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Introduction DrUnKeN_RiDeR and I, have been working on an AoS-like map for about two years from now. It has not been the most serious map creating, it started with just a map for us friends among to play with eachother. Well... It actually started out to be a little more serious project and this is what we've done so far. The creating speed isn't the fastest, because we are only two peoples at this project, but we're doing it as fast as we can and got time.
About the Map The map is, as said, an AoS map. That means every player will control one hero and make this hero more powerful while the game is running. You will kill enemies to increase your heros level. Gain new abilities and make your current abilities stronger and better. You'll buy items for your hero to increase the power of the hero. All players are divided into two teams, The Corrupted and The Outcasts, each team will contain five players.
In order for a team to win, the team will have to destroy the enemie teams main building, but it will take some battle to get to it. The main building is protected by strong guard towers and enemie units are almost always defending it.
This is much of the basic things I think everyone knows.
"Well, I think it sounds more like a DotA copy, am I right?"
That depends on what you think, read more about the features below.
The Story behind Heroes of War
Heroes of War - Story
It has now been 179 years since Arthas was defeated by the great nations combined, but the world was not yet in peace, the war still raged on causing endless misery and chaos.
With the Lich King defeated, the nations once again began to fight each other. Years past and the wars only got worse, as a result the nations summoned massive gods of destruction, trying to get an edge in the war; but only more chaos was born with those summoned gods.
There were a total of eight gods summoned, fighting each other, tearing the world into bits and pieces. However, after a while the gods got tired of the endlessly raging war and the destruction it caused; so they turned against their own masters and broke free from their command.
With the world almost destroyed, the gods defeated their former masters and the remaining nations were ought to restore the badly damaged world.
Only two nations (The Corrupted, The Outcasts) survived the rage of the gods and yet again started to reestablished new cities and armies. Even with the world torn apart, the nations could not forget their past wars and the dispute continued deep inside an old. Now fighting for their very survival or until they fall into the Gods rage.
The Corrupted is an army of terrifying creatures living deep inside forgotten forests and swamps. They grew stronger and stronger while the world was trying to defeat the Lich King. When the world turned into absolute chaos after Arthas death they saw their opportunity to seize power and ran over all enemies they came across with their army of corruption. They are also the ones responsible for the summoning of the God of Immortality, that later pushed them back, forcing them to flee to the very deepths they came from.
The Outcasts is an army of Bloodelfs and demons, they are very self-centered, driven by the will of getting stronger by enhanced magical powers and massive constructions. They didn’t really care about the war but they knew they were going to be affected by it sometime and made a decision to enter the war, testing their magical powers and combat skills on enemies. They are the ones responsible for summoning the God of Vortex that like the other Gods also pushed their masters back to where they came from destroying them utterly with overwhelming power.
New heroes will rise, new kins will be discovered, deadly creatures to be faced and old kings will be on the top of determination in the epic battle to survive in the new god controlled world.
Features
Now about the features of this map. I'll make a list of all the features:
* Current Features
The map will, probably, at its release, contain atleast 54 unique heroes. Each hero will have atleast one triggered spell, ofcourse there are heroes with more triggered spells. All heroes will hopefully be as much balanced as possible.
Each hero will have four (4) abilities and one (1) Attribute Bonus ability.
Three (3) of those abilities are basic abilities with a maximum upgradeable level of five (5).
One (1) of those abilities is the Ultimate ability with a maximum upgradeable level of three (3).
At the beginning of the game, the host will currently be able to select one of five game modes: Allpick (-AP), Allrandom (-AR), Randompick (-RP), Random Tavern (-RT), The Chosen Heroes (-CH)
When the host selects this Game Mode, all players will be able to choose any hero they want to play with.
Repick Enabled: True
When the host selects this Game Mode, all players will get one random hero each, they will not be able to select any hero themselves.
Repick Enabled: True
When the host selects this Game Mode, all players will get a list of three heroes. The three heroes at the list are randomized. In order to select a hero the player will have to type either -Pick 1, -Pick 2, -Pick 3 in the game-chat.
Repick Enabled: False
When the host selects this Game Mode, all taverns except one tavern will be deleted from the map. This order players to just select heroes from one random tavern instead of all five. Otherwise this Game Mode is like the Allpick Game Mode.
Repick Enabled: False
When the host selects this Game Mode, all players will pick a hero in turn. Player one (1) begin picking a hero, then it's player sixs (6) turn to select a hero and then player two (2), and it will continue until everyone got a hero.
The special thing about this Game Mode is that each player will have four heroes randomized for themselves at the beginning of the game. Noone will know which hero that will be able for a player.
Repick Enabled: False
This is how it looks when the host shall select a Game Mode for the game:
The map will contain two duel areas, every x second, one random player from each team will be picked and will have to kill its opponent. Both dueling heroes will start with full HP & MP and with no cooldowns.
The winner of the duel will be teleported back to its previous location and the defeated player will have to wait for a respawn.
The winner will also earn 200 extra gold, while the winners team will earn 100 gold.
(The battlefield will be paused until the duel or the duel-timer ends)
Every x second, units will be created both for The Corrupted and The Outcasts at all lanes (varies with the game mode). The units will not be the same all the time, it varies between two wave groups.
As an extra feature: Every x second a stronger unit will be created to aid the team in battle. Crazy Furbolg for The Corrupted
and Rejected Angel for The Outcasts
Every team will have towers, defending the main base from enemie attacks. Players are able to aid those towers with three special abilities in a special building called: Forbidden Secrets. Those three abilities are:
Max out your allies towers attack speed over 5 seconds.
Cooldown: 300 seconds.
Max out your allies towers armor over 5 seconds.
Cooldown: 300 seconds.
Heal all your allies towers by 300HP over 5 seconds.
Cooldown: 300 seconds.
Outside the battlefield you can find two mini-bosses with a special loot, that you only can get from those mini-bosses.
The first mini-boss is:
A Water Elemental with a lot of HP and very strong frost attack. Sometimes it may succeed to stun you. It's recommended to kill this mini-boss togheter.
A very powerful creature. Its HP is a lot more than a hero ever could achieve and its attacks are very powerful. Its abilities is unknown... You should kill this mini-boss togheter, everyone...
I've created a simple multiboard, that will show every player:
* Current Game-Time (Top-Left)
* Time until the next duel (Top-Right)
* Players are sorted into two categories (team based)
* Respawn timer (if the players hero is dead)
* Hero icon
* Players name & the player heros name
* Player heros current level
* Kills/Deaths
* Total Kills/Deaths of the team (Patch 1.3.0a)
You are able to upgrade your teams units. You can increase their attack damage or armor for the cost of 500 gold.
This upgrade can be bought at the Forbidden Secrets building.
(Every 8th minute the units attack damage will be increased for free)
The terrain is made by me, it may not be the best, but I like it and I think it's well made. Improvements may come.
You can see pictures below.
* Coming Features
A quest system will be created, allow players to do some on-topic quests to earn some rewards while playing.
Info to be added.
This is a kinda unique idea for a map like this I think. We thought, why do maps like this always have to be about killing eachother?
That's why we're going to add this game mode:
SURVIVAL GAME MODE (Damn the Gods (DtG))
The survival game mode is a survival contest between the teams. It's about that every team will have to defend its own main building from waves of attacks. It will be five waves every round before a boss will appear with powerful abilities, doing everything to destroy the main buildings.
This is what we've planned at the moment. We've allready written about all the bosses, stats, abilites and such. The only thing that's left is creating them.
Info to be added.
* More heroes
* More items
* (mini camps)
* (more advanced Hero-Selection system)
* (more game modes (except the Survival Game Mode))
Info to be added.
Screenshots
Note: Screenshots may be outdated.
Nothing yet.
Progress [Latest Version: 3.3.0a]
Rapid|Working|Pause|Inactive
Current status:Working Download: HERE (Protected) (Current map size: 5.54MB)
BETA Changelog & Updates
The more we update this map, the more we'll unlock, so we need you testers to get feedback and such!
Release.
HoW Patch 1.0.0b (Thanks to Zack1996)
Heroes
Clay Summoner
> Fixed a hotkey issue with "Stone Throw", it's now corrected to "Q".
> Clay Balls now hopefully always hits an enemie unit.
> Clay Balls will now be removed when Clay Summoner dies.
Corrupted Ent
> Corrected some tooltips.
> Fixed a hotkey issue with "Corrupted Roots", it's now corrected to "R".
> Roots mana cost changed from 50 to 10/20/30/40/50.
Death Dragon
> Corrected some tooltips.
> Ghost of Death duration changed from 1/1/1/1.5/2 seconds to 1.25 seconds.
> The Ghost of Death ability can no longer target building.
> Fixed a damage issue with Ghost of Death.
> Fixed an issue with Ghost Evasion that the transparency didn't was shown correctly.
Bugs & Gameplay
> Fixed an issue with a text that would appear when a hero dies. ("Error Message missing")
> Changed position of the recipie shops.
> Reworked the terrain near the fountain at the Outcasts.
> Reworked the terrain near the fountain at the Corrupted.
> Added a new tile to each lane as a road.
> Added a Weather Effect system, that can cause different weathers to appear while playing.
HoW Patch 1.1.0a
Heroes
Crazy Sienceman
> Mad Sience will now polymorph heroes too.
New Heroes
> Re-maked Cancer Kid to Dying Bug.
> New hero: Elemental Master
> New hero: Druid
> New hero: Fire God
> New hero: Dragon
Bugs & Gameplay
> The amount of gold you'll loose as a penalty when you dies is changed from 15% to 30%.
> Gold will no longer be added every second (2 gold every second) to non-playing players and computers.
> Added a global fog (white, light) to the map.
HoW Patch 1.2.0a
Heroes Death Archer
> Fixed a bug with Arrow of Blood, that arrows sometime didn't disappear.
> Increased the range of Arrow of Blood from 700 to 800.
> Changed the arrow model of Arrow of Blood.
> Increased the size of the arrow model of Arrow of Blood by 25%.
Ancient Living
> The immobile units from Circle of Nature will no longer have a weird attack sound effect.
Shadow Assassin
> Walk of Shadow cooldown changed from 25 to 30 seconds.
Dark Spirit
> Corrected some tooltips.
> Renamed the ability "Dark Childrens" to "Dark Disciples".
> Renamed the summoned units from the Dark Childrens ability from "Dark Spirit" to "Dark Disciple".
> Decreased the damage of the Dark Disciples by 6, but they will now have chaos damage instead.
Dragon
> Corrected some tooltips.
> Removed the attack sound on Dragons attacks.
> Dragon Heat will now correctly show an effect when enemies are taking damage from the ability.
> Dragon Heat will not damage buildings any more.
> Molten Tornado will now shoot out even more fireballs.
> Fixed some attack issues with Molten Tornado.
> Hopefully fixed an issue with Wave of Fire.
New Heroes
> New hero: First Born
> New hero: Giant Sea Turtle
> New hero: Wizard of Immortality
Items
> Renamed Patrox to Paotroxs Mining Pick.
> New icon to Sobus.
> New icon to Dagger of Speed.
> New icon to Sword of Critical Wounds.
> New icon to Weapon of Luck.
> New icon to Paotroxs Mining Pick.
Bugs & Gameplay
> Fixed an issue with a text that would appear when a hero dies. ("Error Message missing")
> When a player leaves, this players hero-icon will no longer be shown for you at the top-left of your screen.
> When a player leaves, the multiboard won't change anymore.
> Fixed an issue with the Duelclock, that it didn't show the correct time.
HoW Patch 1.3.0a (Alot of thanks to random.guy27)
Heroes Lord of Death (100% Remake)
> Remaked all abilities into four new ones:
[Defiled Tempest] (Releases a polluted wind which poisons enemy units it comes in contact with. Poisoned units take initial damage and damage over time for 2 seconds.)
