With Season 2 around the corner, new stretch goals were announced. One of them was Arena Mode.
How many villains can you defeat in a row with the ultimate hero team? Make your own storyline with this randomized campaign mode and last as long as you can. Fans of the game have made several versions of this idea on the tabletop.
If we can reach this goal, Handelabra Games will create an “Arena Mode” for the video game. The details and options of the new mode will be worked out when we get to the design and development stage, and we’ll be getting your input at that time. Some ideas and options include a single fixed hero team with no HP recovery; a drafting mechanic where fallen heroes are replaced; ramping up difficulty with advanced and challenge modes; and more! No matter what, this new mode will keep you on your toes.
Neat idea. I'm largely curious if hero cards will remain in play from one villain to the next, or if everything gets reshuffled. If things remain in play, that could really affect the team you bring; I know having Legacy or Argent Adept all geared up at the start of a match would certainly be a powerful advantage.
So what features would you want to see in this? And what team would you bring to the arena?
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Stories. Anything they do, I'd like to see them add story background to it, like the paragraphs prefacing the weekly one-shots. They don't have to be complicated, just a little background blurb and maybe an appropriate selection from the card art.
Actually, on that thought, I would LOVE if they made it so that whenever we compete a step in the unlock process for a variant, a card pops up with some relevant art and a quick story blurb drawing attention to the thing we did and why it's in the unlock sequence.
I suppose the theme of my post here is that these sorts of things can be fun, but sometimes they can feel like a grind. I'd rather they be fun!
There have been tons of forum posts about creating such teams and games played going up against a challenge like this. Really neat to see them bring a staple of forum conversation into implimentation.
Story mode will have stories! But I'm not sure it makes much sense to have stories for a randomized mode where you are in fact creating your own story =)
We will be bringing ideas from the forums as well as directly having discussions with the community about options to put into the arena mode. Assuming we hit the goal!
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Ah, okay. Well, I only have the digital version of the game, so I don't really participate much in the other forums. I imagine there's others in the same boat, so . . .
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This one didn't require the physical version and is a good example of what I think the arena may have https://greaterthangames.com/forum/topic/video-game-depth-chart-8955
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Something like that would be really cool!