The Viking-themed survival game Valheim has inflated and is still a top seller on Steam. While most players are building, battling bosses and learning how to sail their new longships, a new tournament organized by the community breaks the form of PvE adventures, focusing entirely on a collision between Vikings.
The Vikings of Legend is almost like an esports, but in a game without esports leagues, community-wide rules or even a great PvP focus. This is how the competition works: two teams load on a server, completely naked and without tools or weapons. One team is heading west, and the other team is heading east. This is the construction phase; players must quickly cut down trees, collect stone, hunt, kill bosses and build defensive bases.
There is only one rule when it comes to the base: the players must put together their beds, which serve as reaction points. Teams can explore the base of their opponents and make the action much like a game of Star craft, where everyone tries to get their economy going without being spotted by enemy factions on the map, while also trying to gather the enemy.
The construction phase lasts one hour and then the real test begins. Each team will be able to attack their opponent, aiming to break into the base, find the bunch of beds and destroy them. If the attacker can not break down the beds, the defender wins, and both teams return to their base to prepare for the next meeting, in which the attacker and defender are tilted.
Pre-production meetings for the premier of Vikings of Legend are underway!
Note: Both teams will start the competition with empty stock and the construction phase has been extended to one hour.
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It goes back and forth until one team wins three rounds, and then they are declared Vikings or Legend. The first tournament was broadcast on March 6 at 16:00 ET with Twitch Dread Pirate Doug – the organizer behind Sea of Thieves‘Race of Legends – comment. He will be with him Say HeyRocco, a streamer who introduces themselves with a cat doll.
Valheim is not a particularly balanced game when it comes to PVP battles, and the Vikings of Legend tournament has put together a structure that should avoid the worst problems one can experience when fighting other players. Some Vikings get too desperate by putting on end-game equipment, but because they only have so long to gather what they need, and the goal of the game is a humble bed, we should not see too many players who do not complain about each other. opponent simply refuses to die.
Because the game is so early in development – in fact, it’s still early entry – these kinds of homemade tournaments are important to help build the larger community and keep interest going, even after fans use up the available content. In addition, the organizers will raise money for a worthy cause in AbleGamers.
It’s an experimental, wild approach in the usual way Valheim formula. This will probably be repeated in the future, and other organizers may be inspired to give their own twist to the idea of a Viking sports league. But for now, all players can do is stand back and watch the carnage unfold, then collect the best pieces from the rubble and prepare to try again.