A DIFFERENT KIND OF TURN-BASED
Atlas Reactor comes to us via Trion Worlds, a developer primarily known for massively multiplayer games such as Rift. While Atlas Reactor is online-focused, it's not massive in any sense of the word. It's a game about teams of opponents fighting on mostly symmetrical maps, not unlike Dota 2 or the aforementioned League of Legends. It is, in almost every sense, a change of pace for Trion.
It's also turn-based.
Here's how the game works in what is currently Atlas Reactor's primary mode: At the start of a match, each player picks a hero character (known as a "freelancer") to control. Teams can be made up of as few as two players or as many six on each side.
Matches consist of turns where each player plots out the action they want to perform. But unlike most turn-based multiplayer games, each player is taking their turn at the same time in Atlas Reactor. And although turn-based often translates as slow and contemplative, Trion wants games to move at a good clip, so there's a tight time limit to how long each turn lasts.
When each player has finished inputting their choices for the turn, everyone's actions play out simultaneously. That may sound messy, and it certainly could be in practice, but Atlas Reactor handles it smartly by splitting actions into a number of distinct phases.
GIVE AWAY CODES:
Atlas Reactor: Gray’s Citadel Style code; to receive code subscribe to channel, like the video and comment where the best citadel in the worlds is.
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Winners will be randomly selected
closing date: 8th August 2016
