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[Dota] Hero Attack v1.5 has been released
Version 1.5 has been published. It includes some balance changes and a few new features. Here is a list of some of the changes:
- Added text tags saying ‘Buy Items Here’ directly over the shops because some people couldn’t figure out where to buy items despite the fact that it tells you in the loading screen and the help section.
- You can now buy tomes at the beacon. Tomes are similar to WC3, they give your hero a permanent stat boost and do not take up inventory space. However, they are not very cost efficient, so you should max out items before purchasing tomes. The purpose of the tomes is to give players something to spend minerals on after they have maxed out on items.
- The beacon now has an attack, similar to the main building’s attack.
- The main buildings deal slightly less damage but have a faster attack speed. The purpose of this is to make the main building’s attack more effective against marines because the marine hero’s ultimate ‘calldown reinforcements’ was too powerful when used on the enemy team’s main building.
- The overlord hero has a slightly longer attack speed but deals more damage.
- The overlord hero’s spells have been changed. Ventral sacs is now the hero’s ultimate and generate creep is no longer the hero’s ultimate. Generate creep now deals damage to nearby enemy units and buildings at levels 2 and 3. Hopefully this should make the overlord hero stronger.
- Ultimate abilities that allow your hero to fly (like the phoenix hero’s ultimate, the banshee hero’s ultimate and ventral sacs) now cost 1.5 energy per second instead of 1 energy per second.
- The duration of forcefield has been reduced from 15 seconds to 10 seconds.
- Fixed a bug where zerg heroes could not buy items while burrowed.
- The command center no longer burns down.
- Readded the hold fire ability to the ghost hero and the dark templar hero because someone requested it.
- Made the randomization algorithm for the siege tank hero’s ultimate ‘artillery barrage’ significantly more efficient.
- Added a leaver system where if the teams are not even then the heroes on the team with less players will receive a bonus so that they are stronger (this bonus depends on how many players are on each team). This should give the team with less players a chance to win. However, this is completely untested (since testing it involves people leaving the game in multiplayer) so if it has any bugs please tell me.
- Added a trigger that prevents computer controlled units from becoming idle after they are stunned.
- Irradiate now reveals invisible units.
- Various other minor changes and tweaks that aren’t really worth mentioning.
Notes: I do not do beta tests, so hopefully there are no bugs in this version. I was going to add more levels to heroes but because several people have requested that I stick with the 10 level system I will stick with the 10 level system at least until after version 2.0 is done. This will probably be the last version before version 2.0 unless bugs are found (or bugs are created when blizzard releases patch 1.2 similar to how bugs were created when blizzard released patch 1.1). Version 2.0 should be released in either January or February (but don’t take my word on that). At the moment, the heroes seem fairly balanced, the game appears relatively bug free and there seems to be a lot of options and play styles available to players, so I would like to thank everyone who has helped me playtest Hero Attack.
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Version 1.4 has been published. It includes a few minor bug fixes and balance changed based on some of the feedback that I have received. Rather than give a video of version 1.4, I will simply give a list of some of the changes:
- Hero Hotkeys have been standardized to QWERT, so that they are easier to remember.
- In general, disable abilities (void prison, nightmare, graviton beam, etc.) are slightly weaker.
- Some AOE abilities (like plague, ensnare and maelstrom) no longer affect allied units.
- The zergling and baneling heroes now have a shared experience system.
- Fixed a bug where the baneling heroes would lose items when they both died at the same time while next to each other.
- Fixed a bug where zergling and baneling heroes would only get a 50% refund for selling items.
- Fixed a bug involving the dark templar hero’s void prison actor.
- Hold fire has been removed from the ghost hero and the dark templar hero’s command card since the ability was not used much.
- The beacon at each base now heals at a more continuous rate.
- Fixed a bug where the beacon would not heal a nearby hero’s energy if the hero already had maximum shields and life.
- Terran bunkers no longer burn down, this change was done for balance purposes.
- The thor hero now attacks quicker (though attack speed remains unchanged), so it should be easier to micro the thor hero.
- The stalker hero’s dps has been increased because the hero was a bit too weak.
- The zealot hero now has more energy because the hero was a bit too weak.
- The spine crawler hero and the spore crawler hero now have +2 range, so the drone hero should be stronger.
- The mothership’s movement speed has been increased slightly.
- The reaper hero’s d8 charge spell is a bit stronger and now has a cursor splat actor to show the AOE radius.
- The hardened shields item is now less effective when used on the dark archon hero.
- Neural parasite has been changed somewhat. There is no longer a limit to how many units you can have neural parasite at once. Instead, neural parasite has an energy cost and has shorter cooldown.
- Neural parasite units gain a small life regeneration bonus and are issued the order to follow the caster when the behaviour is applied (this is done because neural parasited units often die shortly after they are neural parasited).
