A new purple trigger quest called "Aelio Intruders" will release on May 8th. A new leaderboard has been prepared for this new purple quest. You will be able to submit solo, duo, party 4-players, and party 8-players. You can challenge this quest at the purple trigger gate in Halphia Lake.

NGS will have the release of the urgent quest version for Dark Falz Dalion on May 22. We will prepare the leaderboard for this quest. Note that this is an 8 player quest and the boss has relaxed failure conditions, HP, and Attack power.

A brand new boss is coming to NGS. Dark Falz Dalion is the newest high difficulty quest boss. We will create leader board for this quest for solo, duo, and party categories. The quest will be released in game on April 17th after maintenance. Hope to see some strong runs!

New PA customizations were released alongside the 10-star Xover weapon series. The PA customizations seems to have more impact on the way players approach boss battles so we have decided to do a patch bump for all leaderboards. For more details see the patch codes list.

As you may have already seen in the Feb 2024 NGS Headline, there is going to be a new type of quest called "Time Extension Quests". It appears to be an arcade-like version of a quest where you earn time from completing objectives. We are currently considering if we will make a leaderboard out of this quest. If you would like to join in on this discussion join us on our Discord !

Release of the Ringwedge Duel boss. Actual in game quest will be released after the maintenance on March 13, 2023. We will prepare a leaderboard in time for this quest. Hope to see some bell-ringing times!

Patch code has been bumped to Level 85. All runs submitted from Jan 31st and beyond will be on the new patch code. This also includes the various changes to Ranger and Gunner as well as the new weapons. For more details see the patch codes list.

This month and beyond, we're continuing to improve the leaderboard UI. Let us know what you think or if you have any feedback at our Discord .

You may have already noticed some UI changes. Some of these are:

• • Improved navigation bar, better support for mobile.
• • Leaderboards using buttons for category selection.
• • Improved player selection when entering multi party members.
• • Complete news archive page to de-clutter the home page.

Not much in terms of in-game content releasing this month. For the team at the leaderboards we plan to add some new useful information pages for rules, submission guidelines, patch codes, and other tips for the leaderboard. The patch codes info page has been released: Check it out!

From Dec 6th's Game Maintenance, we will increase the patch to "+80 Weap. Release". This release of the game will feature +80 weapon grind and a host of new PA customizations. All runs submitted at this point will be on the new patch.

Also from Dec 6th, Aelio and Retem Battledia Purple quests will have new ranks. The new rank will be the default for submissions and the board. Old ranks can still be viewed and submitted to.

From Dec 14th's Game Maintenance, Malignant Dark Falz Aegis will be released. This quest is similar to that of the 4-player Dark Falz Solus but it is Aegis instead. We will consider this quest a new category but it will be the default category for Aegis when you visit the boards. The old boards for the other Aegis categories can still be visited however.

On November 15th 2023, Sega will release a Urgent Quest version of Dark Falz Solus. We will support this quest as a new category for this Boss. The leaderboard for this ready for submission but we might make minor adjustments when the request is actually released.

Early release of Zelvin Duel boss. Actual in game quest will be released after the maintenance on October 18, 2023. Looking forward to see those runs!

A new page was added to allow you to see all the runs you have submitted to us along with their status. The new page is next to the Profile menu. Check it out! You can also see the runs that you have participated in in other player's submissions as well provided they linked your name to it.

If a run is rejected we will note it in the "Mod Notes" field. Feel free to contact us on Discord should you need to clarify or dispute.

Belated arrival of the Remnants of Ambition Urgent Quest leaderboard is now accepting submissions. Sorry for the delay! It was postponed in favor of Dark Falz Solus.

Since level 80 is coming soon, there might be a chance that you have runs from the level 75 patch era. If this applies to you, make a note in your run notes or contact a moderator on Discord and we will take care of the patch.

Level 80 will be arriving on Oct 11, so we will increase the patch code to level 80. If you have any runs from prior to level 80 please let us know on discord and we can adjust your patch level as appropriate.

