Warhammer 40k Vanguard Strike

[deepstrasz]

As you can see, on 1.31.1, there are dire issues (attached video).

 

[biridius]

Thanks for reporting these.
I've added a cooldown to the code that creates formation indicators in case someone does that.
Not sure what's the deal with the food spikes. I tried to recreate the bug but it doesn't happen for me.

 

[deepstrasz]

Not sure what's the deal with the food spikes. I tried to recreate the bug but it doesn't happen for me.

Tried it on 1.31.1? It's pretty important to know that there are major code changes between 1.21 which was deemed exploitable and 1.29+.

 

[biridius]

It's 1.26, not 1.21 like the site shows (I think you have said before it's because of jngp).
Can I have more info on the food spikes? It's unclear from the video when exactly they happen.
There are no units being created when giving a move order, and all dummies and squad members cost 0 food, so it makes no sense to me how it could be spiking.

 

[deepstrasz]

Can I have more info on the food spikes? It's unclear from the video when exactly they happen.

I'm not sure either. It's when I click around with a group/squad/battalion of units, as you can see in the video. I haven't done anything else but move them around, clicking like crazy.
Is the map unprotected? I might try to open it and see the triggers, if they're not custom script but GUI that is.
I'm pretty sure it has to do with the patch version difference. 1.31.1 reads something badly and makes units taking food :\ or something.

If it's protected, you could send me a private message with the unprotected map for testing, if you want.

 

[biridius]

Is the map unprotected

It's unprotected, but as always I used JNGP for it and it's all c/vjass all over the place.

I'll try a trigger checking for units entering the map, checking if they take more than 0 food, and debugging its name and send it to you to test on the new wc3.
This should show messages on what exactly is it that's being created.

Edit: forgot to add a check for Player 1 red to avoid making messages from creeps/ai etc.

 

[deepstrasz]

It's unprotected, but as always I used JNGP for it and it's all c/vjass all over the place.

Yeah, can't open it in 1.31.1 editor :\
You should not be working with unofficial editors since there's a high chance of things not working at one point. Besides, I don't think JNGP has anything more than the new stuff added in 1.31+.

 

[biridius]

Does the food spike bug still happen?

I made a bit more sofisticated trigger to test food usage, type "-test food" and it will display when units change their food use, should work for created units, morph, etc. I would like to see what it says when the bug happens on 1.31
Edit: the system is in the main map file for 1.02, not in the earlier comment

 

[deepstrasz]

Does the food spike bug still happen?

Yes, sadly on both 1.31.1 and 1.30.4. I attached footage recorded on 1.30.4.

Also spam text with the -test food command occurs when moving the units as the food increases.

Spoiler

I wonder how this map plays out in 1.32+. I don't have it installed so I can't tell.

 

[biridius]

I think the issue lies with my trigger for building with squads, it creates a proxy copy of the ordered squad's portrait after checking if GetObjectName(orderid) != "Default string".
If it returns something else for invalid orders in the new versions, that would explain the food spikes.
I've added a couple extra checks, hope it works correctly now, could you check it for me?

 

[deepstrasz]

I think the issue lies with my trigger for building with squads, it creates a proxy copy of the ordered squad's portrait after checking if GetObjectName(orderid) != "Default string".
If it returns something else for invalid orders in the new versions, that would explain the food spikes.
I've added a couple extra checks, hope it works correctly now, could you check it for me?

Hey. It doesn't seem to happen anymore.
I'll check it further then and edit this post or post another one if you or someone else posts after this one.
What I've seen is that some brigades like the infantry have the Attack Ground ability in both melee and ranged mode but it doesn't work. Also, the ability has no UI cursor.

Question is, does your map still work properly on the version you've made it on now that you fixed it for 1.30+?

 

[biridius]

Thank you for testing.
Yes it works on my 1.26 wc3. I've just added a check for "" as well as "Default string", and a check for GetUnitPointValueByType to ensure the trigger doesn't treat orders like "move" as a build order anymore.

I'll go fix the attack ground thing, then update the main map file.
I should also make more screenshots since all the old ones are outdated.

