NOTE: The talent tree is crucial to understanding these abilities. The Lost Vikings’ Basic Abilities are dependent on active talents chosen throughout the match. The faster cooldown means that Vikings can group up at times without losing too much macro presence, as their ‘sprint back to lane’ button will refresh faster. This ability’s cooldown refreshes 50% faster whilst Better Together! is active.Įxplanation: Along with their trait, their Z ability has also been altered, to have a longer cooldown of 40 seconds but reducing the cooldown when the Vikings are not split-up. Passive: Erik’s vision radius is 50% larger than the other Vikings and he gains 10% increased movement speed.Īll vikings gain 30% increased movement speed for 4 seconds.
Passive: Baleog’s Basic Attacks splash in a cone behind his target for 50% damage. Passive: Every 8 seconds, Olaf’s next Basic Attack causes him to charge at his target and slow them by 30% for 3 seconds.Īfter being out of combat for 4 seconds, Olaf starts regenerating 75 (4%) health per second. Vikings now have a greater incentive to also stay together than be constantly split up, allowing for more flexibility across different maps, such as 2 lane maps, and flexibility in play styles. !quest: Gathering a Regeneration Globe with a Viking permanently increases this bonus regen by 0.5 per second.įluff: The max distance that Vikings can be from each other and still trigger Better Together! is 7.5 units.Įxplanation: This trait is meant to alter the way The Lost Vikings may be played. Whilst all 3 Vikings are together, the armor bonus is increased to 25 and they gain 5 (4%) bonus health regen. Vikings gain 10 Armor whilst near another Viking. Therefor, this health increase is to counteract the lowered survivability. All the attention to detail that Blizzard would become famous for is evident in The Lost Vikings.Clarification: The Lost Vikings’ health has been increased slightly, roughly by 5%, as their Go Go Go! ability has been nerfed slightly, which lowers their map presence, but also their survivability. As you can tell, the levels are creative, and have a totally different feel from one another. Finally, it’s back to the spaceship for a final showdown with Tomator.
Next on the list is a Factory, full of industrialized terrors, and then we come to a stage known as “Wacky”, which is about as trippy and odd a level as you’ll find. After battling cavemen, they find a portal to ancient Egypt, which is full of mummies and scorpions, naturally. The spaceship itself provides the first challenge, and then the Vikings are sent through time back to Prehistoria.
The Norse trio fight their way through a series of clever levels designed to take advantage of their abilities. Olaf’s shield is indestructible, and can also be used as a makeshift hang glider, or held on top of Olaf’s head to allow Erik a platform to jump onto to reach tall areas. Last, but not least (as far as girth goes) is Olaf the Stout. Baleog the Fierce is described as a “stud” in the game, and he live up to his name by wielding his weapons: enemies fall before his sword strikes, and he can shoot arrows to damage foes or activate switches. Erik can jump great distances, and can head-butt enemies and certain walls, after which he spins around in a daze momentarily.
They must work together, using their own unique talents, to overcome various traps, enemies, and other obstacles as they attempt to escape Tomator’s plans to place them in an intergalactic zoo.Įrik the Swift is a slim, red-headed Viking, and as you’d expect from his nickname, he’s significantly faster than the other two. As the game begins, three vikings are abducted in the middle of the night by an alien starship, controlled by Tomator of the Croutonian Empire. The Lost Vikings was released for each of these three platforms by Interplay, and was developed by Silicon and Synapse, the company which eventually became known as Blizzard. Long time Blizzard fans will recognzie the title as an easter egg, hearkening back to Blizzard’s first game from way back in 1992, The Lost Vikings.īack in 1992, if you were a gamer, chances are you had a Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, or an MS-DOS PC. Titled “The Lost Viking”, the game is a very retro, Gradius-like outer space shooter. A few hours into the game, you enter the cantina, and in one corner is a playable old school arcade game. The original “Warcraft in space” is my all time favorite game, and so I’ve been playing the slick new sequel every spare minute. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock this week, you probably heard about a little game called Starcraft 2 that just came out.