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Necropolis v1.6c

Story
The lost city of Khosar stands as a eternal monument in the burning sands.
A city of the dead, A necropolis.
In its dust drowned halls the ancients wake from the hereafter, drawn to live out lifes many vendetta's for an eternity.
In this land where peace is short lived and strife omnipresent, not even the dead are spared.


Overview

[color="#EDDA9"]The empire has long since crumbled, its many kings lie in their graves as a testament to the glories of the past.
You and your fellow heroes of old must continue the wars fought in life and exact vengeance on your enemies.
Death is not a release, merely a second chance to relive those battles fought in the ancient past.[/COLOR]


Necropolis is a Zone Control Map.

The Aim of the game is to destroy all your opponents Crypts.
Crypts are captured by killing them.
Players are divided into 2 teams with up to 5 players each.

Features
  • 12 Heroes
  • 9 Mercenary Types
  • 3 Game Modes
  • Scaling Battlefield

Structures

Crypts are the main objective, they are fragile buildings scattered around the map.

Bastions are large fortress structures that train units and provide regeneration to its owners. Has True Sight,

Crypt Defenders are weak towers that watch over important locations. Has Ture Sight.

All structures can be taken over by destroying them.


Heroes


Bone Prophet
Support Caster, excels at massing up and supporting large armies.
Learns Insight Seal, Premonition, Necromancy, Bone Obelisk

Risen Conqueror
Melee Skirmisher, excels at prolonged melee combat with enemy armies.
Learns Iron Fist, Blaze of Glory, Battle Command, Everlasting Defeat

Crypstalker
Ranged Assassin, excels at killing and debuffing high threat enemies and heroes.
Learns Vampiric Touch, Dead Silence, Siphon Soul, Gravechill Arrow

Corpse Giant
Support Tank, excels at creating corpses for fodder and soaking damage.
Learns Meat Cleaver, Bloodspill, Exhume, Goreblast

Ember Prince
Siege Caster, excels at inflicting huge amounts of AOE damage at long range.
Learns Firestorm, Cremation, Soul Burn, Everblaze

Foreunner
Support Melee, excels at transporting units across the battlefield and staging hit and run attacks.
Learns Precursive, Traverse Rift, Time Warp, Far Strike

Dust Wraith
Skirmishing Caster, excels at slowing advancing armies and ranged attacks.
Learns Sweeping Gale, Ghost Wind, Zephyr, Sand and Foam

Dune Reaper
Melee Assassin, excels at surviving at the heart of battle and finishing dying enemies.
Learns Wrecking Blow, Massacre, Blood Pact, Warmonger

Soul Conductor
Ranged caster, excels at countering physical damage and escaping focus fire.
Learns Wraith Blast, Beacon, Soul Tide, Requeim

Underking
Melee Caster, adept at ploughing into enemy defences and sokaing focus fire.
Learns Ground Siege, Mangle, Locust Swarm, Burrow Blast

Ghast Tamer
Melee Caster, adept at handling vast armies of air units which he can feed his lesser minions to.
Learns Devour, Winged Death, Ravenous Flock, Feeding Frenzy



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1.6c
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- Fixed a couple of bugs

1.5
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- Minor Terrain changes
- A new capturable Structure - Vault has been introduced. As such Command Obelisks are now gone and players will have to fight for the right to tech their units.

Item Changes
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- Made some changes to the Artfiacts level items
- Numerous changes to mid level items
- Removed the Support Shop
- Removed countless useless items.
- Useful items from the support shop are now sold by other vendors.

Unit Changes
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- Bone Disciples once again need corpses to use their active
- Raging Corpse changed to Bone Rager, its active now deals more damage

Hero Changes
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- Updated hero tooltips
- Added an SFX to Conscribe and it no longer affects summoned units.
- Redid Corpse Giant's Ultimate
- Reduced the health scaling on Corpse Giant
- Redid some of Bone Prophets abilities

Soul Conductor
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- Improved some SFX
- Renamed Collapse
- Reduced the speed boost on Spirit Trail.

