Village Protectors

[kadakash1]

I played this map and felt like a refreshing concept for an old gamemode, with jungling in between rounds, and the ease of buying completed recipe items with one click.

 

[Leforyer]

I played this map and felt like a refreshing concept for an old gamemode, with jungling in between rounds, and the ease of buying completed recipe items with one click.

Thank you for your comment! I will keep working on the map to improve the game experience.

 

[Alexen]

Well polished map with great potential. The starting cinematic is good. The heroes have detailed tooltips and it's great that the player is able to check the stats before picking any of them. A personal suggestion here would be to add the possibility to switch to another bracket of heroes even if I let's say click on Agility heroes. What I like the most is that you really focused on the aspects of the heroes. Their spells seem to synergize well for easy combos. The shop are easy to understand from the first glance. Map layout is really well done for this genre. Found a minor bug with Dalaria's second spell, the ring of ice crystals seems to damage enemies that are far away from the target area. You might wanna check the radius on that. Couriers are available to quickly bring items to your hero.

Suits approval!

 

[Leforyer]

Well polished map with great potential. The starting cinematic is good. The heroes have detailed tooltips and it's great that the player is able to check the stats before picking any of them. A personal suggestion here would be to add the possibility to switch to another bracket of heroes even if I let's say click on Agility heroes. What I like the most is that you really focused on the aspects of the heroes. Their spells seem to synergize well for easy combos. The shop are easy to understand from the first glance. Map layout is really well done for this genre. Found a minor bug with Dalaria's second spell, the ring of ice crystals seems to damage enemies that are far away from the target area. You might wanna check the radius on that. Couriers are available to quickly bring items to your hero.

Suits approval!

Thanks for your review! It is a great help to keep improving the map.

About the hero group switching, you can change the type of heroes by clicking the Resurrection Stone again.
If that doesn't happen, please let me know.

Thanks again for your publication. Soon I will upload a map improvement with some fixes and balances.

 

[Leforyer]

The first update of the map has been done.

V.1.10.
Short description: Some adjustments have been made to the difficulty system, Heroes skills and a fix to the healing system in the Final Boss fight.
Thank you for your suggestions and fixes. I will keep working on the map.

 

[Leforyer]

Second map update!

V.1.20.
Short description: We have balanced and added some items and modified abilities of Heroes and Demon Bosses. Finally, two new teleport caves have been added.

I have new ideas for Version 2.00. We are still working on Village Protectors. Thanks for your support.

 

[Ivorywinter]

needs a way to skip the opening cinematic when the map is so insanely difficult from the get-go
also why recommend 4/6/8 players in particular?

 

[Leforyer]

needs a way to skip the opening cinematic when the map is so insanely difficult from the get-go
also why recommend 4/6/8 players in particular?

Hello!

With respect to the cinematic, I have thought about skipping it. For the 1.27b versions the cinematic is useful to be able to preload some things of the map before starting. That's why I haven't changed it yet. Maybe I will change it in other updates.

I recommend that amount of players because I know that the map itself is very difficult. For 4 players: 3 can defend while 1 takes advantage of the time to gain resources in the forest until the Demon Boss arrives. With 6 and 8 the same thing happens.

I comment that the number of demons and life of the bosses increases when there are more players on the map.
Personally I like the map to be difficult to play. I think it is the essence of the map.

In the next updates I will add more rewards and quests to keep the map balanced.
Thanks for your feedback!

P.D.: Then let me know if you have won the map and what difficulty you played.

 

[deepstrasz]

The screenshots don't show. You might need to set them to public instead of private in Media.
Got a sudden crash (on 1.30.4 but not on 1.35) when the first demon wave started and the enemies were reaching the fountain. I was playing with the Paladin. Actually I think it has something to do with selecting some enemies. Most probably a model issue.
An Acolyte from the eastern/right lane suddenly returned to where it came from when almost reaching the fountain.

Overall a nice defense map with varied heroes and somewhat gameplay too.

Approved.

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[Leforyer]

The screenshots don't show. You might need to set them to public instead of private in Media.
Got a sudden crash (on 1.30.4 but not on 1.35) when the first demon wave started and the enemies were reaching the fountain. I was playing with the Paladin. Actually I think it has something to do with selecting some enemies. Most probably a model issue.
An Acolyte from the eastern/right lane suddenly returned to where it came from when almost reaching the fountain.

Overall a nice defense map with varied heroes and somewhat gameplay too.

