Descend v1.4.0

[Banaconaconut]

Been playing this for along time, so yeah... really love the game. I also love the fact that this is constantly being updated and stays non-reforge.

Also, I encounter a bug.
Hero: Vegabond
Issue: I can't use my "no mana cost" skills, also can't pick up power-ups because it says "not enough mana"...... which is weird.
Likely cause:
1. I picked up the Ghost Tome where I gain 10 strength while losing 10 int (which in this case, all of my mana).
2. I have the Path which has a debuff of INCREASING the mana cost by 20. My abilities still doesn't cost mana but it takes mana. Yet I can still use them despite having 0/100 mana.
3. I have no mana.... not even an initial mana that doesn't include the mana given by my own int. So losing all my int basically erases the mana bar.

 

[Vladd]

Been playing this for along time, so yeah... really love the game. I also love the fact that this is constantly being updated and stays non-reforge.

Also, I encounter a bug.
Hero: Vegabond
Issue: I can't use my "no mana cost" skills, also can't pick up power-ups because it says "not enough mana"...... which is weird.
Likely cause:
1. I picked up the Ghost Tome where I gain 10 strength while losing 10 int (which in this case, all of my mana).
2. I have the Path which has a debuff of INCREASING the mana cost by 20. My abilities still doesn't cost mana but it takes mana. Yet I can still use them despite having 0/100 mana.
3. I have no mana.... not even an initial mana that doesn't include the mana given by my own int. So losing all my int basically erases the mana bar.

Hey there, thanks for the awesome feedback and it's so nice to hear you're enjoying the map!

This issue looks like an oversight on my part in the path consuming extra mana on abilities that have no inherit manacost, I'll fix this up. Tomes that reduce stats also should have a minimum margin of 1 so I'll check that this is working as intended also.

 

[BaiyuGalan]

Great map! Looking forward to your follow-up update.

 

[Slothic]

Hi.

First of all, I want to express my sincere gratitude for such a great map.

The lag is however unbearable after reaching the "ice" biomes. I have a really good computer, I've never had issues like this before unless there were over 1000 units in other custom games. We beat the final boss, not due to skill, but due to pooling enough lives together on Alistair for him to outdps standing still when wc3 was frozen on his side.

For clarification.
I havem the following specs:
Ryzen 7 5800X3D
RTX 4080
128 GB of DDR4 3200 MHz RAM
Kingston FURY Renegade M.2 2280 SSD 4TB

What I'm trying to say with posting my specs is, I should be more than meeting the recommended requirements for this custom map. However it still has fps freezes. The ice rune boss is especially terrible with the multiple blue circle spell.


I would love to be able to continue to play this, it's such a good map, but having the lag be the final boss, isn't as fun as you would think.

 

[Fawkes]

Hi.

First of all, I want to express my sincere gratitude for such a great map.

The lag is however unbearable after reaching the "ice" biomes. I have a really good computer, I've never had issues like this before unless there were over 1000 units in other custom games. We beat the final boss, not due to skill, but due to pooling enough lives together on Alistair for him to outdps standing still when wc3 was frozen on his side.

For clarification.
I havem the following specs:
Ryzen 7 5800X3D
RTX 4080
128 GB of DDR4 3200 MHz RAM
Kingston FURY Renegade M.2 2280 SSD 4TB

What I'm trying to say with posting my specs is, I should be more than meeting the recommended requirements for this custom map. However it still has fps freezes. The ice rune boss is especially terrible with the multiple blue circle spell.


I would love to be able to continue to play this, it's such a good map, but having the lag be the final boss, isn't as fun as you would think.

Hi Slothic,

Many thanks for your appreciation of the map, and apologies regarding the lag. Despite several major patches to combat this issue, it seems to be an ongoing problem with Warcraft Reforged.

Vladd developed the map on the Classic game version v1.29.2 and that's where we have playtested it right from the first version. It appears to run significantly better on Classic than it does on Reforged, even if using classic graphics mode. I'm not sure how Blizzard managed to make a remaster that runs notably worse than a 2003 game capped at 2GB RAM usage, but here we are. It's quite impressive really.

If you would like to visit the Discord for this map, we have put together some tutorials for improving performance on Reforged (where able), or for optimal experience, there are also tutorials on how to setup and run Classic Warcraft, including some multiplayer options.

Vladd is currently focusing development on navigating issues presented by Reforged, and will hopefully be able to make some progress, but ultimately it's up to Blizzard to optimize their game and stop negatively impacting custom maps with broken patches.

All the best, and please reach out via the Discord if you have any additional feedback or suggestions