[Altered Melee] Battle of the Horde

[tdrsmynm]

Battle of the Horde
Made by tdrsmynm

Hordes Featured:

Horde of the Sunken Ruins

Horde of the Swamps

Horde of the Conquered Lands

Horde of the Frozen Barrens

Each new horde has 4 new heroes

Purpose of this Forum

To ask for ideas that can help my map unique or better, for I barely have any creative bone in me to create new races, tech trees, or units. My knowledge about Warcraft is lacking. I have removed my map from downloads in order to remake it as the mods have suggested.

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Author's Notes

This is my first, somewhat "unique", map attempt. Criticisms and suggestions are encouraged. I am still unsure about what to put in this forum, so for now, it is as it is. For the moment, the models of the Units and Buildings are the only things that are fixed. Abilities, Upgrades, and Tech trees are still in progress. This map contains my made-up/non-canon Hordes. I removed the Fel Horde, for there are a lot of people who already made it. And they made it extremely well.

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[Ulfsire]

Visually these factions have great themes, you're definitely very creative. I like how they're kind of based on biomes too. Some theme ideas off the top of my head:

-"Spirit Horde" Crystalline / Portals / Totems / Spirits / Ethereal (could go with either shamanistic or crystals / aether theme)
-"Horde of the Volcano" / Lava / Golems / Dragons / Kobolds / Minerals
-"Horde of the Desert" / Tents / Yurts / Kodos / Nomadic / Harpies / Wind or Sky magic

You've probably already thought of these and there are many more, just based on the tilesets even. Cool project, I wish you luck!

 

[cleavinghammer]

You could give each faction a weather effect (rain or fog for Swamp, snow for FB, storm for CL, sun for SR...) that powers them up (faster move/regen/longer vision/etc.), and a way to influence the weather by magic (such as caster production buildings channeling a spell when not producing units).

 

[LostRutabaga]

Do you have a version of the map that is ready for testing?

 

[tdrsmynm]

Visually these factions have great themes, you're definitely very creative. I like how they're kind of based on biomes too. Some theme ideas off the top of my head:

-"Spirit Horde" Crystalline / Portals / Totems / Spirits / Ethereal (could go with either shamanistic or crystals / aether theme)
-"Horde of the Volcano" / Lava / Golems / Dragons / Kobolds / Minerals
-"Horde of the Desert" / Tents / Yurts / Kodos / Nomadic / Harpies / Wind or Sky magic

You've probably already thought of these and there are many more, just based on the tilesets even. Cool project, I wish you luck!

Thanks! Although, I'm still thinking about the techtrees of the current faction. I'm not trying to add more workload on the pile xD.

You could give each faction a weather effect (rain or fog for Swamp, snow for FB, storm for CL, sun for SR...) that powers them up (faster move/regen/longer vision/etc.), and a way to influence the weather by magic (such as caster production buildings channeling a spell when not producing units).

I actually had a similar idea with this, where effects like monsoon, tranquility would be used. I am not yet aware of any possible usage of map weathers, but I will see what I can do.

Do you have a version of the map that is ready for testing?

Unfortunately, not yet. Creating new tech trees, upgrades, and abilities are incredibly hard for me. Once I have a version ready for testing, it will be out.

 

[LostRutabaga]

Of course, thats very understandable. Just keep doing what you're doing and hopefully the finished product will be as good as you want it to be.