Yeah some of the abilities aren't as straight forward. For example we have a hero that builds a defensive base platform with a shield emitting function giving shields to nearby heroes (or adding addition shields to Heroes that have shields already). Nothing too complicated or fancy, if a spell is too fancy it takes too long to actually do something it loses it usefulness especially in HLWs where most everything is fast paced. (our goal with spells was generally to modify animations enough where players will be wondering if that animation was actually in base SC2)
our Release date? Overall I'd just check our progress report every so often that's the best way to determine how close we are to releasing. I've stopped trying to predict a release date in general, but we are hoping sometime near Christmas to be in beta. We are on the US realm but hopefully we will get a version to EU and Ocean as well.
custom models or textures will shoot the map size right up, makes me sort of angry that the map limit is 10mb, while we haven't had to cut anything yet, we are getting close to 7mb and still have 4 more heroes' spell icons, talent buttons, and several other random images to finish, which is making us extremely worried.
Well when we started ours we were thinking we could have something out by the end of beta but as we delved deeper into the editor and realized we could expand past the typical HLW we decided to add our own spin on the predecessors. The biggest thing I can warn you about is watch your team sizes. Our team has had to scale back to 4v4 because of the massive lag we are getting fairly early on. While its always been an issue in HLW it's still especially bad in SC2 in general so just be warned. Other than that your map looks like its coming along nicely. Hoping you can preview some video of your skills sometime. Hopefully we can also get some video up and give you some ideas too. The hero skills took us a hell of a long time to polish and make look like blizzard quality.
Overall I'm glad to see some competition it helps motivate the team!
PS glad to see that you wanted to make good terrain, we also noticed that no previous HLWs had nice looking terrain and wanted to change that, glad we weren't the only ones thinking that way.
EDIT: also some problems we have had you probably won't face, we've had some map size concerns since are lucky enough to have an artist who is doing custom images for us and you wouldn't think it but a bunch of 76x76 image files start to add up.
oooo! finally some competition! Our team will be looking eagerly to see how you resolve certain issues (not that they can't be resolved, but we always like seeing how other mappers figure things out). Cant wait to see more of this project Kueken531. BTW, kudos for you if you are working solo, three people on our team and we are only 50-60% finished.
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Yeah some of the abilities aren't as straight forward. For example we have a hero that builds a defensive base platform with a shield emitting function giving shields to nearby heroes (or adding addition shields to Heroes that have shields already). Nothing too complicated or fancy, if a spell is too fancy it takes too long to actually do something it loses it usefulness especially in HLWs where most everything is fast paced. (our goal with spells was generally to modify animations enough where players will be wondering if that animation was actually in base SC2)
our Release date? Overall I'd just check our progress report every so often that's the best way to determine how close we are to releasing. I've stopped trying to predict a release date in general, but we are hoping sometime near Christmas to be in beta. We are on the US realm but hopefully we will get a version to EU and Ocean as well.
custom models or textures will shoot the map size right up, makes me sort of angry that the map limit is 10mb, while we haven't had to cut anything yet, we are getting close to 7mb and still have 4 more heroes' spell icons, talent buttons, and several other random images to finish, which is making us extremely worried.
Well when we started ours we were thinking we could have something out by the end of beta but as we delved deeper into the editor and realized we could expand past the typical HLW we decided to add our own spin on the predecessors. The biggest thing I can warn you about is watch your team sizes. Our team has had to scale back to 4v4 because of the massive lag we are getting fairly early on. While its always been an issue in HLW it's still especially bad in SC2 in general so just be warned. Other than that your map looks like its coming along nicely. Hoping you can preview some video of your skills sometime. Hopefully we can also get some video up and give you some ideas too. The hero skills took us a hell of a long time to polish and make look like blizzard quality.
Overall I'm glad to see some competition it helps motivate the team!
PS glad to see that you wanted to make good terrain, we also noticed that no previous HLWs had nice looking terrain and wanted to change that, glad we weren't the only ones thinking that way.
EDIT: also some problems we have had you probably won't face, we've had some map size concerns since are lucky enough to have an artist who is doing custom images for us and you wouldn't think it but a bunch of 76x76 image files start to add up.
oooo! finally some competition! Our team will be looking eagerly to see how you resolve certain issues (not that they can't be resolved, but we always like seeing how other mappers figure things out). Cant wait to see more of this project Kueken531. BTW, kudos for you if you are working solo, three people on our team and we are only 50-60% finished.