Dark Invasion II v2.14

[Dasslokk]

Best use of multiboards i've ever seen.

Still, there is a huge lack of information for us noobs. I tried with with 4 ppl who had never played it before and none of us understood how to do basic things such as buying abilities for instance.

Took about 5 minutes before everyone had left :\

 

[vita1ce]

yeah its really hard to start... but once u get the hang of it everything is easier.

 

[imahero]

First off your maps are amazing they are well detailed but not over detailed Like some maps i know of, now im posting to see if your going to do a quick update of the game so it can be played with the new Bnet patch

 

[saphiree]

You ARE writing when you update the map here. Are you not? XD

 

[Pidda]

Quoting Arkan from the DI-forum;

Sadly, the new Blizzard patch has rendered alot of wc3 maps unplayable, including DI2. I've spent some time trying to make the map compatible with the new patch but with no luck so far. Thank you Blizzard :/

The issue has to do with if/elseif/else statements containing returns (DI2 has alot of them), going through them all is a pain, and I'm not even sure what action to take to actually fix it.
Since Blizzard only cares about DotA we will have to rely on the wc3 community to come up with a solution for this. These are sad times indeed...

So right now the progress has been halted pretty much. Hopefully Blizzard will release a patch or fix, otherwise.. Well =/

 

[saphiree]

Blizzard is just n00bs to only care about dota. I mean its a crappy game, why does people love it so much?! Its too gay! Fuckhead blizzard :O

 

[wereguy2]

Agreed, though that is rather off topic

 

[imahero]

Blizzard is just n00bs to only care about dota. I mean its a crappy game, why does people love it so much?! Its too gay! Fuckhead blizzard :O

ok first your the noob. dont start QQing about the makers of the game you wake up to play. dota is a good game for those who like to have worthy adversarys instead of stabbing npcs all day. i love playing rpgs but when i get mad i like stomping weems all over Bnet.

 

[Cokemonkey11]

ok first your the noob. dont start QQing about the makers of the game you wake up to play. dota is a good game for those who like to have worthy adversarys instead of stabbing npcs all day. i love playing rpgs but when i get mad i like stomping weems all over Bnet.

lol'd.

You're in the wrong forum buddy.

 

[wereguy2]

Again, agreed.

 

[Ryoukaii]

Well made, but... a bit difficult at the beginning.
Still, great work

 

[Thick_Armor]

Downloading to test now!

 

[LordForcystus]

I absolutely love this game, unfortunately patch 1.24 is pure evil.

And Blizzard IS full of noobs if they only care about 1 map.

 

[Thick_Armor]

Haha, Blizzard just hate their community.
They destroyed WoW now their moving onto WC3

 

[Arkan.]

I have successfully ported DI2 to patch 1.24. So the next version will be playable. I have no release date.

 

[Pidda]

We're still in progress!

Here's the latest post on the official forum to show you that it's still in progress:

Me and Arkan had a discussion today about the latest version of Dark Invasion II. And we came to the conclusion that we'll be able to release it "pretty" soon. While speaking of it, I suddenly got the urge for terraining and he felt like doing some scripting. (yay!)

So right now..
I'm going over all the terrain again, making small changes here and there. Arkan is fixing all the scripting and implementing my brilliant quests and ideas

Here's some screens of the two areas that will be released for all of you that haven't seen it.

Midgard

Nifelheim

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Nagdalis

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Nagdalis 2

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Check to forum for more updates and news:
http://darkinvasion.co.nr/

 

[wereguy2]

Yai!

 

[Sunchips]

Can't start the game :S when i choose the map and press start game it just return's me to the screen where you choose map

 

[Pidda]

1234

Can't start the game :S when i choose the map and press start game it just return's me to the screen where you choose map

To quote Arkan from a few posts up:

I have successfully ported DI2 to patch 1.24. So the next version will be playable. I have no release date.

 

[Sunchips]

lol if its done why dont he release it?

 

[wereguy2]

Polish.

 

[Sunchips]

btw those special trees he uses, they are in the old version aswell, where can I find them? I couldn´t find them on the site :S

Edit: lol is it a resized world tree?

 

[wereguy2]

The World Tree doesnt have a top. I am sure I have seen these trees before, so looks around here and wc3c...

 

[Pidda]

btw those special trees he uses, they are in the old version aswell, where can I find them? I couldn´t find them on the site :S

Edit: lol is it a resized world tree?

I'm using the world tree and "tree1.mdl" from ultimate terraining map to create the bigger trees.Think it's called "Elwyn Tree" but not sure.

 

[hollocaust]

i really love tis map..

 

[Silver Ray]

This map does not work with 124b patch. Earlier patches vork fine.

 

[saphiree]

Lol. Does it work with 1.24a patch? :O

 

[Thick_Armor]

I don't think it works with any of the 1.24 patches

 

[wereguy2]

The next version will.

 

[saphiree]

This game is just the most epic LAN game evah But it takes long time to learn, and my friends are epic newbs, and dont wanna use time on learning it. What should i do? Hit them?

