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Chant 1.6 FINAL

CHANT
By Daffa the Mage

INFORMATION
It all started, when one of them send a message to the front door :

Daffa Daffa Daffa Daffa Daffa
Daffa Daffa Daffa Daffa Daffa
Daffa Daffa Daffa Daffa

Leo said:
Leo casts Chant
Directive255 casts chant
StoPCampinGn00b casts chant
Rheiko casts Chant
It was super effective
DAFFA is annoyed

This is a short, simple map I made using @redscores RBB System. It's meant to be a simple map to make a few fellow friends pay for messing my front door. Don't expect complicated things here, just good old fashion turn battle that needs teamwork to win.

(They are destroying my house's ventilation systems by the way)

GAMEPLAY
You need all 5 heroes to finish this game. Some are more support oriented and others are combat oriented.

Just be aware, this game is quite unforgiving in case of decision mistakes. Yeah, they pissed me off anyway, so they should have some wonderful time... getting kicked around.

Screenshot below the description!

CHANGELOG
Game :
1 New Challenge : On the Prize
Fixed challenge not properly giving points
Fixed challenge multiplier gets very high numbers
UI Upgrade
Lower Beginner difficulty damage taken from 33% to 5%

Directive255 :
Death and Decay reduction now counts before bonuses
Reduced Level Factor for Death and Decay from 0.10 to 0.08
--> Fixes Daffa the Mage cannot be harmed by Death and Decay
Fixed Death and Decay not failing Challenge 3 glitch

Leo :
Soul Break reduction now counts before bonuses

SCN :
Soul Break reduction now counts before bonuses

Rheiko :
Inferno reduction now counts before bonuses

[E]clipse :
Fire reduction now counts before bonuses
Increased Attack bonus damage from buff from 1.5x to 2.0x
Increased Attack bonus damage from health from 0.30 to 0.45

Daffa the Mage :
Added Frost Bite ability
Added Attack ability
Now starts with Iron Shield
Reinforcement now arrives after the first batch of troops are defeated
No longer heals despite creeps around
Fixed Charge ability damage bonus
Reinforcement now occurs 3 times

Shadow :
Added to the game
Game :
Challenge points gained now multiplies with difficulty
Increased Chant Success points given by 1000

Directive255 :
Increased HP from 2875 to 3500
Fixed major bugs with and tooltip for Unholy Amor
Replaced Fire with Death and Decay
New model by @Ujimasa Hojo

Leo :
Increased HP from 3125 to 4000
Changed Dark Energy icon

SCN :
Increased HP from 2500 to 3250
Improved Soul Break tooltip

Rheiko :
Increased HP from 3500 to 5000
Improved Soul Break tooltip

[E]clipse :
Increased HP from 4000 to 7500
Increased Blade Charge multiplier from 4 to 5

Daffa the Mage :
Increased HP from 20000 to 25000
Increased Level from 80 to 85

Loyalist :
Increased HP from 7500 to 8250
Increased Cold Nova damage from 50-75 to 150-250
Fixed attack ignoring buffs

Servant :
Increased HP from 5000 to 6000
Decreased Level from 65 to 50
Added Cold Nova
Fixed attack ignoring buffs
Changed Directive's Heal with Unholy Armor
Changed Heal Support (Leo) with Dark Energy
Daffa the Mage now has Arctic Nova, which deals low damage but has freeze chance
Reduced damage taken in Mastermind Difficulty
Increased Attack (Rheiko/Directive) and Attack (Leo) damage
Increased Assault Signal (Directive) turn effect increased
Increased Inferno damage
Increased Soul Break damage
Increased Fire damage
Attack (Leo) now has 1% chance to deal 9x normal damage
Attack (Eclipse) now deal 50% additional critical damage
Heaven Force used by Phoenix now grants Iron Shield
Fixed some tooltips
Fixed coloring issues
Fixed SCN attack
Added challenges, how far can you get?
Added an event to grant further frustration :D
Major overhaul
Lots of new skills for players to give a more diverse gameplay
Added difficulty system, for the sake of it
Hello minions, now they are easier to dispose of
Added a score system, with challenges along to make life difficult for more scores
Pretty much most of ILH's feedbacks are done, except terrain AND chat and the health bar ones. I prefer to have health bar hidden when it's not your turn, so you need to think quick and properly

KNOWN BUGS : In non-full house games, the party will be revived under the owner's color instead of their default color.
DISCLAIMER : I have Ralle's permission to use resources at Staff Contact unless Atlus made a copyright claim over the map.
Added some minions to the fight
Change Directive255 and Rheiko models, since I get motivated
Now all games yield a five member battle

KNOWN BUGS : In non-full house games, the party will be revived under the owner's color instead of their default color.