Approved.

Hi! Thanks for your comment and for approving the map!

I haven't played on version 1.30 but it might be a bug in the model.
Regarding the waves, I will continue to improve the system to make it more consistent when acting.

Thanks again! I'm still working on the map.

 

[GhxBronie]

An excellent Hero-Defense map, with new mechanics to improve the Gamestyle.

Greetings

 

[Leforyer]

An excellent Hero-Defense map, with new mechanics to improve the Gamestyle.

Greetings

Thank you for your message! You have my respects.

 

[Leforyer]

Third map update!

V.1.30.
Short description: Improvements have been made to both the abilities of Heroes and Demon Bosses and to the Difficulty Selection.

Thank you for your support and we continue to work on the map!

 

[selffire]

Hey I played your map with 5 players on normal difficult.

I really love the design of the map, tooltips and items.

The Hitpoints of the bosses of the first and second is in my oppinion too high. The first boss took like 5 minutes to beat. Then sadly we had 2 leavers and the second boss killed us (we couldn't kill kim because he had more hp regen than we did damage to him).

What is missing:

• Abilities of Items and Heroes could maybe scale with hero level and/or stats of heroes too make them more viable
• Potions didn't heal enough hitpoints to survive the second boss (maybe add more expensive but potions that also heal % max hp?
• shared bounty for creeping / waves to make support heroes more viable (could be like 25% of bounty is shared between team member for example)
• creeps after first boss (in the forest) seem to give the same bounty, allthough they got more dmg

Notification:

• revive time doesn't seem to scale, it was pretty low with level 7
• lobby music/ ingame custom music still played after we defeated at the second boss for me. I had to close wc3 for it, to stop playing.

Question:

- do creeps heal near the fountain in the middle too?


Really neat, good quality map, looking for further development.

 

[Leforyer]

Hey I played your map with 5 players on normal difficult.

I really love the design of the map, tooltips and items.

The Hitpoints of the bosses of the first and second is in my oppinion too high. The first boss took like 5 minutes to beat. Then sadly we had 2 leavers and the second boss killed us (we couldn't kill kim because he had more hp regen than we did damage to him).

What is missing:

• Abilities of Items and Heroes could maybe scale with hero level and/or stats of heroes too make them more viable
• Potions didn't heal enough hitpoints to survive the second boss (maybe add more expensive but potions that also heal % max hp?
• shared bounty for creeping / waves to make support heroes more viable (could be like 25% of bounty is shared between team member for example)
• creeps after first boss (in the forest) seem to give the same bounty, allthough they got more dmg

Notification:

• revive time doesn't seem to scale, it was pretty low with level 7
• lobby music/ ingame custom music still played after we defeated at the second boss for me. I had to close wc3 for it, to stop playing.

Question:

- do creeps heal near the fountain in the middle too?


Really neat, good quality map, looking for further development.

Hi!
Thanks for playing the map and for the comment!

About the initial bosses, it's true that they have a lot of life. I'm going to balance that.
I can say that the game becomes very difficult when a player leaves. In the next versions I will distribute the resources of the players that leave to the rest of the team, so they can upgrade their items.

Actually, it was not in my plans that the skills of the items will scale based on level or stats. There is only one item that increases magic damage based on the hero's intelligence. I will probably change that item so that the magic damage increase will be based on the main attribute of each hero. Even so, I will keep in mind the idea you told me.

I like the idea of potions. I will surely add it. I also plan to add potions that give certain buffs.

The resources obtained by killing demons in the waves are shared among all players. But the creeps in the forest are not. I am going to add that some forest quests give rewards to the all team and not only to one player.

About the revive time of the heroes, my idea is to make it short so that the heroes are constantly fighting but the penalty for dying is that the Fountain receives direct damage.

It's strange what happens in warcraft reforged, when I play in version 1.27b the music stops when the map ends. Maybe I have to add some trigger to stop the music in reforged.

Creeps or demons are not healed at the fountain in the middle. But, Demon Bosses are healed when they receive an upgrade (the screen shakes).

Again, I appreciate your ideas for improving the map. I am still working on this project to balance it and improve the game experience.

 

[Leforyer]

Fourth map update!

V.1.40.
Short description: The waves and bosses have been improved. Also more creep zones and runes have been added to improve the hero. The artwork of the game icons has been improved.
Now I hope it will be a more intense and challenging game!

Thanks for the many tips and comments. I will keep working to improve the map experience.

