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Swamp of Sorrows - Wazzzified

Well, I completed my Techtree Contest submition and recently noticed that there is at least one person who is interested in Custom Races maps. Well, MogulKahn, fear no more! Here is my custom Demon Race!

Now I know a lot of you will be thinking 'but Wazzz, the Demon race is a very cliche race to choose and you are an idiot and very cliche', BUT this is not your EVERY DAY DEMON RACE. Rather than your regular Demons, these Demons are themed as ALIENS. Maybe from SPEHSS.

So yeah basically noticed people may be looking for maps like this to play, also figured it might be interesting for some people to get new ideas. You can also play as the unchanged Draenei race because I used Mephestrial's system which already had them included and as I like the race I figured 'why not'.

Key Features (Of The Race):
- Buildings (and some units) have Shields, similar to that of the Protoss in Starcraft (and other popular titles such as Starcraft 2)

- Power Generators (the food producing building) provide power, which essentially regenerators for your buildings and your some units that have shields

- You only get units from the Demon Gate, which requires a nearby Power Generator to produce units (essentially the use of Mana replaces Build Times)

- The Genetic Laboratory can be used to transform Slaves (your basic worker units) into Horrors, which are relatively cheap and somewhat durable suicide units (they don't deal that much damage, of course, otherwise that would just be imba)

The rest I will let you find out for yourself.

Now, I don't have any screenshots on hand at the moment, so I will take some later and upload them. In the meantime, feel free to take screenshots of your own and get me to put them up for you.

Credits:
LiOneSS
Frankster
Em!
Mechanical Man
Ampharos_222
Elenai
General Frank
azlier (mmmmmmmmmm)
Epsilon
-Berz-
Dionesiist (i think)
Mephestrial
Pharaoh_ (he made the damned contest)
HappyTauren
MADAWC (great modeller)
Blizzard Entertainment (also great modeller)

If I missed anyone, do let me know and I will update as necessary.

Update:
- Fixed issue with Genetic Manipulation icon
- Fixed issue with Hyper Regeneration not doing its thing properly
- Fixed lumber drop-off doooo

Double Update:
- Fixed Mobile Generator (now it actually works yay!)
- Fixed issues with Genetic MANipulation
- Added more Hero names
- Only one line telling you how poor you are will now appear

Three Times Update:
- Fixed some issues with dummy casters and the Hero

Keywords:
Demon, Altered Melee, Bob Marley, Pharaoh_, Techtree, Contest, Misunderstood Sentient Beings From Another Terrestrial Plane, Pirates
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Swamp of Sorrows - Wazzzified (Map)

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Vengeancekael: Private Message Date: 2012/Feb/25 15:04:15 Reasons: Other: Check out the tutorials section: Tutorials Check out the Map Development Section: Map Development Section Check out the World Editor Help Zone (Trigger issues, object...
Well I just tested it half an hour ago so here are some things
-Shouldn't the felguard with the massive ass cannon have siege damage?
-Phasing Field from the machine guy has no requirement
-Before you do the 'You cannot afford this' message, you should <Clear all game messages> or something, otherwise your screen can get overloaded.
-What the fuck is that Mobile Generator?

I haven't tested the Incubus dude.

EDIT: Found a typo in the hero name.
*Queen ike_ike
 
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The felguard with the cannon does not have siege damage because there are enough siege units as is, and I wanted to see how an artillery unit with a different attack typing would effect the gameplay

Phasing Field with no requirement sounds like a problem, I shall fix that right away

Same for the game message thing, I like that suggestion

Mobile Generator is for transferring energy from enemy units to your units, which is very important for the race

I can't believe I made that typo! D:
 
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Changes made, updated map here and on techtree contest thread

You *could* use some item ability so that the stat bonus from the Overlord's 1st spell is shown in a green '+?'.

The name doesn't really suit, should be like 'Mobile Absorber' or 'Power Absorber'...
LOOK I DUNNO HOW ABOUT YOU QUIT CRITICIZING ME AND COME UP WITH SOME IDEAS OF YOUR OWN

k
 
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i don't really care much for the insinuation that the ideas i implemented were taken from starcraft
i can understand that the themes can probably be likened to starcraft (energy shields are the key one), but i got the idea more so from the power generators in outland. that's pretty much how the whole theme of them being aliens using power to make themselves strong came about.

@Crayons: possibly, although i did want it so that you had to put them right next to your buildings so that you'd plan ahead a bit with building placement
 
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