Awesomenauts Thread - "License to kill approved by management." - Games

[IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14733079/AwesomeNautsLogo.png[/IMG] It's the year 3587, conflict spans the stars. Huge robot armies are locked in an enduring stalemate. In their bid for galactic conquest they call upon the most powerfull group of mercenaries in the universe: the Awesomenauts! Join the fight as droid armies, space cowboys, gangsta rapping frogs, and giant robots vie for supremacy! [B][B]-ABOUT-[/B][/B] Awesomenauts is a MOBA and an accessible 3-on-3 action platformer. Head out to the online battlefields together with your friends as an online party or in local splitscreen, and never worry about having to wait for an online match because of drop-in matchmaking! Play as several Awesomenauts as you storm the online battlegrounds and unlock loads of new abilities and characters for your arsenal. Devise strategies as you upgrade and customize each character's skills to suit your playing style. Expect new items and Awesomenauts to be added regularly! [B]-'NAUTS-[/B] [quote][IMG]http://images.wikia.com/awesomenauts/images/0/00/Froggy_G_Icon.png[/IMG][I] Froggy G[/I] Straight out of the marsh pond ghettos of planet Ribbit IV comes the amphibious B.I.G., also known as Nate Frogg, but mostly known as Froggy G. Growing up in the baddest part of town, struggle and incarceration surrounded Froggy from an early age. Taking part in his first swim-by shoot out as a tadpole, Froggy seemed destined for a life of crime and prison. After a bloody gangwar with the neighbouring Toad-unit posse ended in a 5 year jail sentence, Froggy G vowed to end his gangsta ways. Instead, Froggy G started earning his keep as a beatboxing streetdancer and rapper, hoping to be picked up by a major record label. Unfortunately, his tracks titled "Pond Pimpin", "Froggin' dirty" and "Motherfrogger bounce!" didn't earn him much. In order to make some money, and then make some mo', Froggy G became a hired gun. Combining his shoot-out experiences with lethal watery dance-moves and beatboxing techniques, Froggy G now spins and dashes across intergalactic battlefields, droppin foo's left and right with his fishgun, hoping to make some money to take his momma out of the hood.[/quote] [quote][IMG]http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120715003843/awesomenauts/images/4/4e/Derpl_Zork_Icon.png[/IMG] [I]Derpl Zork[/I] Riding his combat walker onto the battlefield, comes Derpl Zork. The nephew of Blabl Zork, president of Zork industries. Derpl Zork lacks his uncle's business-smarts. In fact he lacks any kind of smarts, managing to get his IQ rated under the level of plankton in the official galaxial IQ test. Nevertheless Derpl is the heir apparent to Blabl's galaxy-spanning business empire. This is something that doesn't sit well with Blabl, not well at all. Dreading the day Derpl would inherent the company and run all the hardfought accomplishments into the ground, Blabl put Derpl in charge of fieldtesting the new Specialized Universal Secretary Interface (S.U.S.I. for short) in one of Zork Industries' combat walkers. Asking Derpl what form of devastation should be issued forth from his vehicle of destruction he simply drooled and said: "I wuv cats!" Now Blabl is anxiously awaiting the day that Derpl would suffer a fatal blow on the fields of battle but as of yet Derpl's combat walker has proven to keep making up for its dimwitted driver.[/quote] [quote][IMG]http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120715003736/awesomenauts/images/f/f6/Leon_Chameleon_Icon.png[/IMG] [I]Leon Chameleon[/I] Leon's life is a life of crime, women, and borrowing without returning. He lost his arm in a unfortunate jeu de boules incident and spends most of his time smoothly escaping debt collectors. He found himself breaking into the bedroom of the prime minister's wife, while looking for the wine cellar. He knew no amount of charm could save him this time and planned his escape, which was eventually delayed because he refused to escape in anything but a space yacht. Leon joined the Awesomenauts for some quick cash, spending it on beautiful women and exquisite meals. In combat, he puts his natural reptile abilities to some good use and slices up his enemies with great precision. Combat is a form of art for this green gentleman.[/quote] [quote][IMG]http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120715003726/awesomenauts/images/3/32/Sheriff_Lonestar_Icon.png[/IMG] [I]Sherrif Lonestar[/I] At the heart of the milky way lies the Bovinion system, ruled by a semi intelligent cow-like species. Although technologically advanced to an acceptable level, these Bovinions have maintained a tribal form of society for several thousands of years. Until recent years, an age-old custom in this society was to scare young Bovinion calves with bogeyman stories about a scary cowboy. Naughty Bovinion calves would, as the story went, be caught by this cowboy's unrelenting lasso. Recently, a wealthy Bovinion visionary opened up a park where visitors would come to see a genetically re-engineered cowboy in action. But disaster struck and the cowboy escaped his cage. Before the Bovinions could react the cowboy had wrangled the entire park staff. Terror shook the Bovinion civilization as the cowboy started to wrangle every single Bovinion on the planet! Suddenly the Bovinions found themselves out of their cities and wrangled into herds on green meadows by the whisky drinking, bucket spitting, yeeehaawing horror. Once the entire Bovinion civilization had been wrangled, the cowboy, naming himself Sherriff Lonestar, rode a rocket ship into the sunset, his job complete. Now Sherriff Lonestar fights as a mercenary in the robot wars, combining his awesome cowboy-powers with high tech weaponry to earn some solar to spend on whisky and cigars.