Ranged fighters Gizmo and Maeve focus on staying on the outside of combat, peppering enemies with a ranged attack and spells.
A more advanced character is Cass who has a low health pool but high spike damage. Daemon and Nidhoggr are good for players who prefer the traditional hack and slash approach, with quickness combined with solid damage dealing up close and personal. The Damage class is further split into melee and ranged-based fighters. The 11 fighters available at launch fall into three categories: Damage, Support, and Tank. While it's important to consider the nuances of each map and mode, the most important factor to success in Bleeding Edge is team composition.
The map shows any enemies that are within line of sight of anyone on your team, which is handy for flanking maneuvers, or going to an uncontested objective. In either scenario, the minimap is handy, as it shows which objectives/deposits are active, which will soon become active, where your teammates are, as well as any enemies. You must not only get as many cells as possible, but also deposit them within the available time frame.īoth modes can be fairly entertaining, and they are randomly selected when you play, as are the maps. Further, during the deposit phase, it takes a few moments of standing still to drop off the cells, and you can be interrupted by an enemy attack, so strategy again comes into play. If you're killed while holding cells, the other team gets them. In this mode, players first run around the map collecting power cells once all are collected, they must be deposited at one of those same three locations, which again randomly become available. Teams compete to try and hold these spots for as long as they can, while they are active, which earns points that lead to eventual victory. The game changes up which of the three spots are available to be captured, moving the action across the map. Objective Control is straightforward enough – there are three capture points on the map, and they randomly become active over the course of the match. There are enough dynamic elements on the maps to prevent them from being entirely dull, though there's nothing exactly mind blowing about their designs.Īll of the maps are used with the two game modes available - Objective Control and Power Collection. Another map has a floating objective point that constantly rotates around the circular map elsewhere, players can trigger a ring of fire to damage anyone standing on the nearby objective. The developers try to spice things up by having a few moving components – one map features a large lethal train that drives across the center of the map occasionally, opening up a few gates temporarily.
They are symmetrical, making them easy to learn and offer the same approach options for both teams. The maps are all fairly standard in design and usually just have one level of elevation above the ground. There is no solo component beyond a training area, which is also the only place you'll find bots, as they are not used in multiplayer matches. It's all a bit thin and serves as barely enough background for the game's setting while some maps feature a few rows of spectators, it seems largely like an afterthought.īleeding Edge is a 4vs4, third person, multiplayer brawler that focuses on melee, spread across two modes and multiple symmetrical maps. This all lead to a seemingly spectator sport of having the augmented humans compete. However, they also found that they could entertain others by battling amongst each other, for whatever reason. Society at large didn't really think it was a good idea, so such people became mostly outcasts.
In the distant future, it seems that human augmentation became available, and some folks got really into it by replacing their entire body parts for either function or just cool looks. The story setup for the game is fairly thin, and doesn’t go beyond an introductory cutscene and some text character bios.
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