DOS — Dawn of Stars
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Game Introduction
A 3:3 multi-player battle game, DOS — Dawn of Stars challenges you to embrace your most competitive side.
To get started, choose your tribe, each one distinctive, each one featuring different characteristics and styles of play. From there, you select your role — one of three within your tribe. There are three roles within the tribe: one that specializes in fighting other tribes, one that specializes in monster hunting and terrain destruction, and one that specializes in resource mining and equipment and terrain production. You then collaborate with those who are on your team and compete with those who aren’t, doing everything that you can to occupy the planet first.
DOS encapsulates all of the benefits of an RTS and a MOBA game, merging the best parts of each. In MOBA games, for example, players receive role assignments, such as mining and hunting, but to correct the high barrier to entry infamous in RTS games, DOS makes it easier for each player to become a single character.
Understanding the Gameplay
The game runs on a purple planet background map, where resources are in abundance and where monsters are never far away.
The goal of the game is to occupy more planets than your competitors do, taking up as much space as you can before the game ends.
Your role defines everything.
Specialize in mining, getting all that you can out of the planet. There is no shortage of resources, but to make the most of all that are within your reach, you need to get moving.
Specialize in hunting, on the other hand, and you go searching for monsters, drawing on your fellow team members’ equipment and supplies in preparation for raids on your opponents’ terrain, buildings, or territories.
Specialize in combat, and the game is all about skirmishes. It is up to you to protect your fellow team members, attacking your opponents and applying pressure on them to get what you want out of them.
What makes the game, though, is the vast assortment of characters. Meet them all — the Human Tribe, the Slime Tribe, and the Animal Tribe.
Human Tribe
Black Mamba, a combat-specialized character, is a former space police officer who has since experienced a devastating loss. Betrayed by her organization, she then lived her life among pigs and crows, developing into a space pirate. She mastered a range of weapons, accruing invaluable skills for the battlefield.
Black Pig, an unidentified space pirate, is a mysterious character. Growing up an outlaw, he would commit petty crimes, including illegal spacecraft renovation, theft, and assault, just to get by. As a result, he became notorious in the underworld, joining forces with Black Mamba. Although his bulk prevents him from moving around very quickly, he makes up for his lack of speed with inimitable knowledge and awareness. He is capable of producing cutting-edge equipment, mining huge amounts of resources, and making a moment-to-moment impact on raids and invasions.
* Black Crow, another unidentified space pirate, seems to have appeared out of nowhere. There is little that anyone knows of him, other than the fact that he has built up a long rap sheet for himself, committing crimes along with the pigs. He excels at discreet attacks, handling explosives and waging war against others — while evading detection. Because of these skills, he is uniquely capable of destroying fortifications and hunting monsters.
Slime Tribe
The slimes are different from the humans: their uniformity can, to outsiders, make it seem that they all blend in together. Their bodies are all the same size, and they can pass thoughts to each other telepathically. They feed on the same resources wherever they roam, growing to a set, specific size. Because their ideas and abilities are all the same, and because they tend to move in conjunction with each other, it may even make sense to think of a group of slimes as an individual — as many pieces that make up the whole. What this means, of course, is that they soak up resources rapidly.
Also unlike the Human Tribe, slimes do not specialize in roles. Instead, all of the slimes perform all three of the roles. This is their disadvantage as well as their advantage: large numbers of slimes can move all at once.
Animal Tribe
Within the world of DOS, humans have manipulated animals’ genetics and conducted cutting-edge biological experiments. It started out of an honest desire: the humans wanted to communicate with their pets and help them to live longer, healthier lives. The mutations, however, went far beyond the humans’ plans.
The main character in the Animal Tribe, the Border Collie, was born to two highly intelligent parents. He himself is more intelligent than humans, and because of his intelligence, the humans who have raised him in a research facility cherish him. It was only when he grew up that his eyes started to open: he realized that humans had been discriminating against, persecuting, and harming others like himself, thinking of them as his subjects, treating them like property.
Torn between the love he has experienced and the horror that he has witnessed, the Border Collie in time chooses to pioneer a new planet and establish a country exclusively for an animal tribe.
In DOS, the animals are geniuses at mechanical engineering, making them exceptionally proficient at mining resources, building small spaceships and drones, competing, battling, and hunting for monsters.
