Xnd Hero Siege 1.53

[Marchombre]

I just noticed this and idk how it works cause it's either i play solo or 8 people
The whole map is revealed when playing with 8 players which ruins the look and feel of the map cause you can just see everything

That's weird. Fog of war should be re-enabled when selection end, no matter the numbers the players
Or maybe you just noticed it while selection was still going on ?

 

[Marchombre]

Well, again a far bigger patch than expected.
I guess I couldn't help myself.


Version 1.50

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Major changes:

• Removed terrain flashbang introduced by Blizzard's change of texture. Icecrown Glacier's ice was a bit too much, so I put back some snow, and improved terraining here and there to make paths in snow clearer.
• Extreme attacks:
  • Added an event triggering on invaders kills. Invaders are units from extreme attacks: dragons, assassins, hydras and murlocs. Murloc's slaves will not count towards this event, so letting murlocs spawn more units will not make it faster.
    
  • Made the Hydra & Murloc spawn bigger, reducing risk of them getting stuck or overflowing in nearby alleys. Removed a wall section to make their exist easier. Be careful, this means it will be way harder to defend a choke point and make things harder.
    
  • Added a 4th wave of hydra attack.
    
• Items:
  • New shop. Items have been dispatched by themes.
    Shops have been reorganized (all items are now sorted by price). Might take a bit to get used to it, but it will make more sense.
    • Weaponry contains items focused on attacks and physical damage.
      
    • Armory contains items focused on defense.
      
    • Artificery contains items focused on spells and magic damage.
      
    • Jewelry contains items bringing various stats and utilitaries.
      
    • Apothecary contains items focus on potions and healing.
      
    • Library contains scrolls, books and tomes. (Some would say it's the nerd shop, but don't listen to them)
      
    • Workshop contains everything concerning buildings.
      
  • Workshop now available at lanes shop as well
    
  • New unique items:
    • Master Blade: item can be found in the Blademaster boss area after his death.
      
    • Demoninc Hand: item can be found in the Keeper of Flames area after his death.
      
    • Skeleton Armor: item can be found in Lord Marrowgar area after his death.
      
    • Admiral Cutlass: item can be found in the harbour area after the Admiral death. (This item was already there as a little easter egg, but received a new passive and is now officially here.)
      
  • New legendary items:
    • Dragon Staff, available in Artificery or as a reward to the Invaders Slayer event.
      
    • Sorcerer's Cuirass, available in Armory. Bonus Intelligence, spell crit chance, shield scaling on Intelligence.
      
    • Bandage, available in Apothecary shop. Bonus stats, passive healing increase, active healing ability.
      
  • New early items:
    • Bloody Ring, available in Jewelry shop. Allows a cd reset after taking a set amount of damage.
      
    • Booze Barrel, available in Apothecary shop. Enhances healing and mana potions.
      
    • Nicely shaped rock, available in Weaponry. Terrible attack item, but can transform later in something worth selling.
      
• Stone statue within 600 range of Castle will not be destroyed at the start of final wave. 600 Range is almost the entire snow area around the castle, exluding the far corners.
  This change aims to give a way for players to delay the attack on castle on solo mode, when you can't always take full aggro.
• Healing is being revamp overall
  • Expanding healing modifiers to most heals. Regeneration buff (Life regen auras or Myrmidon's Realm of Souls for example) do not count as heals.
    
  • Life steal (regen on attack damage) now counts has self healing and can be increased / decreased by healing modifiers.
    
  • Introducing spell vamp (regen on spell damage) and omni vamp (both life steal and spell vamp), counting as self healing too.
    This is only prep for future items/skills, not used yet.
    
  • Life steal, omnivamp and spell vamp are additive. (Having two items with same passive like Mask of Death and Lightning Sword will add them, but copies of a same item won't)
    
  • Healing increase / decrease are multiplicative (having two 20% increase will result in 44% increase, and not 40%)
    
  • The following healing abilities have been reworked to properly work with healing modifiers:
    • Druid of the Claw's Rejuvenation
      
    • Paladin's Healing Wave
      
    • Moon Priestess's Rejuvenation
      
    • Ranger's Heal
      
    • Potion of Greater Healing
      
  • The following abilities can't use healing modifiers (yet ?):
    • Female Archmage's Drain Life & Mana
      
    • Storm Brewmaster's Drain Life & Mana
      
    • Crypt Lord's Locust Swarm
      
    • Warlock's Gargoyle Swarm
      

Bug Fixes changes:

• Accept button in selection stopped playing hide and seek, and can now be seen again.
• Arthas, "Lich King", but also "King of Unintended Effects "...
  • While Arthas execute mechanic is cool, it had problem in its... execution (get it ?)
    • Arthas's execute in phase 2 doesn't steal the hero items to give them to the summoned soul, but copy them instead.
      
    • Fixed Arthas execute affecting already dead units, avoiding multiple proc on the same unit.
      
    • After getting executed, a unit now have a 5 secs of immunity it.
      
    • Arthas execute doesn't proc damage return anymore.
      
    • Hero souls after phase 2 execution now have a timed life.
      
  • Fixed phase 2 channel ability that was casted way more than intended.
    
  • Fixed cases where Arthas would knock you back into an area you can't walk out of.
    
• Fixed a bug where trees/corpses/sheeps would not spawn on farming event in dual mode when the hero needing them was the seconday hero.
• Hero Image's Sun adept can no longer use healing hand.
• Healing Hand now display the correct buff.
• Blademaster's mirror images will not be the biggest source of gold and lumber anymore. Killing the Blademaster still give 300 000 golds and 300 lumber. Mirror images will only give 2000 golds and 1 lumber.
• Fixed a bug where lanes sprit towers and necropolis would not become vulnerable if command -ow was used after level 2
• Fixed an issue where a hydra would die during an event due to damage over time effect, which would spawn new units abled to attack while everything else is paused.
• Furbolg and Greater demon spells are now correctly in qwerty keybind.
• Typos, spelling and such...
  • Fixed minion upgrade's message. Now correctly says "unlocked".
    
  • Fixed typo in fighters' description in selection
    
  • Fixed warning message when changing defeat condition. Now correctly says command -revive
    
  • Removed a debug message displayed when using Sun Adept healing hand.
    
  • Fixed Druid of the claw tooltip for entangling root: now display level 4
    
  • Removed the "permanent" wording from items giving bonus stats as it might lead player to think they had same effects as tomes.
    
• Fixed a sneaky strat with blink and dual hero mode during Muradin event.
• Fixed an issue where items charges were not deducted from secondary hero, allowing more uses.
• Fixed Lord Marrowgar animation during final wave cinematic
• Fixed cases where -revive command wasn't working or deleting hero (I guess he was getting revived in an other world ?).
• Fixed an issue where assassins would not always attack.
• Fixed an issue in dual mode where swapping hero while being knockbacked can result in having both heroes on the battlefield. Swapping is now disable during knockback.
• Fixed Warlock archimonde form that was giving divine armor. The form now gives 50-200 armor to compensate a bit in early game.

Minor changes:

• Increased late game bosses scaling per player. (After testing with more players, it seems bosses were a bit undertuned when fighting against 4 or more heroes.)
• Banehallow
  • Slow aura modified from -75% attack rate and movement rate to -75% attack rate and healing received.
    
  • Banehallow gains a 3 secs period of invulnerability when changing phase.
    
• Magtheridon changes:
  • Buffed strength gain per target on his boss spell.
    
  • Now gives 300 000 golds and 300 lumber like other bosses when (permanently) killed.
    
  • Spawns HPs and attack damage now scale with difficulty.
    
• Gift from the Mountain God mana cost reduced from 400-800 to 250-500. No can cast level 1 with natural stats only, and level 2 with only 1 tome of stats (or Hero Image event).
• Wave kills & extreme attacks (dragons/assassins/hydra/murlocs) kills will not count towards the Creeps slayer event anymore.
• Items:
  • Now displaying player name when upgrading castle & towers.
    
  • Castle upgrade now slightly increase castle and towers HP regen. With 50 upgrades, the castle now regenerate at great speed.
    
  • Portable demon gate now gives 2 charges when bought. Price is more fair in solo hero, and compensate bug fix in dual.
    
• Trying to blink out of muradin event will now damage you in addition to tp you back. That's what you deserve for trying to avoid the event.
• Quality of Life:
  • Command -extreme is now available during hero selection.
    
  • Commands -ow and -cw can now be followed by a number X (both "-cwX" and "-cw X" will work) to respectively open or close X lanes (Trying to open more than 8 waves will result in 8 opened lanes. Trying to close more than 7 lanes will result in leaving only way 1 opened).
    
  • Now tracking number of kills during farming event and not lumber. Converting you lumber into gold will not make you drop at the bottom of leaderbord anymore.
    
  • Reduced corpses duration from 88 to 30 secs, reducing lag spikes.
    

TODO:

Spoiler: Known issues

• Some models are not visible for SD graphics users. This doesn't impact playing other than visual (units still have hitbox, can be targeted etc.) I believe the only solution would be stop using those models. Currently, those models have been reported:
  • Armored dryad (lvl 20)
    
  • Knight
    
  • Runemaster
    
  Please report any models that wouldn't load on SD graphics.
• Creeps get stuck in their spawning lanes, especially at higher extreme difficulty and game level 3 & 4. Should be reduced on this patch but can still happen.
• Music don't always launch when intended, and sometimes launch at random timing.
• Dying at the same time of killing Arthas can make your hero vanish from the game.
• Lag spikes and game slowdown on Banehallow fight.
• Sometimes, Arthas knockbacks himself instead of his target.

