12-06-2012, 03:13 PM
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My Troll Hat is Bigger than Yours!
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Wellington
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It's a top down, standard DotA style view... like Warcraft 3.
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/10/gu...-xbla-and-psn/
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Monolith started with the premise that it wanted to "make a new experience for console players," says producer Tim Coolidge, and the team turned early to the MOBA genre. Pioneered by Defense of the Ancients, originally a Warcraft 3 mod based on a Starcraft map, MOBA combines RTS select-and-move mouse controls with action RPG progression on a 5v5 player competitive map. It's a dense game structure, full of complex strategies and quick mouse-and-keyboard controls. In other words, it's exactly the kind of game you wouldn't bring to consoles.
"One thing we found out really early on was that single target abilities are really hard to pull off. Obviously on a PC you can click on a specific guy. But on the console we found that anything where you're single targeting was really difficult," says senior producer Ruth Tomandl. "So what we did is pretty much all the abilities are line attacks or cone attacks around you, and if a Guardian is within that cone then that's who your ability will really affect."
Believe it or not, the controls work: I was able to pull off abilities and combos with nearly as much complexity as the PC MOBAs. Legolas, for example, has a rooting ability that locks enemy players down, as well as a quick dash ability, and another one that knocks back targets away from him. After a little bit of practice, I was able to use those abilities together, dashing forward past a fleeing enemy, knocking him back into harm's way, and then locking him down in place for the finish. The toughest part is making sure the aiming is lined up (you move with the left stick, and target with the right), but it's amazing that it works on a controller at all.
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Originally Posted by shadowrampage
nearly all my weapons are one hit kills to mid and lower mobs my ctar pretty boss like(refer to my xbox ctar)
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