Minecraft has moved into a different genre. The Minecraft Legends release date is fast approaching and PCGamesN went to GDC 2023 in San Francisco to see what the world’s biggest PC game looks like as a strategy game, and we can report that it’s unbelievably perfect.
Based on the Bedrock Engine and using the same procedural generation technology as its creator, Minecraft Legends follows the same gameplay path: you collect resources, build a base, forge gear, and ultimately fight piglins and mobs. .
The first big difference is the scale. Au lieu de tout faire par vous-même, in Minecraft Legends, vous utiliserez des voies pour cultiver des ressources dans toute la zone, ériger des murs et des bâtiments en un clin d’œil et créer des armées de foules défensives à un rythme beaucoup faster. Anyone familiar with the base game is baffled to see so little friction, so little break in this gap between working on your personal creations and mass-producing them. So that they can then work not only on a larger scale, but also on completely different type it is nothing short of a miracle.
But it is important to manage expectations. Setting up your defenses around a village to repel pigs and command your troops lacks the scope and depth of a Total War game, and Minecraft Legends wouldn’t be worthy of its franchise if it abandoned its core mining and crafting principles. . The creativity they give you in building your bases and armies completely makes up for the more simplified aspect of this RTS parallel game.
To this you can add the joy of exploring the open world, where you will find chests full of resources and new mounts for your character. A far cry from the breakneck APM speeds of something like Starcraft, this makes for a surprisingly serene experience; Minecraft environments have always been dynamic and varied, but jumping between them in Minecraft Legends, placing walkways across rocks or a pile of trees in search of secrets, is actually pretty chill.
Even though the action takes place in randomly generated worlds, there’s a reassuring precision to every gameplay loop. Updates in the form of new monsters, resources, and buildable structures happen at a steady pace, and every staple of the game—exploration, building, and combat—never wears out as you progress. The Minecraft Legends campaign can also be played in co-op mode, with the entire game offering cross-platform play, underscoring Mojang’s ongoing mission to make Minecraft accessible and community-focused. And as a major Microsoft game, it will naturally be on Game Pass when it launches.
Compared to the Minecraft Legends campaign, the PvP is pure chaos, and much better. Two teams of four are brought to a smaller map and forced to destroy each other’s bases. You’ll still have to collect resources, fight piglins, and build defenses, but now you need to communicate with your teammates and keep an eye out for the enemy.
The possibilities of these approximately 30 minute PvP matches seem endless. Over the time I’ve played, we’ve seen team members naturally adapt to different roles, such as collecting shared resources between teams, building, or fending off monsters to help make the game work. Both teams in my session spent too much time building. defenses and fighting Piglins against each other, so our bases ended up with multiple layers of stone walls completely surrounded by shooting towers and mobs, meaning it became almost impossible to get to the center of any of them, destroy the center, and gain. This is where the “strategy not maps” philosophy of Minecraft Legends comes into play; Since everything is procedurally generated, you can’t rely on map knowledge to gain an advantage. Instead, we have adapted to the situation by developing a strategy that will be applicable in the future. We sneak around the enemy base and find a good position to set up some kind of forward operating base, build a defense there and plant a TNT cannon in the center. Instead of walking through walls and crowds, we just walk over them.
With this strategy, we got out of a stalemate that had lasted half an hour in seconds; several shots from a TNT cannon in the center of the enemy team completely disabled it, and we won the game. It was a good quick-think moment that only happened thanks to Minecraft Legends’ focus on its toolset, no matter what. appear Lacking in depth compared to more traditional strategy sims, it stimulates and rewards a different but equally rewarding form of organic tactical puzzle solving.
The more traditional strategies are also viable within the specific context of Minecraft Legends. In other matches, you can focus on attacking the enemy before they’re ready, turtles to unlock better monsters or equipment, or maybe you’ll see a land near their base that could hide a smaller outpost for your team so you can throw two to attack and take the enemy by surprise.
Minecraft Legends is a game for everyone. Whether you want serene exploration and base building, co-op combat with piggies, or PvP as endlessly chaotic as the procedural maps you explore, this Game Pass release is right around the corner and it’s going to be good.
Source : PC Gamesn
