This page contains a time line of significant updates and events that have happened in Urban Rivals.
Important updates[]
- January 17th, 2006: The Urban Rivals online game is launched.
The first Card/Clans on Urban Rivals.
Bangers (10) Power +2
- Bodenpower (U) 5* (7/7) -5 Opp. Attack, Min 2
- Chikko (C) 3* (4/4)
- Juicy Lord (U) 3* (6/4) -2 Opp. Damage, Min 2
- Meroo (C) 2* (5/2)
- Platoona (C) 4* (7/5)
- Saddy (R) 3* (5/5) Stop Opp. Bonus
- Sum Sam (C) 5* (6/8)
- Syd Noze (C) 3* (3/5)
- Tunned (C) 3* (3/4)
- Vermyn N (U) 4* (5/7) -4 Opp. Damage, Min 1
Fang Pi Clang (11) Damage +2
- Kinjo (U) 5* (6/5) Damage +3
- Lao (C) 5* (5/8 ) Stop Opp. Bonus
- Lihoi Chun (C) 2* (4/3)
- Lost Hog (C) 5* (5/8) -5 Opp. Attack, Min 5
- Macumba (R) 4* (7/5) -5 Opp. Attack, Min 5
- Natrang (C) 3* (4/4)
- Otome (C) 3* (3/5)
- Sai San (U) 4* (3/7) -1 Opp. Damage, Min 3
- Tatane (C) 3* (3/5)
- Windy Mor (U) 3* (6/4) Stop Opp. Bonus
- Xia Leming (U) 3* (6/4) -2 Opp. Damage, Min 2
GHEIST (5) Stop Opp. Ability
- Brutox (C) 3* (5/4)
- Lilith (C) 3* (5/4)
- Meyen (C) 3* (7/3)
- Morlha (C) 2* (2/4) Stop Opp. Bonus
- Sigmund (U) 4* (2/8) -5 Opp. Damage, Min 3
Junkz (10) Attack +8
- Acid DC (C) 3* (3/4)
- Akiko (U) 3* (2/5) -1 Opp. Damage, Min 2
- Berserkgirl (C) 3* (5/4)
- Brandon (C) 3* (4/4)
- Bunny (C) 4* (3/8 )
- DJ Korr (R) 5* (8/8 ) -3 Opp. Damage, Min 1
- Keanew (C) 3* (6/4) -6 Opp. Attack, Min 3
- Malmoth (U) 4* (7/5) -4 Opp. Attack, Min 4
- Nobrocybix (C) 2* (1/5)
- Otakool (U) 3* (6/4) Stop Opp. Ability
La Junta (10) Damage +2
- Amiral Py (U) 3* (5/5) -5 Opp. Attack, Min 2
- Bruce (C) 3* (8/3)
- Flavio (C) 3* (1/8 )
- General (U) 5* (7/8) Stop Opp. Ability
- Gertrud (R) 4* (6/6) Stop Opp. Bonus
- Jane Ramba (U) 3* (7/4) -2 Opp. Damage, Min 1
- Mitch (C) 3* (5/4) Stop Opp. Bonus
- No Nam (C) 5* (7/7)
- Wardog (C) 2* (8/2)
- Winifred (C) 4* (4/6)
Montana (10) -12 Opp. Attack, Min 8
- Aldo (C) 3* (4/4)
- Don (U) 5* (6/8) -4 Opp. Attack, Min 2
- Flesh Pimp (U) 4* (2/8) -5 Opp. Attack, Min 2
- Lino Borsa (C) 3* (3/4)
- Lyse Teria (U) 3* (8/4) Stop Opp. Ability
- Mort Bax (C) 4* (4/7)
- Ottavia (C) 3* (7/3) -2 Opp. Damage, Min 2
- Pino (C) 2* (6/2)
- Vickie (R) 5* (7/8) Stop Opp. Bonus
- Zodiack (C) 3* (2/6)
Pussycats (10) -2 Opp. Damage, Min 1
- Baby Q (R) 4* (6/6) Stop Opp. Bonus
- Charlie (U) 5* (7/8 ) -2 Opp. Damage, Min 1
- Gwen (C) 3* (7/3)
- Dolores Boss (C) 3* (5/5) -5 Opp. Attack, Min 2
- Ninja Nyne (C) 3* (3/8)
- Noon Steevens (C) 3* (6/4)
- Shawoman (C) 3* (2/6)
- Tania (C) 3* (2/6) Stop Opp. Bonus
- Wanda (U) 2* (8/2)
- Yayoi (U) 4* (7/6) Stop Opp. Ability
Roots (10) Stop Opp. Ability
- Ataoualpet (C) 3* (3/4) -5 Opp. Damage, Min 5
- Billy Bob (C) 4* (6/5)
- Kiki (R) 5* (8/8) -4 Opp. Attack, Min 1