[Deceased Grounds] (Transform an area into a field of plague and deceases, dealing intense damage and slowing all enemies' movement speed by 25%.)
[Rotting Flesh] (Leusus releases a deadly air that rots and corrupts everything from the inside out. Decrease the armor and magical resistance of all affected enemy unit. Last for 6 seconds.)
[Plague of Locust] (Creates a swarm of angry locusts that bite and tear nearby enemy units in an area. As they chew the enemy flesh, they convert it into a substance that restores hit points to the Plague Reverant when they return. Last for 8 seconds.)
Dark Templar (75% Remake)
> Renamed Dark Temple Knight (Old Name) to "Dark Templar".
> New icon to Aura of Dead Spirits.
> Remaked three abilities into three new ones:
[Surging Demise] (Sacrifices a target friendly unit to cast a curse to nearby enemies. The curse damages the enemies andslows them down for 4 seconds.)
[Force of the Dead] (Regand calls forth a powerful force that pulls in and damages enemies in an area.)
[Field of Death] (Regand summon the infamous "Field of Death". All allies inside the field will have an increase in their power, while enemies inside will have a decrease in their power. Last for 5 seconds.)
Elemental Master
> Replaced ability: Force of Nature with Tranquility (Call forth a rain of soothing energy to pour down in the area around Mareder, healing and increasing the resistance friendly allied units. Last for 6 seconds.)
Mechanical Genius
> Replaced ability: Air Strike with Time Bomb (Xerkip sets up a time bomb and throws it at a targeted area. Once it's in its place, it explodes after a brief delay, damaging every enemy unit within the vicinity.)
Assassin
> Increased base damage to 25.
> Improved Confusing Clone by changing cooldown from 40 seconds to 38 seconds, duration from 20 seconds to 22 seconds and damage from 30% to 35%.
Crazy Sienceman
> Changed model.
Dragon
> Changed the slow % of Molten Tornado fromn 20% to 40%.
> Increased the AoE hitchance of Molten Tornados' fireballs.
Wizard of Immortality
> Changed the drain value of Mana Pool from 38/58/78 to 45/65/85.
New Heroes
> Re-maked Dark Templar (75%)
> Re-maked Lord of Death (100%)
> New hero: King Guard
> New hero: Lightning Elemental
> New hero: Lord of Frost
Items
> Completely changed all items tooltips, re-colored and more.
> The items (in shops) will now have hotkeys followed by:
Q, W, E, R
A, S, D, F
Z, X, C, V
each letter represents a slot.
> Recipe items with no cost can no longer be purchased.
> Renamed A Childs Stick to "Enhanced Branch".
> Renamed Wizard Mantle to "Golden Mantle".
> Renamed Belt of Strength to "Belt of the Giant".
> Renamed Gauntlets of Strong to "Knuckles of Might".
> Renamed Boots of Greater Agility to "Boots of the Agile".
> Renamed Staff of Greater Intelligence to "Staff of Knowledge".
> New icon to Enhanced Branch.
> New icon to Golden Mantle.
> Fixed two typos' with Scroll of Teleportation.
> Decreased the cost of Scroll of Teleportation from 145gold to 135gold.
> A new item: Flash Step.
> A new item: Shadow Necklace.
> A new item: Potion of Greater Mana.
Bugs & Gameplay Duel
> Duel will no longer be activated after a team has won the game.
> Fixed a couple of issues with Duel.
> When a duel ends, the heroes will now get teleported to the fountain instead.
> Changed the duel timer at the multiboard.
Orbs
> New effect to the orb effect: Double Damage.
> The Orbs placed on the map will now also have a chance to restore hitpoints and manapoints by 750 for 8 seconds.
> The Orbs placed on the map will now also have a chance to temporarily increase armor by 10 for 25 seconds.
> The Orbs 'Double Damage' effect will no longer has a weird effect at the hero.
Terrain
> Small terrain improvements in the center of the middle lane.
> (Also) Small terrain improvements on the whole map.
Other #1
> The game will no longer automatically exit after 20 seconds when a team has won the game.
> Heroes will no longer respawn after a team has won the game.
> The text "[Player] has left the game!" will no longer appear when a team has won the game.
> Reworked some of the hero abilities to work better.
> Removed some unused data.
> Some model imports removed. (Map-size reduced by about 600kb)
> Fixed an issue that Vimx wouldn't get full HP when he wasn't attacked for a while.
> Fixed another issue with Vimx.
> When any team kills Vimx or Noxtru they will now get an additional bonus gold each. Each player will get +300 gold for Noxtru and +600 gold for Vimx.
> Whenever a player kills another players hero a "+1" text will appear at the dying heros' position. The text will only be visible for the killing player and will be shown for 3 seconds.
> Added a new text for the multiboard. The multiboard will now also show the TOTAL kills and deaths for each team. You can see this at the "The Corrupted" and the "The Outcasts" texts on the multiboard.
> When x numbers of barracks it destroyed, the line units will no longer get +80 bonus damage and +20 bonus armor.
Other #2
> Increased the size of some buildings a little.
> Changed the art animation of some line units.
> Increased the armor of the level 4 defending towers from 30 to 35.
> The last defending towers (Level 4) will now be vulnerable when any defending tower (Level 3) is destroyed (before (when only-mid wasn't activated), all three defending towers (Level 3) had to be killed).
> Removed the ground-texture of the defending towers.
> Fixed some attack issued with the Corrupteds' defending towers.
> Changed the model of Im 4. (To Banshee model)
> Renamed Im 4 to "Lost Soul".
> Replaced Rejectel Angels' Mana Burn with a healing ability.
HoW Patch 1.3.0b
Bugs & Gameplay
> Fixed an issue with the Corrupted, that their protecting towers didn't have any attack.
HoW Patch 1.4.0a (Alot of thanks to random.guy27)
Heroes Dark Spirit (50% Remake)
> Remaked two abilities into two new ones:
[Seal of Agony] (With Nightmare's deep knowledge, he places an ancient seal that enfeebles his unfortunate victim, but it will cost him part of his own life. The seal silences the target and reduces its movement speed for a brief moment.)
[Vengeance Unleash] (Nightmare withstands all the pain and sufferings he receives for a short duration. After the said duration, he unleashes all of the pain he received by summoning an impeccable force around him that cripples all nearby enemy units.)
King Guard
> Corrected a mana issue with Spikes of Terror.
> Fixed an issue with Spike Shell, that it wouldn't give the correct armor bonus.
Qerhas Ogre Experiment
> Re-balanced stats: Start Strength changed from 22 -> 24 and Strength/Level changed from 2.35 -> 2.4.
> Replaced ability: Brute Strength with Flash Bomb (Razil releases a flash bomb at a targeted area. Once it explodes, it initially stuns every enemy unit. After the stun duration, the enemies are blinded, causing some of their attacks to miss for 4 seconds.)
Shadow Assassin
> Changed the time of Shadow Drain until it would do damage from 10 seconds to 7.5 seconds.
Ancient Living
> Changed the Circle of Nature AoE from 450 to 400.
New Heroes
> Re-maked Dark Spirit (50%)
> New hero: Mage of Regret
Items
> Fixed a typo with Urn of Forgotten Powers.
> Corrected the prices of some items.
> Reduced the block % of Shield of Survival from 70% to 65%.
> Reduced the block % of Shield of Greater Defense from 40% to 32%.
Bugs & Gameplay
> Fixed an art issue with and some attack issues with the Corrupteds defending towers.
> All defending towers now have siege damage instead of normal damage.
> Re-added the ground texture to some of the buildings.
> Corrected some hero-icons at the multiboard.
> Fixed an issue that the multiboard would dissappear when a player left the game.
> Fixed a huge issue with duel.
> Completely changed the terrain at the Corrupteds Area. This terrain is just temporarily
and will be improved in further updates.
> Huge terrain improvements over the whole map.
Intelligence (+1.8)
> Fixed an issue with Voodoo Power.
Death Archer
> The Death Shadow teleportation is now instant instead of unit-targeting.
Mage of Regret
> Hopefully fixed an issue with blindness, that the vision wouldn't disappear as it should.
Dark Spirit
> Changed Dark Spirit to a melee hero.
> Fixed an icon issue.
New Heroes
> New hero: Magic Twister
> New hero: Mana Eater
> New hero: Moon Devil
> New hero: Shadow Walker
Items
> New item: Old Jewel of Wisdom
Bugs & Gameplay
> Increased the melee lane units hitpoints from 480 to 500.
> Changed the amount of hitpoint each strength attribute gives from 25hp/str to 20hp/str.
> Re-made the tooltip of all abilities in the Forgotten Secrets building.
> Hopefully fixed an issue with the start gold.
HoW Patch 1.6.0b
Bugs & Gameplay
> Forgot remove a test unit from the game.
> Added a new feature: SINGLE PLAYER DETECTION. This feature allow players playing in single player use special commands on the map and have unlimited heroes. At the moment there is two commands: "-lvlup x" and "-getgold x".
> When a player repicks using the "-Repick" command, the camera will now automatically be moved to the "Pick Hero Area".
HoW Patch 1.7.0a
Heroes
> Fixed some bad tooltips.
Assassin
> Changed model and icon.
Magic Twister
> Increased the size of Divine Being.
> Fixed an issue with Cursed Prison.
> Cursed Prison will now imprison a random amount of units.
Lord of Death
> Increased the effect size of Defiled Tempest.
> Increased the duration of Plague of Locust from 8 seconds to 10 seconds.
New Heroes
> New hero: Murloc of the Damned
> New hero: Naga Emperor
Items
> Increased the strength amount of Relic of Afterliving from 25 to 30.
> Potion of Recovery healing duration changes from 14 seconds to 11 seconds.
Bugs & Gameplay
> Completely changed the terrain at the Outcasts base (temporarily, will be updated).
> Hopefully fixed a huge issue with the Single Player Detection System, that caused the whole map to act weird. (We think this system was the reason...)
HoW Patch 1.8.0a
Heroes Magic Twister
> The Devine Being summoned from the Empra ability will no longer flee when attacked.
> The Devine Being summoned from the Empra ability do now have 3-3 melee, chaos, damage.
> The Devine Being summoned from the Empra ability will now have a correct icon.
> The Twisted Shield can now be casted as self.
New Heroes
> New hero: Unknown Shadow
HoW Patch 1.9.0a
Heroes
> Fixed some bad tooltips.
Necromancer
> Fixed an item issue with the Flesh Golem.
New Heroes
> New hero: Nerubian
> New hero: Pain
> New hero: Pandaren
Items Potion of Healing
> Decreased the cost of from 90 to 85.
> Decreased the healing time from 18 to 16 seconds.
> Increased healing done from 160 to 180 hitpoints.
> Increased the cost of Potion of Greater Mana from 135 to 140.
> Decreased the cost of Potion of Mana from 75 to 50.
> Fixed the Mana Potions buff.
> Fixed the Urn of Forgotten Powers and Old Jewel of Wisdom buff.
Heroes Nerubian
> Fixed a manacost issue with Mystic Net.
> Fixed an issue with Mystic Net.
> Changed the hitpoints of the Baby Minions from Parasite from 125 to 175.
> Changed the damage of Rise of a Breed from 50/80/110 to 25/45/65.
Pain
> Changed start-strength from 19 to 18.
> Changed strength per level from 2 to 1.6.
> Changed the cooldown of The Pains from 120 to 155 seconds.
> Changed the cooldown of Shinra Tensie from 23 to 24 seconds.
> The Pains Mana Disturber will now burn 14/18/24 instead of 24.
> Pains Creature's "split ability upon death" will now give the new units an expiration timer of 25 seconds.
Murloc of the Damned
> Changed the armor bonus from Water Protection from 150 to 75.
> Changed the damage of Ancient Wave from 200/300/400/550/600 to 150/250/350/500/600.
Unknown Shadow
> Changed the damage radius from 350 AoE to 400 AoE.
