Hey, as first like I already mentioned a time before great map with much potential, Didnt play this game for a while cause it got boring having all four heroes lvl 10 and beating wave 20 again and again. Updates until then are quite nice hope you keep motivated working on the map ; ).
Even if the map is great Im still missing something really challanging, didnt even took me a week to get from 4 lvl 10 heroes to the "easteregg" and no I didnt permanently played this game. I am short on time at the moment so ill stop writing now and just giving you a list of the bugs and some suggestions I found out while getting the the easteregg.
Mech:
- Infernoturret lasts 5secs longer then description says and the cd is 5secs shorter
- Healingstation heals dead people
- Landmines are pretty useless even if they are buffed by the armor
- You cant plant healing station on creep
- You should be able to plant turrets on ur own position (dunno if thats possible in sc2)
- The discription of mechs last weapon says that it shoots 3 but in fact it shoots 2 rockets
- There is a HUGE bug with the bubble armor: Turn it on and push any boss(but not the mothership) in a corner just by walking against them and they cant do anything anymore
- Bubble armor stops as it gets hit by DT´s psiblast
- This rumble ultimate is quite useless atm because 1. enemies are still hitting you enough to kill you because ur mostly low hp and armor 2. the damage is really low 3. it hits mates too, they cant even heal you
- Bubble animation stops after a few secs
- Dont know if its wanted but even units getting summoned by warpprisma getting frozen if they are beside the bubble armor
- I feel like Mech is a funny hero but still needs a small buff compared to the other heroes as soon as you fixed this bubble bug
- Change the Tanks or its description sice I don´t think you can really have 2. Beeing able to have 2 tanks imo means that you can constantly have 2 tanks
Tyrant:
- It happen that broodling attack stops respawning broodlings that way youll still doing damage but not spawning broodlings, also not above heroes head
- change description of broodling attack for new players to understand what exactly it does
-It happend when I used spore fall near the border of the map only 2 spores really landed in/on the map
High Templar:
- You should overthink the HT armor with heal. Other armors must have spells too or you should place heal on accossires, otherwise noone ever will take another amor but armor of the priest.
(Imo you should place the most spells on accessories and the different armor types should be the mana and hp base means if you want to play 2 superior spells with high mana costs you have to choose an armor with much mana which will result in very low armor and hp)
- The lore of the Warrior bug still remains. 1. choosing lore of the warrior 2. choosing any other weapon will result in having any weapon splash damage. I guess you could easily fix it by taking the weapons splash away and giving a buff which grants splash damage if its equip like unholyarmor buff for example. might not be the finest way to solve it but I guess its an easy way
Dark Templar:
- Still needs a big nerv he can solo everything up to lvl 35 and with the 60% buff he even might be able to solo that lvl too. You definatle need to nerv the cloak of the shadow way most times played like this: Assinss weapon, cloak of the shadow, crystal, heart of anger, psi blast. with that build you got most dps, most armor, invis and even the best ulti I think the invis and dps thing is nice but the ulti still might be to strong and the armor to high mbe drasticly reducing his armor might balance it otherwise nerv the ulti. (You can kill all waves just be running and keep using invis untill ur ulti is rdy kill many units run and using invis again)
With Doctor:
- It happens that units dont move after they were confused
- If heared rumours that its possible to confuse warpprismas which causes them to stop summoning
Generel:
- I think tanks still getting healed to full hp if you switch their
- It happens that the mothership flys at the very border of the map and doesnt come back anymore which means you cant attack it anymore because of sight and you cant even die anymore vs it if ur very unlucky
- Some skills for example marine heal and many wd skills are called to have 0 casting time but they need such a long time to use that you permantly cancel them because ur click anywhere else short after
- Noticed that esc OFTEN doesnt work to skip. most times if 2 players already pressed esc(maybe even only then). The Count also isnt increasing then.
- More exact skill descriptions would be nice
- It would be nice to see some REAL challenges with the next updates something you can only get if the whole team plays perfectly and while the people are working on the challenging thing you have enough time to fix bugs and so on without losing people playing the game ; )
The Minigun for the Marine is almost useless at higher stages, even with the permanent buffs and both ammo upgrades there are some enemies who simply have more armor than you can deal with. This is one of the only few weapons where the disadvantages are glaringly worse than the advantages. With most other weapons you can engage most enemies and deal a little bit of damage, not optimal but you still deal damage. With the minigun, there are some targets where you are 95% useless.
I was thinking of a way to circumvent this issue without making the Minigun too good. One thing to try would be buffing the basedamage simply +1. Another option would be to give the minigun a 10% or 20% chance to ignore armor.
Also I have massive performance issues with this map when my view is in the center, regardless of the number of units on screen. When my view is on the tower in the middle, my framerate drops from 90 (side and corners) to below 20 sometimes. I have no idea what is causing this massive fps drop, but it is a problem with the middle of the map.
