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velk

Trakanon Raider
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In closed beta currently - disclaimer - I haven't actually played it ( I have too many games to finish to play beta stuff ), but sadly I've watched more hours of people playing it than I've actually played anything recently.

It's kind of like a weird combination of a card game like magic, with a roguelike autobattler. The asymmetric pvp kind of appeals to be, given pvp isn't really my thing, your mileage may vary on how much you want your opponents to suffer/how bad you feel at getting your ass handed to you.

The gameplay for the three heroes they have at the moment is wildly different, with a lot of neat mechanics - like the pig hero that gets various items that grow more powerful as he buys and sells stuff, or the mini-robot that has to build around a particular fixed item called a core, which sort of forces different playstyles on which one you choose/get in a run.

Free to play with 'founder packs for beta access' made me immediately suspicious, but it appears from what they have done so far that their monetization model is:
1) PVP glory ( pay money for ranked tickets to get a PVP rank )
2) Cosmetics ( ranked game wins give chests with cosmetic items etc )
3) Heroes ( buy a new hero with their own cards etc ).

Of course, that may all change when they get greedy or desperate, time will tell.

I can't really say what about it appeals to me, but it just does.
 

Droigan

Trakanon Raider
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Yeah it's Reynads game that's been in the works for a few years. I am waiting for release.

Problem with it currently is that there are too few items (they plan to add far more). From what I've heard the intended mechanic is that RNG should decide the build and skill comes in how to best utilize what you've been given. To get away from meta builds that's been a problem with similar games (like Backpack battles). Sure there will be some strong combinations, but you're not ment to be able to force them. Right now, you can get a few items early on and then, more often than not, force a build based on them.
 

Kuro

Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
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There are definitely meta builds you can force at the moment, but every patch is plugging infinite combo holes. Servers are pretty unstable and I've repeatedly lost progress/rewards, so I might suggest waiting until free beta in December while they work kinks out.

The ability to randomly acquire items meant for other characters on some runs creates some really neat hybrid builds. The NPCs you fight also have the chance to drop items/skills that are sometimes strong enough to warrant pivoting your current build to
 

GhenghisKhan

Molten Core Raider
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Servers are pretty unstable and I've repeatedly lost progress/rewards, so I might suggest waiting until free beta in December while they work kinks out.
This is my biggest complaint so far after trying to play for a bit. Servers keep crashing non stop.
 

meStevo

I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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I can't even sign up to indulge in any fomo early access, site not working well I guess (see some older reddit posts about it happening in the past I guess)