 

[wereguy2]

Tape them to their chairs, and use blunt toothpicks to hold their eyes open.
Like in A Clockwork Orange

 

[saphiree]

Wooh! V2.13!!!!!!!!!!!!! Epicnesss

 

[Shanghai]

dude this is fucking inzane how did u do all this 10/5 its professional its like cloudwolf i hope u can help me when im gona make a wow map

 

[saphiree]

its professional its like cloudwolf

Lol, this is way better than CWs maps. And btw, CW isn't that good at triggers. He use his team for that I know you are two guys working on this as well. But its better

 

[Pidda]

Like saphiree said, 2.13 is released!


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v2.13
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Save/Load Compatibility: 2.11+
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New Features
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-Dark Invasion II now properly works with patch 1.24b
-Unlocked new areas
-Updated Terrain
-Updated the Item database
-Updated the NPC database
-Updated the Beastiary
-Added 5 new quests
-Added 2 new abilities
-Max Level is temporarily set to 75
-New custom interface (WiP)


Bug Fixes
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Balance Changes
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-Changed some abilities from being 'Unit Target' to 'Point Target'
-While executing a Chain-Attack, enemies will not be able to target you specifically
-Improved enemy Attack Speed accuracy (now uses Timer instead of TriggerSleepAction)

 

[arcita]

Map is great.

I always wanted to make a 3D rpg but never had an art team, so I thought WC3 would be a good choice.
Thanks for inspiration and verifying what I had in mind was possible.

Do you need a programmer for this project?
I took data structures in java, and have some knowledge of c.
I've been taking a look at jass and it doesn't look bad.
I'm pretty good at algorithms, optimization, etc...
PM me if you want.

 

[Shanghai]

ye ur right saphiree. This is better.

 

[wereguy2]

A lot better.
Personally, I don't see why CWs map is so popular, there is absolutely nothing special about it.
Oh wow, he knows how to put a transparent black mask over the screen to make everything seem dark, whoopee!

 

[saphiree]

Well, i actually better like CW's terrain than the terrain in this map. (This map still has epic terrain.) But the game play is just like 10 times better in this one. If you play Diablo III Warcraft you have fun the first couple of times. But if you play this one you have to play it like 100 times before you even start thinking about its getting boring!

 

[Pidda]

It's pretty difficult to terrain for a map that use both the normal camera (although locked on the unit) and 3D/Third person view.

Can't have big differences between valleys and mountains. The structures must be carefully placed to make sure you don't get stuck with the camera etc etc.

 

[saphiree]

Yeah. It's insane you even got it to work

 

[Gantoris]

Btw..... may i know whats the max magick spell level there is for white....... coz i can't seem to find any more white magick spells after the 3rd level magick

 

[zicron]

Nice incredible and unbelievable amazing ,oh man all those systems are so awesome XD, but the interface could be better , a hue that cover everything isn't a very nice idea. Also the camera of the character portrait , sometimes it just display the leg or the waist

 

[ksp4ce]

Just played this map and I loved all aspects of it, although I'm finding the camera a bit nauseous sometimes, nonetheless its really nicely detailed.

 

[light bolt30]

this map is great, but if you make the map protection alot stronger to stop people from hacking it then this map is awesome

 

[Pidda]

this map is great, but if you make the map protection alot stronger to stop people from hacking it then this map is awesome

It doesn't matter if you use really good protection, it will still get hacked. Arkan made some really freakin advanced anti-cheats for the first Dark Invasion. It took the hackers a while but they still managed to crack it.

Still, it's kinda fun to check the forum and read about all their problems when they were trying to crack the anti-cheat

From the forum where Dark Invasion 1 got hacked:

"This map is imba protected against cheats i'm working on the single player for 1 hour..."

"To whoever made this

I hate ure protection XD"

"to give you an idea of how crazy the anti crack code is in here...yesterday, i was testing the save functionality...also, there are some admin/debug commands already built in, however they are disabled triggers and then again to turn on debug the players name in the original map had to be one of the 3 developers (i just set the return value to true, now anyone can turn on debug and anyone can use the admin commands - which already do the cheats for you like -gold and -str -luk -agi -int etc) - however even these commands and any attempt to alter character state is triggered, somewhere, to detect cheating - currently if you, even in single player, type "greedisgood X", your gold and lumber gets reset to ZERO. even with the admin command enabled now using -gold X, it still gets reset to ZERO...changing any stat gets it reset to 1....he really put a ton of code in here to detect cheating and there's a whole maze of things to go through.
im going through every single trigger right now and there's well over 1,000 of them in the JASS main/setup functions."

"oh ya i meant to say, as a funny example - yesterday when trying to get through some of the admin commands to get them to work (and not reset stat to 0) instead what happened when i was able to crack through the line of calls and functions on one of the commands (-lum, so i was trying to get the -lum command to work to give you more lumber which is "AP" points in this map) - so i got out the blocking and resetting to zero code, but guess what happens instead now? doesnt reset to 0, but, 10 seconds after i type -lum and get my lumber up, the game starts spawning infinite numbers (endless loop) of footmen all around my character. within a few seconds, game freezes, in fact my whole PC freezes and have to hard-boot.
its like he has a fucking AI sitting there to detect cheating.
bastard."

Really like the last part here

 

[wereguy2]

Damns, I r want teh rezzerection spellz!

 

[Brom]

Well done! Thank you for creating such a magnificent orpg!

 

[saphiree]

Hey, did you just change it to 2.13b?

 

[Thick_Armor]

All i can say is it LOOKED really good. Didn't get to play it because my friends computer couldn't run it and I rarely play games without him .