ArenaRoyalePvP

Arena Royale PvP

A two-player, split-screen arena battle mode for Totally Accurate Battle Simulator. Each player brings a deck of troop, building and spell cards into a walled arena with two lanes, a river and two bridges. Spend gold to deploy your cards, push across the bridges and knock down the other player's towers before they knock down yours.

Requirements

Arena Royale uses content from two other mods, which Thunderstore installs automatically with it (along with ToyBox): BeeCreative (the Car card's body and the tower archers' clothing) and UCM (the Clown's banjo walk). If you add the package by hand, install Grad-BeeCreative and Arargd-UCM as well. Without BeeCreative the Car card is left out and the archers are bare; without UCM the Clown loses its banjo walk.

How a match works

• Two players, one screen. The screen splits in half and each player has their own camera, cards and pointer. Play side by side on one PC, or with a friend online through Steam Remote Play Together.
• Your towers. Each side has two side towers (1,750 HP) with archers on top and a king tower (3,000 HP) with a cannon. The king tower wakes up when it is hit or one of your side towers falls.
• Gold. You start with 5 gold and gain more over time, up to 10. Gold income doubles and then triples as the match goes on. Every card shows its gold cost.
• Your hand. Your deck has 8 cards; you hold 4 and can see the next one coming. Play a card and it goes to the back of the line, so your deck cycles.
• Placing cards. Troops and buildings go on your side of the river; destroying an enemy side tower opens up more ground. Spells can be cast anywhere their outline allows.
• Winning. Each tower you destroy is a crown. The player with more crowns after 3 minutes wins. A tie goes to up to 2 minutes of sudden-death overtime, and if it is still tied, a tiebreaker drains every tower until the weakest one falls.

Features

• 57 built-in cards, each with its own art and gold cost:
• troops with formations, riders, weapons and special abilities;
• buildings such as the Slingshot Tower, Bolt Bastion, Soul Eater and Mummy Coffin;
• spells such as Whirlpool, Boulder, A Bomb!, Lightning Ball, Radioactive Zone, Solar Maelstrom and Orbital Cannon.
• Three game modes:
• Normals: each player builds their own 8-card deck, then both press Ready.
• Draft: a random player picks 1 card, then players take turns picking 2 at a time from every card until both decks are full. 15 seconds per turn.
• RNG Draft: the picker is offered 2 random cards of one type, keeps one and the other goes to the opponent. Each player gets one spell draw and one building draw at random points; building draws offer 2 buildings and a unit, and one spell draw also offers a bonus unit. No card ends up in both decks. 15 seconds per draw.
• Edit Game Deck (top right of the mode menu):
• take any card out of the game or put it back;
• add any unlocked TABS unit, or your own Unit Creator units, as new troop cards, one at a time or a whole faction at once;
• edit the units you added: gold cost, Health, Damage, Speed, Attack speed, Size, Mass, Balance, Targets (units or buildings only), Deploy delay and Hit towers across bridge.
• These changes only apply in this mode. Your saved units are never modified.
• Play online: the ? button on the mode menu opens a step-by-step guide to Steam Remote Play Together. It opens by itself the first time you play.

Starting a match

1. Click Arena Royale on the main menu.
2. Each player joins with their own controls:

• keyboard and mouse: press SPACE, then click that player's mouse;
• controller: press A.

Before you join, your normal mouse works the menu, so you can open the guide or Edit Game Deck.

1. Pick a game mode. Anyone can pick, and the split screen starts once a mode is chosen.

Controls

Keyboard and mouse

Action — Key

Join — SPACE, then click your mouse

Select a card — 1, 2, 3, 4 (or click it)

Place the selected card — Left click on the arena

Switch between cards and free camera — TAB

Move the free camera — WASD and the mouse; E / SPACE up, Q / CTRL down; hold SHIFT to go faster

Reset the camera — Z

Make your towers see-through — C

Pause — ESC

Controller

Action — Button

Join — A

Select the previous / next card — LB / RB

Move your pointer — Left stick

Place the selected card — A

Switch between cards and free camera — Y

Make your towers see-through — X

Pause — Start

Menus — D-pad moves one item at a time, A selects, B goes back

Notes

• The built-in cards exist only inside this mode. They are not added to your Custom Content and cannot be edited in the Unit Creator.
• For the best online experience, set Quality to (FAST) in the TABS settings for less input delay.

Note: This mod was created using AI