SC2Mapster

ok sounds good.  Thanks for the feedback.  I'll have some time to play test and address this issue in a few days, I have just been really busy lately.

So when you load up a pre-existing hero in Act 1 multiplayer, you'll find that you're forced to start from the very beginning, because there may be players present who are starting at level 1. Enemy mobs hp and damage scale with the amount of players present, so these are considered group quests.  

Because of how multiplayer sessions work, (players can load up a high level hero in multiplayer games) it's difficult to keep the high level players from unblocking every quest barrier.  

The game handles barriers and quest blockers differently on single player mode, as you can easily unblock every quest barrier & solo the game with a high level hero.  

The only immediate fix to that issue i can think of is, deleting your quest items upon loading a high level hero, so that the player can execute quests in act 1.  

I made some balance adjustments to the Adept class, but I'm noticing that their Act 1 damage is a little high. I'll be reducing the base damage amounts for some Adept abilities, and I'll add new talents when I get some time.

I have also been working on the Zone select screen for Act 4, but the problem is, when you select zone 2 (Aiur) and go to load a hero, it says 'all slots are empty.' I have most of the outdoor terrain done in the Aiur Zone.

I'm busy house-sitting for 2 weeks and I'll be back to work on things October. I'll poke my head in and play a game here and there until then. I'll get around to buffing Adept, bug fixing anything I find, and eventually get back to working on Act 4.

I just added some new consumable items:

• Strength Elixir
• Intelligence Elixir
• Agility Elixir
• Experience Elixir (+10% XP gained)
• Greater Experience Elixir (+20% XP gained)
• Lifestealing Elixir
• Healing Elixir
• Minor Experience Potion (+5 XP)
• Lesser Experience Potion (+25 XP)
• Greater Experience Potion (+100 XP)
• Major Experience Potion (+250 XP)

These new items can only drop if there are 6 or more players present. An Act 2 vendor sells XP potions. By Act 3 you can buy int/str/agi elixirs at a vendor.

• Act 1 mobs randomly drop minor experience potions.
• Act 2 mobs drop mostly lesser experience potions, with a chance to drop one of 6 elixirs (agi/int/str/lifesteal/+healing/lesser experience elixir)
• Act 3 mobs drop mostly greater experience potions, with a chance to drop one of 7 elixirs (agi/int/str/lifesteal/+healing/lesser & greater experience elixir) and a chance to drop a major experience potion.
• Experience potions and flasks can only be used up to level 80
• Elixir buffs do not stack and you can only have 1 major elixir and 1 experience elixir active at one time.

I am in the process of adding items. In particular, we'll be seeing several new types of items including:

• Healing Shields
• Agi/Strength/Int rings
• Healing Rings

Hey folks, I've working on Act 4 alpha and an honor points system that caps at 1500 honor per week. I have just employed some quickfixes for the Zealot Champion and Marine Commando heroes to address their low act 3 DPS.

Act 4 is currently about 34% complete with an expected release this winter. It will feature 3 different zones each about half the size of Act 3. I've been making new mobs, new bosses, and for now I'm just trying to get the 3 different zones working.

I know there are a few hotkey bugs with Marine Commando since I added Toss Grenade the other day, and I will go over Act 1 2 and 3 later.

I've done a huge QOL update for medic and Archon players - I've integrated the data editor into the targetting triggers. This also means PVP on all classes in general is going to be a lot more fun. Here's some of the changes to list:

• I re-wrote the targetting triggers; I had problems with the boss bar sporatically targetting things when not intended.
• The boss bar will now switch targets when your (hostile) target dies.
• It won't deselect your hero if you left-click another players hero.
• If you already have a friendly unit targetted on your boss bar, your auto attacks will not break your current boss bar target.
• Players can now target themselves to see how much combined life and shields they have.
• Medics and Archons can switch to enemy boss bar targets by hitting tab or manually targetting an enemy.
• The 5 and 6 hotkeys were not executing greater heal and chain heal reliably enough. The 5 and 6 hotkeys will make the archon/medic immediately stop and cast greater heal/chain heal on your current bossbar target (or yourself)
• Due to the nature of this change, Greater heal and Chain heal have been made uninturruptible. Their healing rotation didn't 'flow' well if it wasn't.
• New ingame tips for new medic/marauder/archon/ultralisk players. These are considered medium to difficult heroes, and these tips help you master the more difficult aspects of these heroes. (single target, healing etc.)

