Bloodline Champions

[Cinderwild]

www.bloodlinechampions.com

Bloodline Champions is a free to play team-based PvP arena game where you fight it out with a bunch of different 'bloodlines' (aka classes).

The game has no stats and all your attacks have to be aimed. All the alternate class outfits and weapons are purely cosmetic, as are levels.

There's 21 Bloodlines currently, five of each archetype (ranged damage, melee damage, tank, healer) and an extra melee damage.

There's 4 bloodlines available each week (one of each archetype), and you can permanently unlock them with the in-game currency, or just buy the special edition of the game and get them all.

Anyways, I think its pretty fun and it'd be cool to have some people to play with steadily. It does feel pretty limiting only getting 4 per week, but its also a chance to focus on new characters and broaden your abilities.

(Just a hint, if you start playing this week, the ranged damage dealer Ignitor is a bit difficult to play against other people. I'm focusing on it and its easy to get railed hard.)

[Kenogu Labz]

Looks like a DotA-like game; if you've played League of Legends, Heroes of Newerth, Defense of the Ancients itself, or any similar games, can you give any differences or improvements on the formula? As it is, it looks fairly cookie-cutter (except perhaps bypassing the 'elite' player baseline).

[Cinderwild]

Yeah I've heard that a lot, but I didn't mention it because I wasn't sure how similar they really were. I've never played any other DotA game.

I think the appeal is supposed to be the lack of gear/variable stats/leveling up. You're always on equal ground as far as setup goes.

[Kenogu Labz]

Yeah, that's a general property of DotA games, though it sounds as if this even eliminates the in-round level progression. You never gain any sort of power during a single round?

[Dhsu]

So basically it's 3rd-person TF2?

[Jamphibious]

My roommate was telling me about this. Sounds pretty interesting, a more skill-based DotA experience, rather than relying partly on auto attacks and outleveling people so they don't stand a chance.

I dunno, PvP arena based games have been pretty hit and miss for me, but it might be worth checking out.

[Dhsu]

Now 30% off.

https://register.funcom.com/signup/ctrl/register/us/bloodline

[Tensei]

The main similarity with other Dotalikes is that you have two teams of heroes (or whatever theyre called in this game) that fulfill different roles, with different strengths and weaknessess going at each other, but that's pretty much it.

The controls are WASD to move and mouse to aim, which is a pretty radical departure from typical Dotalike control schemes. I guess you could say it controls similarly to Bastion and other games like that. The only ingame progression is that after doing or taking enough damage (I think?) you get the ability to cast your ultimate, you don't level up or buy items.

AFAIK there are no targeted attacks, but everything including your main attack is a skillshot. The main goal of the game is to kill all enemy heroes in a relatively small arena, and it's actually much more like online FPS deathmatches in that respect. 3rd person TF2 in a fantasy setting is a pretty accurate description. A single round shouldn't last much longer than a few minutes.