Spoiler: Future Improvments

• Improving bosses
  • Banehallow fight:
    • Adding defense mechanisms added around the obelisks. It would be time for Banehallow to learn a bit about startegy and key points.
      
    • Reworking auras (slow aura can be really annoying) and make destroying obelisk more rewarding.
      
  • Continue improving Arthas.
    
  • Give Spirit Beast (Shield of Invincibility event) and Frost Infernal (Key of the Three Moons event) bosses spells to make them more interesting than just stats check.
    
• Improving themes and design coherence overall
  • Revamp some heroes/bosses themes/visuals to avoid duplicates. (Having Arthas fighting himself, or a pitlord destroying Magtheridon and his spawns might be very philosophical but probably should be avoided)
    
  • Making sure every spell is coherent with hero theme. (Looking at you, crypt lord. "Shaking the ground" shouldn't make meteor fall from the sky)
    
  • Trying as much as possible to avoid duplicate abilities (Except a few passive like critical strike) between heroes, so they can truly feel unique.
    
• Adding more heroes, in priority in classes with less heroes (summoners, tanks, healers)
• Adding customs spells to playable heroes

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I tried to test everything, but there are probably things I didn't think about


PS: Will update credits later, but I'm not forgetting you guys, don't worry

 

[Marchombre]

Did I break life steal by changing a variable name before posting last patch ? Maybe...

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Version 1.51

Major changes:

• Continuing the healing update. The following abilities now work with healing increase/decrease (totally not forgot that those heroes had heal too)
  • Ghost's Death Coil
    
  • Knight's Holy Light
    
• Items:
  • Nature staff, available at the Apothecary shop. Small bonus stats, but omnivamp and healing increase auras and healing passive.
    
  • Icy Staff, available at the artificery. Small bonus stats, but spell vamp, slow aura and powerful AoE active ability.
    

Bug Fixes changes:

• Life steal, spell vamp and omnivamp do work, this time

Minor changes:

TODO:

Spoiler: Known issues

• Some models are not visible for SD graphics users. This doesn't impact playing other than visual (units still have hitbox, can be targeted etc.) I believe the only solution would be stop using those models. Currently, those models have been reported:
  • Armored dryad (lvl 20)
    
  • Knight
    
  • Runemaster
    
  Please report any models that wouldn't load on SD graphics.
• Creeps get stuck in their spawning lanes, especially at higher extreme difficulty and game level 3 & 4. Should be reduced on this patch but can still happen.
• Music don't always launch when intended, and sometimes launch at random timing.
• Dying at the same time of killing Arthas can make your hero vanish from the game.
• Lag spikes and game slowdown on Banehallow fight.
• Sometimes, Arthas knockbacks himself instead of his target.

Spoiler: Future Improvments

• Improving bosses
  • Banehallow fight:
    • Adding defense mechanisms added around the obelisks. It would be time for Banehallow to learn a bit about startegy and key points.
      
    • Reworking auras (slow aura can be really annoying) and make destroying obelisk more rewarding.
      
  • Continue improving Arthas.
    
  • Give Spirit Beast (Shield of Invincibility event) and Frost Infernal (Key of the Three Moons event) bosses spells to make them more interesting than just stats check.
    
• Improving themes and design coherence overall
  • Revamp some heroes/bosses themes/visuals to avoid duplicates. (Having Arthas fighting himself, or a pitlord destroying Magtheridon and his spawns might be very philosophical but probably should be avoided)
    
  • Making sure every spell is coherent with hero theme. (Looking at you, crypt lord. "Shaking the ground" shouldn't make meteor fall from the sky)
    
  • Trying as much as possible to avoid duplicate abilities (Except a few passive like critical strike) between heroes, so they can truly feel unique.
    
• Adding more heroes, in priority in classes with less heroes (summoners, tanks, healers)
• Adding customs spells to playable heroes

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PS: Credits should be up to date now.

 

[Herosiegemylife]

Impossible to make this map working. I spent 3 days of troubleshooting with :
Change folder location
Change map name
Uninstall / Reinstall
My version is : 1.31.1.12164 x86_64 2019 19:00:29

Pleas help I really want to play this map

 

[Marchombre]

Damn. I'll try to help you, but I need some more informations.

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First, which version did you try ? I'm guessing 1.51, but making sure
Did you try older version of the map and getting same issue ?

When you say the map doesn't work, what do you mean ?

• Can you see the map / start a game ?
• Is it crashing (in loading / in game) ?
• Can you launch the map but are unable to play because nothing is happening ?

Some screen shots / a video would greatly help. In case of a crash, your last replay (C:\Users\<your name>\Documents\Warcraft III\Replay\LastReplay.w3g) would help too.

If you can't send those in pm, you can attach them to an email and send it to [email protected].

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I hope we'll make it work.

 

[Marchombre]

Impossible to make this map working. I spent 3 days of troubleshooting with :
Change folder location
Change map name
Uninstall / Reinstall
My version is : 1.31.1.12164 x86_64 2019 19:00:29

Pleas help I really want to play this map

I looked into this a bit more.

I got a 1.31 war3 and indeed, I can't find the map.
It seems the map requires reforged now (probably using some functions introduced in 1.32 or later), and can't be used with older versions (1.31 and before).

I don't know exactly when the shift happened, as even my older versions (v1.42, before I took the project over) are not visible in war3 1.31 client. I'll update the description on this thread to specify that reforged is needed.

I'm afraid I won't be able to make version compatible with older versions, it would probably require to scrap a lot of things and maintaining 2 versions would be too much troubles.

 

[Madden]

Hey guys, I just finished EX100 with dual Heros on solo mode and here is my opinion:



Add a single-player mode so that you can control more heroes, like Allies. If someone leaves online, anyone who was playing can control the hero that was left behind.

The phase shift is broken in the late game. It should not absorb the boss's damage abilities. This makes the late game very easy, no matter what difficulty is chosen.

You can activate the portable demon gate an unlimited number of times after a certain time in the game. Those demons are really important, especially if you play alone. They are way to powerful for that low cost. The damage they cause should be cut in half, and their duration should be 60 seconds. Each gate should have 10 charges and then disappear.
Make Castle a shared ally so I can put Castle in a control group. This issue arose after mass dragons block vision, making it impossible to click on the castle.

• Create an item that gives a critical strike. This will make any hero useful in the later stages of the game.
• Create an item that gives low area splash dmg. This will make any hero useful in the early stages of the game.

 

[Marchombre]

Hey guys, I just finished EX100 with dual Heros on solo mode and here is my opinion

Hello,
First of all, thanks for playing and for your feedback.

Add a single-player mode so that you can control more heroes, like Allies. If someone leaves online, anyone who was playing can control the hero that was left behind.

That would make this map an entirely different game mode. And would require quite a lot of changes on how things are handled. I'm already quite short on time to make every necessary and more urgent changes
Tbh, I don't see it being done for a very long time. Maybe in distant v2.0 when I finally decide to port the map in lua to make use of the new possiiblities.

The phase shift is broken in the late game. It should not absorb the boss's damage abilities. This makes the late game very easy, no matter what difficulty is chosen.

Phase shift is indeed on the stronger side of abilities right now.
I already have a CD & duration nerf shipped for next patch.

I'll see how it impact the sorceress before going a more radical change if necessary.

You can activate the portable demon gate an unlimited number of times after a certain time in the game. Those demons are really important, especially if you play alone. They are way to powerful for that low cost. The damage they cause should be cut in half, and their duration should be 60 seconds. Each gate should have 10 charges and then disappear.

I rarely see an insane usage of demons in game
They are useful, ofc, but I don't think I ever saw someone using more than 2 at once. They can be used like ~10-15 times player in a whole game in very high difficulties (ex 500+) but cannot hold lanes heroes on their own without auras, like most summoning.

Could explain a bit more how you used them to feel the need to nerf their damage & duration ?

Make Castle a shared ally so I can put Castle in a control group. This issue arose after mass dragons block vision, making it impossible to click on the castle.

I'll add that to my to-do list. It would be a nice QoL indeed

Create an item that gives a critical strike. This will make any hero useful in the later stages of the game.

This item already exist, it is dropped by the blademaster boss
In addition, there are already 2 new late game attack items on their way in next patch.

Create an item that gives low area splash dmg. This will make any hero useful in the early stages of the game.

This is something I have considered, but the Cloak of Flames is already filling that spot pretty well for early game.
In mid game, most heroes do not need additional wave clear until a dragon staff can be bought.
Is there a hero in particular you have in mind that would require such item ?

Again, thanks for playing and taking time to try and improve this map

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PS:
Yes, an other HUGE patch is on its way.
I still have a few thing to polish and a few more bugs to fix tho. Should be able to deliver this in July (hopefully).

Small teaser of what is already planned on next patch:

• 1 new hero
• 9 heroes reworked, from 1-2 abilities to a complete new kit
• 3 new items + few items changed
• New way to add difficulty in ex4+
• Wave bosses in ex100+
• Bug fixes. Bug fixes everywhere.

 

[Madden]

Hello,
First of all, thanks for playing and for your feedback.
That would make this map an entirely different game mode. And would require quite a lot of changes on how things are handled. I'm already quite short on time to make every necessary and more urgent changes
Tbh, I don't see it being done for a very long time. Maybe in distant v2.0 when I finally decide to port the map in lua to make use of the new possiiblities.

