Myth TFL 2.4 Beta(P)

[Moderator]

17:04, 28th Mar 2009 by bounty hunter2:
Sorry for the long wait for this map to be reviewed. I am writing a short review now. Firstly your map type and category are set to none and I fixed it for you.

Myth TFL 2.4 Beta(P) is an interesting game, that could most likely familiraze with the arena map type. You build an army and then in various game modes you play the game.

The game modes are quite interesting, and there are four of them, thus granting a big replayability factor to the game.

The terrain was done fine, however you used a little too much of the Blizzard cliffs that generally look bad. The city was to flat and symmetrical aswell.

The barracks are to close to each other, and if I train bigger sized units I can't click to check the small ones, I suggest you fix that.

To conclude, an interesting map that has some potential and is fairly original, Approved with a 3/5 (Useful) rating.

 

[skullzilla]

I played this, could only get 3 people to join though.. Don't know why.

This game sounded good on paper but when I actually played it, it felt like something was missing. Games were kind of short.

also, Assassins game mode didn't work correctly, nobody had a king.

 

[Bleedthrough]

thanks for the feedback.

Can you be a bit more specific on what was missing? Games are (intentionally) short; if you played//remember Myth, you might remember most games that were FFA were under 10 minutes total - ones that involved teams were usually no longer than 15-20 minutes.
So yeah, their short, that's why there's rematches.

And no one had a king for assassins? Strange - I'll look into it (every test for that mode works for me when we choose that mode)

Update: New version (2.3 Beta) uploaded,
New: Units get rewarded for kills they get. Scoring is still independent of kills, but it helps make kills mean something.

New: A voting option to enable/disable Trow & Forest Giants as purchaseable units.

Fixes: Assassins bug
I think I resolved the Assassins bug (it would generate one at the location of your barracks, if you didn't have a barracks yet from start location randomization it wouldn't have anywhere to create your King - it now properly waits for a player to have a barracks before generating the king)

Fixes: CTF Flag bug
The same thing as the assassins bug, just with CTF Flags.

Balance Change: Trow & Forest Giants do less damage now (in line with the damage from other units).

Balance Change: Mahir units do slightly more damage, but cost slightly more.

Balance Change: Archers & Soulless have had their weapon type changed to Missile.

 

[ProMaps1]

Rocks

I love this map its wayyyyy fun if you get lots of people =)

 

[skullzilla]

Good updates. I am not really sure what was missing, maybe it's because we didn't have enough people. The gameplay seemed knid of like hide and seek. I like the idea though, I think it will be fun like promaps1 says with more people.

 

[Bleedthrough]

Yeah I hear ya, having more people is definitely more fun =D

I'm going to be uploading a new beta version (2.4) soon, and here it is =D

Changes::
Expanded the King of the Hill region - it should be easier to get points for that mode now.

Reterrained the center - mostly to make it more army-friendly (especially for King of the Hill).

Changed the old "2 minutes 30 seconds" warning/vision sharing to Half Time (1/2 the game time). This is a testing phase feature - it should work just fine, but since it's using a different arithmetic for the time, it may be a little wonky.

Added an ability for Soulless - they can see enemy satchel charges.

Increased the damage & cooldown for Satchel Charges.

Added an ability for Assassin Kings - 10 second invulnerability with 30 second cooldown. Should help alleviate focus-firing balance issues (This may get tweaked in future versions).

Lowered Assassin King HP slightly (was 2500, now 2000).

Increased all unit's movement speed - mostly to help speed up games. Also, Myrmidons were improperly slow (they should have had equivalent to Berzerk movement speed, they are now).

Multiboards - There is a known bug with the Assassins multiboard, it may update the wrong row if your king is alive or dead. Not sure why as it uses the same setup as other boards (and those ones don't screw up that I've seen) - I think it's related to a player leaving the game, but it's something I'll look into fixing if it isn't fixed this version.

 

[Gallin]

id like to play this game out but i cant host so if anyone can host it plz /w me in game my name is Dia_Duit in useast

 

[Bleedthrough]

Hehe, I'd love to host it but my connection sucks (gogo dialup, and the new generation of people with no patience to wait for a DL).

Edit::
New version is in the works to make the Body Count multiboard easier to read (using % of total dmg dealt;; if you deal 1000 damage, and the total damage dealt from all players is 8000, your score is 12.5%.) Also for some balance changes.

A new game type may be added soon (using the Myth series "Last Man on the Hill" as a template). Probably not until a couple more bugs & balancing issues are worked out.

 

[Bleedthrough]

Passing project off

With work getting in the way of really putting time into the map, I'm passing it along to a friend of mine in Clan TDG.

Assuming their webpage is up, you can look for a release version whenever he gets done with it at::
http://www.jx3.net/TDG/wiki/index.php/

Judging from the changes he's put in so far, for more functionality/less leaks, it's going to be quite a bit different (yet still mostly the same) as the version here.

 

[wereguy2]

Very well made and fun, with informative tooltips and nice gameplay.
You should put in more gold options.
5/5

 

[bounty hunter2]

***The sole purpose of this comment is to enable me to rate this map.***