Codename: Askellon

[StormKnight]

Happy to see this up and running.

 

[Lt_Hawkeye]

Always looking forward to a modern take on whos the alien.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Looks like zerg infestation fused with parasite 3, more gameplay video's would be neat.

 

[Achille]

This map is not just aesthetically beautiful but also has intuitive gameplay that makes it feel like a masterful successor to games such as parasite and metastasis. It comes packed with quality of life features such as 'role preference' and even comes with a fail safe that repicks the alien in case the player leaves or dies too early in to the game.

The roles seem fairly varied, my own experience was that of a pilot which allowed me to disembark from the ship and gather resources. Other roles allow a player to specialize similarly all about the ship, granting everyone unique objectives. The reason why this feels so nice is because in the case of parasite or metastasis there is a little too much 'running around'. Throughout the course of my playthrough of Askellon I may have felt confused, but never idle.

In fact the overwhelming feeling of entering this ship was quickly replaced by a natural curiosity and fear. I had no idea what level of strength the alien could be and every gadget or gizmo about the ship awed me. If all games had this capacity to draw in new players I think Warcraft III would be a better place.

Unfortunately my first game ended in a desync about 30 minutes in to the game, but this is not going to stop me from going back to mine some space rocks.

Amazing.

 

[deepstrasz]

Is this open source as in people can edit and reupload their version? (talking about the Open Source tag).
Some of the tags were removed as they were not fitting.

The ship in the intro has the health bar visible.
If you're too near a wall and facing it, trying to throw a cryogrenade in the opposite place will make the grenade hit the wall you're facing.
This one remained in mid air
How do I know when I have no more bullets? The unit doesn't shoot anything anymore but the animation plays. Also, pressed on the gun item in the inventory to reload(?).
I also can't get out through stuff like ladders. Is it because of the Despair buff?

Played this in Classic, not Reforged (HD version).
Psionic Evolution has no DISBTN. The icon is green if the ability is not available. Some details about icons:

• Button Manager v1.8.2
• BLP Lab v0.5.0
• Complete Icon Tutorial - All About Icons
• How to Make an Icon

Cry Grenades don't have a proper looking DISBTN. The borders shouldn't appear on the grayed icon. The Button Manager can make a proper version.
The alien loses the CTRL+1 control group when morphing.
What's this?
Should be some information in the Quest Log.
The Human Captain's Role Information ability can be pressed and does nothing. It should be passive, no?

Other than that it seems to be working.

Approved.

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[Boar]

@deepstrasz thanks for taking your time to look at this map.

You should be able to right click to go through ladders, and Cryo grenades hitting walls when you throw their origin too close to them is something I'm doing to stop out of map exploits.

That big grey box is me abusing a "feature" of the current reforging that stops a player's name from showing when you mouse over the alien unit. If there was a cleaner solution for multiplayer I'd take it.

Thanks for letting me know about those missing icons for classic, I'll fix it for next version.

Edit: it's marked open source as the maps code is available on github, in an effort to show people how to make maps using Typescript. While is rather there would be no re-edits of the map while I'm actively working on it, that's just a matter of reality.

 

[deepstrasz]

Edit: it's marked open source as the maps code is available on github, in an effort to show people how to make maps using Typescript. While is rather there would be no re-edits of the map while I'm actively working on it, that's just a matter of reality.

Well, that's not really open source as per what the tag means so be careful just in case someone will reupload

 

[Lt_Hawkeye]

That big grey box is me abusing a "feature" of the current reforging that stops a player's name from showing when you mouse over the alien unit. If there was a cleaner solution for multiplayer I'd take it.

You could do the way metastasis does it unless your using the slot for something else, is to have the owner of the alien unit be "Player 16" and just share control.

 

[Boar]

You could do the way metastasis does it unless your using the slot for something else, is to have the owner of the alien unit be "Player 16" and just share control.

I've tried that, but from my understanding you'd need a spare slot per "alien" player. Right?

 

[Lt_Hawkeye]

I see, its different in metastasis where only the alien master gets its name hidden, so I guess it wouldn't work in your case, but I believe you can share control of individual units or you can try the critter techqiue. I don't really know how you do the whole "alien morphing" though so the critter techique may not work either.

 

[Boar]

I see, its different in metastasis where only the alien master gets its name hidden, so I guess it wouldn't work in your case, but I believe you can share control of individual units or you can try the critter techqiue. I don't really know how you do the whole "alien morphing" though so the critter techique may not work either.