> Changed the "life-steal"% of Shadowbolt from 5% to 16%.
Pandaren
> Fixed an issue with Pandaren Rush.
> Changed the damage of Pandaren Rush from 75/120/145/170/200 to 60/90/125/170/200.
Cursed Demon
> Fixed an issue with Cursed Darkness.
Cursed Demon
> Fixed an icon issue.
New Heroes
> Re-maked Assassin (100%)
Items
> Renamed Sobus to "Envenomed Spear" (Also changed icon).
> Renamed Sword of Critical Wounds to "Deep Wound Claws" (Also changed icon).
> Renamed Weapon of Luck to "Fiend Claws" (Also changed icon).
> Renamed Arsktarkta to "Claws of the Forsaken" (Also changed icon).
> Renamed God's Fury to "Hammer of Discharge" (Also changed icon).
> Renamed Uhmotra to "Saevio".
> New item: Soul Stealer
Demonic Fade Boots
> Fixed an issue that you wouln't get a temporarily movementspeed bonus.
Bugs & Gameplay The Experience System
> Updated the experience-system to work better.
> You'll now gain 25exp * (dying)herolvl experience when an enemy hero dies, before it was 22exp * (dying)herolvl.
The Hero Selection System
> All Heroes of the Ancient War (hero seller buildings) now contain 12 heroes and not 11.
> All heroes in the "buy-menu" is now a lot more sorted.
> When a player picks a new hero that hero will automatically be selected for the player when picked.
Special Lane Mobs (Crazy Troll and Rejected Angel)
> Changed Crazy Furbolg into a Crazy Troll. Crazy Troll has 750 hitpoints, 36 base damage, 2 armor (Large) and is a ranged
unit.
> Crazy Troll's temporarily attackspeed bonus ability (Crazy Troll) will now give the unit 70% increased attackspeed instead
of 75%.
> Renamed Crazy Troll's "Furbolg Aura" to "Troll Aura". (Attackspeed aura).
> The Rejected Angel will now have 850 hitpoints and 26 base damage, 4 armor (Large).
> Changed the amount of bounces of the Healing Wave ability from 4 to 5.
> Changed the chance for the Rejected Angel to do a Critical Strike from 35% to 42%.
> Changed the multiple damage of the Rejected Angel's Critical Strike from 3x to 2.5x.
Other
> Re-made the start gold and fixed issues with it. Maximum start gold is now 3750 (1 player) and divided of total players in
the team.
> The gate at the Outcasts can no longer be killed.
> Removed the sightvision of the bases.
> Minor terrain changes.
> The Total Control feature will no longer show when an allied hero level up.
HoW Patch 2.1.0a (Thanks to random.guy27)
Heroes Dark Spirit
> Fixed a new icon.
Assassin
> Changed start-strength from 16 to 17.
> Changed strength per level from 1.2 to 1.55.
> Changed start-intelligence from 17 to 15.
> Decreased the mana-cost of all abilities.
Lightning Elemental
> Renamed "Thunder Storm" to "Thunderstorm".
> Thunderstorm will now slow all units being hit ON CAST by 35% for 5 seconds.
Pandaren
> Fixed an issue with Pandaren Rush.
New Heroes
> New hero: Possessed Guardian
> New hero: Ranger
> New hero: Soldier of Narjz
Items
> Fixed a lot of description texts with the items.
> Renamed Sangera to "Tempest Boots" (Also changed icon).
> Renamed Corrupted Hand of Death to "Orb of Death" (Also changed icon).
> Renamed Orksi to "Battle Staff".
> Renamed Magical Helm of an Old Prince to "Helm of Valor".
> Changed the icon of Flash Step.
> Changed the icon of The Cleanser.
> New item: Soul Harvester
Bugs & Gameplay Special Lane Mobs (Crazy Troll and Rejected Angel)
> Crazy Troll will now have the same stats as Rejected Angel (850HP, 4 armor, 28 base damage and 350MP)
> Changed the Crazy Troll ability name to Troll Rage.
> Troll Rage will now temporarily increase attackspeed by 50% instead of 70%.
> Crazy Troll is now melee instead of a ranged unit.
> Changed the cast range of the Rejected Angels Healing Wave from 700 to 400.
> Rejected Angel will no longer run back to the base when have cast Healing Wave.
Systems
> Created a new system (Knockback System), that all knockback abilities can use, instead of running a seperate knockback
trigger for itself. This will increase the map performance and reduce lagg. The map size will also be reduced.
Other
> Lane Mobs will now get +25 hitpoints every 20 minutes (maximum of +150).
> Minor fixes.
HoW Patch 2.2.0a (Thanks to zadelim & random.guy27)
Heroes Shadow Walker
> Fixed a hotkey issue with Curse of Shadow.
Demon Lord
> Changed the ability name for Command Aura to "Demon Strength".
> Fixed a hotkey issue with Demon Strength.
> Changed icon of Demon Strength.
An Intelligent Dwarf
> Fixed a hotkey issue with Yellow Flash.
Druid
> Fixed a hotkey issue with Bear Form.
Dragon
> Hopefully fixed an issue with Wave of Fire.
Ranger
> Decreased the collision of the Explosive Shot arrow.
> Decreased the Area of Effect of the explosion from Explosive Shot from 250 to 180.
> Decreased the pushback speed a little of the Explosive Shot.
> Changed the explosion effect of Explosive Shot.
> Changed the damage bonus % of Bow Mastery from 10/18/26/34/42% to 10/16/22/28/34%.
Voodoo Hunter
> Fixed the description text with Improved Glaive Attack.
Possessed Guardian
> Soul Control can no longer target Ancient units.
> You can no longer drop a possessed hero's items with the help of Soul Control.
> Soul Eater will now properly deal damage to banished units, but will remove the
banish effect from units being hit.
> Hellscream now displays how the bonus attack damage is calculated.
Soldier of Narjz
> Fixed a new icon.
Mechanical Genius
> Fixed a hotkey issue with Mechanical Titan.
New Heroes
> New hero: Rider
Items
> Tempest Boots will no longer allow a hero to teleport to another friendly hero.
> Mana Axe will now burn the mana properly.
> Soul Harvester do now have the Reveal Souls ability.
> Fixed the description with The Immortal.
> Fixed a buff issue with Ring of Honor.
> Changed icon of Flash Step.
> Hopefully fixed the issue with Death Wish, that you could damage yourself or allied heroes.
Bugs & Gameplay
> Removed the Weather Effect system.
> Updated the knockback system (minor changes).
> There will now appear a text when it's 25 seconds left before a new duel, that will notice you about this.
> Noxtru and Vimx is now classified as "Ancient" units.
> Removed a couple (hopefully all) of local variable memory leaks.
HoW Patch 2.3.0a (Thanks to random.guy27)
Heroes Lord of Death (Plague Revenant)
> Renamed Lord of Death to "Plague Revenant".
> Fixed a new icon.
Ancient Living
> Fixed an issue with Power of the Ancient.
Death Archer
> Changed primary attribute from Intelligence to Agility.
> Changed start-agility from 17 to 22.
> Changed start-intelligence from 22 to 17.
> Remaked Cold Arrows into Marksmanship. (Being a skilled archer, her accuracy is phenomenal. Enemore will have a x% chance to deal extra damage on an attack that also will ignore her targets armor.)
> Shadow of Dispair will no longer reduce enemy units armor. Also the shadow will disappear when teleported to. Fear duration changed from 3/4/5 to 2/3/4.
> Fixed an issue with Arrow of Blood.
> Increased the cast range of Arrow of Blood from 800 to 1200.
Naga Emperor
> Fixed an issue with Sacrifice.
Mage of Regret
> Changed primary attribute from Agility to Intelligence.
> Changed start-agility from 24 to 18.
> Changed start-intelligence from 20 to 24.
> Remaked Magic Power into Essence Rip. (Cast a spell that slowly rips the bond between the physical and magical essences of an enemy. Deals damage over time for 3 seconds. After the said duration, the bond between the physical and magical essences of the enemy is completely rip, drastically slowing its movement speed and all nearby enemy units for 3 seconds.)
> Remaked Inner Power into Soul Torment. (Summon a malicious force at a targeted area that tortures not only the enemies' physical being, but their souls as well. All enemy units within the vicinity will take increasing damage over time. Lasts for 5 seconds.)
> Renamed Blindness to "Soul Eclipse" and sight range decrease changed from -575 to -400.
Rider
> Fixed a stun issue with Hammer of Battle.
King Guard
> Spike Shell now properly shows a buff icon.
New Heroes
> Re-maked Death Archer (25%)
> Re-maked Mage of Regret (75%)
HoW Patch 2.3.0b
> Re-uploaded the map, something went wrong with Patch 2.3.0a.
HoW Patch 2.4.0a
Heroes Soldier of Narjz
> Summon Narjz damage will now completely ignore units armor and deal full damage.
Moon Devil
> Fixed some issues with Orb of the Moon.
Mage of Regret
> Corrected the multiboard icon.
New Heroes
> New hero: The Thing
> New hero: Unholy Warrior
Items
> Old Jewel of Wisdom now properly requires its recipe item to be created.
> Fixed the issue that you couldn't get a Über Sheep. This recipe now requires a Sheep[250] and a Über Sheep Recipe[250].
Bugs & Gameplay
> Reworked some of the terrain.
HoW Patch 2.4.0b (Thanks to someone called "Karkan" for the image.
> Created a new loading-screen picture.
> Created a new map-preview picture.
> Map size reduced with about 600kB.
HoW Patch 2.5.0a
Heroes The Thing
> Fixed some ability descriptions.
Plague Revenerant
> Changed the name of "Plague of Locusts" to "Plague of Lost Souls".
Unholy Warrior
> Changed his voice.
> Infernals from Fall of Chaos is now able to attack units properly.
Mage of Regret
> Changed the icon of Solar Eclipse from being a passive icon to an active icon.
> Essence Rip can no longer target everything, only enemy units.
Death Archer
> Fixed some description errors with Marksmanship.
Druid
> Rename the Endurance Aura ability to: "Presence of Nature".
> Changed icon of Presence of Nature.
An Intelligent Dwarf
> Fixed an issue with Hammer Slam.
Voodoo Hunter
> Fixed an issue with Voodoo Magic.
Dark Spirit
> Totem of Nightfall will now have an increasing AoE over time. Area of Effect start at 275, then expands by 75 per second (275>350>425>500).
New Heroes
> New hero: The Living Dead
> New hero: The Forsaken
> New hero: Zombie Master
Items
> All items have been re-maked (bonuses, costs and more).
> Enchanted Scroll do now have a 200 seconds cooldown instead of 90 seconds cooldown.
> Changed the manacost of Key of Time Jump from 50 mana to 75 mana.
> Changed the manacost of Flash Step from from 50 mana to 75.
> Ring of Honor will no longer affect enemy units.
> Changed the buff icon of Corrupted Hand of Death.
> Changed the icon of Saevio.
> Changed the icon and name of Light to Voodoo Staff.
> Changed the icon and name of Hood of the Felstalker to Cloak of the Wanderer.
> Changed the icon and name of Bow of Disaster to Velox.
> Changed the icon of Death Wish.
Bugs & Gameplay
> The amount of gold lost upon death decreased from 30% to 26%.
> Fixed a Neutral Passive creep in the forest to be a Neutral Hostile.
> Fixed some minor things.
HoW Patch 2.6.0a (Thanks to random.guy27)
Heroes The Forsaken
> Improved ability descriptions.
> Life Sap drain values are changed from 110/140/170 to 90/130/180 and duration is changed to 5 seconds.
> The Wave of Terror missile is now faster.
> Wave of Terror values changed and it no longer slows the attack speed. Duration on debuff changed from 3.5 seconds to 4.5 seconds. Armor reduction changed from -2 to -3 and movementspeed reduction changed from 16/20/24/28/32% to 30/40/50/60/70%.
