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The most adorable little troublemaker who is keeping me busy these days.
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There’s a Lot More To It…
I’ve apparently had my Idle Champions account for exactly 7 days, 2 hours, and 32 minutes at the time of this post. I’ve learned a LOT in that amount of time, and one of those things is that the game is far more involved than I initially thought. What have I done in those 7 days?
I joined the discord – there’s an incredibly dedicated and passionate fan base for this game, and you can learn a lot just by lurking. I turned off a bunch of the extra channels, but I hang out in the ask for help and formations sections. There’s also a place for resources to be posted, which is where I headed next.
I learned about Storylines, variants, favor, formations, and so many other terms. The screenshot above are the 12 ‘seats’ you have for characters, and then you can unlock other champions who you can swap into those seats. Everyone needs gear. My loose ‘goal’ is to try to unlock everyone. I was working through the campaign to unlock Drizzt when the event to unlock Lae’zel started, so I’ve swapped over to that for now.
Events are temporary, so it’s important that I do the content before it vanishes. You earn chests (gear) for the champions you unlock, and favor that gets converted to your base favor at the end of the event. I unlocked Hitch by subscribing to a newsletter, and then Prudence, Voronika, and Lae’zel were all from the current event that started yesterday. Tatyana I unlocked from a time gate I opened when I had no idea what I was doing or what that even meant.
I mentioned before that I did get the season pass ($15 CAD) which is all I’ve spent on the game (so far) but I really haven’t felt like I *had* to make any purchases. There’s a LOT of codes floating around for chests, I probably spent almost an entire day just inputting codes I found all over the internet. This was enough to give me a huge amount of gear, gear upgrades, potions, gold, and whatever else comes in those things.
I spent gems on familiars, you earn them by completing missions / levels and I got a bunch from the codes I claimed too. I have 3 familiars now, which I learned are ‘clickers’ – I had no idea I was supposed to actually use them, and I had no idea they’d click for me (or use specials for me, etc). Learning the hotkeys to the game has also been essential, it makes things much easier.
This strange little idle game is awesome, and with the excitement of Baldur’s Gate 3, everyone is pretty amped up. We’ll see what sort of staying power it has as the days continue. As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!
Cutscene Focus
In my 4 person campaign, the cutscenes are always of my husband (orc fighter) and his denim underwear. Not sure why it tends to focus there, but I think I’ve seen more denim underwear than anyone deserves to see.
Remodeling a Calico Critters House
I’ve decided it’s time to remodel the Cozy Cottage Starter Home I have from Calico Critters. I’ve seen some amazing tutorials on using egg cartons to remodel the outside walls into stone (right now they’re ugly yellow plastic) and I’m just waiting to use up the eggs in the fridge so I can get started on this. I’m sure I’ll post my progress pictures here, I may even film some of it. Keep watching this space!
A New Idle Game Addiction
I love idle games / clicker games. These are games where very little input is ever required, they run in the background and you can be as active or inactive as you want and still make ‘progress’ I’ve played a lot of them over the years, and my favourites are always a mixture of actions depending on the day and my moods. I saw a few friends playing Idle Champions in my steam list, and I decided to check it out because I had never played it before.
I’ve kept the game running for days now, and it shows. With over 90 hours invested I am truly smitten by this idle game. There are a few reasons for this, but one is it’s free – and you can find codes all over the place to earn items / chests that help progress without feeling the pressure to invest any cash. That being said, after a week of game play I decided to spend the $15 CAD for the season pass so I could unlock even more goodies. Much like I’d buy a season pass for BDO, it gives me rewards for the season with a little extra.
I can’t even begin to explain why games like this appeal to me, but they’re just light little fun things when I don’t have the focus or dedication for a ‘proper’ game.
Last night I took a small break from Baldur’s Gate 3 to get some actual sleep (who knew, I can’t just run on coffee) but I’m sure I’ll be back at my duo campaign tonight, and tomorrow (Tuesday) is the group campaign again. As always, happy gaming no matter where you find yourself!