[/quote] [quote][IMG]http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120715003831/awesomenauts/images/e/e6/Coco_Nebulon_Icon.png[/IMG] [I]Coco Nebulon[/I] Hailing from a psyonic race on Okeanos, Coco is known as the cosmic waveblazer. Describes herself as hot & cool at the same time. Excerpt from her spacelog: "It's just like, dude, I was cruisin' the galaxy, you know, in this totally tubular space-van, searching for the best cosmic waves man[/quote] [quote][IMG]http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120715003714/awesomenauts/images/4/4a/Voltar_the_Omniscient_Icon.png[/IMG] [I]Voltar the Omniscient[/I] Voltar's past is shrouded in mystery. Rumor has it he once was a researcher at a star-encapsulating power station. The station made intergalactic headlines when it exploded around 500 years ago, sending off ail kinds of strange, unseen radiation into space. In this explosion, the Al core of the Zero's was destroyed, bringing an abrupt end to the First Al War. Although peace was maintained for some centuries, the war eventually returned. Some think that war was just too profitable, and suspect that weapon manufacturers had a hand in the construction of a new Al core for the Zero's. The explosion at the power station destroyed almost every part of Voltar's body, leaving only his brilliant brain intact. This brain was carefully placed inside a Braintank by salvagers. Through the years, and with help of his loyal robot drones, he made some nifty modifications to his braintank that enabled him to participate in the newly erupted Robot Wars. No-one knows Voltar's true motives for participating in the war as a mercenary, but what can be assured is that he’s a mastermind with unmatched psychotechnic powers and an arsenal of armed robots that do his every bidding.[/quote] [quote][IMG]http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120715003813/awesomenauts/images/7/70/Clunk_Icon.png[/IMG] [I]Clunk[/I] Clunk is a robot suffering from anger management issues. He's saving up money to pay for therapy but keeps losing it due to damage compensations. Originally created as part of a robot army to combat an immensely powerful super villain terrorizing the outer star systems, Clunk found himself without a job when the villain accidentally died of a nasty bacterial infection before the robot army was completed. This was actually a blessing in disguise for Clunk, since he was never designed to return in one piece from his mission. He was refitted to do standard house-keeping work, but soon found himself out of work once more as he kept blowing aggression inhibitors and subsequently went into immensely destrucive tantrums. Eventually, Clunk signed up as a mercenary to do what he is best at: wrecking things. He found that finally giving in to his aggressive nature has given him great inner peace. Nowadays he takes great pleasure in jetting around the battlefield, blowing up in peoples' faces to the sound of heavy metal.[/quote] [quote][IMG]http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120715003660/awesomenauts/images/2/23/Yuri_Icon.png[/IMG] [I]Yuri[/I] Once part of the soviet space program, Yuri was a monkey, experimentally shot into space during the 1960's cold war spacerace. Mysteriously, monitoring soviet scientists suddenly lost track of monkey Yuri's spacecraft. Puzzled by its sudden disappearence, Soviet space-command wondered what had become of their beloved test-pet Yuri. Little did they know that Yuri's spacecraft had entered a warpfield anomaly and was transported hundreds of years into the future! Also, the warpfields radiation boosted Yuri's mind to superintelligent levels. The new, more intelligent, mad and slightly sadistic Yuri quickly grasped the situation and modified his broken rocket into an equally mad timetravelling supercomputer jetpack. With the jetpack translating everything Yuri says and does, enemies are never quite sure who is in control, the mad scientist monkey, or the computer it created?[/quote] [B]-MEDIA-[/B] [I]PC Release Trailer[/I] [video=youtube;B53Z40u9DnE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B53Z40u9DnE&feature=channel&list=UL[/video] [I]Gnaw Showcase[/I] [video=youtube;GjCdNiyv8Lk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjCdNiyv8Lk&feature=channel&list=UL[/video] [B]-LINKS-[/B] Awesomenauts Website: [URL]http://www.awesomenauts.com/[/URL] Awesomenauts Wiki: [URL]http://awesomenauts.wikia.com/wiki/Awesomenauts_Wiki[/URL] Awesomenauts Steam Page: [URL]http://store.steampowered.com/app/204300/?snr=1_4_4__104_1[/URL]