- Narendra (C) (6/4) -5 Opp. Attack, Min 5
- NDololo (U) 4* (5/6)
- Noodile (C) 3* (8/4)
- Ogoun Kyu (C) 2* (1/6)
- Ratanah (U) 5* (8/5) -4 Opp. Attack, Min 4
- Sunnygoat (C) 3* (2/6)
- Yaman (U) 3* (4/4)
Sakrohm (10) -8 Opp. Attack, Min 3
- Aldebaran (C) 3* (4/4)
- Caciope (C) 3* (7/3)
- Gastroboy (U) 4* (4/7)
- GraksmxxT (R) 4* (8/5) -5 Opp. Damage, Min 1
- Guru (U) 5* (8/7) Stop Opp. Bonus
- Halley (C) 2* (4/2)
- Oryon (C) 3* (2/6)
- Pulsar (C) 3* (2/7)
- Uranus (U) 3* (5/5) -5 Opp. Damage, Min 1
- Venus (C) 4* (6/6)
Sentinel (5) Attack +8
- Aurelia (C) 2* (7/2)
- Copper (U) 5* (4/8) Power +5
- Josh (U) 3* (3/6) Stop Opp. Bonus
- Rebecca (C) 2* (6/3)
- William (C) 3* (5/4) -4 Opp. Attack, Min 1
Ulu Watu (10) Power +2
- Chad Bread (C) 3* (5/5)
- Gaia (R) 3* (7/4) -3 Opp. Attack, Min 1
- Mac Hen (C) 3* (2/5)
- Nanook (U) 3* (8/4)
- Rass (C) 3* (4/4)
- Razor (C) 4* (4/6)
- Sandy (C) 2* (2/4)
- Tafa (C) 3* (3/5) Stop Opp. Bonus
- Tanaereva (U) 5* (8/7) -2 Opp. Damage, Min 2
- Wee Lee (U) 4* (7/6) -2 Opp. Damage, Min 1
Uppers (11) - 10 Opp. Attack, Min 3
- Armanda (C) 3* (4/4)
- Bob Joby (C) 2* (1/6)
- Dorian (U) 5* (8/7)
- Elliott (C) 2* (4/3)
- Frankie Hi (U) 3* (6/4) -3 Opp. Attack, Min 3
- Gina Glitt (C) 3* (1/8) -4 Opp. Damage, Min 2
- Jackie (R) 4* (8/6) Stop Opp. Ability
- Maeva (C) 3* (3/5)
- Mo DiFalco (C) 3* (4/5)
- Zatman (U) 3* (8/4) -4 Opp. Attack, Min 1
- Zlatar (C) 4* (3/8) Stop Opp. Ability
- February 6th, 2006: First new cards are released: Lilith, Sigmund, Brutox, Morlha, Meyen, Josh, Copper, William, Aurelia and Rebecca. This will start the once-every-other-week new release schedule.
- March 10th, 2006: First CRs: Sum Sam and Armanda.
- June, 2006: New Clan: Nightmare
- June 28th, 2006: Market Available On The Web & Switched from Java to Flash.
- June 30th, 2006: First ELO Ban: General, Kiki, & DJ Korr
- July 28th, 2006: Added Ability to load, save, & delete any amount of decks.
- August 11th, 2006: Added ability to have own message board for all guilds. No validation needed for posts.
- September 10th, 2006: New Clan: All Stars
- September 22nd, 2006: Rooms added: Safe Neighborhood (1-15), Dark Corners (10+), Danger Zone (25+).
- September 22nd, 2006: Private Room Feature added for all guilds.
- September 25th, 2006: First Soleil characters to be added as established characters: Dragan, Skullface, Reine and A Award.
- September 27th, 2006: Added ability to change password from profile page.
- October 1st, 2006: Credits available by phone for U.S. ($5 = 70 credits).
- October 4th, 2006: Fair Play” Feature Added (0-5% = Green, 5-10% = Orange, 10+% = Red)
- October 13th, 2006: Able to reach past 100% Collection. “CR” replaces Year CR was made”on all collectors.
