SC2Mapster

with my ancient video card I can only load act 1 and 2 right now (and it crashes often). I'm getting a new video card tomorrow . I've split up act 2 victory triggers into 4 parts, which should improve loading into act 3. I'll get to work on a third backup bank and some new loading tools.

• 11/09/11 Edit: I just published a hotfix for act 2 on US BNET, where the last boss victory conditions and save conditions are fixed, and the broken scanner cashin is fixed.

• 13/09/11. 1:30 am: Numerous quest items will be automaticly removed from your inventory when they are no longer needed, Iv fixed the hydralisk merc in act 3, science vessel is now attackable as a ground unit, and I have started on an advanced save/load menu, allowing players to load from 3 banks: A main bank file (is saved so often, it sometimes becomes corrupt), backup 1 (is only saved when you level or beat an act) and backup 2 (is only saved when you beat an act). I'll post it when it's fully developed.

• 14/09/11. Act 3 terrain complete. 3 last boss has had some trigger changes and the victory triggers for both acts were split into 4 parts, which should fix any issues with loading a hero after beating act 3. Act 3 has had it's load triggers simplified to reduce network latency in multiplayer. Some graphics glitches were noticed on high/extreme detail modes, and fixed.

• End boss battle in Act II and III don't save properly. doing loot raids, I try to pick up everything and save manually before victory splash only to remake a game and not keep any of the pieces.

I'll work on redesigning the victory triggers for acts 2 and 3. I assume you were playing in a multiplayer game, where things can sometimes be buggy for players 2 3 4 and 5. This is yet another situation where a trigger simply got too long because of 'pick each player in active players' reward/save triggers. I'll just break these up into smaller triggers or functions.

• Upon remaking another game after a raid, a host lost half his inventory and equipped gear including his warp beacon.

This is precisely why I removed so much bagspace, because the bank files get too big from all these items, and then doesn't load correctly sometimes. If you could provide more information on which act, how many players were present, I would be better able to pinpoint the cause of this problem. Because I don't have much to go on.

• I also messed up the quest line on a new character in Act I. I went straight for the stone zealot and never received the warp beacon thru the scientist. I couldn't warp back to town in all 3 acts. Kinda funny but annoying at the same time.

I'm guessing you were player 3 or 4, because theres a trigger that automatically gives everyone a teleporter beacon when you enter a zone by the stone zealots cave. If its not working for players 3-5 then I need to fix it. EDIT: after checking this out, it seems that this trigger was broken

In the meantime use town rifts if you want to get back to town. They should work in all acts.

• Did you remove the scanner quest in Act II? I can't get that to trigger.

The 1.1.3 SC 2 client started bugging the questline on the original version of the quest, so I had to change the cashin events. It still doesn't properly turn on 'the broken scanner cashin' when you rescue that dark templar (but the rewards are dropped as intended, and the questline continues from Chal'marr).

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I'll be back to work on this project on the 12th and I'll likely have a patched version on the 15th

ok. cool thanks for the input. Having some issues with my video card atm, I'll get to working on this again when I can. I'll try to address as many of these issues as possible and forge a 'to do' list.

• With one less inventory, quest items not being properly removed reduces space

Good point I'll try to trim the players inventory more often to reduce this occurrence. It's difficult to have lots of 'trim players inventory' in every quest trigger because the execution thread will take too long, and we see broken cinematics in 3-5 player games. Definitely on my 'to do' list

• Items picked up in a full bag disappear... or where do they go? Also there is an 8 slot bag in there. What does that do?

ehh thats odd. It seems I have no way to fix this until blizzard implements 'unit picks up item.' I don't know how an 8 slot bag snuck in that build, but It won't do anything. Any idea how you found it?

• All my gear from my 3 lvl 51 saves have been wiped.

You must have had some really old saves. We sorta went from warcraft 3 style inventory to diablo 2 style inventory so some of your old gear might be missing. (bag 2 is now an equipment dialog)

• Disguise figurine quest item stays in the inventory. Helping the marines destroy the hatchery doesn't end the quest. My friend also had two Act II keys that weren't removed going into Act II.

Destroying the hatchery at the end awards vespene and minerals (and drops an equippable item for each player present). Chal'marr will also immediatly tell you to go kill the stone zealot if you haven't already. Your friend shouldn't have 2 act 2 keys going into act 2 I'll have to do something about that. It autotrims your inventory when you load into act 2, that trigger might be getting too long to execute for some people. I'll autotrim inventory at the end of each act instead of during hero load.

• zAct III: I use Tosh. Upon loading Act III for the first time, my minerals and base stats were wiped. Skills needed to be purchased again. Starting Act III with 0 minerals and missing skills was tough.

