On August 20, the Cologne International Games Exhibition in Germany (Gamescom, hereinafter referred to as the Cologne Exhibition) was held as scheduled.

As one of the only world-class game exhibitions that have survived after E3's elimination, the scale of this year's Cologne exhibition is far beyond the past, with more than 1,500 exhibitors, and offline passenger flow is expected to break the record of 330,000 last year. It also brings together a lot of new game potential stocks.

Among many new games, the new meat pigeon game released by NEOWIZ, a developer of "Brown Dust 2" and created by the solo game team Lizard Smoothie, quickly attracted the attention of players on the scene with its mature and high-perfect gameplay and screen performance.

According to live news, "Dream Shape" announced at the exhibition that the game will be officially released on Steam on September 11.

MOBA+Meat Pigeon, born for pleasure

In addition to the Cologne Exhibition, "Dream Shape" has also attracted widespread attention from players around the world.The game previously launched DEMO on Steam. With the size of the trial content of three main maps + one branch map, it attracted more than 1 million times and received "promising praises" from players.What is even more unexpected is that such quality works were actually developed by two college students with little experience.

The reason why "Dream Shape" can attract players is also very simple, that is, it is enough "good".

First of all, as a typical downward angle meat pigeon, "Dream Shape" incorporates the concept of MOBA into the game system.That is, in addition to the mouse controlling ordinary attacks, the development team has also introduced the skill placed on the "QWER" button, which is called "Memory" in the game.

If you are a player who has played classic MOBA games such as "League of Legends" and "DOTA2", you must be familiar with the "QWER" button, but simple key binding is naturally not the core of "MOBA".

The "MOBA" flavor in "Dream Shape" is mainly reflected in its skill release logic.

The skills of "Dream Form" not only have the difference between pointing and non-pointing, but also have the differences in charging and continuous casting, and there is also the division between small skills and ultimate skills. At the same time, right-clicking on the map to move the operation method also makes "Dream Form" have an interactive framework that is more inclined toward MOBA.

Established from this interactive framework, the game has abandoned the slow pace of MOBA by removing skill resource slots and CD adjustments. In "Dream Shape", not only can the skills be released when they are good, but there are also a large number of means to reduce CDs, which makes this MOBA-based "HIT→RUN" system further move closer to high-speed ACT.

The R&D team once mentioned in an interview that "Dream Shape" has devoted a year and a half to adjust the rhythm of the action and impact feedback. The resulting large number of frame draws, frames and gorgeous particle effects have allowed "Dream Shape" to open up a visual and operational experience that integrates the essence of MOBA experience.

Of course, the development team also provides players who are not familiar with MOBA games with traditional "WASD" operation mode. In this mode, players can also feel the refreshing battle of "Dream Shape".

Infinite construction, the flesh pigeon's magic marrow

The skills of "Dream Shape" not only bring the input pleasure, but also undertake the core pigeon part of "Dream Shape". The Demo version has launched 63 different types, styles and grades of skills.

Burning, Shadow, Frost... Elemental Power will become your right-hand man to defeat powerful enemies; counter-injury, flash, refresh, and the skill mechanism like Qimen Dunjia will bring you the possibility of crossing everything.

Imagine: When you dislike the character's Q skill range is too small? Then sell it directly in the store and replace it with a full-screen ray; tired of the regular movement method? Equip the four skill bars with displacement skills and experience the fun of infinite flash.

Moreover, each skill can also be embedded with a special rune called "Essence". The essence can not only give skills a icing on the cake such as CD reduction and blood sucking, but also fundamentally change the skill mechanism, turning the ultimate move into a charging magic skill, and turning the single-point killing skill into a group instant killing ultimate move...

"Dream Shape" provides players with multiple heroes with unique skill trees and character characteristics, with five in the demo stage.

For example, the "Bowu" who specializes in melee combat can refresh the strong upward displacement similar to the Daomei Q skill in "League of Legends", and enter an awakening state when his life is in danger, giving Satan's evil power consistently high blood sucking in "DOTA2", and dancing the "Blade Waltz" while licking blood at the edge of the knife

The strengthening of the skill tree of the hero itself is also the content of the extrapolated growth of "Dream Shape".

It can be said that "Dream Shape" has brought incredible depth and freedom of build possibilities to the game's meat pigeon with the combination of "hero + memory + essence". With the skill combination, any game may become a "sweet game".Now, in the player community, powerful builds such as "flat cut stream", "golden light burst stream", and "general attack special effect stream" have appeared. It is also a different kind of fun.

Source: B station @shikabane

Fight with dreams and play the poems

In addition to the core experience, "Dream Shape" also carefully designed a dual experience channel.Single-player adventurers can immerse themselves in the profound narrative of the dream world, and gradually uncover the secrets of "dreams" and seek social experiences can invite up to three partners to enter the four-player online cooperation mode.The online mode of "Dream Shape" is not a simple difficulty sharing.The game has implanted a rich team interaction mechanism: connection of the treatment chain, superposition of gain effects, and coordination of group control. Every battle will become a stage like MOBA, testing the team's tacit understanding and overcoming difficulties.At the same time, players are recommended to use UU accelerator, patented technology reduces network latency, optimizes network fluctuations, and brings everyone a high-quality online experience.

The mesh encounter points and events of a single large map, and the "hunter" who gradually erodes the map with the rapid passage of time in the upper right corner, also makes the journey of "Dream Shape" always have a sense of tension and urgency.

If you are a loyal fan of Meat Pigeon Game, you may recognize that if you want to enjoy Meat Pigeon Game, you can basically not avoid two points. One is a deep enough build, that is, the strategies that players can choose must be rich enough; the other is the freshness of the process, map events, enemy mechanisms, no matter what the form of expression is, they must be "random".

From the beginning of "Dream Shape", these two points will appear densely in front of the players. While grasping the core excitement of the meat pigeon, it also integrates the operating logic of MOBA with it. It is definitely a meat pigeon game above the level in recent years.

Choi Youhe, the product manager of "Dream Shape", once said that after the game is officially launched, it will bring a larger content volume, at least twice that of DEMO, including new maps, new enemies, new heroes, and a larger skill library.It can be imagined that the officially launched "Dream Shape" will bring players a better MOBA meat pigeon journey.Players who are interested in the game can also join the official group to get the latest news: 979725295