| 07-08-2009, 06:30 AM | #1 | |||
Step TD beta This TD is all about giving players the ability to choose their own path. Its not like a typical td where there is this one main build eveyrone must follow if you wish to beat it! This TD also offeres a wide selection of towers! each with there own unique ability or use. Players can either mass towers or build dense mazes to achieve victory. Strategy and giving players the option to do what they want were two very important concepts I thought about while making this TD. Also this TD enables you to play in a rigorous team mode or a simple single player mode. There is also a flood mode which adds to all the more excitement in single player mode. Team mode was made with the thought in mind that players must actually work together to achieve victory. Players can each build on their own or maze together with no consequences since gold will be given out by time rather than kills. No player has there designated area so each can build whereever whenver. I hope these game mechanics will help this map succed to small degree at least. So down load the beta map (thats almost complete) and test it with your friends on battlenet or via lan! or if u dont have any jsut solo the darn thing! hahaha just remember when playing this TD.... u gotta think fast! -shadowange1<<<<<out If u wish to read more detailed information here it is. or skip to the bottom to dl the map and test it or see some screen shots of what the building space for team and solo modes look like. Background: The name of this map is Step TD and is still currently in its beta stage. During the past few months i have been working on a td map on my spare time and I have finally finished enough of it for me to produce an beta version of the map for testing. I have tested it in single player many times but i need more testing and i would like anyone that wants to test it to do so and even host it on battlenet if you want. This map now has more modes to choose from. This map is also a fun and intense map. It leaves no room for slip ups. Towers can only be destroyed and not sold. Map Details: SINGLE PLAYER (1-7 players, one needed) Each node is on a higher level accesible by a ramp. One can build at the end or make 4 different mazes for each node. Gold and wood are given after the completion of a round or during flood mode they are given by time. FLOOD MODE (1-7 players, one needed) Same as single player except monsters keep coming out one by one until u die or win. TEAM MODE (1-7 players, 7 recomended) In team mode all players must act cooperatively to destroy the oncoming monsters. Gold and wood will be distibuted by how many creeps have spawned. Players will not gain any bonuses for killing more creeps or killing less. I did this to attempt to create an enviroment in which people work together rather than try to work to get the most kills. In team mode players may also have to build together to win. Its not just about everyone making there solo maze..... though the game can probably be won like that Creeps also come out as in flood mode so there is no chance to rest. All modes have.... Every time a creep takes a step (ascends to the next area) it will gain % more hp and 50 movement speed. This will happen untill the unit is maxed out in movement or health. Creeps that reach the end are teleported back to the first node and keep all "step" bonuses and a life is also lost. Towers in this map are a bit different. First off towers can be turned into different ones using wood. The farther you go into a tree the stronger they become. Towers can also upgrade themselves with gold. This upgrade applies to all towers of its kind. The tower will remain the same one and can still change. I also have all the basic towers made, which is over 45 towers. I still need to make the advance ones, which are about another 10 towers. Difficulty Setting These difficulties can be set on all modes There is also only the default game mode set and 3 difficulties for it. The default difficulty is easy with lowers creeps armor to -6. The other difficulties are normal, which is a no armor bonus or penalty, and hard which gives +6 armor to all units. At this point only red can pick the difficulty, so make sure someone is red. Beta Updates
I would like to thank anyone in advance for giving this td a shot. I tried to create something different and appealing. I also tried to give the player the option of several different stragegies, whether it be mazing, where to build, different upgrade combinations, and stacking strong towers. In addition to that i also tried to make people play as a team more in team mode..... from what ive seen most td's always try to make players get kills rather than help the team... I wanted to eliminate that and promote a team enviroment. Plz give me any feedback. I appreciate all feedback given as long as its productive and not flaming.  Screenshots The first one is how the single player space looks like and the second one is how the team one looks like.
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| 07-15-2009, 07:53 AM | #2 |
| 07-23-2009, 11:56 PM | #3 |
| 07-31-2009, 03:54 PM | #4 |
I've played it once now and there are some, kinda obvious things to me. - When you upgrade skills and build a tower of the same type afterwards, its skill level won't be set correctly. E.g. if i built a tower, upgraded its skill to max and build another tower of that type, the skill level will remain at 1. - The netherdrake tower is way too strong with its 5% to instant kill, i've built like 3 line of them with a speed aura tower, some shamans and the enemies didn't even pass the first row. - There seem to be no victory trigger. I've played till Level 60 and afterwards the timer looped, but no enemy unit were spawn. That's what i got so far, i guess i gonna take a closer look and edit this post someday  . |
| 08-01-2009, 07:13 AM | #5 |
| 08-01-2009, 09:46 AM | #6 |
| 08-01-2009, 11:50 PM | #7 |