CREDITS

Heroes :
- Directive255
- Leo Akastenix
- StoPCampinGn00b
- Rheiko
- [E]clipse

Music :
- Atlus
- Lettuce Sauce

System :
- redscores

Others :
- nightelfbuilder

Models :
- Direfury
- WILL THE ALMIGHTY
- HerrDave
- kangyun
- 67chrome
- Ujimasa Hojo
- UTM 4.0
- Fingolfin
- Tranquil
- Kitabatake
- bisnar13
- imforfun

MESSAGE ME IF I FORGET YOU!



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Chant 1.6 (Map)

Reviews
deepstrasz
Alright, this is being updated regularly and I hope it develops even further so, Approved.
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Impossible indeed. But when we all five join forces, your house is nothing but dust. One day, yes. One day, we will. But today is not the day.

Voting for Direct-ive cut! 6/5 Such splendid concept and Idea.

the game has an interesting concept and a simple enough combat system, but feels like missing something.
Yes, however I also wasn't able to pinpoint what is it that missing.

Edit: Forgot to mention, the musics are kinda overlapping onto each other. Needs fix!
 
Wonderful!

P.S. In the future do you plan to make a single player version, where one can control all five characters to fight Daffa?

4/5, the game has an interesting concept and a simple enough combat system, but feels like missing something.

I'll do such things in near future.

Impossible indeed. But when we all five join forces, your house is nothing but dust. One day, yes. One day, we will. But today is not the day.

Voting for Direct-ive cut! 6/5 Such splendid concept and Idea.


Yes, however I also wasn't able to pinpoint what is it that missing.

Hahaha, one day eh?
Laughed at the sarcasm of Director Cut itself.
 

ILH

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I tried this with my friends, full party :p
I expected a good game but somethings didn't turn quite right...
> Terrain is a little bit... messy? The grass trims doesn't look logical as it is supposed to be trimmed with a design, sunken ruin trees and just plain grass also doesn't make it an interesting view (You can use combinations of Ashenvale grasses). Maybe more trees, shrubs or rocks in the forest.
> I love the idea of using the RBB, however it was quite boring when its not your turn because you can't chat or do anything, not even able to look at the units' healthbars. One guy went AFK and the others left without any notifications...
> The weather effect is too spammy with that certain angle of view, never tried the second camera though.
> Perhaps you can add linear fogs or a sky to fill up the blank areas behind the trees. Random weathers could be awesome as well.
> You might also want to add a damage indicator and how much health left a unit has after an attack was launched.
> Are there resource credits?

Critics aside, this is a map with a good idea and I see great potentials :D
 
@ILH
Now that's some critiques :)
Are there resource credits?
There are, in Hive description. Yet to be in-game.
Terrain is a little bit... messy? The grass trims doesn't look logical as it is supposed to be trimmed with a design, sunken ruin trees and just plain grass also doesn't make it an interesting view (You can use combinations of Ashenvale grasses). Maybe more trees, shrubs or rocks in the forest.
I don't do the terrain. I directly took it from @redscores test map, to be honest.

I love the idea of using the RBB, however it was quite boring when its not your turn because you can't chat or do anything, not even able to look at the units' healthbars. One guy went AFK and the others left without any notifications...
Yeah, I have thought about AFK. It's quite difficult to deal with however. I'll do something if I can for the chat.

The weather effect is too spammy with that certain angle of view, never tried the second camera though.
I have no alternative for now, maybe I'll figure something else out.

Perhaps you can add linear fogs or a sky to fill up the blank areas behind the trees. Random weathers could be awesome as well.
I'll consider this one :)

You might also want to add a damage indicator and how much health left a unit has after an attack was launched.
Want to have the health bar on by default? Damage indicators... I guess I can use floating texts or something.

I will do these critics as soon as possible, if I get motivated that is.
 

ILH

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There are, in Hive description. Yet to be in-game.
Woops, I didn't see it, sorry xD
Yeah, I have thought about AFK. It's quite difficult to deal with however.
Perhaps a timer that ends one's turn.
I have no alternative for now, maybe I'll figure something else out.
Maybe fogs, maybe custom weather models? :D
Want to have the health bar on by default?
I had the heatlh bar on by default, it didn't show when its not my turn.
And yes a health bar floating text above a unit could be good enough.
 
