The History of TeamFight Tactics and Dota Underlords

Man most people dont even realize that the entire genre started as a dota 2 mod (deja vu). In the end riot would once again enhance the idea to the point where original is basically killed while their improved version of it thrives

I loved Underlords so much and I still don't get how TFT was able to "kill" it that easily. It was so easy for new players to get started because it had a very detailed tutorial and a PvE-campagin with over 100 setups (e. g. puzzles). With TFT I fell like you don't even live long enough to even learn anything from your first rounds.

There is game before auto chess game which made my tendency that was gold

The main reason that Underlords (and by extension, Artifacts) was discarded is because valve decided too early that the game wouldn't make any profit. While it is true that some aspects of the game are undesirable, it can still be changed by the devs. TFT almost failed by set 2, but they persevered and came out better because riot either saw the potential or have budget to spare.

I don't know if everybody knew about it back then but a couple of devs of Underlords was in the discord server exclusively for Lord of White Spire players, they were actively communicating to the players on what to improve and if a bug gets found it is reported to them and it will be patched within hours if possible but during the release phase/season 2 of Underlords they really tried to communicate with the players but it became toxic and i think the dev just gave up on communicating. Mort found a way to handle it better and i think communicating with just a certain amount of players helped. Also during the release the top underlord streamer just bitched about the game and to the point that he even banned the word "underlords" when he was playing other games. Also chinese player also hosted a tournament because the game was still played in china around 2020 with a decent prizepool to be able to increase the numbers but failed, coincidentally during the time of the tournament was also the time underlords released a patched and it will be the last patch of the game (i haven't checked the game since 2022 so not sure about this). A lot of efforts was tried to keep the game going but alot of things also wasn't going their way.

holy shit what a high quality video. keep going and you'll make it big

There’s also Autochess (owned by the creators of the original). Valve made the same mistake that Blizzard did with Dota Allstars by not giving respect to the original creators and giving them a good contract. They’d have Dota and Autochess right now, but greed.

A really nice quality video! keep up the great work man!

Hey man, this is a nice video and the editing is very clean, but I do wanna ask what your scriptwriting process is? The script comes off robotic, as if it was written by AI. Obvs I don’t wanna assume that it is, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it were.

I feel like the game that has more familiarity wins out I respect teamfight tactics for being the only other Auto chess that is not pay to win

I only play dota underlords coz it has offline game play but when im online TFT is the go to game for me, its the best on this genre

Nice Video, but Set 2 wasn't popular at all, in fact it was so unpopular it almost killed TFT.

TFT has its own face, it's Mortdog. Underlords doesn't have that.

video itsewlf is high quality but the story line is messed up and seems random. It goes from story of history of Dota vs TFT to just only talking about TFT. then randomly coming back to tft again. I also don't know who the target for this video is. Current TFT or new people. Current tft players a lot of details you added were boring

The video is super awesome. But there is some false information. Mortdog has also confirmed this but set 2 dit zo bad that it was almost the end of tft.

The video all tacticians needs!

I feel like this video ( mostly in the second half) is just a giant glazing to TFT. All the words used sound very good, like you've really written a good script with rich wording, but calling TFT divisions " ladder, ingeniously segmented into tiers" or creating sentences with many other over the top words, make it look like a promotional video, glazing Riot's product to high heavens. The video is still nice, and high quality:>

i love TFT <3

I like the video, it was interesting to watch the history of the genre. But it also felt like a suck-up to TFT for a long time, until you mentioned DOTA Underlords last update in 2021. So my constructive criticism would be, consider mentioning that earlier in the video, since you've been talking about Underlords before anyways, finish the thoughts on them first. anyways, good work.

Bro u need to de-ess your audio :(