Bloodline Champions

[lupi]

Anyone playing this? got an email about joining but don't recall reading anything else about it.

 

[sash1]

i did. made a thread about it months ago.

i'm back to HoN now though. game was fun for a while, but it was really expensive and overall stupidly priced for a game that only had like 1,000 people on @ peak.

 

[FerraraZ]

I play HoN and LoL almost exclusively now but I will give this a try, havent tried it before. Any impressions? I feel like LoL would be expensive to buy hero's etc.

 

[crownjules]

I play HoN and LoL almost exclusively now but I will give this a try, havent tried it before. Any impressions? I feel like LoL would be expensive to buy hero's etc.

I've played it a little. You'll love this game if you feel like HoN/LoL can be too long. No laning, no leveling, and no item buying. 1-5 heroes per team go out in a grand melee and you only have the one life per round. Best of 3/5 rounds. How you start the game is how you end it. There are 20 champs in total. Skills are ALL skillshot based - nothing is auto-targeted. It's quick, it's fast, and challenging.

That being said, the F2P model part blows. The heroes cost you $5 apiece or you can just outright buy the game for $40 and get them all. Otherwise, you earn bloodcoins through games and each hero costs 17K of those. I've played maybe 7-8 games since it started accruing those and I only have 900. You can earn more in ranked games but I do believe there is a daily cap on blood coin gain. Sorry poopsockers.

Overall, it's not a bad game. I play it once in awhile when I don't feel like a 40+ minute game of LoL.

 

[darkewaffle]

I love this game, pre-ordered happily and it's orders of magnitude better than the competition. Easily the absolute best PvP experience in it's vein. There's been a great deal of thought put into character balance, how abilities and mechanics interact and how to provide a game that has both an easy to pick up feel and an incredibly high skillcap.

(Un)Fortunately, no items/levels/talents/runes/etc and having a smaller character selection (which actually works in it's favor as far as balancing is concerned) means it doesn't have the mass appeal of LoL/HoN/WoW. Which is actually pretty good for the community, but not so great for their financials.