[Campaign] Tales of Silventria Mechanics Thread

[Lord Aiden]

you guys should re-use those units in another map,

 

[Colonel Aster]

this was many months ago, the files were lost, the concept are great though, I think we have some sort of concept list for all these units (Blake does at least)

 

[Lord Siler]

The concepts sound great but look at it this way

the sniper unit:

650hp

50-65 attack

750 range

critical strike ability that does 5x the damage to all targets that are not heroes and are organic

in practice this just pisses off the player, theres no real need for this, it's like crusader v2

the tank unit was just that, a tank unit, I dont recall anything particular about it besides that

the ship was in the works, but it would essentially be a 900hp ship with a weak primary attack and the ability to cast monsoon (i think that's the spell)

I don't remember much more about this

 

[Colonel Aster]

Yup, I agree, the concept was good, but in practice it was terrible

 

[Lord Siler]

I was testing a new ability for a bit just now, but it yielded no significant progress, all I've learned is that you get the pulverize ability to display various effects at the overhead/chest/origin of the target unit

 

[Colonel Aster]

Wow, you're persistant, I gotta give that to you, why dont you try developing the battlerage or some other ability?? I understand you don't want the Milrazer having a spell shield like ability, but what else can you give them to make them unique both conceptually as well as in battle

 

[Lord Siler]

Trying to make something original here, you guys just wanna copy others

 

[Colonel Aster]

I understand. But that's not easy, and its also very time consuming

 

[Lord Siler]

No doubt about that, but it's also very rewarding once you succeed

 

[Lord Siler]

After some intense thinking and going back and forth about what to do I finally created the solution:

I'm not sure what the name of this ability will be but the Milrazer unit will have it.

The ability uses a trigger to check if the unit which the Milrazer is attacking is below a certain hp threshold (20-25%) and if it is, it gives the Milrazer a critical strike ability that does 8x the damage so it could finish the unit off in one strike.

In plain words - The Milrazer gets a "finishing blow" type of ability which allows it to instantly eliminate a unit when its hp is low (relative to its total hp)

 

[Rem]

thats an awesome idea =)

you know ur really good with this ability making thing if it was me having to do this i would just get stuck and give up
great job.....i mean it

 

[Lord Siler]

Thanks @Rem, I really had to put in effort for this one, its really hard to come up with original stuff, but I've managed to this time, hope it will set this unit apart from the others

 

[Rem]

im sure it will, did you guys have a model for the unit in mind yet

 

[Lord Siler]

Yeah, I think it's the gondor soldier one, here is the model:

 

[Rem]

fits good, maybe darknen it a bit for effect, otherwise it looks great

 

[Razorfang]

damn, you guys a really working hard, Blake would be proud!

 

[Lord Siler]

Thanks man

 

[Blake8]

I am proud, but Im also hella busy, I barely manage to keep up with my schedule these days, sorry I cant spend more time on here chatting with you guys like I used to

 

[Lord Siler]

Happy to hear from you, so you're free now or is this just a brief visit?

 

[Blake8]

just a brief visit for now, but I should be having some free time around mid or late december, so i'll stop by

 

[Razorfang]

glad to hear that you didn't forget about us man

 

[Lord Siler]

Lol, how could he forget, it's his campaign

 

[Razorfang]

well his and Aster's and it seems like Aster is becomming more and more in charge of it these days

 

[Lord Siler]

lol

 

[ArchDuke]

Yeah, I think it's the gondor soldier one, here is the model:
View attachment 285769

New unit?

 

[Rem]

yep, all thnx to Siler's brilliant work

 

[Lord Siler]

Thanks Rem, but I've only created an ability, much of the unit and its concept was made by Blake and Aster, although I've contributed too

 

[ArchDuke]

Dont be so humble, your praise is well deserved

 

[Lord Siler]

Thank you I shall reward you with some rep

 

[Rem]

he's right you desrve the praise

 

[ArchDuke]

no need for rep, but serious u come up with some really unique stuff when you put your mind to it

 

[Rem]

i completely agree =)

 

[Lord Siler]

thanks

 

[Razorfang]

all of this praise will surely get Aster jealous

 

[ArchDuke]

Siler did the work, he deserves the credit, thats all it is

 

[Lord Siler]

lol, I don't think he'll get jealous, last time was completely different, for some reason he thought we let @pyf take over his work within our project, so he got mad, no such thing is happening this time

 

[Razorfang]

maybe you dont know Aster very well

 

[Lord Siler]

Let's just continue this conversation in chat, it has nothing to do with the project at all, and we're doing it in the project thread

 

[Rem]

ok Siler, see you in chat

 

[Razorfang]

chat it is then

 

[Lord Aiden]

wow, Looks like I missed the party ..

 

[Colonel Aster]

I did as well, guess @Siler achieved what he wanted, well done, you earned the praise and the rep

 

[Lord Siler]

Glad to hear (read) that, well any progress from you end ?

 

[Lord Aiden]

me, Aster & Razor were talking about revising the names for some units

for instance:

Blackwolf -> Warwolf

Milrazer -> Milreaver

What do you think?

 

[Lord Siler]

I like the WarWolf one, Milreaver is ok, btw we still haven't decided much about the actual unit, I mean so far
we have that the unit will have around 1200hp
have the following abilities
???? - Allows the unit to do 5x the damage when attacking a unit whose hp is below 20%
Resistiant skin
Ensnare
???? - An ability that reduces the effectiveness of piercing attacks

 

[Lord Aiden]

A good name for that first ability would be something like "Upper Hand" or "Final strike" or something similar

 

[Lord Siler]

I've reworked that ability so that it allows the Milreaver to do 2.5 times the damage to units whos hp is below 50%, I think this makes it alot more effective, also I've decided to call the ability "killer instinct" for a lack of a better name

 

[Lord Aiden]

effective? you just made the ultimate elite unit

 

[Lord Siler]

It's stronger than a Zephyr, but a Lion Heart will destroy it on any day of the year

 

[Lord Aiden]

Lol, guess the level where you have to fight Milrein forces just got a lot more challenging