Each class/gauntlet encourages a certain playstyle, and the way you can combine them allows you to customise your kit to precisely how you like. The six classes and gauntlets are Toxicologist (Toxic), Pyromancer (Fire), Conduit (Lightning), Stoneshaper (Stone), Frostborn (Frost), and Tempest (Wind). Finding your prefered class and playstyle will in-turn lead to what runes you like to run. The Dash rune simply dashes you a few metres in whatever direction you’re moving in, so has a small cooldown, but the Teleportation rune allows you to instantly reposition to anywhere in sight, be it horizontal or vertical, but at the cost of a much longer cooldown. Each rune has a different cooldown depending on how drastic the effect is. You can only have one rune equipped at a time, and they offer a form of mobility or utility to give you an edge in battle. As well as gauntlets and healing consumables, you can also find ‘Runes’ scattered around the map. Then there are ‘sorceries’, which are more powerful and affect a larger area, but work off their own individual cooldowns, most of which are 15 seconds. Each gauntlet has two spells one functions off of mana, a pool shared between your two gauntlets that also fuels your levitation, and this generally acts as a ‘primary’ attack. Once in the match, you can find more gauntlets on the floor that go on your off-hand and allow you to utilise their spells (but not their skills that is only defined by your class) and combine their effects for some crazy results. Upon entering a match, you choose one of six classes, which dictates your starting gauntlet and gives you skills around using this gauntlet that get increasingly more powerful as the match progresses. Combat is done through magical abilities that are harnessed through six element gauntlets. It follows the rest of the battle royale standard you land, find weapons, and battle other combatants in a gradually shrinking arena. Spellbreak breaks this mould with the gauntlet system. The game offers a unique take on the ever-growing battle royale genre through use of a simple concept - battle royale in a fantasy setting.Īlmost every battle royale game follows the same combat rules - guns. They all got sniped from afar and were left in a ditch, surrounded by digital corpses of other failed attempts to be the next Apex Legends or Fortnite.// Reviews // 5th Feb 2021 - 2 years ago // By Luke Greenfield Spellbreak ReviewĪfter over two years in an Alpha/Beta state, Spellbreak launched in early September 2020 for Epic Games Store, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, followed by a Steam launch in December later that year. So, as we wrap up our fantastic week focused on battle royale games, it seems like the perfect time to stop and acknowledge all the games that tried to survive and thrive, but in the end, for various reasons, didn’t make it. However, they need constant upkeep, fresh content, and a large player base to live. These games aren’t too tricky to make if you already have a shooter engine or existing IP that works within the genre and a talented team of devs. Publishers took notice, and more studios began spitting out battle royales to cash in on the trend. These games exploded in popularity, with Fortnite alone jumping from 20 million users in 2017 to 125 million in 2018. While fan-made mods have added battle royale-like modes to games like Arma, the genre truly exploded with the release of Player Unknown’s Battleground and, shortly after, Fortnite’s take on the genre. In fact, most will be lucky to survive at all. Not every new battle royale can find the same success as Warzone or PUBG. It’s almost poetic that, in a genre built on many people fighting to stay alive until just a few remain, so many battle royale games have launched, flopped, and died over the last few years.
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