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Minotaur’s Labyrinth Created by Shadow Fury Map Info: The Minotaur's Labyrinth offers an exciting horror experience to live out either alone or with your friends. The game is based on the greek mythology where you will fight the beast called *The Minotaur* in his large maze. Dare to venture in the obscure creepy atmosphere of the monotone maze in the role of a hapless villager and be careful not to get caught by the Minotaur! If he spots you, you must try to outrun him unless you want to become one of the many hundred corpses. To escape from the labyrinth, you shall not search for the exit, there isn't one! You must find an item called *Despair* and give it to a person called *The Cultist*. This is a pretty difficult quest so there's an alternative; kill the Minotaur! There are several items and weapons all around the maze to help you accomplish this task. Teamwork and cooperation are very important since the Minotaur is very strong. Only a group of heavily armed villagers may hope to slay him. Features: A thrilling, frightening and challenging gameplay experience which promises to give you intense fear A dark terrifying monotone ambient to let you get lost easily while running around desperately Real life resemblance. As you pick items, you'll see them worn on your own villager. Cool right? But what makes the game more realistic is that you can only pick one weapon per category, something not present in most Warcraft maps. For example, you cannot pick a sword and an axe or two shields. This means that you have to choose wisely the items you keep and throw away. One final real-life-like feature is the lighting system. If you manage to find a torch, the atmosphere will be less dark for you and for all the players around you A lot of items, including books, logs and diaries to give you information or help you with your quests, and weapons to fend off or even kill the Minotaur A secret chamber which can only be entered by finding a bloody key somewhere in the maze to unlock the gate closing it. It keeps something unknown to humanity from centuries because nobody ever managed to find it, will you discover it? Up to 10 players can play the map. This can be played single player or multiplayer with a full house, at your preference! Smart AI for both the villagers and the Minotaur, meaning that you can still play with other 9 computerized villagers in single player A lot of characters to meet who will help you to kill the Minotaur or even escape. Some people, however, will only accept to help you if you give them something back or accomplish a task for them. Areas of thicker fog. Keep away from such regions because they slow you down, providing a precious advantage to the Minotaur for slaying you Various game modes which are the following:
Some helpful tips: Scour for a torch! It's so dark in the labyrinth that you can scarcely see what's in front of you. However, if you find a torch, it'll be a big relief, trust me. If you pick the item Despair, be ready to run! By picking it you'll drive the Minotaur mad, giving him maximum movement speed for 10 seconds and revealing your location constantly for that duration. If you manage to survive that or the Minotaur is just too far from you, don't hesitate to search for the Cultist then! Didn't find Despair? Then don't *despair* too much. If one of your mates found it, keep looking for him instead. When a villager gives the Cultist a Despair, he's not the only one to leave the labyrinth; his followers are also allowed to escape so don’t miss the opportunity. Cooperate! Find the AI buddies and they will follow you. If you keep walking on your own, death will await you very soon. If you are playing in multiplayer, it's even better. Gather into one place and let everyone of you have a specific role. Due to the range of weapons present, you can create different combos, each with different purposes. For example, Angelic Spear + Orb of Light = High HP regeneration so if you get a good deal of armor, you'll be the tank of the team. Another example is getting the Thorium Hammer + Energy Elixirs which will make you the stunner of the situation. A final example is getting a Torch because this will allow you and all players around you to have a better vision of the maze. Distribute the roles evenly, don't just go for the stronger items (for instance Torch is the weakest weapon but if you don’t have one you and your mates will enjoy the darkness). Did you die too soon? There’s no need to hate yourself for that, you’ll be granted a second chance. You will become a ghost and your new task will be finding the black phantasm of Glandar. It’s unoffensive, don’t worry, but if we really need to talk about dangerous stuff, then be aware of the Soul Devourer. It is going to track your little ghost, make your task harder and try to vanquish you. It moves at a high speed so you have to find Glandar’s ghost quickly. Once you find it, kill it and you’ll revive. Screenshots: An image of the entire labyrinth: 
An area of various archways and the perilous crippling fog: 
Some mysterious demonic footprints: 
Various corpses, skulls and blood plus two deadly regions of crippling fog completely covered with archways: 
The secret chamber from outside (not showing the inside of course, it's your task discovering it): 
There are no screenshots of face-to-face encounters with the Minotaur because I don't want to ruin the surprise! Some of the screenshots are also outdated. Damn! I'm in the crippling fog: 
Playing a game with my computerized buddies: 
Oh look, I found the entrance to the secret chamber. I just need the damn key: 
Poor Villager 10, he was so young and naive. May Villager 8 escape from the Minotaur at least: 