By the time your hero gets to level 50-80, my 'calculate hero experience' function starts to take a long time to generate an experience bar/dialog for you. If a function or trigger gets too long, it misses a few things (your minerals). There's things I can do to work around this and I'll see what I can do.

• Hydra mercs don't follow or do anything. Also, if you already have a marine or firebat merc, purchasing another still drains resources.

Wow damn I really need to fix these issues. I had the Hydra merc working great last month. Not terribly surprised about that bug with the new marine and firebat mercs though.

• Roach only has ground attack. The science vessel is air. Not a big deal but should all heroes attack air and ground? Also Roach could use a speed upgrade skill. It's 1.6 Move speed in Act II and III.

Yeah I'll be more likely to fix the science vessel and make it attackable as ground and air. Players shouldn't have to worry about any distinction between land/air targets.

And btw thanks for playing and coming up with these fixes. I take all ingame issues seriously (some more than others). I've just been busy playing Warcraft 3 actually.

@ehhhhh0004: Go

You must have at least 3gig of ram or else this map won't load.

• edit: you can also find it by searching for 'shadows of' on US battle.net

• edit: If your not from enUS region you have to localize everything you download from this site with Ladik's mpq editor and sc2 localizer (a user made utility)

I'll be abandoning the idea of getting trinkets working for now, to get the game looking (and feeling) more polished in the areas of tooltips and button descriptions.

I'll also be adding a few new help commands, that inform the users that their shared XP radius is unlimited, and that they can respec their stat points for free through their stats menu.

still workin on new rings and trinkets! Having difficulty making the 'on use' effect trinkets, and I may have to switch them to 'proc per minute.' the trinket lineup is going to look like

• 1 Tal'darim Relic Equip: +2 Life Regen : Use increases damage dealt by 14 for 12 sec
• 2 Deggaman's Speed Equip: +10 Shield Regen: Use increases haste by 10% for 12 sec
• 3 Compass of Vitality Equip: +2% crit Use: Increases max life shields by 1550 for 20sec
• 4 Tura's Eluding Trinket Equip: +2% haste Use: +20% avoidance for 12 sec
• 5 Stettmann's Healing Stopwatch Equip: +2% avoidance Use: Heals 35 shields every second for 12 sec
• 6 Hanson's Robust Stopwatch Equip: +100 life/shields use: Increases your critical strike chance by 15% for 12 sec

Trinkets should be considered extremely rare until act 3. I believe trinkets 2, 3 and 6 will be the high end act 3 trinkets.

There will also be 17 new rings coming soon.

working on new rings, trinkets, and boots for the next major update.

The Online Gear compendium is now updated with the new items!

I'm doing a bit of work on the old 4kingdom DOTA map I made (making it playable for pvp and leveling), then I'm going to work on an 'atlaslootSC' for it.

@PeterDLai: Go

ok I'll check it out. I recently syncronized all the unit/ability/behavior/button data between all 3 acts. I thought I fixed all the bosses, but apparently i forgot to test act2 last boss since the update!

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• 11:30 - yeah it looks like your right, this'll be easy enough to fix. All of the bossfight triggers for this boss got linked to the wrong unit lol and that unit is unreachable, unseeable. whoops lol

• 12:10 - problem is resolved

Update has been applied. Inventory system has been redesigned, and new boots/gloves/ring class items have been implemented! These new items drop off of bosses, and some of them can be found at the new vendors in act 2 & 3.

I seem to be having problems uploading the new version, it seems my internet is not fast enough to upload the file within the 2minute time limit. 20mbps download and go figure, 0.45 mbps upload speed... Blizzard needs to remove this 2minute time limit restriction for uploading maps, each act is between 8.6 mb to 10.1 mb compressed.

check your download/upload speed at http://www.speedtest.net/. If you can pull 2mbps upload speed, you can post up to 20mb maps on battle.net

@dshor: Go I'm still very concerned about any functionality issues, let me assure you that I take any bugs quite seriously. If you're still having trouble on the pylon quest, most likely one of the 3 following problems are occurring.

• A: your bags were full when you found the pylon. You must have a free inventory space, otherwise you cannot carry the pylon charge back to the teleporter. You may have to restart the map to reset this quest if this happens.
• B: You probably didn't step close enough to the teleporter. You return to the npc to cash in the pylon charge. If your npc dies, just return to Chal'marr and he'll direct you along to the last boss.
• C: some unforseen trigger may be turning off the cash-in for the pylon quest. This only usually happens when you play in a multiplayer game with players who have completed that quest. Just return to Chal'marr and he'll direct you along to the last boss