Lockdown
From SpiralKnights
Lockdown is a devilish duel in King Krogmo's Coliseum where Knights try to eliminate their opponents by standard means-- Swords, Bombs, and Guns. All your weapons are available in this head to head brawl, in which Knights are divided into two teams to score points by taking over capture points or attack damage to opposing team players. The shield function is replaced by a unique "class system", in which causes your shield to be limited, but allowing for special effects! Strikers get a speed bonus, Guardians an area shield, and Recons invisibility.
The cumulative weekly scores for the leaderboard are reset on Sunday.
Contents
Game Modes
Lockdown currently has two game modes:
Random Team
Get placed in a random team of up to 6 players, in which your sole purpose is to gain and keep control points to score influence for your team.
Guild Team
Open up slots for yourself and guild mates to battle another guild team. You can also join forming guild teams by simply pressing the ‘Guild’ tab within the Coliseum interface.
Classes
Striker
Special Ability: Striker Dash
- Activating this ability allows you to sprint for 3 Seconds.
Bonuses:
- Sword Attack Speed Increase: Medium
- Sword Damage Bonus: Medium
Penalties:
- Health penalty: -3
- Bomb Charge Time Increase: Very High
Guardian
Special Ability: Guardian Shield
- Activating this ability creates a shield of protection for you and any of your teammates in its radius (instantly for you, and after 1 second for your allies)
- Any damage you or your allies take is blocked by the shield, but be warned, this may also cause your shield to break faster!
- The Guardian Shield also slowly regenerates lost health for you and any teammates within its radius.
Bonuses:
- Health Bonus +9(+12 in compare to striker)
- Sword Attack Speed Increase: Low
- Bomb Charge Time Reduction: Low
Penalty:
- Gun Attack Speed Decrease: Low
Recon
Special Ability: Cloaking, Disruption Field
- Activating this ability causes you to turn invisible for a period of time
- While invisible, you project a "pulse" every few seconds that will give a "Recon Mark" status effect to any enemy it hits
- Any enemy player hit by one "Recon Mark" gets a warning, but no other negative effects are applied
- Any enemy player with a "Recon Mark" that is hit by another pulse receives a "Death Mark" and has has their defense removed for five seconds!
Bonuses:
- Health Bonus +7(+10 in compare to striker)
- Charge Time Reduction: Medium
- Gun Attack Speed Increase: Medium
- Bomb Charge Time Reduction: Medium
Penalty:
- Sword Attack Speed Decrease: Low
Note: Charge Time Reduction apply to all weapons. That's why summed Bomb Charge Time Reduction in case of Recon is Very High.
Loadouts
Loadouts are a saved combination of your gear, and multiple configurations can be saved for different purposes, including Non-PVP. Loadouts marked for PVP can be changed inside of your base, but can only be edited while in towns such as Haven. There are many purposes for Loadouts, a few examples for assorted loadouts would be: to have specific sets for each specialty, help adapt to your opposing team, or a quick change of defense. Keep in mind the star level of your equipment determines what tier you play in. Having a Non-PVP Loadout is also recommended, as a current issue causes your standard shield to be de-equiped after playing Lockdown, once the match is over and you are returned to Haven.
You may save a Loadout by left clicking "Current Equipment" and choosing Save As. Saved Loadouts cannot be edited or renamed.
Respawning
If you are defeated you will wait in the rolling respawn queue. All players in the respawn queue will respawn at once after the respawn counter reaches zero. However, during this time you may instead choose to instantly respawn with energy in the same manner as in the Clockworks.
Scoring
Score in Lockdown is gathered via control points, which provide influence. While a control point is captured, it will automatically generate influence for its controlling team. The match ends when a team has accumulated 500 points (for maps with 3 control points), 900 points (for maps with 5 control points), or when time expires. The team with the most influence by the end of the match wins. Control points are captured by standing on them. Enemy controlled control points revert back to neutral before they start to convert to your team. Note that enemies standing on the point will prevent it from being captured! Each control point held by a team earns the team 5 points every 10 seconds.
This requires a bit more testing but was found through gameplay in the Forest Lockdown map.
Rewards
You pay 200 crowns to enter, like all Krogmo games. Each knight on the winning team receives 280 crowns (or more, if members of the winning team leave before the game ends) and 2 Krogmo Coins; knights on the losing team receive no crowns and only a single Krogmo Coin.
Screenshots
Lockdown Maps
3 point maps:
- Forest (Gloaming Wildwoods based map)
- Furnace (Fire themed map with Water globes and Shadow fire)
- Reactor (Shock themed map)
- Frostbite (Christmas map, Must be permanent because you can throw snowballs and get the achievement, "Son of a Nutcracker!")
5 point Maps:
- Necropolis (Graveyard like map)
- Ruins (Aurora Isles Based Map)
- Ramparts (Based on Scarlet Fortress)
- Facility (Ironclaw Munitions Factory map )