> Fixed an issue with The Pulse of the Forsaken.
Nerubian
> Mystic Net remake. Duration of movementspeed and attackspeed slow changed from 2/3/4/5/6 seconds to 6 seconds. Movementspeed reduction changed from 20/35/45/55/65% to 10/15/20/25/30% and attackspeed reduction changed from 10/15/20/25/30% to 20/35/45/55/65%.
Cannibal
> Ground Slam have been changed into Hunger Breakdown (pretty much the same ability, but with balance changes).
New Heroes
> New hero: Eternal King
Bugs & Gameplay
> Players will no longer get a new "edited" name, togheter with the hero name, after they have selected a hero.
HoW Patch 2.7.0a (Thanks to random.guy27)
Heroes Cannibal
> The Feed ability has been replaced with Hell's Feast.
Death Archer (50% Re-make)
> The Death Blood ability has been replaced with Cursed Blood.
> The Arrow of Blood ability has been replaced with Anubis Shot.
Moon Devil (100% Re-make)
> The Spear of the Moon ability has been replaced with Power of the Moon (New version).
> The Moon Shell ability has been replaced with Body of Immortality.
> The Power of the Moon ability has been replaced with Forgotten Orb.
> The Moon Form ability has been replaced with Devils Pact.
Bugs & Gameplay
> Removed un-neccesary data (decreased the map size a little and loading time).
> Improved some things with the map.
> The Game Mode: [All Random] has been unlocked!
HoW Patch 2.8.0a
Heroes
> Small changes to some of the heroes (forgot to write down the changes).
Banished Orc
> Shockwave stun duration as been changed from 2 seconds to 1.5 second.
Death Dragon
> Manacost and cooldown has been changed on the abilities.
> The ability Ghost Evasion's evasion has been changed from 15/30/45% to 15/25/33%.
> The debuff duration of Death Shield has been changed from 15 seconds to 8 seconds.
Ancient Healer
> Light of Justice damage changed from 30/40/50/60/70 damage to 40/50/60/70/80 damage.
> God's Fury will now ignore armor and deal pure damage, also values changed from 20/25/30% to 20/28/36%.
Ancient Healer
> Hopefully fixed an issue with Force of the Dead.
Items
> Item recipies has been fixed, some of them didn't work.
Bugs & Gameplay
> The defending towers has been balanced.
> The dueling text has been improved and will now also show the player names of the dueling players.
> The time before the players can fight eachother is changed from 3 seconds to 5 seconds.
> The Game Mode: [Random Tavern] has been unlocked!
HoW Patch 2.9.0a (Thanks to Zack1996)
Heroes Qerhas Ogre Experience
> Flash Bombs' Blind effects duration changed from 4 seconds to 5 seconds.
Cursed Demon
> The duration of Cursed Darkness has changed from 10 seconds to 14 seconds.
> The required % with Blood Aura is changed from 40% to 32%.
Demon Lord
> The damage the Demon Lord suffer from Curse of Hell is now pure (ignoring armor and everything).
Intelligence Dwarf
> Hammer Slam will no longer have a chance to do the spell twice in a row, but damage is changed from 3x intelligence to 4x intelligence.
> Yellow Flash will now slow by 10/15/20% within the duration.
> The Yellow Flash debuff will now show its proper icon.
Ancient Living
> The duration of Circle of Nature changed to 6 seconds and the circle is slightly smaller.
> The number of bounces of Chain of Nature is changed from 4 to 4/5/6, also the root duration is changed from 3 seconds to 4 seconds.
Assassin
> Shadow Bane base slow is changed from 10% to 15%.
> The debuff duration of Nightmares Edge is changed from 2.5 seconds to 3 seconds.
Cannibal
> Hitpoint cost of Berserk changed from 80/120/160/200/240 to 100/140/180/220/260.
> The hitpoint cost of Berserk is now pure (ignoring armor and everything).
> The damage of Hell's Feast is changed from 90/180/270/360/450 to / 100/180/260/340/420.
Bugs & Gameplay
> Different changes to the UI (Unit Interface).
> The fog in-game has been changed.
> Hopefully fixed the multiboard issue when a player leaves.
> Leaving player will no longer have it's name changed to "Left...". Their name will just be colored with a gray color.
> The kick system is removed (because there are other programs that can do the same nowadays).
> The tavern (Heroes of the Ancient War) that has less heroes than the others are now disabled in the [Random Tavern] game modes, due to the lack of heroes.
> Re-made the core of the forbidden secrets (made it more efficient).
> The cost of upgrading a teams' lane units attackdamage has changed from 500 gold to 850 gold.
> The cost of upgrading a teams' lane units armor has changed from 500 gold to 550 gold.
HoW Patch 3.0.0a (Thanks to random.guy27)
Heroes
> Different mana cost, cooldown and ability description changes to some of the heroes.
Dragon (Emerald Dragon)
> Changed his name to Emerald Dragon.
> Fixed a buff issue with the Black Dragon ability.
Frost Wolf
> Fixed an issue with Frost Wolf that he wasn't able to use some of the items.
Cursed Demon
> Fixed a damage issue with Cursed Darkness (dealt 90% damage, not 10%).
> Fixed the duration on the debuff for Cursed Darkness.
Qerhas Ogre Experiment
> Increased the duration of Flash Bomb to 5.5 seconds.
Corrupted Ent
> Changed the health regeneration by Root from 4/8/12/26/20 to 6/10/15/20/28.
> Earth Stomp [Level 5] damage changed to 350.
> Corrupted Roots root damage changed to 50/70/90 and duration to 4 seconds. The poison damage changed to 15/20/25 damage per second.
Dark Spirit
> Seal of Agonys base slow changed from 20% to 30%.
> Changed the cooldown of Totem of Nightfall from 25 to 28 seconds.
> Fixed the description of Totem of Nightfall and fixed the effect issue.
Dark Templar
> The slow caused by Surging Demise has been changed to 28%.
> The duration of Field of Death has been changed from 5 seconds to 7 seconds.
First Born
> Swamp of Sorrow: AoE changed to 580, the duration of the movementspeed reduction changed to 8 seconds and the damage changed to 150/300/450.
King Guard
> Spiked Shell duration changed from 15 seconds to 12 seconds.
Dying Bug
> Toxic Everywhere!! now deals pure damage and can't be resisted.
> The amount of required attacks for the Toxic Explosion has been changed to 5.
> The healing done from Pile of Food changed (for level 3, 4, 5) to 43/50/60 hitpoints per second.
Druid
> Roar can only be used in Bear Form (Roar is now also a sub-skill).
> Rejuvenation can only be used in Druid Form.
> Removed Rage and replaced it with Cyclone.
> Removed Presence of Nature and replaced it with Rejuvenation.
Death Archer
> The Anubis Shot explosion now works properly.
> The Anubis Shot debuff duration has been increased to 4 seconds.
New Heroes
> Arcane Disciple
Items
> Added a new item: Improved Envenomed Spear.
> Added a new item: Improved Kyrmena.
> Added a new item: Mysterious Boots
> Fixed a new icon to Kyrmena.
> Flash Step now properly gives the correct movement speed bonus.
> Fixed a huge fps drop issue with Dark's Silence ability.
> Changed the cooldown of Death Wish's ability from 26 to 65 seconds.
> Changed the cooldown of Orb of Eternal Mana and Symbol of Inner Life to 50 seconds.
> Changed the damage of Demonic Fade Boots to 26.
Bugs & Gameplay
> Spell damage now do 15% more damage to all heroes.
> Magic damage now do 15% more damage to all heroes.
> Removed un-used data.
> Small terrain improvements.
HoW Patch 3.2.0a (Thanks to random.guy27)
Heroes Death Archer
> It will now take 1 second to teleport to the shadow created with Shadow of Despair.
> Shadow of Despair cooldown changed to 120/110/100 seconds.
> Shadow of Despair manacost changed to 125/200/275.
> Marksmanship has been remaded.
Murloc of the Damned
> Tidal Slash will now do pure instant damage (ignore armor).
Zombie Master
> The infected units raised by Raise the Dead now has an ability to explode themselves.
> Raise the Dead cooldown changed to 18/17/16/15/14 seconds and manacost changed to 175/150/125/100/75.
The Forsaken
> Fixed the description with Life Sap.
> New icon to Life Sap.
> New icon to Death Barrage.
Naga Emperor
> Replaced all abilities with: Tidal Shockwave, Blade of Pontus, Command Aura and Tsunami Vortex.
Unknown Shadow
> Fixed an issue with Aura of Shadows.
The Living Dead
> New model and icon.
> Replaced Cannibalize with Sword of Chaos.
New Heroes
> Death Bringer
Items
> All recipe items now have their total cost in their description. This text is colored with a gray color.
> Changed the cost of Battle Staff [Recipe Item] from 650 to 500 gold.
> Changed the cost of Voodoo Staff [Recipe Item] from 1800 to 1700 gold.
Bugs & Gameplay
> The hero descriptions has been changed (the text that appear when you'll select a hero).
> Magic and Spell damage increased by 1%.
HoW Patch 3.2.0b (Thanks to -BLOOD_BATH-)
Heroes The Living Dead
> Increased the bonus damage from Sword of Chaos from 8/12/16/20/25% to 10/15/20/25/30% and changed the duration to 7.5 seconds.
Bugs & Gameplay
> Fixed an issue that allowed players to pick unlimited numbers of heroes with the "-random" command.
> You can no longer repick after 180 seconds (before it was 300 seconds) and in single player mode this will now be ignored.
> Updated the knockback system, it's now more efficient.
> Minor improvements to the map core.
HoW Patch 3.3.0a (Thanks to -BLOOD_BATH- & random.guy27)
Heroes Desert Scorpion
> The cooldown of Nova of Poison and Toxic has been changed to 6 seconds from 10 seconds and its damage per second
duration has been changed to 10 seconds from 14 seconds.
Lightning Elemental
> Fixed an issue with Power of Lightning.
> Changed the damage of Power of Lightning to 35/50/65/80/95 damage from 30/60/90/120/150.
An Intelligent Dwarf
> The % chance to stun an enemy unit while It's Hammer Time! is active has been changed to 65% from 80% chance.
Mana Eater
> Changed the Area of Effect of Mana Explosion to 275 from 175.
> The Mana Explosion no longer deal damage per second. It's now an instant damage spell.
Cursed Demon
> Rain of Fire has been replaced by Eruption.
> The movementspeed bonus from Blood Aura has been changed from 10/14/18/22/26% to 8/10/12/14/16%.
> The attackspeed bonus from Blood Aura has been changed from 4/8/12/16/20% to 16/19/22/25/28%.
> The amount of hitpoints required to get the lifesteal effect has been changed from 32% to 30%.
> The amount of Strength taken with Cursed Darkness has been changed from 8/10/14 Strength from 8/12/16 Strength.
Elemental Master (Ancient Druid)
> Renamed Elemental Master to Ancient Druid.
> Replaced Spirit of Mother Earth with Entangle.
> Replaced Crushing Wave with Essence Discharge.
Lord of Frost
> Replaced Frost Nova with Soul Freeze.
Death Bringer
> Renamed Poison Death to Toxic Conversion.
> Renamed Cold Death to Frost Conversion.
> Renamed Black Death to Calamity Conversion.
> Changed the duration of Frost Conversion from 4 seconds to 6 seconds.
> Changed the duration of Drowning Death from 3 seconds to 6 seconds, but reduced the armor reduction from 3/4/5/6/8 to 2/3/4/5/6.
> The cooldown of Calamity Conversion has been changed from 15 to 20 seconds.
Assassin
> The Fade/Recloaking time of Assassin's Mark has been changed from 3.5/3/2.5/2/1.5 seconds to 1.5 seconds.
> The initial slow of Shadow Bane has been changed from 15% to 22%.
> Fixed an issue with Shadow Bane.