Additionally, the game will also change the maximum time for duel quests quest from 5min -> 10 minutes, nullify region mag effects, and "HP of enemies has been lowered". We are not exactly sure at this time how it will effect new submissions to the bosses but we will play by ear and adjust accordingly.

A new duel boss (phase 3) is coming and we will add a new leaderboard. Note that the changes to the duel bosses is on October 11th.

As usual if there are issues please contact us on Discord .

In order to implement new quests and categories at a faster and more maintainable rate we consolidated all the run data and player data on our backend database. These migrations have been completed as of August 17, 2023.

With the new data infrastructure in place we had to add additional changes to submissions so that all runs from all quests+categories are consistent. These are:

1. 1. Player entries no longer require a server region. The server region that the run was executed is per run instead of by player "one". With that, all runs on the leaderboard have been assigned a run region (japan/global) based on evidence in your run's video (usually by fan translation distinction) if they have not before.
2. 2. Runs tied by time (1 second precision) are awarded the same rank. Times submitted earlier will still be ordered on first within the same time.
3. 3. We did not have "submission dates" for runs in the early days of the leaderboard. If your run was fairly old, we went by the youtube video's publication date.
4. 4. It is now optional to provide a server region in your profile (ARKS ID).

Moving forward we hope to implement more run quests (e.g., Venogia UQ) and be able to adapt to new updates from SEGA as they happen.

As usual if there are issues or inaccuracies please contact us on Discord and we can get your run updated. Thank you for your patience.

A new boss Dark Falz Solus has been added to the leaderboard. The official release date for the quest is Aug 9, 2023.

Some minor layout changes and some general improvements. This update prepares the leaderboard for the upcoming data migrations so we can improve the development speed of new quests and bosses as they are added into the game.

As usual if there are issues please contact us on Discord .

A new duel boss Halvaldi has been added to the leaderboard. The official release date for the quest is June 21st, 2023.

Also we performed some minor data migrations in the backend. These should have no impact on the site operations but as usual if there are issues please contact us on Discord .

All runs submitted from this point on will be considered part of the level 75 release patch. This patch brings about skill re-balances from June 7th's update, Rarity 9⭐ weapons, Dark Falz Aegis R3, and of course the level cap increase to 75.

The Submit a Run page has got a new makeover with a new landing page. This will make it easier for us to implement quest specific logic and have more leaderboard categories in the future.

Duel runs can now be submitted to the leaderboard. Please take note if you have used the special Duel augments or not.

Currently it will be either you affixed an augment on any equipment in the run or you did not. Since we don't know the impact on the runs yet this may be subject to change. We will reach out to the early submitters where possible to improve their submissions if there is a change needed.

Any questions or issues please contact us on our Discord

The website has been fully rewritten.

This has lead to some visual changes, and will make implementing future feature updates easier.

Enabling youtube cookies will replace video links on run info panels with embeds!
Please note that this only applies to solo runs.

Duo and party runs have returned!

Leaderboards for solo, duo, and full MPA have been added for Dark Falz Aegis!

Player description editing has been enabled.

Trophies for each class have been added, in bronze, silver, gold, and rainbow types.
The first three trophy ranks will be given as a reward for participation in the below feature.
Rainbow trophies will be given out only for specific users, with a more specific criteria still being decided.
At this point in time, only guide authors have rainbow tier trophies.

Functionality for 'Meteorn Records', or unofficial ARKs Records have been implemented.
Our test run is Dark Falz Aegis MPA runs.
Every player in a party with a bronze, silver, or gold ranking will be given a trophy for their party rank and class!

More information will be released later, but Alliances are technically fully functional, but temporarily unavailable!

Player avatars have been implemented, but remain disabled for the time being!

Backend work has been done to enable Twitch embeds and videos in the future.
This will include the ability to display your Twitch stream on your profile if you wish!
Make sure to turn on Twitch cookies if you want to see this feature when it's implemented in full!

If you enable Discord cookies, a Discord widget will appear on the home page.