Dune Reaper
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- Changed tag back to Assassin
- Redid Passive, it now causes him to deal a percentage of his damage as bonus uncounterable damage
- Redid Wrecking Blow, it now reduces armour and does a minor dot to enemies near the main target.
- Redid Culling Edge, now whirls repeatedly over 4 seconds, effect remains unchanged.
- Redid Massacre, it now gives lifesteal for the duration and resets cooldowns upon reaching a damage cap.

1.4
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- Max player count is now 4v4

Item Changes
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- Filled in the support shop

Unit Changes
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- Fixed a bug with Enforcers alternate stance
- Switched the cost of Enforcer and Guardian
- Resistance upgrades now only have 3 levels
- Reduced Enforcer's armour

Hero Changes
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- Added new Sfx to many abilities
- Reduced the AOE of Sand and Foam, also upped its damage and caused it to no longer damage allies.
- Upped the healing and damage of Dune Auger
- Redid Foreunner's E Skill
- Switched the Assassin/Skirmisher title on Dunereaper/Conqueror

Corpse Giant
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- First 2 abilties now scale with Health
- Passively gains strength as game progresses

Bone Prophet
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- Redid Ulti and second skill.
- Redid SFX for all abilities.

Underking
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- Redid Ulti
- Redid Second ability

Ghast Tamer
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- All abilties now passively increase Carrion Beasts stats in some way.
- Winged Death has hero damage and armour
- Consume heals twice as much

1.3
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- Upped the game time of conquest mode to 20 mins
- Increased the size of the smallest battlefield setting.
- Moved the hero pick zone to the unsused swampland at the far south
- Terrain changes
- MAJOR - All battlefields now allow for free roaming across the whole map. However only the Crypts within their limits are capturable. As a result, the Great Worm is accesible all the time.

Item Changes
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- Removed most useless items from the basic shops. As a result the Wisp shop is now gone and its gear is now sold by the Damned Merchant
- Added a new support shop
- Nassan's Mangler has been changed to be more worthy of its absurd cost
- Increased Sunfire Shroud's AOE to stop certain melee from outranging it.
- Increased the cost and stats of Defeat's Prisoner, its passive ability was too strong for such a cheap item.
- Added a new item to the offense shop - Naze's Cursebane
- Gravechill Plater has been replaced with Nassan's Thumper, which has an AOE active slow.

Unit Changes
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- Mastery Summons have more health
- Magic Resist Upgrades no longer cost Lumber, Gold cost has been increased slightly
- Changed the final tier ability for Enforcers and Sandstalkers

Hero Changes
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- Redid Dune Reaper's Ultimate - Massacre, now restores mana and health for very kill and resets cooldown upon reaching 5 kills.
- Dune Reaper's innate is now Reign of Terror, which allows him to instantly kill his victims if he wounds them enough.
- Ember Prince's Firestorm now has reduced cooldown each level from 5 at all ranks to 5/4/3 second cooldown.
- Corpse Giant now has exhume for an innate, cannibalize is now a learnable skill.

Forerunner
- Reduced the cooldown of Backtrack to 10 seconds.
- Time Warp is now an AOE zone that improves attackspeed and allows units to teleport within and out of it.
- The old passive effect of Time Warp is now attached to Precursive.
- Precrusive can also teleport to enemies, but will not heal them.

Dust Wraith
- Class Name changed to Wind Dancer
- Ghost Wind has a completely new effect.
- Replaced Zephyr with Dune Auger
- Changed Sand and Foam

Underking
- Reduced the stack limit on his innate, it now restores 5 health per stack consumed.
- Replaced Ground Siege with Caustic Salvo
- Blister Barrage is now Kingdom Come

Soul Conductor
- Redid aesthetics.
- Redid all non ultimate skills

1.2c
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- Fixed a bug in the scoring system.

