Runic TD v1.5a

[Moderator]

23:19, 31st Jul 2010
ap0calypse: Approved

 

[EMPerror]

could use a better description, but im gonna test it anyways cause it looks ok ^^

 

[Goatmilk]

I beat it yesterday on the easist mode there is, looks like a promising map. I didn't know about the "refresh emtpy rune" thingy (forgot its name) until really late, but it's really helpful for all those empty slots you get from combining. ^^ I dont remember finding any bugs, but I do remember leaking a bunch of mobs in the earlier levels but buying lives is really really cheap - esp. in early levels where gold is well, useless pretty much. Oh right, one thing: Life is spell liVes when there's more than one, whereas your descrip. says liFes instead.

Fun map overall, reminds me of Gem td but it's still pretty far from that map. Good work.

 

[kekeke]

first time i tried it i had a bug, the "food" became 67/50 and i couldn't construct any towers. I had the poisons / fire and oth runes and lots of towers that spawn minions.
I tried it again with different tower and i could finish the game. Some runes are used more often for runewords then others, i hope you'll add more combination. Also the upgraded version of the runes looks too much like the unupgraded one.
its a nice map

 

[.Talon]

food bug fixed and lives are now spelled correctly.

 

[Anachron]

Credits:

Icons by: Darkfang, CRAZYRUSSIAN, Anachron, KelThuzad, Mr.Goblin, SkirK and
WILLTHEALMIGHTY.

Nice, you gave credits.

I might check it out later.

Just one thing:
Could you please post screenshots and a better description?

 

[X-OMG-X]

Looks cool. Will chech it out.

 

[.Talon]

updated the description.
I hope its better now.

 

[Anachron]

I played it! Its kewl. Also the survival is really hard! Got it to level 30 something,...

I really like this TD. Also, its kind of less tower / spells it seems.

 

[twist_1337]

add some special like save points or something
but ye i like it !

 

[meester]

i found a bug in the last version (not in .99)

a snake attack my tower at the beginning of my maze (after first air lvl), here a screenshot :

http://img177.imageshack.us/i/wc3scrnshot103009140507.jpg/

i'm red player

in green, it's the way of the wave
in red the tower (only sha)
in blue the tower wich are attack by the snake

 

[EMPerror]

ok, it is a fun game and i really like the combinations mechanics and stuff. However i have some complaints...

at the end, there is only one tower which deals reasonable damage and is reasonable to get it. That is the hexagram. So in the end, it is all about getting attack speed towers, hexagrams and slow. I think you should get more ultimate towers.

Otherwise, great game, gets a 5/5

 

[.Talon]

Thanks for all the feedback

I will going on improving the map and there will be some new towers soon,and also some ultimates.
But ultimates need different researches so you can't get two researches on max
to get the highest upgrade of 2-rune-combinations which can be powerful, too.

i found a bug in the last version (not in .99)

a snake attack my tower at the beginning of my maze (after first air lvl), here a screenshot :

Maybe you placed the tower while the snake was in it?
Normally creeps should not attack towers and i don't know why they should else and it doesn't look like they are blocked by towers in your screen.

 

[franek]

Bug?

Found bug perma infernals it was anoying bug LastReplay

 

[.Talon]

Found bug perma infernals it was anoying bug LastReplay

fixed

 

[darkChaos23]

Difficulty is a little bit on the high side?Mob hp scales up rather quickly and random mode basically = suicide since you need 4 upgrades before you could actually do something, would prefer if the upgrades allowed step by step increment of the effectiveness of the said runes. Also gold ends being largely used for buying extra life, would've preffered if the gold was spent on developing your maze/towers/research.

Overall descent map, could use some balancing and additional runewords, well nothing else to be said that hasn't already been said.

