Hello players! As you might have seen in the announcements all over our social media we decided to rename Symbols to a more appropriate keyword: Waste. In the upcoming updates we will be slowly replacing all references to the new name. We feel that it's much more appropriate to the SUR5 overall brand and helps to explain why cards leave things behind them.

• Unit💛 Plastic used for packaging of food
  
• Action💚 Glass of shattered windows at the time of riots
  
• Event🤍 Wood destroyed during forest clearing
  
• Structure💙 Concrete rubble of demolished buildings
  
• Vehicle💜 Rubber from used car tires.
  
• Item🧡 Metal scraps of manufactured tools

Next weekend (15-16 June 2024) we are launching an event called Scavenge Market for the first time. It was created to help players exchange surplus items for something more useful. This event is intended to be recurring once every 3 months and as the game grows we also plan to add more options to the market.

New Missions are coming closer each week! We'd like to present to you Braindead. This brave leader after losing part of his brain had an unprecedented surgery that brought him back to life, but made him mentally unstable. He is also a leader of Moggatro (trash city where the hand-shaped megastructure stands).

Sister Senn (Goth Vampire below) will replace Blood Agent that you already know from the Mission number 5. This change was made to improve the consistency of a story and make it slightly less confusing.

Mrs. B

• Bank cost have been reduced from 5 to 4 energy.

Kasese

• Death Squad cost has been increased from 3 to 4 energy.

JJ

• Caltrops now immediately destroy armor after beign drawn (instead of next turn).

Boney

• Summon Flame symbol has been changed to Action.
  
• Scry symbol has been changed to Vehicle.

ARU-3

• Spam now will generate energy instantly when revealed (instead of next turn).

• Judgement minimum enemy card count has been increased from 7,8,9 to 8,9,10 cards,

• Fixed a bug where Spark cards combos did not trigger Bzzzt! effect.
  
• Survivor description now properly scales in the menu screen.
  
• Styles in store have been correctly repriced.
  
• Added Instagram and Tiktok icons to the main menu.

Last week we added this beautiful Galactic Tadalesh skin to the SUR5 game store and It can be unlocked for 1500 crystals. We truly appreciate all of your purchases that keeps the servers running!

Thanks for reading and see you in the game!
Team SUR5

25-26 May 2024 17:00 CET we are launching our first Double Brawl. Yes, two modificators at once! This is only a fraction of power that the SUR5 engine possesses. During this event you will not lose any ELO ranking and will play with fan-favourite cataclysm: Tremors! We also decided to reduce the number of games that are required to obtain participation prizes.

Our team would also like to share a list of our plans for the next 2 months. Our priority is finishing the Story Mission (spoiler cards below!). After that we will be working on a passive Black Market event and releasing a wild-tree-monkey-mutant-guardian called Werwent that will support life gain archetype.

In mission number 5 our protagonist Vex has been captured by sadistic vampire Sister Senn (changed from Blood Agent). It is up to Pepper to get her back by gathering people of Moggatro and defeating the oppressors! More info soon...

Thanks for reading and see you in the game,
team SUR5

Attention! SUR5 has just released OVER 50 new achievements (76 in total) for you to encounter during the game! Warning! These tactical missiles contain heavy meme potential and often require specific Survivors to be fulfilled.

With the fresh data analysis from the last 10000 games we can see that Kolo the Destroyer continues to dominate meta with fast and powerful damage effects! Gog & Magog and Cpt. Tadalesh have fallen out of favor and were replaced by Kasese and surprisingly Mrs B!

Congratulations once again to Tobias on winning April Experimental Brawl and becoming a new Master of SUR5. With the obtained data from the games we can improve the general brawl experience in the future.

Thanks for playing and see you in the game!
Team SUR5

Join us this weekend (20-21 April 2024 17:00 CET) to participate in our first Experimental Brawl! During this event you will not lose any ELO ranking and can reach any rank! This is the first event of its type where we will be testing out mechanics beyond gameplay!

This is also a perfect opportunity to play our latest Survivor ARU-3 and we can't wait what crazy debt strategies you will come up with!

See you in the game,
SUR5 team members

ARU-3 (pronounced Aru-San) is our 23 Survivor and is a pivotal point in our design philosophy. We want our future characters to shift from a non-interactive single player experience towards enemy based gameplay that rewards knowledge about opponent deck strengths and flaws. That being said, fun deck building loop will always remain the core pillar of SUR5 design.

In the ARU-3 card pool you will find 4 Spark cards! We believe that this addition will make the game even more exciting as it introduces an element of surprise that requires players to adapt to the situation.

This character was designed to entertain most skilled players that can punish unsuspecting players with a well timed energy debt stopping their entire turns. With a brand new on-reveal trigger we further want to promote careful observation of the enemy hand.

Currently we are still working on the final 5 Story Missions of Chapter I. With this addition we are hoping to smooth experience for new players so they won't be immediately forced to fight against veteran players. Each mission explores new archetypes and teaches mechanics that can be encountered in a PvP duel. End of the campaign will feature a mini boss battle and we want to take our time to complete the story in a style!

Forge Master

• Smelt maximum damage limit has been removed.

Kasese

• Kasese cost has been increased from 2 to 3 energy.

Boney

• Summon Flame combo now requires Vehicle symbol and 1 energy.

JJ

• Flametrail maximum damage has been increased from 4 to 5.

• Friends that are on-line are now visible on the top of the friend list.
  
• Minor client performance improvements.
  
• Dumpster Fire now correctly triggers enemy on-destroy effects.
  
• Purchased cards now appear on a played cards stack,
  
• With a heavy heart we have to reduce Daily Win credit reward from 200 to 150. Thank you for understanding.

