After nearly eight months in early entry, Valve have revealed the complete launch date for Dota Underlords – February 25th. This will mark the beginning of the game’s first season, introduce a full battle move, a brand new meta, and model new content material. Oh, and a brand new Underlord was added to the game like, final evening.
The developers are keeping pretty quiet on the main points till the complete game launches, however we do know that a few of that new content material consists of one thing known as City Crawl. Again, we don’t truly know what meaning but, however Matt reckons it would look one thing like Dota 2’s Cavern Crawl, which is basically a bunch of battle move challenges to unlock completely different cosmetics.
I suppose it’s time to speak about that little cute factor above – his identify is Enno, the Scavenger King, and he’s the most recent Underlord to make his technique to the game. His skills revolve round poison and ranged assaults, together with some poison darts that surprisingly heal allies however harm enemies. His entry to the game marks the final of the beta season replace, and you’ll learn extra about him on his own little website.
It’ll be fascinating to see how Underlords fares after its full launch, as a result of in line with Matt, the autobattler genre already seems to be struggling to keep hold of players.
“By June we had Riot’s Teamfight Tactics and Valve’s Dota Underlords, squaring off against each other. An unknown number of millions flocked to TFT, while Dunderlords hit 200,000 peak concurrent players,” he writes.
“Six months later, Teamfight Tactics seems relatively stable, while Dota Underlords is dropping fast. We normally don’t pay player numbers much heed, but given autobattlers were last year’s big new genre and Dota and League Of Legends are both long-term titans, it’s hard not to ask the question: how come?”
Dota Underlords is free on Steam, and leaves early entry on Tuesday 25th February.
