Arena, MOBA and Siege

Arena, MOBA and Siege are Estelar Online’s team matches, all of them PvP. The teams are cyan and amber, up to five a side, and bots fill any empty slots: you can play solo at any time, and when people arrive through the queue, the bots step aside to make room. Everyone flies identical ships, and dying only costs a respawn at your team’s base: no ship is ever lost, not even with the war license.

Join from the MATCHES screen ([J] by default); see Matches for the queue, parties and private rooms. In chat, /t talks to your team only. Combat is the same as in the universe, with the four-sided shield, the flip and missiles.

Setups

Each mode has three setups, with different team sizes and bot difficulty. Each one has its own leaderboard.

Mode	Setups
Arena	1x1 easy bots · 3x3 medium bots · 5x5 hard bots
MOBA	3x3 easy bots · 5x5 medium bots · 5x5 hard bots
Siege	3x3 easy bots · 5x5 medium bots · 5x5 hard bots

PvP Arena

The most straightforward mode: two teams head to head, near a planet in the Sol system.

The first team to reach 10 kills wins.
The match lasts up to 6 minutes; if time runs out, the team with more kills wins (or it’s a draw).
Bots respawn 6 s after being shot down; pilots respawn at their team’s base.

MOBA

A strategy map near a planet in the Sol system, with two bases and three lanes (top, middle and bottom).

Each team has a core behind its base and two towers per lane (the outer one, further forward, and the inner one).
Every 30 s, each base sends a wave of drones down each lane. Drones travel along the lane and stop to shoot whatever is in range; they are the troops that push the lane.
A team’s core is only exposed once one of its lanes falls completely (both towers). Then it can be destroyed, and whoever destroys the enemy core wins.
At your team’s base, hull and shield recover quickly.
MOBA bots respawn at the base 10 s after being shot down.

In the middle of the map there are two pirate camps, each with a guardian and two pirates. The team that clears a camp gets a bonus for 90 s, and the camp comes back 90 s later:

Camp	Team bonus
Corsair’s Nest	+30% damage
Freighter Wreck	+25% speed and shield regenerating twice as fast

The match lasts up to 15 minutes. If no core is destroyed, the team that took down more structures wins; on a tie, the one with more kills. A MOBA win gives you a badge.

Siege

Siege recreates the fight for the Stellar Heart in the Fortress War, at a real fortress picked at random from the five.

The cyan team attacks and the amber team defends. Playing solo, you’re on the attack.
The Siege Stellar Heart has less hull than the one in the real war (the match is short), and two defense towers protect the crystal.
The attackers win if they break the crystal within 8 minutes. If time runs out, the defenders win.

It’s the perfect training for the daily war: same crystal, same place, no risk and no corporation needed.

Points and rewards

In all three modes, your leaderboard score counts kills of bots and pilots; in MOBA and Siege, taking down a tower is worth 3 points, a core or the crystal is worth 5, and clearing a camp is worth 1.

Mode	Participation	Win
Arena	150 ¢	+200 ¢
MOBA	250 ¢	+200 ¢
Siege	200 ¢	+200 ¢

A leaderboard record adds +400 ¢. As with every match outside a private room, finishing also gives 1 to 3 components and a 10% chance of a blueprint. In team modes, pirates and bots don’t drop loot.