Demigod: v1.20 Partial Change Log

By Frogboy on November 11, 2009 10:31:55 AM from

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Demigod v1.2 has passed what we call our tech QA and is now in consumer QA (i.e. compatibility and such).

Here’s a partial list of what’s in this build:

Notable Bug Fixes:

· Fixes a serious desync that could potentially resolve a number of problem cases in MP.

Citadel Upgrades

Graveyard Citadel Upgrade: Increased bonus from 10/20/40% to 15/30/50%

Favor Item Changes:

Samm-El’s Cloak: Buffed cap from 25% to 15%
Dark Crimson Vial: Reduced cast time from 2 to 1 seconds
Staff of the Warmage: Increased mana from 700 to 800
Magical Coin Pouch: Buffed cost reduction from 10% to 15%
Horn of Battle: Increased health regen from 10 to 25

New favor items:

Spirit of the Fallen: Assassin only

5000 Favor Points

1000 Health

8 Health Per Second

Haste Anklet: Assassin only

5000 Favor Points

17% Increased Movement Speed

Pendant of Prescience: Generals only

5000 Favor Points

15% Dodge

20% Minion Dodge

Tome of Champions: Generals Only

5000 Favor Points

800 Health

5 Health Per Second

150 Minion Health

Items:

Hex Scroll: Reduced cost from 500 to 250
Capture Lock: Increased cast time from 1 to 2 seconds
Combat Health and Mana Potions unchanged – we were afraid to tweak this one
Duelist Cuirass: Reduced cost from 3000 to 2500
Theurgist’s Cap: Reduced cost from 3000 to 2000
Hungarling’s Crown: Reduced cost from 6500 to 5500
Ironwalkers: Reduced cost from 3750 to 2750
Desperate Treads: Reduced cost from 5000 to 4000
Gauntlet’s of Despair: Increased mana drain from 200 to 300
Doomspite Grips: Increased weapon damage from 30 to 40
Forest Band: Increased minion armor from 200 to 300
Warlord’s Punisher: Unchanged
Ring of the Ancients: Reduced cost from 3500 to 2500
Parasite Egg: Reduced cost from 4000 to 3000

Game Mechanics:

Dodge Cap increased from 30% to 40%

Queen of Thorns:

Summon Shambler: Summon Shambler now increases health and damage of Shamblers as you gain new ranks. The values are 5/10/15 damage and 125/250/375 health.
Entourage: Shamber buff decreased to compensate for Summon Shambler’s boost. Damage reduced from 10/20/30 to 6/12/18 damage and 250/500/750 health to 165/330/495.

UPDATE:

· Fixed TB’s ability to attack while moving in Fire Mode.

I’ll have a more complete list shortly.

Commenting is enabled to allow people to complain about the balancing since you can blame me for it. I read through the comments and various threads and compiled a list of requested changes along with my own experiences from playing. So you can see a lot of things have been made less expensive. The new favor items are largely just “upgrades” (requiring a lot more favor points) to the existing ones. I tried to request items that could be realistically added. So in other words, don’t flame GPG. Flame Brad (me).

The modding is going to become a big deal I believe as I am hoping we will be able to have our own mods that players will be able to distribute here on the game site or that we’ll eventually bundle with the game if they’re popular enough.

+912 Karma | 280 Replies

Quoting morpheas768,

reply 185

Yes. He's now banned from the game and from the forums. Creating an account called "Kryoisgay" was the end of him.
Are you kidding me???

You banned playgroundlegend just for insulting a SD staff member and players like Belier13 and Apika who repeatedly exploit/HACK the game AND they post in the forums to brag about it are NOT getting banned? https://forums.demigodthegame.com/352855/page/21

Where is the justice in all this?

I want to see these 2 guys BANNED. Belier13 and Apika.

Belier13 a.k.a MarronCul (smurf)

Apika a.k.a. BrunChiasse (smurf)

It has been months now that they are questioning your authority and competence by continuesly hacking the game and then bragging about it in a bad manner.

In all the years i am a gamer i have never seen so bad behaviour and lack of respect from gamers as these 2 guys.

STARDOCK please look at my arguments and click in my links. Right now i have no time to check the forums, but with a little digging i can find numerous posts of these guys bragging and openly admitting about hacking Demigod.

Such behaviour should be INTOLERABLE.