Change Log: Map uploaded Removed Minotaur's gameplay Different camera perspective which will hopefully prevent view obstructions and allow better movement in the maze Decreased collision size of Mindless Wanderers and of the various characters in the labyrinth Decreased damage of all traps Added resistant skin to iron helmet and metal helmet Fixed some bugs with the AI and the ghost's camera Increased the Minotaur's maximum mana to 250 Changes the villager's name from *Villager* to *Lost Villager* Decreased darkness of maze Removed the + sign from the name of the map Removed auto-attacking of villagers Added new items (more to come) like Angelic Spear and Metallic Armor and a legendary item called Dragon Blade Revamped the old items. Now you are only able to pick one weapon, one shield, one armor and one helmet so each individual item shall give you some benefit by itself Increased Minotaur’s Hurl Boulder stun duration from 1.5 seconds to 2 Added new skills to the Minotaur which are Minotaur’s Frenzy (every 15% HP missing increases attack speed and lifesteal) and Roar of Terror (decreases armor and attack damage while also dealing damage) but removed Cannibalize Hopefully reduced the lag and ultimately removed all possible leaks Torch now provides vision to all nearby allies so if you got one torch others simply need to stay close to you and not get torches for themselves Both the Minotaur’s AI and villagers’ AI have been made smarter, especially the one of the villagers because they need to take human-like decisions such as dropping a weak item for a stronger one without bugs. The AI villagers are also cooperative now. They will follow you but they’ll also take the items they find convenient. However, if the Minotaur appears, the villagers will either fight or forsake you to him (in that case you’ll firstly have to escape then re-find the villagers, granted that you all survive) Increased Minotaur’s HP by a lot so you really need to cooperate to win (I tested the game 1000 times with the AI and I’m sure it’s balanced) The strongest items no more spawn in front of you. They spawn at a long range from all villagers so you'll really need to scour for them Added the skill "Scream" to the villager. It allows other nearby villager to spot your location but take care, it also permits the Minotaur as well to know where you are if he's close enough! Bows & Arrows bugs when picking it have been ultimately fixed Increased the height of all archways as to avoid camera obstruction Villagers spawn at great distances from one another, meaning that it's impossible for two villagers to spawn in the same region or find themselves very near to each other Fixed some awkward bugs and a rare bug which was spawning on a cliff and getting stuck Other little updates which I may have forgotten but the ones listed above are the most important ones Fixed two critical bugs. The camera would malfunction if a villager dies and you're not playing with Player 1 (Red). If you managed to play this multiplayer and encountered this problem, you can relax, it's finally fixed! The other bug was probably more concealed. *Chased* sometimes appeared and didn't change into *Alive* even if you moved away from the Minotaur to a large distance. Now this issue is gone! Zoomed out the camera on the Ghost to make it more comfortable. Glandar's ghost also moves at a lower speed to contrast the high speed of the Soul Devourer The Minotaur wins if all villagers die EVEN IF Glandar's ghost is still alive Added two new items: Halberd and Chromium Shield Renamed some items e.g Metal Helmet ---> Aluminium Helmet Changed the icons of some items The Minotaur now gains +5 damage for every villager around him. The first bonus damage of +5 is obtained for two villagers, not with one. 3 villagers = +10 damage and so on Priest and Necromancer do not require any quest to side with you. They just join you if you come within their range Fixed all the erroneous tooltips like "Scream" which showed a cooldown of 1 second whilst in reality it's 15 When you pick Despair, all villagers have your position pinged on their minimap and the picker of Despair has the position of the Cultist pinged. This is to let the task of escaping from the maze more probable than killing the Minotaur on Normal Mode Even smarter AI for both villagers and Minotaur Other little changes I may have forgotten Auto-attack disabled! I said that I had removed auto-attack in a recent version but apparently I hadn't Beginners mode implemented. Now first-time players can try this and novices can practice with this mode Insane mode has been made even more insane because it was too close to difficulty to normal mode The bug where the multiboard didn't display to host has been fixed All abilities can be cast instantaneously, meaning that you can use "Scream" while walking The secret chamber finally bears a secret! If you find the bloody key, run like hell to open the gate! Cultist's position pings every 20 seconds to all villagers with a Despair rune Some other stuff changed/added Camera modes implemented. This means you can change from first person view to zoomed normal camera view by pressing Esc to facilitate movement in groups Torch can be moved from the left hand to the right hand and vice versa. This will allow you to carry a torch and a weapon/shield at the same time Nightmare mode added for real hardcore players Two new items added: Haste Boots and Speed Gloves Some items now reduce movement or attack speed Credits: Special Thanks:
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Author's notes: WendigoWars is the original author. He created the layout of the maze and a few of the basic triggers. Besides, this map is all his idea, not mine. Basically, he gave me the foundations and I built on them this awesome map! Permission to upload this map myself has been given here Before trying the map with the AI or in multiplayer, try it out yourself alone in single player to know how scary this game is. After doing so, I strongly encourage you to test the map in multiplayer and report any lag/bugs you encounter The map will undergo various updates to implement the multiple missing elements like the purpose of the secret chamber As I've always been an honest reviewer with your maps, I wish you to be the same when judging my map. Point out all the negative issues you found in it, I'll accept them as long as you provide constructive criticism to improve my map. Don't forget to report bugs/errors/glitches so that I can fix them as soon as possible! Thank you and have |
Great Job Mr. Shadow!!!!