Oh? What's the critter technique. I haven't heard of it before

 

[Lt_Hawkeye]

Using the summon critter ability, you can morph it, the morphed unit will keep all the unique features of the critter, no minimap display, player name not shown, ect.

 

[Boar]

Hey everyone, thanks for your feedback!
I've fixed several of the issues Deepstrasz mentioned as well as tried to push the game into being slightly faster.

Let me know what you think.
v0.052a
Major Changes

• Genetic Sequencer now shows what is inside it
• The Genetic Sequencer must now be manually repaired, it costs 1200 credits

Infesting the Genetic Sequence causes the next test to return the opposite result

- Healthcare now only has 3 upgrades

It will now focus on only improving genetic splicing

- Emotional Dampener has been remade, it now costs 900

Removes Insanity and prevents Despair and Resolve for 45 seconds; but permanently reduces Willpower by 1

• Unpowered Security Doors can now be manually opened
• The Askellon now has 30 damage reduction

The main ship of the game was dying a tad too easily, it now requires time investment to kill

• Reduced the cost of most starting upgrades by ~40-50%
• Increased the maximum amount of Alien Minions from 100 to 150
• Alien Tumor Larva spawn time from 55s to 30s
• Alien Tumor Canite spawn time from 80s to 55s
• Security Turret base damage reduced from 19-26 to 10-17

Aliens were not infesting the Askellon fast enough. This will fix that.

Minor Changes

• Fixed Infestation Evolution Tier 1 being invisible to Classic players
• Fixed missing tooltips
• Power Generators now say what floor they power, and their current status
• Debris can now be instantly destroyed with repair kits
• Fixed issues with Infestation evolution crashing lobbies (I hope)
• Fixed issues with missing icons in classic
• Fixed issues with bad shadows in classic
• Fixed Reactive Parasitization not working for Infestation evolution
• Reduced chances Debris will block exits

 

[Boar]

v0.10
Big Alien Patch:

• Alien no longer begins in Worm form
• Alien now starts as an infested Crewmember

Worm was too complex for players just starting out, the new basic form should be far easier to grasp

• Worm has been renamed to Deception Form
• Deception Form can be evolved to at level 1
• Infestation Form can only be evolved into from Deception Form
• The game now starts with a Hatchery spawned on the map

Hatcheries are constant alien minion spawners that have powerful defensive abilities and AI

- Added Tentacles these are spawned around the Hatchery while it is under attack

Tentacles are weak, but hit hard. Kill them before they kill you

- Infestation Form can now spawn Hatcheries

Human:
- Buffed Neokatana, while wielding the weapon all damage you take is reduced by 7

It's a melee weapon, it needs defensive powers.

• Added Flares, these reveal the area and any invisible units / bombs
• Resolve music now only plays while in combat

Annnd of course; several bug fixes

 

[Boar]

v1.2.0
Cleanup and first patch of the new(er) year!
This version contains far too many numerical changes to list, and several major desync and optimisation fixes.
If anyone runs into issues while hosting this version please let me know! I finally got a massively improved debug rig set up my end to help track down problems.

- Contains major lag and desync fixes
- Administration Terminal has new abilities

Security Alert reveals, pings and alerts all players to go to a location
Manual Lockdown locks target door for 30 seconds

- Cultist Rework

Cultists must now complete rituals to progress, with different options each tier.

- Map Size reduction from 120mb to 105mb

Edit:
v1.2.1
- Hotfixed a crash
v1.2.2

Balance Changes
- Flamethrower has been redesigned

Spread Increased from 50 to 300 base
Spread is now effected by Accuracy
Flamethrower now deals full damage the first time a unit is hit each second

- On Fire now reduces Accuracy by 15

Bugfixes
- Disabled Debug Mode

 

[Boar]

Hey all! It's been a while, just pushing a patch here that fixes the major crash, courtesy of @Ytrec for figuring it out!

 

[Boar]

Patch v1.3.1
Bug Fixes:

- Fixed Purity Seal breaking the game
- Burst Rifle bullets are now visible when firing at close objects
- Fixed an issue where items would not spawn due to undefined minimum charge values
- Fixed the incorrect name appearing when the host is rerolled
- Fixed a startup 0 indexing error in lua for loading units on the map
- Fixed a missing catch for undefined targets of a "smart" order
- Fixed errors when an alien unit was killed in... unnatural ways
- Fixed a bug around UnitIndexation at startup
- Fixed some null units being passed to Behaviour Events

 

[Ytrec]

A wonderful project, where significant efforts are visible. I hope it will not be forgotten and will gain popularity.