- The mutalisk hero’s summon mutalisks spell has been changed somewhat. The spell spawns several mutalisks at once (rather than one at a time) but mutalisks now have a timed life. Also, spawned mutalisks are immediately added to the currently selected units, so a player no longer has to select mutalisks after they are spawned.
- Changed a large number of trigger variables and made some triggers more efficient in preparation for version 2.0.
- Various other minor changes and tweaks that I have forgotten about.
Notes: Version 1.4 is completely untested, so hopefully I haven’t created any bugs that did not exist in version 1.3. Originally I intended to add more levels to heroes (so heroes can go past level 10), however I haven’t gotten around to it and some people have told me that they prefer the 10 level system. Please tell me if you would prefer a 10 level hero system or a 20 level hero system. I’ll try to get version 1.5 done either in late December or early January and will try to fit in some features such as a leaver system and a way to spend minerals after your hero is maxed out on items.
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Hello everyone,
Hero Attack version 1.3 was released on December 11, 2010. It features 6 new heroes, bringing the total number of heroes to 36.
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Hero Attack version 1.2 was released on November 20, 2010. It has bug fixes, balance changes and twice as many items. Please try it out!
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Hero Attack version 1.1 has been released. It features 12 new heroes such as the reaver hero, the defiler hero and more! If you like AOS style maps, if you miss some SC1 units or if you would just like to play something different then I recommend that you try Hero Attack.
Here are some videos of Hero Attack version 1.1:
(There is a section of part 1 where the sound quality isn't very good. I have added subtitles for that section so that you can still follow along.)
What is Hero Attack?
Hero attack is an MOBA style map similar to dota. Players work in teams, control heroes and their goal is to destroy the enemy team's main building. Heroes can gain experience, buy items and learn special abilities.
However, this is not a dota clone. There are many differences between hero attack and dota. Most noticeably each team must pick a race (Terran, Protoss or Zerg) before the game starts, and each race has a unique set of items, heroes and units. All heroes and items are based on sc2 units and abilities so it should be fairly strait forward how to use each hero. The map layout is different from the dota one (the map has 4 lanes instead of 3) and every 5 minutes new unit producing buildings will be created for each team. The computer player on each team harvests minerals and vespene gas from its base and gives it to the allied players on its team. There are also neutral hostile critters that you can kill for additional minerals and experience.
Currently this map has:
- 3 playable races.
- 36 playable heroes.
- 45 items.
- Over 100 different abilities.
Here are some videos of Hero Attack version 1.0:
Version 1.5 has been published. It includes some balance changes and a few new features. Here is a list of some of the changes:
- Added text tags saying ‘Buy Items Here’ directly over the shops because some people couldn’t figure out where to buy items despite the fact that it tells you in the loading screen and the help section.
- You can now buy tomes at the beacon. Tomes are similar to WC3, they give your hero a permanent stat boost and do not take up inventory space. However, they are not very cost efficient, so you should max out items before purchasing tomes. The purpose of the tomes is to give players something to spend minerals on after they have maxed out on items.
- The beacon now has an attack, similar to the main building’s attack.
- The main buildings deal slightly less damage but have a faster attack speed. The purpose of this is to make the main building’s attack more effective against marines because the marine hero’s ultimate ‘calldown reinforcements’ was too powerful when used on the enemy team’s main building.
- The overlord hero has a slightly longer attack speed but deals more damage.
- The overlord hero’s spells have been changed. Ventral sacs is now the hero’s ultimate and generate creep is no longer the hero’s ultimate. Generate creep now deals damage to nearby enemy units and buildings at levels 2 and 3. Hopefully this should make the overlord hero stronger.
- Ultimate abilities that allow your hero to fly (like the phoenix hero’s ultimate, the banshee hero’s ultimate and ventral sacs) now cost 1.5 energy per second instead of 1 energy per second.
- The duration of forcefield has been reduced from 15 seconds to 10 seconds.
- Fixed a bug where zerg heroes could not buy items while burrowed.
- The command center no longer burns down.
- Readded the hold fire ability to the ghost hero and the dark templar hero because someone requested it.
- Made the randomization algorithm for the siege tank hero’s ultimate ‘artillery barrage’ significantly more efficient.
- Added a leaver system where if the teams are not even then the heroes on the team with less players will receive a bonus so that they are stronger (this bonus depends on how many players are on each team). This should give the team with less players a chance to win. However, this is completely untested (since testing it involves people leaving the game in multiplayer) so if it has any bugs please tell me.
- Added a trigger that prevents computer controlled units from becoming idle after they are stunned.
- Irradiate now reveals invisible units.
- Various other minor changes and tweaks that aren’t really worth mentioning.