- October 15th 2006: First CR card (Kiki) to get a revised, non-collector counter-part.
- October 16th, 2006: Guru Cr becomes banned from ELO.
- November 14th, 2006: New Special Ranks Available; Moderator & Admin (UR Maintenance Staff Only)
- November 26th, 2006: New Feature: “The Poll.” (First Vote Starts at 2 ctz, costs more consecutively!)
- November 26th, 2006: Wanda and Baby Q become the first two cards to be ELO banned by The Poll.
- November 27th, 2006: KO Bonus Reduced during DTs (To 5 pts MAX)
- December 14th, 2006: Poll: Future of Danger Zone Room. (No Random OR Bet per fight, winner takes all)
- December 10th, 2006: Poll Results For Danger Zone: “No Random” Wins.
- January 2nd, 2007: Timber Recieves New Stats: 6/6
- January 20th, 2007: Official IRC Channel Introduced. (First form of instant messaging on UR)
- January 28th, 2007: Sun/Soleil Edition Cards (I.E. Marlysa) Announcement: Available in Packs for 6 months starting in March.
- February 4th, 2007: New Feature: Tournament Live Tracker (I.E. Know current position in DTs)
- February 26th, 2007: Ambre receives new stats: 6/4; Courage + 3
- March 5th, 2007: Morphun's Stats Change to 8/5; + 1 pill
- March 9th, 2007: Chloe wins the first Miss Clint City.
- March 20th, 2007: New Poll: ELO Mode (Ban Card or Alter stats).
- April 23rd, 2007: Credit Prizes added to ELO Tournament (Top 25 = 10 Credits, 26-100 = 5 Credits, all 1000+ ELO = 2 Credits)
- April 27th, 2007: New Clan: Freaks
- April 27th, 2007: New Feature; Customize Personal Menu with UR Character.
- June 4th, 2007: Poll: Bridget's ability is voted in: Life +2.
- June 5th, 2007: Poll: Bridget's ability is reduced to Life +1.
- June 12th, 2007: New Feature: ELO Tournament (Prizes: 1st: 3 CRs, 2nd – 5th: 2 CRs, 6th-10th: 1 CR, 11th-25th: 1 R)
- June 12th, 2007: Additional DT added (For a total of 3 DTs Per Day)
- June 26th, 2007: Added ELO Auto Auto Adjusting. (Low activity = Rating Reduction)
- July 26th, 2007: New Feature: “Auto add to deck” when purchasing
- August 2nd, 2007: Room Changes; Danger Zone Pro Removed, Added ELO Battle Rooms (Random & Non Random)
- August 16th, 2007: LW Pro Room removed, New Deck Format: “Level Up.” (3 Max Chars allowed per deck)
- August 18th, 2007: New DT Formats Added (No Doubles, Not > X Stars, Not < X Stars)
- October 2nd, 2007: New Feature: Creator of Guild = Founder Status
- October 10th, 2007: New Feature: ELO Calculator (Calculates ELO change after a match)
- October 11th, 2007: New Feature: Round Tester (Tells outcomes stats of battle, for cards one-on-one)
- October 24th, 2007: New Feature: Private Sale from the Collection Pro
- October 26th, 2007: New Clan: Rescue
- November 16th, 2007: New Feature: Friend’s Feed (“What’s Going on in Your Clint City?”)
- November 30th, 2007: Over ONE MILLION Players on UR!
- December 3rd, 2007: Changes to DTs: 12 DTs per day, Award 10 collectors randomly to ELO (top) 100
- December 5th, 2007: Release of the first Urban Rivals Comic.
- December 24th, 2007: First Noel card (Gaia Noel) is released.
- January 17th, 2008: New Feature: Quick Challenge (Crossed swords button that enables instant battles)
- January 18th, 2008: Fight T1 & T2 rooms Level restriction changed to 7+
- February 20th, 2008: Comment & Community Rating System Added
- February 29, 2008: New Feature: Coding for creating Auto links
- March 24th, 2008: New Feature: Ability to delete your own presets.
- March 26th, 2008: Leaders no longer available in packs. Earned By level in increments of 5. (From 5 – 50) Vholt, Eklore and Eyirk are added as leaders.
- March 26th, 2008: LW Changes: Win/loss doesn’t count, leveling cards ALWAYS chosen for match.