Alright, I didnt know its that much of an hustle because it technically is in the game (e.g. if a mate leaves in ladder u can controll its units, or in some
campaign lvls u controll ur ally)

Phase shift is indeed on the stronger side of abilities right now.
I already have a CD & duration nerf shipped for next patch.

I'll see how it impact the sorceress before going a more radical change if necessary.

Alright, i was just pointing it out. Beside face shift heros i havent found a way to get past Mathealar's aoe spam in ex100+ but with it its pretty easy

I rarely see an insane usage of demons in game
They are useful, ofc, but I don't think I ever saw someone using more than 2 at once. They can be used like ~10-15 times player in a whole game in very high difficulties (ex 500+) but cannot hold lanes heroes on their own without auras, like most summoning.

Could explain a bit more how you used them to feel the need to nerf their damage & duration ?

Im not complaining about the demons. Strong midgame summons are great and its what was lacking in 3.33 the most (for me) But i do think they are overpowerded:

• I can buy the Portable demon gate once for 125k gold and summon as many demons as I like each demon lasts 3 minutes
  and an tank dragon attacks, murlock and hydra waves and hold its lane easy on ex200. This feels a bit overpowered in value.
• I can abuse the demon's cleave skill to attack my own hero during farm event to kill 5k+ units.
• You dont have to hold the lane heros for a long time. I usually kill the forces after muradin and farm ghouls and orcs and thats super easy
  with the demons as shown in the picture
• I can super easy put 2-3 demons all the time to the castle to protect me from dragon attacks
• during final wave i can just summon like 30 of them makes it impossible to loose there.

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This item already exist, it is dropped by the blademaster boss

Good to know

In addition, there are already 2 new late game attack items on their way in next patch.

Im looking forward to it

This is something I have considered, but the Cloak of Flames is already filling that spot pretty well for early game.
In mid game, most heroes do not need additional wave clear until a dragon staff can be bought.
Is there a hero in particular you have in mind that would require such item ?

Im talking about Mountain king or archmage those are comming to mind. For some reason the aoe spell of MK feels really bad altough it should be as good as fan of knives (1k aoe) its not enough to clean units

Again, thanks for playing and taking time to try and improve this map

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PS:
Yes, an other HUGE patch is on its way.
I still have a few thing to polish and a few more bugs to fix tho. Should be able to deliver this in July (hopefully).

Small teaser of what is already planned on next patch:

• 1 new hero
• 9 heroes reworked, from 1-2 abilities to a complete new kit
• 3 new items + few items changed
• New way to add difficulty in ex4+
• Wave bosses in ex100+
• Bug fixes. Bug fixes everywhere.

Im down testing it :=)
I would love to see Firelord/dark ranger some day too!
greetings
Is there some kind of xhero community out there? Greetings

 

[Marchombre]

Alright, i was just pointing it out. Beside face shift heros i havent found a way to get past Mathealar's aoe spam in ex100+ but with it its pretty easy

To fight Mathealar, you have to attack and run in circle, following the safe space between its AoEs.
And you have to be careful with using summons too, the damage in each AoE scaling with how many units are in the area.

Well, being immune to damage sure helps too

Im not complaining about the demons. Strong midgame summons are great and its what was lacking in 3.33 the most (for me) But i do think they are overpowerded:

• I can buy the Portable demon gate once for 125k gold and summon as many demons as I like each demon lasts 3 minutes
  and an tank dragon attacks, murlock and hydra waves and hold its lane easy on ex200. This feels a bit overpowered in value.
• I can abuse the demon's cleave skill to attack my own hero during farm event to kill 5k+ units.
• You dont have to hold the lane heros for a long time. I usually kill the forces after muradin and farm ghouls and orcs and thats super easy
  with the demons as shown in the picture
• I can super easy put 2-3 demons all the time to the castle to protect me from dragon attacks
• during final wave i can just summon like 30 of them makes it impossible to loose there.

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Wait, it seems you've found quite a bug
For 125K, the item should only have 2 charges of summoning demons and have only its passive after using those 2, unless you pay 125K again, which make having 30 demons a bit more costly.

Now, I understand why you find them overpowered
If you could send me a replay or point out how you're getting infinite uses of the summoning ability, that would greatly help.

EDIT: I successfully reproduced this bug. When switching heroes in dual or dropping item and getting it back while it has 0 charges left, the game seems to think it means this is a permanent ability without charges.
I guess I have one more thing to fix before next patch release

Attacking your own hero during farming event is a clever trick, never thought of using them like that. I'll probably juste prevent them attacking allies.

Im talking about Mountain king or archmage those are comming to mind. For some reason the aoe spell of MK feels really bad altough it should be as good as fan of knives (1k aoe) its not enough to clean units

Muradin AoE spell is on the weaker side in its category because it also provides a form of cc on a fighter (more focused on auto attacks than spells). But playing around its passive should allow him to clear in AoE while attacking.

I would need more testing on archmage, I never felt the lack of damage on either of them (Antonidas or Jaina), but I'll keep an eye on them.

I would love to see Firelord/dark ranger some day too!

Spoiler:

Spoiler: Next patch

Sylvanas is among the heroes getting a rework, and she might use the dark ranger too

Im down testing it :=)
Is there some kind of xhero community out there? Greetings

Not yet, but I was thinking of creating a discord for players to give more information on patch progress and possibly some testing.
Probably will do so when releasing next patch.

 

[rek0]

Hello,

I'm writing to report an issue I've encountered with version 1.51 of your map.

-Normal Mode
-Dual Random: Blademaster & Dryad

During the Magtheridon fight and switching between the 2 chars the game crashes. I've heard that a new update might be coming in July, and I just wanted to check on the progress and see if you are aware of this specific bug.

BTW creating a discord server for us is a great idea )

Thank you for your hard work on the map!

 

[Marchombre]

Hello,

I'm writing to report an issue I've encountered with version 1.51 of your map.

-Normal Mode
-Dual Random: Blademaster & Dryad

During the Magtheridon fight and switching between the 2 chars the game crashes.

Hello,

Crash during Magtheridon figth have been an issue indeed.
I made a few changes, and I'm not having those during my play tests with my buddy. So hopefully, that should be fixed.

I've heard that a new update might be coming in July, and I just wanted to check on the progress and see if you are aware of this specific bug.

July was the plan at first, but I kinda entered a mapping contest so it was delayed

I think the new features & hero rework are now in a good place, but there still are few bugs that I'm trying to fix before releasing next patch.
Those have proven quite elusive tho

BTW creating a discord server for us is a great idea )

Will do with next patch announcement.

Thank you for your hard work on the map!

Thank you playing.
Always a pleasure to see it played

 

[Marchombre]

Finally, things are stable enough for me release this patch.
Seems like I love big patches

Patch tl;dr;

• 1 new hero
• 11 heroes reworked
• 11 changed items
• 7 new items
• Many bug fixes & QoL changes

Before going into the details, I just wanna say that I created a discord for Xnd Hero Siege players, you can join here.

Also, I saw that someone got his hands on a dev version during a time I was debugging with a friend and Blizzard screwed up private lobbies...
Guys, don't play a bugged out version with tons of debug prints and game breaking issues, that hurts to see

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Patch 1.52

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Major changes:

• Spoiler: Difficulty level

  : Introducing new ways to increase difficulty at higher extreme level.
  
  

  • Introducing poverty level.
    In extreme level 4 or more, host can use command -poverty X to reduce every gold and lumber gain by X%. Like -extreme command, you can only use it once before level 2 starts.
    This will affect:
    
    • Creeps, invaders, waves and bosses kills.
      
    • Item selling
      
    • Events rewards (Ex: Muradin, threshold on waves kills)
      
    • Medaillon of Greed passive and active abilities.
      
    • Castle gold redistribution.
      
    The following will not be affected:
    
    • Currency conversion (Gold to lumber and lumber to gold).
      
    • Gold & lumber transfer from a player to an other.
      
    • Gold reimboursement when trying to buy items when you do not meet requirement (Upgrades when already maxed, tome of specialization when not having enough stats).
      
    To all madmen out there, good luck trying poverty 99.
    
    
  • Introducing wave bosses.
    On extreme 100+, a random boss from the list below will appear with the waves.
    These bosses stats scale with difficulty, number of players and wave number. Make sure to keep their aggro, or they might destroy your castle quickly.
    On extreme 500+, they also equip strong items.
    
    • Ice Golem
      
      • Cleave Attack. % and AoE sclaing with wave number.
        
      • Item: Frozen shards. Regularly damage and stun enemies around the ice golem.
        
    • Frost Brood Mother
      
      • Critical Strike. Crit chance and bonus damage scaling with wave number.
        
      • Item: Frost bow. Attacks slow target attack and movement speed. At 20 stacks, consumes stacks to stun.
        
• Reduced attack speed bonus per agility point, delaying a bit the moment where you reach max attack speed without any skill/items.
  This will affect creep heroes too, reducing a bit their curve of damage in early difficulties.
• Tank class lvl 30 bonus is now based on Max Hp instead of armor.
  From 1% dmg for every 75 armor to 1% dmg every 11 250 max HPs. Buying +100 all stats will give the same value as old formula, but being strength based seemed more suited to tanks.
• Reducing lags and creeps throttling
  
  • Split creeps management among 4 bot players to reduce information overload.
    
  • On Murloc invasions, slaves are spawned until a full swarm (total of 175 slaves) is achieved.
    While having a full swarm of slaves, each master will boost all existing slaves' HP and damage instead of spawning new ones.
    
