Artifact Beta Sign Up Steam

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Sep 5, 2018 · 3 min read

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Artifact is an upcoming digital collectible card game developed and published by Valve Corporation. The game focuses on online player versus player battles across three boards, called lanes, and is based upon the universe of Dota 2, a multiplayer online battle arena game also developed by Valve. Artifact features Steam Marketplaceintegration for buying, selling, and trading cards, and was primarily designed by Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield. Artifact will be released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux in November 2018, and for Android and iOS devices the following year.

As a digital collectible card game (DCCG), the gameplay of Artifact is to build a deck of collectable cards, obtained via purchasing or trading with other players on the Steam Marketplace, in order to defeat an opponent in a 1v1 situation. Artifact is heavily based upon and features many elements from the multiplayer online battle arena game Dota 2, which Valve also developed. As such, the game differs from most other traditional collectible card games, as it features three “lanes” guarded by a tower at the end, with each lane existing as its own independent board. The victor is the first person to either destroy a structure called the “Ancient”, which appears after a tower has been destroyed, or the first to destroy two towers in total.

Each deck contains 40 cards and includes five heroes, with over 40 of them being available at launch. Cards are grouped into three rarity tiers, common, uncommon, and rare, and are further grouped into four color themes, red, green, black, and blue, that each have their own unique effects on the board. Each lane also has its own independent mana pool, which is used for casting hero abilities and regenerates by one after each round. In addition to hero abilities, item cards can also be freely placed and used in any lane. Each time a card is played, the initiative passes to the opposing player. After all cards have been played in a lane, heroes and “creeps”, which are weak, but numerous mobs that can not be directly controlled and respawn every round, begin attacking whatever is opposite them, including the opposing tower if there are no units left. This repeats until all three lanes have been played, after which it goes to the “Shopping Phase”, where gold accumulated during battles is spent on buying items and upgrading hero equipment in three different slots for weapons, armor, and accessories.

As with Dota 2, the game will focus on online player versus player matchmaking and will not have a single-player component, although a tutorial against an AI-controlled bot is used for teaching new players how to play.

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