Season 4

Today Season 4 of Dr. Derk's Mutant Battlegrounds is launching! There's a completely new gameplay setup that makes team cooperation much easier to evolve, a new ranking system, new abilities, it's easier to use and the performance has been greatly improved.

New gameplay setup

In the latest version, the island battlefield has been replaced with a "parallel arenas" setup, where you run many versions of the same time-limited battle in parallel, rather than just one instance. Since the unit of selection is changing from individual / lifetime to team / battle you can now evolve team cooperation behavior much easier than before.

New ranking system

The ranking/ladder system has also been reworked from the ground. Instead of an ELO based ladder, we now have a brackets system with a number of different "divisions", Division 1 being the highest. For each division there's a number of groups, each with ten players. You advance to a group with a higher division when you beat someone in a group with a higher division.

New abilities

This version also introduces two new abilities; Leap and Resurrect. Leap enables your creatures to make a small jump forward, and resurrect enables them to restore another creature to life.

Easier to use & learn

The user interface has been streamlined to make it easier to use and learn the game. It's still far from perfect, but hopefully people who had trouble with the previous version will find this one a bit easier.

Season 3 wrap up

This also marks the end of Season 3. A big congratulations to Kennyd Sevenants who placed #1 with his team Dextrome, and to Patrik Sjölin for a #2 and #3 place with his teams Lex A and Lex! Thank you everyone who participated, and hope you had fun!

The full Season 3 leaderboard can be found here: https://derkgame.com/leaderboards

Until next time! /Fredrik