 

[deepstrasz]

Spoiler: more comments

-the problem is that if you make full food (100) or almost, your units will not take orders instantly anymore and they will have to be put on a queue where it will make them walk a few paces, stop and so on
-another issue is the lag caused by many floating texts on the screen at one time; for one player it's OK but if there would be more or all players with full food, there won't be a fluid game
-would be a good idea to find more custom icons like for low morale and stuff
-not sure why melee attack mode would be useful when the soldiers have infinite ammo and the close damage is so low
-maybe you could think of better names and icons for the attack and armour types. Why do infantry have normal attack type for both melee and ranged?
-not sure if intended but brigades take the same food regardless if they don't have all their soldiers alive
-if you use hero models for non-hero units, their bodies will remain on the ground since they have no decay animations usually
-Stubbornness has the Reincarnation description
-Lead by Example's buff has no description
-Genestealers have some empty inventory slots with some lines as description
-Devastator Squads are a pain to handle; they either attack and don't want to move anymore or their leader remains somewhere behind
-Dreanought's Target Sponsons causes video glitches on the screen and the unit becomes invisible for a while; also it attacks even when moving with its back at the enemy
-I was expecting a bigger boom from the Basilisk to be honest
-of course some buildings look too medieval; a thing that maybe could be improved over time if you find the necessary models
-that Dreadnaught really is a pain; see video; the model needs fixing
-Support, Veteran and Conscripts look the same and attack pretty much the same. What is their role or how do enemy differentiate them?
-tanks also look pretty much similarly
-Toxic Miasma's icon is that of some other ability from the human faction; Ignore Cover, I think? Dreadful Presence too; Doom too
-same kinds of visual bugs after training the Trygone and other troops in the same building
-is Carnifex supposed to require 100 food?
-the Chaos tower looks like the one of the humans
-what's the role of the Chaos blight? I see buildings don't require it; does it give boni to the units like how undead regenerate on it?
-Renegades have the icon of Infantry and look the same
-Heavy Weapons and Fury of the Legion have the same icon
-there's some weird stuff going on with the video glitches; don't know why; some models probably
-Wraithbone Warsuits has the same icon as some other upgrade from some other faction, maybe Chaos
-Fortune's icon=Celestial Shield's
-all tanks from Aeldari jump ?
-well generally can't say much about the faction balance
-Power of WAAAGH has the Berserk buff, icon and all
-trying to build with shift+next command doesn't work

Spoiler: visual glitch

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EDIT:
Tested on the latest 1.32+ patch and the visual bugs don't appear anymore.
I'm having lag when I play with the humans and there are too many soldiers on the screen. This doesn't happen with the tyranids.

Anyways,
Approved.

 

[biridius]

Updated the map (ver 1.15).

• Added new race - Necrons
• Remade the squad upgrade system
• Some new units for Imperial guard and Orks

Full changelog in the changelog tab.
The map was compressed with widgetizer to optimize map size.
Space marine units were removed to save space, plan to add them as their own race in the next update, which will go beyond 8mb.

 

[biridius]

Updated the description. Removed old screenshots.
Since 1.16 added Dark eldar and Tau, mode selection screen, etc. full changelogs in the map development forum.

This is probably as far as I will take this map.
I started working on a remake that will utilise new game features from reforged, on lua.
It will not be 1.26 compatible unlike this map.
But that will take a long time.

 

[Rifleman]

this map is amazing i just download it and played 5 times already with bots , i find one bug why some units ( such as marines ) spawns un middle of the map ? its so annoying i created 2 pack of marines in early game and all of them dies instantly because they summoned at middle of the map and oneshotet by megaboiz
Edit : i played it again and i find another issue Commander unit description for robots Is wrong ( its for ork commander description )

 

[biridius]

Thanks for the review.
All marine units (and some others) deep strike on the building's rally point when trained. If you didn’t set the rally point they are supposed to appear near the building. Must be a bug, I'll look into it.

