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| Mistress of Waves Srarda was merely looking for a ride back to the Zangarmarsh when she signed up to the Firefly experiment. Without giving much thought, she wrote 'wave manipulation' in the special skills box, hoping it would be vague enough to be misinterpreted as experience in quantum experiments. To her surprise, she was accepted. Only after being shrunk did she find out that her skills as a tidecaller do in fact translate well into the quantum realm. | 
| Astromancer As the ship's navigator, Varuun is the one to blame for the crash landing. Clearly he was supposed to navigate the ship through every speck of dust from Azeroth to Outland. Clearly the gnomes considered that this might become a problem for a quantum-sized spaceship when they came up with their brilliant idea. |
| Sylvan Ranger Anestria, a revered hero of the Second War, followed the call to conquer the new frontier in the name of the Alliance. While things aren't going swimmingly so far, the arena at least gives Anestria an opportunity to practice quantum combat for when she eventually returns with an entire battalion of her best rangers to wipe out the voidlord threat and make them pay for their actions. | 
| Sunfury Agent Silandori, a skilled spy sent by Kael'Thas, signed up for the Firefly experiment with the goal of stealing the plans of their enemies' new way of transportation upon arrival in Outland. While the crash landing is definitely a setback, at least she can now take revenge on the other passengers for making her listen to endless ramblings about the best cheese in Stormwind and other similarly asinine topics. |
| Shado-Pan Disciple Shaoju, a skilled martial artist and aspiring student of the secretive shado-pan order, was on his way to Stormwind to train with a renowned master of swords. However, fate had other plans for him as he unexpectedly found himself entangled in the Firefly experiment. How exactly it happened? Well, let's just say it involved a generous amount of ale. But despite the unforeseen turn of events, Shaoju embraces the challenge with his spirit high and a pint in hand. | 
| Amani Invoker Ramahn, once a powerful high priest of the eagle loa, has seen better days. Having fallen from grace, he is now lower on the pecking order than even a gnome. Used by the Alliance as a lab rat for their shrinking tech and subsequently brought on the Firefly in case another completely-safe™ invention had to be tested, Ramahn's luck took a turn for the better when Dimensius freed him from his captors. It's time for some payback! |
| Daughter of Cenarius As Shimo Jigglescrew's close friend, Mira was happy to help the gnome test his new invention. Expecting to meet tiny little men to chat with, the dryad was excited to enter the quantum realm, but instead she found herself captured by giant, mean voidlords. And to make matters worse, her leaves seem to be struggling to adapt to the darkness of space. | 
| Gnomish Tinker Forced by a contract he didn't fully read, Timon had no choice but to participate in the Firefly experiment as part of the grant that funded his own inventions. While not associated with the Mechanical Engineering Guild directly, Timon is afraid that this will not stop the other passengers from venting their frustrations on this little gnome. Better get your contraptions ready! |
| Arcane Prodigy Celestine eagerly signed up for the Firefly experiment as soon as she saw the flyers posted across Stormwind. The curiosity of the young mage apprentice was instantly piqued by the promises of adventure in an unknown realm. While the other passengers are distressed about their current predicament, Celestine is excited to test her new quantum powers and combine them with her arcane spells. | 
| Dreamwalker Unable to enter the Emerald Dream for quite some time, Amara grew increasingly desperate to restore her connection. It was then that she was offered a job as a counselor on the Firefly. She accepted, hoping to use the quantum realm as a gateway into the spiritual world. In hindsight, perhaps she should have tried a potion first. |
| Argent Knight Orik, the muscle of the Mechanical Engineering Guild, was hired to protect the passengers of the Firefly in the extremely-unlikely™ event that something goes wrong. Since his job is to keep the passengers safe, participating in the battle of Dimensius' arena would be in conflict with his duty. But as the saying goes: 'The ends justify the means.' | 
| Primal Mage While exploring the northern reaches of Elwynn Forest, Frayva suddenly found herself thrust 3000 years into the future by a gnomish quantum experiment. While the gnomes work on returning her to her own time, Frayva takes the opportunity to showcase her ancient magic, honed through daring feats like jumping into volcanoes rather than poring over dusty old tomes in comfort. |
