I've decided to stop playing Ragnarok Online. I've gotten a new online addiction: Gunbound. At wrst, it could be described as Worms or Scorched Earth online. The gameplay is the same, mostly. Your choice of "Mobile" (as your units are called), as well as the stuff your avatar is wearing affect the gameplay. Basically, you enter a waiting room, select your mobile, take some consumable items for the match and you're set. Outside of a game lobby, you can purchase stuff like helmets and armor to increase your stats. Sounds wonderful? It is. If you have the gold for them that is, which can be gotten by winning matches inside the rooms. Matches can be up to 4v4, with 3 fun common variants. Tag makes you choose a "spare" Mobile which you can switch to in the middle of a match, which come sinto play with only 50% of its total life. Still, better than dead the next enemy turn! Solo is single death elimination, and Score gives a team a limited number of respawns or lives. That is, say in a 5 score match, if you number of deaths a team receives equals five or more (I've seen double-kills happen) they lose, despite say they all have healthy Mobiles left. The quickest way to score a kill? Blow up the terrain below them to send them plummeting to death. You don't get a gold bonus for the kill, but in team games, it's better to set personal gains aside for a while.
Gameplay? Up and down raise and lower your angle of attack, left and right makes you move over the terrain, and holding down the spacebar makes a slider move, which corresponds to the force your projectile is thrown. Each Mobile has 2 normal shots and a Super shot. Given 15 Mobiles, plus a load of items make each opponent unique. At okey lang sumawsaw, in fact it's encouraged. Unless may mayabang na naghamon ng 1v1 sa gitna ng battlefield. And yes, buhay pa rin ang walang kamatayang trashtalking. Hay!