Might & Magic : Showdown

On steam for 20 dollars, early access.

I downloaded tonight and played through all the campaign. Kind of fun and requires abit of tactic planning.

In essence you have a hero and 2-3 minions for most missions (also has 3v3 and 4v4 pvp). Its on a tactic grid but plays out in real time. Your minions you don't directly control but can script them (probably one of the best scripting tools ive ever seen surprisingly). You also have choices as to what skills to use etc (most get 8, some must be unlocked) but you have energy total so you can only have so many scripts based off energy.

Your hero you can equip up to 6 skills and have full control of him as far as abilities go all of which have various cool downs. You get 8-9 to pick from and there are a lot of synergy's as far as abilities doing extra damage or additional CC if certain abilities are present etc. Fairly strategically game.

Graphics are pretty awesome compared to most tactical games and they have a HUGE customization of your miniatures that you collect as far as painting them etc for people that like that shit. For 20 bucks worth seeing how much is developed on it but I have always liked the M&M franchise and it pulls a lot from it including all the hero's and minions and their abilities.

At least at this point there isn't micro transactions, you pay 19.99 for the game.

There is a very significant amount of strategy and tactical decisions. The 3v3 or 4v4 matches include your hero which you are constantly using abilities and adjusting and its very hectic. Your minions you have to be smart on all their scripts and there its probably the best scripting I've seen in games with a plethora of options to handle all sorts of things. You will adjust them a lot. The campaign took me 4-5 hours maybe if I recall, there are a few challenging fights.

You also unlock a few additional abilities after lvl'ing up the individual hero's. The combo's are essentially 1 script with certain abilities scaling additionally the further they are used in the that script, there are also synergies such as using an ability on a rooted mob to stun it as well etc. Their is taunting/provoke which really changes things and forces you to adjust . Honestly i'm pretty impressed since these fuckers have butched one of my favorite series of all time. For 19.99 its pretty fun, I did arena pvp 3v3 and 4v4 for about 4 hours last night and there is a lot of depth. I'll be interested to see how much they flesh it out before final release but even as is I'm not complaining about buying.

So played this for a few more hours today, actually really starting to enjoy. Its abit like fast paced M&M DoC kinda, there is a lot of different team comps and strats you can do. One thing I fucking DERPA DERPA'd on was the secquences of your scripts. The default attack one is on the bottom of the list so I though they went in ascending order but its the opposite (and ordered by number which I should have paid attention to). So basically I was putting abilities on bottom that I wanted to trigger at the start of the fights and they almost never went off in the fights so I thought it was buggy. Haha so dumb of me, once I realized this I started winning almost all my matches since my cc was landing much better.

I hope they put some content and get some more visibility on this, I could really enjoy playing it for a while.

Its last man standing, and there is enough hero's and minion options so there is a lot of options to try and use, plus you have to level individual hero's to unlock some of their ability options. Also you get 60 seconds to edit existing scripts once you get a match but you only see their hero and you also can pick your minions. So if I see the healer hero for instance I got a lot of single target burst and switch scripts to attack best support.

And there is a lot of activity in the match itself when you are playing the hero switching targets and trying to get syngery abilities etc. Fairly chaotic to be honest keeping track of everything going on especially 4v4.

There is a minion that is an assasian, does insane damage once in melee range but has the lowest hp in the game and if it gets 1 cc on it its dead before it does shit. One clever thing to do is to have his opening script to use his flee ablility so he runs away fromt he fight for a few seconds which keeps him from getting caught in a lot of cc and then he jumps in and just blows shit up. I'm lvl'ing up havagar the AE mage. Its hit or miss because if the team comp doesn't have people who group up then it negates a lot of his his advantage so i'm doing 4v4's instead of 3v3 which the queue kind of sucks.