  • Similar to murloc swarms, if too much creeps are present on the battlefield, spawning will be paused, and creeps will get stronger instead.
    This count will be per lane, to avoid having a huge amount of creeps somewhere starving the rest of the map.
    Lanes heroes will still spawn tho.
    
• Heal on Damage (life steal, spell vamp and omnivamp) now proc after damage reduction instead of before armor reduction.
  This will have a huge impact on some heroes capacity of outregen everything as long as they hit something, especially in high difficulty early against lanes heroes.
  This change will affect lifesteal mostly. Thus, late game lifesteal items will be buffed to compensate, while mask of death will not be changed.
• Heals modifiers will now always applied in the following order:
  
  • Flat heal increase
    
  • Percentage heal increase
    
  • Percentage heal reduction
    
  • Flat heal reduction
    
• Spoiler: Items

  • Nature Staff passive changed from OverFlowing Healing to OverFlowing Energy, now dealing damage in an a area when overhealing instead of healing allies.
    
  • Icy Staff
    
    • Ability now deals damage every 0.5 secs instead of every second. Total base dps unchanged, but synergize more with things like Sorcerer's buff.
      
    • Spell Vamp reduced from 55% to 10%.
      
  • Dragon staff
    The Dragon staff was added to help with the wave clear and farming event for heroes without much AoE damage.
    However, some heroes had quite overpowered interactions with it, procing it multiple time per auto-attack with AoE attacks.
    This change also reduces greatly lags when hitting large group of enemies (like Hydras) in late game.
    
    • On hit effect has now a very small 0.05 sec CD, preventing multiple proc on AoE attacks.
      
  • Survivor Shield
    
    • Price: 10000 -> 3000
      
    • Bonus HP: 1000 -> 1500
      
    • Bonus Armor: 10 -> Removed
      
    • New passive ability: Survivor instinct. When incoming damage would drop HPs too low, gives the holder a temporary shield.
      
  • Training Spear
    
    • Bonus Damage: 150 -> 100
      
    • New active ability: Spear Throw. Throw the spear at the target, dealing enhanced physical damage to them.
      
  • Bloody Ring heavily buffed. Reduced CD and damage requirement. Now work with damage absorbed by shields.
    
  • Lightning Sword's life steal buffed from 33% to 50%
    
  • Demonic Hand gained a passive granting chance for spell crit.
    
  • Claws of Attack reworked. This item always felt a bit weird. Attack speed is a stat mainly useful in very early game, before hitting the max attack speed cap. Attack damage was buffed again and again to compensate, making it more of a simple attack item than attack speed one.
    Claws of Attack will now be a much more early game item, where its attack speed will truly shine.
    
    • Price: 75000 -> 25000
      
    • Bonus Attack Damage: 950 -> 250
      
    • Bonus Attack Speed: 25% -> 35%
      
    • Bonus Agility: 75 (unchanged).
      
    • Bonus Movement Speed: 20 (unchanged).
      
  • New Legendary item: Energy Sword, available in the Armory.
    
    • Huge attack bonus
      
    • Life steal
      
    • Stacking single target on hit.
      
  • New Legendary item: Void Axe, available in the Armory.
    
    • Huge attack bonus
      
    • Reduces holder armor
      
    • Powerful passive ability giving AoE damage.
      
  • New mid-game item: Void Cloak, available in the Armory.
    
    • Huge HP Bonus
      
    • Reduces holder armor
      
    • Passive ability: store a % of damage taken.
      
    • Active ability: use stored energy to damage in AoE around the holder
      
  • New early/mid-game item: Herobane Helmet, available in the Armory.
    
    • Bonus Armor
      
    • Passive ability: Reduces damage from heroes auto-attacks.
      
  • New early/mid-game item: Transcendance Orb, available in the Jewelry.
    
    • Bonus stats
      
    • Active ability: Gains more stats during limited time.
      
  • New early item: Phoenix Gauntlet, available in the Artificery.
    
    • Grants spell vamp.
      
  • New early item: Void Staff, available at the Artificery.
    
    • Reduces armor
      
    • Passive ability granting mana whenever dealing magic damage
      
    • Active ability dealing magic damage
      
  • Human Flag (Item dropped when destroying Necropolis) can't be sold anymore, but have a charged ability to give an allied building a shield.
    
• Hero class "Healer" has been renamed to "Support". Level 30 class bonus now increases shielding too.
• New Heroes:
  
  • Voz, the Goblin Mechanic. A melee summoner bringing its inventions to the battlefield.
    
    • D - Scrap pieces. On kill, have a chance of creating a random piece of scrap near Voz that he might be able to use.
      
    • Q - Aerial Support. Flying bombarding ships, useful, aren't they ?
      
    • W - Apprentices. Voz's apprentices join him on the battlefield, until one of their mistakes blows up to their face.
      
    • E - Tank. Voz enters his tank, giving him bonus armor and AoE ranged attacks.
      
    • F - Gears & Screws. Voz and nearby allied mechanical units gain damage reduction and bonus damage.
      
    • R - Mecha Dragon. Powerful flying summon with AoE damage.
      
    • G - Cluster Rockets. Powerful AoE ability.
      
• Spoiler: Heroes reworks

  . Starting the big project of making every hero unique, with clear strength and weaknesses.
  
  

  • Marine.
    This hero feels like he can do everything perfectly on his owns.
    Early strong single target ? Check.
    Great Wave clear and AoE damage ? Check.
    Tanking abilities ? Check.
    And then, being able to multiply all of that with clones ? Check.
    
    I'm pulling back on the tankiness side to make the Marine a true dps focused glass canon with its survival capacity tied to its ability to deal damage.
    
    • Removed Metal Armor. Replaced by Plasma Burst. Huge true damage bonus to every 8th attack.
      
    • Removed Life Regen Aura. Replaced by Battle modes. Can switch between Explosive mode (AoE damage) and Draining Mode (Life Steal & Spell vamp)
      
  • Pit Lord.
    Let's be honest: Pit Lord early game sucks, mainly due to his (Q) Rain of Fire ability being way to weak while needing channeling.
    In addition to that, Pit Lord identity isn't very clear. Not really a tank, not really a caster nor a summoner. A bit of everything without doing anything really well.
    The goal of this rework is to make a real tank of him.
    
    • Reworked Rain of Fire. Now a passive ability creating a drop of fire when pit lord is taking damage with a low CD. Also gives armor.
      
    • Unholy Aura early regeneration buffed from 5/10/20 flat to 25/50/100. Level 4 unchanged at 1% max HPs.
      
    • Removed Finger of Death. Replaced by Blood Pact, sacrificing HPs to give a massive shield to nearby allies.
      
  • Druid of the Claws
    The druid was... underwhelming, to say it nicely. His only damage ability was a monotarget crowd control, that could not really clear waves and lacked damage against heroes in higher difficulties.
    He could tank quite a lot in mid game, but still needed help for teammates to manage his lane, which was quite frustrating.
    This rework aims at making the druid a true fighter and put an emphasis on his two different forms.
    
    • D - Strength of the Wild.
      
      • Night elf form: increases spell damage against heroes (doubled against other units).
        
      • Bear form: increases attack damage against heroes (doubled against other units).
        
    • Q - Fearsome Beast.
      Roars with such powerful force that it damages and fear nearby enemies. In Bear form, roar has more range but less damage.
      
    • W - Wild Strikes.
      When activated, druid attacks drain HPs to deal enhanced physical damage to the target and every enemies in a small line behind it.
      Wild Strikes damage is considered as attack damage, triggering on attack effect like life steal or Strength of the Wild in bear form.
      
    • E - Hardened skin.
      The druid reduces damage from attacks by a percentage.
      
    • F - Natural Selection.
      Aura giving nearby flat and percentage bonus damage, increased against enemies with impaired movement.
      
    • R - Bear Form
      The druid can switch to his bear form, losing attack speed and movement speed and gaining bonus damage, armor and life regeneration.
      
    • G - Nature's Power.
      
      • Night elf form: gain the Caster class. Attacks release a bouncing energy dealing spell damage.
        
      • Bear form: gain the Tank class. Attacks deals 25% of their damage in a small AoE.
        
  • Huntress.
    Naisha's was in weird spot where her early was centered around her bouncing attack and feels like fighter, while her end-game shifted more around a caster gameplay.
    This rework aims at giving fighter tools to Naisha in late game, to have a coherent identity overall.
    
    • Removed Moon Explosion. Replaced by Enhanced Moon Glaives, giving the huntress agility on hit for a duration.
      
    • Removed Neutralization. Replaced by Star Fall, dealing AoE magic damage on hit.
      
  • Storm Brewmaster.
    Brewmaster started as easter egg available only via random hero selection. They were essentially a copy of an other hero with one different ability.
    Since the new selection system, this was obsolete, and duplicates were feeling weird. So here is a true independant hero.
    
    • D - Unpredictable Discharge. Attacks have a change to trigger an thunder strike dealing random magic damage.
      
    • Q - Monsoon. Channels to deal magic damage in the targeted area.
      
    • W - Overcharged State. Reduced damage taken & increased movememt speed. Buff Unpredictable Discharge & Power of the Ligthning Tower.
      
    • E - Power of the Lightning Tower. Periodically fire a chain of lightning damaging enemies.
      
    • F - Electric Aura. Gives spell vamp to all nearby units.
      
    • R - Lightning flower. Deals damage to units in area for a duration. Can target magic immune units and trigger Unpredictable Discharge.
      
    • G - Storm Fury. Gains a chance of spell crit.
      
  • Earth Brewmaster.
    Same as above. Now a tank capable of inflicting great CCs in AoE.
    