Hey PsychoMC ive try your map called PsychoMC - The last stand on EU server and then switch to US server and see that your map is not availlable is it possible for your to publish it on US server too ? Would be awesome !
I found a minor (But very annoying) bug with the Dark Templar and High Templar.
When the Dark Templar uses his Ally cloak and the High Templar uses his bubble shield, the bubble shield becomes the High Templar's "character" which makes your character move to the high templar when right clicked.
Ally cloak + Bubble shield = clickable shield = always moving to the high templar when clicked.
Hi guys! Here is the first part of my review: a list of the bugs I've noticed. It may not be complete, but I hope it will help. There's 2 more parts coming!
Bugs
In this section, I will mainly discuss about what are bugs in the game according to how it is supposed to work. Fixing these bugs can drasticaly change the balance, but this will be discussed in an other section.
General bugs
- If you chose a weapon, and then an other weapon, you have no weapon selected : you have to click once again on the weapon you want. This can lead to games starting with no weapon selected if you don't pay attention or if you are new
- You can face the same wave twice at the same time (happened to me only once, on wave 11)
- It is possible to start while playing ALL the characters. I think it happens if one person has chosen, an other person leaves, then the game begins with the last person being able to play all the characters and changing their inventory at will
- If you die at the very end of a wave, or between two waves, you stay dead until the end of the next wave. A way to fix it is to add a mechanism that revives people at the begining of the waves
- It is possible, in the lobby, to team a player with a computer, the IA being unable to fire at the player, which leads to an incredibly easy game
- Friendly fire is ON
- When you beat a boss, the message says "you gain a bonus to the stats of ALL your heroes", but we win this bonus only for the character who has beaten the boss
- Detectors often don't detect anything
Bugs affecting specific waves
- Wave 13 : illusions of zealots don't have charge whereas real zealots do
- Wave 27 : the immortals' shield block many spells whereas they are not supposed to (DT's spells, sniping skill of the WD, ...)
The immortals' shield doesn't block the HT's auto attack
The HT's auto attack only hit stone Zealots for 1
- Wave 29 : The tooltip says "Info: X survived the horde", whereas it should say "X medics".
The turrets can survive the wave.
- Wave 32: I've already seen Selendis hurting herself with her super blast
- Wave 33: Novas sometimes lose their cloaking field
- For many waves, the percentage doesn't show up properly
It is higher than the damage really done to the wave (the damage meter is at 20 or 50 and the wave ends) in waves 16, 21, 23
It is lower than the damage really done to the wave (the damage meter is at 0 but ennemies keep coming) in waves 13 and 31
Bugs affecting heroes
- High Templar
It is possible to select Lore of the Warrior and then an other weapon to gain the benefit of both.
Lore of Time's tooltip doesn't say it gives mana / mana regen whereas it does (just as merger / warlock / vortex)
- Marine
Marksman often does not give a damage bonus (at least on the flamethrower)
The flamthrower can't hit vikings while they are in the air
The visual effect of the Nuclear strike does not show up properly (the visual is based on the 10 second cooldown of the real nuclear strike, but in this game the CD is only 5 seconds)
There's a casting time on the heal
Clones are not added to control group 2
- Dark Templar
Shadow wave hits multiple times but the tooltip doesn't say so.
The debuff when hit by the assassin's blade doesn't tell exactly what are the malus.
If you hit a monster with assassin's blade and then this monster is mind controled, the debuff is not canceled.
Cloaked units are often not detected properly by detectors.
Smoke grenade doesn't show properly its area of effect.
Throw's tooltip doesn't mention the casting time.
You can cloack while casting Throw.
- Tyrant
Pods summoned by the ulti can fall off the screen
Nova ulti: often bugs (deals no damage) ; the aoe is smaller than the visual effect ; the tooltip says it hurts allies whereas it does not
The armor that returns damage is supposed to return 10 to melee attackers, regardless if they hurt you or not, but it doesn't return damage to illusion of zealots
When selected with other units (his summons), the Tyrant is not the first of the list (roaches are).
The tooltip of charge says there's an armor bonus. There's not.
Spine crawler cannot be placed easily, its hitbox should be reduced.
- Mechanic
The healing turrent can heal dead people, and will stay focused on the hero it was healing if he dies. This doesn't bring the hero back to life but wastes the turret's time.
Guided missile sometimes doesn't deal any damage.
The defensive drone doesn't lose mana when blocking projectile, but doesn't block as many projectiles as it is supposed to.
Healing station cannot be placed on creep.
The tooltip of the tank says "2 tank", which implies summoning 2 tanks at the same time.
As the HT, if you pick stunning grenades as your weapon and then an other weapon, you still benefit from the slow effect
- Witch Doctor
I am pretty sure the Vodoo amulet doesn't work the way it was intented. The tooltip says your spells deal more damage and last longer, but I'm pretty sure they don't.
There's a casting time on all the curses even if the tool tip doesn't say so.
Cows' tooltip says it hurts allies but it doesn't.