Woops, I didn't see it, sorry xD
I'll add one in Quest log in the next update.
Perhaps a timer that ends one's turn.
I thought of the same thing to :D
Maybe fogs, maybe custom weather models? :D
I want it to have magical feels, considering you're facing a Mage :)
I had the heatlh bar on by default, it didn't show when its not my turn.
And yes a health bar floating text above a unit could be good enough.
I see. I'll see what I can do.

EDIT :
On more serious note, this map WAS suppose to be a joke for the five people who messed my front door (visitor message).
 
Hmm, if you're idle enough, maybe add an intro cinematic showing SCN screaming "Daffa Daffa Daffa Daffa..." to you? And show us vandalizing your front door (or gate)?
That's quite an amount of work. I'll keep that if I can get REALLY motivated.

EDIT :
Change Misc/Others into Mini-Game, now there goes away our category problems :)
 
A heads up. I have added difficulty system for the next version (and yeah having a hard time defeating the hardest difficulty). I also added more spells to player's reportaire to help them squeeze up the harder difficulties.

And yeah, you'll hate the highest difficulty once you see the BS damage the enemy dealt in one turn.

Just need to finish score system and this thing is ready for moderation :)

---
In regards to health bar, I won't change that one. It gives the 'danger' feels.
I also am lazy, so terrain stays for now :)
 
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Ehh, by the way... a bug if i'm right:

"Directive255 revives GravestoneDummy"
"StoPCampinGn00b revives GravestoneDummy"

P.S. I've noticed variety in character stats and abilities, cool!

But ofc mine is the coolest! I can do both Fire and Area Heal at the same time, yay! I have a bit more health than patrick and I have lots of mana too! ;)
 
Patrick has a bunch more mana.

I have modified the roles accordingly in the next update. Patrick will be the sole 'area heal' user while two others act as singular healers. It's not always best to rely on area heal, as sometimes it does more harm than good.

I also changed the text bug @Directive255 mentioned.

These are already set. As I said before, only score system remains.
 
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How about giving a "mana heal" to one of the characters? Right now the only way to replenish your mana is to have yourself killed then get revived.

And enemy's health regenerates in the background before I do any action. Is this a bug, or was this intentional to discourage wasting time?
And how about regenerating mana over time, or Siphon/Transfer Mana?
 

deepstrasz

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1. Please avoid playing music through the sound channel and use the music channel (eg: use the other Play Music trigger).
2. Would be nice to see more camera shots than that static one.
3. Even the archer (Sylvanas) attacks from a melee range.
4. I suggest more challenges/battles. The idea is really nice but you have to make it longer with diversity.

Awaiting Update.
 
1. Will do. It's actually the system's part. I thought I could leave that be, but seems not (and it got Spell Section approval AFAIR).
2. It's not that cooperative with gameplay (btw, there's a second camera). If I were to make camera more dynamic, abilities needs more of an actual display. Well, that will not change a lot in flavor context. More lost than gain IMO.
3. Welp, forgot that it suppose to be ranged. I must be lazy there to just copy paste it out. Archer was a Paladin btw.
4. Challenges might do, for battles... have you try it at least twice? The unit poll that guard the boss is mix and match to give some diversity and additional gameplay difficulty at random.
 

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4. Challenges might do, for battles... have you try it at least twice? The unit poll that guard the boss is mix and match to give some diversity and additional gameplay difficulty at random.
Actually, I see the same enemy units appearing, either more of a type or less.
You could use other Hive members as bosses with their own guard/entourage.
 
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DISCLAIMER : I have Ralle's permission to use resources at Staff Contact unless Atlus made a copyright claim over the map.

What does this mean?

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1. Please avoid playing music through the sound channel and use the music channel (eg: use the other Play Music trigger).

1. Will do. It's actually the system's part. I thought I could leave that be, but seems not (and it got Spell Section approval AFAIR).

No wonder why two musics were playing at once...

4. I suggest more challenges/battles. The idea is really nice but you have to make it longer with diversity.

Agreed.

3. Welp, forgot that it suppose to be ranged. I must be lazy there to just copy paste it out. Archer was a Paladin btw.

You lazy mage :p
 
What does this mean?
The song is copyrighted, but I have asked the staff (and Ralle answered the thread of matter) if I can use the said song for the map theme. In case of copyright claims, I will quickly take down the map and update it with the default theme.
The song is used in Persona 5 by Atlus, you can find it on the second to last boss.

No wonder why two musics were playing at once...
I don't get that during my tests, so it's a surprise. Must be me being lazy though.

You lazy mage :p
I am, and I am not proud of it.