 

[Rifleman]

Thanks for the review.
All marine units (and some others) deep strike on the building's rally point when trained. If you didn’t set the rally point they are supposed to appear near the building. Must be a bug, I'll look into it.

i find out its not marine bug ( all units can get this bug ) i still dont find out whats the problem but still some units get summoned in the middle of the map
and guess what i find another bug
i uploaded image ( bug is happend when you change your melee stance to range or range to melee and attack one time ( its sounds nonsence to me but yeah ))
Edit: i keep on buging the armor and now my armor is minus lol
Edit: still keep on buging the armor and now the game cant just display my armor its display 0 armor but i have 100% damage reduction

 

[biridius]

It's a bug with the morph ability that changes the stance. Morphing adds any armour buffs on the hero permanently. It was supposed to be removed before the morphing is done but something must have went wrong.
I'll fix it too. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

 

[Korosh861]

hello this rifleman guy is my friend we play this map togather i want to say something when i want to select multiple squads some squads arent selected and sometimes when i order them to move to somewhere they stop at the middle of way and wonder around for themselves

 

[Rifleman]

It's a bug with the morph ability that changes the stance. Morphing adds any armour buffs on the hero permanently. It was supposed to be removed before the morphing is done but something must have went wrong.
I'll fix it too. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

and still another bug when selecting sub faction when other players click subfaction when you are in subfaction menu , menu will get bug out its hard to explain i will expain it with image
Edit: i uploaded the image as you can see im picked Alien subfaction with space marine its because when i was in subfaction menu my friend opened subfaction menu as well ( his race is alien) and my subfaction menu get buged out ( its wont change images of subfaction but description and name of subfaction will change )

 

[biridius]

Updated with the bug fixes.
Also there is some ripped music, and for Chaos units there are voice lines, because it was in the works.
+ Ogryn and DP models.

 

[Rifleman]

I played map again 2v2 ( me and my friend vs 2 insane bots ) in regicide mode , my friend got defeated in early game ( bot rushed him and he lose ) but i manage to win 1v2 because ai play so dumb in regicide mode they dont care about they hero there will rarely even flee when they hero are at low health ( one of the bots didnt flee at all and i kill his hero and other flee his hero in 3% health so i chased him down i kill him as well)
Edit: i dont know if this is bug or what but when player is defeated he still get conflict income its no problem in FFA mode but in 2v2 mode he can help his ally even when his defeated by giving ally his conflict

 

[biridius]

Thanks for reporting these.
Also there is a problem with survival mode when playing with multiple players, the fps may drop severely when wave 5 begins.
Please let me know of any other bugs you notice.

 

[biridius]

Small update. Added voice lines and fixed the bugs Rifleman reported. Also some changes to Survival and some other bug fixes.

Spoiler: Changelog 1.40

Eldar

• added unit speech
• Banshees: added aspect upgrades, howl ability, fixed missing attack sound

Orks

• added unit speech
• different models for turret & generator

Marines

• added unit speech

Guard

• added unit speech

Tau

• AI will now properly purchase drones and options for crisis suits, broadsides

Chaos

• Noise marines with bolters can now fire while moving

Survival mode

• Now the delay between waves is 2 minutes
• Reduced the number of hormagaunts spawning on wave 5
• Tyranids now spawn on random un-captured points
• If there are many players, tyranid nodes will spawn faster

Regicide mode

• AI heroes will retreat sooner

Other

• defeated players no longer have an income

 

[biridius]

Very small update.

• Changed the mechanics of Eldar & DE Webway portals. Now use warcraft 3 waygate mechanics. This is sort of a bug fix because some units would struggle to use the old portal system; it now works better with pathing at long distances, and units can retreat through the portals. Also enemies can now use the portal to get to your base, so the ability has more of a risk to use.
• Added squad-wise cooldowns for melee special attacks, to stop squads of multiple melee specialists from endlessly knocking down other squads.

Thanks to rsfghd for pointing out the issues, and the idea of using standard waygate mechanics.

 

[biridius]

Spoiler: Vanguard Strike Changelog 1.43

General

• added new game option "Slow fights", halves all damage
• fixed some unit sounds

Tau

• added sounds
• added hero abilities for Commander
• added research
• battlesuit support systems: added Multi-tracker, Counterfire, Vectored thruster
• hero signature systems: added PEN chip, Repulsor field, Stimm injector, Seismic fibrillator
• Tau now slow down like everyone else when running away from melee combat
• vehicle smart missile systems now require purchasing an upgrade after researching "missile technology"
• fixed battlesuit weapons being unable to backstab/flank

Orks

• added Wartrakk squadron, with options: shootas/skorchas/rokkits/lobbas

Imperial Guard

• model for Baneblade

Eldar

• added "Spirit stones" option for grav-tanks, reduces the chance of being stunned

 

[Wareditor]

Played this solo in survival. Overall was a nice experience. In survival it was too easy to take over the whole map and then turtle up for each wave - the sentry towers can kill every wave expect the artillery one.
I think what you are trying to achieve is hard to pull of in the wc3 engine because of its limitation.