Kaboom cannot be cast on heroes or mechanics, but an explosion close to them will hurt them too, even if they are allies (and the tooltip doesn't say so).
The aura of the last armor heals turrets. This aura also keeps working when the WD is dead (might also be true for the Malazar's aura of the HT).
You can't control the demons from the demonic rift.
Sniping deals more damage than intented (maybe when using Nazrist).
Confused units will sometimes stop moving after they are unconfused.
Here is the second part of my review!
These general thoughts are directed at improving the gameplay and the enjoyment. They may change the balance or not, but are only aimed at making the game even better.
The last part will be about balance for the heroes.
Waves
- Waves 9, 18, and 26: insert something to prevent people from farming these waves for ages, getting tons of experience (especially 18, as there is a huge death bonus and tons of zergs to kill).
- Wave 9: replace the infestation pits by barracks spawning marines, then add marauders, then firebats, then medics. Three reasons: there is already an "infested wave" (wave 29), there is already a zerg "invasion" wave (wave 18), and there is no terran "invasion" wave yet.
- Wave 13: This wave is too easy (compared to previous waves) and boring. I suggest that you add some real stalkers. Also, on the last 2 spawns, there is 0 real zealots which I think is a mistake. Finaly, the sentry should be able to cast force field to try to block the heroes (just like the infestors do with their eggs in wave 29)
- Wave 17: what about some blink stalkers?
- Wave 24: At the moment, this wave is too easy. What about drones instead of zerglings?
- Wave 26: I don't know if this was intended, but you can run behind the canons to reach the prism and attack it safely.
The sentries are completely useless.
The first wave of zealots should pop a bit faster.
I've never seen (but maybe I haven't spend enough time) anything stronger than DT in this wave, maybe you could add harder stuff as the time passes.
Also, what about cloaked DT, uncloaking only when they attack? Or working in a similar way as the specters?
- Wave 27: The marines are at the moment useless as their damage is too low. I suggest to lower their damage to 6, but ignore armor, or increase their damage.
- Wave 31: increase the manapool of the overlords for 2 reasons: the wave is a bit too easy and by the time we can kill them, they don't have anymore mana anyway so there is no point in wasting time trying to kill them fast. By increasing their manapool, players would be rewarded by killing them fast
- Wave 32: Selendis sometimes goes completely crazy, making this wave really unpredictable in terms of difficulty. She will sometimes send a freaking swarm of vessels that will OS you, and sometimes she'll just cast her super blast like a sitting duck. I think she needs a more consistent behavior.
Also, we are not rewarded for killing the vessels as they repop in an inconsistent way, and they aren't hurt by splash damage (splash spells hurt them though). This needs to be fixed to my mind.
Finally, she can be kitted by the WD so she needs a bit more range.
Bosses
- The Dark Templar
He uses Levitation, a HT skill, but never uses the smoke grenade. Even if players will go out of the smoke grenade, he will still gain some bonus for a short time. Removing levitation and giving him smoke grenade would be more consistent.
He also doesn't use throw (or I haven't seen it), and I think he should.
Instead of having 3k HP, he could have some shield (like 2k / 1k).
He could go invis for short periods of time.
- The High Templar
He should use force field and the shield against ranged damage.
He should have some shield : instead of 5k HP, something like 4k / 1k.
He should use Lore of Time and Lore of the Warlock sometimes.
He should lose the bonus he gets from his domination (too powerful against summoners), and have a less potent retaliation armor (too powerful against the DT)
- The Mechanic
This boss is really unpredictable and his difficulty can be super easy or super hard depending on what he does. He needs a more linear AI.
Remove "call clones", it just doesn't feel right when he summons them. Plus they are not really useful (and if you modify them as I suggested for wave 27, the risk is that they become OP here).
On the other hand, he doesn't summon enough mechs and towers. If you remove the clones, he could maybe summon mechs and towers more often. You could also replace "call clones" by "call bikes" (2 vultures, 2 hellion, 1 diamondback).
Sometimes he goes in crazy mode and summons 2 thors at the same time, which he shouldn't do because things then get really naughty.
Predators should have the nova attack (maybe they already have I'm not sure).
Remove the summon tank skill, and make 4 tanks come from each way every X seconds (just like many other bosses), and switch into siege mode as soon as they are in range. This will add a tactical dimension to this boss.
At the moment, his towers are useless because the towers are useless. I suggest a tweak on how they work in my review on heroes balance, so this will be discussed later. If you agree to his tweak, you won't need to change the towers of his boss, because they will do much more damage, but won't be OP as smart player will lure the boss far away from them.
To conclude on this guy, he is at the moment much stronger than the WD wave 30 (and I think he will always be), so maybe you could switch these 2 guys.
- Witch Doctor
He should use the last weapon and the special effect of the last weapon. Also give him the special effect of the 1st weapon (not very useful but still).
I think he doesn't have the aura of the best armor, and he also doesn't have the pestilence spell.
