Overview
GUIDE TO GETTING STARTED (with review below)Launch Krosmaster Arena from your steam Library and you should see a pop-up window. Now before you click the big play button there are some things you should know that you will want to do first to get it set-up properly!…..
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Launch Krosmaster Arena from your steam Library and you should see a pop-up window. Now before you click the big play button there are some things you should know that you will want to do first to get it set-up properly!
First off Krosmaster Arena is actually made in France with an English translation so occasionally some of the menu’s can be misinterpretated. THAT BEING SAID:
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From the pop-up’s bottom right corner you will want to click the icon that looks like 2 little gears in the top right corner of the pop-up window (that appears after you launch Krosmaster Arena from Steam) and that should bring up an OPTIONS window that should ask (ONLY the FIRST time) if you’ve previously created an Ankama account for Krosmaster Arena. If you do NOT already have an Ankama account then please select use my steam account. IT SHOULD THEN SAY CONNECTION SUCCESFUL!!! Now try clicking play for the first time. Chances are that upon the first time attemping to play you will get an error and the game won’t launch succesfully, if that happens just close Krosmaster and re-launch it a second time from Steam.
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NOW EVERY TIME YOU LAUNCH Krosmaster Arena from steam you need to click the icon of the 2 gears in the top right corner of the pop-up window and it should bring up a window with the header “OPTIONS” at the top; make sure you are in the tab labeled “my account” with the single button labeled “Sign-in with Ankama Account” click that and it should come up with the message “Connection Successful”. Now you can close the Options window and click play and Krosmaster Arena should run successfully.
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SAVING MY ACCOUNT
Upon playing Krosmaster Arena for the first time you will be prompted with a tutorial that will teach you how to play. After you finish the tutorial’s 5 stages you will want the hit your escape key on your keyboard to open your in game options menu and you will want to click on “SAVE MY ACCOUNT” this will make it so that your Steam account is a fully fledged Ankama account so that you can use your same account on mobile devices and so that if you already have the table top version or figure expanions then you can have those Krosmasters to play using key codes. Now when you are filling out this window with your e-mail, password, and username, The category titled “username” is actually your “nickname” it’s a translation error. Later on if you’ve been playing for a couple hours you’ll probably get a pop-up in between one of the game menu’s that asks you to re-verify your account by asking you FILL IN YOUR >>USERNAME AND PASSWORD<<, but again it’s a translation error because what it really wants is your >>>>E-MAIL AND PASSWORD<<<<… Be sure also verify your account by taking care of the verification e-mail that you’ll be sent.
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PROBLEMS CHALLENGING A FRIEND!!!???
In game when you are not in a battle you SHOULD have a little golden colored bell in the bottom right corner of your screen that you use to accept challenges from friends… How ever if it’s not there it’s because your screen resolution might not work properly at first and so it’s cutting off a sliver of the bottom portion of the game. To fix this all you have to do is go into your options by hitting your escape key and going into the video tab and uncheck full screen and change your screen resolution to be lower. If you want to play the game in fullscreen and still have the bottom portion of the game visible then all you need to do is (after doing the previous of unchecking fullscreen) exit the game, then re-launch it from steam (Don’t forget to click the icon of the 2 gears and connect your account before clicking play) and then enter the in game options by hitting your escape key and then re-enable full screen. From now on your game should no longer have this issue of cutting off the bottom of the screen. =)
You can challenge a friend by entering the arena, and going to the challenge tab at the bottom there should be a button labeled “Challenge a Friend” and then just type in there username. =D
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TUTORIAL + TIPS UNSPECIFIED
A few nice tips not specified in the tutorial is that you can left click and hold on the green squares to draw a line for your characters movement and that you can right click to cancel things. Also if you left click and hold on the map you can move the camera while right clicking and holding on the map will allow you to rotate the camera. And one last tip is that in the upper right corner durring a battle there is a button that looks like a brown book with the letter ‘K’ on it that when clicked will open a timeline so you can see what you and your opponent’s dice rolls are.
When you roll a crit it gives +1 to damage given, a shield gives -1 to damage recieved, a flee (shoe) gives +1 for you to flee/escape, a lock (magnet) gives -1 to the opponent trying to flee/escape to avoid being locked, and a Dofus (dragon egg) automatically gives you the roll wanted per given situation. AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH TURN you get the ability to give some of your characters a second/extra dice for certain rolls; Ex.: Like a giving a character the crit die so they can roll 2 dice to attempt to get +1 damage per roll… The dice are six sided with 1 face of each of the 4 main icons, crit, shield, flee, lock, but the dice also have a face with the Dofus icon which can count as any 1 of the 4 main icons, along with the sixth face being a crit + flee icon where you choose either crit or flee.
When one of your Krosmasters dies you lose (and your opponent) gains Gallons of Glory equal to the dead Krosmaster’s level, but it should also be noted there is 1 Wild Gallon of Glory in reserve that gets taken before you or your opponents Gallons of Glory get taken. The 1 Wild Gallon of Glory can not be removed from the “Intensity Rises” effect caused by rolling 2 of the same icons at the beggining of each players turn SO LONG as it is still in the reserve. However if someone purchases a Gallon Glory by using one of the shops or when the FIRST Krosmaster dies then the first Gallon of Glory purchased/taken will be the 1 Wild Gallon of Glory (removing it from the reserve) with the rest then coming from the players themselves.