Pantheon’s Legends Preview GDC 2020: The Guide Pantheon Preview GDC 2020: The Guide Pantheon’s Legends in a Nutshell 2 Installing and getting the build from Steam 3 Keyboard and Mouse mapping 4 How to play a Champion 5 EMERY - Range Healer 5 NYX - Melee Damage Dealer 7 ESTELLE - Range Damage Dealer 9 WARD - Tank 11 How to custom your Champion 13 Glyphs 13 Gems 15 Defensive 15 Offensive 15 How to setup Hamachi to play Pantheon’s Legends 16 Install Hamachi 16 Create your account on LogMeIn 16 Set up or join a server 17 Set up your own server: 17 Join a server (yours or another player’s server) 19 Last edited: 19/03/2020 Page​ 1 of 21 Pantheon’s Legends Preview GDC 2020: The Guide 1. Pantheon’s Legends in a Nutshell If you are not familiar with our pitch of the Game, in a few words Pantheon’s Legends was born 2 years ago from the passion of Jules and Manu Marquez for co-op games. Our desire is to renew the genre of co-op fast action with a touch of RPG fantasy. We also aim to build a community of players that will enjoy our game over time and several seasons and content. Here is the result of the first effort of the Limitless Games team, an effort post Prototype phase in Summer 2019. Team ramped up from 7 to 42 members (Sep 2019 - Dec 2019), the result of this build is an overall 3 months of production: Dec 2019, Jan 2020 and Feb 2020. In this first build, we create an experience for you to enjoy that will expose our gameplay with a strong aim for the fun of the co-ops experiences in a Boss level (Sun Golem Boss). This build takes you to the Boss level right away, but in the final version you will have to open four doors to reach the end of the Dungeon. At this time, the experience is best with 4 players. In the future we will allow bots players, but not a single player story mode. The level does not include a tutorial, this is why we will give you some hints to take you to a fun play as fast as possible. Last edited: 19/03/2020 Page​ 2 of 21 Pantheon’s Legends Preview GDC 2020: The Guide 2. Installing and getting the build from Steam You should have received at least 5 keys, 4 players, 1 server. You will find the build under your Steam account after entering the key we provided you. When launching the game from Steam, it will propose you to launch the game as server or client, we did this to make sure the performance is optimal. Optionally, you could also host the server on one of the game devices. We experienced no issue doing so, but we recommend using a dedicated server. If you cannot run the game on a local network please check our Guide How to Setup Hamachi at the end of this doc. This will let you play even with remote players. However, if you are short of server devices, it is totally possible to launch a server on the same machine. If this is the case, please use the following bat files directly from the Pantheon’s folder under the Steam common app folder as described below. You do not have to modify any parameters, but if you want to change your server name, please edit the following text inside the bat files: PTMaxNumPlayers=4 (you could lower to number of player if required to get 2,3 player session) PTSessionName=PantheonServerPlay (you could change the name of the server here in case you want to have several server sessions to play. @echo off cd ../ cd ./Packaged/WindowsNoEditor/pantheon/Binaries/Win64/"pantheonServer.exe" PAN_MF01T1_PersistentLevel?PTMaxNumPlayers=4?PTSessionName=PantheonServerPlay? PTGameMode=Dungeon -log PAUSE Last edited: 19/03/2020 Page​ 3 of 21 Pantheon’s Legends Preview GDC 2020: The Guide 3. Keyboard and Mouse mapping Input on this version is keyboard only. Game controller is planned, this will come in a future build. ● Champion movement by using → W, A, S and D ● All champions abilities are bind on → Left Mouse Button (LMB), Right Mouse Button (RMB), Q, E, R and F Last edited: 19/03/2020 Page​ 4 of 21 Pantheon’s Legends Preview GDC 2020: The Guide 4. How to play a Champion EMERY - ​Range Healer Emery needs ​Holy Energy​ to use his abilities. He can generate Holy Energy by hurting enemies. Quick Gameplay ● Focus on managing your Holy Energy points: ○ Generate: Dealing damage ○ Spend: Healing allies ● Whenever you do not have to heal, help by dealing damage. Passive - Justify You need Holy Energy to use your abilities. Generate it by dealing damage. Last edited: 19/03/2020 Page​ 5 of 21 Pantheon’s Legends Preview GDC 2020: The Guide LMB - Abate Abate is a single-target