| 03-14-2005, 04:35 PM | #1 |
Guest | Loading Screen Image Based on Van Helsing (the movie, not the anime). It is formatted like DOTA (three lanes, constant battle), but has a much more unique, RPG-esque feel to it. The biggest features are lots of custom items, most of which show up on your character (the weapons and shields anyway), nice custom models (mostly from www.wc3sear.ch), and cool custom abilities. There are creep areas ("dungeons") that each have a hero creep in them and which are based on levels (low level creep dungeon, lower level hero, etc.). Each hero drops a set of uber items that are badass and look sweet on your characater (and oh yah, most of the character models don't have weapons showing until you pick them up). So you enter as either a helper of the Transylvanian Militia (who are constantly defending their homes against Dracula and his many minions) and fight with Van Helsing, Anna Valerious and/or Carl (who are all selectable hero characters), or choose to fight with Dracula and help him obliterate the humans and give birth to his vampire babies (which occurs in a cool cinematic sequence if you rescue Frankenstein's monster). But if the humans rescue Velken Valerious (Anna's brother), he summons forth wolves from the forest. But both of these summonings have counters (if you kill Velken the wolves stop, and if you take out the power to Drake's lightning bed the babies all blow up). The map is large (152x152) and has natural-looking, varying terrain. Many areas to explore. Both sides have 9 heroes to choose from. On the side of Van Helsing you can be: Movie Characters: ------------------------- Anna Valerious (custom model - Watcher) - Very fast, agile character Shadow Meld (default) Parry- (evasion w/ animation) Confusion (blink) Shield Swipe (cleaving attack) Van Helsing (custom model - Assasin) - Strong and agile range character Skills: Rapid Fire - Enables VH's gas-powered gatlin feature of his crossbow, firing very fast, Shotgun - use Van Helsing's powerful, shorter range shotgun Spinning Blade - throw a furious spinning blade, hitting multiple targets Wolf Form - Transforms Van Helsing into a strong, fast and agile wolf for 35 seconds. - has all custom, mostly range abilities. Very strong range and his Wolf Form is strong in hand to hand combat Carl the Engineering Monk (custom model - Monk) - Very intelligent, gadgety hero Skills: Sentry Gun - build a powerful, fast-firing sentry gun for 150gold. Has three levels of gun. Healing Orb - throw down a White orb of healing light which heals all allies around it U.V. Bomb - toss a bomb that explodes into U.V. light which is so intense it not only damages vampires, but all monsters. Time Bomb (custom) - place a ticking time bomb at a unit's feet (including your own) that has a fuse of 7 seconds and causes 450 damage in a 350 square area. - most of his skills involve his clever inventions, which are way ahead of their time Average Joe Characters (recruited by Van Helsing and Anna): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bear (male villager model) - Big strong brute. A tracker by trade. Skills: Bash (nerfed Bash), Charm (default), Battle Roar (nerfed), Summon Bear (default) - Bear is a local villager who specializes in tracking. He is a powerful Melee character. Captain Michail (custom model - warrior) - Captain of the Transylvanian Militia. Skills: Critical Strike (nerfed), Command Aura (default), Reinforcements (custom - brings army regulars to your aid), Artillery Barrage - (custom - lays down some serious damage in an area from longe-range artillery units) Nereus Del mar (custom model - Blind Paladin) - Strong melee Paladin. Skills: H Holy Light (default, but can heal self too), Divine Shield (nerfed a lot), Mass Teleport (nerfed, less units), and Resurrection (default) - Nereus is a strong Melee healer (based on the default Paladin). Telemachus the Rogue (custom model - Rogue) - Quick, sneaky, agile dude. Skills: Invisibility (temporary), Steal (custom - steals gold from enemy heroes), Throw Dagger (custom - throws dagger from good distance), Backstab (custom - close combat, does serious damage) Lady Quill (Female Archer model) - Fast, agile range character Skills: Shadow Meld (default), Flaming arows (default), Archer Call (custom - summons elven archers from the woods), Ensnaring Arrow (based on Ensnare, but an arrow =)), Kill Shot (custom - Quill learns to focus and does serious damage to vital organs) Lady Magdalene (sorceress model) - Elemental Sorceress Skills: Essence of Water (mana shield), Frost (default), Firey Breath (default), Summon Elemental (custom, summons either Water, Earth or Fire elemental in rotation). Dracula's Side Movie Characters: ---------------------------------------------- Dracula (bloodmage model) - Strong as hell, good melee Skills: Vampire Bite (based on life drain), Vampiric Aura (nerfed), Touch of Death (based on F.O.D but nerfed), Sleep (nerfed), Dracula's True Form (custom) Aleera (Evil Temptress model) - Agile , good melee Skills: Vampire Bite (based on life drain), Evasion (default), Demon Call (Mirror Image), Cripple (nerfed to hell), Vampire Form (custom - morph to flying gargoyle unit). Marishka (Vile Temptress model) - Strong, good melee Skills: Vampire Bite (based on life drain), Bash (nerfed), Thorns Aura (default), <Unknown> (can't remember - im at work =) Vampire Form (custom - morph to flying gargoyle unit). Verona (Vile Temptress model) - Intelligent magic character Skills: Vampire Bite (based on life drain), Carrion Swarm (default), Evil Spirits (based on Locust Swarm but has cool sound and model used is shade instead of locust), <Unknown> (can't remember - im at work =) Vampire Form (custom - morph to flying gargoyle unit). Mr. Hyde (abomination model) - Somewhat agile, very strong, kinda fast for his size. Skills: War Stomp (default), Hurl Boulder (default), Bash (nerfed), Pulverize (default) Igor (zombie model) - Dumb, slow, strong and kinda gadgety Skills: Berserk (default), Ensare Gun (shoots net from gun), Frog Bomb (custom - poisionous frog explodes and does damage), Parasite (customized - parasite is dune worm model and has a re-infect skill) Non-movie characters: -------------------------------- Moonfang (black giant wolf model) - Quick, strong and agile but dumb werewolf. Skills: Shadow Meld ( defualt), Critical Claw attack (based on Crit Strike), Moon Howl (based on bloodlust), Werewolf Bite (custom - turns victim into ruthless werewolf for a period of time) Orthos (custom model - Bare Skeleton) - Commander of Dracula's legions Skills: Raise Dead (customized, summons skel warriors), Archer Barrage (summons skel archers), Endurance Aura (default), Resurrection (customized) Lithilian (acolyte model) - Intelligent Necromancer Skills: Skeleton Pet (customized summon), Ensnare Soul (customized), Unholy Armor (default), Death and Decay (default) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyway so there are the heroes. Not *too* much customization to them, and they definately need balancing, but fun to play with. They are very fitting to the Van Helsing theme. The only version I have availble is still quite buggalishiss, but if you want to give it a go I could definately use some feedback: http://64.128.31.12/vanhelsing/VanHelsing-1.5b.zip But if you play online, make sure nobody leaves before everyone selects their heroes or you won't be able to start (something I plan on fixing, no worries). And if you want to play with more than one hero in single player mode, you can use computers for your allies, then type "!takeover" in the chat bar and select their player number to take their starting unit over. Other than that, it just has some rather minor (mostly aesthetic) bugs. Peace out yall, Bpnunez |