PalmTreeFun posted:

I really like this game but I feel like all the stuff you have to unlock that's so much better than default makes some characters feel worthless until they get it. And I don't like beating people just because my Froggy tornado had +40 damage on it and theirs didn't.

Normal Adult Human posted:

Voltar can't do anything but hide behind clunk until like level 40.

Mr.Success posted:

What's the level 40 upgrade that changes this? I don't play much Voltar but early upgrades to drones seems to do decent damage along with a blind.

Jet Set Jettison posted:

Bought this game yesterday and started playing it. This game is sweet as hecckkkk.

Question are player's levels based on actual stat increases or just a marker for how much gold you've have?

Also, Am I a bad person for loving Leon?

Polo-Rican posted:

The mostly-dormant-for-some-reason thread for the PS3 and XBOX360 versions is this way.





Awesomenauts is a new 2D sidescrolling MOBA from developer Ronimo Games with beautiful cartoon graphics. If you're a fan of DOTA but wish the game was more straight-up fun, or a fan of Smash Bros but wish there was better team play and it felt less "pointless," Awesomenauts is the game for you!

It plays just like DOTA - you have a team of heroes that pushes with a wave of NPC "creeps" towards the enemy base. You must destroy 2 towers to get the enemy base. Destroy the base to win!

It's been on PS3 and Xbox360 for around 3 months, but never really caught on big because their publisher (but not the developers) went bankrupt right before the game was finished. Because of this, there really wasn't any publicity / marketing / advertisements for the game. Plus the console audience isn't great for MOBAs.





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  • It's really fun, yet there's still potential for deep team tactics and whatnot
  • You can do split screen on your PC!! Neat!!
  • The characters are great (except for the cowboy) and have a lot of personality. Each one has a theme song that plays when you get a killing spree!
  • When you die, you play a neat minigame that can net you extra gold, so you're never just staring at a timer
  • Games generally last 10-20 minutes, so you never have those typical miserable MOBA experiences where you have to sit and watch your team slowly lose for 45 minutes
  • It is among the best-looking 2D games ever made. It's absurdly well-polished.
  • There are only 8 heroes, each of which has 1 attack and 2 skills, plus there's no item shop, so the learning curve is fast and painless
  • It's really fun





When you first play the game, it forces you to do a Really loving Stupid tutorial level that is just awful. You will be tempted to say "wow, this is garbage" and uninstall the game. The tutorial only lasts 5 minutes or so, so please just slog through it. Immediately after finishing the level, you can play normal practice games and see what the "real" game is about.







Here's a 21-minute gameplay video of a full match. This is the console version - the PC version looks a little better (much better GUI), plus the camera is a bit more zoomed out on PC (that's a good thing).





  • It's really fast paced and sidescrolling, of course.
  • 3v3 only
  • Your level is determined by the amount of gold you've gotten (gold / 100).
  • No "ultimates." Each hero just has 2 skills. In my opinion, this is a good thing, I don't like the concept of an "ultimate skill" handed out at an arbitrary level, plus it punishes support heroes who generally level up slower
  • You buy all of your skills and upgrades from one shop, using gold. You don't get skills from leveling up. There are no recipes or anything, just really simple stuff (increase your hp for 135 gold, increase your walking speed for 135 gold, etc)
  • It's all peer-to-peer connections - d'oh!





So far there are 8 heroes, and Ronimo has already teased a 9th:


Lonestar is a terrific jack of all trades. He's a little OP at the moment, so expect some light nerfs in coming patches.

Jumping: Double jump, upgradeable to triple jump
Main Weapon: Pistol, can launch two homing missles if upgraded
Skill One: Lonestar throws sticks of dynamite.
Skill Two: Lonestar summons a holographic bull that pushes enemies back.

