Posted February 03, 2020 by FredrikNoren
Today Season 4 of Dr. Derk's Mutant Battlegrounds is launching! There's a completely new gameplay setup that makes team cooperation much easier to evolve, a new ranking system, new abilities, it's easier to use and the performance has been greatly improved.
In the latest version, the island battlefield has been replaced with a "parallel arenas" setup, where you run many versions of the same time-limited battle in parallel, rather than just one instance. Since the unit of selection is changing from individual / lifetime to team / battle you can now evolve team cooperation behavior much easier than before.
The ranking/ladder system has also been reworked from the ground. Instead of an ELO based ladder, we now have a brackets system with a number of different "divisions", Division 1 being the highest. For each division there's a number of groups, each with ten players. You advance to a group with a higher division when you beat someone in a group with a higher division.
This version also introduces two new abilities; Leap and Resurrect. Leap enables your creatures to make a small jump forward, and resurrect enables them to restore another creature to life.
The user interface has been streamlined to make it easier to use and learn the game. It's still far from perfect, but hopefully people who had trouble with the previous version will find this one a bit easier.
This also marks the end of Season 3. A big congratulations to Kennyd Sevenants who placed #1 with his team Dextrome, and to Patrik Sjölin for a #2 and #3 place with his teams Lex A and Lex! Thank you everyone who participated, and hope you had fun!
The full Season 3 leaderboard can be found here: https://derkgame.com/leaderboards
Until next time! /Fredrik