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 Minimum is a team-based third-person shooter with light MOBA elements, available on Steam. Cool pew-pew sci-fi guns and blocky minimalist players give a very arcadey feel to a game that plays somewhere between Unreal Tournament and Monday Night Combat (may God rest its flawed, beautiful soul.) Rather than individual characters or classes like in most MOBAs or team shooters, you decide your role in Minimum on the basis of what weapons you bring to the fight and what armors you buy during the round. Weapons start weak and upgrade as you pick up drops from fallen opponents. If you die, you lose some or all of the upgrade progress you’ve made, but you can also swap weapon loadouts between every life. Armor lasts the whole round and is bought with materials dropped by opponents and creeps. It comes in slots for legs, chest, and head and each slot can be upgraded to a third level. Just like in MOBAs, there is a STRONG INCENTIVE to play sensibly, go for group ganks, and not freelance too hard, because every death sets your weapon progress back and advances your opponent’s weapons and progress toward buying better armor. There’s a lot of room for individual customization based on what armors and weapons you take. Maybe you want Berserker gear for greater footspeed and damage output at the cost of greater damage to yourself. Pair it with a shotgun and sword and be a deadly short-ranged glass cannon. Or wear lots of heavy gear that confers benefits to your teammates and be the Titan-escorting pointman, hosing main thoroughfares down in a hail of bouncing lasers. High-flying rocket bombers like TF2’s soldier can be effective, and snipers can be utterly deadly! Weapons usually come with cool secondary abilities or properties that feed into a particular playstyle. Of the numerous shotgun styles, for example, one gives you increased footspeed and a mighty leap available on cooldown. Another hits harder and gives you a dash to close the gap on enemies. As you progress in the game, you’ll gather materials to let you craft more weapons and unlock more armor schematics to experiment with different builds. If you want to whale out, you can buy cosmetic variations of ordinary weapons and armor. (Some can even be picked up on the Steam market.) “But Nehru, I am 12 and want to yell at strangers about all the things I did with their mothers!” Take these akimbo swords and get the hell out of my sight.  TITAN MODE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNBzIzYtTIw The game’s main format. Teams compete to escort their colossal AI-controlled robot buddy, the Titan, to the other team’s base to destroy their power core. Along the way, your Titan will have to defeat the other Titan in hand-to-hand combat, smash down defensive walls and endure constant attack from periodically respawning defensive turrents as well as the enemy players themselves. To make sure your Titan wins the clash at mid and survives with enough health left to do some real damage, you’ll want to attack the enemy team’s Titan, defend your own Titan from opposing players, destroy enemy base turrets if your Titan wins the clash, and farm Creeps during Creep Waves, blasting the little buggers for the precious purple Titan Crystals they hide. The more Titan Crystals, the more effective your Titan will be, the more likely he’ll win the clash at mid, and the more punishment he can take on his death-march to the enemy team’s power core.  Once both Titans fall, you return to Creep waves and prepare for the next Titan wave. Unlike most MOBAs, Creeps are not a lane-pushing mechanic. Instead they spawn in and generally stick to a variety of places that vary based on the map. A usual setup is one “safe” spawn near your own team spawn, one “enemy” spawn near the other team, and one contested spawn in the center where you can find the super-lucrative Golden Creep. Teams that win tend to heavily farm their own zones while sending kill teams out to harass enemy Creep zones. TEAM DEATHMATCH  Kill 50 mans before the mans kill 50 yous. Because there's no Titans, there's a little less snowballing momentum going on, so one competent player can do a little more to keep a bad team afloat. It doesn't seem to be as popular as Titan Mode but it's never that hard to find a game. HORDE MODE This is pretty lackluster right now. Team up to take on increasingly tough waves of AI-controlled bad guys. If you die, you’re out until the next wave. RANKED Doesn’t exist yet. They’re working on it. Minimum sells for $9.99 on Steam but goes on sale fairly frequently. The official site and forums are ramshackle ghost-towns, but the game is still getting steady updates with new maps, game features, and bug fixes. Any other goons playing this? Want to play it and need help learning? Wanna start a goon group? Get at me.
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Got this game a few months back. Haven't played too much of it, but like what I have played. It's a fun fast paced shooter. Company seems to want to support it too, with a pretty sizable patch that just came out. Next time this game goes on sale, pick it up. It's a good time.
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Feb 18, 2015 05:44
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It's OK. I wouldn't buy anything for it yet.
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Feb 18, 2015 05:57
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I grabbed some items on the steam market because they were cool cosmetic things I could get for the price of selling some steam cards.Baumann posted:Next time this game goes on sale, pick it up. It's a good time. Yeah. I imagine the Spring Break sale will include another heavy discount. The devs seem to understand their biggest challenge right now is building critical mass.
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Feb 18, 2015 07:32
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