Closed Test #1. This Saturday, February 27th
We are happy to announce the closed test will take place this Saturday. This test is going to be different from the rest. This test focuses on game mode and balance changes.
The Kingshunt website offers 3 Unique and limited packages, which grant access to our closed Playtest Phase. Get it if you want to take part in the closed playtests!
We hope that you'd be excited to know that with this Closed Test we are preparing for a much larger test.
European servers will run at the same time on a following schedule:
· 9 PM – 12 AM Central European Time
· 12 PM - 3 PM Pacific Time
This test is confidential. While you are free to talk about your experience, releasing any in-game footage, screenshots or streaming is STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
Patch Notes
In this closed test we are bringing you guys our refined gamemode and map changes. We have only included all the necessary stuff in this build to test the gamemode so you won’t be seeing a lot of changes to runes or utilities yet.
Quick summary of the new gamemode:
Major changes have been made to the game mode to bring both teams shared objectives and more linear gameplay. Introducing two Cannons for both teams to push; We are mixing payload game modes with tower defense to better indicate where the line of battle is going on on both lanes bringing much clearer objectives for the new and old players to focus on. Tower and minions still play a huge part of the gameplay loop as the minions can push the payloads without the help of players and the only way to keep them from pushing the payload while the players are fighting amongst themselves are well placed towers. When a Cannon reaches the Guardian it will start shooting at it dealing massive amounts of damage to it but the Defenders can still push the Cannon back to prevent their Guardian from falling to a critical condition. Players and minions can still deal damage to the Guardian but the only way to destroy it is with the help of Cannons.
The map and the gamemode are still a work in progress but we are currently happy to showcase it in a closed environment.
Here is the list of changes, things to test out and known issues:
Changes
- New Gamemode
- Game in one phase only
- Shared Objective for both teams: Cannons on both lanes
- Checkpoints in the halfway of the map. Payloads can’t move back past checkpoint
- Operators respawn at towers after a while they have been killed. Respawn timer rises with each operator death
- Minion aggro logic tweaked
- Guardian has been drastically changed.
- Guardian no longer moves around
- Guardian moveset changed
- Health increased
- Guardian health divided into three sections; Guardian starts regenerating health after it has not taken damage for a while up to the next section
“The Guardian fight has been redesigned so it would feel more fair for players to fight against each other in the area and that the Cannons should be the ones to deal most of the damage to the Guardian. Defenders are still in the upper hand in this area but with these changes the fight around the Guardian should not feel as hectic and attackers should no longer feel necessary to sacrifice their lives for the sake of destroying the Guardian.”
Important things to test
- The map layout
- The gamemode
- Guardian fight
- The balance around the cannons
- The balance around the towers, operators and their respawns
Known Issues
- Missing textures
- Boundary breaks
- Character basic attack slows down sometimes
- Utility costs are unbalanced
Future plans
We are continuing on developing this gamemode and bringing more customization to your playstyle through utilities and runes. To be more specific we are planning on introducing traps and barricades that can be built anywhere on the map, ways to destroy them, player owned minions and upgrades, tower upgrades, active runes, playable characters and much more! Of course all of these things are subject to change.