> The attackspeed gained from Phantom Strike changed from 75% to 85%.
> The duration of Phantom Strike changed from 3 to 3.5 seconds.
> The amount of hits required for Nightmare Edge reduced from 5 to 4 hits.
> The debuff duration of Nightmare Edge increased from 3 to 3.5 seconds.
> The bonus damage from Nightmare Edge changed from 50/75/100 to 65/75/85 damage.
Murloc of the Damned
> The movementspeed bonus from Walk of the Damned has been increased to 16% from 12%.
> Ancient Wave will now slow enemy units being hit by 18%.
Emerald Dragon
> Changed some animation data.
> Wave of Fire no longer create a path of fire to do damage per second. The damage is now instant and has been changed from 60/115/170/225/280 to 75/120/175/225/300 damage.
Pandaren
> The miss chance with Drunken Fury has been changed from 20% to 12%.
> The chance to daze a target with Drunken Fury has been changed from 15% to 25%.
> Fixed an issue with Drunken Fury.
> The damage of Pandaren Rush has been changed to 75/120/160/200/250 from 60/90/125/170/200.
Banished Orc
> Changed the damage of Whirlwind from 130/220/310 to 130/210/290 damage.
Demon Lord
> The amount of reduced damage gained from Howl of Terror has been changed from 16/20/24/28/32% to 20/26/32/38/44%.
Nerubian
> Base defense has been changed to 1 from 0.
> Fixed a description issue with the Parasite ability.
> The cooldown of Parasite has been changed from 8 to 10 seconds.
> The manacost of Parasite has been changed from 50/75/100/125/150 to 90/90/95/100/110.
> The amount of parasites spawned from Parasite has been changed to 2/3/3/4/4 from 1/2/3/4/5.
> The lifetime of the parasites from Parasite has been changed from 60 to 45 seconds.
> The parasites spawned from Parasite now has 160 hitpoints instead of 175, but its life regeneration has been changed from 0.25 to 1hp/sec.
> The cooldown of Web has been changed from 18 to 19 seconds.
> The manacost of Web has been changed from 50/75/100/125/150 to 80/80/90/90/100.
> The manacost of Mystic Net has been changed from 50/75/100/125/150 to 40/60/80/90/100.
> The movementspeed reduction of Mystic Net has been changed from 10/15/20/25/30% to 50%.
> The manacost of Rise of a Breed has been changed from 200 to 100.
Pain
> Changed Pains tinting color.
> The manacost of Rinnegean has been changed from 50 to 75.
> The cooldown of Shinra Tensie has been changed from 24 to 22 seconds.
> The manacost of Shinra Tensie has been changed from 120/160/200/240/280 to 100/135/175/200/245.
> The damage of Shinra Tensie has been changed from 100/200/300/400/500 to 120/170/220/270/320.
Items
> Battle Staff has been renamed to Wand of Greater Power.
> Wand of Greater Power has been renamed to Battle Staff.
> Changed the cost of Ring of Honor from 200 gold to 135 gold.
> Shield of Survival now blocks 35 damage instead of 30.
> The cost of Shield of Greater Defense has been changed to 275 from 350 gold.
Bugs & Gameplay
> A completely remake of the terrain!
> The Mini-Camps has been added!
> Now it's only one different duel area, not two.
> The amount of health healed with Healing Wave (Rejected Angel) has been changed to 155hp for each target, but now has a limit of 4 targets.
> The damage multiplier of the Rejected Angels critical strike has been changed to 2.5.
> The timer that will set Noxtrus' or Vimx' hitpoints to 100% when not attacked has been changed from 15 seconds to 20 seconds.
> Fixed some issued with the system mentioned above (Vimx and Noxtru: 100%).
> Changed The Smith (Shop) model size.
> A lot of minor changes.
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Dark Dragon
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General Frank (Bloodelf Hero Swordchampion) (Hero bloodelven paladin)
Volvox (BTNBleed)
Jigrael (Lightning Elemental)
WILLTHEALMIGHTY (Ancient Explosion) (Shadow Golem)
Jetfanginferno (Orb of Death Missile), (Greater Shadow Ward) and (Dark Eagle Missile)
Wingednosering (Nightelf Archer)
shamanyouranus (Fear buff)
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BTNXThunderfury By X.e.r.e.X
BTNwaterelemental and BTNSphere By inhuman89
BTNMagicBronzeArmour By Juan_Ann
BTNAxe2 By Static
BTNSuperNova By Palaslayer
BTNCrystalRing By Static
BTNGabrielScepter By -BerZeKeR-
BTNTheCorruptedAshbringer By Sunchips
BTNPoisonDeath By Army-of-Pandas
BTNArcaneBolt By kola
BTNPAngelWings By Paladon
BTNNagaSeacaller By Dentothor
BTNDragonBlade By KelThuzad
KICK SYSTEM By hell gate
BTNShadowStrike By NFWar
BTNDarkNova By NFWar
BTNAxeslam2 By bigapple90
BTNCRreverboratet By CRAZYRUSSIAN
BTNCurse By KelThuzad
Crystal Infernal by darkhunter 1357
BTNWoomanGhost By NFWar
Tauren Chieftain Death Knight [v1.6] By zadelim
NightElfDeathKnight_by67chrome.blp By 67chrome
BTNbow By inhuman89
BTNSpellHolySurgeOfLight By Blizzard [Blizzard Entertainment]
BTNForestTrollTrapperFemale By Cavman
Shiva's Wings by JetFangInferno
Naga Death Knight By 67chrome
WarStompCaster By JetFangInferno
BTNCRBLOODpool By CRAZYRUSSIAN
BTNAthelas By Palaslayer
BTNThorns By -BerZeKeR-
Orb of Darkness By General Frank
BTNNaturesWrath By -BerZeKeR-
BTNMegapod By tee.dubs
BTNDemonicBoots By Juan_Ann
EvilBeholder By Amigurumi
Chemical Barrage By shamanyouranus
WaterfallFX By Buster
BTNCRBLOODpool By CRAZYRUSSIAN
Blood Presence By Champara Bros
Wind Totem By shamanyouranus
BTNDarknessruneV2 By Dmazzz
BTNShieldUndeadDeathMark By BlackDoom
BTNFrost By SkriK
BTNEyes By Big Dub
BTNTimeSpell By Deon
BTNOrganicby67chrome By 67chrome
BTNOrbofEarth2 By The_Silent
BTNRockElementalNew By The_Avenger's_Return
SkulborbByZerox By Zerox
BTNSkulborb By Zerox
Chaos Meteor By shamanyouranus
BTNANAPoisonShock By Anachron
BTNFireTornado By Army-of-Pandas
BTNDragonFire By 67chrome
BTNDarkSphere By Darkfang
BTNAstralCalander By 67chrome
BTNSheild By Ezikielth
BTNPoisonSpear By NFWar
BTNWeaponSword3 By bigapple90
BTNDragonBlade By KelThuzad
BTNDagger By NFWar
BTNKoboldMelee2 By Stanakin Skywalker
BTNTicTac By NFWar
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Energy Shield By Champara Bros
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BTNBranch By Kwah
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BTNGoldenMantle By Apheraz Lucent
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BTNSkullSpirits By -BerZeKeR-
FlashStep Boots Icon By ????
BTN.DarkLight By OgeRfaCes
Ashenvale Wall By hortaxman
BTNArcaneBlast By Blizzard [Blizzard Entertainment]
BTNMasterSpark By War_Golum
BTNChainsOfDarkness By Amigurumi
BTNAmethyst By SkriK
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BTNMoonLight By Paladon
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Stone Wall connector By Kitabatake
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Orb of Water By General Frank
BTNKrakenBlades By ike_ike
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BTNVampireCritical By PeeKay
BTNSoulAxe By PetrKubelka
BTNSoulStrike By tonic
BTNBlizzard_Boots By Blizzard Entertainment [Gwen Stefani]
BTNWindsBoots By Mc !
BTNFlameLance By L_Lawliet
BTNPowerShot By NFWar
Shiva's Wrath By JetFangInferno
Frozen Orb By Daelin
BTNZLDeathTaurenChieftainVer2 By zadelim
BTNArcaneHammer By Elainiel
BTNUnholyResurrection By viiva
BTNCWDeathKnight By CloudWolf
Death Knight By CloudWolf
BTNClawsAttack By pippo
BTNAcid2 By bigapple90
BTNPP_Heart_Steal By CRAZYRUSSIAN
BTNWaveOfTerror By 4eNNightmare
BTNAthelas By Palaslayer
BTNCFClawStrike By NFWar
BTNSpikeBow By Army-of-Pandas
BTNINV_Axe_10 By Blizzard [Blizzard Entertainment]
BTNSnowyGlaive By Elainiel
BTNbluelight By bigapple90
BTNArcane By KelThuzad
BTNCRSummon By CRAZYRUSSIAN
BETA Changelog & Updates
Please post a comment of what you think about this map. Any feedback? Any questions? Anything else?
Thanks!
//Flood & DrUnKeN_RiDeR
(Anything in this thread may be updated or changed in the future, we will add more info and more screenshots!)
About the multiboard I created it to be as less complicated as possible, but still showing as much information as possible and I think it went out pretty good.
Any way I can get my hands on the map before the actually release/beta release?
I'm sorry, you'll have to wait as the rest of the people until the BETA will be released (yes, a BETA will be released in a close future hopefully), so have patience!
Hm... I think I know what map you mean. I think I called it "Final Discovery". I probably quit working at my maps when I'm getting to tired of them and I'm almost always working alone that will take the development of the map to much time.
But I won't quit working at this map! I'm not working alone, I'm working with my friend (DrUnKeN_RiDeR), and I WANT to release this map, so we're doing everything to release this map atm
Yeah, just wait for it! Hopefully it won't take so much time, we're almost done with everything important and then it's BETA-testing time!
Introductions first, Hi, I'm new here in the Hiveworkshop Forum but not in the PlayDotA/PD Forum.
I'm interested in your Map.
Actually, I'm finding someone who could create a map like DotA (I meant that in a good way)
Just some heads up.
There are many Potential Suggestions in the PlayDotA forum but not implemented/played in a real game.
That's the reason why I'm finding someone who's willing to do a Map like DotA.
Oh yeah. The part about the basic abilities. I think you should just make them to be upgraded only 4 times, 'coz upgrading those 5 times needs more time balancing than the usual 4 times.
Oh yeah. The part about the basic abilities. I think you should just make them to be upgraded only 4 times, 'coz upgrading those 5 times needs more time balancing than the usual 4 times.
There isn't a lot of standard spells in this map. A lot of the spells are triggered, with, yes, GUI, but the spells isn't bad just because they are GUI if that's what you mean.
Hmm, just a random question, but how do items work? Do they function similarly to normal items, are there any special features, etc?
Additionally, I see some rather powerful items on the heroes in the screenies. Are they bought directly or acquired through special means? Also, do those items contain triggered abilities, or just normal ones?
Hmm, just a random question, but how do items work? Do they function similarly to normal items, are there any special features, etc?
Additionally, I see some rather powerful items on the heroes in the screenies. Are they bought directly or acquired through special means? Also, do those items contain triggered abilities, or just normal ones?
Yes, they act the same as normal items. What do you mean with special features?
Well, the screenshots are from a test-round, so we could buy any item we wanted, so of course, we bought powerful items
In order to get special items you'll have to combine other items with eachother, called recipies, you know. In future updates we may make more unique features around items and such, we'll see, I just want to release a BETA asap.
About triggered items, yes. There are triggered items. Probably a lot of items will be changed and balanced to contain maybe more triggered abilities in the future, we'll see. We're currently balancing most things of the map so we can release this BETA.
Yeah, I hope you do, we'll need as many BETA-testers we can, so we can get feedback and other comments about the map, because we can't really find everything by ourselves!
The more we update the better will the map be of course and with your help, that can be done.
