Dota Auto Chess Game Details:
Dota Auto Chess is a strategy video game mod for the video
game Dota 2. Developed by Drodo Studio and released in January 2019, the game
supports up to eight players playing a modified version of chess. The
popularity of the mod, with its having over eight million players by May 2019,
led to the creation of the auto battler genre that had a number of other games
being released. Later in 2019, Drodo Studio developed a standalone version
known simply as Auto Chess, while Valve Corporation, the developer of Dota 2,
developed their own standalone version known as Dota Underlords.
Gameplay:
The game features elements derived from chess, along with
those from Dota 2. Sporting up to eight players, the game assigns them to eight
different chessboards. Players select from a public pool of over fifty chess
pieces prior to each round, which they place around the board. Each chess piece
belongs to a particular race and class, with individualized abilities. Upon the
initiation of every round, the opposing sides' pieces automatically battle.
Some rounds feature players battling non-player "creeps", rather than
one another. Players may acquire items after killing the creeps and can give
these items to their chess pieces. Each item has unique effects and some can be
combined to form stronger versions. Each player controls a character called a
courier, which tracks the player's health, gold, and experience level. The
courier's experience determines the quantity of chess pieces available on the
board. After the end of each round, the courier's experience level will
increase by one, until it reaches ten. Through combat, players accumulate gold,
which they may use to purchase new pieces before each round, to strengthen
their combinations to win. For every round lost, the courier's health
decreases, with its death signifying the associated player's defeat. The game ends
when one player remains.
Dota Auto Chess has its own ranking system. After the end of
a game, the rank of players who lose the game early will decrease, and the rank
of players who lose late and the victor will increase. There are six ranks in
the game, including Queen, King, Rook, Bishop, Knight and Pawn, while Queen is
the highest rank and Pawn is the basic rank. There are one to nine steps in
Pawn, Knight, Bishop and Rook ranks. Once players reach the highest step, their
rank will increase. The King rank only has one step. When players reach the
Queen rank, the global digital a number ranking is available for the top ten
thousand. At the end of April 2019, the developer added a season system. After
the end of a season, higher rank players achieve better rewards and the rank
will reset.
All players have a basic courier at the beginning. After
each game, players in the top rank are awarded "candies". Each player
can achieve no more than ten candies per day. Players with Custom Pass can
achieve five more candies per day. Players can spend 40 candies to roll a new
courier or spend hundreds of candies to add a cosmetic effect on their
couriers. Couriers have different rarities. The rare couriers are usually
bigger and more appealing than normal ones. Some couriers can combine to form
new couriers that cannot be bought directly. Beside earning candies in game,
players can pay for candies. In January 2019, players could scan QR codes in
the game to pay for candies from a third party store. Drodo Studio later
disabled candy codes, but candies are still available from some third party
sellers out of the game.
Dota Auto Chess Minimum System Requirements:
- OS: Win 7 32
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 2.4GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5000+
- Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3800 series or NVIDIA GeForce GT 720
- System Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Storage: 10 GB Hard drive space
- DirectX 11 Compatible Graphics Card
Dota Auto Chess Recommended Requirements:
- OS: Win 7 64
- Processor: Intel Core i3-3240 3.4GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 40
- Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6770 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2GB
- System Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Storage: 10 GB Hard drive space