Tanaris - Sapphiron

[MyPad]

Hello, matyko. I'm currently trying out your faction and here's what I found (along with my impressions of the faction):

Spoiler: Bugs and Oversights

Sapphiron

• Proper name in-game is Great Forst Wyrm (probably a spelling mistake).
  
  

• Encase

  • Despite having a mana cost displayed on the skill, it doesn't cost Sapphiron anything.
    I had to check if "thereisnospoon" was activated or not just to make sure.
    
    
  • This ability can be cast on friendly units and damage them as well. Perhaps an oversight?
    
    
  • The target can be unloaded from the Encase (Ward) unit.
    
    
  • This ability does not check if the unit has Resistant Skin or has a derivative thereof, causing it to be encased as if it was a unit with no resistant skin.
    
    
  • Encase (Ward) has a positive cast point, causing it to encase (devour) units with a slight delay.
    

• Chillwind

  • The ability already uses the disabled version of the icon, so the game loads a green texture whenever it is paused, which might not be desirable.
    
    
  • The ability creates new Tornadoes but does not get rid of old ones. Another oversight?

Accursed Hollow

• Shadow Lurk and Vortex upgrades have the same hotkey (L), which causes conflicts with researching the right upgrade.

Draconic Mausoleum

• Pamola and Azure Behemoth have the same hotkey (Q).

Pamola

• Static Shock - 'A00W'

  • "Duration - Normal" field is set to 0.0, which will cause the game to crash as it tries to exhume a corpse (or something) every 0.0 seconds.
    This is also a bug I encountered in my own entry (Rapid Fire), so this can be fixed by setting "Duration - Normal" to any other value than 0.0 (1.0 works).

Azure Behemoth

• Blue Inferno (Visual) - 'A01F'

  • Same problem as Pamola's Static Shock with the same solution.

 

[The Nightmare Book]

Note: I played on the earliest version possible, so my review could be somewhat outdated.

Shocked to myself, but I lost to a normal AI as Sapphiron. I liked the look of this custom race, its unusual mechanics for farming gold - which bugged out and led to no gold mining at some point, and no way to restore gold mining.

Sapphiron hero is nice, plays smoothly, and can fly - always a fine bonus.

Overall, I think that you either rework your gold mining mechanic (making it simple like the undead's one) or do something with it, since it can bug out and leave you without any gold in the dire moments of the match.

 

[deepstrasz]

Simple based on Techtree Contest #19 - Results Sadly there a multiple issues from game crashing/freezing to gameplay bugs.