Just played another 5 matches vs AI. Think I’m starting to come to grips with the flow of the game to the extent I can actually start to think about things slightly more strategically (like what abilities to use when). Pretty big learning curve, IMO, but unlike so many games, at least the bots are good for that.
Yeah, bots are great for acclimatising to the systems. Good for comp-stomping with friends, too.
I also appreciate you can complete dailys, season missions, etc. against bots. I presume advancement is slower, but at least you can do it.
Just reinstalled and picked up the all freelancers package.
I checked my playtime on steam for when it was in early access and I logged 16 hours, and that amount of entertainment deserves some money thrown at it.
Now I’m just trying to remember how to play the characters I liked.
Glyph tag is halfvoid#7916 if you want to add me as a friend on AR.
Nice! I’ll add you. I’m AlexConnolly#5313, if anyone else is looking to add. Hopefully my timezone aligns with you guys at some point, but GMT+9 is always a bit of a hard one for folks outside of the Oceania/Asia bracket.
I took a gamble on this game in the beginning. Dropped a twenty in Early Access without knowing too much beyond “I want a taste of this Hero Business that Overwatch was pushing, but in strategy form”. 80 hours later, turns out that wasn’t such a bad use of coin after all.
I’ve done 24 bot matches now and have progressed from getting roflstomped on easy to winning 4 of 5 on medium today.
Unlocked my first mods today, for Zuki. Being able to drop The Big One as a free action is good fun.
Very fond of the new characters I’ve tried that have been added since early access, the martial arts healer lady and the warp assassin. My old favs are still favs too, the robo dog and stealth sniper. (I’m terrible at remembering their names so far.)
Also I’m in the UK, so GMT+0 I think, and mostly only have time to play one or two games after work and plenty on the weekends.
There’s a female frontliner coming up from Evos. They are supposed to be spilling more details during a livestream on the 29th.
Great news!
Yeah, big fan of Su-Ren. Really nice balance of offence and defence.
Just building up Blackburn again after the full-release wipe. Spent some of that in-game currency on a bunch of abilities, so he’s back to his old tricks. His dash/blast repositioning is pretty awesome, and a buffed ult gunship is something to enjoy.
Su-Ren looks awesome, but I haven’t been able to play her yet.
Atlas Reactor is on sale for Black Friday. Base version is twenty bucks. The other packs are half-off. Great time to pick up an awesome game.
All characters are unlocked for the free version, too!
Crap, shoulda waited a couple days before I bought that.
The cure for that ill is to buy a cheap copy for a friend 
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New update dropped today. A new character, new mode, and some festive skins.
Pretty keen to see what this new mode is all about. Phaedra looks great, too!
Phaedra is pretty fun. Extraction is cool too, and while in theory it should be pretty simple, things can get pretty wacky.
For anyone that would be interested in learning more about Atlas Reactor or could use some help getting friends to give it a shot, I’ve created a microsite for it.
Thanks to Alex for looking the site over for me.
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Awesome tip site. I know my win rate went up significantly a couple weeks ago when I discovered the “alt” button showed everyone’s cooldowns.
Can’t believe I’d never figured that out before, unless that wasn’t a feature in early access.
Yeah, I still don’t use it enough, but it’s the sort of thing that becomes more and more useful as you play more characters and learn what they can do.