- June 6th 2008: New Clan: Piranas
- June 16th, 2008: New Mode: Survivor (Beta)
- July 1st, 2008: Search Engine Released (Search for nickname, forum titles, guild names, etc)
- July 2nd, 2008: Created New Version of Kate’s Art
- July 21st, 2008: Survivor becomes an official mode
- July 21st, 2008: ALL competition modes must use Quick Battle, and refusals are forbidden.
- July 21st, 2008: Respect Points” Not required for rank, only collection %. 4 new ranks: Veteran, Hero, Legend, Divinity).
- August 15th, 2008: Lulabee becomes the next Miss Clint City.
- October 28th, 2008: Limit on guild board posts in any given subject: 500 max
- October 31st, 2008: New Feature: Make Your Own Events (Must be Level 60+)
- November 7th, 2008: Lowered Event Level Restriction to Level 40+
- November 14th, 2008: New Feature: Rate Events
- November 19th, 2008: New Feature: Ability to post something all friends will see in Friend Activity
- March 30th, 2009: ELO Hall of Fame Introduced and No More “Dominating Clan Bans”, Exclude Most Unbalanced Cards only
- April 27th, 2009: ELO Voting System Changed (1050-1099 = 1 vote, 1500+ = 10 votes, etc)
- May 23rd, 2009: New Feature: Filter the various rankings (Normal Rankings, Hall of Fame, Survivor Hall of Fame, etc)
- June 19th, 2009: New Clan: Skeelz
- July 23rd, 2009: Test of “Mutual” quick battle
- August 18th, 2009: New Room: Lost Warehouse Without Pillz
- September 2nd, 2009: New Feature in Guild’s Private Rooms: No Random & Training Mode and Ability to see future forms of cards not owned.
- October 2nd, 2009: Stat Changes: (Raised Semi EVO Stats for certain “Starter Cards”)
- October 8th, 2009: Collector’s Prize Draw Launch (Kate converts common cards into lotto tickets)
- November 5th, 2009: New Feature: Add picture/emblem to guild
- December 11th, 2009: Urban Rivals Now Available on iPhone and iPod Touch (Free from App Store)
- December 16th, 2009: Kate takes ANY rarity of card and can convert into lotto tickets (C = 2, U = 5, R = 10)
- December 18th, 2009: Missions are created for the game
- December 25th, 2009: Hawkins is made the new Noel card
- February 3rd, 2010: New Feature: Instant Messenger and Ability for guild admin to auto-remove inactive members.
- February 11th, 2010: Fifth Star (DT Star) can also be earned from being in Survivor Top 5 or ELO 100
- February 16th, 2010: New Feature: Ability to close own threads on community board.
- March 19th, 2010: More Missions Available (Added 92, 300+ Available)
- March 23rd, 2010: New Feature: Guild Chat
- March 27th, 2010: New Game Mode: Deathmatch
- May 6th, 2010: Removal of “DM Points” From DM
- May 7th, 2010: New Feature: Ability to change deck in battle room and Removal of ELO Practice Room
- May 21st, 2010: New Feature: Create Your Own Deck Format
- June 8th, 2010: Old packs (Action, Cool Attitude, Danger) replaced by Classic, Elite, Titanium packs and ability to buy “Clintz Packs.” (2K, 4K, or 10K ctz packs).
- June 18th, 2010: New Clan: Vortex
- August 2nd, 2010: New Feature: XP Reserve
- August 19th, 2010: Added Price Graphs to Market
- September 9th, 2010: Deathmatch becomes official game mode, New missions available for DMs
- September 17th, 2010: Jessie becomes the new Miss Clint City.
- September 21st, 2010: New Feature: Auctions (BETA)
- October 25th, 2010: Urban Rivals reaches ONE BILLION players!!!
- November 12th, 2010: Events are no longer usable for missions
- November 23rd, 2010: Market Modification; Before Lowest price shown, Now avg. of last sales shown and Divinity Rank = ALL Cards minus LDs). New rank to come for COMPLETE Collection (LDs too)
- December 20th, 2010: Each clan now has their own special page with tabs for keeping track of cards, presents, comments, and missions.
- December 23th, 2010: Aigwon is made the new Noel card.
- December 23th, 2010: [[-Merci-]'s first card is released: Katrina
- January 4th, 2011: The Beta version is oked and incorporated into the game.