Here are some notes I took while playing.

• The loading screen is awfully pixalated.
• There shouldn't be a time limit on picking your race in single player. I had to restart a few times just to check all my options.
• Though there should be a ready button.
• Played necros in survival mode.
• The game crashed at min 8 at the 3rd wave.
• Tomb assault tooltip color tag is faulty. Same thing with tomb defense.

 

[biridius]

Slightly better vindicator shield.

 

[biridius]

Changed ui to a more futuristic one by DampirTBs
Added models for eldar buildings
Added some voices for Dark Eldar
Fixed some things in some places. Nothing much else.

 

[biridius]

Spoiler: Changelog 1.45

Survival mode
Now there are random events:

• Assassination: lictors spawn, trying to kill your heroes.
• Subversion: genestealers uncap your strategic points.
• Shadow in the Warp: all player squads lose some morale.
• Swarm: hormagaunts and a carnifex spawn in your base.
• Spore bombardment: unleashes spore mines on your base.

Last Stand mode (new)

• No income. You have more starting resources instead.
• Strategic points drain enemy lives. Once a player's lives reach 0, they lose.
• Outlast your enemies to win.

Eldar, Dark Eldar

• Webway gates now last only 30 seconds.

Dark Eldar

• Building models.

Other

• Added race-specific sounds when your units are attacked or when you capture a point.
• New game option: Sabotage, making strategic points harder to control. Points will explode when captured, and you must keep a unit on the point to maintain control or it will revert to the neutral player.
• Builder units that aren't squads may no longer capture strategic points.

 

[Herohatcher]

Great Map. Great Coding.
Units spawn in platoons, like in the original warhammer games. You may select more than 12 units that way.
Indicators mark where your troops will move to. It works flaweless.
Lots of models and icons, which all fit very well. Would like to see more maps!

 

[biridius]

Spoiler: Changelog 1.46

Imperial Guard, Tau, Marines

• added building models

Tyranids

• Lictors changed to Hero armour, power cost increased

Survival

• Lictors now take reduced damage for the first few seconds
• Points captured by genestealers now drain conflict twice as fast

 

[MogulKahn]

Looks good

 

[biridius]

Found some bugs so a quick update.

Spoiler: Changelog 1.47

Fixes

• fixed Tactical marines having a barbed strangler icon instead of the disabled meltagun icon
• fixed marines having generators (though useless) in Last stand mode
• fixed some bizarre interactions of damage bonuses and reductions leading to units being healed instead of dying

Orks, Necrons

• Building models

Misc

• new model for Strategic points

 

[biridius]

Update 1.48.
Added two factions: Sisters of Battle and Lost and the Damned
Changed hero stance switch to use bearform instead of chaos, to avoid the armour stacking bug.

 

[biridius]

Spoiler: Changelog 1.49

General

• added progress indicator for when a strategic point is being captured, instead of popping up text
• added "ready" checkbox on the starting screen
• added a target priority system making anti-tank weapons prioritise enemy vehicles/monsters
• changed special effect for broken squad morale

Sisters

• added Castigator tank
• added Zephyrim (power swords) option for Seraphim
• added Storm bolters option to Dominions
• added Sacred Rose to subfaction bonus options
• fixed HQ Fortification

Lost and the Damned

• fixed HQ Fortification

 

[stan0033]

where the changelog ?

 

[biridius]

where the changelog ?

It should be inside the spoiler.

 

[stan0033]

It should be inside the spoiler.

