Remember when Twitch Plays Pokemon was all the craze? Imagine that, however Twitch chat isn’t enjoying the game, they’re betting on it as an alternative. The Twitch channel FFTBattleground has arrange tournaments of AI bots enjoying Final Fantasy Tactics in opposition to each other that viewers can wager faux Gs on.
Final Fantasy Tactics nonetheless isn’t on PC and although I received’t name this the following smartest thing (there are non secular successors like Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark for that) it’s nonetheless fairly neat by itself. Similar to different bot-run channels on Twitch, and particularly modeled after SaltyBet the place viewers use faux foreign money to wager on preventing game matches, there are a ton of chat instructions you need to use to work together with the match.
To begin with, you’ll have 1000 Gil in your pocket to wager. You’ll wish to flip that thousand into extra by putting bets on a crew and earn XP by aligning your self with a successful group. The command “!allegiance [color]” in chat will allow you to be a part of one of many eight present groups: Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, and so on.
Matches go fairly rapidly and may be troublesome to observe. Bots don’t precisely spend time pondering their subsequent transfer, so no matter talent or spell every unit makes use of typically pops on and off display screen within the game’s menu earlier than you’ve received an opportunity to learn it. I personally haven’t performed FFT in a minute—by which I imply 20 years—so understanding the strikes simply by visible impact goes to take a little bit of relearning.
Once you suppose you’ve received all of it discovered, you possibly can attempt to seize a spot on display screen with the “!fight” command which provides you with an opportunity to have a unit in your crew named after you. If your crew wins whereas your doppelganger is preventing, you’ll achieve further XP past what you earn simply by pledging your allegiance. Feel free to make use of the “!allin” command to wager all of your Gil as a result of even when you lose you received’t fall beneath 100G, leaving you an opportunity to construct it again up once more.
The individual operating the FFTBattlegrounds channel says that it’s nonetheless in “early beta” with extra methods to spend your received Gil deliberate for the longer term. Despite the early tough edges, the siren track of automated matches calls to many. Over 900 persons are watching the Blue and Green groups duke it out on the Murond Death City map. At least for now—that can change in only a couple minutes.