1. Ban these guys or lose honest players of this game (including me)

2. If you cant ban Belier13 and Apika, then unban playgroundlegend because all he did was insult a SD staff member (kryo).

this is not justice. I know it sounds extreme, but it is like convicting a bank robber to life in prison, and let a murderer go away without being sentenced to go to prison or anything else.

Some time ago you banned SocialistRyan for hacking the game JUST 1 TIME ONLY. Thank you for unbanning him. But now i am asking you nicely to ban these 2. they are the only ones they deserve it.

Apika and Belier13 are banned now. However, as you pointed out, they already bought new smurf accounts (possibly more than one) and are now actually focusing on destroying the community, as shown in the hall of shame thread (see https://forums.demigodthegame.com/352855/get;2441859 and the following posts).

I agree that more drastic actions have to be taken or that Stardock simply has to put more effort in monitoring these forums and the game and quickly ban new accounts of them, whenever they make one.

Quoting Makito1,

reply 199

Side note for the QoT being able to Heal Towers i really hope light side gets a DG that can heal tower's too Perhaps Sed?

all in all Great Job SD/GPG and of Course Frogboy

Why exactly would you want to give sedna yet more healing capabilities. isn't current ability to heal enough as it is? Sedna doesn't need a boost unless it's to her useless yetis, in all my games I have never met a player who used those things or used them right.

I have met a Yeti Sedna once, who was actually using them with at least some effectiveness. It was a very weird game because of that Sedna

. He used the Yetis to destroy towers very quickly and he just moved around in our base as if we or our towers weren't even there. We won in the end, but he cleaned out our base at least... and he was also able to significantly damage our citadel, alone.

too bad that you have to insult someone for getting sds attention.

Not very original but I guess feedbacks are always good to have for SD.

I'm happy with everything in this update (especially Lock time & TB AA) but I disagree on the creation of new Favor as statued before and would have prefered a buff of existant ones which are too weak.

And, why buff QoT for debuffing her at the same time? Are you sure this very little difference will change anything?

I Hope it will be out today. I might just as well trow in my 2 cents as well. Keep in mind that I play this every now and then strictly for fun. I am by far a pro player. For similar reasons I see the issues with the new favour items. It might prevent bringing in new players. The TB fix is very positive. Will probably give him a more reasonable sense of power. Yet, desync is the BIG thing. Overall a positive step forward. And modding... Which is the thing which might breathe new life into the game imho.

Quoting DeathWeaVer666,

reply 205

And, why buff QoT for debuffing her at the same time? Are you sure this very little difference will change anything?

It will, it'll make her be used even less.

Quoting plixness,

reply 206

I Hope it will be out today.

No it's postponed to next week (Thursday probably).

Quoting Derog,

reply 204

too bad that you have to insult someone for getting sds attention.

Yes unfortunately that is the only way.

and that is why you see me flaming Belier and Apika.

I have made myself a target for banning due to my bad behaviour yesterday, but my true goal was to get SD's attention. so that they ban the hackers. If not, then at least they will watch them closely and start monitoring their games, and hopefully sooner or later their new smurf accounts will get banned. They (Belier13 and Apika) just want to keep raping the community by continuesly hacking the game.

I want to see their new smurf accounts banned too. I didnt insult someone from SD but i will insult heavily these 2 hackers (belier13 and apika) and i will not stop until all their smurf accounts are banned.

Right now i can only accuse as i dont have any 100% solid evidence. But time works for me and against them so.....

We'll see

i don't get it why it is so dramatic one insulted one of stardock. even frogboy the ceo himselm called palyers idots, as far as the screenshot showed, frogboy even started with the insults. it seems to be SD-like.

Quoting CelMare,

reply 210

With money comes power and control.

Quoting CelMare,

reply 210

It does not matter. playgroundlegend was sick of players not wanting to play against him that he wanted his account "burned".

So he tried to get a ban. go to previous page to see his posts. (actually my posts but i said something on his behalf because he was muted, he asked me to say something be cause he could not write.)

i know what playgroundlegend did and why.

Okey, seriously... What the hell is up with the new favor-items? There shouldn't be _better_ items; the key is trying to get them all to be viable options. Making new ones that are essentially buffs to some old ones was just a bad idea. I generally think it's a bad idea to give active players game-changing rewards, rather than things that could just be something cosmetic to show off. If you've played more than your opponents you shouldn't get or _need_ better items than they do.

On a different note I see that the Magical Coin Pouch got buffed. Question though: is it still bugged, requiring the original amount to enable a purchase anyway? If it is; mjeh... Just curious anyway.