Notes: I do not do beta tests, so hopefully there are no bugs in this version. I was going to add more levels to heroes but because several people have requested that I stick with the 10 level system I will stick with the 10 level system at least until after version 2.0 is done. This will probably be the last version before version 2.0 unless bugs are found (or bugs are created when blizzard releases patch 1.2 similar to how bugs were created when blizzard released patch 1.1). Version 2.0 should be released in either January or February (but don’t take my word on that). At the moment, the heroes seem fairly balanced, the game appears relatively bug free and there seems to be a lot of options and play styles available to players, so I would like to thank everyone who has helped me playtest Hero Attack.
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Version 1.4 has been published. It includes a few minor bug fixes and balance changed based on some of the feedback that I have received. Rather than give a video of version 1.4, I will simply give a list of some of the changes:
- Hero Hotkeys have been standardized to QWERT, so that they are easier to remember.
- In general, disable abilities (void prison, nightmare, graviton beam, etc.) are slightly weaker.
- Some AOE abilities (like plague, ensnare and maelstrom) no longer affect allied units.
- The zergling and baneling heroes now have a shared experience system.
- Fixed a bug where the baneling heroes would lose items when they both died at the same time while next to each other.
- Fixed a bug where zergling and baneling heroes would only get a 50% refund for selling items.
- Fixed a bug involving the dark templar hero’s void prison actor.
- Hold fire has been removed from the ghost hero and the dark templar hero’s command card since the ability was not used much.
- The beacon at each base now heals at a more continuous rate.
- Fixed a bug where the beacon would not heal a nearby hero’s energy if the hero already had maximum shields and life.
- Terran bunkers no longer burn down, this change was done for balance purposes.
- The thor hero now attacks quicker (though attack speed remains unchanged), so it should be easier to micro the thor hero.
- The stalker hero’s dps has been increased because the hero was a bit too weak.
- The zealot hero now has more energy because the hero was a bit too weak.
- The spine crawler hero and the spore crawler hero now have +2 range, so the drone hero should be stronger.
- The mothership’s movement speed has been increased slightly.
- The reaper hero’s d8 charge spell is a bit stronger and now has a cursor splat actor to show the AOE radius.
- The hardened shields item is now less effective when used on the dark archon hero.
- Neural parasite has been changed somewhat. There is no longer a limit to how many units you can have neural parasite at once. Instead, neural parasite has an energy cost and has shorter cooldown.
- Neural parasite units gain a small life regeneration bonus and are issued the order to follow the caster when the behaviour is applied (this is done because neural parasited units often die shortly after they are neural parasited).
- The mutalisk hero’s summon mutalisks spell has been changed somewhat. The spell spawns several mutalisks at once (rather than one at a time) but mutalisks now have a timed life. Also, spawned mutalisks are immediately added to the currently selected units, so a player no longer has to select mutalisks after they are spawned.
- Changed a large number of trigger variables and made some triggers more efficient in preparation for version 2.0.
- Various other minor changes and tweaks that I have forgotten about.
Notes: Version 1.4 is completely untested, so hopefully I haven’t created any bugs that did not exist in version 1.3. Originally I intended to add more levels to heroes (so heroes can go past level 10), however I haven’t gotten around to it and some people have told me that they prefer the 10 level system. Please tell me if you would prefer a 10 level hero system or a 20 level hero system. I’ll try to get version 1.5 done either in late December or early January and will try to fit in some features such as a leaver system and a way to spend minerals after your hero is maxed out on items.
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Hello everyone,
Hero Attack version 1.3 was released on December 11, 2010. It features 6 new heroes, bringing the total number of heroes to 36.
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Hero Attack version 1.2 was released on November 20, 2010. It has bug fixes, balance changes and twice as many items. Please try it out!
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Hero Attack version 1.1 has been released. It features 12 new heroes such as the reaver hero, the defiler hero and more! If you like AOS style maps, if you miss some SC1 units or if you would just like to play something different then I recommend that you try Hero Attack.
Here are some videos of Hero Attack version 1.1:
What is Hero Attack?
Hero attack is an MOBA style map similar to dota. Players work in teams, control heroes and their goal is to destroy the enemy team's main building. Heroes can gain experience, buy items and learn special abilities.
However, this is not a dota clone. There are many differences between hero attack and dota. Most noticeably each team must pick a race (Terran, Protoss or Zerg) before the game starts, and each race has a unique set of items, heroes and units. All heroes and items are based on sc2 units and abilities so it should be fairly strait forward how to use each hero. The map layout is different from the dota one (the map has 4 lanes instead of 3) and every 5 minutes new unit producing buildings will be created for each team. The computer player on each team harvests minerals and vespene gas from its base and gives it to the allied players on its team. There are also neutral hostile critters that you can kill for additional minerals and experience.
Currently this map has:
- 3 playable races.
- 36 playable heroes.
- 45 items.
- Over 100 different abilities.
Here are some videos of Hero Attack version 1.0:
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