By the way, I've updated the thread with four new screenshots (world editor screenshots) and I've added an update (2010-05-20) there you can read about two new BETA features!
Sick features, Total Control would be great in the early laning stage. However, too much text may fill the screen when you are engaged in a team fight.
Yeah, I know, but as written, you can toggle on/off this feature so you don't need to see all this text if you don't want to
UPDATE/EDIT 1: I've updated the first thread with a new update! (Update: 2010-05-30), it's about the close BETA we'll release, so read it!
UPDATE/EDIT 2: A new update is written, read it at: (Update: 2010-06-04). This update is about the few steps before the BETA!
Well, still waiting? Then you'll not have to wait much longer. Almost everything is done for the early BETA. I'm currently changing the tooltips on every BETA hero we will have I'm done with 3 of 22, I'll just need a few hours to get this done.
When I've done this we'll do some tests and other fixes and then... the BETA is ready!
UPDATE/EDIT 3: A new update is written, read it at: (Update: 2010-06-14). Or you can read it here:
Hello there! 10 days and no update, that's bad from me! But well, my school recently ended and my summer holiday has started!
Unfortunately this won't make me able to work as much as I've expected because I'll move to Öland (a little island just outside Sweden) with my friends for a couple of days. So I won't work at the map until I'll come back home. BUT, Drunken_Rider will work at the map! So hopefully he will do as much as possible so we can release the BETA when I'm back!
Cya!
UPDATE/EDIT 4: A new update is written, read it at: (Update: 2010-06-30). Or you can read it here:
Okay, I'm back after some awesome weeks! Now we'll work as fast as we can to release the BETA!
UPDATE/EDIT 5: A new update is written, it's about the BETA release. Read it at: (Update: 2010-07-01). Or you can read it here:
Hello, I can tell you that the very first BETA will be released today or tomorrow! We've only got some small things to chance or fix!
I'll give you a complete list of all current BETA heroes (only names):
Death Dragon (100% done for BETA)
Frost Wolf (100% done for BETA)
Shadow Assassin (100% done for BETA)
Banished Orc (100% done for BETA)
Necromancer (100% done for BETA)
Qerhas Ogre Experiment (100% done for BETA)
Mechanical Genius (100% done for BETA)
An Intelligent Dwarf (100% done for BETA)
Demon Lord (100% done for BETA)
Cursed Demon (100% done for BETA)
Ancient Healer (100% done for BETA)
Ancient Living (100% done for BETA)
Assassin (100% done for BETA)
Cancer Kid (100% done for BETA)
Cannibal (100% done for BETA)
Clay Summoner (100% done for BETA)
Corrupted Ent (100% done for BETA)
Crazy Sienceman (100% done for BETA)
Dark Spirit (100% done for BETA)
Dark Temple Knight (100% done for BETA)
Death Archer (100% done for BETA)
Death God (100% done for BETA)
I'll give you more information soon! Stay updated. ^^
Looks like you are working as fast as you can to roll the beta out. Make a PM to me about the map when it comes out and I will be ready to beta test it with my friends.
Looks like you are working as fast as you can to roll the beta out. Make a PM to me about the map when it comes out and I will be ready to beta test it with my friends.
Haha yeah... It feels that I'm working to fast xD I worked 9 hours yesterday and today I'll work as many hours required to release the BETA. Yes, I'll PM you
By the way, I thought I'd ask something about the heroes. Are all the heroes high-skilled or are there some newbie-friendly heroes and some extremely high-skill ones?
Well, about the heroes, it depends on how well you can play them in my opinion. Some heroes will be harder to play then others I think. We've got a hero that doesn't use mana, this hero will use something else, you'll see it when the BETA comes out!
Anyway, changes may be done to the heroes while we update this map, maybe they will get new skills or such, we'll see.
Edit 1: I've only got one thing left until I'll release the BETA, but I don't know how much time it will take to fix this thing.
Edit 2: Okey, it seems that the thing I've worked on is working! BETA is ready! I shall just do one last check on the map and then I'll release it
Edit 3: I'll release the BETA very soon, 5-20 minutes
The BETA is up! Download it from my first post!
We need all feedback we can get, positive or negative or random, so we can update this map even more, everything from testers is appreciated, thanks!
I picked the mana-less hero on the first try xD
I imagine that he would be a really impressive pusher, even in multiplayer.
Anyway, a quick list of bugs:
-Stone Throw (the one on the summon) doesn't have a hotkey. Q isn't working, at least.
-(Not sure if this is one) I can't use things like Sangera with the Clay Summoner, simply because he has no mana :S
-I got a debug message saying "Error Message missing!" when I died. My clay also continued flying around the location I died at. The error message occurred about 3 seconds after I died.
-When the Duel System fails, it gives a debug message. I suppose its just that It looks out of place, though.
The items aren't very unique (the basic + level 1 recipes), but some of the higher level ones looked pretty good. I find that the Clay Summoner's second skill costs quite a bit of clay, even more than his ultimate.
Also, his Clay is really weird. It does damage sometimes but doesn't do any damage at other times.
Found a typo in the Corrupted Ancient Protector's passive. It should say "Decreases the armor of nearby enemies. Root should also say "yourself" instead of "your self". Some of his tooltips could be rephrased slightly.
Root isn't very helpful for him, since it is rather costly (50 mana to root, 50 to uproot). There really isn't much incentive for rooting, with the exception of being able to stay in lane longer early game. However, this would mean that your mana would be extremely low throughout most of early game.
Corrupted Root's hotkey is not working.
From just some initial testing, I find this to be a very well done map. It is polished, looks really good and would be really fun to play with some friends.
BTW, Why Cancer Child?
EDIT: Earth Stomp looks really weird and it just makes Root even less useful (Push them away = can't hit you)
Thanks for testing! It's some nice feedback here! I'll answer everything, just wait a second. (+rep)
EDIT:
Clay Summoner
> I'll fix the hotkey for Stone Throw.
> Well, you are able to get mana to the Clay Summoner, simply if you buy any item that gives intelligence or add maximum mana
> Oh, I'll fix that the Clay will be removed on Death.
> About the hight cost of clay for "Summon Brother Trym(?)", if you mean that ability, we may fix in the next version.
> I'll check the clay damage, maybe the hit radius is too low.
Corrupted Ent (Corrupted Ancient Protector)
> Okey, I'll take a look at the tooltips!
> Well, root may be a good solution sometimes, but well, I think I may have to decrease the manacost abit then.
> I'll fix Corrupted Root's hotkey.
> Yeah, I know Earth Stomp looks abit weird, it's one of the oldest spells the map got, I may make a remake of it. Adding a parabola function.
Items
> Well, the items isn't really my work on the map, it's Drunken_Riders, but I can talk to him and we may improve the items abit.
Other
> Yeah, I noticed that "Error Message missing!" after I released the BETA, it will be fixed.
> Well, the duel system wont work in single player, you tested the map in single player, right?
> I have no idea why "Cancer Kid" is called "Cancer Kid", it's Drunken_Riders creation, but yeah, the name isn't that clever... People may take it bad. I'll talk to him and make a remake.
Thanks for testing again! If you test more heroes and find more buggs we'll appreciate very much!
New version is uploaded (Version 1.0.0b)!
Download the map and read about the changes here.
The updates will go much faster if you people test the map and write some feedback
Edit 1: The new version will soon be here (Version 1.1.0a). This version will contain one re-maked hero (Cancer Kid, with new model and modified spells) and four new heroes!
By the way, the new version will be uploaded here, but we'll link to the new version when it's released!
Edit 2: The new version will soon come, two heroes left to be fixed
Edit 3: We've released the new version! Download it here!
A quick comment about that other Ent guy. His Circle of Trees creates units that make a slashing sound when they attack. It sounds really weird.
Also, Thorns Aura seems to scale rather poorly. I personally think that taking just one level of the ability is already extremely powerful, since it gives you a 15% chance to disable your enemies. Perhaps it should scale the disable (7/9/11/13/15 %) along with the current scaling for damage return.
The Mechanical guy feels kinda weird to use. His Air missles thing is really hard to use (if you want a target to get hit twice) and his missle skill may bug if he cancels the channeling before the missle hits (its a bug with Cluster Rockets). Somehow, his Ultimate seems out of place. It is probably extremely powerful (Mechanical), but I can't really fit it together with the other abilities too well.
A quick comment about that other Ent guy. His Circle of Trees creates units that make a slashing sound when they attack. It sounds really weird.
Also, Thorns Aura seems to scale rather poorly. I personally think that taking just one level of the ability is already extremely powerful, since it gives you a 15% chance to disable your enemies. Perhaps it should scale the disable (7/9/11/13/15 %) along with the current scaling for damage return.
The Mechanical guy feels kinda weird to use. His Air missles thing is really hard to use (if you want a target to get hit twice) and his missle skill may bug if he cancels the channeling before the missle hits (its a bug with Cluster Rockets). Somehow, his Ultimate seems out of place. It is probably extremely powerful (Mechanical), but I can't really fit it together with the other abilities too well.
Hi, i will take a look at the sound by the trees in the cricle that the ent hero does but i will not change anything with his passive root ability.
About mechanical genius, i will not change him as it is for now, you say that the ability is hard to hit with, well not all heroes are easy to control, that would be boring imo. His ultimate is gonna be untouched aswell since i think the ability fits him.
i find this map very fun to play and the heroes abilities are amazing but there is balancing essues of hereos and items too needs more work.. hope to see this map became famous someday if you update it always i would likely host this everytime i play wc3...
i find this map very fun to play and the heroes abilities are amazing but there is balancing essues of hereos and items too needs more work.. hope to see this map became famous someday if you update it always i would likely host this everytime i play wc3...
Thats awesome to hear! About the balance issues of the heroes and items we'll of course do something about it. Every update contain balance fixes and other things.
If you find any bugs or something else I'll be glad if you tell us!
Edit 1: Patch 1.2.0a is done. I will upload it in a few minutes.
Edit 2: Patch 1.3.0a will soon be released, it's a pretty big update with four new heroes!
King Guard
Lightning Elemental
Lord of Frost
Mage of Regret
Edit 3: Credits have been updated.
Edit 4: Two of four heroes are done! So the new version is soon done! This patch will be pretty big with a lot of Gameplay changes.
Edit 5: We actually made a new list of the new heroes this patch. The new list look like this:
King Guard
Lightning Elemental
Lord of Frost
Re-make of Lord of Death (4 new abilities) (Thanks to random.guy27)
Also an almost total re-make of Dark Templar Knight (3 new abilities) (Thanks to random.guy27)
also, this patch will contain a lot of updates!
Edit 6: Patch 1.3.0a is released! Download it here!
Edit 7 (2010-08-19): Patch 1.4.0a is done! Download it here!
Edit 8 (2010-08-20): Patch 1.5.0a released. This is a very small update, with a new hero (Voodoo Hunter) and some minor performance fixes. Download it here!
Add an AI to the map? Well, I don't know yet. It will be a lot of work, but I'll see what we'll do You'll have to play it at LAN or Battle.net at the moment.
Edit (30-08-2010): Another version of the map is done (1.6.0a), with 4 new heroes! I hope it's stable and nothing is weird I'll upload it in a few minutes.
Edit 1 (??-??-????): Please download the latest patch (1.7.0a), because we noticed that patch 1.6.0b was extremely unstable and caused the whole map to live its own life... Haha. Anyway, please download the latest patch.
Edit 4 (2010-09-26): Patch 2.1.0a is uploaded! Read the patchlog/changelog! || Credit-list has also been updated!
HoW Patch 2.1.0a (Thanks to random.guy27)
Heroes Dark Spirit
> Fixed a new icon.
Assassin
> Changed start-strength from 16 to 17.
> Changed strength per level from 1.2 to 1.55.
> Changed start-intelligence from 17 to 15.
> Decreased the mana-cost of all abilities.