I'd get this game in a snap if i had emone... Anyone want to swap it for a firefall beta key... no... didn't think so.

Been thinking about grabbing this, but I always stop playing MOBAs because of their insufferable communities. Everyone is either a fucking idiot who doesn't know how to play or a snobbish elitist. I don't suppose this one is any different...?

[QUOTE=postmanX3;37231651]Been thinking about grabbing this, but I always stop playing MOBAs because of their insufferable communities. Everyone is either a fucking idiot who doesn't know how to play or a snobbish elitist. I don't suppose this one is any different...?[/QUOTE] I feel its more relaxed, its still pretty difficult but the whole 2d platforming element really changes the game.

[QUOTE=postmanX3;37231651]Been thinking about grabbing this, but I always stop playing MOBAs because of their insufferable communities. Everyone is either a fucking idiot who doesn't know how to play or a snobbish elitist. I don't suppose this one is any different...?[/QUOTE] It's different in the way that it isn't as hardcore. In fact, in nearly all the games I played, there isn't a single word spoken during the entire match. There are definitely people who can't play for shit, however for the most part they're competent.

Tried playing this with 2 other friends Our first online game put us into a match vs prestige people and we replaced bots mid game so we lost in about 2 minutes There is no fucking matchmaking in this game and the "Drop in and out" feature is awful because if you're losing there's nothing stopping you from just leaving and then people who do want to play get put in a lost game. The upgrade that gives you 150 solar is a must have and its just dumb, it allows you to get to level 3 within the first minute and gives you both of your skills at the start of the game, why not just give us enough for the skills at the start and allow more choice, right now its always for me HP upgrade, movement speed and the piggy bank. The skill upgrade selection is very good though, very different and allows each player to have an even more unique playstyle Its a great game with very good voice acting (I fell in love with the Lonestar's voice and Leon's killing spree music is awesome) but it just suffers because of many design flaws.

I hope that with the PC release they really work on several things in the game, matchmaking would be good but apart from one or two matches so far the sides seemed pretty balanced when it came to skill. Personally I'd like to see Derpl's nuclear blast thing that locks on a target nerfed, it does too much damage and it requires no skill whatever, either you take the hit or have to outrun it (or use the shield on your whirlwind when you're Froggy G if you can time it right). Despite the flaws it's still a great game, they just need to iron it out a bit more.

So this game is pretty good shame coco isn't all like She-ra to fit with the whole 80's cartoon thing.

It's pretty damn fun and thanks for making this since I've been thinking about making this thread but have been too lazy.

Sorry for the bump but if anybody wants to play hit me up. I'm tired of playing solo.

I'm considering getting this on PC- my sister has it for the 360 so I can play it, it seems pretty easy to pick up. The most annoying thing I've experienced so far is having to deal with clunk as lonestar , I'll be hitting him with nearly all of my dynamite, every 3 only taking away like 1/5th of his health on a direct hit (???) and by the time I deplete his health he's retreated. That's not even taking into consideration his self-destruct, which feels near impossible to avoid (and if it connects your health is halved and he only loses like 1/10th) if you don't have a double jump ready (or a dash move).

