Dota Underlords
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2019 8:07 am
I don't know if any of you have seen the recent rise of the "auto chess" games that have been coming out, but i wanted to see what it was all about and decided to check this one.
Right now there's Dota Underlords, which is a game spin off from Valve's Dota 2 and League of Legends Teamfight Tactics that are the big ones. Obviously both come from the MOBA genre and use the same characters from their games. Dota's is actually in open beta for free on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1046 ... nderlords/ and League's TFT can only be played on the beta server but is supposed to release into the regular game client very shortly.
Its a simple yet deep fight simulation. You pick your team to fight for you as you build your roster up you try and combine teammates that combo well together. Each round you place your guys on the chess board wherever you like and then they automatically go fight till someone wins. There is actually alot of strategy at play here, you can spend your gold and upgrade your fighters early or sit back and save up some gold for a better late game team. RNG is a big factor in this game but if your good you can play off of this and still do really well, i think of it like poker. Someone may get some really good cards and there's nothing you can do about that, but if you play smart you can overcome this in the long run.
you can play vs AI or PVP. in PVP the game sets you up with 7 others players and you fight a different one in each round. Slowly dropping each others HP until your to zero. I found if your doing bad the game will be done in 15 mins, but if your one of the last two standing it can be almost 40 mins. There is a ranking mode in DOTA's version, i played it for like 10 hours on Saturday and got to upper tier 3.
I've never played DOTA so there was a learning curve for me in what characters do what. I'm really looking forward to trying out the LOL TFT game when its available.
Right now there's Dota Underlords, which is a game spin off from Valve's Dota 2 and League of Legends Teamfight Tactics that are the big ones. Obviously both come from the MOBA genre and use the same characters from their games. Dota's is actually in open beta for free on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1046 ... nderlords/ and League's TFT can only be played on the beta server but is supposed to release into the regular game client very shortly.
Its a simple yet deep fight simulation. You pick your team to fight for you as you build your roster up you try and combine teammates that combo well together. Each round you place your guys on the chess board wherever you like and then they automatically go fight till someone wins. There is actually alot of strategy at play here, you can spend your gold and upgrade your fighters early or sit back and save up some gold for a better late game team. RNG is a big factor in this game but if your good you can play off of this and still do really well, i think of it like poker. Someone may get some really good cards and there's nothing you can do about that, but if you play smart you can overcome this in the long run.
you can play vs AI or PVP. in PVP the game sets you up with 7 others players and you fight a different one in each round. Slowly dropping each others HP until your to zero. I found if your doing bad the game will be done in 15 mins, but if your one of the last two standing it can be almost 40 mins. There is a ranking mode in DOTA's version, i played it for like 10 hours on Saturday and got to upper tier 3.
I've never played DOTA so there was a learning curve for me in what characters do what. I'm really looking forward to trying out the LOL TFT game when its available.