Okay so. Partial review time. This partial review is needed for a bug happened that requires tackling. Before addresing that however, the review.

Atmosphere
I love it. The color hue, the gridiness, the shadows, the fog, it all works so well to establish this limboesc sort of place. Great style, the music works perfectly. It's things like this that make me drop from contests it's too good to compete.

Story
There is barely any, it can be resumed as "go kill bad guys in epic battle format". It works for itself and as the map is very self contained, the lack of depth doesn't hurt it.

Gameplay
Can't say I am a fan of having no mana at all. At least that's what it felt like for me, since outside of boss fights, goons didn't drop mana (souls) of any kind. I really liked the skills, which I will adress one at a time.

The shockwave thingy
I don't even remember it's name and that's because it was truly underwhelming. Almost no damage and I saw no use for the shockwave personally.

Momons cleave
Great spell, visually appealing, extremely useful, my go to spell

That guys Dash
I don't remember the demons name okay? in any case this spell is pretty weird, sometimes it would stun, sometimes it would not. Also, each time I used it I recovered 5 mana for a second. Is that intended?

Witch's ray
Okay... this one. Oh boi. What can I say. This spell is broken. Not because it doesn't work or because it deals too much damage, but because it's actually broken:

Spoiler: OOF

Now you may be wondering, what's wrong in this image? or may you saw it yourself. Well just in case you did not, the ray isn't stopping, even tho I ran out of mana long ago. Also the button to manually stop the ray is gone, it not only stopped me from being able to move (forcing me to restart the entire map because I tried to save and see if reloading would work... it didn't) but it dealt damage, with no cost at all. That can't be right.

Belsebab's Might
Didn't get to use this spell, but from what I saw from the boss fight it looks decent.

Overall
The map is incredible, while the difficulty might be a bit too hard for my liking, it is fun and engaging. Just that bugged spell is a big nono. I also have confidence on you fixing it. I'll get back on track on the map meanwhile.

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Hmm that is really weird, can't say I have experienced this.

It's used best when lining up units and then firing it. Lining up 5-6 shades and then using it will either kill all the shades, or down them to low HP which means easy mana/HP souls.

If you read the spell tooltip you see that it doesn't stun shades.

Yes, that is also written in the spell tooltip.

This is written down in the "known issues" section in the map thread. The solution is to use 'thereisnospoon' then deactivate the spell.

Just lick harder

 

I never used that spell on shades because I knew that. But for example the etherial goon was also inmune to it apparently.
huh, don't remember seeing that in the spell tooltip.
Using a command to fix the issue is never perfect and I wish I knew this before... anyway, I guess it's a really hard thing to code...

 

No unit should be immune to it except the life/death shades, but the hitbox can be slightly wonky if you use it on a unit you're standing right next to. And Beelzebub's hitbox is also a bit weird when it comes to the dash.

It's all the way at the bottom, in purple text.

I know it's not optimal, but it makes an otherwise game breaking bug very easy to circumvent.

The thing is that you need a set amount of buffer mana to cast it, and the spell will automatically deactivate when reaching a certain mana value. So let's say you need 5 mana to initiate casting, and the spell also deactivates when you reach 5 mana. That means you are still able to cast the spell while having exactly 5 mana, but since you're already at 5 mana it won't deactivate since you reached 5 mana before the spell was initiated. I can take another look and see if I can find a proper way to fix it, but I feel like this spell shouldn't be a reason for setting the status to awaiting update when there's an easy way to fix it.

 

You are right. Personally I recommend making the miminal treshold not equal to cast cost. I'll set it to approved as soon as I test the final boss.

EDIT:
So... I just permastunned Belsebab in this run... pretty funny. Dash OP.
I loved every second of the final battle btw, even tho the spinning fire totem thingy attack was the bane of my existance and made me loose most of the time (due to to fast rotation after breaking 2 totems), using the life and death gems as healing times was actually fun.

 

Actually permastunned him as in him not being un-stunned?

I'm glad you liked it.

The clue is to use your slam ability to take out all of them in one go. Just stand close enough to hit them all, but not so close that you get burned from the fire in the middle.