Lightning Elemental
> Renamed "Thunder Storm" to "Thunderstorm".
> Thunderstorm will now slow all units being hit ON CAST by 35% for 5 seconds.
Pandaren
> Fixed an issue with Pandaren Rush.
New Heroes
> New hero: Possessed Guardian
> New hero: Ranger
> New hero: Soldier of Narjz
Items
> Fixed a lot of description texts with the items.
> Renamed Sangera to "Tempest Boots" (Also changed icon).
> Renamed Corrupted Hand of Death to "Orb of Death" (Also changed icon).
> Renamed Orksi to "Battle Staff".
> Renamed Magical Helm of an Old Prince to "Helm of Valor".
> Changed the icon of Flash Step.
> Changed the icon of The Cleanser.
> New item: Soul Harvester
Bugs & Gameplay Special Lane Mobs (Crazy Troll and Rejected Angel)
> Crazy Troll will now have the same stats as Rejected Angel (850HP, 4 armor, 28 base damage and 350MP)
> Changed the Crazy Troll ability name to Troll Rage.
> Troll Rage will now temporarily increase attackspeed by 50% instead of 70%.
> Crazy Troll is now melee instead of a ranged unit.
> Changed the cast range of the Rejected Angels Healing Wave from 700 to 400.
> Rejected Angel will no longer run back to the base when have cast Healing Wave.
Systems
> Created a new system (Knockback System), that all knockback abilities can use, instead of running a seperate knockback
trigger for itself. This will increase the map performance and reduce lagg. The map size will also be reduced.
Other
> Lane Mobs will now get +25 hitpoints every 20 minutes (maximum of +150).
> Minor fixes.
Edit 5 (2010-09-29): Patch 2.2.0a is uploaded! Read the patchlog/changelog!
HoW Patch 2.2.0a (Thanks to zadelim & random.guy27)
Heroes Shadow Walker
> Fixed a hotkey issue with Curse of Shadow.
Demon Lord
> Changed the ability name for Command Aura to "Demon Strength".
> Fixed a hotkey issue with Demon Strength.
> Changed icon of Demon Strength.
An Intelligent Dwarf
> Fixed a hotkey issue with Yellow Flash.
Druid
> Fixed a hotkey issue with Bear Form.
Dragon
> Hopefully fixed an issue with Wave of Fire.
Ranger
> Decreased the collision of the Explosive Shot arrow.
> Decreased the Area of Effect of the explosion from Explosive Shot from 250 to 180.
> Decreased the pushback speed a little of the Explosive Shot.
> Changed the explosion effect of Explosive Shot.
> Changed the damage bonus % of Bow Mastery from 10/18/26/34/42% to 10/16/22/28/34%.
Voodoo Hunter
> Fixed the description text with Improved Glaive Attack.
Possessed Guardian
> Soul Control can no longer target Ancient units.
> You can no longer drop a possessed hero's items with the help of Soul Control.
> Soul Eater will now properly deal damage to banished units, but will remove the
banish effect from units being hit.
> Hellscream now displays how the bonus attack damage is calculated.
Soldier of Narjz
> Fixed a new icon.
Mechanical Genius
> Fixed a hotkey issue with Mechanical Titan.
New Heroes
> New hero: Rider
Items
> Tempest Boots will no longer allow a hero to teleport to another friendly hero.
> Mana Axe will now burn the mana properly.
> Soul Harvester do now have the Reveal Souls ability.
> Fixed the description with The Immortal.
> Fixed a buff issue with Ring of Honor.
> Changed icon of Flash Step.
> Hopefully fixed the issue with Death Wish, that you could damage yourself or allied heroes.
Bugs & Gameplay
> Removed the Weather Effect system.
> Updated the knockback system (minor changes).
> There will now appear a text when it's 25 seconds left before a new duel, that will notice you about this.
> Noxtru and Vimx is now classified as "Ancient" units.
> Removed a couple (hopefully all) of local variable memory leaks.
Ancient Living
> Fixed an issue with Power of the Ancient.
Death Archer
> Changed primary attribute from Intelligence to Agility.
> Changed start-agility from 17 to 22.
> Changed start-intelligence from 22 to 17.
> Remaked Cold Arrows into Marksmanship. (Being a skilled archer, her accuracy is phenomenal. Enemore will have a x% chance to deal extra damage on an attack that also will ignore her targets armor.)
> Shadow of Dispair will no longer reduce enemy units armor. Also the shadow will disappear when teleported to. Fear duration changed from 3/4/5 to 2/3/4.
> Fixed an issue with Arrow of Blood.
> Increased the cast range of Arrow of Blood from 800 to 1200.
Naga Emperor
> Fixed an issue with Sacrifice.
Mage of Regret
> Changed primary attribute from Agility to Intelligence.
> Changed start-agility from 24 to 18.
> Changed start-intelligence from 20 to 24.
> Remaked Magic Power into Essence Rip. (Cast a spell that slowly rips the bond between the physical and magical essences of an enemy. Deals damage over time for 3 seconds. After the said duration, the bond between the physical and magical essences of the enemy is completely rip, drastically slowing its movement speed and all nearby enemy units for 3 seconds.)
> Remaked Inner Power into Soul Torment. (Summon a malicious force at a targeted area that tortures not only the enemies' physical being, but their souls as well. All enemy units within the vicinity will take increasing damage over time. Lasts for 5 seconds.)
> Renamed Blindness to "Soul Eclipse" and sight range decrease changed from -575 to -400.
Rider
> Fixed a stun issue with Hammer of Battle.
King Guard
> Spike Shell now properly shows a buff icon.
New Heroes
> Re-maked Death Archer (25%)
> Re-maked Mage of Regret (75%)
Edit 9 (2010-10-05): Patch 2.4.0a is uploaded! Read the patchlog/changelog!
HoW Patch 2.4.0a
Heroes Soldier of Narjz
> Summon Narjz damage will now completely ignore units armor and deal full damage.
Moon Devil
> Fixed some issues with Orb of the Moon.
Mage of Regret
> Corrected the multiboard icon.
New Heroes
> New hero: The Thing
> New hero: Unholy Warrior
Items
> Old Jewel of Wisdom now properly requires its recipe item to be created.
> Fixed the issue that you couldn't get a Über Sheep. This recipe now requires a Sheep[250] and a Über Sheep Recipe[250].
It's finally here, patch 2.5.0a. After a lot of work, fixes, errors and everything that could happen to us, it's here. Download it now and try it out! Comments are appreciated! Thanks
HoW Patch 2.5.0a
Heroes The Thing
> Fixed some ability descriptions.
Plague Revenerant
> Changed the name of "Plague of Locusts" to "Plague of Lost Souls".
Unholy Warrior
> Changed his voice.
> Infernals from Fall of Chaos is now able to attack units properly.
Mage of Regret
> Changed the icon of Solar Eclipse from being a passive icon to an active icon.
> Essence Rip can no longer target everything, only enemy units.
Death Archer
> Fixed some description errors with Marksmanship.
Druid
> Rename the Endurance Aura ability to: "Presence of Nature".
> Changed icon of Presence of Nature.
An Intelligent Dwarf
> Fixed an issue with Hammer Slam.
Voodoo Hunter
> Fixed an issue with Voodoo Magic.
Dark Spirit
> Totem of Nightfall will now have an increasing AoE over time. Area of Effect start at 275, then expands by 75 per second (275>350>425>500).
New Heroes
> New hero: The Living Dead
> New hero: The Forsaken
> New hero: Zombie Master
Items
> All items have been re-maked (bonuses, costs and more).
> Enchanted Scroll do now have a 200 seconds cooldown instead of 90 seconds cooldown.
> Changed the manacost of Key of Time Jump from 50 mana to 75 mana.
> Changed the manacost of Flash Step from from 50 mana to 75.
> Ring of Honor will no longer affect enemy units.
> Changed the buff icon of Corrupted Hand of Death.
> Changed the icon of Saevio.
> Changed the icon and name of Light to Voodoo Staff.
> Changed the icon and name of Hood of the Felstalker to Cloak of the Wanderer.
> Changed the icon and name of Bow of Disaster to Velox.
> Changed the icon of Death Wish.
Bugs & Gameplay
> The amount of gold lost upon death decreased from 30% to 26%.
> Fixed a Neutral Passive creep in the forest to be a Neutral Hostile.
> Fixed some minor things.
Patch 2.6.0a
This patch didn't have that much changes, but a new hero is something nice anyway! Finally, all pre-made heroes are done, now... I don't really know what to do, keep balancing the map and add new things I think. Hm, those game modes have to be done too. Keep give us feedback please!
HoW Patch 2.6.0a (Thanks to random.guy27)
Heroes The Forsaken
> Improved ability descriptions.
> Life Sap drain values are changed from 110/140/170 to 90/130/180 and duration is changed to 5 seconds.
> The Wave of Terror missile is now faster.
> Wave of Terror values changed and it no longer slows the attack speed. Duration on debuff changed from 3.5 seconds to 4.5 seconds. Armor reduction changed from -2 to -3 and movementspeed reduction changed from 16/20/24/28/32% to 30/40/50/60/70%.
> Fixed an issue with The Pulse of the Forsaken.
Nerubian
> Mystic Net remake. Duration of movementspeed and attackspeed slow changed from 2/3/4/5/6 seconds to 6 seconds. Movementspeed reduction changed from 20/35/45/55/65% to 10/15/20/25/30% and attackspeed reduction changed from 10/15/20/25/30% to 20/35/45/55/65%.
Cannibal
> Ground Slam have been changed into Hunger Breakdown (pretty much the same ability, but with balance changes).
New Heroes
> New hero: Eternal King
Bugs & Gameplay
> Players will no longer get a new "edited" name, togheter with the hero name, after they have selected a hero.
Patch 2.7.0a Released
Patch 2.7.0a is released!
HoW Patch 2.7.0a (Thanks to random.guy27)
Heroes Cannibal
> The Feed ability has been replaced with Hell's Feast.
Death Archer (50% Re-make)
> The Death Blood ability has been replaced with Cursed Blood.
> The Arrow of Blood ability has been replaced with Anubis Shot.
Moon Devil (100% Re-make)
> The Spear of the Moon ability has been replaced with Power of the Moon (New version).
> The Moon Shell ability has been replaced with Body of Immortality.
> The Power of the Moon ability has been replaced with Forgotten Orb.
> The Moon Form ability has been replaced with Devils Pact.
Bugs & Gameplay
> Removed un-neccesary data (decreased the map size a little and loading time).
> Improved some things with the map.
> The Game Mode: [All Random] has been unlocked!
Patch 2.8.0a
Patch 2.8.0a has been released! Please download, rate and comment!
Just tested some of the heroes. Personally, I think that some of the hero designs are rather flawed.
First, we have the Naga Emperor. His third skill, Blood Sacrifice, allows him to sacrifice his health to increase the damage of his Ultimate. Blood Sacrifice cannot act on its own, and gives no actual bonuses unless you use it in combination with his Ultimate. I personally dislike skills like this, since the skill doesn't do anything by itself. I'd rather have Blood Sacrifice as a subskill of his Ultimate, one that is automatically acquired when you learn your Ultimate. Otherwise, it would be nice if Blood Sacrifice actually did something on its own, such as provide the Naga Emperor with mana regen per stack or instantly regenerate some mana based on the amount of health sacrificed (or just a flat amount).
Next up, we have the Murloc of the Damned. The hero design is rather fine, but I do not think he should be an Agility based hero. His skills suggest that he should be played as a mage, more than anything. In addition, his cooldowns are ridiculously long. I acknowledge that his spells are extremely powerful, but having really long cooldowns just makes the hero really boring. He'll be idling around for a long time, waiting for his cooldowns.