Actually, I see the same enemy units appearing, either more of a type or less.
You could use other Hive members as bosses with their own guard/entourage.
I'll do more units for variation. And yes, some extra gifts on top of it.
I won't make more bosses unless I can wrap the messy system properly. It was a pain to get them to work in singleplayer before. And if I do make them, they get their own map instead.

^Ah, ok, my fault-- I have looked for a music, or sound system. ;) I just wanted to check why it is a problem. But wayne.
I apologize for the inconvenience.
 

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Been so long since I played a wc3 custom map, might as well start with this one
 
Just want to share that I died when I was about to won in Merciless. Butthurt much that over 4K damage spell.

In regards to update, I have added some more events but I am still thinking of additions to make it more interesting. Actually, even passing standard by a small amount to earn approval is more than enough for this map, considering it's a just for fun joke map :)
 
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Hmm, maybe Daffa cast a spell of blizzard and snowstorm?

2. How about Daffa engulfing the entire battlefield with Faiya, I mean, fire?

3. Daffa could also resurrect one of his fallen minions...

Perhaps also a chance for events about player characters? Like a boost to a Player's power? Or maybe after casting a spell, a slim chance for allied minions for players to appear?
 
Hmm, maybe Daffa cast a spell of blizzard and snowstorm?

2. How about Daffa engulfing the entire battlefield with Faiya, I mean, fire?

3. Daffa could also resurrect one of his fallen minions...

Perhaps also a chance for events about player characters? Like a boost to a Player's power? Or maybe after casting a spell, a slim chance for allied minions for players to appear?
Variation eh? Might slip an entire buff system along then.

2. You want DPS?

3. The reinforcement was part of that actually... But by every few turns... Not so sure without ruining the already harsh day.

Player buffing? NO. I have something else in mind for such things though. I think Mastermind need an extra twist.
 
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2. Sure -- it's fire so it's supposed to hurt every second...

3. Make it so that it'll only be considered every 30 rounds or more, and even during the specified turn, make the chance for minion resurrection slim?

4. Why? It will make things more interesting...

Hmm what is it? What twist do you mean? ^^

5. Also I would like to be something else...
I wanna be this type of Death Knight :)

Teron Gorefiend Model
 
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I think being this kind of Death Knight in the game is way more appropriate and cooler than before ^^

Make me a Caster Death Knight plz... :)

Also if you have time, I wish to have some fancy spells inspired from Warcraft II. You can look at this for inspiration and ideas : Warcraft II Death Knight

Spell suggestions :

1. Unholy Armor -- takes out half of a unit's current health to make it invulnerable for three rounds. Can be used on myself.

2. Death Coil -- AoE lifesteal spell, every enemy within gets damaged equally ===OR=== Targets a few specific enemies, restores caster health as much as the damage dealt.

3. Haste -- either allows the affected ally to take two actions on a turn for three turns, or double their attacks next round.

4. Death and Decay -- Powerful AoE spell
 
I think being this kind of Death Knight in the game is way more appropriate and cooler than before ^^

Make me a Caster Death Knight plz... :)

Also if you have time, I wish to have some fancy spells inspired from Warcraft II. You can look at this for inspiration and ideas : Warcraft II Death Knight

Spell suggestions :

1. Unholy Armor -- takes out half of a unit's current health to make it invulnerable for three rounds. Can be used on myself.

2. Death Coil -- AoE lifesteal spell, every enemy within gets damaged equally ===OR=== Targets a few specific enemies, restores caster health as much as the damage dealt.

3. Haste -- either allows the affected ally to take two actions on a turn for three turns, or double their attacks next round.

4. Death and Decay -- Powerful AoE spell

You mean a new model for your character?

I'll take my time working on those, won't be soon though.
1. Simple. Is it castable each round?
2. I only do the first
3. I only take the second (indirectly, they're weaker version of 'Charge' spells)
4. Will do.
 
Quick 1.4 update coming out!

Changed Directive's Heal with Unholy Armor
Changed Heal Support (Leo) with Dark Energy
Daffa the Mage now has Arctic Nova, which deals low damage but has freeze chance
Reduced damage taken in Mastermind Difficulty
Increased Attack (Rheiko/Directive) and Attack (Leo) damage
Increased Assault Signal (Directive) turn effect increased
Increased Inferno damage
Increased Soul Break damage
Increased Fire damage
Attack (Leo) now has 1% chance to deal 9x normal damage
Attack (Eclipse) now deal 50% additional critical damage
Heaven Force used by Phoenix now grants Iron Shield
Fixed some tooltips
Fixed coloring issues
 
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