| Earthen Sage Taukan was sent by the Earthen Ring to oversee the Firefly experiment and ensure that the gnomes do not threaten the delicate balance of the cosmos in their technological hubris. Now that the experiment has ended in disaster (imagine his shock!), Taukan blends his ancient druidic wisdom with cosmic powers in order to restore harmony to the quantum realm — by shooting particles into people's faces, obviously! | 
| Goblin Alchemist Meet Rixxa, the explosive Kezanian alchemist contracted to design and maintain the Firefly's rocket engines. After the unbridled success of the Firefly flight (with only two minor explosions and one major), she is now fully set on brewing up the best concoctions to turn the upcoming arena battle into a blast and ensure her foes see fireworks! |
| Chronomaster Leoven, an archmage of the Kirin Tor and a specialist in temporal magic, was supposed to be the ultimate failsafe for the Firefly experiment. In case of an unforeseen disaster, he would simply turn back time and prevent the catastrophe. Unfortunately, Leoven's ability to turn back time is limited to a few seconds, and he was taking a nap at the moment of the crash, missing the window of opportunity. Whoopsie! | 
| Lord of Elements Before being enlisted by the Goblin Experimental Engineering Korporation, Brok was in rough shape. The former shaman, now a derelict, was drinking and gambling in the streets of Orgrimmar. For him, the Firefly's accident is a godsend, not only entitling him to enough compensation to pay off his gambling debts, but also giving him an outlet for all his pent-up anger in Dimensius' arena. |
| Voidslime G'xul, an interstellar slime creature, hitchhiked on the Firefly after the ship accidentally picked it up while traversing the Gryphon nebula. To avoid detection, G'xul quickly devoured and replicated the ship's janitor. However, with the battle in Dimensius' arena looming, a more combat-prone form would be more suitable. |
| A Healing Potion. Restores 25 health. The weakest of the potions and not worth getting into a fight over. | 
| A Greater Healing Potion. Restores 40 health. Worth prioritizing when you are low on health. |
| A Mana Potion. Restores 50 mana. Situational, but can be quite powerful, when you are low on mana. | 
| A Super Potion. Instantly restores the hero back to full health and mana. These can be game-deciding! |
| A Minor Particle Pack. Contains two rolls of random particles. Always worth picking up and fighting over. | 
| A Greater Particle Pack. Contains five rolls of random particles. Drop everything else you're doing when you see these! |
| An HEV Tunic. Reduces all damage taken by 10%. One of the best permanent items. Like all permanents, they have the most value if picked up early in the match. | 
| An Elvish Accelerator. Increases particle launch velocity by 15%. Similar to the HEV Tunic in terms of power. |
| A Control Rod. Increases mana regeneration by 0.4. Useful for some heroes, but not as game-changing as other permanents. | 
| A pair of Space Slippers. Increases acceleration by 25 and max speed by 40. A great pickup, especially at the beginning of the match. |
| A Carbon Collector. Increases health regeneration by 0.4. A useful pickup, but not as powerful as other permanents. | 
| A Chrono Key. Reduces ability cooldowns by 25%. A very useful pickup for many heroes. |
| Arcane Barrage: Increases the launch velocity of Xen's particles by 50%. Quickly react with jigg's bosons or get away from her until the buff runs out. |
| Charge Up: Xen will start using this ability on Silver difficulty and higher, either on you or herself, depending on the game mode. If used on you, immediately stop launching electrons as your positive charge will attract them. Get away from all environmental electrons until the buff runs out. Evade incoming electrons by moving sideways. Jigg's bosons are not a reliable tool in this situation. |
| Absorption Field: Xen will use this ability when under attack. While channeling, it makes her immune to all particles and converts incoming particles into mana. Stop attacking her and move into the optimal position for when she stops channeling or simply fall back and pick up more powerups. |
| Unstable Vortex: Xen will use this ability both when threatened and when attempting to go for a kill. It creates an explosion that pushes away all nearby particles. Xen will use this explosion as a ramp to launch super-fast particles. Stop attacking and get your defensive abilities ready! |
Thanks a lot!OMG,such a unique map has great potential.It's a combination of WarlockBrawl and dodgeball,which requires tons of feedback from high-apm-pros.