I am finishing up adding the Arena zones to acts 1 2 and 3. Players access arena matches by showing up at the 'arena' waypoint. When there are 4 or more players in the arena, it sends out a dialog invite to all players in the game session, so that they can accept or decline to participate. If 4 or more players hit accept, the participants are ported to the arena where it randomly picks one of 2 different arena modes: FFA death match or Team death match.

• FFA death match awards generous experience and vespene, but there can only be one winner.
• Team death match awards less experience and vespene, but everyone on the winning team gets the same reward.

• The arena death match battles go on until there is only 1 player (or team) left standing.

At the end of the event, all participants are ported back to the base. Players can continue questing or keep doing arenas by returning to the arena waypoint.

So have recently adjusted the prices of minor and lesser potions, and all consumables (grenades, bombs etc) should now be worth some vespene when sold to the shops. The Act 1 quest chain now awards a marine mercenary to players who have completed the terran commander disguise quest.

I have a few things on my priority list: I'm trying to get ahold of some of the negative reviewers on bnet to see if i can resolve their problems. I'm working on arena zones in acts 1 2 and 3, but they won't see much use until I can integrate them into the questline or the duel system.

@TealAevitas: Go

Glad to hear you're enjoying it. I am adding some minor visual changes and stuff. Now if you could change your review on bnet that would be great. My RPG is about 6 years old and I got a lot of really bad reviews 4 years ago because I had to leave the project for some time, and a few things were left unfinished or buggy.

@TealAevitas: Go

Hi there Teal. I've been trying to get ahold of you on Bnet. So basically, one of the first opening quests seems to have been broken for (apparently) 2 weeks, specifically the Terran commander disguise quest. I finally got back online and spent some time fixing this yesterday. I have been really busy this summer and I haven't had much time to play and update the RPG for about 2 months.

So long story short, the quest chain froze up after killing the distruption field generator. You have 2 options being level 26:

• You can unfreeze the questline in single player, and kill the Stone Zealot. Kill the Stone Zealot and return to Chal'marr.
• You can start the game in multiplayer with a friend or random player and help them level up from level 1. The quest line will start when the new player reaches the center base.
• You could just start Act 2 if you're level 26. You don't gain any experience in act 1 after level 26. You don't need to kill the destroyer in Act 1 if you're over level 23.

About the other things, like the Giant ultralisk boss (omegalisk) the Destroyer, and the Queen; In Act 1, I had issues with high level players just walking in and ONE SHOTTING the last boss in the first 5 minutes of the game, because they're so high level from playing act 2 or 3... Not very cool if you're with 3 new players wondering "what's going on? What heroes are good?"

I made many of the bosses 'invulnurable' until they are unlocked by the quest chain, to prevent veteran heroes from ruining the experience for lower level players. Talk to the Hybrid in the Terran base to unlock your quest progress.

I applied a whole bunch of fixes yesterday and really took some time to test acts 1 and 2. Thanks for the feedback and I will definitely try get ahold of you on US bnet when I get some time.

I briefly took a look over the mineral gain triggers in Act 1 and I guess I'll be revisiting these triggers because they don't look right at all. Thanks soulwielder for pointing that out to me. I am working on new mineral gain triggers for act 1 based on these damage ratio's.

• Level 1's 1 mineral per 250 damage/healing
• Level 4's 1 mineral per 1000 damage/healing done
• Level 8's 1 mineral per 2000 damage/healing done
• Level 16 1 mineral per 4000 damage/healing done.

@soulwielder: Go

I changed how mineral gain works in acts 1 2 and 3. You'll still get bonus minerals and vespene when quests are completed. Mineral/vespene gain is based on your damage and healing dealt, and then it factors in your hero level.

In Act 1: Level 1 heroes gain more minerals per damage than a level 20 hero would, because they deal SO MUCH less damage/healing than level 20's. By level 23, players stop gaining extra minerals from damage dealt/healed in Act 1.

In Act 2: the limits are set up for levels 20-51. Lower level characters get a generous amount of minerals and vespene per damage dealt/healed. By level 51 you stop gaining minerals from damaging/healing in act 2.

Act 3 is set up for levels 48-80. You stop getting minerals from kills at level 85.

• Another quick way to gain minerals is to sell your old/unwanted gear to the shops/vendors. Act 2 also has a vendor that trades 100 vespene for 20 minerals.

I've been too busy to post updates. Act 4 is only 16% developed.