New Dungeon Defenders Dlc As Well As Beta For Mac
Starting today, the Mac beta for this new indie game will be available along with a DLC featuring President Obama for Windows Dungeon Defenders game, that already has a Windows version, will reach Mac too. Jun 30, 2013 - Start a New Discussion. Especially since it seems to have been shipped in an alpha/beta quality. As well as looking through forum posts and bug reports i have found the following will help. Is on Windows and he has accees to the DLC and its listed in his map list, if its listed on the Mac i don´t know.
Today, Trendy Entertainment has officially announced Just like the one-time children, now grown-up characters from the original, the game has grown, with a new competitive mode modeled after League of Legends and Dota, a much larger roster of playable characters, and an emphasis on the ability to play it cross-platform. IGN interviewed marketing director Philip Asher and gameplay producer / designer Scott Chatten to learn more about what’s next for Trendy’s addictive tower-defense franchise. More Options Equals More Fun “We believe the game was at its best when different heroes with different play styles strategized and fought together,” said Asher, “We wanted to expand that with the sequel. That means more heroes, more towers, more enemies and a greater diversity all around.” Indeed, with a planned initial roster of 24 heroes at launch, the team at Trendy aims to vastly outdo the original Dungeon Defenders' four starting heroes. “This time our heroes aren’t all the same age or same size, so there will be a lot of variation in gameplay,” said Chatten.
Every hero in Dungeon Defenders II will have their own types of towers and abilities, and new heroes are slated to be released regularly. Each hero will also have six slots available to customize their appearance. All equipment this time around is hero-specific, and will greatly change the way your character looks. If you end up falling in love with the stats on a particular item, you don’t have cause to worry, as the plan is to allow you to transfer stats between cosmetic items.
A Changing Market So why go free-to-play, selling cosmetic items and the like when the original Dungeon Defenders sold more than 1.5 million copies (not including the 3 million downloads it did on mobile)? Asher says it’s all about building up a larger player base with the low-price point incentive. “The constant stream of new players entering the game would mean there were always enough people for low-level players to play with, and eventually more higher-level players to play with the vets.” This sounds great to me, because as a lover of the first one of the things I abhorred was playing alone, and it wasn’t always easy to find a game with people of similar level. Lots of new towers to play with in co-op.
The fear with any game going free-to-play is that it might feel like you can pay-to-win, or that you might have to dump untold amounts of cash into the game to get what you need to play. Asher was quick to alleviate my concerns, noting that there will always be a rotating cast of heroes you can play for free, you’ll be able to earn heroes simply by playing, and that you can purchase the original game’s four heroes for about the same price as the first game. Additional purchasable items will include the previously mentioned cosmetic items (some will be earnable just by playing). League of Legends, Meet Defenders’ MOBA I found the original game’s competitive modes completely forgettable, and it’s nice to see Trendy recognize that it really had to do something different with the sequel. “Since the release of Second Wave Editor’s Note: This was DLC for the original, we’ve been constantly playing with different multiplayer modes for Dungeon Defenders,” said Asher. The problem was the modes it introduced weren’t all that great, and didn’t, “fit really well with the Dungeon Defenders’ universe or gameplay.” The solution? A MOBA of course.
Dungeon Defenders II will have gameplay immediately familiar to those who play games in the genre, complete with three-lanes, towers and the ultimate goal of destroying the enemy teams’ base. Chatton says that what Trendy’s trying to make is, “a much more casual MOBA,” noting that the studio, “replaced the item system with an easier-to-learn consumable system, decreased the advantages of out-of-game persistent hero progression,” as well as tried to make it overall an easier experience to understand. The competitive mode is somewhat separate from the cooperative mode, too.
The progression you make in the tower defense portion of the game doesn’t carry over into competitive mode, or vice-a-versa. You will earn experience to progress what sounds like an overall competitive account, and if you leveling it up will earn you additional skills for competitive play, but your hero will always start at level one in any given match, leveling up throughout. Asher said the team is playing around with ways to connect the co-op and competitive level progression, and may indeed do so at some point in development, but for now the two remain separate to maintain balance. The perspective for the competitive mode.
You also gain loot by playing the competitive mode. At the end of each match you’ll be rewarded items, and while you can carry over the cosmetics of any item you find between the co-op and competitive modes, there stats will differ.
Play at Home or Mobile - This Time They Mean It The original Dungeon Defenders was supposed to have cross-platform play, but it eventually fell through. This time around, though, Trendy is using their own proprietary technology, and they want you to play with your friends whether they’re on PC, Mac, Android or iOS.
Called Playverse, it’s also supposed to introduce a number of social features like chat, friends lists, notifications, and more, though details are currently limited. The bit of sad news in all of the talk about platforms is that Dungeon Defenders II won’t be releasing on PSN or Xbox Live.
“When starting to develop Dungeon Defenders II, we wanted to focus on platforms that would allow consistent updates and cross-platform play. Because of this, we decided to not release Dungeon Defenders II on current-generation consoles,” said Asher. The good news for console players in all of this is that there’s still hope, as Asher added the following caveat, “However, if the next generation consoles fit this bill, we would consider releasing Dungeon Defenders II there as well.” When Can I Play, Though? The biggest question on most everyone’s mind whose read this far! The closed beta for Dungeon Defenders II’s competitive mode has already begun, while the beta for the co-op mode is targeted for later this year. Yeah, we are too. Look to IGN for more coverage on Dungeon Defenders II when we get access.
Warning: Pessimistic Outlook I think its just too radical of a change. New looks, new mode (which is arguably trying to become the default mode), new business model. As for moving into the MOBA territory, i have to ask why?
League of Legends and DOTA have already claimed that. What could Trendy do better than them?
New Dungeon Defenders Dlc As Well As Beta For Mac Os
Did people actually ask for this? Nothing they showed there stands out as anything new to the genre. Also, they are taking one of the worst aspect of League of Legends, rotating free characters, instead of the widely enjoyed DOTA approach of every character available. I've played games with people for years at LAN parties, at people's houses, online and I've yet to meet any community more unpleasant, more autistic and more deserving of a collapsed skull than the MOBA community. My vitrol towards them stems greatly from the fact that never once before have I been treated badly in real life while playing a game.
Yes, everybody and their dog has had my mum in online games, but in real life? Sportsmanship is the norm, even in CSS and Battlefield games, yet when playing LoL, or particularly DOTA, I've been directly insulted, belittled and made to feel unwelcome, and this was during my first few games and these were people who go to a top university, these people share a degree with me and they know they'll continue seeing me. They just acted like utter cunts towards me over a video game.
Online it is even worse. I will not ever play another MOBA game again.
The entire genre is dead to me. From your website and FAQ, i do not read it as a MOBA. The most telling thing I read from the FAQ was that the Competetive mode is in Beta now while the Co-op isn't expected to go into beta until late this year early next year. I understand you want to give the best experience for co-op, but that seems to be the biggest push of the 'MOBA on Top' feeling to me. If the MOBA launches first, the co-op mode will not get the same hype around it.
At least that's my opinion of game releases. Perhaps the IGN article I read just focused on the MOBA so much because it was a big part of the new game. I will say however that i took my MOBA bias and assumed many of the FAQ questions were only for the MOBA. For example, I'm not sure if this rotating character list is for both the MOBA and Co-op mode or just MOBA.
I'm still just not excited for a new MOBA game. It's nothing against Trendy and i very much enjoyed Dungeon Defenders, but it seems there are so many MOBAs coming out.