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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLcRnn0WjK0 Transformers Universe is a third person shooter set in the Transformers universe, where you play as robots that turn into things that can turn into robots. It's free to play and has a large cast of characters you won't recognize, and it's currently in open beta. And by open beta, I really mean beta. This game is buggy as heck and pretty unfinished, but the core gameplay that's here is already pretty fun and the robots look great.  The game's playstyle is one of those slower, high-health shooters with a lot of running away and regrouping elsewhere. Fights are big, long, and frantic, frequently ending in people turning into cars and having a chase sequence while they try to finish one another off. The flow of movement during combat, switching forms and taking advantage of what you can do as a robot or a vehicle, is super cool and lots of fun. They nailed the core combat mechanics. But the game isn't finished yet and a lot of things are rough around the edges. Oh and it's made by Jagex, who made Runescape, which is really weird because I wouldn't expect them to have made this.  How does it play? Third person team-based shooter. Right now there's a deathmatch gametype and a point-capture gametype. They use the same maps but they play pretty differently. Each character has three weapons and three abilities, with a slot for consumable items and some other unlockable slots for stuff that buffs you. As you play, you'll level up and be able to upgrade your characters' stats. Leveling is faction-wide, so you can level up as whoever you want and all of your characters benefit. There's also a free-roaming co-op zone where you'll be assigned missions against Terrorcons or Vehicons or whatever. This earns you a lot of Energon and you can play it while queued for the PvP modes. The free-roam mode is really basic and kind of mediocre right now, but it's got a lot of potential once they add more interesting objectives and more stuff to do on those maps. Unlocking characters isn't too bad. They generally cost between 2000 to 5000 of the cash-shop currency, and you earn between 40 to 70 of that currency per match depending on how well you do and if your team wins or loses. It'll take some time, but you start with three characters so you're not just stuck with one guy. Starter Characters: Autobots:  Monsoon is big and slow. He has a chaingun, battle axe, and grenade launcher. He's your tanky bruiser. Triage is a medic, he's got a charge-up blast cannon, dual pistols, and a medi-beam. Unsurprisingly he turns into an ambulance. Overclock is fast, frail, and does a lot of burst damage. He has a rocket launcher, a lock-on laser beam, and giant metal punchy fists. Decepticons:  Rampart is Monsoon but he's a bad guy and looks different. Hotwire is Triage but he's a bad guy and looks different. Drive-By is Overclock but he's a bad guy and has the best name I've ever seen a Decepticon have.  The game asks you to choose what starter you want, but it will give you all three of them anyway. You do not have to actually choose.Each faction has an equivalent robot on the other faction for basically everything. Their guys look different and are themed differently (dual hammers VS chainsaws for arms) but play the same. This may change in the future once iconic characters like Optimus Prime and Megatron are added to the roster. There are no iconic Transformers yet, but they are coming eventually. Hot Rod is visible as one of the bots in the Founders Pack so you can probably bet we'll see a lot of established characters going forward and not just these new guys.  But what faction should I play? Can I change later? Pick whichever one you like (Decepticons are more popular currently so their queues might be slower), you can switch at any time. The first time you want to swap factions you need to do it via the toggle on the website and create a second screenname. Do not make a second account for the other faction. Your cash-shop currency is shared cross-faction but your XP is set per-faction. Your screenname has to be different for each faction for some reason but both screennames will be linked to the same account. There's some sort of referral bonus for other players joining, so here's my link if you want to help me out with that. You can get to the website here if you don't want to sign up through my referral link. And people can feel free to post their own referral links too, if y'all want to get a chain going. I recommend downloading the client instead of playing in-browser. The initial download is small, but it'll download maps and characters as you encounter them for the first time so your initial load-times might be slow while it does this. Founders Packs are available if you want to spend a lot of money on the game. They're kind of expensive for what you get, which is sort of standard for F2P games these days. Lots of characters and some custom solid-gold character reskins for the more expensive packs, barely anything for the cheaper ones. The game is pretty unfinished and the environments are kind of ugly but it's still pretty fun, and I think it could end up being a pretty good game once they develop it further. Sea Lily fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Aug 6, 2014 |
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The biggest difference between those games and this is probably that bots have way more health and fights are slower. And currently there's no flying vehicle forms just yet. But it's absolutely scratching the same itch that War/Fall multiplayer did for me.
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Sire Oblivion posted:I tried it out because I get pretty hard for Fall of Cybertron's multiplayer and this game doesn't really do it for me, outside of the bugs and stuttery nature of the game, everything feels a ton slower and all of the weapons are peashooters. It takes forever to kill somebody. I get that they want people to last longer so they don't go through their Transformer reserves so quick (when you die that Transformer you used is in "repair mode," effectively a cool-down so you're forced to use another one) but that mechanic in itself it really stupid. Lower the cool-down on the repair mode, up the damage on the weapons and don't make everything slow. Yeah, there's no dash. Vehicle mode is faster and it's pretty quick to swap modes when you need faster mobility. Some characters have an ability that boosts movespeed temporarily too. But I agree, the cooldown mechanic is kind of frustrating to deal with. The cost to remove the cooldown is usually pretty cheap though (like 40 Energon I think?) so it's not too bad to deal with unless you're dying an excessive amount, which does happen sometimes. As you level up more you'll gain things you can equip to your characters that provide extra bonuses to them (stuff like reducing power cooldowns when you get a kill or buffing movespeed when you get damaged), and those take the cooldown hit for you when you die, letting you use your bot again immediately but without those equipped bonuses. I've only got one of those slots open so far but there's something like eight of them, so the cooldown thing might become less of a problem as you level up more?
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Also worth knowing: The middle mouse button function on the heal-beam is a quick burst heal, which can really save someone's rear end if you've got the heal-boost ability active at the time. There's a lot of combinations you can take advantage of to wreck the enemy team, but sticking together is priority number one just due to stuff like dogpiling on an immobilized enemy.
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They're continuing the double XP thing through this upcoming weekend it looks like, if people are still interested in trying this out. Getting past the early levels and into some of the more useful bits of equipment slots can be pretty helpful for making the game be a little less punishing when you die.Sire Oblivion posted:So basically, this game isn't in Fall of Cybertron. Which is my beef with it; it's just too god drat slow and you have to rely on others to get kills depending on your class which is really lame design. Yeah, it's still in beta though, so make sure you include that feedback in the post-play survey and there's a good chance they'll change things up a bit. That's basically what I hear most people saying about the game so they've got to be hearing that from the players. But I don't know this company well so who knows if they'll actually listen or not to people.
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AlmightyBob posted:So they can sell you ones that are. Yeah, basically that. They're going to be selling the big name characters later on. It's also probably a lot quicker an approval process with Hasbro if they make up new characters instead of having to design iconic ones and get those approved. Originally this game was a Transformers MMO where you chose a chassis and made your own character out of it, so I think most of these models are leftovers from that point in time, when they were meant to be generic player model options. But that's just a guess on my part.
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Game's updated and removed the death cooldown mechanic from characters, so there's no 'repair' currency or waiting to play as whoever you want to play anymore. A pretty good change. They've also added a few characters since anyone last posted in the thread. I don't know if there's much interest in playing the game right now but that seemed like a significant enough change to be worth letting people know about.
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welp this game got canceled lol https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214
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