 

[biridius]

 

[stan0033]

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oh, in the comments... usually i look in the description. What a chaos

 

[biridius]

Spoiler: Changelog 1.50

Sisters

• Added Celestian Sacresants (sisters with shields and melee weapons) and a building;
• Seraphim now detect invisible units;
• Most squads cost reduced, health increased slightly (+50), bolter damage reduced (-5), melee damage increased (+5);
• Inferno turrets buffed range and damage;
• Castigator cost, range and attack speed reduced slightly;

Drukhari

• Archon Animus Vitae is now the first ability;
• Archon Labyrinthine cunning is now ultimate, has area of effect, and does not give parry anymore;

Marines

• Fixed unboarding from Orbital Relays dropping units in the middle of the map when the rally point is set to a unit;

Other

• Added a 5 second cooldown for vehicle stuns from taking hard hits;
• Hero weapons with "mortal wounds" chance reduced 20->12%, damage to normal troops increased from 20->25%

Survival mode

• Spore bombardment duration reduced somewhat if "Slow fights" mode is not activated;
• Spore bombardment attackspeed and range reduced a little;
• Changed subversive genestealer spawns to be less predictable.

 

[biridius]

Spoiler: Changelog 1.51

General

• fixed slow response of option buttons caused by previous update
• when squads take losses, max hp of the portrait will not update until they leave combat, so that the squad's hp bar would drop (it was difficult to see that squads are taking losses when multiple are selected, as the health bar would remain green)
• added "ready?" label on the starting screen over the checkbox; changed color of all labels to yellow

Sisters

• added Living saint

Renegades

• added more subfactions
• added different ai scripts for different renegade subfactions
• Disciples now have invisibility by default, not locked to Tzeentch

Chaos and Renegades

• Tzeentch now gives squads a chance to avoid damage, instead of invisibility
• Nurgle no longer lowers move speed or damage taken, now only gives bonus regeneration

Chaos

• Alpha Legion now gives Chosen and Cultists invisibility, instead of increasing move speed and hp regen of infantry

Orks

• Kommandos moved to Mobile slot from Fire Support

 

[biridius]

Spoiler: Changelog 1.52

New faction - Adeptus Mechanicus (not complete; maybe will add more stuff later)

• squads with broken morale don't flee but don't respond to orders instead
• squads may select an imperative providing different passive bonuses and drawbacks
• hero: Magus Dominus
• troops: Skitarii Vanguard/Rangers, Electropriests, Kataphron servitors, Kastelan robots, Ruststalkers
• vehicles: Onager Dunecrawler
• selecting the Dark Mechanicum subfaction changes imperatives to marks of Chaos and unlocks daemon engines

General

• AI will use Deep Strike now
• AI squads will move on to the next point after capturing a point, instead of retreating
• Fortification HQ aura no longer affects vehicles
• Universal damage type renamed to High power
• High power damage to heroes and superheavy armour increased
• Power weapon damage to superheavy armour decreased
• Explosive damage to heroes increased
• fixed some typos saying Escalation instead of Conflict
• in Last stand, Tyranids and Chaos may no longer digest/sacrifice their units in Biomass Pools and Sacrificial Circles
• units built over limit somehow will be destroyed
• Some models have been updated with proper converted animations

Chaos

• builder unit is now Heretic
• Cultists no longer a builder unit, now detect invisible units; also cheaper
• Word Bearers Cultists now gain the same bonus as their Possessed
• Daemons are limited to 1 squad each except for World Eaters, Death Guard and Thousand Sons getting to spam daemons of the corresponding mark, and Word Bearers getting to spam all of them

Tau

• fixed Commander's Orbital uplink description
• Fire warriors Strike team range +200, gained Support turret with a missile pod
• Fire warriors Breacher team damage +10, gained Guardian field ability that absorbs damage
• Kroot health +100, standard limit +1, now gain researches when cannibalizing
• Vespid health +150, move speed +30, melee damage +10, attacks may now stun vehicles
• Sky ray attack base cooldown increased +2 sec.
• Hammerhead Railgun and Broadside Rail rifle attack cooldown increased +1 sec.

 

[Garcis]

Can you upload the models? I want to use it on others melee maps

 

[biridius]

Can you upload the models? I want to use it on others melee maps

Any models you would like in particular?

 

[Garcis]

Any models you would like in particular?

Necrons and tau

 

[biridius]

Here you go.
The Tau models and the buildings don't have their original animations. I animated them in Mdl Vis / Magos / animtransfer in Retera's. Back then I didn't know how to convert animations.
The Necron units aren't the ones I use in my map, these ones I converted recently but haven't put in the map yet. They have original animations.

The Necron Warrior and Lord you can find on xgm guru where the original author (Iron Maiden) posted them.