Hero Changes
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- Fixed some tooltip errors
- Reduced the cooldown on Battle Command
- Improved spamability of Backtrack
- Replaced Cryptstalker's Vampiric Touch with a new ability - Leeching Haze

1.2b
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- Treasure is no longer gained by killing neutral Crypts but only from Player owned Crypts.
- To compensate, Hero Kills and Crypt Kills now give 2 treasure.
- Minor changes to certain items

Hero Changes
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- Fixed some inconsistencies with Ghast Tamer's Ultimate

1.2
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- Fixed some bugs
- Added 1 new Artifact
- Main base terrain is now more open and vulnerable

Hero Changes
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- Iron Fist now stuns from behind as opposed to dealing double damage.
- Replaced Underking's mangle with a new ability - Upheaval
- Redid the effect of Vassal's Eradicate

1.1
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- Fixed some bugs
- Added a new Game Mode - Conquest
- Improved the Abilties of Artifact items
- Added 3 New Artifacts
- Mercenary Cap is lower at the start but can be increased via upgrades.
- Removed the Leviathan

Unit Changes
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- Mecenary teching is now based on hero level instead of crypts
- Bone Servant's ability is now manualy activated
- Buffed Skullblade's active
- Redid the max tier abilties for Grave Robber and Tombrager
- Reduced the base damage of Guardians
- Boneworms now cost lumber, have less health but have no food cost.

Hero Changes
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- Upped the base health of all heroes.
- Reworked some of Dust Wraith's skillset
- Reworked most of Soul Conductor's skilset
- Changed the effect of Precursive
- Changed Underking's ultimate to Blister Barrage
- Redid some mechanics related to Ghast Tamer and gave him a unique Game Ender

1c
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- Fixed some mac related bugs

Unit Changes
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- Upped the health of Gravebows and Bone Servants
- Increased the Area of Cadaver Bomb

Hero Changes
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- Standard Carrion Beasts now have Heavy armor instead of unarmoured.
- Rebalanced certain items

1b
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- Fixed a bunch of bugs
- Upped the health of Gravebows
- Rebalanced the stats of some Winged Death


Keywords:
Necropolis, Desert, Sand, City,Ruins,Skulls,Skeletons, Zone Control
Contents

Necropolis v1.6c (Map)

Reviews
15:33, 13th Aug 2010 ap0calypse: Approved
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Messages
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Reviewee: 12th Exile
Clan: LoM

Hmm, I promise you a quality review these few days. Once I get round to actually bothering to review all over again.
 
Map Testing!!!

Map is tested and checked:

Positive Points:
1.Units are improved
2.Scenario script and history
3.Terrain is great!!!
4.Bug repaired!




Neutral Points:
1.You should import more Hive models
2.Add some powerful abilities



Negative Points:
1.None


This map should be approved,because it works in game,and there aren't BIG mistakes.
 
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You can open and close the multiboard a few seconds after game start to show the entire multiboard.

For some reason the description never updates correctly and I am for some reason unable change it.

Fixed descriptor for now.

EDIT.

Seems that the site auto deletes any description I enter.
 
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0.58

Ok Ive fixed all player group related issues, all player should no longer have the mentioned issues.

- Carrion Strike is now Carrion Storm and has been remade so the gargoyle does a carpet bomb along the ground.

- Fixed the issue in which the trigger created more dummy crypts on startup that required.

As a result the Victory trigger should now work properly at all times.

- Fixed a massive oversight that has been ingame since like 0.4 series. (Grave Turret had a multishot but was never removed.)

- Unliving Armour is now less badass and easier to kill, other defenders such as Embalming Slime are weaker.

- Raise dead Once again summons 2 skeletons, allowing to build up armies faster.

- All units have more movespeed, Crypts are also easier to destroy.

- The following units now require Crypts to summon
Guardian - 4
Scarab - 3
Berserker - 3
Pit Mummy (Assassin) - 2
Immortal - 3
Khalazzi Boneworm - 12 (thats half the map)
 
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This map is fantastic, very original. Hero customized spells are very interesting, which makes the game play really fun. The terrain is spectacular, the "bony" atmosphere is just great.:psmile: And as far as I played, everything seems balanced and well made. I rate this a 5/5 :grin:
 
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Information:


As a Reviewer of the Map Reviewers Group, I joined the THW Cleaning Event.
I
end up writing a fast review, or just posting the end state of the map, rating is not always included!