    • D - Stone Skin. Passively gain a shield against attack damage.
      
    • Q - Seismic Rift. Opens a rift in the earth, damaging and stunning enemies in a straight line. The rift slow enemies unit until it closes, damaging and knocking up enemies.
      
    • W - Tremors. Slams the ground, daeling damage and knocking up nearby enemies, then creates tremors that propagate in wider circles doing less and less damage and slowing units.
      
    • E - Birth of Life. Inspired by mother nature, channels to heal nearby allies.
      
    • F - Earth Protection. Gains armor and damage reduction. Nearby allies gains a percentage of that bonus. Damage reduction bonuses are increased on shielded units.
      
    • R - Earthquake. Channels to create an earthquake in the targeted area, dealing damage and slowing enemies. Damage and AoR increase over time.
      
    • G - Magma Ball. Channels to infuse a Magma Ball with its power. Upon release deals heavy damage to the targeted unit. Damage increase with channeled time. If channeled enough, also deals a percentage of its damage in a small area.
      
  • Fire Brewmaster.
    Like others brewmaster, started as a nice easter egg. Now have a full set of ability of his own.
    
    • D - Fluctuating power. Ryoku spells have a percentage of chance to deal more or less damage.
      
    • Q - Hydra Ward. Summons an immobile Hydra Ward fightinh for you.
      
    • W - Radiant Flames. Deals daamge in area around Ryoku as long as it's activated.
      
    • E - Fire Imp. Target is Silenced, takes damage over time and have reduced AD for the duration of the spell.
      
    • F - Eruption. Attacks have a chance of Erupting a wave of fire dealing damage around the target.
      
    • R - Hell on Earth. Creates a fire tornado that burns enemies in the targeted area for a while.
      
    • G - Global Annihiliation. Insane damage in massive area. You'll get caught in the blast tho.
      
  • Pandaren Brewmaster.
    Earthquake was way more fitting for Earth Brewmaster, so gave him an other ultimate.
    
    • Removed Earthquake. Replaced by Free Drinks. Throw a bottle at the targeted location, creating a zone of alcohol for 10 seconds. Enemy units in the area take random damage and get drunk, getting a random crowd control.
      
  • Sylvanas.
    Sylvanas wasn't as bad as other heroes, but always felt a bit weird. Her heal was kinda out of place, and her single target empowered attack became useless as soon as you got the AoE ones.
    This rework makes Sylvanas a true fighter, centered around autoattack and on-hit effects. Her empowered attack is now core to her gameplay.
    Be careful with her mana tho, it might vanish at an impressive speed.
    
    • D - Ranger/Banshee Form.
      Sylvanas can swap between her Ranger and Banshee forms, altering some of her abilities.
      
    • Q - Reinforcement magic.
      Ranger - Inner Fire. Target gains armor and a small attack bonus.
      Banshee - Death Curse. Target gains huge damage bonus but loses some armor.
      Both buffs are exclusive. Casting one will remove the other.
      
    • W - Empowered Attack.
      Magic damage on hit and mark targets for few seconds.
      Ranger - Fire infused arrows. Marked targets have a % chance of exploding upon death.
      Banshee - Soul stealer arrows. Marked targets restore mana and have a chance of spawning a skeleton on death.
      
    • E - Critical arrows.
      Attacks gain a chance of doing a critical strike, multiplying their damage.
      
    • F - Double Shot.
      When activated, attack fire a 2nd arrow to the target on hit, dealing a % of damage to the target and all unit it goes through.
      Doubleshot can proc all on-hit effect except itself.
      
    • R - Rain of arrows.
      A rain of arrows fall upon the targeted area, each dealing damage and applying on-hit effects.
      
    • G - 360° shots.
      Fire volleys of arrows in circle around her, each dealing damage and applying on-hit effects to the first enemy they hit.
      
  • Priestess of the Moon.
    Adora's kit was working, but really didn't make sense thematically. Her abilities were all about lightning and thunder. Summoning murlocs didn't fit either.
    That kit was not catastrophic, but very very ill-suited for a priestess of the moon.
    
    This rework aims at bringing her theme forward.
    Adora becomes a support unit that becomes stronger at night. From level 20, Adora will also gain offensive abilities during the night.
    
    • D - Moon Light.
      Passive: The priestess of the moon abilities are reinforced at night time.
      Active: Heals the targeted ally over time.
      Night Time bonus: healing is doubled.
      
    • Q - Lunar beam
      Moon light illuminate the area, damaging periodically every units in.
      Night Time Bonus: Bigger Area, last longer.
      
    • W - Moonkin Creatures.
      Summons moonkins to help the Priestess on the battlefield.
      Night Time Bonus: Moonkins creatures deals bonus true damage against heroes at night.
      
    • E - Moon Blessing Aura
      Nearby allies gain bonus armor. Can stack with other armor auras.
      Night Time Bonus: Double armor bonus.
      
    • F - Elune Protection
      Place a statue at targeted location that periodically shields nearby allies.
      Night Time Bonus: Whenever the shield absorb damage, heals the wearer.
      
    • R - Moon Descent
      Calls down a moon image that crashes at targeted area, dealing huge damage.
      Night Time Bonus: Enemies are stunned.
      
    • G - Night Warrior
      Passive: During the night, the priestess of the moon gains the Fighter class. Also, some abilities gains new effects during night:
      
      Lunar Beam: deals bonus damage based on the priestess agility.
      Moon Blessing Aura: Affected units also gains attack damage, increased for ranged units. Stacks with other damage auras.
      Elune Protection: Shield also returns a percentage of absorbed damage
      
      Active: Set the time of day to midnight.
      
  • Warden.
    Warden early was fine. Might be on the stronger side actually. Yet, her lategame fall off was a bit too much. Giving her a little boost for her lategame.
    
    • Scream. New passive: Warden auto attacks dealing bonus true damage to silenced units.
      
    • Polymorph & Upgrades. Renamed Ambush. Now fire more missiles with less down time and scale on total agility.
      

Bug Fixes changes:

Spoiler: Bug fixes

This list might not be exhaustive, as there were many changes over time.

• Fixed Myrmidon's Shock level 4 damage when hitting several targets.
  
• Fixed tooltips in selection for abilities changed during healing rework.
  
• Fixed an issue where assassins couldn't target mechanical units.
  
• Fixed Nature Staff's softening aura buff.
  
• Fixed Paladin's True Tank passive. Properly adding the bonus damage and not the ratio.
  
• Illusions can't discover geodes anymore, and can't help towards the 1000 attacks. This will fix geodes being given to an illusion, and disappearing without the player being able to sell it AND balance the item more.
  
• Fixed an issue where Illidan could hit allied structure with his AoE attack.
  
• Arthas execute will no longer execute unit that healed above the threshold in Phase 2.
  
• Fixed missing disabled icon for whirlwinds ability.
  
• Dragon staff on hit ability no longer damage structures and allies units.
  
• Greater demons cleave cannot destroy items anymore
  
• Fixed cases where Mountain Cleric would not receive its bonus HP from Heart Of Stone when he level up being paused or using Ankh
  
• Fixed some cases where revive by timer or command would not work because hero disappeared from game.
  
• Fixed (I hope) cases where game would crash on Magtheridon fight.
  
• Fixed an issue where permanent items with charged abilities (Portable demon gate and Wand of Desillusion) could get infinite charges after hero swapping in dual mode.
  
• Fixed an issue where Sorcerer's Cuirass shield would not have the correct CD.
  
• Fixed an issue where abilities giving +100 armor would not correctly add the armor if you had a Bracer of Protection in your inventory.
  
• Fixed an issue where the command -repick would bug out in dual hero mode.
  
• Fixed an issue during farming event where spawning could stop in an arena if units were killed by an other player

Minor changes:

Spoiler: Minor changes

• Changed Invader Slayer event's reward from Dragon staff to Nature Staff. Dragon Staff being often bought for AoE clear and Farming Event, it felt like the reward was quite often wasted.
  
• Following the True Tank fix, bonus damage was getting too high in late game. Bonus damage are now capped at 4 times the base damage (for a total a 5 times the damage). Still a great damage source, but prevent Cape of Flames dealing 8000 damage per second.
  
• Added duration on Sorceress' phase shift tooltip. Small QoL change
  
• Phase shift CD nerfed from 30 to 35 seconds and duration nerfed from 15 secs to 11-13 seconds.
  
• Added a few neutral units in endgame area that can be targeted by Pit Lord's Doom.
  
• Added visual buff to Sun Adept's Purification targets.
  
• Small changes on terraining here and there.
  
• Units can't attack allies during Farming Event anymore, preventing a startegy allowing an insane amount of kills.
  
• Greater demons cannot aim at ground anymore, same reason as above.
  
• Slight nerf to Greater demons attack damage.
  
• Fog of war is now enabled even during hero selection. Visibility is now given only on the selection area.
  
• Limited healing display to twice per second per unit for more visibility
  
• Banehallow boss fight.
  Previous spells had issues of frame dropping.
  Lightning strike could double tap, and kill instantly.
  
  • Removed the rotating beams of light.
    
  • Removed Ligthing Strike attack.
    
  • The ring of light will now regularly change its size instead of spawning two more rings in phase 2 & 3.
    
  • Spell dmg resist will now scale with difficulty instead of being fixed at 90%.
    
  • Added an AoE in cone shape.
    
  • Added an AoE hitting enemies in close range.
    

