Portals! Development thread.

[kewlthis]

PORTALS!

Basics:
This map is unique aos. Where you buy weapons to destroy your enemy. Every hero is equiped with two portals guns witch can be used to teleport your enemies and allies.


Other stuff that is good to know:
- Controlling lines will give your team extra income and spawn tanks for your team. The tanks will get stronger the longer you hold the lines
- Portal gun 1 portal will teleport units first if there are units on both portals. This way you can choose to teleport yourself or the enemy.
- Destroying Up and Down base will increase your teams units attack damage.

Features:
- 28 unique weapons
- New portal system
- Helicopter system (ai controlled unit)
- Massive effects (might cause lagg on some computers)
- extra modes -sh (short mode), -wp (weapon mode), -np (no portals), -nt (no tanks), -nc (no commanders)

Tips:
- Some weapons work better with others, so if you are playing first time you should start with blaster, shotgun or venom bow before buying more expensive items. Example: Pain Packer is short cooldown, low mana cost spell, but it takes your hp so you need some healing spells/helicopter.
- If you cant catch your enemy try: Ring of the lich king, darkness cannon, flower power and venom bow. They are really usefull to slow enemies down.

Lastest changes:
v1.9 changes:
- slightly decreased cooldown and increased range on cluster grenade
- np (no portals mode)
- 2 new spells
- fixed hotkeys as much as possible (some still have same hotkey)
- commanders and -nc mode
- no tanks mode

I hope you have fun playing this map. I created new thread for this project, because It aint on beta stage anymore. I hope to get some feedback, suggestions, ideas for weapons and bug reports here.

Also ty for earlier feedback, this is the result from it.

Download:Portals: v1.9 - The Hive Workshop - A Warcraft III Modding Site

 

[Nudl9]

I have seen it here before and thought the game was just another boring lame aos map, but today i actually bothered to play it on Bnet and gotta admit its actually pretty damn fun.
Bit confusing to times because you lose controll of ur portals.

My suggestion is that you switch the hotkeys between the portal spells, its like inverse from it looks like.
It should be T,Y (in order) and not Y,T.

You could have worked a bit more on the design of the map.
The terrain is pretty empty for example, add more to it and i suggest using a different tileset.
Ashenvale or Village usually looks best for normal human terrain.

 

[Squiggy]

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/f202/portals-development-thread-system-90-ready-mpi-86431/
Isn't that the same?

 

[PatruX]

Terrain looks really dull from the screenshots to be honest, maybe you should consider upating it? =)

 

[kewlthis]

Terrain looks really dull from the screenshots to be honest, maybe you should consider upating it? =)

I really dont know what to do with the terrain. As it is now, its very balanced, but looks ugly. I dont think it matters when you play it, but I gotta agree that some people wouldnt want to play this because it just looks so ugly.

 

[Nudl9]

What you should do is to variate the doodads and not just use trees.
Add some rocks, shrubs and water doodads (if u have water somewhere) or add some structures, signs, birds/bats, torches.
For the terrain, try make a river somewhere or make the terrain slightly more non-symmetrical.

 

[Ash]

I just played the newest version, hoping that it'd be better than the others, and I've got one thing to say about it:

This map is about as fun as injecting spider eggs into your eyelids, and about as enjoyable as watching your mom and dad have sex.

 

[Rui]

kewlthis, read the Rules before posting. You may not bump your thread / double-post in less than 48 hours.
~Thread Cleaned (7 posts deleted)

 

[kewlthis]

I just played the newest version, hoping that it'd be better than the others, and I've got one thing to say about it:

This map is about as fun as injecting spider eggs into your eyelids, and about as enjoyable as watching your mom and dad have sex.

Its not like you really played it. You are just being offensive.
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/f456/how-give-good-critique-83963-post672697/#post672697 are you fucking kiding me?

 

[Ash]

Its not like you really played it. You are just being offensive.
How to give good Critique - The Hive Workshop - A Warcraft III Modding Site are you fucking kiding me?

Stop making excuses for your half-arsed maps. I've already offered to help you out with your map, on several occasions, but you just turn it down and say things along the line of 'OMG U R NOT KNO WHAT URE SAYIN, U R JUST FLAMMING ME BCUZ U CNNT MAEK A GD MAP'. I think you need to reassess yourself, and what you hope to achieve from your map, otherwise you'll be eternally stuck in the shitfest you're in now.

