Dungeon Defenders

[Multi-headed Cow]

It's out now on Steam bros, get downloading!

 

[Metro]

Yep, secret midnight launch, just noticed. Don't think I'll play much now, just install and fiddle with the settings. From looking at the developer's forum seems like they'll have some paid DLC in November (derp) and various free DLC in about a week.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Fart, no kidding. Just started the game, was looking at the classes, and there are two locked ones in there. Barbarian and "Series EV".

Edit: WHAT THE FUCK NO TEXT CHAT? SHIT GAME SHIT GAME

 

[Metro]

There is text chat, default bind is tab but you can reconfigure it. I tried the first few waves solo and for whatever reason the game does not save my character information. Is there some option to do so in the tavern. Tried to make a character and just exit a couple of times and each time I restart the previous character isn't there.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Dunno what to tell you bro. I did online ranked (But private game so I could solo) and my character is still there. Can't take ranked to open and vice versa though I believe.

Wait, unless you're not clicking the thing where it says "Select your character, press start!". You have to activate that, then THAT brings up your list of characters. The 4 slots thing is just because you can do 4 player local MP I think. Mildly annoying it takes a few extra clicks.

 

[Metro]

Yeah what I'm doing is click 'join' and it doesn't give me an option to select one of the old characters. Do you have to have completed a map first with one? Try to just make one, hit the tavern, then log out and let me know. Doesn't work online, either, wow this is really annoying. Seems like others are having the same problem according to their tech forum.

Definitely a problem with them or Steam as every time I exit and verify the integrity of the cache there are always 2-3 files corrupted. Guess I'll try a clean install.

Edit again: Apparently it's a Steam cloud error -- disabling is a way around it.

 

[AlaCarcuss]

So, apart from technical hickups? How is it???

 

[Lesifoere]

How different is this from the version that's been out on Android for eternity?

 

[Gerrard]

I imagine some of the people here will rage if TB ends up doing the voice for the innkeeper?

 

[Metro]

Only played about an hour so far and never played the mobile version but I imagine it's pretty much the same just a bit more fleshed out. Doesn't have a huge amount of maps -- maybe half a dozen but there are about five difficulty levels and it seems they will be adding more content as time goes on. Think there's a demo up. Looks like they're going to have a lot of technical issues for a bit... their website is currently down so no doubt they're being swamped. Could have avoided this by releasing on PC a year ago and tackling one major platform at a time. Also pretty disappointed they didn't work out the Steam kinks given all the time they spent dicking with XBLA.

 

[CarnivalBizarre]

This game does look crappy in a Zelda kind of way. What is the appeal?

 

[Metro]

It's a tower defense mixed with ARPG elements -- if you don't like those genres I imagine there is no appeal.

 

[Achilles]

So, if I like Tower defence games but not action stuff, shoud I get it bros?

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Welp. If you play online with random people they'll ninjaloot everything as soon as it appears which is a bummer, and that's assuming you can play online since Trendynet seems to be shitting all over itself. Can't even play solo games with my ranked dude.

 

[Gragt]

Seems that not picking it up now was the right choice. Will wait for a sale to check opinions then and possibly reconsider.

 

[Deakul]

Awful console port with a clumsy interface.

 

[Gerrard]

Oh yeah, that went well.

 

[Mangoose]

So besides bugs and quirks, is it a good game underneath? Or no.

 

[Trash]

Tower defense games are starting to bore me and will probably cripple me with CTS. What makes this one special?

 

[Metro]

The ARPG elements. As a tower defense game it isn't particularly strong. That is, there doesn't seem to be a lot of strategic path building on the current maps. It's mostly about synergy between heroes/towers. Fun enough to play solo but, as MHC mentioned, you won't get full enjoyment unless you play with two or three other people you know. Random games are probably just more of a headache/ninja fests.

It's also a fairly 'grindy' game. The currency is mana in which you use it to build towers, use abilities, and you can bank excess amount and use it to buy weapons, pets, etc. in the shop. This is a very casual game but I enjoy it because all I was looking for was a quaint TD with shallow ARPG elements. Is it a good game? Highly subjective. Either you'll like it or loathe it. There's a demo on Steam. If you have Steam-a-phobia there might be one on the other DD sites.

Awful console port with a clumsy interface.

Only interface that really wasn't optimized for PC are the item/tavern menus. As far as the controls you can hotkey abilities instead of accessing them through the wheel interface.

 

[Jack Swift]

What the fuck is this shit? My eyes are bleeding!
I say kill it with fire...

 

[Mangoose]

Nah it's not animu it's okay.

 

[Metro]

Played some more and as you get to the fourth or so map tower placement does become a bit more strategic. I believe there are around eight or so maps total right now but I've taken a break as the TrendyNet servers are fairly unstable. But I'll stress again, the game has that free-to-play MMO vibe to it as far as leveling/item hunting, etc. If you don't enjoy stuff like that, you won't enjoy this game.

 

[Damned Registrations]

So I decided to pick this up... what the fuck was with the EULA? AMD CPU drivers? Le fuck?

 

[Damned Registrations]

Oh. The fucking game won't run because it can't install some 3rd party dev kit bullshit. Cute.

Edit: Now it runs but crashes randomly. Got as far as starting a game online after making a character and it crashed.

Edit2: Crashes offline as well.