Transformers Universe (Jagex)

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The name or term "Universe" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Universe (disambiguation).

Transformers Universe was to be a free to play browser based massively online tactical action game, or MOTA[1]. After several scrapped early builds, the game entered open beta testing July 4, 2014[2]. It is being developed by Jagex and it is set in the Prime portion of the Aligned continuity family. Gamers could choose to be an Autobot or a Decepticon, obtain different characters, and pit them against one another in various challenges and battles to gather Relics and Energon.

It was announced on the 16th December 2014 that the game would begin a phased closure immediately, fully closing on the 31st January 2015, without ever having left beta testing[3]

The gameplay is very similar to other multiplayer battle arena games such as Dota 2 or League of Legends. Although the game features several Prime characters in minor roles, new introductions to the Prime mythos such as Prowl and Switchblade take center stage.

Synopsis

According to creative director Alex DeRakoff, the main story involves Optimus Prime going missing, with the other Autobots trying to keep his location a secret from Megatron, who is travelling across the galaxy with his associates to track down Prime. [4]

In the recent Autobot and Decepticon trailers, an additional segment of the plot was revealed: The Decepticons have intercepted and shot down the Autobot spaceship Arclight, causing the surviving Autobots to crash-land on Earth (mostly the United States) aboard escape pods. The debris from the Arclight rained across the North America continent, while the Decepticons's ship, the Leviathan invaded Central City and the Decepticons began attacking to the humans in order to draw out the Autobots and Optimus Prime. This incident prompted the president to order "a national state of emergency and the total evacuation of eleven major cities." Optimus Prime contacted General Freeman, who provided these Autobot refugees with a base of operations. In return, the Autobots vowed to protect human civilization from the Decepticon threat.

Gameplay

There are currently five playable game modes:

  • Elimination pits Autobots against Decepticons. The first faction to reach 20 kills wins the match.
  • Meteor Storm has both sides try to capture Energon meteor landing sites. The first team that gains 1000 points wins.
  • Crisis is a player-vs-environment mode where teams fight hordes of Terrorcons and gather energon before fighting a final boss.
  • Dispatch (also known as Incursion or Free Roam) is another player-vs-environment where players can partake small missions or mine for energon in the outer base area.

An additional "Challenge" mode was added were players could prearrange an Elimination match. However no rewards are given (not even experience points) and skill score remains unaffected. The "backfilling" game mechanic is disabled in this mode, and player statistics are not recorded.