TODO:

Spoiler: Known issues

• Some models are not visible for SD graphics users. This doesn't impact playing other than visual (units still have hitbox, can be targeted etc.) I believe the only solution would be stop using those models or find replacements for SD. Currently, those models have been reported:
  
  • Armored dryad (lvl 20)
    
  • Knight
    
  • Runemaster
    
  Please report any models that wouldn't load on SD graphics.
  
• Music don't always launch when intended, and sometimes launch at random timing.
  
• Dying at the same time of killing Arthas can make your hero vanish from the game.
  
• Sometimes, Arthas knockbacks himself instead of his target.
  
• Edge case where farming event launch at the same time of slayer event, resulting in one player being stucked in event arena.
  
• Sometimes, when a player dies on an event (creep/wave/invaders slayer), it might lock all slayers events for the rest of the game. Right now, the answer is: get good kiddo, and don't die

Spoiler: Balance Watchlist

Here is a list of things that I need to test and get feedback on:

• Stout Shield & Survivor shield might be too strong because they enable a very early "All Hero Image" event, getting high ressource when selling Necklace of Spell Immunity.
  
• The wave bosses stuns might be a bit too strong/annoying.
  
• Life steal change might make the early game a bit too hard in higher difficulties. I'm considering having a multiplier on life steal efficienciy against heroes.

Spoiler: Future Improvments

• Improving bosses
  
  • Boss Bounty. Not receiving any gold or lumber because one of your teammates made the last hit kinda sucks.
    Will look into a way a fair bounty sharing depending on your contribution to the fight.
    
  • Banehallow fight:
    
    • Adding defense mechanisms added around the obelisks. It would be time for Banehallow to learn a bit about strategy and key points.
      
    • Make destroying obelisk more rewarding.
      
  • Continue improving Arthas.
    
  • Give Spirit Beast (Shield of Invincibility event) and Frost Infernal (Key of the Three Moons event) bosses spells to make them more interesting than just stats check.
    
• Improving themes and design coherence overall
  
  • Revamp some heroes/bosses themes/visuals to avoid duplicates. (Having Arthas fighting himself, or a pitlord destroying Magtheridon and his spawns might be very philosophical but probably should be avoided)
    
  • Making sure every spell is coherent with hero theme. (Looking at you, crypt lord. "Shaking the ground" shouldn't make meteor fall from the sky)
    
  • Trying as much as possible to avoid duplicate abilities (Except a few passive like critical strike) between heroes, so they can truly feel unique.
    
• Adding more heroes, in priority in classes with less heroes (summoners, tanks, supoorts)
  
• Adding customs spells to playable heroes

 

[Marchombre]

Merry Christmas a few days too early !

Small bug fix & QoL patch, following the feedback received.


Version 1.53 (2025-12-21)

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Bug Fixes changes:

• Fixed an issue preventing hero revive after the timer ends.
• Fixed an issue where timers windows would be duplicated when someone used -repick command.
• Fixed an issue where dragon/asassins/murlocs/hydras timers were not being paused during special events, causing some overlap issues.
• Fixed an issue where hero image / all hero images events were blocked for all players if one failed by dying in the arena.
• Fixed an issue during farming event where killing a unit that wasn't spawned by the event could prevent next wave of creep from spawning.
• Fixed tooltips in hero selection.

Minor changes:

• Qol Changes in menus:
  • Simplified options menu
  • Added tooltip explaining game settings when hovering them.
  • Added tooltip explaining challenges when hovering them.
  • Allowed unit control while having challenge choice, avoiding situations where you hero get killed when stepping on the circle by mistake.
• Visual changes on Hero Selection.
• Greatly optimized Mountain Cleric's Holy Storm.

TODO:

Spoiler: Known issues

• Some models are not visible for SD graphics users. This doesn't impact playing other than visual (units still have hitbox, can be targeted etc.) I believe the only solution would be stop using those models or find replacements for SD. Currently, those models have been reported:
  • Armored dryad (lvl 20)
  • Knight
  • Runemaster
  Please report any models that wouldn't load on SD graphics.
• Music don't always launch when intended, and sometimes launch at random timing.
• Dying at the same time of killing Arthas can make your hero vanish from the game.
• Sometimes, Arthas knockbacks himself instead of his target.
• Edge case where farming event launch at the same time of slayer event, resulting in one player being stucked in event arena.

Spoiler: Balance Watchlist

Here is a list of things that I need to test and get feedback on:

• Stout Shield & Survivor shield might be too strong because they enable a very early "All Hero Image" event, getting high ressource when selling Necklace of Spell Immunity.
• The wave bosses stuns might be a bit too strong/annoying.
• Life steal change might make the early game a bit too hard in higher difficulties. I'm considering having a multiplier on life steal efficienciy against heroes.

Spoiler: Future Improvments

• Improving bosses
  • Boss Bounty. Not receiving any gold or lumber because one of your teammates made the last hit kinda sucks.
    Will look into a way a fair bounty sharing depending on your contribution to the fight.
  • Banehallow fight:
    • Adding defense mechanisms added around the obelisks. It would be time for Banehallow to learn a bit about strategy and key points.
    • Make destroying obelisk more rewarding.
  • Continue improving Arthas.
  • Give Spirit Beast (Shield of Invincibility event) and Frost Infernal (Key of the Three Moons event) bosses spells to make them more interesting than just stats check.
• Improving themes and design coherence overall
  • Revamp some heroes/bosses themes/visuals to avoid duplicates. (Having Arthas fighting himself, or a pitlord destroying Magtheridon and his spawns might be very philosophical but probably should be avoided)
  • Making sure every spell is coherent with hero theme. (Looking at you, crypt lord. "Shaking the ground" shouldn't make meteor fall from the sky)
  • Trying as much as possible to avoid duplicate abilities (Except a few passive like critical strike) between heroes, so they can truly feel unique.
• Adding more heroes, in priority in classes with less heroes (summoners, tanks, supoorts)
• Adding customs spells to playable heroes

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[Ricola3D]

Hello

I did a dozen extrem 500 solo games to test the new features and not die stupid
I got a few stupid deaths at first but finaly recalled most of it ^^

It was fun ! I liked some of the new heroes, the difficulty of captains now, some of the new items, the hero selection system, the possibility to upgrade the castle so it doesn't die oneshot, ... ^^

Also here are a few potential bugs I saw:

• Command -bd to buy damage tomes didn't upgrade my 2nd hero (in dual mode, dryad/mechanist)
• Moutain cleric: in Reforged it felt like his 2 first skills had missing graphic effects.
• Crypt Lord's ulti graphic semm to be starfall like Mirana, instead of earth pikes (I play Reforged graphics)
• Runemaster: I didn't see rune created with its skill 0.
• Natural selection buff tooltip: a little tipo "damaged" instead of "damages"
• I had a hard time trying to select Paladin's wisp as buff spell target (old issue I never solved myself^^)
• Once, during shield of invulnerability revive, I lost "because all heroes are dead".
• When I went to all hero image with goblin mecanist I wasn't paused at the start of the fight
• Illusion wand: once I locked/froze my hero in the farm event, I don't know how. Also I got crashs when consumming the last charge.

Also a few questions:

• Myrmidon's ulti lv2 costs 1000mana long before the hero has such mana, wouldn't it deserve a little discount ? (old issue too) ^^
• Do "Murlock attacks" scale with extrem level (hp, damage...) ?
• Would it be possible to remove picking cooldown when playing solo ? I had a hardtime doubting which hero to take while the time went out

 

[Marchombre]

Hello

I did a dozen extrem 500 solo games to test the new features and not die stupid
I got a few stupid deaths at first but finaly recalled most of it ^^

It was fun ! I liked some of the new heroes, the difficulty of captains now, some of the new items, the hero selection system, the possibility to upgrade the castle so it doesn't die oneshot, ... ^^

Glad to see you back on the map and enjoying the changes

Also here are a few potential bugs I saw:

Just to be sure, were you playing 1.52 or 1.53 ?

• Command -bd to buy damage tomes didn't upgrade my 2nd hero (in dual mode, dryad/mechanist)

Damn, I'll look into this.

• Moutain cleric: in Reforged it felt like his 2 first skills had missing graphic effects.

This is a known and weird issue. Idk why, but sometimes, reforged doesn't want to display some effects. This behavior is not consistant, as without any change on the map or game, I can see them and other times not see them. Also, teammates can see them too.

• Crypt Lord's ulti graphic semm to be starfall like Mirana, instead of earth pikes (I play Reforged graphics)

This is a known issue with reforged. Some spells now have a hardcoded effect, and do not use custom ones put in the editor.
rewriting the spell to allow coherent effect is in my todo list, but not very high prio, as it's only visual.

• Runemaster: I didn't see rune created with its skill 0.

Oh ? Weird
Will add that to my watch list

• Natural selection buff tooltip: a little tipo "damaged" instead of "damages"

Well spotted. Will be fixed next patch.

• I had a hard time trying to select Paladin's wisp as buff spell target (old issue I never solved myself^^)
• Once, during shield of invulnerability revive, I lost "because all heroes are dead".

Damn, I thought I fixed all cases of shield of invulnerability bugging late game. Is it always behaving this way in solo ? Or only sometimes ?

• When I went to all hero image with goblin mecanist I wasn't paused at the start of the fight

That must be because Voz is a hard working guy who doesn't take any break
I'll look into this.

• Illusion wand: once I locked/froze my hero in the farm event, I don't know how. Also I got crashs when consumming the last charge.

Was your hero paused ? Or only stuck in the farming event area ?
Was it at the start, during the event or after it ended ?

Does the crash always happen or is is only sometimes ?

