Scholarships take “MM” out of “mmorpg” in a super fun way

It's always cool when a game designer takes a neat thing out of a complex genre and turns it into a whole game. After all, that's how we get MOBA – just dropping heroes from RT. Enter the scholarship, a so-called multiplayer online dungeon adventure that will pull out the team-based dungeon raid, which is the beating heart of modern MMOs and turn them into streamlined games – before you reach your best, There is no one hundred hours of time.

After a period of development scholarship, I have to say that the concept sounds as cool as it sounds: it's undoubtedly endlessly expanding the dungeon on a four-man tank team, a healer and two damages Heroes run from a series of unique courses. In a group you will be yourself, or with a team of a handy group finder, you can play a chosen role in a short and sweet one boss adventure or longer multi-boss dungeon – let you according Whether it depends on the game time you have ten minutes or an hour of killing.

Finally, you pick up the loot, adjust your talents, make up for the difficulties, and then go again.

I kind of doubt you can have a real, MMO-style dungeon experience without MMO, but the scholarship does provide effectively. You can clean up enemies in the environment to get to the boss, and all the classic stuff you expect is there: you have to observe the threat of tanks and manage Aggro, try to make life easier for the healer, tracking enemies can interrupt Annoying ability and know how to best use class attacks in a good rotation.

Behind the steering wheel of the Elemental Mage-type character, I have a lot of abilities to manage even at the starting level. My character has built a fee that can be used to lower the cost of freezing meteors or channel icy explosions. Meanwhile, our therapists can summon damaged or healed plants. It’s obvious that for my short time each class has a good, clear vision of what it can and can’t do. By the way, if I took my boss, Boss Aggro, something that my mean mage couldn't do. Sorry, tank.

Speaking of boss, I saw four fun performance battles that ran to a range of things in the modern dungeon run I expected. In a ghost pirate dungeon, we fight the skeleton captain who needs a quick reflection as it throws the ghost into its body. There is a huge treasure structure that cannot be trampled – Currently, our tanks have to roll a ball to collect the treasure we are knocking down. There is also a giant zombie summoning tide that asks us to tie ourselves to anchors and dodge sharks.

This is not all the heads, though, and developers are clear that they want to strike a balance between combat that requires reflection and understanding smart mechanics that really push your class skills to the limit. They provide me with a great example of this, including a nasty warlock boss, who needs to be interrupted even if he creates areas that force us to group… or escape at the highest speed.

What I particularly like is the structure of the scholarship. Dungeon difficulty shrinks from one to six levels, gradually adding new enemy learning abilities to understand, understand and take off the training wheels until you reach the expected difficulties. But from there, it rises to dozens of levels, each with a unique combination of two or more curses that have their own drawbacks and premises. For example, one of them can sprinkle annoying authorized slaves in a normal enemy bag, but when you defeat them you get a short buff that allows you to remove garbage faster or facilitate bosses to be able to facilitate your boss .

The concept of the game focuses on infinitely expanding dungeons, familiar but dangerous in new ways, which is a very cool concept. Combining it with the developers’ major plans for the competitive season, where players can start fresh ranking competitions to compete for the first kills of each boss, I think I’m happy to be able to equip, regulate and respond to challenges launched this year scholarship.