Typical strategies: Upgrading Lonestar's pistol so that it fires two homing missles is extremely effective and turns him into a huge damage dealer. His bull has several slowing upgrades, and if you invest in them all, enemies that get hit by your bull slow to an absolute crawl that lasts a long time. If you upgrade his dynamite so that you throw 3 sticks at once, you can deal 75 instant damage to enemies if you throw the dynamite while in close range.


My personal favorite, Froggy G is a fast rushing character who can stunlock enemies and deal hard damage. He's a dash-in-dash-out kind of guy.

Jumping: One high jump, can be upgraded to an Absurdly High Jump
Main Weapon: Water pistol, can be upgraded to shoot multiple bullets at once
Skill One: Froggy dashes in any direction, stunning any enemy he hits
Skill Two: Froggy spins like a tornado and deals heavy damage to all surrounding enemies

Typical strategies: If you upgrade your dash's stun duration and cooldown time, you can dash every 3 seconds and deal 1.5 seconds of stun with each dash. Since you're invulnerable while dashing, you become an absolute menace, and almost impossible to catch.


Leon is a backstabbing, often-invisible assassin-guy who deals heavy damage in close range.

Jumping: Normal single jump
Main Weapon: Blade, which can be upgraded to slow enemies
Skill One: Leon's tongue shoots out and can pull in distant enemies
Skill Two: Leon turns invisible and leaves a decoy where he last stood. He can stay invisible indefinitely, until he attacks

Typical strategies: There are a few ways to play Leon. You can rack up lots of kills with skillful use of the tongue. The most popular play style is to abuse the decoys he leaves when he goes invisible - they can be upgraded to attack and move around, so you can basically raise an army of attacking decoys.


Voltar is a healer who can also deal good damage with his drones.

Jumping: Single jump, but can then hover (think Peach in Mario 2)
Main Weapon: No main weapon, instead shoots a beam that heals allies
Skill One: Summon 1-3 drones that surround you and attack enemies with lasers
Skill Two: Drop a healing totem that heals all allies in a certain radius

Typical strategies: Voltar can actually do pretty big damage if he upgrades his drones to their maximum. However, Voltar is usually most effective when he focuses completely on healing his teammates. He can also heal creeps, so a good Voltar can push turrets with a huge wave of creeps.


Yuri is a great support / harrassment hero that can slow enemies, cover the arena with deadly mines, and slowly chip away at turrets from a safe distance.

Jumping: Can fly freely (has a jetpack) but easily knocked out of air
Main Weapon: Laser which deals more damage the longer it is activated
Skill One: Drop a mine (or several mines) on the field
Skill Two: A large bubble surrounds Yuri which can slow enemies and heal allies.

Typical strategies: Since Yuri is the only character that can fly freely and his mines can do huge damage, the most popular way to play Yuri is to stay as high as possible and drop mines everywhere. Be an rear end in a top hat!


Clunk is a heavy tank that can absorb a lot of damage and deal lots of damage in close range.

Jumping: Can fly for a short amount of time
Main Weapon: Shoots missles slowly that deal heavy damage
Skill One: Bite an enemy, which can stun it or steal life
Skill Two: Self destruct. Does huge damage in a big radius, but also deals damage to Clunk.

Typical strategies: Clunk's self-destruct is huge. The most typical way to play him is to rush into groups of enemies, bite to stun if possible, and blow yourself up. If you upgrade your self destruct so it does less damage to yourself and upgrade your maximum health, you can survive a lot of abuse.


Coco is one of the two new heroes. She's mainly a fast support hero, but can deal big damage to turrets.

Jumping: Normal single jump, goes pretty high
Main Weapon: Psychic melee damage which is continual, great against turrets
Skill One: Leave a trail of electricity behind you as you move
Skill Two: Shoot a ball of energy that you can explode at will.

Typical strategies: Coco's melee attack when upgraded can deal tremendous damage to turrets - a lot of players focus on mobility and taking down turrets quickly, leading to quick victory. If enemies try to chase her down, her electric blaze is terrific at slowing them and preventing chasing.


