I just found out about your maps and played through two of them today (Sweet Revenge Solo is a bit tedious compared to the others, especially since it doesn't have a difficulty setting). I will take a look at this in the next days. It's still a WIP, but what exactly can I expect so far? Is the mainquest done, is the terraining done or is everything still WIP? :0
Also, one thing I will suggest now after playing your other works. There are two things I would really like to see, but I am not sure if those would really fit in a 1-2 player map. But I suggest them anyways.
First, the difficulty should not only affect enemy stats. Higher difficulty should also do some other things, for example larger mob packs, new spells for some mobs, maybe some other things that make the game harder (maybe traps that weren't there before?). That would spice things up quite a bit and would suprise players who choose higher difficulties.
The other thing would be to add some randomness to the enemies. Sunken City does a really good job with this regarding mob packs. The size of the packs is always the same, but some (not all) packs are randomized. The very first pack you encounter when you enter the temple proper consists of 2 mobs, but the first mob is choosen randomly to be either mob A, mob B or mob C and the same is true for the other, which is choosen to be mob D or mob E. So while the size is always the same, the pack itself differs. Sometimes there are even minibosses instead of normal mobs. So basically, I would like to see some randomness in your mob packs. It doesn't have to be much, but this would definitly improve replayability. Maybe even add some rare mobs which don't even spawn every game. I know your games already have replayability with your different heroes, but even though your hero plays different, at least I am not as motivated to play through the exact same thing again. But if it changes a few things I would definitly play it a few more times.
Just my 2 cents. Since the game isn't finished yet, I thought suggesting something like this should better come sooner than later. If you actually implement it is still your decision.
Und zum Abschluss, Grüße aus Deutschland!
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Edit:
Okay, I played once through it until I died, which was at the Sand Serpent/Scorpion pack when the human rans away a second time. I finished the sewers, choose the Warlord, was level 5 and played on easy. Had all slots except for Ring and Gloves (bought the 100 gold gloves, but couldn't wear them). Overall, it's more of the same, which I really like. I think by now you more or less perfected this type of gameplay. Graphics are wonderful, gameplay is fun, it's again harder alone (especially since you can't buy potions so far) but no matter, it's cool.
So obvious bugs and unfinished stuff first. I am not sure what is a bug and what is simply unfinished, so I just list all:
- After killing one of the dogs, I apparently found the piglet but I couldn't turn in the quest.
- After killing a mob in a group, the others from the same group reset and run back to their starting position. This happens in most (but not all?) groups. Not sure about the rats, but it definitly happens in the sewers.
- There are often 2 merchants on top of each other, even for the same player. Player 1 has 2 glove merchants right next to each other, you can taget both at the same time with your mouse. There are also 2 Ring merchants for Player 2. Right next to the Offhand Merchant is a better Offhand Merchant. And where the better Offhand Merchant is supposed to be there are also 2 of him.
- The Orc where Thrall is seems to have a quest, but you can't do anything except click on the buttons.
- You can't accept Thrall's next quest after finishing the sewer quest.
- Some of the heroes are missing spells (Crossbowman I think).
- Potion Merchant doesn't sell anything.
- Gloves don't show class and level requirements at the merchant.
- If you die, you don't respawn.
So, that's all "bugs" I found. Now for some suggestions:
- Put a quest somewhere that explains what the difference between the difficulties is. I really would like to now what it does (the same was true for Dark Times), but it's not written anywhere.
- When you choose to skip the cinematic, does this only skip the intro cinematic or others as well? It sounds like the latter, but I am not sure if there even will be more. If it's supposed to only be the intro cinematic, maybe change the wording or make 2 choices (one for intro and one for the rest).
- On your way to the sewers, something should attack you. Maybe some of those dogs, a single scorpion or something completely different.
As I mentioned before the "Rare Mobs", "Randomness" and "Other changes on harder difficultues", I just post some suggestions regarding this which you could add, if you really plan to add something like this:
- On the way to the sewers, add something. Maybe only on hard. Maybe a rare mob that doesn't spawn every time.
- On hard, change the rats in the cellar to instead be a large single rat (basically a boss) instead of several small ones. So the game starts of hard right of the bat.
- Add a fourth mob to the sewers and change up the packs. So instead of having 1 archer and 2 melee skeletons at the bridges, maybe you could have 2 melees and a mage instead of an archer. Or even 3 ranged attackers. Just add some variety.
- On hard mode only, let the Necromancer teleport behind the barricades when he spawns the skeletons, so the players have to fight through them to actually reach him. Or instead turn him invulnerable until all adds are dead.
- Randomize the peons which actually drop gold. I think currently always the same drop gold, but instead choose maybe at random which 3 of those don't drop gold (or however many didn't drop anything). So the player is actually forced to examine all of them. If you do this, you could also maybe add some other random things, one of them awaking as a Mummy, dropping an item or small rats or carrion worms or whatever spawning. Maybe even a very low change one of them actually has a large amount of gold instead of nothing.
Well, stuff like this. Would spice things up and I would really enjoy it. So, that's my 2 cents after testing it once.
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Edit 2:
Played through it again, this time as far as I could get. Played a Necrolyte on easy, was level 8 (nearly 9) at the end, entered the mines and killed everything in there. First, a few bugs/unfinished things:
- Currently you can't wear Gloves and Rings. It just tells me your hero can't wear that. Tested with the Golden Ring (75 Gold) and the 50 gold caster gloves.
- You can't turn in the Pickaxe Quest.
- Enemies in the mines run away when they take damage. I am not sure if that's because the hero is ranged or just because they take damage, I actually didn't look if it happend earlier.
- The last two Sand Serpents were permanently invisible after turning invisible. They attacked me, but I couldn't see them and they were invisible for at least 10+ seconds. Killed them with a spell.
- If you leave the town to the west (in the desert, where the mines are) you can walk into the water of the very first river (along the walls of the town into the water).
- You can also "enter" all houses, especially those that have doors you don't see because of the perspective ("pointed north", if you want to call it that). The hero then just
runs through it and up to the ceiling. Can be done with other houses as well.
- After cornering the human for a third time, I think he should enter a house. He just moved in, attack me again, ran away and I think he then ran through the mountain.
- The orb explosion during the Necromancer encounter also hurts the other skeletons. Intended?
- The Necrolyte's final spell definitly doesn't have 120 seconds cooldown, more like 5.
- "damage" in the description of his first spell is spelled "damge". Not sure if there are more spelling errors, it's the only one I noticed so far.
- During the intro, some of the readable text (Mannoroth and I think Grom's 2 boxes before) disappear before the text is finished (speaking still continues).
Some suggestions. I think the Necrolyte is to strong. His first spells can easily kill groups of enemies, you just have to position them a bit, but even then it's a AoE around him at worst. Maybe reduce the damage (since it's AoE) or increase the CD, but it definitly needs a nerf. His second spell deals 10 + 100% INT as damage, but the tooltip reads 10 + 200%. I did 21 damage when I had 6 + 5 intelligence, which is 10 + 11. Should have been 10 + 22 = 32. I would also reduce the mana restoration, because currently it can be spammed, you mostly get a heal and loose like 3-5 mana. His passive heals 100% intelligence HP but also 5 mana which isn't mentioned and maybe not intended (not sure if percentage based, I just saw it at the end). Overall, it's so much easier with him where I would consider him broken. And remember, that's without a potion, gloves and a ring because I couldn't wear them.
