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Map Info:
Dominions of War is a strategic free-for-all kind of map. Up to 12 players build up armies, research upgrades and enlist various mercenaries on their road to total conquest.
Only one can rule above the others, but the shifting alliances of war always leave a place for a subtle dagger in the back...
Features: Strategy is key, whether in army composition, leading tactics or the player-to-player mindgames. A number of features serve to support and reinforce this style of gameplay.
Defeat is not the end: Defeated players can keep playing under the banner of their conqueror, or bide time to rebel and seize control for themselves.
The dogs of war: Reworked and rebalanced racial trees and neutral units. Over 360 entities to carry you to victory, all with unique strengths, uses and counters.
Macro Skills: Move your whole army with the ease of a button press, bound to (Q) and (W) for your convenience.
Born to Lead: 12 different Heroes with their own unique playstyles. ...and a few secret ones, for the daring.
Many paths to victory: Advanced spellcasting squads? Legions of skeletons? Mighty champion mercenaries? Solo heroes?? Anything goes.
Screenshots and Videos:
Screenshot 1:
Just a screenshot.
Screenshot 2:
Also just a screenshot.
Gameplay 1 (Slightly Outdated):
Gameplay video courtesy of the Wc3 Vidya Group
Gameplay 2 (Very outdated, also Polish):
Gameplay footage.
Change Log:
Added:
Rebalanced majority of units with splash damage.
Upgrades are costlier and have a larger pool of levels.
All spellcasters received unique upgrades.
Mercenaries now have their own upgrade trees.
New '-mc' mode (Mercs Only), that removes racial battacks. (Mutually exclusive with "No Mercs" mode)
Blizzard seems to have fixed the "Hold Position" button in the meanwhile. That's neat.
Combed the map code for stray leaks and removed them.
Reduced the attack range of several ranged heroes and nerfed a few of them.
Added:
Music now correctly plays in the music channel.
Slight nerf to Pulverize and Bloodlust. And a harsher one to Slow Poison.
Dryads are no longer Magic Immune, but possess Resistant Skin and their armor type naturally reduces spell damage taken.
Halved the amount of gold gained from pawning off items.
Added a notifier about spell damage reduction to unit descriptions.
Mercenary upgrades are cheaper and stronger.
New game modifier: -fog, adds fog of war.
Recoded modifiers, so you can chain them with a single hyphen, like -arhensmecfogca.
Summoned units no longer give gold bounty and do not benefit from neutral upgrades.
Increased the elevation of several castles to remove fog mode disadvantage.
Fixed a Night Elf unit exploit.
System Shock should correctly display its trajectory when cast while turning.
Added:
Troll Witch Doctor: Serpent Ward replaced with Hex.
Faerie Dragon: Magic Immunity replaced with 66% spell resistance.
Dryad: Starting mana up to 100 from 75. Now casts Abolish on summoned units.
Mercenaries: You are now always guaranteed a choice of 8 different units.
Heroes: No longer revived during the game over sequence.
Triggers: Removed many sources of memory leaks and optimized a number of scripts.
Triggers: Optimized the damage system and game timers.
Upgrades: Upgrades that increase health now display the exact amount increased.
Sound: Picking multiple modes at once no longer mutes the sound cue.
Fixed some erroneous descriptions and typos. Racial units list their abilities.
Flying units no longer reveal the black space around your base.
Added:
Game: Vassals no longer send 20% income to their Lord, instead their income is reduced by 30%.
Game: Formatted and color coded a lot of unit text, highlighting abilities and special attack types.
Mercenary: Bandits now have Stealth, Castles and several other mercenaries can see stealthed units.
Mercenary: Champion Voidwalker now reduces armor on attack.
Mercenary: Several mercenaries now use Roar when they spawn.
Mercenary: Metal Golem family no longer Magic Immune, instead Highly Magic Resistant and benefits from Castle Upgrades.
Chimaera: Clarified abilities in tooltip.
Rifleman: +1 damage per gunpowder upgrade, +50 range per long rifles upgrade.
Game: Castles now become immune to damage and fully heal precisely on round end, rather than when night begins
Crusader: Units that survive lethal damage with Coat of Arms are now set to 1 health, rather than their previous health value
Items: Fixed items that erroneously said they gave 1 more stat point than they did
Dragons: Each dragon color now has a distinct special effect
Voidwalker: Corruption armor reduction value down from 8 to 5
Maiden of Pain: Now has Vampiric attack
Storm Wyrm: Now uses Forked Lightning
Sea Giant/Wendigo: Champions now use Slam
Crabs: Now have Tough Carapace, which grants reductible armor
Mutants: Dalaran Mutant and Dalaran Reject now have a highly dangerous attack attribute
Ranger: Piercing Shot distance has been increased and visuals improved
Defender: Battle Cry duration up from 3 to 4 seconds
Mercenaries: Tweaked food costs across the board
Mercenaries: Zerglings and Hydralisks now properly benefit from mercenary upgrades
Game: Game will no longer attempt to use localized strings for half the things in the map
Game: Fixed Magic damage tooltip saying it deals 100% damage to Unarmored enemies
Game: Removed the dumb number tag attached to your name
Game: Updated the loading screen
Game: Formatted more text and fixed some typoes, Champion units are now marked as such
Game: Rebalanced the attack and armor types
RNG Master: System Shock no longer goes off course when cast in close proximity to enemies
Mercenaries: Fixed numerous instances of mercs with a sell cost different from their buy cost
Mercenaries: Armor type of some units changed to Light
Out of nowhere, the scripts got corrupted and I had to rewrite half the changes a second time. As a weird side effect, there are now spooky ghost scripts that appear in the trigger editor every time I open the map. Thanks Reforged.