There are twelve hotkeys!? Man,that was crazy,but I like it.
However,I'm a little bit disappointed to notice that some spells were too simple and similer.
Yes, the map has a very high skill cap, which is something I like. But I hope that it's not frustrating to play for beginners.
Oh, in Warm Up mode, I just wanted to introduce all the basic particles so that players can have a feeling for how they behave. To make the game mode interesting, you would probably need only the electron and the higgs boson. The other two particles don't do anything special. But they might do something special in other game modes. In Cosmic Shower, the positron can penetrate a crystal generator, while the electron cannot. But on the open field, the positron never reaches the opponent because it gets annihilated by stray electrons very quickly.
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I intended that every hero can be played only once, but because there are so few heroes right now, I disabled this when I increased the player amount to 6. It seems I didn't do it properly
. Apologies, it should be fixed now.
Thanks!Totally a cool and interactive map.
Well, I don't really understand what's going on in that video, but I do like Saltwater
. The particles are shooting lightnings to build the walls?
Well, I don't really understand what's going on in that video, but I do like Saltwater
I had the idea of making a particle physics based game for a decade or so. Tried it as a card game, that didn't work, as a board game, that didn't work either. This is my third try.
I know, some micro messages that we get from anywhere can work as inspiration for us and make us thing that we have come up with a completely unique idea. Hell even it is possible someone has readed or did same things I did to use particles on their maps with small cage, all things are possible even monitoring my pc use is possible because there is no way for me to detect if it happened or not since i have not invented windows so i have to only trust those who are in power and could actually do it without notice.@Wiizer - it is completely possible for two people to independently come up with a similar or even the same idea. Heck, sometimes even scientists who made actual scientific discoveries run into situations where two or more teams were working on the same stuff
There are two ways I could go. I could remove parts of the tutorial to make it shorter and have the players figure out the omitted stuff on their own, and/or I could reduce the speed of the tutorial so that you have more time to process it. What's better?
Yes, I have a few ideas. I definitely want to make a sandbox mode. Another option is to make a single-player variant of the survival games, where the task is to survive as long as possible. I would probably have to create a hero that's designed for single-player, with no PvP abilities.
Well, if you could add bots which would be a pain, but various game modes would be a really good idea.
There are bots available for Warm Up mode, but I know that's not very exciting. Teaching them to play the minigames seems too much of an effort to me for too low of a benefit. A dedicated single-player game mode I think is the better way to go.
I guess better wait for an update on the custom terrain tile front.
Hope springs eternal!
My advice is that you make an easier, dummy-like difficulty for noob players like me, so they don't get easily discouraged.
Thank you very much! I wanted to do a quantum-based game for quite a while. I explored card and board games, where you had to collect different particles to build the ones you need. But those ideas weren't that great. I made the engine for Particle Party at first just as a quasi tech-demo, but it was fun to play the prototype, so I made it into an actual game. But soon it was clear that shooting each other is a lot more fun than collecting particles, so that's where the focus shifted toA well-made and polished project. I may say it's unique in terms of gameplay because I haven't seen a similar map so far (I'm still wondering where you got the idea from).
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This is pretty funny! I was just talking with @StormKnight about this as he was complaining about the same issue. My rationale for doing it this way was that Q,W,E,R is the bottom row in most AoS maps and similar maps, and if there are additional abilities, they're often D or F and in the row above. So it made sense to me to have an inverted grid. But I told him that if there's another person who complains about this, I will change it, and then 30 minutes later I read your post. Good idea! Also enable it to alter it in the opposite direction if you just wanna jam Maelstrom Madness for hours on end like you would jam Deck 16 back in the days.
After spending countless hours testing against the Platinum A.I., which is basically equivalent to training under 100 times Earth's gravity, I can no longer relate to how a beginner experiences the A.I.. That's why it's great to have beta testers such as you and @K.V. to tell me these things.
Oh wow, even three G's! Thank you very much!
Thank you, always working on making the game easier to pick up!
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