Stardock Reveals New Demigod

 

Stardock CEO, Brad Wardell, posted information about a new Demigod(for the game Demigod) on his blog. The Demon Assasin is a melee assassin(which looks like a HR Geiger designed Alien) that wields a sword and a knife.

 

Demon Assassin

Overview and Traits

Demon Assassin is a Melee Assassin fighting for the Forces of Darkness. He wields a sword and a knife in battle, the sword being his primary weapon.

The Demon Assassin is a highly mobile character who can quickly close the gap between himself and his opponent though the use of warp attacks. His Shadow Swap ability allows him to change positions with an enemy Demigod, throwing them back into their foes. His melee attacks are fast and have a passive chance to critically strike.

While mobile and able to dodge many normal attacks, Demon Assassin is susceptible to magical damage.

The nemesis to Regulus, the Demon Assassin is extremely fast and lethal.

Abilities

Warp Strike – Key 1

Activated ability. Warps behind the targeted unit and performs an instant attack. Damage dealt increases as the skill increases.

Deadly Warp

Passive ability. Warp Strike has a high chance to critically strike.

Spine Attack – Key 2

Activated ability. Launches a barb from his tail, attacking an enemy at range. Damage dealt increases as the skill increases.

Warp Area – Ultimate – Key 3

Activated ability. For a few seconds, Demon Assassin warps to nearby enemies and attacks them. While performing this ability, he is invincible. Number of warps increases as the skill increases.

Forceful Blows

Passive Ability. Smaller enemies near targets of Warp Area are thrown into the air.

Shadow Swap – Key 4

Activated ability. Demon Assassin swaps places with an enemy Demigod. Distance increases as the skill increases.

Passive abilities

Elusiveness

Demon Assassin’s chance to dodge normal attacks increases.

Demon’s Speed

Demon Assassin’s movement speed increases.

Demigod Street Date Broken

 

Bigdownload.com reported that Gamestop has started selling copies of Demigod before it’s release date. This has led to a lot of people jumping in the online component of the game before the servers have gone live. Brad Wardell, CEO of Stardock has stated in his blog:

 

First, it was Easter weekend. And many of us had just finished a good solid 8 weeks of massive crunch and were looking forward to the weekend to recover. Instead, we found ourselves back at work having to turn on and configure the multiplayer matchmaking servers (we had enough for a beta but not for thousands of people).

Second, since Demigod has zero copy protection on it, it meant that that piracy on this title will, in theory, be maximized. Stardock’s position on piracy is pretty straight forward but to repeat it here: It’s not that we don’t think piracy is massive. We just aren’t convinced that it results in that many lost sales. Or more to the point, we don’t think intrusive, obnoxious copy protection will result in more sales than we lose from people who don’t want to mess with it.

 

It’s sad but it’s always been happening before. Anyway good luck Stardock. I hope you guys work it out with Gas Powered Games and have massive success with this title.

Demigod Gone Gold

 

Stardock and Gas Powered Games has announced that Demigod has gone gold and will hit store shelves on 14th April. According to bigdownloads, the regular edition will be priced at USD$39.95 and a collectors edition USD$49.95. Demigod will also be available on Stardock’s digital distribution platform, Impulse. Collectors edition screenshot below:

 

 

Collectors Edition will include a pewter figurine, CD soundtrack, a poster and the game.

Demigod Targeted Release Date

Stardock has listed Demigod as releasing on 14th April. Currently in Beta 3, Demigod is an RTS RPG hybrid that has players controlling a group of units trying to destroy the opposing sides base. Gameplay has been described to be similar to DoTA(Defense of The Ancients). This is a tentative release date so it is merely a rough targeted release date.

Demigod New Screenshots

Gas Powered Games today unveiled a new designed site for their game, Demigod. They also release new screenshots that show massive Rook action and others Heroes. Release date April 2009. Screenshots below: