Fate (video game)

Fate (also FATE ) is a system developed and sold by WildTangent computer game that falls into the genre of action role-playing games or Hack & Slay games. It was first published in 2005.

Gameplay

In Fate, the player selects a character whose gender and appearance, it can partially determine. In addition, you need to choose a dog or a cat as a pet, which is available as a companion to the side and can be transformed into monsters with fish. The pet can also be used to sell items without the player having to leave the dungeon. The character starts with his pet in a village called Grove, where an entrance to a dungeon is where a strong monster lurking in a dungeon level approximately between 40 and 50, serving as the main target. After this was defeated, descendants of the character can be created. Additionally, up to three randomly generated orders can be accepted for each dungeon level before first entering. These can also be canceled at any time what is told even as a ploy by the program.

The character has four abilities: Strength ( strength ), Dexterity ( Dexterity ), Vitality (health) and Magic ( Magic). Higher Strength of character more damage dishes, as he gets higher Dexterity improved accuracy and higher chance to dodge. Vitality increases the hit points, while Magic increases magic points and under a certain number of points also possible to learn magic. These skills can be improved by ascents of experience level or the dungeon standing around learning shrines. Pro Level 5 skill points can be distributed at will. The learning Shrine increases a random ability permanently to 0-3 points.

In contrast to role-playing games like Diablo, you can not select a character class. Instead, we see a lot of skills that are at the beginning at level 0, and one can increase by awarding points. Skill points are obtained by a rise of the character levels or fame levels. The fame may be increased by defeating strong opponents, completed tasks and payment to a particular non-player character. Experience points are earned by defeating enemies and completed tasks.

Genre Typically it is possible to carry equipment to improve his skills. These will also be improved if more was invested no skill point. The equipment are divided into normal, magic, rare, and artifacts ( unique items ). In addition, socketed items can be improved by jewels. If you are not satisfied with such a socketed object, the jewels can be removed from the object located in the village. Either the object or the jewels will be destroyed. Through a Dungeon Levels make -to-find Schmiedeplatz may be trying to improve an object. The probability is higher, items with a few magical properties that can be improved. However, it is also possible that such an improvement causes disadvantages in that it is a property of the object about the ability points withdrawn.

In level rises resulting skill points and skill points are continuously distributed, which means they can not be removed if you ever make distributed.

The currently available version of the base game is now also available in German. Here, although the conversations and speech output have been translated, but the creatures, items and spells remained English.

Magic

The spells can be divided into three classes: " Attack" ( attack), " Defense" ( defense ) and " Charm " ( support) divided, for there is one skill. One can simultaneously have up to six spells in each of these classes, the type of learnable spells from the Magic depends. With higher Magic spells are thus more to learn. While the weakest spells are learned already with the starting values ​​, need better spells high values ​​in Magic. By increasing the respective class, the magic spells are. An example: The town portal spell requires 10 Magic to be learned and affects up to two levels deep dungeon and two more for each skill point invested in Charm.

Technical

After the game was downloaded and installed for free as a demo version, you can play up to Dungeon Level 3 or Character level 6. Through a paid code you can unlock the rest of the game. To do this once made ​​a connection to the Internet. For the release of data storage and Windows 2000 or Windows XP is required by the structure. On other operating systems Fate can only be played as a demo version. With every new installation the game must be unlocked again.

Meanwhile, the game is also available on Steam but.

Fate is fully rendered in 3D. The player can thus in and zoom out and rotate the action on key press 90 degrees to the left and right. The Dungeon theoretically contains more than 4 billion levels that are randomly generated. For up to three levels in advance orders will be generated randomly. When all tasks are done on a dungeon level, no city portal is available and have passed 30 minutes since the last entry, the Level regenerated, the ducts that, but monsters and contents of treasure chests are redistributed.