The endless Tournament mode has arrived in Beta!
Scroll down to the bottom of this post, where we explain how you can simply switch the version of the game to Tournament Beta and play the new content.
About Tournament Mode:
Here you can play a quick, simplified replayable, and more customizable version of the game. Give your best to build a powerful team, and take them through as many rounds as possible fighting gladiators, swarms of wild enemies, and powerful bosses.
Now besides the option to start with random gladiators, you can also choose exactly who your first three fighters will be. Letting you form any kind of tactic that comes to mind:
Tournament Gameplay:
You’ll start with the preparation round. After the first three fights, you will be given a reward where you can choose one of the 8 random powerful gladiators, each having two positive quirks.
After finishing the preparation round you will again have six regular fights. In between those, you’ll get a free gladiator or a free item reward. The round will end with either a Swarm Fight where you’ll be facing a big group of wild enemies or with a powerful Boss Fight. Defeating them will earn you powerful item rewards, then let you choose a new unlockable gladiator, and move you forward to the next round.
You’ll start with five lives, letting you lose 5 battles before the tournament ends.
Each fight will increase your score that will be uploaded to Steam Leaderboard where you can compare yourself with other players and your friends:
(Note that Steam Leaderboard is optional, and you can disable it if you do not wish to participate.)
You’ll have your personal best and last scores recorded locally.
There will be three different leaderboard types. One for Normal game, one for Perma Death, and one for Total Score that will sum up all the points you earned from each Tournament you played.
(Note: Higher the gold compensation for fallen gladiators in PermaDeath mode will earn you a lesser score per battle)
In case you are having trouble winning a fight there are two options to help you out. On the right panel, you have a button to give up your life for more gold and give your team a needed boost to win. Or you can pay gold to completely skip a fight.
Achievements
In addition to Tournament Mode, we have also added Steam Achievements to the game. Although some achievements are for a normal mode which is not available in Beta at the moment. But once we merge both Tournament Beta and the original game they will all become available.
How To Switch To Beta Tournament Mode?
Tournament mode is in Beta Branch until we test it out and make more improvements. Then we will merge it with the main game.
In order to switch to Tournament Beta mode follow these instructions:
* Select Gladiator Guild Manager in your Steam Library
* Click on setting and then properties like this:
*Now click on BETAS tab, and then select: beta_tournament_mode
Your game will update to the beta where only Tournament Mode will be available.
You can always go back to the original game by doing the same and selecting the "None" branch which will bring you back to the previous version's normal game mode.
Conclusion
Merging tournament and normal mode turned out to be a more difficult task than we expected. But we can look at this from the bright side. You guys can play normal mode without worrying about any issues with all these new changes. And we will have time to test and improve Tournament Mod before we merge it with the main game. You can access the update either way, but with this being in Beta we have more room to brainstorm with you guys, get your feedback and improve it before it ends up in the main game branch.
If you decide to give it a try let’s see how far you can push your gladiators through this Tournament arena! We can’t wait to see your scores and hear about the most powerful teams and items combinations that you will come up with.
This mode will be a great help with balancing gladiators as we’ll notice which ones are more or less useful (At some point we will add another Discord voting for buffing and nerfing units)
After polishing, adding a few more things, and merging Tournament mode with the original game, we'll continue developing the normal game. Adding new arenas, gladiators, quirks, and items so we’ll keep adding them to the Tournament mode as well and it will grow together with the rest of the game.
All your suggestions are welcome so feel free to contact us on our Discord or write to us on Steam Community. Since this mode is still in beta it is much more open for improvements and changes so we'd love to hear your ideas, feedback, and experiences! And eventually, we'll end up with a better version of this mode!
Thank you!
-Entertainment Forge Team