He never (or very rarely?) uses his 3 curses. I know they cannot be used on heroes at the moment, but this will be discussed below.
And again, this guy should be switched with the mechanic.
Detectors
This section is mainly aimed at balancing the DT as he is the only one who can cloak. The reason why this needs balance will be discussed below. Here I will just list waves that I think need detectors: all the bosses (waves 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35), all the spawners (9, 18, 26), diamondback (23), super medics (27), Kerrigans (29), Selendis (32), Novas (33).
The goal is to have enough detectors, especially when it is appropriate, so cloaking isn't overpowered anymore, but not too many detectors so it doesn't get useless.
Time
For some waves, the time allowance needs adjustment. I didn't make a full list, but here are some of my thoughts
- We have too much time in waves 13, 23, 24
- We don't have enough time in waves 15, 20, 25, 35
Hi everyone. I'm new to the forums and i just created my acount literaly 3 minutes ago.
First of
Well done to PsycoMC for this awesome map. Cant get enough of it. Really. BUT there are a couple of things i want to adress.
I'm sorry if this things were allreadly covered but i realy wanted to write them cuz they are really anoying and ruining the experience :(
1
Make the mecanics Rumbler attack ( the first ulty ) NOT AFFECT FRIENDLY'S. I have been is SO MANY games when a idiot picks it and just activates it when close to us and stuns us, getting us killed.
2
Souldrinker is still a bitch to deal with. If i can give 2 pointers they would be these : remove his AoE mass lifesteal OR spawn only 2 tyrants.
I've gotten to 35 a number of times with my Tyr/WD/HT/DT/Mar but never beat it with Tyr because of his AoE lifesteal my broodlings = constant life , i tried a summon build and he just sucks them off too.
It's impossible for a tyr at least in the last 2 waves ( 34 and 35 ) to survive. A solution is make ALL of the tyr's melee attack make splash damage OR remove the bloody 3 second cast time on the poison nova ulti and the 2 seconds on the seismic roar.
3
The Levitation armor and the timebomb ability are pretty useless.
Solution : Levitation wont lock the HT into position AND for the timebomb make the friendly projectiles ( if you can ) not be slowed. If you can't , than make the timebomb STOP all projectiles in her ( like in the blizzard movies ).
4
My top 3 most useless ultimates and the possible solutions :
3
The Nuke ( marine ) - srsly 100 damage AND 5 seconds delay ? It is extremly weak and the delay means you point it somewhere and after the next ice age it fires.
Solution
1: keep it like this ( damage AND delay ) BUT make 3 or 4 of them fall around the target area or around your position ( this is the most awesome )
2: grow the damage to 250 , delay 0 and cooldown 45s ( still awesome )
3: keep the damage AND the delay BUT expand the splash area 2 - 3 fold ( less awesome but still usefull )
2
The megarumbler - this is a pretty good ultimate but with 1 fatal flaw .. it affect allies
Solution
1: It WONT affect allies
2: it only slows the MS of allies but doesnt damage them
1
The mass cloak ( DT ) - i can NOT see why it should be used. Really. Makes the DT vurnerable , eats a hellavalot of energy and doesnt really do much.
Solutions:
1: remove it and replace it with the void prison ( or if you want mass void prison )
2: remove it and replace it with summon DT's ( 4 of them , premacloak and dies after 30s )
3: remove it and replace it with mass splash for 20s ( makes all of the DT's attacks do splash for X seconds )
This is about it. Hope someone reads my post and at least considers it. Keep up the good work and peace.
i also believed mass cloak sucked but with 2 high templars casting heal and shield makes it perma and makes dt one of the best tanks except lvl 35. thats pretty much why you might need 2. maybe should add armor buff or dmg type reduction (range or melee) to make it better.
hi, i'm currently planning for making a website with some of the best build, replays, and bugs report. But, it will be a forum, d anyone could post on it :)
i suppose that psycho is okay, no ?
Hey, as first like I already mentioned a time before great map with much potential, Didnt play this game for a while cause it got boring having all four heroes lvl 10 and beating wave 20 again and again. Updates until then are quite nice hope you keep motivated working on the map ; ). Even if the map is great Im still missing something really challanging, didnt even took me a week to get from 4 lvl 10 heroes to the "easteregg" and no I didnt permanently played this game. I am short on time at the moment so ill stop writing now and just giving you a list of the bugs and some suggestions I found out while getting the the easteregg.