I really hope the complete list or whatever will have some serious good-stuff in it. Otherwise I don't really see how this update is going to improve the game in any way. Just my two cents.

and that is why you see me flaming Belier and Apika.

Flaming is not justified, regardless of your reasons.

Given his past behavior in the community, Belier is and will continue to be blocked from the forums and chat as soon as any new account he may use comes to our attention. However the policy regarding in-game bans is that a new copy of the game is a new chance. If evidence arises that he and Apika are continuing to use exploits, then their new serials will be deactivated as well, but until then, they get the benefit of the doubt as to whether they learned from the "fine" they paid.

Quoting kryo,

reply 215

and that is why you see me flaming Belier and Apika.
Flaming is not justified, regardless of your reasons.

to say this so general is wrong. one may provoke one so much as a form of mental violance that flaming is the most understandable and justified reaction to the hurting behaviour. everyone has it's limits and you can be violent with words thus provoking one to flame. it is not the flamer to be blamed than.

but as usual people only see and jugde the one that flames or punch. they don't see the one that was so hutring with "polite" words.

just talking in general.

edit: sitting bored at home because being ill and more or less no open games in demigod. taking a break of dao

Quoting kryo,

reply 215

and that is why you see me flaming Belier and Apika.
Flaming is not justified, regardless of your reasons.

Given his past behavior in the community, Belier is and will continue to be blocked from the forums and chat as soon as any new account he may use comes to our attention. However the policy regarding in-game bans is that a new copy of the game is a new chance. If evidence arises that he and Apika are continuing to use exploits, then their new serials will be deactivated as well, but until then, they get the benefit of the doubt as to whether they learned from the "fine" they paid.

But they already are acting like idiots again on the forum and in the game. See https://forums.demigodthegame.com/352855/get;2441859 and all the following posts.

You can't ban people from a game they paid for by acting like idiots on the forums. Ban them from forums, sure. That's independent from the game.

You can only ban in game when there is proof.

they are already acting bannworthy ingame. at least i read several reports of that. this shouldn't be difficult to investigate.

Quoting Polynomial,

reply 218

You can't ban people from a game they paid for by acting like idiots on the forums. Ban them from forums, sure. That's independent from the game.

You can only ban in game when there is proof.

They practically raped the community for 4 whole months, admitedly so. If you thing they are "clean" now play against them Poly.

Also Forums are just a hint of how bad behaviour they have, and how much they hack the game. What do you think? That they will give you proof of their "crimes" by themselves?

Quoting morpheas768,

reply 220

Quoting Polynomial, reply 218You can't ban people from a game they paid for by acting like idiots on the forums. Ban them from forums, sure. That's independent from the game.

You can only ban in game when there is proof.
They practically raped the community for 4 whole months, admitedly so. If you thing they are "clean" now play against them Poly.

Also Forums are just a hint of how bad behaviour they have, and how much they hack the game. What do you think? That they will give you proof of their "crimes" by themselves?

All I'm saying is you need to have proof of TOS breaking in game to ban their accounts. You can't ban people in game just because you don't like them or that you THINK they're still desyncing.

Ok enough of this what you all fail to understand which should be obvious by now is "You have no say in who gets banned!" GPG as already indirectly given more than enough proof they aren't going to listen to you about it so drop it.

Quoting heavenlysynn,

reply 222

Stardock handles the bans, not GPG.

Quoting Spooky__,

reply 223

Quoting heavenlysynn, reply 222Ok enough of this what you all fail to understand which should be obvious by now is "You have no say in who gets banned!" GPG as already indirectly given more than enough proof they aren't going to listen to you about it so drop it.Stardock handles the bans, not GPG.

Point being just drop it, if it has been happening for months and reporting, complaining, and whining hasn't got whoever to fix it by now; than that should let you know repeating the same thing over and over again wont get it done.

Morpheus: Give it up. Or leave.

I've reminded the moderators to start turning off the posting privileges of chronic sad sacks. I'm tired of coming onto the forums and reading bitching and moaning about non-game related (or only game related in the most slight way). There are entire third party sites dedicated to letting toxic users whine about this or that. It won't be here.

Consider this your only warning (and anyone else reading this). If you guys can't act like adults, you will lose your access to post here.

The Forums Are Now Closed!

The content will remain as a historical reference, thank you.

Demigod: v1.20 Partial Change Log