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FdgK
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posted October 09, 2024 06:28 PM |
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Hi Bloodsucker,
Oh, I'm absolutely on the same page with you. It is more niche than other skills but far from being useless.
In this map it would be useless though since there are no siege fights at all.
It's a player against the map scenario. That's also why the Protection against ... spells, the Resistance skill, Magic Mirror etc. are useless here. There are no enemy heroes that could cast spells on your creatures (and no Efreet Sultans with their fire shield).
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Begrezen
Tavern Dweller
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posted October 10, 2024 02:44 AM |
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I think that on this map, out of the three: thant, alamar and jeddite, thant+necro is the strongest option and allows you to finish the map earlier than with a "normal" hero. but I don't think we need to ban him, let the players have a choice. or we can make his appearance dependent on the chosen difficulty level.
I hope you'll create more maps, because for a first project the effect is very satisfactory 
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FdgK
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posted October 10, 2024 09:44 AM |
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Edited by FdgK at 22:17, 10 Oct 2024.
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Thanks for your opinion on the matter. I agree with you: I was also more inclined to leave the three of them in and give the player the choice if they want to use them or not. I'm going to leave their starting spell untouched and send the updated version later today to maps4heroes.
Thank you very much for your kind words! I am glad that you enjoyed your playing experience with the map.
In fact I have an idea for another map (again something similar to a player against the map scenario but this time with heroes, like in the Tomb Raiders map of the HotA campaign), something very story driven. So far I've done some testing in the editor and sketched the map, the story points and the concepts out on paper but now I have to find the time to bring it together and flesh it out in the editor. I hope to find it in the remaining months of this year or early 2025. I'll make sure to post in the forums once I have something close to finished.
EDIT:
I sent the updated version to maps4heroes and it should be online very soon.
EDIT 2:
It's online now.
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Juas
Adventuring Hero
Dragón Rojo
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posted December 12, 2024 12:15 AM |
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Hello FdgK
I think your map improved a lot since first version. I will try it.
Are you doing something new?
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FdgK
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posted December 12, 2024 10:08 AM |
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Thank you very much.
Great! Please, let me know what you think about it.
Yes, I am working on something but I am still in the planning and drafting phase and I haven’t been making a lot of progress lately due to the workload at my job and other things happening. I hope that I can present something here next year.
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Juas
Adventuring Hero
Dragón Rojo
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posted December 12, 2024 10:41 AM |
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It's allright.
I've been doing this since 2010, my first two maps. Then I lefted it there for years utill I picked it up again, back in 2017 I think, when I discovered HotA. And now I got full in again (more than ever) with the launch of HotA 1.7
You will get faster soon! and you will be doing more complex stuff more quickly and will be able to experiment more.
So, good to see other cartographers are still active also.
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FdgK
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posted December 12, 2024 03:19 PM |
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Edited by FdgK at 16:02, 12 Dec 2024.
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Yes, I just hope that my real life obligations leave me more time to use for that.
By the way, did you have a look at Gnollking's work? His maps are more than fantastic, both from a design and a gameplay standpoint.
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Juas
Adventuring Hero
Dragón Rojo
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posted December 12, 2024 03:37 PM |
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About time it is when it is, for me is now.
I've seen his thread from above, and his maps look interesting, so I will see his work with more attention in the future. Nice that they play well also.
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FdgK
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posted December 12, 2024 04:01 PM |
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FirePaladin
Promising
Legendary Hero
DoR Lead
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posted December 25, 2024 04:55 PM |
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Right, as mentioned earlier, I eventually tried this map. It's quite beautifully crafted, though I'm not sure I'll win it. I started playing casually, then realized halfway through that I might have not done as much as I should have, heh.
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FdgK
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posted December 25, 2024 05:40 PM |
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That's true. There is not much time for idleness. After a lot of play tests and various play throughs, I set the deadline to what it is now as a feasible but challenging goal. You don't have to play perfectly but still quite optimally to be able to beat it. If someone thinks that the deadline is too early but wants to play through the whole map anyway, I recommend they change it manually in the editor.
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