Mech:
- Infernoturret lasts 5secs longer then description says and the cd is 5secs shorter
- Healingstation heals dead people
- Landmines are pretty useless even if they are buffed by the armor
- You cant plant healing station on creep
- You should be able to plant turrets on ur own position (dunno if thats possible in sc2)
- The discription of mechs last weapon says that it shoots 3 but in fact it shoots 2 rockets
- There is a HUGE bug with the bubble armor: Turn it on and push any boss(but not the mothership) in a corner just by walking against them and they cant do anything anymore
- Bubble armor stops as it gets hit by DT´s psiblast
- This rumble ultimate is quite useless atm because 1. enemies are still hitting you enough to kill you because ur mostly low hp and armor 2. the damage is really low 3. it hits mates too, they cant even heal you
- Bubble animation stops after a few secs
- Dont know if its wanted but even units getting summoned by warpprisma getting frozen if they are beside the bubble armor
- I feel like Mech is a funny hero but still needs a small buff compared to the other heroes as soon as you fixed this bubble bug
- Change the Tanks or its description sice I don´t think you can really have 2. Beeing able to have 2 tanks imo means that you can constantly have 2 tanks
Tyrant:
- It happen that broodling attack stops respawning broodlings that way youll still doing damage but not spawning broodlings, also not above heroes head
- change description of broodling attack for new players to understand what exactly it does
-It happend when I used spore fall near the border of the map only 2 spores really landed in/on the map
High Templar:
- You should overthink the HT armor with heal. Other armors must have spells too or you should place heal on accossires, otherwise noone ever will take another amor but armor of the priest. (Imo you should place the most spells on accessories and the different armor types should be the mana and hp base means if you want to play 2 superior spells with high mana costs you have to choose an armor with much mana which will result in very low armor and hp)
- The lore of the Warrior bug still remains. 1. choosing lore of the warrior 2. choosing any other weapon will result in having any weapon splash damage. I guess you could easily fix it by taking the weapons splash away and giving a buff which grants splash damage if its equip like unholyarmor buff for example. might not be the finest way to solve it but I guess its an easy way
Dark Templar:
- Still needs a big nerv he can solo everything up to lvl 35 and with the 60% buff he even might be able to solo that lvl too. You definatle need to nerv the cloak of the shadow way most times played like this: Assinss weapon, cloak of the shadow, crystal, heart of anger, psi blast. with that build you got most dps, most armor, invis and even the best ulti I think the invis and dps thing is nice but the ulti still might be to strong and the armor to high mbe drasticly reducing his armor might balance it otherwise nerv the ulti. (You can kill all waves just be running and keep using invis untill ur ulti is rdy kill many units run and using invis again)
With Doctor:
- It happens that units dont move after they were confused
- If heared rumours that its possible to confuse warpprismas which causes them to stop summoning
Generel:
- I think tanks still getting healed to full hp if you switch their
- It happens that the mothership flys at the very border of the map and doesnt come back anymore which means you cant attack it anymore because of sight and you cant even die anymore vs it if ur very unlucky
- Some skills for example marine heal and many wd skills are called to have 0 casting time but they need such a long time to use that you permantly cancel them because ur click anywhere else short after
- Noticed that esc OFTEN doesnt work to skip. most times if 2 players already pressed esc(maybe even only then). The Count also isnt increasing then.
- More exact skill descriptions would be nice
- It would be nice to see some REAL challenges with the next updates something you can only get if the whole team plays perfectly and while the people are working on the challenging thing you have enough time to fix bugs and so on without losing people playing the game ; )
The Minigun for the Marine is almost useless at higher stages, even with the permanent buffs and both ammo upgrades there are some enemies who simply have more armor than you can deal with. This is one of the only few weapons where the disadvantages are glaringly worse than the advantages. With most other weapons you can engage most enemies and deal a little bit of damage, not optimal but you still deal damage. With the minigun, there are some targets where you are 95% useless.
I was thinking of a way to circumvent this issue without making the Minigun too good. One thing to try would be buffing the basedamage simply +1. Another option would be to give the minigun a 10% or 20% chance to ignore armor.
Also I have massive performance issues with this map when my view is in the center, regardless of the number of units on screen. When my view is on the tower in the middle, my framerate drops from 90 (side and corners) to below 20 sometimes. I have no idea what is causing this massive fps drop, but it is a problem with the middle of the map.
will this map be posted on NA? I play ALOT of the actual Last Stand and I love it(5 lvl 20s), I'm very interested in seeing what this is like.
I love me some Last Stand ;)
Hey PsychoMC ive try your map called PsychoMC - The last stand on EU server and then switch to US server and see that your map is not availlable is it possible for your to publish it on US server too ? Would be awesome !
@bLub3: Go
thanks, that is awesome!
I found a minor (But very annoying) bug with the Dark Templar and High Templar. When the Dark Templar uses his Ally cloak and the High Templar uses his bubble shield, the bubble shield becomes the High Templar's "character" which makes your character move to the high templar when right clicked.
Ally cloak + Bubble shield = clickable shield = always moving to the high templar when clicked.
psychomc are you already working on a new version with new content? or maybe simply a second map with same content.. need new input :D
I am currently working on a huge review, stay tuned. There are a lot of balances issues and bugs, so I'm trying to make a list. :)
This game is really great anyway, I hope my thoughts will help !
Hi guys! Here is the first part of my review: a list of the bugs I've noticed. It may not be complete, but I hope it will help. There's 2 more parts coming!
