{"id":95169,"date":"2019-06-14T09:19:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T09:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/dota-underlords-mobile-announced\/"},"modified":"2019-06-14T09:19:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T09:19:04","slug":"valves-official-dota-themed-autochess-game-will-hit-open-beta-in-the-next-couple-of-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/14\/valves-official-dota-themed-autochess-game-will-hit-open-beta-in-the-next-couple-of-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve\u2019s official Dota-themed AutoChess game will hit Open Beta in the next couple of weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/valves-official-dota-themed-autochess-game-will-hit-open-beta-in-the-next-couple-of-weeks.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"author\">By Joe Robinson<\/span> <span class=\"date\">14 Jun 2019<\/span> <\/p>\n<div id=\"content-container\">\n<p>Yeah, yeah, I know; another <em>AutoChess<\/em>-related story. Look, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/auto-chess-mobile-beta-gameplay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it\u2019s pretty good, ok<\/a>? Just\u2026 play it. Or if you\u2019d rather not play <em>AutoChess<\/em> itself, you won\u2019t have long to wait for Valve\u2019s officially sanctioned version that they\u2019ve been developing themselves.<\/p>\n<p><em>AutoChess<\/em> began life as a <em>DOTA 2<\/em> mod, so given how popular it became it was inevitable the Steam owners would be keen to make their own version, and last night <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dota2.com\/2019\/06\/dota-underlords\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they revealed that <em>DOTA Underlords<\/em> would be it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s currently only available to anyone who owns the Battle Pass on PC, but sometime soon \u2013 we\u2019re thinking either this time next week or early week after \u2013 it will transition into Open Beta for everyone across PC, Android and iOS. Here\u2019s their official blurb:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dota Underlords is a new stand-alone game that pits you against seven opponents in a battle of wits that will have you building, combining, and levelling-up a crew in a battle of dominance for the city of White Spire. In this game, victory is determined not by twitch reflexes, but by superior tactics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At the moment, <em>Underlords<\/em> allows you to fight against seven opponents, whether they be real people online, offline play against AI (of various difficulties), or some combination of both with a pseudo-\u2018co-op\u2019 mode, as the official blog post explains. When the game hits open beta additional features such as Ranked, and cross-platform play.<\/p>\n<p>It feels like they\u2019re releasing this earlier than they\u2019d like, but then the battle for the <em>AutoChess<\/em> throne is already well underway. The Mod\u2019s official mobile version is available on all platforms already, and they\u2019re bringing a souped-up PC version to the Epic Play store, not to mention all of the other clones and me-toos that have already started to crop up in places. Even <em>League of Legends<\/em> is getting involved.<\/p>\n<p>We will let you know more as we get it, and I\u2019ll definitely be taking it for a spin myself when it lands.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joe Robinson 14 Jun 2019 Yeah, yeah, I know; another AutoChess-related story. Look, it\u2019s pretty good, ok? Just\u2026 play it. Or if you\u2019d rather not play AutoChess itself, you won\u2019t have long to wait for Valve\u2019s officially sanctioned version that they\u2019ve been developing themselves. AutoChess began life as a DOTA 2 mod, so given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-game-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}