SC2Mapster

im glad ur passionate about blue roaches. i would like blue icy roaches too.

it's not a sc2 version thing, right? everyone should have the latest patch 16.

i'm loading games by dragging and dropping hte map file onto the sc2 icon. i dont imagine that would be the issue.

or should i be launching it thru the editor and clicking test mode? is that what you're doing? I'll try that.

btw, the roach color or attack color in .07 isn't blue, but the hydra got extra green tinted.

update on the air snare blocking punishing bug: the air unit doesnt have to land on a structure. even if it lands on plain open ground, it counts as if it had been blocked, and starts attacking everything within its range. this started in v 0.6

i never had blue roaches, or pre-built buliding range indicators ever, since i started playing from v 0.4

what are the localization issues?

not right now, b/c any time i use hydra snare, it bugs out and kills everything, saying i blocked path.

but up to level 12 (yeah i know lol), there is no difference at all from hard. maybe it's cause i'm using my ultra path-maximizing setup (but not really b/c they die at the same point as in the hard mode with the same setup)

in hard mode, with my setup, ground units never even got to the 3rd point (yellow circle in my picture in a lower post). meaning there was a ton of room left for error and inefficiency.

but none of this is as good as actually beating insane, of course, so i will not flake out, and will get on that asap.

but apart from that, i think the concept of my suggestion of making insane harder and more calibrated to the maximum possible known full-pass setup still stands, b/c even the earlier levels on insane had tons of room for error. and the idea is if someone comes up with an even more efficient one than the known "best", then the difficulty for insane be calibrated to that setup. so u can see the point is to more or less REQUIRE that players figure out a setup that is equal to or better than the known best setup.

even if the difficulty doesnt require THE tip top best setup, it should be much much much more closer to it than it is to hard mode.

oh, and in the hypothetical insane mode that requires path maximizing path exploitation, there should be a hint given in round 1 telling the player that that is the key to solving it. i think it would be best if it started off that level 1 was impossible to beat without pathing. why on level 1? so that players get the idea of what the key concept is before investing like 5 or 10 minutes into the game and then finally being faced with this dilema. if it's right on level 1, then they will immediately figure out pathing, and then get into the train of mind of how to further exploit pathing for all the other levels as well.

apologies for verbosity.

Rounding the numbers of attack speed is genius! just like no armor. i truly like your style. and "he picked insane; i guess that was a misclick" is so good. haha. the rest of your wave quotes as well.

I'm playing 0.6 version and:

• All the towers have range indicators after you build them, but only the roach and hydra have indicators when you're ABOUT to build them. is this not possible with bulidings?
• Roach is not icy blue, and its attack is still green as well
• Sturdy (level 3 infested terran) Tower's upgrade icon to level 4 is glitched; it's just a blue purple square for me.
• this one is wow: i used snare on a minicruiser. it fell directly onto my bunker. i got punished for blocking. yes, the air unit snare blocking makes the game quite broken ri now

hm, insane doesnt feel as difficult as i might have expected it to be. i had an idea. what if insane mode's difficulty was such that you HAD to use path exploitation and room for inefficiency was pretty tight? other difficulties can be such that u can make a windy non-multiple-fullpass defense and still win.

It would be taking your map (or at least the special maximum difficulty mode) to a new level b/c players would have to figure out mega path exploitation to win it on the hardest mode. if they can't figure out how to maximize path exploiting, they haven't reached the level of pathing efficiency needed. It would push players to approach the maximium efficiency possible via full passes, a concept that i find lacking more frequently than i would think in TD. And it's always nice to have a really really challenging TD for veteran players.

the dps labels aren't exactly correct are they? did u do testing? howd u get them to be such round numbers, by adjusting the attack speed?

the only thing important about hydra snare cd is whether u can use it twice in one airwave. if u can, then it's automatically overpowered. if u can't, it doenst matter how long it is b/c whether it's 60 seconds, or 5 minutes, as long as u can use it once per airwave, it's once per airwave. if anything, i think they were overpowered to begin with b/c they only cost 40, and u can even buy 10 of them easily. but even 5 is overkill if u have viking turrets. airwaves were too easy imo even with just a couple of hydras.

nice work on the difficulty adjustments.

some towers don't give you range indicator when ur trying to build them. i wonder if ur aware of those or not.

btw, the screenshots have the roach ice tower is an icy blue. did u decide to revert it back to black along the way? i think the icy blue roach is way cool.

btw, increasing potency of slow is a major buff, especially in the late game. but adding armor is supposed to make it harder. these are two forces in the opposite direction and u don't necessarily know whether the net effect will be to make the game easier or harder. i suggest changing parameters in one direction (buff or nerf) at a time.

also, armor punishes low damaging towers and necessitates higher damaging towers (assumign the armor isn't ridiculously low like 1-5). but thats kind of meh, b/c immortals are so cost efficient and u get those anyway, while lesser towers don't contribute much damage anyway. it was as if u already had armor implemented.

but u know what i liked best about your map? it had no armor. this means calculations are much easier. those maps that included armor AND had ridiculously high numbers just made calculations unecessarily harder when you can get the same effect by adjusting the hp alone. all that matters in the end of the day is the # of shots. i dont actually do calculations, but it's just nicer knowing u can have one scale instead of convoluting things up with factors like armor when u can get the same effect by increasing hp.

the true effect of armor is making lesser upgraded towers useless. that's not necessary, it was already effectively so.

nice walkthrough agent. u made every level so detailed.

i think u get about little more than 2 full passes with your setup. they pass 3 times, but the maze length is not equal to or greater than the train length.