Bugs
In this section, I will mainly discuss about what are bugs in the game according to how it is supposed to work. Fixing these bugs can drasticaly change the balance, but this will be discussed in an other section.
General bugs
- If you chose a weapon, and then an other weapon, you have no weapon selected : you have to click once again on the weapon you want. This can lead to games starting with no weapon selected if you don't pay attention or if you are new
- You can face the same wave twice at the same time (happened to me only once, on wave 11)
- It is possible to start while playing ALL the characters. I think it happens if one person has chosen, an other person leaves, then the game begins with the last person being able to play all the characters and changing their inventory at will
- If you die at the very end of a wave, or between two waves, you stay dead until the end of the next wave. A way to fix it is to add a mechanism that revives people at the begining of the waves
- It is possible, in the lobby, to team a player with a computer, the IA being unable to fire at the player, which leads to an incredibly easy game
- Friendly fire is ON
- When you beat a boss, the message says "you gain a bonus to the stats of ALL your heroes", but we win this bonus only for the character who has beaten the boss
- Detectors often don't detect anything
Bugs affecting specific waves
- Wave 13 : illusions of zealots don't have charge whereas real zealots do
- Wave 27 : the immortals' shield block many spells whereas they are not supposed to (DT's spells, sniping skill of the WD, ...)
The immortals' shield doesn't block the HT's auto attack
The HT's auto attack only hit stone Zealots for 1
- Wave 29 : The tooltip says "Info: X survived the horde", whereas it should say "X medics".
The turrets can survive the wave.
- Wave 32: I've already seen Selendis hurting herself with her super blast
- Wave 33: Novas sometimes lose their cloaking field
- For many waves, the percentage doesn't show up properly
It is higher than the damage really done to the wave (the damage meter is at 20 or 50 and the wave ends) in waves 16, 21, 23
It is lower than the damage really done to the wave (the damage meter is at 0 but ennemies keep coming) in waves 13 and 31
Bugs affecting heroes
- High Templar
It is possible to select Lore of the Warrior and then an other weapon to gain the benefit of both.
Lore of Time's tooltip doesn't say it gives mana / mana regen whereas it does (just as merger / warlock / vortex)
- Marine
Marksman often does not give a damage bonus (at least on the flamethrower)
The flamthrower can't hit vikings while they are in the air
The visual effect of the Nuclear strike does not show up properly (the visual is based on the 10 second cooldown of the real nuclear strike, but in this game the CD is only 5 seconds)
There's a casting time on the heal
Clones are not added to control group 2
- Dark Templar
Shadow wave hits multiple times but the tooltip doesn't say so.
The debuff when hit by the assassin's blade doesn't tell exactly what are the malus.
If you hit a monster with assassin's blade and then this monster is mind controled, the debuff is not canceled.
Cloaked units are often not detected properly by detectors.
Smoke grenade doesn't show properly its area of effect.
Throw's tooltip doesn't mention the casting time.
You can cloack while casting Throw.
- Tyrant
Pods summoned by the ulti can fall off the screen
Nova ulti: often bugs (deals no damage) ; the aoe is smaller than the visual effect ; the tooltip says it hurts allies whereas it does not
The armor that returns damage is supposed to return 10 to melee attackers, regardless if they hurt you or not, but it doesn't return damage to illusion of zealots
When selected with other units (his summons), the Tyrant is not the first of the list (roaches are).
The tooltip of charge says there's an armor bonus. There's not.
Spine crawler cannot be placed easily, its hitbox should be reduced.
- Mechanic
The healing turrent can heal dead people, and will stay focused on the hero it was healing if he dies. This doesn't bring the hero back to life but wastes the turret's time.
Guided missile sometimes doesn't deal any damage.
The defensive drone doesn't lose mana when blocking projectile, but doesn't block as many projectiles as it is supposed to.
Healing station cannot be placed on creep.
The tooltip of the tank says "2 tank", which implies summoning 2 tanks at the same time.
As the HT, if you pick stunning grenades as your weapon and then an other weapon, you still benefit from the slow effect
- Witch Doctor
I am pretty sure the Vodoo amulet doesn't work the way it was intented. The tooltip says your spells deal more damage and last longer, but I'm pretty sure they don't.
There's a casting time on all the curses even if the tool tip doesn't say so.
Cows' tooltip says it hurts allies but it doesn't.
Kaboom cannot be cast on heroes or mechanics, but an explosion close to them will hurt them too, even if they are allies (and the tooltip doesn't say so).
The aura of the last armor heals turrets. This aura also keeps working when the WD is dead (might also be true for the Malazar's aura of the HT).
You can't control the demons from the demonic rift.
Sniping deals more damage than intented (maybe when using Nazrist).
Confused units will sometimes stop moving after they are unconfused.
