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Spiritfarer studio’s 33-player roguelike gives us a closer look at its MMO-style raidsA closed beta arrives next month
A closed beta arrives next month
Image credit:Thunder Lotus Games
Image credit:Thunder Lotus Games
33 Immortals - Beta Gameplay Trailer | The Triple-i InitiativeWatch on YouTube
33 Immortals - Beta Gameplay Trailer | The Triple-i Initiative
The start of the trailer gives us a glimpse at how outfitting and matchmaking 33 players might work. Essentially, it looks like you’re dropped into a hub space where you select a weapon of choice, then jump headlong into a gold portal. Of course, it remains a mystery as to how it determines what layer of hell you’ll get plopped in, whether it matchmakes you with folks of your level (if there even are levels), and how it might deal with warriors suffering from the most frightening of afflictions: internet drop outs. Still, I’m sure these will be answered in time.
Combat looks fine! The usual numbers bopping out of heads, as you hit skeletal harpies and giant locusts with big swords and bows. Those classic Hades-style visual cues, as your sword arcs, enemies self-destruct, and you clock them with status effects. Fireballs to dodge and items to consume. Not that I have a problem with this, I am more than happy with familiar roguelike battling.
And it looks like you’ll venture into these dungeons more often as groups of four to six, rather than it being a colossal 33 on screen at all times. Clips show a few pals healing up at a “Bone Shrine”, hopping into a portal whose number ticks up from “2/6” to “6/6”, then being transported into a “Torture Chamber” home to glistening chests and beefy guardians. Of course, these chests are cracked open to reveal relics of varying rarity that’ll modify your moves. The “Eagle Talon” shown causes an explosion upon dashing, which pleases me. Eight slots for these goodies are shown, too, which bodes well for the buildcrafters.
If any of that tickled your fancy, there’s a closed beta that begins on May 24th, and you can sign up at the game’sofficial websiteif you’d like a chance to get stuck in.