 

[Warglaive91]

Elite map to play with friends. Good job!

 

[Leforyer]

Elite map to play with friends. Good job!

Waar!! Thanks for the comment and support! You are a genius!

 

[Leforyer]

Hello! Fifth map update!

V.1.50.

New Heroes, new items and a general balance in the waves and Bosses.

Thanks to everyone for the comments, both in the post and in the map tests. I hope you can enjoy this new version!

And as always... We will keep working on it.

 

[Eldrazor]

I like this map!

I played it with full house (7p) on Normal and the creeping in between the waves & trying to do quests is a lot of fun. It gives you a nice break to look at and think about items while still having something to do. The items are also very well designed and fun to work towards & have during the fights.

I played the Paladin, and I felt absolutely busted (in a good way) keeping my team alive with an insane amount of AoE healing with my ult and the armor item that heals AoE, I was also very survivable myself, and the Q also deals a pretty nice amount of damage vs the small mobs. I liked how the E was every Nth attack, and not a percentile chance. Maybe there can be some kind of indicator on which Nth attack we are at, and/or maybe the hammer could glow if it's about to stun?

Some parts of the bosses did feel pretty grindy, though, and I'm rarely a fan of bosses removing progress (e.g. through healing like the spider boss). The quests were sometimes also hard to find, wandering through the forest looking for the right kind of mob to have spawned. Maybe it would've been faster to pull them so another group spawns behind.
I loved that I could just heal myself & my team through AoE attacks from the boss if my R was on. Very paladin power fantasy.

The grindy bosses could've just been bad dps, who knows. The last boss felt good!

In total retrospect I do feel like the map took us a little too long, people were getting tired near the end because the fights are pretty intense too. It took us 80 min to complete the map.

I also got a bit confused on the runes you can buy from the pedestal in the center of time. I got a message I can only get 2? Can you level them up to a higher level? Where can you see them?

Thanks for the map! Good fun, will play again.

 

[Leforyer]

I like this map!

I played it with full house (7p) on Normal and the creeping in between the waves & trying to do quests is a lot of fun. It gives you a nice break to look at and think about items while still having something to do. The items are also very well designed and fun to work towards & have during the fights.

I played the Paladin, and I felt absolutely busted (in a good way) keeping my team alive with an insane amount of AoE healing with my ult and the armor item that heals AoE, I was also very survivable myself, and the Q also deals a pretty nice amount of damage vs the small mobs. I liked how the E was every Nth attack, and not a percentile chance. Maybe there can be some kind of indicator on which Nth attack we are at, and/or maybe the hammer could glow if it's about to stun?

Some parts of the bosses did feel pretty grindy, though, and I'm rarely a fan of bosses removing progress (e.g. through healing like the spider boss). The quests were sometimes also hard to find, wandering through the forest looking for the right kind of mob to have spawned. Maybe it would've been faster to pull them so another group spawns behind.
I loved that I could just heal myself & my team through AoE attacks from the boss if my R was on. Very paladin power fantasy.

The grindy bosses could've just been bad dps, who knows. The last boss felt good!

In total retrospect I do feel like the map took us a little too long, people were getting tired near the end because the fights are pretty intense too. It took us 80 min to complete the map.

I also got a bit confused on the runes you can buy from the pedestal in the center of time. I got a message I can only get 2? Can you level them up to a higher level? Where can you see them?

Thanks for the map! Good fun, will play again.

Hello!
Thanks for your comment!
I'm glad to hear that you completed the map and enjoyed it.

The Paladin is a very good hero tank/healer. I really liked the idea of the glowing hammer. I'm going to make it.

I recognize that the map is very intense from the start. I'm thinking of rebalancing, to make it less stressful.

About the runes, you can have at most 2 runes. And if you buy the rune again, it increases its level. The maximum level of each rune is 10. The runes are shown in the courier.

Maybe with this rune level increase, you can make the intensity of the map more passable.

I sincerely appreciate your comment. It is very sincere and detailed. Thank you for helping me to improve.

 

[FeikVizeege]

I'm glad I can still enjoy this as 1.26 version, although it crashes whenever I quit map or exit game.

Anyway, excellent map!

 

[Leforyer]

I'm glad I can still enjoy this as 1.26 version, although it crashes whenever I quit map or exit game.

Anyway, excellent map!

I am surprised that it is playable in that version. I always recommend 1.27b and up.
Thank you very much for the comment! It motivates me to keep working on this project.