Immortal Essence is a DoTA like Player versus Player map with a goal to destroy the enemy Relic. There are two sides: Alliance Expedition and the Scourge Forces battleing for centuries. Now in an epic battle they are trying to find a powerful relic to use against their ancient enemies.
The MAP:
There are two bases, Scourge north, Alliance, south. Both Relics are protected by magical gates. Whoever passes through from the enemy suffers 5000 damage unless the protecting buildings: Shrines/Power Generators are destroyed. Each base has its own base keeper units helping the defense.
THE HERO Roles:
There are 3 Roles each side:
Warlord:
His/Her duty is to control the middle area of the map pushing the front towards the enemy base. ( Ofc they can change lanes whenever they want ) Warlords are also able to enter the Arenas challanging Demonlords for powerful itemrewards and to complete a quest that gives an item meant to upgrade the champion.
Champions:
Both sides have 1-1 champions that can bring out with some conditions. Abomon the Hungerer is a special unit waiting in his champer for prey to kill and eat. Each time The Scourge kills an enemy unit a zombie will spawn in Abomons Lair that he eats. After 150 zombie kill Abomon is ready for battle. The Alliance has to pay for special NPC-s to make Granitos live.
Completing the Arena Quest will give an item that upgrades the champion to a second level or ressurresct it if its fallen before completing the arena quest.
Lane Keepers:
Lane keepers are starting on the sides. There are 2-2 Base Camps spwaning units that attack the enemy. Those Base Camps are conquerable with killing the Base Keepers/Guardians. If it happens the base Camps will attack the enemy base's backdoor! They are reconquerable any time.
Strategist. Non Close combat Heroes. They are operating from a Strategy Room with long distance spells. They have normal spells and Battle Spells. The Battle Spells can be actived by using ( attacking ) the Book of the Highlord near the Hero. The Spell level can be increased by spending the periodicly gained spellpoint on research. As the Spell Level gets higher the spells are getting more powerful aswell.
The Strategist also can order creeps to attack the enemy base on a new lane. Those creeps will spwan from a cave and will attack the first gate directly. If the enemy players destroy the support columns standing close to the caves where the creeps are spwaning the creeps wont spawn anymore!
Special Events:
Victory Rush:
Units are dropping special kind of items. Dark Shards and Emblems of Valor. If the players gather 30 of them a special squad will join to the creeps from the main base.
Pit General:
There is a powerful BOSS patroling around. By default he is neutral towards anybody but he is attackable. If it happens he will teleport back to his Lair and will leave a portal when he was being attacked. The players can reach him by going through the portal. He drops very powerful items.
Treasure Keepers:
There are special units spwaning around the area. They drop special items for recipies and tokens for getting random poerful items.
Dragon Lords:
There is a Special Recipe the players can craft from the items they can get from the Treasure Keepers. Making the recipie will give you the Orb of the Dragon Soul. If the players use the item a dragon ally will join to the battle going on.
Arena Event:
Players can get a special quest for a special item that can upgrade your champion. After you got the quest you can teleport to the arena with stepping on the circle of power. There are 5 Demons overall, after you beat one you have to go back for challanging the next.
Upgrades:
There are 2 Strategy towers where you can research. You can add extra units to the spawning creep waves, you can upgrade your defensive/offensive units etc etc. ( You have to check them out to see )
SPECIAL UNITS:
You can hire special units from your Relic. There is a healer/dps and a builder
type unit. The builders can build towers for strengthening your bases!
Items:
There are special recipes like in DoTA, nothing else to say about it, the only thing is there arent much since im doing all these alone and it is ALOT of work so be patient please!
I do not want to spoil all the things but there is another tihng i would like to write:
GAME MODES:
Apart from the normal game mode there is a mode called: SURVIVOR MODE!
This mode the Demons are trying to retake the land choosen by the alliance and the scourge to fight on. They are attacking more and more often with more powerful waves till the Demon God spawns of his shards to destroy the enemy bases. Whoever kills a Shard of Kylgoron will gain a special item that you can use. Of it happens a demonic portal will open near the base and spawning allied demons attacking the enemy main base.
Demons also drop an item called amulet of Summoning. If a Hero uses the amulet, he /she will summon the enemy WARLORD to the dueling ground. Whoever wins the duel will get extra money and an extra DEFENSE TOWER in the main base. Only 1 amulet can drop at a time.
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Since I have started to work on a bigger project, a storyline movie with voice actors and using Wc3 TFT material I stopped the working on this. But if there are people who request some support I gladly help and spend a few hours on extra content and optimizing which is the part where I stopped since I did not have enough testers and started working on the movie.
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UPDATES:
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Immortal Essence v1.17
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- Warlord hero selection has been redesigned for preparing the system for the new heroes' arrival.
- NEW GAME MODE: Ultimate( Super Creep ) Mode
By selecting this game mode the creeps are going to get a huge HP and Damage boost. Also every 3rd minutes super creeps are joining the battle. On both sides there are 5-5 super creep from level 1 to level 5. every 5 minutes there will be 5 additional super creeps spawning on random lanes.
In this game mode players can obtain the Ultimate Tomes that give 5 to All Stats and Bonus Experience to be able to match with the power of the creeps.
- Mixable game modes: Host now can pick from the game modes but maximum 2 modes can run at the time. Example: Survival Mode and Super Creep Mode.
Don't know if you tested it Mare but if you did tell me what you think, if this is close to what you thought
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Immortal Essence v1.18
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- Bugfixes
- Hero balance
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Immortal Essence v1.19
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- New GAME MODE: Avatar mode
Players can face the mighty Stone Keepers and hunt them down for Avatar Stones. Collect six of those stones to bring your avatar to this world!
The Avatars are extra powerful creatures, no creep or low level hero can be a match against it. If the avatar is active the enemy team will have a very hard time to defend their base.
This game mode brings a very intense game experience when players are forced to go for the shards if they want to keep their base. Only one Stone Keeper spawns at the time so all the heroesare going to fight for the same item.
NOTE: I think this game mode got to be the best so far, very intense and even in single player mode the AI can surprise you from time to time.
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Immortal Essence v1.20 - v1.21
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- Bugfixes
- Balance
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