Also a few questions:

• Myrmidon's ulti lv2 costs 1000mana long before the hero has such mana, wouldn't it deserve a little discount ? (old issue too) ^^

Indeed. I need to go through all ultis, as this is an issue for many of them

• Do "Murlock attacks" scale with extrem level (hp, damage...) ?

Murlocs themselves do not scale with extreme levels.
Their number does increase tho, like dragons/assassins attacks.

• Would it be possible to remove picking cooldown when playing solo ? I had a hardtime doubting which hero to take while the time went out

That should be possible. I'll add that to my todo list.

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Thanks for the feedback, I guess I have some work to do now

 

[Ricola3D]

I played 1.53 with Remodded, to be sure to see the last changes


I'll retry the Runemaster to be sure.
Edit: there are runes but the glow effect doesn't work in Reforged so I had issues seeing them on the ground :S

About the shield of invulnerability I was playing dryad/bloodmage and fighting the samurai captain at the moment I lost miserably "because all heroes are dead". I died 2 times without any issue, the 3rd time loosing condition was met ^^ Captains difficulty is quite high, but it's fun

About the freeze with wand of illusion: I was playing druid/bloodmage, and it "paused" my dryad indefinitely. I could still switch heroes afterward, but the dryad was paused/immobile/uncontrolable.



I like the difficulty in extreme, it's fun with hydras or the frozen boss waking you up.
I saw kind of a damage ladderboard in late game? I like the idea of being able to challenge your previous scores

 

[Marchombre]

I'll retry the Runemaster to be sure.
Edit: there are runes but the glow effect doesn't work in Reforged so I had issues seeing them on the ground :S

Ah, yes, runes can be hard to see, idk why. Probably something that broke a particule emitter in reforged.
Maybe i should make them bigger so that it would be easier to spot them.

About the shield of invulnerability I was playing dryad/bloodmage and fighting the samurai captain at the moment I lost miserably "because all heroes are dead". I died 2 times without any issue, the 3rd time loosing condition was met ^^ Captains difficulty is quite high, but it's fun

This probably is because your revive on Shield of Invulnerability was on CD then. Which means you died twice in 60 secs. I'll say: get good kiddo
I also saw that tooltip was incorrect, ability reference was outdated, thus shield tooltip displayed 0 secs cd, which isn't true. My bad on this one.

About the freeze with wand of illusion: I was playing druid/bloodmage, and it "paused" my dryad indefinitely. I could still switch heroes afterward, but the dryad was paused/immobile/uncontrolable.

Well, that's a weird behavior
Even weirder that the crash on last use
I'll look into those two issues.

I saw kind of a damage ladderboard in late game? I like the idea of being able to challenge your previous scores

Yes, I started tracking stats in late game because it could be quite frustrating to not know how much useful you were in those boss fight.
I'm also planning on distributing the boss kill reward according to those metrics, so that last hit isn't all that matter, but I didn't find a proper formula yet.

 

[VlaViRus]

Hi There! Reworked Sylvana is bugged:
1)After swapping her form's stats from the book of attack, don’t keep up; stats from the other books seem to be kept correctly.
2)Buffs for the minions, obtained on the 21-30 lvls after swapping the form, also getting lost by the new minions).
3)If you are wearing a necklace of spell immunity, you can apply Death Curse on the Banshee form, but you can’t apply the inner fire on the Ranger form.
Feels weird that Fire-infused arrows don’t get some benefits from 21-30 lvl like Soul stealer arrows.
That’s all from me, thanks!

 

[Marchombre]

Hi There! Reworked Sylvana is bugged:

Hello,
Tanks for the feedback

1)After swapping her form's stats from the book of attack, don’t keep up; stats from the other books seem to be kept correctly.

yeah, this is something I saw too, and it affects all heroes with dual forms based on metamorphosis ability (Illidan, Voz, Sylvanas, Broll Bearmantle, Kil'jaeden). I have a fix ready for next patch. I just need to wrap things up, but I'm currently on other projects.

2)Buffs for the minions, obtained on the 21-30 lvls after swapping the form, also getting lost by the new minions).

oh, well spotted. I'll look into that.

3)If you are wearing a necklace of spell immunity, you can apply Death Curse on the Banshee form, but you can’t apply the inner fire on the Ranger form.

War3 engine have some weird stuff going on with buffs and spell immunity.
I'll see if I can fix that, but not sure I can easily.

Feels weird that Fire-infused arrows don’t get some benefits from 21-30 lvl like Soul stealer arrows.

Well, only summoned units are buffed with lvl 21-30 because they would be freaking useless later in game if they weren't
Fire-infused are still good, no matter when you use them.

 

[A1P4K4]

Hello guys! Thanks a lot for keeping this awesome map up to date! You made tremendous amount of work reworking all heroes, abilities and triggers. Great job, keep it going

And there is some feedback for the current version.

Usability/general suggestions:

1. It will be super useful to implement chat commands to buy/sell lumber. Selling 2k lumber when you have only 10 packs in the shop can be tiresome.
2. Easy difficulty is super easy. I suggest to lower starting gold (~25-50k instead of 100) and do not weaken bosses that much. 100k makes hero image or all hero images cheeseable from the start: immediately go to event and use '-bt' after hero(es) spawn. 25k is more than enough IMO.
3. Farming event makes the game super easy overall on Easy/Normal. I suggest to disable '-bt' command during the event and increase mobs HP like it was in the original map. IMO it is okay to bring golem stun back (you can use antimagic potions or amulet to mitigate) but leave them magic vulnerable.
4. For some reason there are no level bosses (dragons). At least on Easy/Normal diff, haven't tested on higher yet. And also no units on destroyed towers and no Magnataurs on destroyed Necropolis (the message appears, but no Magna). I'd love to have all of them back on all difficulties.
5. Demon Hunter first ability (Negative Energy) is not very useful to say the least. It deals the same amount of damage as Dwarf's maul or Jacky's maul-based ability, but has no stun. I believe this should be replaced with something more useful. Probably some custom spell.
6. Demon Hunter Roar ability have several issues:
   • It has very limited range. Should be increased IMO.
   • It lasts 45s with cooldown 20s. So practically DH always have +100% AD if you don't forget to spam it on CD. Should be reworked or replaced. Like a suggestion: 15s duration with 60s cooldown. But my general suggestion: make smth custom and more useful.
7. The Final Wave:
   • Camera moves to a spawn region center, therefore when it darkens around you still can see enemy units appearing. Camera should center at the castle.
   • At the beginning of the final wave all units except heroes are removed (summons, furbolgs, etc.). It also removes every built fortification. IMO it should not do that. All units should be teleported to spawn region (or any other place nearby), all buildings should stay at place. Maybe it is better to make pathing for buildings so you can only build around the castle. And maybe limit amount of building one player can build.

Small bugs:

1. Myrmidon ultimate (Avatar) = submerged naga (Avatar forces 'alternate' animation, which for most of naga units means 'submerged')
2. Dryad multiattack don't work when attacking flying units (chimeras for example). It will attack flying if you target anything else, but when attacking flyers there are no extra spears around. And the same goes for some wave units (wolf riders for example). Super annoying but not critical at all.

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And there's also a big question: will there be an SD version of the map? I do not own reforged (and not planning to buy any time soon) and lots of models do not work for me. I made an SD version of my own (thanks for leaving the map unprotected), but respecting your work I will not use it online or post anywhere. And remaking it after every update (and I hope there will be some) is too much work for me.
I'd really appreciate an SD version if it is possible.

 

[Marchombre]

Hello guys! Thanks a lot for keeping this awesome map up to date! You made tremendous amount of work reworking all heroes, abilities and triggers. Great job, keep it going

And there is some feedback for the current version.

Hello,
Thanks for playing, glad the updates are appreciated

Usability/general suggestions:

1. It will be super useful to implement chat commands to buy/sell lumber. Selling 2k lumber when you have only 10 packs in the shop can be tiresome.

There are -gtl (golf to lumber) and -ltg (lumber to gold) commands, to converts one ressource into the other.

Easy difficulty is super easy. I suggest to lower starting gold (~25-50k instead of 100) and do not weaken bosses that much. 100k makes hero image or all hero images cheeseable from the start: immediately go to event and use '-bt' after hero(es) spawn. 25k is more than enough IMO.

That's exactly the point
Easy difficulty could almost be renamed "tutorial".

Farming event makes the game super easy overall on Easy/Normal.

As I said above, easy is a kind of tutorial.
Normal is a difficulty meant to learn early game management with low ressource.
Reaching Farming Event in those difficulties is already a win and I don't mind that the bosses discovery is easy.

Maybe I really should difficulties as the game is intended to be played on at least extreme 4.

I suggest to disable '-bt' command during the event and increase mobs HP like it was in the original map.

Even back in the days, the -bt command have been on and off depending on versions.
I might add an option to enable/disable the command during the farming event to give players options.

IMO it is okay to bring golem stun back (you can use antimagic potions or amulet to mitigate) but leave them magic vulnerable.

Stuns in farming could become very annoying for channeling casters who could waste huge CD on nothing.
Antimagic was a solution, that's true, but the punishment for not having it was way to high.

If I were to bring the stun back, I would probably add an other debuff affecting mainly autoattackers on others creeps to make thing fair I guess

For some reason there are no level bosses (dragons). At least on Easy/Normal diff, haven't tested on higher yet. And also no units on destroyed towers and no Magnataurs on destroyed Necropolis (the message appears, but no Magna). I'd love to have all of them back on all difficulties.

Hmm, not sure that is intended.
Will check this issue.