Derpl is a weird damage dealer who can transform into a stationary siege mode, giving him a powerful machine gun and a nuke. When he was first added to the game, he was considered pretty OP, so Ronimo nerfed him hastily. Expect lots of more changes to his skills in the future.

Jumping: Can fly for a short amount of time
Main Weapon: Shoots weak bouncing projectiles in standard mode and heavy damage bullets in siege mode
Skill One: Drop traps behind you that stun enemies for a few seconds. In siege mode, this skill slot shoots a nuke
Skill Two: Allows transformation into siege mode

Typical strategies: Drop stun traps everywhere, then when an enemy becomes trapped get into siege mode and go nuts with your machine gun and nuke.

FrickenMoron posted:

I don't see anything special for level 40ish really.

28 turns heal wave into a damaging attack
33 6s cooldown on drones
41 Healbot spawns health packs after timing out
53 +4 power on heal wave, costs loving 380

FrickenMoron posted:

Well, you CAN have +30 damage on the dash but that means you sacrifice either cooldown or stun for example. Taking more damage upgrades means you trade in another perk of the attack.

Mr.Success posted:

Do you just play on console? Only reason I ask is that you've talked about how bad Leon is, but I've read a lot of people mentioning how much better he is on PC because of things like aiming/auto attacking.

I'm not MLG Awesomenauts or anything, but Leon is clearly one of the stronger characters in the game and is completely dominating the leaderboards.

coyo7e posted:

The damage upgrade suuuuucks unless it was changed - it removes the healing ability and adds a weak damage effect that's half again as slow as any other basic attack in the game... Unless they really upgraded it for PC, it's not worth it. The knockback upgrade was useful at times but not really desirable mostly.

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I go for cooldown and stun duration, and then use the twister and teammates to deal the damage.

Chronomaster posted:

I think they changed it. With the tiered heal maxed, the wave did 13 damage every .7 sec or something and it pierced so it seems better than most basic attacks.

Chronomaster posted:

Speaking of Voltar though, I'm not liking how just about any explosive damage counters his drones at half to a third of the cooldown. Lonestar's bull especially has it in for my drones, and even with the cooldown reduction he can still belt out two more of those bastards.

Mylakovich posted:

prom candy posted:

The AI in this game needs serious improvement, I feel like the practice rounds that I've played probably made me worse than better, even with the difficulty maxed. Lonestar doesn't use his dynamite at all, Leon doesn't do any stealth/clone stuff, and the AI never seems to pick Voltar at all.

Ineptus Mechanicus posted:

then the bots decide to attack the remaining turret, getting them killed. They are pretty good for target practice though...

Hiro Protagonist posted:

So how long would you guys say that this game will keep its community? I like it, I'm just worried it will disappear due to the pay-model.

RedRupee posted:

Had no idea he could increase his Cat-shot frequency so much, though. That thing can be a machine gun of cats.

Kikka posted:

I think that after this, Voltar needs some adjustment. He can cheese down turrets way too easily.

Noi Albinoi posted:

I find Leon easy to deal with as Clunk with the ensnare and self-destruct with slow. I can only imagine it's going to be even easier soon.

Anyone know what times goons are on the steam chat? Would love play some goon games because I am getting increasingly frustrated with the pubbies although there are some great team players out there. It just seems like such a low ratio.

Kikka posted:

I think that after this, Voltar needs some adjustment. He can cheese down turrets way too easily.

teknologik posted:

Kind of wondering why they didn't op for a f2p game with purchasing of characters like LoL though.

Apple Jax posted:

I've been hearing this a lot and I don't get why anyone is against spending for a full game rather than spend small amounts along the way to get the full game bit by bit.

If it's simply to have a larger player base, I can understand that. But, $10 isn't that much to deter someone who might be vaguely interested in the game and I don't think the amount of players is suffering from it.