 

The thing is that I can never seem to get my mana high enough to use slam.
Also yes, he did not un-stun, which made the rest of the battle trivial.

 

Shades gives you 15 mana, slam costs 10. One shade is enough to use slam.

That is really weird. Can you explain a little more closely what you did? Simply use the stun ability? What Warcraft version do you use? I have played through the map at least 30 times, and I have never experienced this.

 

Yes, now that I remember I did use slam a few times but I didn't though of using it for totems.
As for the stun, yes, I simply used the dash, it was a diagonal-down dash (as in towards the start of the map feom Belzebab arena' pov). This happened only once and in 1.31. It was weird because I did use stun before and after and it worked as intended...

 

I see. Well I haven't been able to replicate the issue, so I'm not entirely sure how to fix it.

Any news on the map status?

 

For a full review watch the first one.
The final boss was good, and I liked the fight.
Despite a very weird bug that I was not able to replicate and me not liking the way you fixed the ray bug (but I understand why you did it this way) I can't see any reason to keep this awaiting update, the bugs are very small and self contained and don't break the experience.

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Can be too hard and too easy. There're still some problem but is great enough for a minimap
Here I have some tips for first time players.

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• Other

-Gather creeps near revive point may save some time.
-Right click "smart" may not attack the target, so use hotkey "A" instead.
-Hotkey "Ctrl+C" unlocks camera and reseted when revived.
-Get some mana before

• Item/Ability

-Don't move or drop items in battle, it causes hero to move randomly.
-Gem sometimes can't be placed, or placed but nothing happened.

-Don't use any ability to drop the gem. Hero can be attracted by shade and walk away.
-Q ability need to cast just face to the target to deal max dmg, but useless during boss fighting because it pauses the hero.
-W ability is great, especially after charge.
-Don't cast E ability, it's buggy.
-D charge's actual area is smaller than you think.

• Mammon

-Without abilities and items make him harder than the next two bosses.
-Bloodlust flurry has a long cooldown, and his attack dmg is lower than hero.
-Shade drops soul, but unit and doodad have collision size and likely to block you, so ignore them at first until they gathered too many.

-Keeping a short distance so he won't cast meak hook.
-When he was about to cast bloodlust flurry, walk away. Then back behind and attack him or clear shades. Melee attack is way more useful than Q ability in this fight.
-Attack at hero's max range, don't get to close or else hero can't run away from bloodlust flurry.

• Witch and Beelzebub

-Follow "Information for noobs"
-Attack wards and witch behind them. Samuel's charge is strange, he'll stun them first.
-When witch blinks away, just simply walk behind her.
-Could be the easest.

• Abaddon

-Hero always just charges through Abaddon or simply stop but cause no stun. D**n! I have no idea how to deal with this.
-Carry angel set item to keep survive, demonic set is weak against him. Gems are important to restore.
-Main dmg is caused by R ability. Melee attack is not useful in this battle.
-You may drop items inside the battlefield if you want to chage items.

-When it's Spell 4 time, the 4 wards circle, clear wards with R ability at once. Before this, D charge to get mana and Q to kill some creeps, then walk circly. Restore as much health and mana as you can.
Also, death of some wards make other wards circles faster, don't take long when started to clean the wards.

And what's critical rate and dmg, what parts deal "25% more dmg", melee or all kind? Though I have all demoic set.
Moving sword provides 2 food.
Abaddon cenima time is too long.
Shades look good in camera.


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I play on 1.30 single player.

 

Before the 2nd boss there is a gate which has 2 circles, on the left is the red one solved by Gem. What should I put on the right one (green)?

 

If you continue playing you will eventually get to second boss, which drops the yellow gem. The yellow gem goes in the yellow circle.

 

Ah, I found out. There is a three-way crossroad at the spawn point I didnt notice. The gate I'm talking about lead to 3rd boss.

 

Hmm, you should avoid using Blizzard's save/load function as it breaks some stuff in the map.

Also your screenshot contains some personal information, you should probably delete that.

 

Thanks

 

Ok hu...
Had to check I was on wc3 because I got some doubts.