- January 6th, 2011: Scott is brought in as the new legendary card
- January 12th, 2011: New rankings are added (Colossus and Eternal)
- January 20th, 2011: Danger Zone is now for level 25 and higher. The default mode for all rooms will be "no random"
- Feburary 14th, 2011: The Life Points for ELO mode now starts at 14
- May 6th, 2011: New Clan: Berzerk
- May 31st. 2011: The new feature, Secure Trades, is added
- June 30th, 2011: Theme decks are added for sale
- October 10th, 2011: Stella becomes the new Miss Clint City
- December 23rd, 2011: Lola is made the new Noel Card
- March 4th, 2012: Type 2 is changed to Extended and Type 1 is changed to Extended 25
- March 4th, 2012: Standard mode is introduced. All Cards valid in Standard have a checkered background
- March 4th, 2012: Theme Decks removed from sale and Rainbow and Classic packs are replaced by Extended and Standard packs. Full Deck packs also increase from 50 credits to 60 credits
- May 4th, 2012: New Clan: Frozn
- June 13th, 2012: New battle point calculation system started
- July 27th, 2012: New Blood Missions released
- October 15th, 2012: Lizbeth becomes the new Miss Clint City
- October 16th, 2012: Expired NB missions can now be purchased with credits
- December 24th, 2012: Brampah becomes the new Noel card.
- February 27th, 2013: Duel Mode is added.
- March 25th 2013: A system for converting credits into clintz is added.
- April 9th, 2013: System for buying packs has been simplified.
- April 12th, 2013: UR celebrates over 2 billion games played.
- May 1st, 2013: Colluseum mode opens with it's first contest called, Gangster Squad.
- May 17th, 2013: New Clan: Huracan
- June 21st, 2013: New feature in matches telling the player whether they have courage, reprisal, courage or revenge activated is added.
- September 18th, 2013: Derby Queen becomes the new Miss Clint City.
- December 24th, 2013: Clover becomes the new Noel card.
- December 30th, 2013: New format for buying cards is added.
- April 9th, 2014: The Tokenz system is introduced.
- May 16th, 2014: New Clan: Riots
- September 29th, 2014: The slot machines are taken down.
- October 13th, 2014: Nova becomes the new Miss Clint City.
- December 15th to 31st, 2014: Leader Wars is temporarily introduced.
- December 19th, 2014: The Leaders are given a revamp stat-wise.
- January 20th, 2015: Rebirth cards are introduced.
- June 25th, 2015: New Clan: Raptors
- November 16th, 2015: Xingshu becomes the new Miss Clint City.
- November 24th, 2015: Arcade mode is created.
- December 24th, 2015: Lucky becomes the new Noel card.
- May 22nd, 2016: Duel Mode is replaced with Box a Day.
- August 15th, 2016: Impera Sloane becomes the new Miss Clint City.
- September 30th, 2016: New Clan: Hive
- December 15th, 2016: The rebirth system is replaced with just having new art for the older cards.
- December 23rd, 2016: Oon becomes the new Noel card.
- January 16th, 2017: Long time UR card artist, John Sein, dies at the age of 32.
- February 17th, 2017: ELO mode is replaced with ELO Fighting Championship.
- May 4th, 2017: Mythic becomes the newest rarity type.
- May 4th, 2017: The star system for achievements is replaced with badges.
- June 9th, 2017: New Clan: GhosTown
- July 31st, 2017: Pandora becomes the new Miss Clint City
- September 22nd, 2017: The game gets a soft reset. Market is redone.
- October 18th, 2017: Urban Rivals is released on Steam.
- October 30th, 2017: Nemo, the writer for webcomics (the 2017 ones) dies of cancer.
- December 24th, 2017: Poppy Mary becomes the new Noel card.
- April 27th, 2018: New Clan: Dominion
- June 5th, 2018: New Survivor mode.
- September 19th, 2018: Jigi becomes the new Miss Clint City.
- February 5th, 2019: Clan logos are redesigned.
- May 9th, 2019: The Komboka clan is introduced.
- July 12th, 2019: Shift is introduced.
- July 26th, 2019: Terminus mode is introduced.
- October 25th, 2019: Calamity becomes the new Miss Clint City.
- May 1st, 2020: New Clan: Paradox
- October 16th, 2020: Denna becomes the new Miss Clint City.
- January 15th, 2021: Urban Rivals turns 15 years old.
Special thanks to Miss Sky and Hula_Daisy who have found this information.