Aerie of Ruin - Public Beta

[FuriousBroccoli]

Hi everyone! I' m looking for balancing feedback on my new map, Aerie of Ruin. AoR is a different kind of AoS that offers faster play, great theme, deep strategy, and two totally different upgradable armies. The Free People army relies on numbers, while the Black Kingdom army relies on fewer, more powerful units.

On the hive you can find it here, and attached below:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/maps.php?id=8s27uz

This is a public beta release and I'm seeking feedback on game and hero balance and any game breaking strategies you might be able to find. Hopefully there aren't any bugs, but if you see any please let me know! Replays would be uber :emote_thumbup:

If you want to comment about things you like/dislike I might be able to address them in the Aerie of Ruin 1.0 release!

Thanks to everyone who gives it a shot!

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The tree of life is broken. Eldritch gates stand open in the sacred grove. Will the Free People stand against the Black Kingdom?

FEATURES

1-10 Players

Asymmetric AoS
- Play as the Black Kingdom or the Free People
- Each side plays differently
- Fast paced, high intensity gameplay

Full AI Integration
- Bots can be teammates and opponents
- Bots will fight, upgrade, and quest

12 Legendary Heroes
- Each with several original skills and trigger abilities
- Distinct roles such as tower hero, trainer, assassin, general, and more
- Incredibly powerful characters:
o Sir Tristan the Sparrowhawk
o Duchess of Drake
o Eldest One
o God Hand
o Strong-arms the Smith
o General Baer Brogan
o Wyrm the Terror
o The Black King
o Broodmother
o Death Hand
o Dryxx
o Manifest Pain

48 Artifacts of Power
- 4 unique artifacts for each hero
- Wildly powerful upgrades

Upgradable Creeps
- The humans and demons each have unique upgrade paths
- 42 different original creeps

Competitive Quests
- Race to accomplish quest goals, like ‘First Blood”, and “Survive”
- Gain Fate to spend on artifacts

Set in the Warcraft Universe
- Before Archimonde can lead the Burning Legion to Azeroth, the Black Kingdom must destroy the Caer and the tree of life.
- Read the short story, Thousandfold, for more information. Thousandfold

Cinematics
- Drama Cinematic shows the invasion of Hopetown by the Black Kingdom
- Tutorial Cinematic covers the basics of gameplay

More
- Many secrets to uncover
- Limitless strategies
- Rewards for teamwork


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[ShiroiSenji]

Does this contain models perhaps?

 

[Zack1996]

I only used Warrior Poet and General but this map is not bad. However, some suggestions.
Make the level 10 ability of the poet better, its weak compared to his training thingy. Also, make the artilery thing for the General credit him for the kills cos currently it doesn't, which is quite stupid.
Thats all for now

 

[XX_Noob]

Terrain does look pretty from the flying view, I'll give it a try someday.

~XX_Noob

 

[redscores]

Misses major trigger spells...

 

[benx_x]

Heres my feedback :

I ended up getting brood mother via random so I will start with her, in my opinion when she dies her lackeys should disappear, at higher levels you can have too many towers, I know its with her ultimate but maybe you could add an aura if they are built so close together it has negative effects on them, seeing as I had 18 towers up it could be quite easy to focus down any melee hero and kill them in a few seconds.


In general : The idea of rebuilding towers is really great, I do think the dark side monsters could be toned down a bit, I found that for the most part our spawns were always at the free peoples necks. Fate shards could drop on death. Could also use more custom items. Maybe even random events, none that would favour any team but be a nuiscence to both teams. Spawns you buy could work for the person who bought them, i.e kills and money go to the spawn buyer, however you cannot actually control the spawn but that could be a bit complicated.


Bugs :
The quest for being first to 12 doesn't complete.
Spawn feast doesn't give credit (possibley intended?)


Overall a nice solid map, but it could use a bit more heroes, but you can't expect so much from a beta version so good luck and hope you do well.

 

[FuriousBroccoli]

Cool, thanks for the great feedback and sweet ideas.

@Zack The General should def get credit for those kills, I'll look into. Great catch!

@ben I'm glad you had fun with the broodmother! I'd love to see a replay of how you used 18 towers...usually when they are that thick you can cover one lane but it leaves the other routes exposed. Are you suggesting that creeps should drop fate shards? Interesting...if you're talking about heroes, they actually do drop them on death, fyi.

@red not sure what you mean, there are a ton of custom trigger spells in this map!

 

[benx_x]

Ahh, I never saved any replays but what I had done was built them around in the middle tower point, didnt have to worry about the middle at all.

Well I was talking about heroes dropping, I was probably wrong then ha my bad.

Creeps dropping shards though could be a good idea.

 

[FreakyShirley]

gonna try it out!