SC2Mapster

I've applied a couple hotfixes to address the Ultralisk

• Ram's initial impact scaling was bugged and was actually hitting for LESS after getting Ironguard Faceplate Talent.
• Ultralisk damage has been increased by 10%
• Ultralisk's autoattacks now generate 5 shields and life, which scales with your heros level (+1 healed per level).

@astorsapolsky: Go

@astorsapolsky maybe try stacking Strength so your Ram, paralyzing acid spray, terrifying roar, and warbringer pull all hit harder. Ultralisk does excellent damage at level 80 (if properly geared/played), and it's also the best tank in the game right now.

You shouldn't be having any survivability problems on the Ultralisk, paralyzing acid spray has always restored 35% life, not to mention regenerative shell, which temporarily heals you when you take damage. You probably just need to shuffle your stat points around and get the improved ram talents.

edit: Ram doesnt deal much initial damage, it's the damage over time that adds up. At level 80 with 81 Strength it hits for 480 initially, and applies a stackable bleed effect that ticks for 215 every second for 14 seconds. It's working fine

edit: 11/10/2011: After playing a brand new level 1 Ultralisk, I'm starting to notice some scaling issues. I mean, 5 points in strength doubles autoattack damage, paralyzing acid spray, and multiplies rams periodic damage. I found myself dying on the Stone Zealot at level 4 because I didn't have enough haste, health, or enough armor. I didn't however, spec for mark of the Warbringer, but tried to go for the other defensive talents.

yea you need to update your sc2 client to 1.4.1 in order to read the map. It uses 'handle of player' to get the second backup bank name, so it won't work for sc2 clients before 1.4.

coming soon - tooltip update for all inventory based items, in preparation for new items to be implemented over october!.

marine just received a +50% increased damage dealt buff on us bnet servers. Still wasn't quite 'good dps' for act 3.

yes it can

I just played the medic through act 2 (with 2 others) and I gotta say I'm really pleased with how this class turned out. The only thing I'm unsure about is the 2 new hero's both having 'cloak.' This is essentially supposed to drop your aggro when you think you're about to die. I just think there's a better way to do it, some sort of 'feign death' or 'shadowmeld'. Better yet, something that will work on bosses with stealth detection like Stone Zealot, or the Destroyer.

I've been meaning for quite some time to create a 'minerals to vespene' exchange and a 'vespene to minerals' exchange, but more important issues came up that I needed to fix at the time.

I'm about to apply a fix for the marine mercenary. If the marine mercenary seems balanced in act 3, I'll upload the new files to the site

• edit Fix applied. The marine commando hero has had a few spells changed completely.

the medic and the marine commando heros are now live on US bnet servers! I'll be on to test them tonight!

• edit: 27/09/2011 The marine commando was found to have some cursor issues in multiplayer. Creation of this hero is disabled until I can fix these issues.

the problem with the medic was with the 'use spider mines' ability. Something about it inexplicably causes the hero to not gain any xp. This ability will be replaced with something cooler.

• Update 26/09/2011 Just fixing some last minute bugs with Ion Grenade and I'll start porting the new heroes over to acts 2 and 3. 0.96 should be ready tomorrow sometime unless I encounter any unexpected issues. The medic seems to be working GREAT so far.

I've found a way to fix the medic hero, and I'm working on a new marine hero. That's right, a new hero. Some abilities or upgrades might not be fully fleshed out at first, but I will test them as well as I can in single player mode before publishing.

Marine commando abilities (confirmed abilities)

• G4 Cluster Bomb (aoe with a cooldown)
• Slow (slows target and if specced, deals damage)
• Bash Cooling System (increases your critical strike chance by 15% for 12 seconds, costs some shields)

Possible abilities (not sure about yet)

• Cloak (This ability may be replaced by marauder stimpack, since it IS a marine hero)
• Penetrator Round (A Railgun that shoots through targets in a straight line, from the campaign)
• Planet Cracker Bomb (I got this to work pretty good, but it requires targetting, so it will need a new name like 'implosion bomb' or 'extinguish life')
• Hardened Shell ( Reduces all damage taken by 50% for 12 seconds... yeah I know, it sounds pretty lame. Some changes may occur to this design. )

This class is in need of 3 upgrades. 4 if im not able to include hardened shell with this hero.

The medic however will be given an awesome dps boost, since im changing her weapon over to a chemical weapon that applies irradiate to enemy targets instantly. This way you'll focus more on throwing irradiate on your minions, mercenaries and allies.

• edit 26/09/2011 The marine mercenary works reasonably well, medic v2.0 seems to have the same xp problem as medic v1.0. I'm not about to give up though.
• edit 26/09/2011 The medic 3.0 has the same xp problems as medic 1.0 and 2.0. I'm goanna keep trying though. I really want to get the medic into this RPG. I've tried using existing heros, rebuilding the medic 2-3 with different abilities.

an experimental second backup bank is undergoing testing, using the 'handle of player' to get the name of the bank. Advanced loading tools for acts 2 and 3 are completed and viewable on US battle.net.

Now i just have to fix these interface issues :/

I'm working to use 'handle of player' in the save system.

for some reason, people expect their tooltips to change when they spend points on a stat(behavior) that increases their damage by a flat amount. Hundreds of people have ragequit an act 1 for this reason, saying;

• 'But people use <d ref> references to return the damage amount

- I do too, and this only works for upgrades i've found out.

The bottom line is, we can't change a units tooltips based on how many stacks of a behavior that unit has.

I'll be working on removing unused quest items in act 2 and 3. All act 1 quest items should disappear from your inventory some time after you receive your 'templars talisman' in Act 2. All Act 2 quest items should disappear from your inventory as soon as you defeat the last boss. You will be given a 'head of the destroyer.' There will also be checkpoints, that ensure that all players have a teleporter beacon at all times.

The stat points menu is in the command card to prevent players from spending a talent point when they're in a vehicle. This was done about 8 months ago so i don't know whose version of my map you were playing.