Autobots Decepticons Others

Notes

  • Two known builds of Transformers Universe were developed. The "2012" version (which never left closed beta) and the "2014" version which went into Open Beta. The 2012 build used an upgraded version of RuneTek 6[13] as their game engine while the 2014 build used Unity as it's game engine. Further differences included the 2012 version having a 8v8 mode called "Capture the flag"[14] as well as 8v8 Team Death Match[15]. Furthermore characters such as Lockbox, Riot, Roadblock and more were never included in the 2014 build. Starter bots for the Autobots in 2012 were Catapult, Meltdown and Frontline (who is now known as Macro) while in the 2014 build starter bots for the Autobots were Overclock, Monsoon and Triage. Many other details about the 2012 build are lost due to the NDA never being dropped.
  • BotCon 2012 attendees were able to reserve their in-game name at the convention.
  • The game has gone through a couple of genre shifts. Initially slated to be released as an MMORPG with multiple classes and conventional character creation, but the difficulty of customizing robots was cited as part of the reasoning in changing it to the quickly expanding MOBA genre. Right.[16] It has since been declared to be a massively online, tactical action game by Mark Gerhard, CEO/CTO of Jagex.
  • The November 2012 issue of Edge revealed both an early version of Firebreaker and Macro with the descriptors "Oppressor" and "Guardian".[17]
  • On April 25th, 2014, Founders Packs were revealed, along with founder exclusive bonuses and new characters.[18] Each increasingly expensive pack, from Bronze to "Cybernite", grants a three day head start to play the game and various in game bonuses, in addition to season passes of various lengths of time and exclusive warriors. The most expensive at $449.99 dollars, the Cybernite pack also offers a limited edition ten inch diorama figurine showcasing Showdown and Shellshock in combat. Yeesh.
  • Someone named Vectorium is quoted on Anomaly's page on the Transformers Universe website, referring to the green toxic youngster's capabilities in shock. Considering the pattern of the other Transformers Universe bios, all of whom quote pre-existing characters of the same faction, Vectorium is likely another Autobot. Meanwhile, Decepticon Diabla's page quotes a previously unknown Aligned continuity version of Snow Cat.
  • Between June 6-7th, 2014, five unreleased playable characters (Firebreaker, Contagion, Outsider, Cameo and Swagger) were leaked by some TFW2005/TFU forum users who toyed around with the generic link for model images of playable Autobots and Decepticons alike.
  • As of July 4th, 2014, Transformers Universe has reached the Open Beta stage and the NDA was lifted. Additionally, more Bots, such as Rollcage,[19][20] and others (without names) were leaked.[21][22]
  • A veritable cornucopia of information came out on September 5th. Officially announced on that date were a new challenger system and playable characters Outsider and Pandemic due that month along with updated maps. Flamewar and Chromia were revealed to be coming out in October with a new game mode, Recon.[23] In addition, a vast number of character models were found by a dataminer, including early versions of released characters, unrevealed new characters, models with pre-existing character names as placeholders and character models for cast members of Transformers: Prime. New characters included Bombast, Clear-Cut, Backlash, Flood, Stiletto, Pitstop, Pandemic, Breakneck, and Mayday. Prime cast members Knock Out, Bulkhead, Wheeljack, and Breakdown got models, and the in-engine appearance of Barricade was confirmed, turning into an SUV. [24]
  • Recon was set to release with the addition of Flamewar and Chromia on October 2014[25], however in a later developer update, the Transformers Univese team stated "We need to spend more time looking at the balance of the characters and the game mode, as well as continue to polish the relevant features."[26]. Chromia, Flamewar, Recon and defense (an unannounced gamemode) can still be found in the game files.
  • Defense (a gamemode) can be found in the game files which involves the use of a photoncannon.
  • On December 16th with the announcement that the game would close at the end of January 2015, still in beta[3], Jagex announced that all Founders Pack, relic bundles and starter packs would be refunded. No specific reason has been given as to the reason for the closure.
  • Various Artists for Transformers Universe have uploaded concept arts as well as models of Transformers Universe characters on Artstation including artworks of Arcee, Onslaught, Perceptor, Adhoc, Bombast, Clearcut, Flamewar, Chromia, Warpath, Bumblebee, and many others.

See also

References

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ Open Beta - 4th July - Announcements - Transformers Universe Forum:: We are proud to announce Transformers Universe will be throwing open its doors to the world when we go in to Open BETA this Friday, July 4th from 6am EDT and 11am GMT.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Future of Transformers Universe Announcement: Today Jagex and Hasbro can confirm that Transformers Universe will close. This decision comes at an important time for both companies as they both realign their plans and focuses for 2015.... We’re hugely disappointed, but the game will be closing over the coming weeks before its full closure at 10am GMT on 31st January 2015.... As mentioned, on 31st Jan 2015 @ 10am GMT we will be shutting down all servers and forums and will freeze all Transformers Universe related accounts. These accounts will then be live for another 60 days (approx.) for any final queries before deletion on 31st March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Under the Hood: Episode 2"
  5. ↑ https://secure.transformersuniverse.com/m=forum_tu/sl=0/forums.ws?2,3,927,11519,goto,1#3
  6. ↑ http://i.imgur.com/XdljDTe.png
  7. ↑ [2]
  8. ↑ https://secure.transformersuniverse.com/m=forum_tu/sl=0/forums.ws?2,3,927,11519,goto,1#3
  9. ↑ http://i.imgur.com/XdljDTe.png
  10. ↑ https://secure.transformersuniverse.com/m=forum_tu/sl=0/forums.ws?2,3,927,11519,goto,1#3
  11. ↑ http://i.imgur.com/XdljDTe.png
  12. ↑ [3]
  13. ↑ http://www.zybez.net/news/1841/what_we_know_about_transformers_universe/
  14. ↑ http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x14wue0_toasty_videogames
  15. ↑ http://www.dailymotion.com/dm_521dd4cc5c991
  16. ↑ [4]
  17. ↑ [5]
  18. ↑ Founders Pack - Transformers Universe - Become a Founder
  19. ↑ [6]
  20. ↑ [7]
  21. ↑ [8]
  22. ↑ [9]
  23. ↑ http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/video-games-17/jagex-transformers-universe-game-update-new-modes-and-characters-181101/
  24. ↑ http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/video-games-17/jagex-transformers-universe-new-characters-including-prime-knock-out-181099/
  25. ↑ https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/9/evolution-transformers-universe-050914
  26. ↑ https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/10/developer-update-whats-next-121014




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