Moonshot

The core gameplay of Forts is similar to many real-time strategy games: build up resources, acquire new technologies, and build something to attack the opponent while defending yourself from their attacks. There are 4 different gamemodes that players can select: Campaign, Skirmish, Multiplayer, and Sandbox. The Campaign includes the tutorial, and 28 training missions which follows three super-powers as they battle it out over the last of the planet's resources, a secondary story-line if the player has bought the Moonshot DLC, and a tertiary story-line if the player has bought the High Seas DLC. Skirmishes allow players to combat AIs at 3 different levels of difficulty. The goal of the game is to destroy the opponent's core, which can be done through direct damage, like hitting it with a laser or cannon, indirect damage, like setting fire to it or hitting it with splash damage, or through making it fall to the ground by destroying the supporting structures around it. This may sometimes require an objective to be completed, such as capturing points. There are various weapons like missiles, lasers, cannons, miniguns, and mortars to attack with, with defenses like metal reinforcement, sand bags, machine guns, and flak to shoot down projectiles and defend yourself. Forts's multiplayer allows the player to join other player's lobbies, compete in ranked matches, and practice in community-made training missions. Sandbox allows the player to experiment in any map without AIs or other players. The Multiplayer can hold up to 8 players per lobby in which each player is split into two teams. The match can be set to team death match where each player gets their own fort and resources, or team co-op where all players on the team shares resources and bases. There are around 70 maps that come with the game, but there are hundreds of community made maps which can be downloaded and played. Teams are able to choose one of 15 commanders from 5 different factions each with their own unique active and passive abilities, in order to augment their playstyle.