Exxcentric

Changelog for next patch: (V1.1)

1. Adjusted creep code buff code to occur every spawn, should continue to increase after level 20 (not yet tested).

Adjusted code so that creeps are buffed by:

                MaxHealth = { Mult = 0.0625, AdjustHealth = true },
                DamageBonus = { Mult = 0.0625 },

every wave (twice the previous buff)

2. added 2 starting towers to both sides of the map, close to the citadel

3. changed lobby option gold to:

    StartingGold = {
        Normal = 3500,
        High = 7500,
        Rich = 25000,
    },

and experience rate to:

    ExperienceMultiplier = {
       Low = 1.5,
        Normal = 3.0,
        High = 6.0,
    },

To account for these changes the number of player buff is now :

50%/+200%/+300%/+400%/+500% health and damage per 1/2/3/4/5 players

4. Removed Items:

Cloak of the night favor item

warpstone

amulet of teleportation

elfin cloak (artifact - teleport cloak)

5. Editied abilities:

Batswarm

---Now teleports you back to your start location 0.5 seconds after arriving. Consider it to now be an aoe that lets you go immune for .5 seconds. - To compensate for the change of mobility, this ability will now do damage twice.

ie

start position   -----damage------> selected area- 0.5sec

                    <-----damage-------

Damage by batswarm has been adjusted to:

Ability.HVampireBatSwarm01.DamageAmt = 400
Ability.HVampireBatSwarm02.DamageAmt = 545
Ability.HVampireBatSwarm03.DamageAmt = 720

Blast off has been done the same way.

Damage on Blast off adjusted to:

.HOculusBlastOff01.DamageAmt = 400
.HOculusBlastOff02.DamageAmt = 525
.HOculusBlastOff03.DamageAmt = 610
.HOculusBlastOff04.DamageAmt = 720

6. Edited Items:

Scroll of teleportation cost increased to 750.

Sigil of Vitality cost increased to 1000.

Armorment: On active ability armor multiplier reduced from 40% to 20%

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7. Fixed currency II cost. Was costing 400 when it should have been 4000. Adjusted currency III up from 35 to 40 gold per tick.

Somehow has come undone: will be in next patch (maybe a later ver1.1 or ver 1.2)

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8. Fixed a favoritem import problem

9. Crystal idol shield aura change:

Aura pulse time increased from 8 to 16.

Shield absorb affect increased from 200 to 450. -- this should be more friendly to everyones computers.

10. rewrote the unit tables. reduced number of units by 30-50%

11. changed the wave times :

Warrank Wave timer 41 --> 55

secondary wave 18 seconds-->25

Hope that this reduces the number of creeps on screen.

12. Added Ending to singleplayer.

In the singleplayer version, you will now win the match if you reach warrank 20 and are able to survive through 3 waves at this warrank.

13. Added Additional difficulty level after level 20 for multiplayer.

Creeps will now gain another 12% difficulty bonus for each wave after reaching warrank 20

Standard angel damage --> reduced from 89 --> 50

14. Removed Teleport Scrolls

15. Removed Fortified Structure from the citadel

16. Altered health of towers and citadel to 9000/60000 respectively

17. Added Consumable Item to Consumable tab 2:

Structure Buffer - cost 3500:

On use: Summons a ward which will buff all structures in range 14 with 40% more health and +12 regen.

Creeps will attack and destroy this ward, removing the effects after 20 seconds. The ward has been given 4000 health, and is permanent until destroyed.

It should also be able to be sniped now .

18. Death penalty lobby options changed:

Low: 0.5 -----> 1

Normal: 1 ---> 1.5

others remain the same

19. Shambler Boss now uses Ground spikes I every 5 seconds.

Ver 1.1 Test :

Changes - Added a new ability to nightmare.

Fixed artifact shop - now cloak of elfkin kind can no longer teleport you however, the cost has been reduced to 7500.

Fixed tooltip for Structural Reinforcement -- ^^item above 17.

Fixed Costs for Building Firepower tree

Fortified Structure is back but with better returns now (lol citadel strength is better than it was before but it is still swiss cheese, so you better upgrade!

upgrades are now I  - 20% health and 15 regen ---   cost: 1800

II - 60% health and 20 regen   ---   cost -- 2800

III -- 100% health and 25 regen --  cost  -- 3800

IV -- 140% health and 30 regen  -- cost 4800

This is an awesome mod. 

It is very difficult  to solo lol! 

Some very interesting work.

