SC2Mapster

Project discontinued (possibly indefinitely). This project was first published within a month of the release of SC2. Discontinued because it was simply unplayable on computers with less than 3 GB of RAM. Nearly all of my Shadows of the Tal'darim heroes were created on this map, and ported over.

coming next week, a new hero, more hero balance changes, and most single target abilities will be made autocast.

now features inventory, after struggling with a dialog based inventory for awhile, I abolished that inventory system and implemented a more basic (triggerless) inventory system. If a hero dies, their Items will show up at the heroes graveyard The Armory by each fortress has 2 tabs of items for sale. Consumable items in tab 1, these include potions and use-effect items with limited charges.

Armors and Accessories are in tab 2, these give stat bonus's when equipped, you can only benefit from the strongest armor of that type in your inventory. For example, if you have 3 medium shoulder armors in you inventory and one heavy shoulder armor, you will only benefit from the heavy shoulder armor.

OK after noticing the SOTIS crew changed their description from 'DOTA for Starcraft 2' to 'A DOTA like map", I'd just like to point out I'm not the first to make this mistake

I really enjoy DOTA like maps, Aeon of Strife was my favorite in wc3, but with the SC2 editor we're capable of doing alot more than what we could in WC3, we can do combat text, third person mode, custom dialogs, toggle between 2 teams and 4 teams. In otherwords, I expect alot more out of these hero based battlegrounds. People have tried to pin a name on DOTA like maps, but really nothing sticks (MOBA, massive online battle arena, doesn't really mention use of heroes?) Hero arena doesn't involve heroes defending a kingdom. There's really no way to describe a 4 faction hero base defense concept more concisely than 4 Kingdom DOTA

over the next week I'll be making sure that all spell effects the appropriate sounds/graphics associated with them, and i'll work on a 4v4 mode, but there will still be 4 kingdoms (a dialog will load at the start, asking if you want to ally with a neighbor faction). Need 1 more strength zergy type hero, which should hopefully be implemented in a few days.

thats a great idea, (putting a square block in the middle) i was thinking something along the lines of dropping a 'roundabout' in the middle, to direct traffic to the base farthest away. the middle was a bigger problem at first, because players would farm experience in the middle 3x quicker than players killing on the side battlefronts. I quickly fixed it by reducing the amount of mobs sent to middle by half a few versions ago. The remaining problem was that players would still have difficulty attacking players from the opposite end of the map. I'll try a few beta's with a 'round mountain' in the center, the only problems i could foresee is that -in a 2v2v2v2 a team might get pushed back into their base by 3 teams at once. 2 heroes can only manage 2 lanes at once, so the amount of mobs sent to center will still be reduced -any trouble caused in center will still generally cause a traffic jam/battlezone for at least 3/4 factions.

because if you don't specificly state 'DEFENSE OF THE ANCIENTS' nobody has any clue what its about. I called it 4 kingdom Aeon of Strife in wc3, i can't call it that either. This maps alot better than SOTIS, the heroes are actually balanced, they all either have a good heal, or a damn good reason to not need one.