All right, Uncle Ulty REALLY wants you to get ready for another season! Ultros League is back for its fifth season! Whether you’re a returning player or brand new to the league, the time has come to sign up and join the fun. Sign-ups are now open, and season 5 will begin on Saturday, October 28th at 2:00PM ET.
What’s New for Season Five?
If you played Ultros League in previous seasons, you already know all the basics: 8 weeks, 4 tiers of competition, the strongest finishers get promoted to higher tiers while the lowest finishes risk demotion. If you’re new or looking for a refresher, check out the full rules and info right here.
New Version
Ultros League Season 5 will be the first major event in WC to run on the new 1.4 version of the randomizer. This brings several new flags bugfixes, quality of life changes, and balance/gameplay changes. A rundown of most of these changes can be found here.
Flag Updates
With a new version comes new flags! As with previous seasons, the goal of Ultros League is to provide a “standard” racing experience. To that end, we’ve made a few tweaks (and implemented some of the new flags) to refine that experience and provide an even more consistent, balanced race flagset.
At a high level, we’ve made the following changes from season 4:
- Objectives: Unlock KT Skip -> Complete any 1 of: Recruit 9 characters, Find 12 espers, Complete 21 checks (was Complete any 1 of: Recruit 9 characters, Find 12 espers)
- Magic: Ultima – Expensive Ultima (254 MP) (was No Ultima)
- Magic: Espers – Learn Rates Random Tiered (new flag!)
- Items: Cursed Shield Battles – 6-14 (was 3-14)
- Items: Shops – Expensive Super Balls set to False (was True)
- Items: Shops – No Super Balls set to True (was False)
- Items: Shops – No Exp. Eggs set to True (was False)
- Items: Shops – No Illuminas set to True (was False)
- Items: Coliseum Visible Rewards 100-120 (was 80-100)
- Gameplay: Item Rewards – Possible Item Rewards: ValiantKnife, Illumina, Ragnarok, Atma Weapon, Fixed Dice, Flame Shld, Ice Shld, Thunder Shld, Minerva, Genji Glove, Offering, Exp. Egg, Snow Muffler, Cat Hood, Dragon Horn, BehemothSuit, Aura Lance, Force Shld, Force Armor (new flag!)
There have been no other changes to the flags – scaling, character/esper requirements, stats, and everything else related to game mechanics is just the way you remember from previous seasons.
The revised flags are available on the Info and Rules page, or check out this news post for even more details on what changed and why the changes were made. SeedBot’s ultros league preset has been updated on both the web and Discord bot. Start rolling your practice seeds now and enjoy seeds with more Ultima and less Genji Helm!
Divisions and Demotions
The exact number and size of divisions will be confirmed prior to the start of the season – we won’t know for sure what the league size will be until we have the full sign-ups to kick off the season.
Sign up now!
Season 5 sign-ups are available here. All eligible players, new and returning, need to to sign up to participate in season 5. Don’t miss out, sign up today and join the fun!
And as always, I sincerely implore you ever so gently to not tease the octopus.