Chaos Arena v 1.1b

[Moderator]

09:16, 16th Aug 2012
-Kobas-: On request

[EDIT]

Orcnet
[17:12, 2012/Nov/18]

"Approved"

 

[sonofjay]

Reserved for anything.

 

[Codric]

Well i played it sadly my brother didn't wan't to play with me anyway the Idea of looking from directly avove i have never seen and I like it so far I haven't encountred any bugs.

 

[sonofjay]

Thanks for playing it, I hope your brother will play with you so you guys can have some fun.

 

[HammerFist132]

Does map has AI if does comment comes for about 120 min.

 

[sonofjay]

No we haven't implemented the ai yet, it have some bugs that needed to be fix sorry about that.

EDIT:

Found 2 bugs, event creeps doesn't attack the castle and a leak on one spell, it will be fix on the next version.

This is the plan for the next version(1.2):

• 4 new heroes.
• 3 new items.
• And some minor bug fixing.

 

[Drunken_Jackal]

Good job jay. The AI is well underway.
Also, jay, for the heroes, fell free to ask me.

Off-topic:
Your sig is broken.

 

[Sverkerman]

I really like the terraining in the arenas, rather inspiring in fact!

Have not tested this map, might actually make a video on my youtube channel about it after Dualism Beta is released.

 

[sonofjay]

@Sverkerman, thanks man, Sir_DeeDs did a very good job on the main arena. Looking forward for the video and the Dualism Beta.

 

[Drunken_Jackal]

Just some info for you guys.
Sir deeds is L2Love.

 

[eubz]

downloading... Comments soon.

 

[Ken-E]

The terraining is awesome and the horizontal camera works like a glove, a bit laggy but it'll manage. A bit cliche and typical AoS like DotA (I'm really sorry to say) but overall I loved how you made the game.

Can't really drop a full review due to lack of AI and actual players, but here's some glitches I encounter.
*Map description is a blank
*So is the preview page, only a blank white
*I think a more consistent race should be implemented, like all Human on one team while the other one is Orc
Suggestions though, you're still plenty of space, care to fancy a custom soundtrack?

 

[moyackx]

It looks nice.... let's host your map in blizzmod.

As soon as I get time, I'll give a review.

 

[sonofjay]

@Ken, well I'm still thinking of things to apply to make it a unique hero arena map and about the map description, well its really blank, but I don't know about the preview image, since its working fine to me. I'll be thinking about the custom soundtrack, but I'll focus on the heroes and items for a while.

@Moyack, lets talking about this privately boss.

 

[Nolko]

It's still crash when the hero die, I suggest you to force spawning waves to defend if the castle is attacked, some kind of condition "If Ennemy team's units is in region of the castle" then order spawned units to patrol to region of the castle, wait until numer of ennemy units in region castle equal to 0 then order them to attack like they are doing usually.

I'm sorry If I'm not really understandable but my english isn't that good... However nice terraining, spells and idea for the upgradable items !

 

[Masokist91]

for me it looks still like alpha phase like still alot of problems with camera still lots of bugs and it laggs 5/5 rating because the ideea is colosal and if it gets finished just the way it intends to do it will result in a very cool map . For now 5/5 with negative points over lagg issues over camera and over gameplay and mechanics in general ... these can be solves so 5/5 ! Good luck !

 

[sonofjay]

Thanks guys, well I wonder why the map crashes when your hero died, I keep trying and trying it but mine doesn't crash tested both on unprotected and unprotected version, can you guys send me a replay about that weird crash?

@Nolko, well I don't want the idea that the creeps will defend the castle, its the heroes jobs to defend it, I'll add a teleport scroll on the shop so hero can teleport when the castle was being attack or think of a cool idea when the castle was attack.

@Masokist, thanks for the compliment, I'm pretty sure that the game lags because of the huge amount of doodads around the arena, that whole arena took about 10000+ doodads,

Thanks guys, I'm pretty sure that the next version will have better performance and more content. Just keep sending those bugs, suggestions etc and I'll work on it.

 

[KuWe]

First of all I love the terrain style of this map. Secondly I found some typos like "assualt" with the battlewarden hero. Also my fps dips sometimes near 30 fps, not sure what's going on there, may be just the amount of high quality doodads.

Thirdly I need to test it more before I can say more. All in all very promising arena/aos style map and it's something similar I've imagined to do some time.

 

[sonofjay]

Thanks, unfortunately the report of Nolko really does exist me and Ken-E encountered it when we're testing the map

Well there is really a bad news, looks like the Crash when your Hero Die issue is still here, -Kobas- checked it out earlier same as me but we never encountered that crash, but when I played with Ken-E when I killed him both of us get a crash, I re-read my code, and I can't see anything wrong, but I'll probably recode my revive system yup, I believe it needs to be re-coded since its supposed to work with the custom health bar system which is currently turn off due to bugs, so I guess after I recode the revive system, we can also get rid of that silly bug.

I'm dealing with it now, about the typos I'll look again on the tooltips etc etc to check it,

also some progress of the new version, 1 of the 4 heroes are now finish, also I'll balance the gold cost of every items since they are too low atm, you can buy +5 item at the starting gold(or maybe I'll add a system that will divide the full gold per player).

 

[KuWe]

Ok it's some of the abilities that cause a massive lag and some just crash it ie. the flaming arrow, tauren's Q, trickster ulti. I think it's because of the dummy spells you're using with them. Also I assume you're going to replace all the default blizzard spells right? I will test it with more players once you've fixed the lags and crashes.

