-testing map, will review when im done =)-
edit: tested the map, after the first game, i dun wana play it anymore, because there are many points i dont like.
1. spirit wolf costs 10 lumber which gives 2 income and grunt costs 20 lumber which gives 4 income. what about the rest? i wouldnt want to summon a pirate for 100 lumber which only gives me 13 income. this makes everyone in my game spam summon only spirit wolf and grunt for income. it should be the other way around. pirate should give me 21~30 income, not 13 income.
2. it was pretty laggy. it had so much delay after playing for less than 10mins - a bad sign. fix that.
3. i only used gul'dan, but i hated it. the ultimate tower (warchief) was weaker than the warrior tower. the upgraded version of warrior tower wins the upgraded version of warchief. inbalance.
4. the loading screen didnt tell us much except common sense. it tells me i need to get a tower builder for me to build towers to start the game. so whats it trying to tell me? im stupid?
5. commands were messed up. i chatted with my friends and when the sub-commands came out, i accidentally said 'shit' and the no champions mode was selected. wow.
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6. theres another point i forgot. after selecting the difficulty, it doesnt tell me what is the current selected difficulty. it just continues playing.
overall, i give it a score of 2/5 because of so many errors and a vote for rejection. i dont see much good points here, even they are good points, they are essential for a td.
Response: (By Numerical)
1.This is because your objective is -TO WIN THE WAR- more powerful units, means they will be more effective at beating the enemy. This is INTENTIONAL. It is NOT a bug and it is not an OVERSIGHT. Stronger enemies = more powerful pushes = better chances at winning.
2. I'm not sure what would be causing you the delay, I will look into it if there is something that is making you lag, it might have to do with the ordering of units, if this is the case I will fix it but it in no way makes the game unplayable, as many people are playing the game fine with over 100+ autohosted games. I'll still look into the movement triggers to see where and if there is an issue.
3.He is not weaker. You are completely mistaken. Firstly, if you use hedges to actually build a maze, you find that his range is MUCH larger than the warrior tower, therefore he ends up hitting more units, and he deals more damage in general. Secondly, and which is more important, is that his ultimate ability is designed to create units to fight in the war, which helps your TEAM PUSH. But maybe you didn't catch that, and winning the war = the primary objective of the game.
4.It also tells you important information about sending units (which most people don't notice in past versions before I made a loading screen) and that if you leak they will attack your teams town hall, which people did get at first because it's a unique TD. Maybe you felt insulted by the first step, but that was not my intention, and the loading screen is in fact informative and I've gotten purely positive results from the information labeled there for people who are new to the game.
5.This is an issue that I'm addressing in the next version, it's because it's using substrings and I need to make it more conditional.
6.It does in fact tell you what the difficulty is, you can see a game message displayed to everyone, it says "Difficulty: XXXX creeps have been modified by : number %" right after the difficulty is chosen. It's not a "generic" system where it picks the most picked difficulty, it uses zero sum and calculates the modifier. Read the parenthesis text in the dialog box to see what the modifier does when you pick that difficulty.
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So out of your 6 points, #5 is an actual issue, and #2 -MIGHT- be an issue, that hasn't been reported out of the majority of the games I've tested.
Thank you for the feedback however, and if you could please respond I'd appreciate it.
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Also: You say you don't like the game for a few of those points, well most of the points you said are gameplay-intentional. It's not a map for you and it's unfair to say you think it should be rejected because it has a gameplay mechanic that you dislike.
Edit #2: Also wanted to point out that I will be looking into the defensive-aspect of balancing, because that might be what you were originally looking at, but that's only half the picture, it's also how effective is the tower at being able to affect the war.
Edit #3: I looked over the orc towers and compared them to the others, and you were right -- there was a mistake with the attack speed of him, I've since fixed it =) Also I've changed the game modifications to exact matches instead of substrings, so next version will have that fixed as well!