showtime Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Dota Underlords is a free to play PC and mobile game developed by Valve. It's in the genre of 'auto chess', which is a relatively new genre. Background: This is going to be rough, but here it goes. In the Dota 2 client, users are able to create custom games. Some users created a game called 'auto chess' and it became wildly popular. Drodo Studios is eventually what this group would become and I believe they got bought out by EPIC Games - who they will be creating an auto chess game for. Because of this extreme success, Riot (the creators of League of Legends) have also announced their version of an auto chess game within the world of LoL. Due to all of this, Valve put out a game extremely quickly. I'm talking like maybe after working on it for a few months, at most. As you guessed, the game revolves around the Dota 2 universe. How the game works: This is a game on a chess board. At the start of every round, you can use your gold to buy characters. Each character is apart of a core group (assassin, warrior, hunter, druid, etc) and each character also has secondary bonuses. The more characters you put together from the same groups and similar bonuses allows you to have certain benefits. You place your characters on the chess board as you see fit and when the round starts - they fight. During the fight, you are not able to do anything. Characters attack, use abilities and items on their own. There are 8 players per game. Everyone starts at 100 health. You lose health every time you lose a round. The amount of health you lose is based off how many characters are left from the enemy team (I believe, still not sure how this works exactly). You do this until a winner is crowned. I'm personally loving the game a lot. It's a lot of fun and the game is getting updated with balance changes, new game modes, ranks, levels, etc nearly everyday. Does anyone here play? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelonebillsfan Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Idk I think Autochess and Leagues version are still better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showtime Posted June 22, 2019 Author Share Posted June 22, 2019 25 minutes ago, Thelonebillsfan said: Idk I think Autochess and Leagues version are still better. I haven't played it yet. I've never really liked League of Legends that much. Dota is better. As far as the auto chess games are concerned, I'll def try it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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showtime Posted June 28, 2019 Author Share Posted June 28, 2019 This game is pretty clearly better than Teamfight Tactics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger murdock Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 I really dont like Underlords,I think TFT and the Dota mod are considerably better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showtime Posted June 30, 2019 Author Share Posted June 30, 2019 2 hours ago, roger murdock said: I really dont like Underlords,I think TFT and the Dota mod are considerably better. What don't you like about Underlords? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger murdock Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 4 hours ago, showtime said: What don't you like about Underlords? Less fun synergies than Autochess and TFT and theres less personality as well. It feels claustrophobic and its easier to follow others players in the other games as well. I do love the item system and the way there are class/race based items. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showtime Posted July 1, 2019 Author Share Posted July 1, 2019 16 hours ago, roger murdock said: Less fun synergies than Autochess and TFT and theres less personality as well. It feels claustrophobic and its easier to follow others players in the other games as well. I do love the item system and the way there are class/race based items. I like TFT as well, but the UI is really bad. I've also seen many TFT players complain about it. I know Riot and Valve are hard at work patching the games like every day or every other day. I'm enjoying both. For Underlords, they just added a bunch of voice lines to the game for certain characters. I think we'll see some more updates in that regard to the UI and game play as well this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showtime Posted July 2, 2019 Author Share Posted July 2, 2019 This week's update will arrive on Thursday. We're currently wrapping up a few experimental features we'd like to get your feedback on, and they require a bit more testing before we put them in front of you. Features to look forward to on this Thursday's update: Warlock Alliance rework. Warlock Units tweaks. Shaman Alliance rework. Shaman Units tweaks. 3 New Items. Tweaks to the Alliance Items and how they work. Tweaks to Win and Lose Streaks. Large Scoreboard. And some experimental features. The week after you'll see the release of progression and what we call the Proto-Battle Pass. This beta Battle Pass will let us iterate on the system with you and get your feedback on what works and what doesn't plus what kind of content you'd like the Season 1 Battle Pass to include. See you all later this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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