Some thoughts:

• Change the colors of the shield buff you give creeps. (See the LoPQoT mod for an example, its really simple)
• Reduce the number of shields active, just boost health.
• Reduce the number of creeps on the map at a time. There is too much going on which drains away system resources when most of the time all the creeps are doing is walking towards your base.
• Minions in the Creep wave display their controller as Team_2
• Add an announcement as each wave is generated.
• Scale difficulty based on the number of players on each team.

1. Your walls aren't wall-ish enough. You can walk through them with TB and creeps can move through them.
2. The only way to win is to destroy the enemy citadel, which means you have to buy a warpstone or play oculus or erebus to win. (or send minions and wait forever)
3. The quantity of minions is too high for most computers - two people out of three who tested today got below 0 sim speeds. You may want to increase the quality of creeps but decrease the quantity
4. Creeps can be aggroed from the portal if you're at the artifact shop. You might want to move the portal over a bit

It's very fun though!

We tried 5 v ai and it proved to be very easy.  I think the sweet spot at this point will be 2vAI or 3vai (maybe).  It also destroyed a few folks pcs in the sim speed department.  I can see this being alot of fun.  Thanks for working on another great mod!

I also feel that gold should be a bit more limited. ATM its easy to get enough for artis early on.

Port Mortem triggers off of:

Nature's Reckoning

Heaven's Wrath

Orb of Veiled Storms

All Cleave (Girdle of the Giants)

remember it also spreads. I've gotten to Wave 20 (even though I tend to die with just a few giants left ._.)  with both Crimson Vial and Heaven's Wrath. First item you purchase is Girdle of the Giants. 

We will have to force him to play another game of it.

don't have time to read all that atm, but thanks again for your hard work on dg.  Your mods are fun and a good value add to the community.  Thanks!

Just came up with an alternative for oaks spirits:

Clone - Copies an enemy unit summoning it as a minion:

Level 1: Meta infantry only

Minotaurs: 4

Archers: 6

Level 2: Meta infantry, priest types and baby golems - including crystal monks

Minotaurs: 6

Archers: 8

priests: 2

crystal monks: 2

baby golems: 2

Level 3: Copies all ground units except giants and babylon titan and boss mobs

Minotaurs: 8

Archers: 10

priests: 4

crystal monks: 4

baby golems: 4

cats: 6

babylon golem: 2

Level 4: Copies all ground units

Minotaurs: 12

Archers: 12

priests: 6

crystal monks: 6

baby golems: 5

cats: 7

babylon golem: 3

Boss mobs: 1

Babylon Titan: 2

I am able to run the entire game (up to Wave 20) and have a Sim Speed of 3, on full/ultra graphics with max Anti Aliasing. 

Specs: 

8 GB PC-16000 RAM

Quad Core @ 3.4 GHz (AMD Phenom II 965 Black Edition) 

2x Radeon 5850 in CrossFire 

Intel's X-25M SSD (though I doubt that matters). 

So I think for top-quality new computers, it should run okay. Scaling back the number of creeps would help. 

Critiques: 

- Make Spawn point by the item shop. It's current location forces you to not shop with your first 1k gold because you have to rush for the gold flag. 

- Speaking of which... the 2x Gold flags at the end may need to be removed... I really needed the money for Single-Player but in Team Games I think it makes it EZ-Mode. You also still gain gold and xp from capping flags. 

- Currency would need to be vast improved to be made worth it. The game only lasts 5-10 minutes anyway and you get well over 25k gold if you last to the end, making any contribution Cur gives you insignificant

- I would recommend the Tower Firepower citadel upgrade to create forts or tower or archer towers. The biggest difficulty while Solo'ing is that you cannot shop after wave 13 or so. You have to solo the last 7 waves without going back to base. This also would kill the Albatrosses, which tend to get caught in the citadel and each time I lost it was because of those damn birds. If the archer towers went behind the citadel they would be able to kill Angels or whatever

- If at all possible, I would make it "infinite" and make the creeps scale infinitely as well (it would be cool if you could as well :3). Eventually you wouldn't be able to keep up with walls of 10k hp Giants, no matter what level you are. 

All-in-all great work, this really kept me entertained today. I'm not sure if it is possible to solo as anyone but UB... but still. It was fun to try!

With Erebus, Tb, Occ, and Oak (me) we were able to sit at the portal the whole 20 waves just attacking the creeps :/ . With occ keeping my mana topped as oak and being able to port right to the crystal I never had to run back...just keep spamming my aoe to keep our hp topped off. You can also buy artifacts from the portal.

I was at 5 at Wave 18-19. I may have had an unusual spike or there was a rather absurd excess of shields when I was at 3 that one time. 

I could also be at a higher resolution or graphics mode (2 monitors).