Hey PlayStation fans. I’m Kyle, the lead designer on ReadySet Heroes from Robot Entertainment. With our October 1 launch immediately approaching, I got a opportunity to hang out with the PS Underground crew for a play session and an introduction to “Walrus Hockey.”
In our final weblog post, Elyse introduced some of the enemies you will encounter whilst crawling by way of the dungeons. This time I’d like to show you some of what you will see at the finish of the dungeon and immediately after the crawl by detailing some of our brawls and bosses.
The Brawls
Immediately after the dungeon crawl, a round of ReadySet Heroes concludes with an all-out brawl. The brawl brings with each other all players, decked-out with their gear from the crawl, to compete in 1 of 5 objectives. Right here I want to go more than a couple of my favorites.
Snail Race
Snails generally are not the best creatures for a race, but these large guys have a have to have for speed. Each and every group has their personal snail, and the snail that travels the furthest by the finish of the brawl wins.
You will have to have to speed up your snail to win. Smack berry bushes scattered about the level with your weapon to grab berries. Throw the red berries into your team’s flower cannon to launch the berry to your snail. When your snail requires a bite, it’ll give him a increase.
You can also sabotage your opponents by throwing the poison berries into their flower cannons. These berries slow snails down by generating them a tiny queasy.
Ultimately, maintain an eye out for golden berries. These berries give your snail a big speed increase. They’re excellent for catching up to the pack or securing the lead.
Walrus Hockey
Walrus hockey is all about attempting to feed sushi to giant walruses. Each and every group has their personal walrus rotating about the ice rink. Players use their weapons to send sushi flying across the ice and into the mouths of their walruses. The group that consumes the most sushi wins.
Significantly like in snail race, you can sabotage your opponents. This time, you will have to have to hit the stinky fish heads into their walrus. This subtracts a point and causes their walrus to duck beneath the water for a handful of seconds. This leaves your opponents unable to score.
Walrus hockey also has a golden sushi. The golden sushi is worth 5 points. It is generally a game changer.
In snail race and walrus hockey, you nonetheless have to handle fighting the opponent players whilst attempting to full the objective. Acquiring the proper balance among combat and feeding the snails and walruses is the essential to victory.
The Bosses
The dungeon crawl in ReadySet Heroes is on a timer. You have much less than ten minutes to defeat enemies, navigate by way of traps, and uncover loot. But if you are rapid sufficient, you will have a opportunity to take on a boss. The bosses are tough battles, but defeating them provides you the finest opportunity of discovering epic and legendary products. Right here are two of the bosses you will encounter.
The Mischievous Warden of the Dead – The Nekomancer
The Nekomancer is the boss you will uncover haunting the graveyards. To halt your loot-gathering, she wields a giant scythe, creates ghostly firewalls, and summons skeleton minions.
When the Nekomancer initial spawns, she shuffles her coffins and you will want to uncover which 1 she’s hiding in. Guess the incorrect coffin and you drop valuable time.
Immediately after the coffin sequence, the Nekomancer goes into her ghost kind and cannot be broken. You will have to have to use the flaming skulls from defeating her skeleton minions to light the level’s pyres. When the colors of the pyres match the colour of the Nekomancer’s eyes, she will exit her ghost kind, providing you a opportunity to deal harm.
Here’s a tiny Easter egg: the sounds you will hear the Nekomancer generating are truly the voice of my cat, Karma. I employed a handheld recorder to capture her functionality and then our audio director, Rodney, modulated and implemented it.
The Stone Guardian of the Forest – Olek
You will uncover Olek watching more than the woodlands and immediately uncover that he was not developed to politely greet intruders.
Olek has two attacks. He starts by spinning about the level, pulverizing something that gets in his path. Throughout his spin, you will not want to attempt to hit him with melee attacks. Attempt attacking from variety, or wait till he gets dizzy and falls. When Olek recovers, he’ll activate his arm cannons and blasts power shots.
When Olek reaches half wellness, he removes his head, which becomes an additional obstacle to overcome. The head constantly spins about the area shooting power shots whilst Olek performs his other attacks.
Defeat these bosses for your finest opportunity at a legendary drop. And don’t forget, the Nekomancer and Olek are just two of the bosses you will be up against.
I’m excited for you to expertise these and the rest of our bosses and brawls when ReadySet Heroes launches on October 1 on PS4 and Computer.