SC2Mapster

guys i dont know if someone already had this idea..

but today i was playing MTG: Tactics and started to think why not a Starcraft Tactics :O

mtg tactics video:

gameplay:

so each player has a Special Unit (planeswalker) that can summon the cards you get (units and spells) and its like you playing on a board, units have their own abilties and you can use terrain in your favor like hiding behind walls so u cant get targeted my spells etc.. each unit has its turn so u've a turn where u can choose to attack defense or use unit abilities and when it gets to the planewalker turn you can summon more and use spells

the objective is to kill the opponent planeswalker to win the game

people make their own deck minimum 40 cards

this is would be a very nice map idea a Starcraft Tactics it could be a great project in good hands i have lot of ideas but not enough skills i think :P i really wanted to see this happening cause i think its something that really would work out in sc2

it would be like a mix between card game and chess

lol :P

different classes with different skills projectiles bouncing bullets dodging bullets xD

i think your should try to make a competitive game if its good enough it will make your map have clans :P

there should be a better way but i would put a variable with numbers of players still playing and a player group with all player and a life array with the size of players..

every time someone loses a life you would check his life in the array and if its 0 you would put -1 in the still playing variable and remove him from player group..

etc etc

and when the still playing is = 1 you would trigger victoury for the player group that would be just the winning player by that time :o

ye my map is in 5th page or smthing with 43 hours.. and its a timed map max is 12 minutes ppl play so cant be compared to the maps that last 1 hour lol and now only ppl i get to play it are the guys that played it when popularity was broken(cycling)

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@GizmoPT: Go

is it really creating a path of smoke from the original blink location to the end location? I have some friends who don't mod at all and their zeratul's blink animation just plays at the end location with 270 direction, as of patch 1.2

yes its creating a path of smoke till the end hmm im going to log in now to check it out and come back here to confirm

edit: ah! damn wthh i really thought it was working!!! its not! it just makes the cloud at the end!

sorry!! wth

i put the zeratul blink on my specter on my map and its working O.o

In EU server yesterday server got bugged at night and my autojoins dont work anymore, i cant get in them.. it happened to lot of people.. they say they see us in channel even if we are offline.

http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/1535574541

hope blizzard fix this...

lol this is weird today when i joined my map had 5 hours and was way down there they i get in and start game to see if it goes(was in for just 10 mins) up i leave and went to see and it had 4 hours then i go in game again for 30 mins i go out to see what changed and it had 3 hours.. wtf each time i play it goes 1 hour down xDD

@h34dl4g: Go

lol my map has been switching from first page to the oblivion like thousand times xD

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Hello. If you want some help with this I would be willing to help. I can't seem to find the mod in the custom games in Stacraft 2 but I did download the version you had on curse. Its not completely up to date I can tell because of your previous posts. I think this mod has potential. I never played it in SC1 though. I am familiar with the tools in the editor. I wouldn't call me quite an expert but I can do a lot of things. Im more of the data editor and trigger editor kind of guy but I guess I can give the terrian editor a try sense you need one of those. I'll send you a PM of my Starcraft 2 user name and character code.

Thanks, Cowdog13

Edit: I realized that you are in EU and I'm in US. We may have trouble communicating, I'm not sure how it works. Its probably why I couldn't find the mod in custom games.

hey uve msn or smthing maybe you can take care of us version ;P

k already changed the map the spawn the speed and the speed when you get flag and also ppl can turn off the camera follow :)

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As in cast your ability on a unit/point and shoot a projectile towards that point? Dealing damage to unit's upon contact, fading on contact with doodads/walls?

I have a test map with that ability, you could probably easily copy it across if you like.

ye smthing like that wanna add me in hotmail or smthing ? ;O

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I managed to get a game with some friends and we did a long play test. All of us have played of war3 Snipers, Paint Ball, Elimination Tournament etc. etc. so it was a pretty high skilled game.

I'll try to just be as straight forward as I can with suggestions and criticism.

Terrain/Vision:

It's very annoying, people on the blue team were complaining alot as it's definitely easier going up than it is going down. I see you tried to rotate the camera/minimap but it doesn't work out very well.

You won't like this but please change the terrain to Left/Right instead of Up/Down it wouldn't actually be that much work. It would be alot more balanced and scrolling sideways is easier as well, the screen is naturally longer horizontally than vertically. Please consider this.

The forced camera on your unit is also irritating, it doesn't work too well in RTS. Letting people scroll around would be better in our opinion. I know you probably want to keep it more like a shooter game, but it would be for the best. Atleast try it out.

Flag

You absolutely must move the flag and spawns away from each other. Spawning invulnerable upon a flag as a guy tries to capture it ruins the game completely. It happened several times, the only times you can take it when they are Alive and Away from their base.

I suggest putting the flag slightly away towards the center, But making those who carry it slowed down slightly, so spawns can still chase them down, even if they have to catch up a bit.

Economy

As you've mentioned you want to keep it as simple as possible, having a few items able to be purchased is always a possibility.

Either only have consumable items with slight benefits OR have permanent ones but you loose them all if you die.

Assuming you consider this, gold could be gained slowly overtime and from kills/scoring of course.

Summary Please make the map left to right. Please disable the camera lock. Pleas separate the Flags and the Spawns.

If you ever want a game with a group message me online anyways. Good luck with your map.

thanks man i like your suggestions cause i was thinking on most of them the camera was one of my problems and i was thinking in making the map sideways and with your opinion i really think ill do it :P

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btw i really would like to try projectiles the problem is ive been trying to make them and allways failed if someone wants to help they are welcome xD

added a team choose menu in game