@beandip004: thx for your thx ; )
@Alleria86: nice buglist ; )
- Not only flamethrow cant hit flying vikings the very most weapons cant do it even melter but for now I wasn´t sure if its maybe wanted
- Burning Calf got a wrong named buff (forgot how exactly its called ... didnt play the game for a while now)
- Game doesnt start if your needing too much time for hero selection for example if your talking for a while before selecting
Would be nice to hear something from you PsychoMC are you working on something ? Are you fixing any bugs ?
The playthrough
Here is the second part of my review! These general thoughts are directed at improving the gameplay and the enjoyment. They may change the balance or not, but are only aimed at making the game even better. The last part will be about balance for the heroes.
Waves
- Waves 9, 18, and 26: insert something to prevent people from farming these waves for ages, getting tons of experience (especially 18, as there is a huge death bonus and tons of zergs to kill).
- Wave 9: replace the infestation pits by barracks spawning marines, then add marauders, then firebats, then medics. Three reasons: there is already an "infested wave" (wave 29), there is already a zerg "invasion" wave (wave 18), and there is no terran "invasion" wave yet.
- Wave 13: This wave is too easy (compared to previous waves) and boring. I suggest that you add some real stalkers. Also, on the last 2 spawns, there is 0 real zealots which I think is a mistake. Finaly, the sentry should be able to cast force field to try to block the heroes (just like the infestors do with their eggs in wave 29)
- Wave 17: what about some blink stalkers?
- Wave 24: At the moment, this wave is too easy. What about drones instead of zerglings?
- Wave 26: I don't know if this was intended, but you can run behind the canons to reach the prism and attack it safely.
The sentries are completely useless.
The first wave of zealots should pop a bit faster.
I've never seen (but maybe I haven't spend enough time) anything stronger than DT in this wave, maybe you could add harder stuff as the time passes.
Also, what about cloaked DT, uncloaking only when they attack? Or working in a similar way as the specters?
- Wave 27: The marines are at the moment useless as their damage is too low. I suggest to lower their damage to 6, but ignore armor, or increase their damage.
- Wave 31: increase the manapool of the overlords for 2 reasons: the wave is a bit too easy and by the time we can kill them, they don't have anymore mana anyway so there is no point in wasting time trying to kill them fast. By increasing their manapool, players would be rewarded by killing them fast
- Wave 32: Selendis sometimes goes completely crazy, making this wave really unpredictable in terms of difficulty. She will sometimes send a freaking swarm of vessels that will OS you, and sometimes she'll just cast her super blast like a sitting duck. I think she needs a more consistent behavior.
Also, we are not rewarded for killing the vessels as they repop in an inconsistent way, and they aren't hurt by splash damage (splash spells hurt them though). This needs to be fixed to my mind. Finally, she can be kitted by the WD so she needs a bit more range.
Bosses
- The Dark Templar
He uses Levitation, a HT skill, but never uses the smoke grenade. Even if players will go out of the smoke grenade, he will still gain some bonus for a short time. Removing levitation and giving him smoke grenade would be more consistent.
He also doesn't use throw (or I haven't seen it), and I think he should.
Instead of having 3k HP, he could have some shield (like 2k / 1k).
He could go invis for short periods of time.
- The High Templar
He should use force field and the shield against ranged damage.
He should have some shield : instead of 5k HP, something like 4k / 1k.
He should use Lore of Time and Lore of the Warlock sometimes.
He should lose the bonus he gets from his domination (too powerful against summoners), and have a less potent retaliation armor (too powerful against the DT)
- The Mechanic
This boss is really unpredictable and his difficulty can be super easy or super hard depending on what he does. He needs a more linear AI.
Remove "call clones", it just doesn't feel right when he summons them. Plus they are not really useful (and if you modify them as I suggested for wave 27, the risk is that they become OP here).
On the other hand, he doesn't summon enough mechs and towers. If you remove the clones, he could maybe summon mechs and towers more often. You could also replace "call clones" by "call bikes" (2 vultures, 2 hellion, 1 diamondback).
Sometimes he goes in crazy mode and summons 2 thors at the same time, which he shouldn't do because things then get really naughty.
Predators should have the nova attack (maybe they already have I'm not sure).
Remove the summon tank skill, and make 4 tanks come from each way every X seconds (just like many other bosses), and switch into siege mode as soon as they are in range. This will add a tactical dimension to this boss.
At the moment, his towers are useless because the towers are useless. I suggest a tweak on how they work in my review on heroes balance, so this will be discussed later. If you agree to his tweak, you won't need to change the towers of his boss, because they will do much more damage, but won't be OP as smart player will lure the boss far away from them.
To conclude on this guy, he is at the moment much stronger than the WD wave 30 (and I think he will always be), so maybe you could switch these 2 guys.
- Witch Doctor
He should use the last weapon and the special effect of the last weapon. Also give him the special effect of the 1st weapon (not very useful but still).
I think he doesn't have the aura of the best armor, and he also doesn't have the pestilence spell.