 

[anteatereater]

comments about v1.25:

• major bug: damage aura from ShaElTorath is providing 15x damage and not 15% bonus damage. runic hexagram for example, is receiving +13215 bonus damage.
• speed aura from EsKaraOth does not provide itself with the aura. not that the damage from that tower is very significant, but it would be more accurate to let that aura go to everything in 700 range. likewise, ShaElTorath does not receive its own damage aura.
• EsKaTo does not show a proper tooltip for the armor reduction. to be exact, its tooltip changes to gibberish after every cast.
• KaOth does not attack air. is this intentional? if yes, it needs to have a warning in its description.
• the tooltip for the Ka rune upgrade needs to be edited for spacing.

keep up the good work i enjoy this map for the wide variety of combinations!

 

[anteatereater]

v1.13a solved that bug that happened at the start of the game when it wouldn't start (or at least I havent encountered it yet) which is great!

I found a few things so far:

• Ka Rune deals 196-198 dmg and pwns air
• Others can see my builder's inventory (Player Red), but I can't see theirs
• The hexagram with Carrion Nova has the remove rune button

I've been hosting the map a lot and come across repeated noobish complaints. Many of them do not figure out to upgrade El and spend all their lumber for the round. And those that do don't manage to build attacking towers in time for the mobs to arrive. Maybe you can give a text warning or try the following:

• Text warning: Each round begins immediately once you spend ALL your lumber.
• For the first round, give a time gap for them to build glyphs and upgrade

There's always a player who just waits forever thinking the mobs are stuck

 

[.Talon]

Thanks Fixed all Carrion Hexagram issues.

Others can see my builder's inventory (Player Red), but I can't see theirs

I have never experienced this, always worked for me...
Do you have this problem always or only once?

 

[anteatereater]

wow, it's astounding how fast youve updated the map after i posted

i just tried v1.5
i think the problem with the inventory is that the other players just dont have the items haha
it's the same for 1.3a and 1.5, no items

 

[.Talon]

Don't know how this problem could occur, it worked some versions ago and I didn't change anything...
Fixed it but I still don't know why it didn't work

 

[anteatereater]

for a looong time i kept wondering why i never had any consistency in $ from game to game of runic td. some games id have loads of cash left over while others i could barely upgrade or recover any glyphs. it was just now after viewing a replay that i realized kills made by the runic hexagram's 1% instant death do not receive bounty.

is that tradeoff a game feature?

• carrion swarm stopped gaining mana
• can you make it so my towers cant attack through the walls that separate players?

 

[.Talon]

• carrion swarm stopped gaining mana

Carrion Swarm gets 1 mana for each unit it kills.

• can you make it so my towers cant attack through the walls that separate players?

I think this is impossible

 

[anteatereater]

Carrion Swarm gets 1 mana for each unit it kills.

darn it ill miss seeing 6 of those going off at once like fireworks

I think this is impossible

the one map i can think of that does this is sprout TD by Zoator (US East). player space is divided into wedges just like runic TD however, particles and tower AI is directed only to things within the given wedge. i don't know how it's done unfortunately, only that it's possible

when should we be expecting more rune combos? like ShaTo, OthElTo, or maybe a hexagram with Sharath

also, is there a reason you kept out a hotkey for building el glyphs?

 

[anteatereater]

i think this map would do very well on sc2 if you can replicate it the market for TDs is wide open right now

 

[Goatmilk]

Played a bit in the new version, and yes it is possible to add a black-wall-thing to block off the play areas, and it would be nice to have.

One bug when I played is if you wait and let it auto-choose the mode (race, survival, ..) and click one of them kinda at the same time, you'll end up with some very fucked up mode. When I played both me and my friend got swarmed by waves at all kind of weird times, and it seems like both mode got enabled at the same time.

It would also be nice with some better balanced towers, as it is now the only good one between the 2x4 rune towers is the one with chain lightning, the one with bounce can also do well, but some of the others are just way beyond useless and crap. Like the one with infernals, gees that one stinks big time.

Also, why do you HAVE to buy El rune at level 1? I get that you need to get it to build your mazing blocks etc, but it seems unfair that people going for an El+? combo can get theirs earlier than the rest.