Worked on this map for a couple of weeks. It's a tower defense map, quite like others but very solid and fun. I would like to have some feedback on it. Its pretty balanced if I say so myself, so check it out!
The objective of the map is to prevent waves of creeps from running to the portal. You can use towers to kill, slow, stun or in any other way stop them.
The main thing you'll be doing is building towers and upgrading them to keep them good enough to survive the next wave.
Added a new stat for towers; Bounty Collected, increases the gold the owner of a tower gets when the tower kills a creep, for example;
A creep normally gives 4 gold when killed by a tower, if the tower has an item that provides +50% bounty collected it now grants 6 gold when killed by that tower.
Added 5 brand new items, making a total of 57 items in the map now
Made the chance for a chain lightning by the Storm Accumulator increase when the tower has increased luck
Fixed a bug with Pillage Aura, now works properly
Added a new aura for Skull Rock; Hidden Treasure, increases the bounty gained by towers around it by 50%
Added a new ability to the Gryphon Aviary; Recall Gryphon, with this ability its easier to call your gryphon back when it decides to travel around
Made item chance items able to work on the following towers; Gryphon Aviary, Skull Rock, Frost Wyrm Rock and Storm Accumulator
v1.15b
Added 4 new items to the game
Added version number to the game name in the map listing
Reduced the damage of Wellspring to its proper level
Added SFX effects to the abilities "Astral Burst" and "Quake"
v1.15
Added a new stat for towers; Item Chance, increases the chance for the tower to find an item when it kills a creep, for example;
A tower has a default chance of 20% of finding an item when it kills a creep, with an item that increases item chance by 10% it now has a 22% chance to find an item when killing a creep.
Added 5 brand new items, one increasing luck, all others increasing item chance
Changed the way creep HP scales with multiple players, instead of multiplying the creeps HP with the number of players, it now multiplies with a factor of 1.2 per player
Added a new aura to Altar of Resonance, since it was an underpowered tower, new ability is called Pillage Aura;
Increases the item chance of all towers within 300 range by 30%.
Added a new ability to Polar Bear, named Ravage;
Increases the item chance of this tower by 30%.
Altered Enlightment spell, reduced the damage and added luck increase
Adjusted the range display for Holy Fire Beacon and Stargate
v1.14c
Removed an Immortal tower at the start of the game
v1.14b
Bug fixed with Enlightment not buffing
Corrected the amount of inventory slots to the proper amount of the following towers; Firespray Tower, Fortress of Fire, High Temple of Light and Monolithic Obelisk
Reduced the slow of High Temple of Light from 25% to 18% and Temple of Light from 20% to 10%
Added the exceptions of Warp at its tooltip
v1.14
Added an entire new element; Astral, specialized in buffs and debuffs, and increasing luck
Added 21 brand new towers for Astral, including a new Hero Tower
Added a new stat for towers; Luck, increases the chance for some abilities to trigger, an example;
A tower has a 20% chance to cast a spell. It gets an item that increases luck by 10%, now it has a 22% chance to cast its spell.
Added 4 brand new items, all increasing luck by a percentage
Rebalanced regeneration creeps to 60% of normal creep HP down from 75%
Rebalanced Triple Armor; now named Extra Armor, armor modifier increased from x3 to x5
Added credits for testing in the Game Info tag in-game
Some minor bug and tooltip fixes
v1.13
Remade the ending of this game, when a player now gets to wave 210 he'll win (from wave 200 - 210 you'll get mass creep spawns)
Added a new achievement; Insanity, when you beat the first 100 waves on Insane mode you'll gain 100 bonus score points
Started with adding the Astral element, not fully implemented yet
Reduced the model size of Burning Totem and Totem of the Dragon
Some minor bug fixes
v1.12c
Solved a bug where endless wave leaks caused more lives lost than was intended
Solved a bug where endless wave HP upgrades affected creeps of the previous wave
Reduced the HP scaling in endless slightly
v1.12b
Solved a bug where insane mode was the default setting
Solved a bug where endless creeps dropped more items and gave more bounty than was intended
Recolored Immolation buff to red
Corrected some typo mistakes in Firelord tooltip
Renamed Tree to Tree Stomp in forest landscape
v1.12
Added an entire new element; Fire, specialized in splash attacks, damage aura's and damage over time effects
Added 21 brand new towers for Fire, including a new Hero Tower
Redesigned two Darkness towers that were Fire-like, made them pure Darkness towers now
Added a minimum speed for bosses
Solved an issue with splash attacks on two Frost towers
Numerous minor fixes
v1.11
Added 2 new creep abilities/possibilities; Mass waves and Slow Aura
Made bosses immune to most stuns, this way they won't be killed so easily
Solved a bug with Tombstone triggering at endless
Numerous minor fixes
v1.10b
Solved a bug with item and gold drops for endless waves, they were boss-drops
Solved an issue with the hero experience achievements
v1.10
Added 4 new creep abilities/possibilities; Regeneration, Triple Armor, Speed and Boss
Added 6 new achievements that award score points
Endless waves now have a chance to be air waves
Multiboard now keeps showing the current wave until the next one spawns
Solved a bug with HP scaling in endless
Minimap in-game should work properly now
Size of the Windcatcher model increased
Numerous minor fixes
v1.09
Rewrote the core engine of the map, this should have no effect on the gameplay only on efficiency and lag reduction
Tree of Life has its "Spirits" ability removed and replaced by "Life Force";
Marks a target creep with nature for 5 seconds. If the creep dies while still affected it will burst its life force outwards, dealing 500 damage to all creeps in 250 range.
