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Hi."Chrono Agent" is the best RPG map I have ever play.And I'm playing version 1.9.But I have some problem: 1.The Attack of Foreseers and Chrono bot is lag(It can't attack). 2.The Revice Skill of Chrono Bot is lag too(after i cast it no things is happen). For balance I think the Elder is so much better than Chrono Bot The revice Skill of this unit only cost 150 energy and cooldown 10 second when Chrono Bot revice need 300 energy and can do anything in 20 second.The other skill is better too,I can use Elder like a tanker in the battle.The encourage should reduce the defend buff. Please check and fix it in next version.I still waiting to part 2 of this game. Thanks so much.Sorry for my bad English.

Hi Xelaran, here's a review! I'm French, so I hope you'll be able to understand my broken English. Me and some friends are enjoying your map a lot, and have yet to beat it. I don't want to spoil too much so I'll just say the closer we got was like 10s.

The good:

• Layout of the map and interface are outstanding.
• Tutorials and the various game events are very well done.
• Difficulty is neatly adjusted. To beat it is a real challenge (and I mean it) but you can have fun and get pretty far with a 100% noob team.
• All agents are very differents, and so are the teams depending on which ones the players picked.
• The save equipment and % of exp feature is excellent. I especially like the fact it doesn't work if you leave before the end, quite a good way to make sure people don't screw a team by leaving without a good reason.

The bad:

• Death during tutorial happens a lot when playing with random people, and if elder dies or if he can't get to the agent' soul it's pretty much a very early game over for the all team. In the other cases you can recover but then the player doesn't have monsters left alive to finish the tutorial properly. What about free revives while everyone didn't yet make it to the time machine?
• Still about tutorials, gets a bit messy when several players pick the same agent. But I don't see an easy way to fix it either unless you decide to forbid two of the same agent in a given game ... But that'd be sad.
• Scan from specialists seems to last forever. You won't see if new units get in the area, but you keep vision on those you revealed at first. Makes foreseer's vision pretty much useless even if it's wider (have to recast it on same area if vision needed again, foreseer is stuck while using his ability).
• Wouldn't hurt if the items could be automatically sorted, and if you could add a "throw all grey to the bin" button.
• The following isn't from me, but many said the voices were hard to understand and effects on them were more annoying than welcome. I thought they were fine myself.

The ugly:

• Some red error messages when starting the game. If you want more details let me know but pretty sure you have them too.
• Seems like the equipments don't save properly when you have too much (like past half the total allowed space). Results in a reset (player keeps earned exp tho).
• If a player leaves during agent selection, map's first objective is correctly set to 4 players instead of 5 but nothing happen when they get to the time machine.
• When the team recall the souls, if a strider (and possibly other "big" agents) spawn north of the time machine he is stuck here unless someone kills him to recall+revive again.

To summarize:

• A very good work and after giving it a try odds are good you'll come at it again, especially since part of your progresses are saved even if you lost.
• Some weird design decisions, but they are minor and nothing too bad to spoil the fun.
• Still some bugs to fix, but then again really not that much (very playable).

Dying for updates! And also for tips on how to beat that last (?) part :P In particular, I've been wondering if the size of the final waves were decided by some factor like time needed to gather crystals or % of stationary monsters cleared.

ps: Played it on EU server, it seems to have this scaling feature depending on the number of players, so I suppose it's the most recent one as I wrote this but I might be wrong.

EDIT: Finally, we beat it =) To those having troubles a few tips:

• Easier to fetch crystals from east to west.
• Can use strider to psy barrage the last 3 crystals (those on west side) while you get the first 4.
• Be fast and avoid roads after 4th crystals (big red ultra spawning there).
• During the defense part, aim at ultra first ... They are the real threat for towers. Then abomination or it will get crowded too much. And stay alive! Elder probably won't be able to revive you if you die.

Hey Xelaran,

I just played your map with some friends 3 times. Excellent work! The finest that I have seen so far to be honest. The User Interface, the skills, the tipps,... beautiful! I sadly failed to complete it yet as my team mates just ran of when it said defend the time machine... really annoying. I would love to play it again but it is sadly not popular enough yet. And unless blizzard enables a search mode or a better filter system it might not get popular that fast. :( However we all loved it (even though some did not seem to be able to read or play as a team but well that happens). If the map ends after the time travel is done I would love to see a chapter 2 one day! Keep me updated and keep up the brilliant work,

Koronis

P.S. Just played it again and got all crystals with the assassin on single player! Of course I died when I tried to defend the machine at the end but I tried it :).