Demon Hunter first ability (Negative Energy) is not very useful to say the least. It deals the same amount of damage as Dwarf's maul or Jacky's maul-based ability, but has no stun. I believe this should be replaced with something more useful. Probably some custom spell.

Agreed. This is on my list of things I'd like to improve, but there are others heroes who needs some work before him.

Demon Hunter Roar ability have several issues:

• It has very limited range. Should be increased IMO.
• It lasts 45s with cooldown 20s. So practically DH always have +100% AD if you don't forget to spam it on CD. Should be reworked or replaced. Like a suggestion: 15s duration with 60s cooldown. But my general suggestion: make smth custom and more useful.

Same as above, not high priority right now, but on my long lists of things to improve

The Final Wave:

• Camera moves to a spawn region center, therefore when it darkens around you still can see enemy units appearing. Camera should center at the castle.

Centering around spawn area is intended as it's where your hero is.
You shouldn't see unit spawn tho, will look into that.

• At the beginning of the final wave all units except heroes are removed (summons, furbolgs, etc.). It also removes every built fortification. IMO it should not do that. All units should be teleported to spawn region (or any other place nearby), all buildings should stay at place.

Yeah, this is intended.
1/ It avoid cheesy strategies
2/ All player CD are reset, so summons are available.

I'm not sure I want to change that. Don't want to open the Pandora's box of ways to break things

• Maybe it is better to make pathing for buildings so you can only build around the castle.

I tested a bit that idea when implementing the towers, but limiting the building area was causing an issue in multiplayer when you wanted to divide lanes and creeps focus evenly.

• And maybe limit amount of building one player can build.

That could be a good idea indeed.
Will add that to my improvement ideas

Small bugs:

1. Myrmidon ultimate (Avatar) = submerged naga (Avatar forces 'alternate' animation, which for most of naga units means 'submerged')

Yup, known "issue". I let it be because I find it kind of funny
But Myrmidon is on my rework list and will probably lose that ability anyway.

Dryad multiattack don't work when attacking flying units (chimeras for example). It will attack flying if you target anything else, but when attacking flyers there are no extra spears around. And the same goes for some wave units (wolf riders for example). Super annoying but not critical at all.

That damn multishot attack is really annoying
I'll add that to my todo list I guess.

And there's also a big question: will there be an SD version of the map? I do not own reforged (and not planning to buy any time soon) and lots of models do not work for me. I made an SD version of my own (thanks for leaving the map unprotected), but respecting your work I will not use it online or post anywhere. And remaking it after every update (and I hope there will be some) is too much work for me.
I'd really appreciate an SD version if it is possible.

Yeah, I'm aware that is an issue for many players.
This is something I want to fix.

I do believe there is a way, I need to test that and take the time to check every model that requires it.
But it will be a long and annoying process so I might have postponed it until now

 

[A1P4K4]

Thanks for the replies!

There are -gtl (golf to lumber) and -ltg (lumber to gold) commands, to converts one ressource into the other.

Great! Didn't know that, thanks!

Maybe I really should difficulties as the game is intended to be played on at least extreme 4.

Well, I'd love to see challenging bosses and harder lines but with no assassins. Something in between normal and extreme. Now after pretty easy normal we have all in: heroes in lines, assassins and everything. Just a suggestion

 

[A1P4K4]

Hmm, not sure that is intended.
Will check this issue.

Looked through the triggers and found that variables BuildingDeadPackSize and DragonPackSize which are used to summon Revenants, Magna or Dragons are 0 by default and are set only on Extreme difficulty:

• Actions
  • ...
  • Set VariableSet Difficulty = ((Integer((Substring((Entered chat string), 10, 12)))) + 1)
  • -------- Activate events / attacks depending on level --------
  • -------- Adjust Necroplois & Spirit towers pack size --------
  • Set VariableSet BuildingDeadPackSize = (Min(Difficulty, 12))
  • -------- Adjust invaders pack size --------
  • Set VariableSet AssassinPackSize = (Min((5 x Difficulty), 40))
  • Set VariableSet DragonPackSize = (Min((Difficulty - 1), 20))
  • ...

Setting these vars to 1 as default value makes Dragons, Revenants and Magnataurs appear on all difficulties.

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UPD: there might be an issue with Dragons being 0 if Difficulty is set to 1, because of DragonPackSize = (Min((Difficulty - 1), 20)), but I'm not sure if it is possible.

 

[A1P4K4]

Myrmidon ultimate (Avatar) = submerged naga (Avatar forces 'alternate' animation, which for most of naga units means 'submerged')

Found an easy solution for the case (maybe will be useful in other similar occasions):

• AvatarFix
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Stops casting an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to Avatar
  • Actions
    • Animation - Remove the Alternate animation tag to (Triggering unit)

Should work as well for all abilities based on Avatar, Metamorphosis and Locust Swarm. Tested only on Avatar and Locust yet.

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And one more issue I've discovered: gloves of spell mastery cooldown reduction lasts even if you remove the item. I.e. I have an ability with 20 sec cooldown. With gloves i get 16s instead. If I drop/sell gloves it still will be 16s. But if I level up ability — I need the gloves again (because it sets cooldown for the specific level of ability). Tested several times.
Found rather simple solution of my own that should fix it:

• CD
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Begins casting an ability
  • Conditions
    • ((Triggering unit) is A Hero) Equal to True
  • Actions
    • Set VariableSet tempUnit = (Triggering unit)
    • Set VariableSet tempAbility = (Ability being cast)
    • Set VariableSet tempInt = ((Level of tempAbility for tempUnit) - 1) // 0-indexing for abils levels
    • Set VariableSet tempReal = (Cooldown of tempAbility, Level: tempInt.)
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (tempUnit has an item of type Enchanted Gemstone) Equal to True
      • Then - Actions
        • Set VariableSet tempReal = (tempReal x 0.50)
      • Else - Actions
    • Unit - For Unit tempUnit, Set cooldown of ability tempAbility, Level: tempInt to tempReal

Tested on several default and custom abilities and it perfectly sets CD back to normal if I cast some skill without the item in inventory. But it fires at any ability cast that is not good as I understand, and cant figure out any workaround yet.

 

[Marchombre]

And one more issue I've discovered: gloves of spell mastery cooldown reduction lasts even if you remove the item. I.e. I have an ability with 20 sec cooldown. With gloves i get 16s instead. If I drop/sell gloves it still will be 16s. But if I level up ability — I need the gloves again (because it sets cooldown for the specific level of ability). Tested several times.
Found rather simple solution of my own that should fix it:

• CD
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Begins casting an ability
  • Conditions
    • ((Triggering unit) is A Hero) Equal to True
  • Actions
    • Set VariableSet tempAbility = (Ability being cast)
    • Set VariableSet tempInt = ((Level of tempAbility for tempUnit) - 1) // 0-indexing for abils levels
    • Set VariableSet tempReal = (Cooldown of tempAbility, Level: tempInt.)
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (tempUnit has an item of type Enchanted Gemstone) Equal to True
      • Then - Actions
        • Set VariableSet tempReal = (tempReal x 0.50)
      • Else - Actions
    • Unit - For Unit (Triggering unit), Set cooldown of ability tempAbility, Level: tempInt to tempReal

Tested on several default and custom abilities and it perfectly sets CD back to normal if I cast some skill without the item in inventory. But it fires at any ability cast that is not good as I understand, and cant figure out any workaround yet.

Oh, this is one is new, well spotted
Will add that to my todo list.

 

[Satariel]

Would be cool if not half the Heroes, Summons and Enemy Heroes were invisible if not playing Reforged...

Or half the Players constantly desync / lag out. The Fire/Lightning Panda also get stuck A LOT during the second special Event where you are not able to move, use Abilities nor switch your Hero and it doesn't do anything.

Map is also way to easy even on -ex999 when it only takes 1-2 people to get Immo Cloak, tank the Images with Pots, sell Necklace buy two bracers and from there on you already won. Difficulty only being with this Map having to explain it very carefully ten times in a row with pings to people so they do the Images..

 

[Marchombre]

Would be cool if not half the Heroes, Summons and Enemy Heroes were invisible if not playing Reforged...

As you can see in the "Known issues", this is something on my todo list. However, I've only been reported 3 models that were not visible, so it was not high priority to find a solution.

It seems there are way more than this ?
Knowing which models I need to find a SD match for would be helpful.

Or half the Players constantly desync / lag out.

I didn't have any feedback on desync lately. I can't fix something I'm not aware of
Could you could give me specific example on when you're getting desync ? Is it involving a hero/boss ? Happening at a specific time maybe ?

The Fire/Lightning Panda also get stuck A LOT during the second special Event where you are not able to move, use Abilities nor switch your Hero and it doesn't do anything.

What do you mean by 2nd special event ?
Farming Event ? Or one of the event that triggers when killing creeps/waves/invaders ?

Does it happen only with those 2 heroes ?

Map is also way to easy even on -ex999 when it only takes 1-2 people to get Immo Cloak, tank the Images with Pots, sell Necklace buy two bracers and from there on you already won. Difficulty only being with this Map having to explain it very carefully ten times in a row with pings to people so they do the Images..

This is an issue that was inherited from the first X Hero Siege maps.
I'm currently exploring different options on how to avoid this cheesy strat without completely destroying the All Hero Image Event or making the early game impossible in higher difficulties.

Also, I'm trying to add some challenges that are more than "enemies get more stats" on higher difficulties (such as wave bosses), but I need more time to implement them. Suggestions are always welcome if you have ideas in that regard.