Hello,

Tacticians ? ESL fan ? I think I found your dream. At least I found mine. So it HAVE TO be on GOG.

I found it on IndieDB, there is a personal hub too (more detailed) but no store.


So about what it is ?

There should be a built in tournament with world championship (Yes World Championship, built-in) every 3 months. Then they also talk about different Rhythms and categories of tournament (I’m not sure If I understood but I think it’s a few like with CCG, with different kind of rewards depending to what we participate).
There is also the usual “ranked” but with a new rank system. It would finally depend of what happen during the battles more than the result itself (This would be Really Great).
They talked about under 18 competitions which means that you should have opponent with the same age (Not sure if it’s good or not). And It would be the first time that youth would have a chance to become world champion.

Then the battles seems to have a bunch of unique stuff. A deployment phase with 4 stages (I’m not sure I understood) to guaranty that no one will have “advantage first”, with ambushes. Globally deployment would ask bigger skills (What I’m not sure to understand).
Same when we fight. It would be turn-based but simultaneous at the same time (No advantage to Defender or attacker, every battle would happen at the same time, which means we could get draws). They show a picture where we can indicate squads which angle to cover, then there is the usual mode 1 on 1, 2 on 2. Still they talk about “save the plow” where apparently we should not eliminate the opponent to win.

Finally they talked about “ADAPT-AND-WALK“ it would be something unique with the Battleground but not a lot of description. (They mentioned it might be Procedural but not sure If it will happen)
And then Battleground impact, usual in Tactic but we would also get Weather, This is not often in turn based Tactic (Never ?).

Well they didn’t show a lot but it seems to have a dozen of unique features so we have to bring it on GOG.


The bad news is that it’s still in KickStarter Phase but the good news is that so far of the Release we have HUGE CHANCE to get it on GOG

I give you the link if you want some details:
https://www.indiedb.com/games/apexarena


Still that here is the most important: https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/apexarena GO VOTE WE NEED IT

You pretty much lost me here. So this is a primarily multi-player game. Given that modern multiplayer games (and especially the sort that you describe) require on-line registration, this will be, essentially, DRM-encumbered.

Maybe, when the game is finished, it will indeed turn out to be great, in spite of that. If so, maybe I'll vote for it (or even buy it if on gog). Until then, even if it gets past gog's "if it's for multi-player, DRM is OK" policy, I'd rather not have games like this on gog

We can not have multi without DRM ? I'm not sure about it, if it ask the "GOG client" isn't it a way to get multi without it? (DRM is a kind of "protection" it have nothing about with multi)