v1.08
Endless waves now spawn continueously after wave 200
Creeps in endless waves are now immune to stuns, this to prevent perma stunning
Bloodlust duration increased for the Seer from 10 to 30 seconds, and from 20 to 60 for the Warcaster
Doodad buildings have their ground texture removed
The tooltips of resources are more clearer now
Multiboard now shows the wavenumber at endless waves
v1.07
Endless waves health scaling increased
Endless waves now have a minimum movement speed
Combustion and Breed aura's area's increased from 150 to 200
Solved a bug with Hero Towers attack after experience level 25
Added an item (Lightning Stone)
Added a model for Snow Tree
Minor tooltip fixes
v1.06
Reworked endless waves, they now have scaling armor and bounty, health scaling increased
Aura slow of Brittle Bones lowered from 15% to 12%
Aura slow of Hurricane Tower lowered from 10% to 8%
Added tooltip for Shock ability at the Gryphon Aviary
Solved a bug with Lightning Vault not working properly on endless
Solved a bug with Hero Towers attack damage not working properly when upgraded
Minor player message fixes
v1.05b
Added hotkeys to all towers
Added the next upgrades of a tower in tooltip
v1.05
Fixed a bug when selling Gold Generator
Added a lot of new items, total of 38 now
v1.04
Multiple times terrain switching disabled to prevent bugs, now only one change within the first minute is possible
Change the way triggers are activated when skills are researched
Black Spiders attack type changed from siege to chaos
Minor tooltip errors fixed
v1.03
Some positions of Rocks and Trees were improved
Frost Wyrm and Ghost Ship pathing improved even more
Map made by me (drol/yuvixadun)
I would like to thank Ken Plattel by helping with multiplayer testing.
Additional testing credits are inside the Game Info tab in the map. No custom models or icons were used in this map
except for SnowPine by Gottfrei
Added a new stat for towers; Bounty Collected, increases the gold the owner of a tower gets when the tower kills a creep, for example;
A creep normally gives 4 gold when killed by a tower, if the tower has an item that provides +50% bounty collected it now grants 6 gold when killed by that tower.
Added 5 brand new items, making a total of 57 items in the map now
Made the chance for a chain lightning by the Storm Accumulator increase when the tower has increased luck
Fixed a bug with Pillage Aura, now works properly
Added a new aura for Skull Rock; Hidden Treasure, increases the bounty gained by towers around it by 50%
Added a new ability to the Gryphon Aviary; Recall Gryphon, with this ability its easier to call your gryphon back when it decides to travel around
Made item chance items able to work on the following towers; Gryphon Aviary, Skull Rock, Frost Wyrm Rock and Storm Accumulator
I played your map and i have to say it was pretty good but, that doesn't it didn't have problems. First the terrain changer only worked once, or it only worked for snow. Second flying creeps seemed to take shortcuts away from the initial creep path. last i seemed to lose lives even before creeps enter the portal. But, it was good little map and best of luck to you on any other maps you make.
I did not see a research center right away,
ping it for the user at the beginning of map.
Builder is NOT a flying unit! I LOVE THIS.
You did not abuse custom icons and models, this is a big plus.
Towers have display range feature, yay.
Nice tower upgrade effects, so rarely seen, great job.
B+Q is very bad hotkey combination for tower building,
I was very surprised by this.
B+T is standard, besides T is much closer to B than Q is.
Similarly B+H for hero tower instead of B+W
When first invisible wave spawns:
Give more warnings or new players can miss them totally.
Use both alarm sounds and display warning messages to player.
Upgrading a tower drops the items to the groud,
this can be fixed with one simple trigger,
I was surprised you did not do it.
Gold coins and other perishable items should be used automatically.
Just picking up items gets monotonous after some time.
Make it so 4 same items can be combined into level 2 item.
Do NOT use random item recipes, it would be too complicated,
combine only same items.
Bad message: Only heroes can pick up items.
Should be: Only towers can pick up items.
(set this in game interface texts)
Put some terrain markers, so player understands why flying creeps take turns in certain places.
(This would be a great spot to place building blocker, rock or a tree, or something unique)
Nature skill needs a better icon, poison orb is misleading.
"Sell Tower" icon is not good, use demolish button for this.
Demolish does not have active icon by default but you can do this:
Extract ReplaceableTextures\PassiveButtons\PASBTNDemolish.blp with Wc3 Image Extractor II
(extract it as .jpg image)
Than use wc3borderizer to generate active version of the icon.
Note that if you import active icon in path:
ReplaceableTextures\CommandButtons\BTNDemolish.blp
you do not have to import disabled icon because it will use the
default passive icon of the standard passive demolish button.
(you probably did not need this long explanation, heh)
I really don't like gold generator.
Just throw it away, it is a bad concept, it brings nothing to the gameplay.
Basic Hero Tower should say on tooltip in big colored letters:
YOU CAN HAVE ONLY ONE HERO TOWER.
In my opinion hero towers are not worth the skill points you need to invest in them,
it is better to use many different tower types.
I think you should remove the basic hero tower tooltip,
and make some boss drop a tiny hero tower item.
The 3 doodads in upper-left are too close together and block very important building area,
I was very annoyed by them, just delete 2 rocs, and leave the palm tree.
All in all a very solid game, with a lot of potential.
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