healing ability. Use it to heal the lowest health ally. RMB - Redeem Redeem is your main single-target instant healing ability. Consistently use it to heal the lowest health ally. Q- Exude Exude is your indirect damage dealing ability when you do not need to heal. E - Relinquish Relinquish is a healing ability that has a big area of effect so it is perfect for a multi-target healing. Use it to maintain the rest of your team alive. F - Consecrate Consecrate is your most powerful multi-target area healing over time ability. Use it whenever your team's health is critical. Use it with care, it has a long Cooldown. Last edited: 19/03/2020 Page​ 6 of 21 Pantheon’s Legends Preview GDC 2020: The Guide NYX - ​Melee Damage Dealer Nyx can generate ​Adrenaline​ by concatenating alternate abilities. Whenever his adrenaline is maxed, his next attack damage is greatly increased. Quick Gameplay ● Focus on maxing out Adrenaline points: ○ Generate: Alternate abilities (e.g.: RMB -> Q -> LMB -> E) ○ Spend: Plan ahead which ability you want to use with the additional critical damage ○ Prioritize abilities based on the number of targets you want to hit ● Give the initiative to the Tank, you are not that resistant to damage. Passive - Adrenaline Rush You need Adrenaline Points to unleash adrenaline rush. Alternate abilities generate Adrenaline. LMB - Stab Stab is your main ability to deal single target damage and initiate a combo to generate Adrenaline points. Last edited: 19/03/2020 Page​ 7 of 21 Pantheon’s Legends Preview GDC 2020: The Guide RMB- Sear Sear is your main ability to deal single target DoT damage. Chain it to generate Adrenaline points, or as a finisher. If your goal is to deal a lot of damage to a single target, you should use Sear when Adrenaline rush is maxed. E - Plasma Wave Plasma Wave is your main ability to deal multi-target damage and initiate or chain a combo to generate Adrenaline points. If your goal is to deal damage to multiple enemies at once, you should use Plasma Wave when Adrenaline rush is maxed. Q - Backstab Backstab is your special ability. Use it either as a starting attack, to cut distance (it will teleport you to the back of the target), or as a finisher to deal massive single target damage. F - Cloak Cloak is your special ability. Use it to become invisible and avoid all damage in critical situations. Last edited: 19/03/2020 Page​ 8 of 21 Pantheon’s Legends Preview GDC 2020: The Guide ESTELLE - ​Range Damage Dealer Estelle can generate ​Souls​ when casting some abilities. Generating Souls is essential for Estelle to do damage. Quick Gameplay ● Focus on killing enemies as fast as possible: ○ Choose between single-target or multi-target abilities ● Always keep on generating Souls Passive - Souls This passive has a % chance to generate Souls. LMB - Haunting Haunting deals damage over time, applies a Haunt debuff to the target and generates Souls. Last edited: 19/03/2020 Page​ 9 of 21 Pantheon’s Legends Preview GDC 2020: The Guide RMB - Soul Burst Soul Burst deals damage for each Haunt debuff the target has. To deal a lot of damage to a single target, Haunting and Soul Burst are a good combination. Q - Slither Slither is a movement ability that helps you teleport quickly. E - Vengeful Spirit Vengeful Spirit has a big Area of Damage and is useful when you want to deal damage to several enemies. F - Soul Well Soul Well is an ability that will generate a lot of Souls. Last edited: 19/03/2020 Page​ 10 of 21 Pantheon’s Legends Preview GDC 2020: The Guide WARD - ​Tank Ward generates ​Shield​ when casting abilities. The longer the Cooldown is, the more Shield he will get. Using Shield is key for Ward to survive. Quick Gameplay ● Redirect as many enemies abilities as you can towards you ● Keep generating Shield to protect your Health Points Passive - Threatening Presence As long as you are in close range to enemies, they will attack Ward. LMB - Strike Strike is an ability that deals damage to any enemies in range. Last edited: 19/03/2020 Page​ 11 of 21 Pantheon’s Legends Preview GDC 2020: The Guide RMB - Shield Up Shield up reduces damage taken for a few seconds and generates Shield. You should use it when it is available. Q - Leap Leap is a movement ability which also deals damage and generates Shield. If you do not want to move, pressing Q again fast will make you land faster and thus, not jump too far. E - Vacuum Strike Vacuum Strike is a great ability to use to pack enemies in the same area.