Current State for this map: Approved


I will contact the moderator to Approve/Reject the map, depending on what you recieved.

 
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Behold the version that never shoudl be...

0.61
- Remade Sentinels

- Added a new sfx for Voidzone

- Boneshatter no longer stuns heroes.

- Carrion Storm has been removed until its fixed.

- Various terrain and interface changes.

- Reduce player cap
 
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bugged seals (ulti)...
well i dunno if all but vengeance and fury seals are bugged... at least on lvl 2, dunno if also lvl 1
The vengeance seal appears above skele head, and in status (ofc with 50% chance) but after like 5 seconds after skele was summoned it goes away (the status, but not the visual affect) also i never noticed dmg dealt. also lvl 2 only does 100 dmg, just like lvl 1? laaame
fury seal on lvl 2 never appears, as if 0% chance.
map is fine though... too bad leavers because they dont understand...
 
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Vengeance Seal does indeed do 100 damage at level 2. It does 50 damage at level 1 both in tooltip and effect. Ive double checked just to be sure.

As for why the seal goes away after 5 seconds, do you have a replay so i can check it its working as intended? Dispel magic abilities can remove as the tooltip says.

Lastly thanks for pointing out the Fury Seal bug, Ill have it fixed right away.

Added a 0.61a version to address this.
 
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Version 1.1
1.1
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- Fixed some bugs
- Added a new Game Mode - Conquest
- Improved the Abilties of Artifact items
- Added 3 New Artifacts
- Mercenary Cap is lower at the start but can be increased via upgrades.
- Removed the Leviathan

Unit Changes
---------------------
- Mecenary teching is now based on hero level instead of crypts
- Bone Servant's ability is now manualy activated
- Buffed Skullblade's active
- Redid the max tier abilties for Grave Robber and Tombrager
- Reduced the base damage of Guardians
- Boneworms now cost lumber, have less health but have no food cost.

Hero Changes
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- Upped the base health of all heroes.
- Reworked some of Dust Wraith's skillset
- Reworked most of Soul Conductor's skilset
- Changed the effect of Precursive
- Changed Underking's ultimate to Blister Barrage
- Redid some mechanics related to Ghast Tamer and gave him a unique Game Ender
 
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1.2
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- Fixed some bugs
- Added 1 new Artifact
- Main base terrain is now more open and vulnerable

Hero Changes
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- Iron Fist now stuns from behind as opposed to dealing double damage.
- Replaced Underking's mangle with a new ability - Upheaval
- Redid the effect of Vassal's Eradicate
 
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Not really a bug, more of a loophole I found: If you take the Vassal hero and use Insurrection on your raised units while they're next to a captured crypt, they'll attack it and it will go back to neutral. Then, by killing the crypt (and your former units) again, you will get a treasure point, some gold and experience.

Not sure if this is worth pulling off in multiplayer (I can only play single), but thought I'd signal it.

Also, good map.
 
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Not really a bug, more of a loophole I found: If you take the Vassal hero and use Insurrection on your raised units while they're next to a captured crypt, they'll attack it and it will go back to neutral. Then, by killing the crypt (and your former units) again, you will get a treasure point, some gold and experience.

Not sure if this is worth pulling off in multiplayer (I can only play single), but thought I'd signal it.

Thanks for noting.

Ill try to find a solution asap although Im not quite sure what can be done.
 

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Tranverse Rift (R)

But the shortcut key (R) for the abilities is not working :(
 
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1.2c
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- Fixed a bug in the scoring system.

Hero Changes
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- Fixed some tooltip errors
- Reduced the cooldown on Battle Command
- Improved spamability of Backtrack
- Replaced Cryptstalker's Vampiric Touch with a new ability - Leeching Haze
 
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