PS. We are not going to change the font to Comic Sans. It was an April fools joke :)

See you in the game!
Team SUR5

In just a few days during the Steam Deckbuilder Fest (25 March 10:00) we are launching a special discount event to welcome new players to SUR5 rebellion. If you have not tried our game yet, it is the best moment to start building advantage before game releases!

If you are not sure what to get, we recommend Rebellion Starter Kit that is available in the "bundle" section. This one-time package contains very valuable Credit Processing Unit and 7 day XP Boosters that can be activated at any time.

We would also like to take a moment to preview first spoiler card for upcoming Artificial Intelligence Survivor ARU-3 (pronounced aru-san). Due to limited disk space it has only capabilities of a 10 year old child and is all about doing pranks!

Big updates and more spoilers are coming soon :)

• Massacre has been substantially nerfed.
  
• Increased account level cap to 40.
  
• Added 2 new Wildcards - Genesis and Judgment.
  
• Meteor Shower Brawl will be hosted 2-3 March 2023 starting at 17:00 CET.
  
• Tutorial speed has been greatly increased to welcome new players.

SUR5's first Wildcard has been problematic for a while. Due to the nature of the game it's been a top pick appearing in the majority of the games played online. Addition of debt is especially unfavourable in the early game and we hope that players will wait at least 1 to 3 turns before selecting it. This time will also give a chance to naturally find destruction cards in shop. In near future more Survivors with "destroy" effects will be added to the game making Massacre non-mandatory option.

This Wildcard can be unlocked at level 39 and was designed to help in a particular scenario where players got stuck because they destroyed too many cards and could not progress. 3 copies of this Genesis provide a solid base and allowing players to search and buy just a few more missing pieces to finish the battle.

When you are completely out of luck while the enemy already assembled a strategy, Judgment can help equalize the difference. Additional damage works only against extra small decks and will remove enough life points to bring justice.

Next weekend we are launching an Brawl with a really exciting modifier - Meteor Shower. Meteorites that drop in the shop have Spark card type and effect that will completely change the game! The winner of this event will receive our latest addition to the store: Galactic Pepper Skin,

Yamakamzamazashi

• Bribe now deals 1 damage for every invade card in hand. Cost has been reduced to 3 and there is no upper limit.

Leeki Wiks

• Advertisement cost has been reduced from 3 energy to only 1!

Tutorial dialogues were rewritten to be more entertaining. Mission objectives has been significantly increased (30-50%) making first experience much easier for new players.

Thank you for reading and we hope to see you next week at the Meteor Shower Brawl!

In the upcoming months our team will be working on improving new players' experience. Our primary goal is to make introduction to the SUR5 world as pleasant as possible. To do so we will be speeding up the Tutorial section and improve it with the addition of Voice Actors.

We understand that players might not be as keen on jumping into PvP games right away, so we plan to smooth out the experience with the addition of 5 missions with a grand finale! Global Leaderboards will track multiple vectors of progress and survivor-specific achievements should make games more pleasant. In the next two weeks we are also increasing the level cap to level 40 and adding 2 Wildcards.

2-3 March 2024 17:00 CET (week after releasing new Wildcards) we are launching Meteor Shower Brawl event. If you unlock Judgement and Genesis by that time you can test their potential on the best SUR5 players! Metagame will shift for sure because In that update we will be also NERFING Massacre... R.I.P.

Last weekend we released a long awaited ability to save Survivor compositions. Players will start with base 5 slots. New ones can be unlocked using Preset Memory. This item will be available in shop, story missions and as blueprint at level 36.

SUR5 also has a fresh bundle available in the store: Power Player Pack. Save up to 500 crystals in value with a special offer tailored for the most dedicated SUR5 players. This package contains a selection of 16 popular utility items for both casual and competitive progression including mentioned earlier Preset Memory.

Thanks for reading. We truly appreciate all your support and see you in the game!
Team SUR5

• G.U.I.D.E. Survivor has been added to the SUR5 character pool.
  
• Introducing a new exciting Spark card type with unique functionality.
  
• Added new background image to Casual Game mode.
  
• Improved two frames for Darius the Moderator and The Businessman.
  
• Brawl with Flood modifier will be hosted between 27.1.2024 - 28.01.2024 starting at 17:00 CET

G.U.I.D.E is an autonomous companion robot that specializes in computing and maintaining safe weather conditions that lives together with Vex high in the frosty mountains. Its card pool was designed to provide access to simple, but efficient symbol generation for beginner players. For that reason it is available for only 720 Credits!

This meteorological machine brings a fresh breath of air to SUR5 gameplay with "Spark" card type. When Tempest is purchased for 1 energy, it will generate a yellow (unit) symbol and immediately put all invade cards on top of the deck. After that Tempest will be removed from the game not triggering destroy effects. Spark cards can also have combo effects just like normal cards.

With the introduction of Spark card type we saw an opportunity to improve our older cards, that saw little to no play. Due to their unique nature they rarely found place in the players decks. Now they can be used in almost every game, because they are available in shops at any time and do not clog decks. They also add another layer of skill and a bit of excitement. Each of the cards above tackle different aspects of SUR5 and in the future we plan to explore many more options.

Pepper

• Back from Ashes has been reworked.

Darius the Moderator

• Edge of the World has been reworked.

The Businessman

• Crash has been reworked.

Drowned

• Submerge has been reworked.

Leeki Wiks

• Advertisement has been reworked.

Boney

• Shakedown has been reworked.

• Fixed issue when purchasing Human Shield using Bank.
  
• Fixed interaction where the Reveal screen stayed open after turn end.
  
• Fixed bug where it was possible to buy invades with Bank card

Thank you for reading and see you in the game!