So, once again, I offer my helping hand, if you want it.

 

[StasMaN]

Kewlthis , you really should put some spirit into your project and make it better , not post shit and degrade the quality of other people projects . (this post will probably be deleted by Rui and also I'll lose another 2 rep , he seems to have personal grudge against me somewhy)

 

[kewlthis]

Kewlthis , you really should put some spirit into your project and make it better , not post shit and degrade the quality of other people projects . (this post will probably be deleted by Rui and also I'll lose another 2 rep , he seems to have personal grudge against me somewhy)

Lol you shouldnt get neg rep for that (unlike ash). I dont know if you even tested the map, but Ill show you my points that im not just flaming other projects.

First you can test this:
Portals: v1.5b - The Hive Workshop - A Warcraft III Modding Site

and read this:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/753313-post55.html
and
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/f462/weapon-ideas-portals-93460/

and then you can play this:
Portals: v1.9 - The Hive Workshop - A Warcraft III Modding Site

Iv done most of the things which people have suggested (the suggestions have been very good). So you cant say I havent tried to make my map better. Some even say its good and some dont like it. I still find it better and more fun than those naruto maps.

This map is a primitive version of an AoS. It uses a new system known as portals, but never really seems to get the knack of it right; Other than ganking, which is a rarity itself, you never seem to use them.

The reason for this is the targeting. It's hard to get it to go to the right place and even harder to hit units.

Speaking of units; they're pretty much balanced. Although 'add-ons' (such as guns, the helicopter etc) aren't. For example, you can make your chopper' permanently invisible and give it an attack that will damage any close enemy units.

The weapons that you can buy are all pretty much balanced (with the exception being a few weapons with massive casting times, puny-to-none damage and overkill) although some cause a big drop in the FPS.

The explanations of weapons are pretty bad too, you may want to touch them up a bit.

All in all, the game could use a lot of work. In my opinion the portal system would be funnier to play in a hero-arena styled map, but whatever'll be will be.

2/5

This was rating from portals v1.5. And iv done some of these changes, and you would know if you had tested the new version.

I just played the newest version, hoping that it'd be better than the others, and I've got one thing to say about it:

This map is about as fun as injecting spider eggs into your eyelids, and about as enjoyable as watching your mom and dad have sex.

Im always gratefull for good feedback, but you arent even trying to help. I dont really care/know why are you flaming my map, cause your posts will be deleded anyway.

 

[StasMaN]

Lol you shouldnt get neg rep for that (unlike ash). I dont know if you even tested the map, but Ill show you my points that im not just flaming other projects.

First you can test this:
Portals: v1.5b - The Hive Workshop - A Warcraft III Modding Site

and read this:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/753313-post55.html
and
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/f462/weapon-ideas-portals-93460/

and then you can play this:
Portals: v1.9 - The Hive Workshop - A Warcraft III Modding Site

Iv done most of the things which people have suggested (the suggestions have been very good). So you cant say I havent tried to make my map better. Some even say its good and some dont like it. I still find it better and more fun than those naruto maps.

and still , you're being a jerk in other project threads

 

[Ash]

You've also managed to break the rules, well done.

Double submission ftw?

 

[kewlthis]

You've also managed to break the rules, well done.

Double submission ftw?

already got -rep for that. So i tought its ok to use those to show that iv done something.

and still , you're being a jerk in other project threads

Pics or didnt happen.
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/f202/final-discovery-96844/#post801465
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/f202/warhammer-trailer-warcraft-3-a-97498/#post807825
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/f202/dark-invasion-ii-orpg-83389/index2.html#post706300

*edit* haha The -1neg rep from uploading the map two times expired. its still nice to get it back

 

[Ash]

Negrep doesn't expire, only infractions do...

 

[Bane]

already got -rep for that. So i tought its ok to use those to show that iv done something.



Pics or didnt happen.
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/f202/final-discovery-96844/#post801465
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/f202/warhammer-trailer-warcraft-3-a-97498/#post807825
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/f202/dark-invasion-ii-orpg-83389/index2.html#post706300

*edit* haha The -1neg rep from uploading the map two times expired. its still nice to get it back

Shut up. You came to my thread and started ragging on me because i had techies in it, saying that it was dota because i had a hero similar. Stop lying to the community, pull your head out of your ass and look around.

 

[Rui]

This clearly isn't getting anywhere.
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