Game: Heroes now have a timer window that shows revive time
Game: Changed some default strings
Game: Added proper icon for upgradeable hero armor
Vault: Has a pointless but nifty fade in animation now
Mystic: Cooldown of cantrips is now 2 seconds
Champions: Are now denoted by a special icon border
Race Units: Buffed the attack damage of Dragonhawks, Grunts, Ghouls and Mountain Giants
Doom Guard: Now a champion unit
Hydralisk: Now properly affected by Slayer, nerfed attack damage
Bronze Dragons: Have their Lighting Attack visuals back
Black Dragons: Necrotic Breath follows Black Arrow rules - enemies have to actually die to Black Dragon attacks or shortly after to be raised
Tough Carapace: Now has no damage treshold, but is only removed by attacks
Bandit Lord: Now has Stealth, like the rest of bandits
Dire Wolves/Overlord: Now use Howl of Terror
Lightning Revenant: Properly has Slayer now
Magic: Several spellcasting/champion mercenaries now use offensive spells
Envenomed Spears: Level 3 Upgrade slow reduced from 10% to 7.5%
Default Spellcasters: Rebalanced spellcasters and their upgrades
Upgrades: Reformated upgrade tooltips for more clarity
Game: Red is no longer on a different team from everyone else
Credits:
Special Thanks:
WC3 Vidya Group, for obvious reasons
Marble specifically for actual programming advice
All the UFF people, you know who you are
Toby Fox for that Undertale sfx used for mode switching?
The Mount&Blade artist, source of the loading screen
Author's notes:
Feedback appreciated. I will probably continue to improve on the map for a while once I'm less swamped down the year. It's been fun sofar and I hope it'll remain as such.
Please avoid playing the music using the Play Sound action and use the Play Music.
Maybe use more terrain tile variation?
Seems really neat. The only problem is, you can't separate forces. All go where the leader tells them to. The Castle can only be defended by itself if the leader doesn't send/leave troops there or goes himself to defend the castle while the troops do something else. You can't separate troops to flank enemy forces.
I love it that the Mercenary Camp units change. Would have been nice for the items in the shops to change too.
I don't know if the map should be discovered all the time. You kind of know what the enemy is doing.
Is there a way to play in teams? I haven't tried this one in multiplayer yet.
A fun strategy map with game modes that plays out differently than the normal game.
Need to try it with somebody as there is no AI for it before I should approve it.
Screenshots could attract more players to download your work. Make the best of them.
A credits list is required where the names of the resource (models, skins, icons, spells, sound etc.) authors are mentioned along with the specific resource. It would be a luxury to have links leading to the used resources. Credits in the Quest Log would be appreciated.
A detailed changelog in the first post would be helpful to reviewers and notify fans about the newest implementations to your map.
1. Just checked, that's what it uses.
2. Ehhhh.
3. Intended.
4. Spells suck in general. Gotta do something about them.
5. That's actually pretty cool. Stealing this idea.
6. It's FFA. Teams would be very hard to implement in a way that makes sense.
Gonna check out one of those page templates. Default formatting seems broken.
There are two play music actions. One of them plays through the sound channel (it can be stopped by shutting sound off: CTRL+S and not by shutting the music off: CTRL+M).
Hey I just found your map, it is very cool and Awesome map, I really like all the custom units and the idea and how you make it all balanced (sort of). Very cool map, You are Awesome
I Have nothing else to say, everything seem balanced and i have countered much bugs and glitches, this is a very fun map, I like RTS maps and this one is a good one (although no micro needed xD)
How about adding a Dispell spell? both to merc and normal units, this spell very needed.
Is it intentional that red doesn't always pick the game mode? Started a game, and much to our suprise, it was purple who was assigned to pick the modes, who was afk.
Also, pls nerf magic damage and summons since they're OP af.
Game attempts to detect a host when it starts, hence on a bothosted game it will always pick the person with the lowest ping. Summons have been on a shitlist for a while, so I'll look into them (I assume you mean necromancers in particular). Dispells already exist, Dryads and several mercenary units can cast it, Spellbreakers can also redirect debuffs I guess.
Is it intentional that red doesn't always pick the game mode? Started a game, and much to our suprise, it was purple who was assigned to pick the modes, who was afk.
Also, pls nerf magic damage and summons since they're OP af.
Oh hey Wtii_fan, sup. About that game, we had a problem with picking modes at start, I was red and Yourself was the Host and purple was the one who picked modes (lol). I have seen this bug before too, i dont know why it happens tho.
and about that game where i had op summons, well i had 3 nerubians at start, and of course the Lich hero, that can summon lots of skeletons from a cropse. It was strong in early game, but i dont think my summons would be good at lategame. This game is very balanced, after all.
Game attempts to detect a host when it starts, hence on a bothosted game it will always pick the person with the lowest ping. Summons have been on a shitlist for a while, so I'll look into them (I assume you mean necromancers in particular). Dispells already exist, Dryads and several mercenary units can cast it, Spellbreakers can also redirect debuffs I guess.
Theres a particular Nerubian unit that has magic damage, heavy armor and has Raise Dead ability(?). You need to tone down the magic damage a little bit, and change the armor type to medium or light.
How exciting! a new version of my favorite map! Only balance and fixes it seems, not a lot of content it seems... but we all know that these balances were desperately needed. Glad to see you back on track, I shall begin hosting this map whenever possible.
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