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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 241.0 hrs on record (196.7 hrs at review time)
Posted: Jan 29, 2015 @ 11:32am

Early Access Review
A game with potential, but is currently lacking players and optimization, it's good but FAR from the perfect game. This is however the best time to get invested in this moba, the developers are honest good working people who will listen to its playerbase and if you pester them enough, they'll do it as well. Gameplay is closely reminded to league, however the game does still have some ups that makes me put it a spot over games like league. The fact that quests exist create a whole new objective to the game, and it's up to the players to decide if laning or question is the best option. Earlygame is a bloodbath with junglers being on par with solo laners in terms of gold income from farming. The jungle is diverse as long as you got the proper equipment, and even if you don't you can still easily jungle the regular junglers. Mages are stronger for the first few because of the fact that you can only skill your abilites up to 4 point, but the way they scale per level is much higher.
All heroes are free at the current point and the way ingame currency is handled is very interesting. In 9 out 10 games you'll earn a crafting item or a recipe for a skin or gear that you can use outside of the game to craft skins and gear to use inside the game.
The prices are extremely fair, you can buy crafting recipes and components on the steam market in case you are willing to use some $$$ on a skin or gear. You can easily get a skin or two for like 2 euros, or even less if you found some crafting components while playing the game.
The developers have integrated twitch streaming into the game, this means that if you are approved by them and have enough viewers, you are able to gift your viewers items as long as they have linked their twitch and SoaDA account.

But of course, the game is in no way perfect. It does have some issues at the moment. The game is very snowbally and sometimes very slow. The gameplay itself can feel clunky at times and the queuetimes spand from 5 minutes to over 2 hours, depending on when you queue for a game.

There could easily be other issues that I haven't thought of, however, you should definitely give the game a try when it finally goes free to play, or even grab one of the thousands keys that the developers are distributing right now.
The game is the only moba that I find interesting enough to play at the moment and it can only go uphill from where it is now.
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3 Comments
Corpsefoot Feb 21, 2015 @ 11:37pm 
Grim, he's talking about the lack of online players "queueing up" for PvP essentially extending your average wait time for a match far beyond what you'd find in comparable titles.

In other words, his observation only stands as long as the developers keep Early Access "pay-gated" for the sake of a higher signal-to-noise ratio.

Since I feel like you're not too familiar with the genre specifically (I personally would have understood what Penguin was talking about from the getgo, but then again I've been playing ARTS games for years now) I highly recommend YouTubing some beginner's guides to DOTA 2, League of Legends or the plethora of other ARTS titles out there, the better to acclimate you to the genre Sins resides in ^^

Falmer, are you basically trying to say that you wanted to get in? I have some spare Early Access Steam keys lying around, mate ;D
Joelish Feb 10, 2015 @ 4:01pm 
Bad timing for market restrictions when you got no money and the game is on sale for .99 cent. :penny:
Grim Holiday Feb 9, 2015 @ 10:44am 
when you say queue times, you mean thay have a dungeon finder like WoW? or is it more like a finder to party people up for the quests?