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So, started playing this yesterday and I have to say, it is absolutely fantastic.

It's a very unique game being a mix between RTS, MOBA and bullethell shooters. It's free to play with your standard micro transaction shenanigens.

Also, you can play it in your browser if you want too, though the download is only like 10MB anyway.

https://www.carbongames.com/chrome.html

For those who have no clue what this is heres a quick breakdown.

You play as an airmech(no gak), essentialy a transformer with all vehicle variants being some form of airplane, helicopter or even a flying saucer. While in air mode you can only attack air and while in ground mode you can only attack ground (abilities for different types not counting). It's a team game where both teams start with a single base, and like all MOBA's destroying this will win you the game. However, you can also construct units and buildings from this.



This is where the charm of this game comes in. Instead of creating units and giving them specific orders RTS style, the built unit/building will not spawn untill you get to your base (or a captured outpost) once there, you have to pick it up in air mode and put it on the ground somewhere at which point you can also give it a single order which it will start carrying out (attack, capture etc.). So essentialy, once put down, unit AI takes over and you can carry on building stuff or going to the battles yourself.

Also in MOBA style, you level up in the game by building, capturing and destroying just about anything. Every mech variant has 1 unique ability and a few that are shared among them (as an example, the standard fighter gets homing AA missiles).

In pregame you set up your load out of units/buildings and this is where microtransaction come in. You gain kudo points every time you play a game which can be spent on acquiring new units, buildings, skins, pilots, variants etc. The list is already quite big and looks to be growing at a steady pace.

So yeah, I'd say check it out and hope you like it.


I might actually do a video on this though I think I'll try my hand at adding some commentary to it so it will probably take me a few days to get it out there. Have to start somewhere right?

Those air mechs... Valkyrie.
It looks interesting.

Wow, little interest in this for some reason. No one even willing to try it out?

This game reminds me of the old PS1 title Warzone 2100, can units be designed to different specs on this?

I played this for a good while ages ago and it is good fun to spend ages wasting a day for me. I thought you said ages ago you wouldn't play it either?

Ages ago? It only went into open beta last month. And I don't think you can compare the Alpha version to what it's like now.

Do people still play this, just got it a few days ago and it's really nice!

Haven't touched it in a year now, may give it another go next week. I wonder if they changed a lot.

I don't how it exactly was a year ago but from seeing old videos I know that theirs been a UI change.

Played it for a bit before class, quite liked it.

I liked it, but the 2v2 just wasn't cutting it for me; I would much prefer a (Super Hectic) 4v4 or even a 5v5.

You can get a four person survival going on.


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Also they appear to be having server problems today.