![]() ![]() You aren't guaranteed any one particular hero. The heroes you select for your team are offered to you largely at random. There's a fly in the ointment, however, and it's critical to what makes an Auto Battler interesting. ![]() There are seven other players in the game, and each of them has their own heroes, game boards and health totals. If you win your battle, you get a bit of extra gold and everything is cool. ![]() The basics are simple - at the start of your game, you select a hero, you place the hero on the game board, and then it battles on your behalf. Once the battle phase begins, the fighting is automatic - hence Auto Battler. The Auto Battler name comes from what happens next - your heroes duke it out against another team, and the results are determined without any input from you. The Dota 2 custom map is called Auto Chess largely for the board the game takes place on - an eight-by-eight battlefield upon which you place your team of heroes during a preparation phase. What am I playing?Īuto Battlers, or Auto Chesses - as they would be known if we stuck with calling it Auto Chess as a genre - are relatively new in the gaming world, entering the scene this year by way of Drodo's custom map on the Dota 2 Arcade, where it single-handedly reminded non-Dota players that Dota 2 exists.Īs a concept it's quite a bit older, however, hearkening back to Warcraft 3 custom maps like Pokemon Defense, which took Tower Defense and turned it into a hero-based team management game. Maybe that fad will return, but it's not coming this year, because in 2019 we've got Auto Battlers like Dota Underlords, Teamfight Tactics and Auto Chess. ![]()
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