Fur and Scale: Rapturing Tale

[The Nightmare Book]

Close enough to my other base defense map. However, this silly little story of Kalec differs in many cases:

• Soothing atmosphere and music.
• Randomized nearly everything: from quests up to units you can hire.
• Understandable gameplay loop.
• Quick paced.

But, anyway, I would like to hear your dearest opinions, reviews, and suggestions. This is a little map that I will mostly support with bug fix versions, but who knows...
Maybe you will propose something cool?

 

[The Nightmare Book]

I just added a video walkthrough, which I made. Maybe you can find it useful

 

[deepstrasz]

A nice company/troop group defense map. Could be cooler in two players splitting heroes and some units among players.
Since it's short and rather easy, it could benefit from more replayability value (more randomized stuff, difficulties, what have you).

Approved.

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MELEE MAPS
Description Guide - Melee Maps
Describing Your Melee Map
Melee Map Description Generator v1.3

MAPS IN GENERAL
The importance of a Description
Description Guide - Maps
Map Thread Guide
Map Description Making: Good & Bad
Map Description - Templates
Map Description Generator [1.2]

How to Add a Screenshot to your Map Description

ADDITIONAL NECESSARY INFORMATION

• A credits list in the map thread description 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 too.
• A detailed changelog in the first post would be helpful to reviewers and notify fans about the newest implementations to your map.
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GENERAL MAPPING
A Beginner's Guide to Map Making
The Ultimate Beginners Terrain Tutorial
Advanced Terraining Tutorial
A Guideline to Terraining and the Hive's Terraining Section
Various Terraining Tips!
Basic Mapping Video Tutorial
WE Map Editor for Newbies!
The Path Of Proper Map Making - What to do and what should be avoided

MELEE MAPPING
How to create Melee Maps
General - Melee Maps like the Professionals
Competitive Melee Map
Melee mapping - The reasons behind common aspects of competitive 1v1 maps
Melee Do's and Dont's

PATHING
Pathing - Everything about it
[Terraining] Alternative Pathing Technique

LEAKS
Triggers - Memory Leaks and Custom Scripts

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[The Nightmare Book]

A nice company/troop group defense map. Could be cooler in two players splitting heroes and some units among players.
Since it's short and rather easy, it could benefit from more replayability value (more randomized stuff, difficulties, what have you).

Approved.

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R U L E S

Site Rules
Map Submission Rules

M A P - D E S C R I P T I O N

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BB CODES
BB Codes | HIVE

MELEE MAPS
Description Guide - Melee Maps
Describing Your Melee Map
Melee Map Description Generator v1.3

MAPS IN GENERAL
The importance of a Description
Description Guide - Maps
Map Thread Guide
Map Description Making: Good & Bad
Map Description - Templates
Map Description Generator [1.2]

How to Add a Screenshot to your Map Description

ADDITIONAL NECESSARY INFORMATION

• A credits list in the map thread description 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 too.
• A detailed changelog in the first post would be helpful to reviewers and notify fans about the newest implementations to your map.
• Map thread tags are important. Please use those that fit and not more or none.

M A P - C R E A T I O N - G U I D E S

Details

GENERAL MAPPING
A Beginner's Guide to Map Making
The Ultimate Beginners Terrain Tutorial
Advanced Terraining Tutorial
A Guideline to Terraining and the Hive's Terraining Section
Various Terraining Tips!
Basic Mapping Video Tutorial
WE Map Editor for Newbies!
The Path Of Proper Map Making - What to do and what should be avoided

MELEE MAPPING
How to create Melee Maps
General - Melee Maps like the Professionals
Competitive Melee Map
Melee mapping - The reasons behind common aspects of competitive 1v1 maps
Melee Do's and Dont's

PATHING
Pathing - Everything about it
[Terraining] Alternative Pathing Technique

LEAKS
Triggers - Memory Leaks and Custom Scripts

If you're not satisfied with the review and wish another opinion, contact the other reviewers or use the staff contact:
https://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/staff-contact.692/

Thank you for your review!
And yes - count current release as MVP since map will indeed will have features from my other base defense map "Battle of Darrowshire": selecting difficulty at least.
But in the future.

 

[deepstrasz]

An idea you could do if not bad, instead of randomizing enemies (which would be neater) you could randomize enemy (bosses?) abilities so you'd have surprises when you play again, not feeling prepared all the time.

 

[A]mun]

Quaint little adventure!

Bugs:
Tier 2 warrior upgrade did not unlock their lifeleech.

Suggestion:
- The constant attacks made it hard to venture onto any optional objective, maybe add some breathing time now and then.
Also felt a little too stressful (subjective point, others might enjoy the pressure) - alleviated somewhat by the custom music.
- The boss seemed very weak, thus needs a buff (war stomp and polymorph kept him under control, didn't even get to see his abilities).

 

[The Nightmare Book]

Quaint little adventure!

Bugs:
Tier 2 warrior upgrade did not unlock their lifeleech.

Suggestion:
- The constant attacks made it hard to venture onto any optional objective, maybe add some breathing time now and then.
Also felt a little too stressful (subjective point, others might enjoy the pressure) - alleviated somewhat by the custom music.
- The boss seemed very weak, thus needs a buff (war stomp and polymorph kept him under control, didn't even get to see his abilities).

Thank you for your review

• In terms of bugs, I will fix them in the upcoming first update.
• Suggestions:
  
  • I tried to make it more casual, as you see in the video - I had a few issues dividing my army and finishing all objectives outside base camp. It's also valuable to note that they are randomized along with their rewards and sometimes you can get "Vyranoth Assistance", which simply creates additional enemy barracks for the whole P1 of gameplay.
  • Maybe I will add a simple difficulty selection at gameplay start.
  • About boss - I'm looking to make him more randomized and less vulnerable to control effects, which will be addressed in the first update.

Thank you for your suggestions, I find them quite handful.

 

[The Nightmare Book]

v1.01a: from 05.05.2025:

• DIFFICULTY SELECTION: Now Kalecgos can choose 1 out of 3 difficulties before game start. It's valuable to note that only HARD difficulty applies the failure timer! Otherwise, difficulty affects the handicap (both health and damage) of Primalist enemies and the timespan when their officers & hero enemies will unlock.
• BOSS WAS REVAMPED: Still Elementhar, but now with more quirks. He took his lessons, and each game will learn different spells to deal with you. Oh, now he can reflect spells. Don't worry - with a long cooldown.
• Addressed the bug of Melee T2 spell - now it should properly unlock.
• Fixed small typos across the map description.
• Fixed small typos across map units, spell descriptions, hero spells, etc.
• Rebalanced Tuskar Merchant pricelist: now he takes only gold, not elementium, and costs are tweaked: 125/400 gold instead of 250 gold / 4 elementium
• Small balance changes across all enemies, affecting Primalist at most.

What a small patch, huh?

Well, looking forward to see your impressions over difficulty and boss changes.
As always, I'd like to hear impressions, suggestions, reviews and answer them