes for interacting with players, executes for creating unique kill moments and anchors which change the look of the crystal in your chest. There are also titles and banners that mark where you were at this point in time.
Every match you play earns ‘Pages’ that allow you to unlock collection items in your ‘Book’. You can collect up to 25 cosmetics in a collection, as well as a title, banner, and skin from the Book Rewards (exclusive) track.
NOTE: In Closed Beta, the Book Rewards items are permanent collectibles. The other cosmetics that you earn to unlock the Book Rewards will be reset to enable us to continue testing the system.
We may change how Collections work for the future based on how our testing goes during Closed Beta. The current plan is that future Collections will work the same way, except that what you earn, you’ll keep.
Unlike the Closed Beta Collection, future collections will be more themed around Arkheron’s world and narrative. Books will include story content that you earn alongside cosmetics that are themed around the lore from that book.
In Spires, you earn Pages at checkpoints, and the further you go, the more progress the checkpoints offer.
In Ascension, you earn pages from a variety of activities including opening chests, eliminating elite monsters and players, and completing quests. Multiply your earnings when you ascend to the next floor. Participate in Challenge Rifts to maximize your earnings even further. Every floor you Ascend adds a multiplier to what you earned on the floor below. Winning a match adds an additional multiplier on top.
Both Spires and Ascension mode offer collection progress. You cannot earn Pages in Custom Games, Tutorials, Learning Spires, Bot matches, or Training.
Spires pays out per checkpoint cleared, and every kill also drops a shared Page pool (20 per kill, split by damage share).
CheckpointPages
Floor 1
50
Floor 2
75
Floor 3
100
Floor 4
125
Floor 5
300
Every Spires run starts with 3 attempts:
Losing on Floor 1 is free
Losing on Floor 2 through 5 burns 1 attempt
Clearing Floor 2 grants +1 attempt
Clearing Floor 4 grants +1 attempt
Every floor keeps its own scoreboard until the match ends. Here’s what pays what on any given floor:
ActivityPages
Kill (shared pool of 20 per kill, split by damage share)
up to 20
Common chest
1
Legendary chest
2
Mythic chest
3
Quest completed
10
Tormentor defeated
5
When you climb to the next floor, the Pages you earned on the floor you left get multiplied:
F1 → F2: +10%
F2 → F3: +20%
F3 → F4: +100%
Any Rifts you attempt on a floor multiply the Pages you earn on that floor:
Rift entered: +10%
Rift won: +50%
Rift multipliers replace your Ascension multiplier when you leave the floor. (In other words, taking Challenge Rifts is a great way to get ahead and earn more rewards.)
When the match ends, all your floor scoreboards get added together. If you won, that grand total gets multiplied by 1.5x.
For example if you earned 100 pages on Floor 1, you would arrive on Floor 2 with 110 (+10% Ascension bonus) pages. Each subsequent floor has its own score. Then if you win, the total of all the pages earned on prior floors, would be multiplied by 1.5x to create your final page score.
Open Books from the main menu, then click Collection. During Closed Beta, the Collection contains 25 unlockable items across skins, executes, emotes, anchors, borders, portraits, banners, and titles. (These will be reset at the end of Closed Beta)
Unlock enough of the Collection and you’ll hit Book Reward tiers. For Closed Beta:
2 items unlocked: exclusive Title
5 items unlocked: exclusive Banner
10 items unlocked: exclusive Rare Skin
These are earned by filling out the Collection, not bought with Pages.
Since this is our first time testing cosmetics progression in Arkheron, we’d absolutely love to get your feedback on how you find it. Does it feel like you’re making progress? Are you making enough progress? What do you think about the skins? Any thoughts are welcome! Hop on over to our Feedback Forum to share them.