The Search for Ancient Heritage

deepstrasz · Apr 9, 2024

"I decided to make a small addition to the old inspired campaign "Dwarf Campaign (Warcraft 3 Campaign)"

What does that mean? Did you use characters, places, names etc. from @Tommi Gustafsson's work? If yes, please seek permission.

SanyaBelotsky · Apr 9, 2024

deepstrasz said:
"I decided to make a small addition to the old inspired campaign "Dwarf Campaign (Warcraft 3 Campaign)"

What does that mean? Did you use characters, places, names etc. from @Tommi Gustafsson's work? If yes, please seek permission.

I didn't use any names from there, I decided to create a campaign of similar theme, with a different plot and setting.

deepstrasz · Apr 9, 2024

SanyaBelotsky said:
I didn't use any names from there, I decided to create a campaign of similar theme, with a different plot and setting.

Alright, make sure it's not a ripoff or too similar.

muaddib · Apr 12, 2024

tested it, no bugs and went smoothe as butter. enjoyble challenges and story telling. are you planning to release more chapters?

SanyaBelotsky · Apr 12, 2024

muaddib said:
tested it, no bugs and went smoothe as butter. enjoyble challenges and story telling. are you planning to release more chapters?

Thank you for your appreciation, glad you liked it. As for additional chapters, they weren't planned because, in my opinion, there's no storyline hook for continuation, as the main task has been completed

AkarinKana · Apr 14, 2024

I saw SanyaBelotsky, I clicked :psmile:

Haven't played it yet, but your maps are fun, so I'm looking forward to it! >w</

AkarinKana · Apr 15, 2024

Hello there!
Have finished the map, and wow, this is another fun map with good balancing!
I was wondering what should I do when SPOILER I have to fight huge mobs with only basic melee and ranged units, but when the golems come, it makes things easier and I can even progress through the map. Overall, a nice map with good lore. Oh, and no bugs also! >w<b

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deepstrasz · Apr 16, 2024

Very short intro without proper setting (custom universe, where exactly is this happening, when, why?) of who the characters are (background) and generally, pretty much two people talking.
Loading screen text is hard to read because of the image being all over the place and detailed.
In the next map it says something about faceless, so it's Warcraft? OK, nerubians too.
Why was the drunkard dwarf lord trying to keep what they found until then secret from the king but then in the next chapter the latter is met by a nice and talkative dwarf?
Gameplay mechanics are just Warcraft III. I think we all played the Mountain King hero at least 1000 times.
How can a person be Grand Stone Throne?
Crushing Hammer of War's description says it combines with the hero's Strong Strike. Maybe, Slam? There's no ability named like what the hammer says.
Morgan has no hero glow. It could be simply added: How to add Hero Glow without Modeling Killing four legged turtles is OK, bipedal ones, no way.
Funny thing seems to be is that the enemy has two types of silithid units as the player has two types of dwarves.
Units selected during the gnoll cinematic.
Nice stuff with combining items. One good point besides the really cool atmospheric terrain. One more for some good scenes and secrets.
Runed Braces' description is incomplete, only numbers.
The golems look alike.
How to open this though?
What does Axe Madness do?
So apparently the king knows a lot about the forgotten city. I thought the idea was to discover things about it.
"There it is. A legendary, endangered species of giant creatures. Let's kill!"
Keys could be variables so not to occupy inventory space. But since there's no active enemy who can take your items, the gates could open by themselves after bosses die or levers are pulled without need of keys.
Units selected when meeting the forgotten one.
Female (weird boss name) silithid has no hero glow and has the same model as the ranged silithid troop.
Azarnak has no hero glow and Seekers use hero models with glow.
Amulet of Spellshield's description is broken.
Intelligence on Shroud of the Faceless is named Mind.
Ha-ha, all for the money in the end.

Generally, a neat map which can benefit from more custom material in regards to abilities and techtree. A promising start for a campaign too.

Approved.

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SanyaBelotsky · Apr 16, 2024

deepstrasz

Thank you for the review. I'll address the questions of interest in order.
1. It turned out that I first created a chapter, and then an interlude. I had various ideas, but I decided to simplify it with some decoration and a time gap. The motivation was that the Lord of the fortress didn't want to let the king into the excavations because it belonged to him, and he didn't want to share, but I didn't fully implement it.
2. Regarding the gnoll sanctuary, the door there cannot be opened. I considered giving the player a gnoll hero, but it would be strange to make them allies since they are considered enemies, so I decided to isolate them there. They were needed mainly for the cinematic, like marauders in this underground city.

3. The Felblade Axe increases some hero stats, except for strength (it's negative), and grants the ability "Madness".
4. As for the hero glow, it didn't occur to me, although in the Scarlet Crusade campaign, I added this effect to Mirak, but now I've added passive icons instead of active ones.

deepstrasz · Apr 17, 2024

SanyaBelotsky said:
3. The Felblade Axe increases some hero stats, except for strength (it's negative), and grants the ability "Madness".

Sure but the item should say what Madness does since it's a custom ability not a known Warcraft III one, even if it kind of seems to be Berserk.

SanyaBelotsky · Apr 17, 2024

deepstrasz said:
Sure but the item should say what Madness does since it's a custom ability not a known Warcraft III one, even if it kind of seems to be Berserk.

Yes, I remembered why the description isn't complete. It's because of the line breaks, like (strength on one line, agility on another), and because of that, the full ability description didn't fit. I've already fixed the descriptions in the items you mentioned, as well as added glows for all heroes.

The Nightmare Book · Apr 19, 2024

Played & finished it, but sometimes got lost, The ending is... Golden in some way

Will share a video walkthrough here in the future

UPD:
Here comes the first part of the walkthrough!

VanAndro · Tuesday at 4:47 PM

Nice game! Although I tried to reveal as much of the map as possible, there were still some doors left closed. North of the first base, there is a wooden barrier. Can one go beyond it? Unfortunately, I failed, and the northwest part of the map remained undiscovered.

What I liked the most were the special effects of the Dwarf's spells and the sound effects in general, as well as the interesting items. In many places in the item descriptions where it is about dealing damage or increasing the character's stats by several units, you could omit the word "units". For example, "Ax - deal 25 damage" or "Damage - 25, Intelligence - 14" instead of "Damage - 25 units, Intelligence - 14 units". It is implied that there is a damage increase of 25 or a specific stat increase of 14. You could also clean up the semicolons in the item titles and generally fix the text in their descriptions, as well as the text on the characters' abilities.

The role of the rock breaker is quite limited. It would be nice to have more parts of the map where it can be utilized.

Overall, it's a game that can be enjoyed by anyone. I didn't notice any issues with 1.27.

SanyaBelotsky · Tuesday at 8:07 PM

VanAndro

Glad you enjoyed it. No, where the wooden barrier is, you can't pass through, and the same with the gnolls. I reviewed the items and removed "units" in some of them, which indeed looks better. I also reviewed the text with the character abilities and made corrections.

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