I think I found a bug: When you buy Beatstick +5, it gives you Mail Armor for some reason? Also the greed king event minions just stand around your base doing nothing.

The heroes of the left team are far better designed imo.

These are my five cents about this map.

 

[sonofjay]

@KuWe, thanks, Yes I will change all the default one to a coded spells, hmm, I already know about the Living Statue's First spell(I changed it since that spell really have a annoying bug to fix), but didn't know that burning arrow also cause lags(I always use that hero) anyway, I'm gonna fix all the things you said and will balance all the 10 hero atm, I won't be sure if the 4 new heroes will be balance, but that will be work on as the progress goes on.

 

[Nolko]

What about some tower to defend the castle ? Or maybe the castle could make spawn some creeps to defend it or Idk but the first time I rushed by the top lane and then I saw that my castle beeing attacked, I run backward to defend it but when I comes they were 10-15 and I couldn't kill them.

Maybe something like a turrel like in DoTa could be good to ensure that no rush would be possible

 

[sonofjay]

@Nolko, we're building good ideas for that, you guys will see great changes on the gameplay on the next version, but now, I'm dealing with reducing the lag because tons of doodads for the terrain+spell effects = lag. Sorry if it taking too long, but the result of waiting will be good.

 

[FRENGERS]

You don't tell me your project Jay :/ :/
Nice.. +REPT!!
Will play it with AI
Hohohoho....
Why not approved??
This is aMEWzing map!!
Cool and so beautiful with high and clean terrain
Please approve it!!

 

[sonofjay]

@FRENGERS, no AI yet, but we're working on it, but first, I need to remove the heavy lag cause by the high amount of doodads and special effects from the spells.

But I asked -kobas- not to moderate the map first so I can gather more feedbacks, bug reports, and suggestions, since I can't get any on the map development section.

 

[FRENGERS]

No, i never see -Kobas- answering you on the VM :/ :/ Well Good luck!!
I wanna play this soon Pleasee..

 

[sonofjay]

No, i never see -Kobas- answering you on the VM :/ :/ Well Good luck!!
I wanna play this soon Pleasee..

I think its not needed to be answered, and thanks for the support.

 

[Systemfre1]

O:

Just seen this.

Been waiting for it for a while now.

DOWNLOADING!!!!

 

[sonofjay]

Asked -kobas- to reject this, updates will take long with all the bug fixes so I'll let it rejected until the big updates. The main reason it was uploaded is to get feedback and bug reports that I can't find, thank you all for supporting the map, and wait till the big time update. I'm sure it worth the wait!

 

[iChaos]

Aw fail, I already planned to test this out but then you removed it. XD

 

[sonofjay]

New version is out.

 

[Sin'dorei300]

It has a bug: when u upgrade the beat stick, after 4-5 upgrades, it becomes platemail!
Otherwise i like the new hero, again gj!

 

[sonofjay]

Oh just a silly code, i'll fix it asap.

EDIT:

FIX

EDIT:

So we tested it again, got some silly bug to fix and some object editor thingy.

 

[Orcnet]

the map itself is incredible, I was caught in a glaze on how you worked the terrain, and the use of highly detailed models gave it more attraction, I like this new genre of AoS, I couldn't start my response for the game and make a rate for now since your already on the work for version 1.2 so probably when that map is uploaded, I'll do myself a review for this, anyways very pleasing map

 

[Almia]

At last,you have uploaded it
Also hows the AI?

 

[sonofjay]

Thanks, I was shock to see this on the approved section to be serious. I'll upload a new version 1.1b(2) just to fix that ulti of sage. I forgot to set its level requirement.

Anyway I'm glad to see its approve even though they're still some silly bugs.(but meh, every arena/aos type maps have bugs.)

Thanks

@Radamantus,

AI is not the priority atm, though the we already have the core, but its acting weird atm.

 

[FRENGERS]

Woow!! You are back!! @.@
GO GO SonOfJay

 

[KuWe]

Nice to see you've finally released it. Looking forward to v1.2!

 

[moyackx]

Gogogogoooo babe!!!! :d

 

[Radicool]

Some gameplay screenshots would be nice. Too many mappers brag about the enviornment of thier maps. But the gameplay, story, etc is far more important than it's looks.

 

[iChaos]

I found some bugs I insta lost o.o

 

[Sin'dorei300]

Yay approved!

 

[sonofjay]

@Radicool

the gameplay, story, etc is far more important than it's looks... on RPG types of map, this is Arena/AoS type so I don't get what you're pointing out. I have gameplay videos, go check them out its better to watch than to look on silly screenshot.

@IChaos

wut? Can you tell me more info about that?

@Sin

*cheers*
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Looks like no one really test this out on multiplayer because no one reported that. If you're on a same team and then someone on your team pick a hero the other team members will be unable to pick heroes. Don't worry guys, i'll be releasing a 1.1c version with this bug fixes.

 

[Gregory Tountas]

both on unprotected and unprotected version

unreasonable repeat spotted

Anyways, the first thing I noticed on the map is the terrain, seems really cool..

 

[deepstrasz]

Players that select the same hero as other allies to see what's it about cancels the previous player's selection.
Once a player chose a hero the other player could not choose a hero probably because that player chose a level 1 spell?

The aesthetics seems well met.