[QUOTE=Psycho_Shadow;37658294]I'm considering getting this on PC- my sister has it for the 360 so I can play it, it seems pretty easy to pick up. The most annoying thing I've experienced so far is having to deal with clunk as lonestart , I'll be hitting him with nearly all of my dynamite, every 3 only taking away like 1/5th of his health on a direct hit (???) and by the time I deplete his health he's retreated. That's not even taking into consideration his self-destruct, which feels near impossible to avoid (and if it connects your health is halved and he only loses like 1/10th) if you don't have a double jump ready (or a dash move).[/QUOTE] I think the pc version is a bit different balance wise and nothing feels too cheap by itself. Clunk bots are still op though.

thought i would bump this because the game is 50% off and could use some new players

People get so pissed whenever I spam mines as Yuri. That's the only way to play him tho, his laser is quite shit until you get the slowing upgrade for it. [editline]28th December 2012[/editline] A couple of heroes have been added since Gnaw tho, but this is a thread from August.

I just bought this and played one match. I pretty much uninstalled it right when I was put into a game in progress. You don't do that in games like this. You just don't.

[QUOTE=nige111;39004382]I just bought this and played one match. I pretty much uninstalled it right when I was put into a game in progress. You don't do that in games like this. You just don't.[/QUOTE] That's a pretty stupid reason to uninstall a game, you get given Solar depending on how long the match has been going on so you can easily catch up. I've played plenty of matches where I've been dropped in mid-way through and we won. That's like playing one match of Chivalry and uninstalling it because you got your head cut off in your first life.

[QUOTE=Dominic0904;39004559]That's a pretty stupid reason to uninstall a game, you get given Solar depending on how long the match has been going on so you can easily catch up. I've played plenty of matches where I've been dropped in mid-way through and we won. That's like playing one match of Chivalry and uninstalling it because you got your head cut off in your first life.[/QUOTE] Or when you get put into a match and your two teammates are 7 and 8 and the 3 enemies are all atleast 14. If that can even happen there's no point in playing.

[QUOTE=gnisasas;39003880]People get so pissed whenever I spam mines as Yuri. That's the only way to play him tho, his laser is quite shit until you get the slowing upgrade for it. [editline]28th December 2012[/editline] A couple of heroes have been added since Gnaw tho, but this is a thread from August.[/QUOTE] Do you use the super big super slow bubble? I've been trying that and it's pretty scary.

This game has damn good music.

[QUOTE=Mingebox;39013323]This game has damn good music.[/QUOTE] I just love Gnaw's theme. [video=youtube;uOBJdD_iOBo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOBJdD_iOBo[/video]

Got from GMG on sale, after playing the free weekend a while I back, [B]I LOVE THIS GAME.[/B] Gnaw is definitely my favorite Awesomenaut so far, though.

Holy shit I discovered an unstopable combo a while ago, Voltar + Gnaw pushing one lane, while someone else defends the other lane. It's the pain train.

i seriously hate being matched with bots and wish there as matchmaking filters. i honestly wouldn't mind waiting to play a full game from the beginning.

[QUOTE=gnisasas;39017094]Holy shit I discovered an unstopable combo a while ago, Voltar + Gnaw pushing one lane, while someone else defends the other lane. It's the pain train.[/QUOTE] Voltar + [B]ANYTHING[/B] is evil. Three matches in a row where a Voltar supported a Zork. It was awful.

I would watch the fuck out of an Awesomenauts cartoon.

I have been playing this game since it came out on Xbox, and recently moved to PC when it was cheap in the sales. Still love it. Although I have experienced some bad moments. I got behind the team's shield so the Coco who was following me couldn't get me, then I taunted but was repaid with the electric ball attack, instantly killing me. I was Skolldir so I couldn't get out at all. Oh well.

Also for anyone wondering here's the next new naut: [IMG]http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/tt249/Nin_Emi/bup.png[/IMG]

This game makes me so happy inside. Taunting people after they kill you has some hilarious results.

Clunk in a nutshell: [IMG]http://i50.tinypic.com/f3dtuc.jpg[/IMG]

Raelynn needs to piss off. She's overpowered as fuck right now with that spammable snipe, high HP (For her role.) and that fucking damaging wall bullshit.