This would change, though, if he had a skill that provides him with decent DPS. If he becomes a DPS that uses his spells to supplement his damage, he would not be such a boring hero. For example, his first skill. It seems completely out of place. Invisibility doesn't really fit well with a skill that provides massive armour, since one provides a strong hit-and-run strategy, while the other suggests a more frontal assault kind of playstyle. Perhaps he should have an ability that allows him to
Ancient Wave-> Water Protection -> New Skill -> Charge in and fight -> Ultimate
Possibly some movement enhancing ability that also adds some damage output to the table.
The heroes are generally fine, though. Some have pretty unique skillsets. I really like the Clay Summoner guy and the Death Dragon.
By the way, the Lightning Elemental looks really weird when he jumps.
It's some sweet feedback you got here on those two heroes.
About the Naga Emperor, I think (if I remember correct), that Blood Sacrifice was a temporarily skill that we should have replaced in the future, but we must have forgotten that. I agree with what you say, that the skill itself it useless as long as you don't have the ultimate skill learned. I'll see what we'll do about this. Use Blood Sacrifice as a subskill also sounds pretty sweet and then add a completely new ability.
The Murloc of the Damned is a design from Drunken_Rider and I don't really understand this hero myself. I also agree here on what you say, the cooldowns are to high and the abilities themselves does not really fit that much togheter. I'll see what we'll do about this one too.
What do you mean with that the Lightning Elementals jump looks weird? I thought it looked good last time I tested him. Well, I'll give it a look.
Thanks again Zack, hope hearing from you again! +rep
The animation itself is fine. Its just funny seeing a hero with that model do a jump
The thing is, he doesn't really play a fitting animation when he jumps (unless I missed something), just kinda floats up.
BTW, the Dragon hero looks pretty good. However, his third skill is weird. It does not leave a trail of fire like it says it does, but the damage is still inflicted on the affected units (I think it's dealt instantly). His Black Dragon transformation thing show a timer stating "Metamorphosis". I suggest that the buff be changed to one that says something like "Black Dragon Form", just for cosmetic purposes.
Sorry for not responding Just didn't really know what I wanted to say :S
The new modes are pretty neat, though. However, won't -rt be kinda weird if you hit the one with very little heroes? Or is that Tavern off limits for that mode?
The animation itself is fine. Its just funny seeing a hero with that model do a jump
The thing is, he doesn't really play a fitting animation when he jumps (unless I missed something), just kinda floats up.
Yeah, you're right. I'll try do something about it later
About the Dragon hero, is it breath of fire you're talking about? I'll take a look at that one and see what the problem is. I'll also fix the buff, thanks again
Hm, didn't thought of that about the -rt mode... I think I'll disable it at the moment and when we add more heroes to the tavern I'll unlock it.
Patch 2.9.0a released
Patch 2.9.0a is released! This patch has some small changes to the UI and is a balance/fix patch. Read the changelog.
HoW Patch 2.9.0a (Thanks to Zack1996)
Heroes Qerhas Ogre Experience
> Flash Bombs' Blind effects duration changed from 4 seconds to 5 seconds.
Cursed Demon
> The duration of Cursed Darkness has changed from 10 seconds to 14 seconds.
> The required % with Blood Aura is changed from 40% to 32%.
Demon Lord
> The damage the Demon Lord suffer from Curse of Hell is now pure (ignoring armor and everything).
Intelligence Dwarf
> Hammer Slam will no longer have a chance to do the spell twice in a row, but damage is changed from 3x intelligence to 4x intelligence.
> Yellow Flash will now slow by 10/15/20% within the duration.
> The Yellow Flash debuff will now show its proper icon.
Ancient Living
> The duration of Circle of Nature changed to 6 seconds and the circle is slightly smaller.
> The number of bounces of Chain of Nature is changed from 4 to 4/5/6, also the root duration is changed from 3 seconds to 4 seconds.
Assassin
> Shadow Bane base slow is changed from 10% to 15%.
> The debuff duration of Nightmares Edge is changed from 2.5 seconds to 3 seconds.
Cannibal
> Hitpoint cost of Berserk changed from 80/120/160/200/240 to 100/140/180/220/260.
> The hitpoint cost of Berserk is now pure (ignoring armor and everything).
> The damage of Hell's Feast is changed from 90/180/270/360/450 to / 100/180/260/340/420.
Bugs & Gameplay
> Different changes to the UI (Unit Interface).
> The fog in-game has been changed.
> Hopefully fixed the multiboard issue when a player leaves.
> Leaving player will no longer have it's name changed to "Left...". Their name will just be colored with a gray color.
> The kick system is removed (because there are other programs that can do the same nowadays).
> The tavern (Heroes of the Ancient War) that has less heroes than the others are now disabled in the [Random Tavern] game modes, due to the lack of heroes.
> Re-made the core of the forbidden secrets (made it more efficient).
> The cost of upgrading a teams' lane units attackdamage has changed from 500 gold to 850 gold.
> The cost of upgrading a teams' lane units armor has changed from 500 gold to 550 gold.
Edit: Credits updated and we've added the story behind Heroes of War.
Patch 3.0.0a released!
HoW Patch 3.0.0a (Thanks to random.guy27)
Heroes
> Different mana cost, cooldown and ability description changes to some of the heroes.
Dragon (Emerald Dragon)
> Changed his name to Emerald Dragon.
> Fixed a buff issue with the Black Dragon ability.
Frost Wolf
> Fixed an issue with Frost Wolf that he wasn't able to use some of the items.
Cursed Demon
> Fixed a damage issue with Cursed Darkness (dealt 90% damage, not 10%).
> Fixed the duration on the debuff for Cursed Darkness.
Qerhas Ogre Experiment
> Increased the duration of Flash Bomb to 5.5 seconds.
Corrupted Ent
> Changed the health regeneration by Root from 4/8/12/26/20 to 6/10/15/20/28.
> Earth Stomp [Level 5] damage changed to 350.
> Corrupted Roots root damage changed to 50/70/90 and duration to 4 seconds. The poison damage changed to 15/20/25 damage per second.
Dark Spirit
> Seal of Agonys base slow changed from 20% to 30%.
> Changed the cooldown of Totem of Nightfall from 25 to 28 seconds.
> Fixed the description of Totem of Nightfall and fixed the effect issue.
Dark Templar
> The slow caused by Surging Demise has been changed to 28%.
> The duration of Field of Death has been changed from 5 seconds to 7 seconds.
First Born
> Swamp of Sorrow: AoE changed to 580, the duration of the movementspeed reduction changed to 8 seconds and the damage changed to 150/300/450.
King Guard
> Spiked Shell duration changed from 15 seconds to 12 seconds.
Dying Bug
> Toxic Everywhere!! now deals pure damage and can't be resisted.
> The amount of required attacks for the Toxic Explosion has been changed to 5.
> The healing done from Pile of Food changed (for level 3, 4, 5) to 43/50/60 hitpoints per second.
Druid
> Roar can only be used in Bear Form (Roar is now also a sub-skill).
> Rejuvenation can only be used in Druid Form.
> Removed Rage and replaced it with Cyclone.
> Removed Presence of Nature and replaced it with Rejuvenation.
Death Archer
> The Anubis Shot explosion now works properly.
> The Anubis Shot debuff duration has been increased to 4 seconds.
New Heroes
> Arcane Disciple
Items
> Added a new item: Improved Envenomed Spear.
> Added a new item: Improved Kyrmena.
> Added a new item: Mysterious Boots
> Fixed a new icon to Kyrmena.
> Flash Step now properly gives the correct movement speed bonus.
> Fixed a huge fps drop issue with Dark's Silence ability.
> Changed the cooldown of Death Wish's ability from 26 to 65 seconds.
> Changed the cooldown of Orb of Eternal Mana and Symbol of Inner Life to 50 seconds.
> Changed the damage of Demonic Fade Boots to 26.
Bugs & Gameplay
> Spell damage now do 15% more damage to all heroes.
> Magic damage now do 15% more damage to all heroes.
> Removed un-used data.
> Small terrain improvements.
Patch 3.1.0a has been uploaded, with a lot of changes. Read the changelog to see them!
HoW Patch 3.1.0a (Thanks to random.guy27 & others)
Heroes Death Archer
> Increased the distance the arrow from Anubis Shot will travel.
> Anubis Shot now deals pure damage (ignoring armor).
Dark Spirit
> Improved ability description of Vengeance Unleash.
> Totem of Nightfall no longer deal damage if it's dead.
First Born
> Re-made the core of Swamp of Sorrow, it's now more efficient.
> Swamp of Sorrow now has a new icon.
Lightning Elemental
> Lightning Power now has 22% chance instead of 15%.
> Replaced the ability Lightning Jump with Lightning Bolt.
Ancient Living
> Replaced Power of the Ancient with Roots of Life.
> Circle of Nature duration changed to 5 seconds.
Eternal King
> Fixed a description issue with Time Vault.
> Time Vault no longer shows an area of effect targeting, just single point.
> Re-made Orb of Time and re-named the ability to Sphere of Age.
Mana Eater
> Replaced Mana Drain with Mana Field.
> Replaced Mana Beam with Mana Explosion.
> Mana Orb now burns 50/75/100/125/150 hitpoints and mana and deals pure damage (ignoring armor).
> Cooldown of Mana Orb changed to 10 seconds from 8 seconds.
Lord of Frost
> Fixed some things about Frost Nova.
Magic Twister
> The Divine Being summoned from Empra will now have a lifetimer at 45 seconds.
> Re-made Demonic Magic.
> Cursed Prison now only affect enemy units. Duration changed from 3.5 seconds to 2/2.5/3./3.5/4 seconds.
Plague Revenant
> Changed the base movementspeed from 285 to 290.
> Changed the base armor from 2 to 1.
> Changed the start strength from 17 to 18.
> Plague of Lost Souls::
> Fixed a description issue.
> Did a balance change with the damage.
> Changed the cooldown from 110 seconds to 95 seconds.
> Changed the manacost from 175 to 225.
> Rotting Flesh::
> Changed the debuff duration from 8 seconds to 6 seconds.
> Changed the cooldown from 18 seconds to 14 seconds.
> Changed the AoE from 275 to 225.
> Deceased Grounds::
> Changed the duration from 4/5/6/7/8 seconds to 6 seconds.
> Changed the movementspeed reduction from 25% to 45%.
> Changed the AoE from 400 to 350.
> Defiled Tempest::
> Changed the initial damage from 60/120/180/240/300 to 85/125/150/180/215.
> Changed the damage per second from 10/10/15/20/20 to 20.
> Changed the damage per second duration from 2 seconds to 3 seconds.
> Changed the cooldown from 15 seconds to 11 seconds.
King Guard
> Changed a model issue with Swarm of Death.
Murloc of the Damned
> Fixed a hotkey issue with Ancient Wave.
> Changed the cooldown of Ancient Wave to 7 seconds.
> Fixed a effect issue with Water Protection.
> Remade Walk of the Damned.
> Replaced Murloc's Blessing with Tidal Slash.
New Heroes
> Desert Scorpion
Items
> Ankh of All Mighty now deals 220 pure damage.
Bugs & Gameplay
> Spell damage now do 8% less damage to all heroes (got increased by 15% in Patch 3.0.0a, this will result with 7% increase).
> Magic damage now do 8% less damage to all heroes (got increased by 15% in Patch 3.0.0a, this will result with 7% increase).
> The Experience Gain Range has been increased and more efficient.
> Added an in-game command [-random] that allow you to get a random hero if you don't want to select a hero manually. This will also give you 200 extra gold to begin with.
We've also made a new hero Desert Scorpion, test him in-game!
Quick Note: Patch 3.2.0a has been released, download it now!
Sadly, this map is not fully compatible with Macs. You probably have more pressing issues to deal with in regards to this map, but i thought you should be aware of it.
Most likely it has to do with an issue have importing .blp textures (which is incompatible for macs) or flawed hero/ability/item icon paths.
Like when I select the middle stone in -AP mode for a hero, a fatal error will always result
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