He never (or very rarely?) uses his 3 curses. I know they cannot be used on heroes at the moment, but this will be discussed below.
And again, this guy should be switched with the mechanic.
Detectors
This section is mainly aimed at balancing the DT as he is the only one who can cloak. The reason why this needs balance will be discussed below. Here I will just list waves that I think need detectors: all the bosses (waves 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35), all the spawners (9, 18, 26), diamondback (23), super medics (27), Kerrigans (29), Selendis (32), Novas (33).
The goal is to have enough detectors, especially when it is appropriate, so cloaking isn't overpowered anymore, but not too many detectors so it doesn't get useless.
Time
For some waves, the time allowance needs adjustment. I didn't make a full list, but here are some of my thoughts
- We have too much time in waves 13, 23, 24
- We don't have enough time in waves 15, 20, 25, 35
Hi everyone. I'm new to the forums and i just created my acount literaly 3 minutes ago.
First of
Well done to PsycoMC for this awesome map. Cant get enough of it. Really. BUT there are a couple of things i want to adress.
I'm sorry if this things were allreadly covered but i realy wanted to write them cuz they are really anoying and ruining the experience :(
1
Make the mecanics Rumbler attack ( the first ulty ) NOT AFFECT FRIENDLY'S. I have been is SO MANY games when a idiot picks it and just activates it when close to us and stuns us, getting us killed.
2
Souldrinker is still a bitch to deal with. If i can give 2 pointers they would be these : remove his AoE mass lifesteal OR spawn only 2 tyrants.
I've gotten to 35 a number of times with my Tyr/WD/HT/DT/Mar but never beat it with Tyr because of his AoE lifesteal my broodlings = constant life , i tried a summon build and he just sucks them off too.
It's impossible for a tyr at least in the last 2 waves ( 34 and 35 ) to survive. A solution is make ALL of the tyr's melee attack make splash damage OR remove the bloody 3 second cast time on the poison nova ulti and the 2 seconds on the seismic roar.
3
The Levitation armor and the timebomb ability are pretty useless.
Solution : Levitation wont lock the HT into position AND for the timebomb make the friendly projectiles ( if you can ) not be slowed. If you can't , than make the timebomb STOP all projectiles in her ( like in the blizzard movies ).
4
My top 3 most useless ultimates and the possible solutions :
3
The Nuke ( marine ) - srsly 100 damage AND 5 seconds delay ? It is extremly weak and the delay means you point it somewhere and after the next ice age it fires.
Solution
1: keep it like this ( damage AND delay ) BUT make 3 or 4 of them fall around the target area or around your position ( this is the most awesome )
2: grow the damage to 250 , delay 0 and cooldown 45s ( still awesome )
3: keep the damage AND the delay BUT expand the splash area 2 - 3 fold ( less awesome but still usefull )
2
The megarumbler - this is a pretty good ultimate but with 1 fatal flaw .. it affect allies
Solution
1: It WONT affect allies
2: it only slows the MS of allies but doesnt damage them
1
The mass cloak ( DT ) - i can NOT see why it should be used. Really. Makes the DT vurnerable , eats a hellavalot of energy and doesnt really do much.
Solutions:
1: remove it and replace it with the void prison ( or if you want mass void prison )
2: remove it and replace it with summon DT's ( 4 of them , premacloak and dies after 30s )
3: remove it and replace it with mass splash for 20s ( makes all of the DT's attacks do splash for X seconds )
This is about it. Hope someone reads my post and at least considers it. Keep up the good work and peace.
@Torrasque2007: Go
For your problem with the tyrant, here are 2 things you can do to beat the Soul Drinker
- Stop taking broodlings. It's really good but if you can't beat the soul drinker with these, you have 5 other weapons man
- Kill the adds. Never use your broodlings against the boss. That's how I did with my tyrant.
The third part of my review is nearly done, stay tuned ! ;)
@Alleria86: Go
Thx for the tips
I have another question. As of the last 2 weeks the popularity has been constantly dropping :( . Is there any news from Psycho about a new version ?
I would hate too see my favorite map go into the eternal void of average maps never to be played again.
@Torrasque2007: Go
i also believed mass cloak sucked but with 2 high templars casting heal and shield makes it perma and makes dt one of the best tanks except lvl 35. thats pretty much why you might need 2. maybe should add armor buff or dmg type reduction (range or melee) to make it better.
hi, i'm currently planning for making a website with some of the best build, replays, and bugs report. But, it will be a forum, d anyone could post on it :) i suppose that psycho is okay, no ?
ich hoffe ja noch immer auf neue helden ; )
Any updates on the way? or new news? just been curious.
He's looking for help: http://forums.sc2mapster.com/general/team-recruitment/21917-psycho-mc-s-the-last-stand/#p2
Btw, I enjoy the map a lot. Shame not everyone logs in to the TLS channel as it makes finding people that want to beat 35 a little bit harder.
Oh okay, love the map btw, one of the best I've ever played.