Hero Contest #2 - Discussion

This is for assorted discussion on the topic of the contest. Because I don't want the public poll thread spammed to make tallying votes easy for me later, you can ramble about it here.

has seen fluently all heroes, to tell what who that has really impressed i can not... struggle will be difficult)

Just had a quick look through all the heroes, and they all look really good. I'm really going to struggle to pick a winner!

There are a few which seem too conditional, or have abilities not really suited to melee. They're still really cool heroes, but I think melee suitability is going to have to play a big role in my voting if I want to get down to a top 2.

well by the way for me a determinative will be, as far as a good code

It's really hard with so many factors to consider.

Good to hear, even in the spellcontests code seems to get ignored by too many voters; and thats with mostly coders voting.

W00t time to place up my votes after playing through them all.
I won't base my decision code wise... Im going for the personality part when i do my votes.

-Av3n

Ok I've tried them all except the BoneCrusher.
I can't open the map? It crashes NewGen instantly.

"Trigger function does not exist in the database: SetUnitAnimationByIndex"
then
"Trigger function does not exist in database: (Square symbol)"
'then
Crash

Anyone else able get this problem?

Make sure you have UMSWE enabled if you test BoneCrusher from the editor. I know it works if you test from single player/BNet, it's just an extra step otherwise.

I had the same problem when editing the map for submission. What Dusk said will fix it no problem.

I have WEU integrated into Grimoire, that might be the issue.

lame i use TotalCommander to view code :P it's fast and pizdato.
btw i like the idea of bone crusher one of my favorites. also the spider (cohadar ?) is really nice concept. but the ult of spider is odd =)

as for me i ignore code quality. i looking only at hero design and the idea behind.

That's odd, now why? Because Bone Crusher's vJass wasn't compiled, so you needed to use newgen to play it. Turns out it was also the only hero that needs UMSWE... that's a little bad combination since you need newgen and UMSWE just to test the map... Now that I think about it I should have replaced that map with a compiled version before uploading the .7z file, too late now.

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Did you know files.php was eating up the last byte of the files it delivered? We didn't notice that until the first 7z file to use it...

Ulti spider is good? When i tryed it (tryed it sometimes) it just pushed the units it were close to for like 20 range and nothing more. When i tryed the OgreClanShaman i used all my abilitys when fighting the creeps alone and when were going away the corpses from the creeps started to follow me, i got replay if you are interested.

Try reading again.

Y it was strange, I tried it when creeping, seemed very random.
I suppose alot more useful when fighting huge armies thou.