SC2Mapster

@SoulFilcher: Go

Okay so throwing out some old/new abilities for the Psi Spire and Dark pylon:

• Phase Shift or Vortex, would personally consider these kinds of abilities more Nerazim styled.

• 'Barbed wire' type shield, applies to a building and melee atackers recieve a set amount of damage each time they attack, maybe having a bit of the old Arc shield and have electricity arc out and zap all enemies in a certain range, like 3 ish.

• An AoE damage or debuff for the Dark Pylon, spawning an hologram-styled Dark Pylon in the air and stabbing the ground with it, sorry I just thought that graphic would be really cool.

• Time slow shield, reversed chrono boost that somehow protects the targeted building.

About the techical side of things, I'm no expert but wouldn't Render To Texture along with some dialouge be a pretty streamlined way of handling things? If you have a camera over the enemy ship and rendering that camera to a texture next to your own ship, covering up the sides of the texture with dialouge just like in the actual game. Now that i think about that's just visual but I guess maybe you can actually make all the weapon, drone etc. abilities work like intented under the hood in some way?

@SoulFilcher: Go

I'm behind the teleport ability yukaboy brought up for the Psi Spire, ofcourse it might need something more.

By the way does any Tribe have an Obelisk/Dark Pylon?

@yukaboy: Go

He did announce it was LotV related before 1 April, so it might be an actual tileset datamine? Maybe? What's the rules on preparing an April fool before the big day?

@SoulFilcher: Go

Do you still have the Nomad for any faction? IIRC it lacked good abilities when I last played, so maybe give it the Mag Mine?

Quote from Kueken531: Go

Zealot Champions for example would receive an armor aura affecting nearby Zealots only [...]

They're called Zealots, wouldn't something along the lines of a Psionic Warcry increasing attack speed of nearby Zealots be more fitting?

@Mozared: Go

I tried, but I've got some serious problems, I blacked out and when I woke up I had done another TWO space ships, I need to stop, get some help, but it just feels sooo good.

Some ideas for missions:

• Killing AA in order to let a large slow ground siege ship advance, kinda like reverse 'Bone Trench'.

• Something I missed in HotS, finding a maybe gamechanging 'mutation' on a actual mission. Like what if your doing a good ol' holdout mission and then they tell you to find some crystal and instead of a instant win you get this upgrade that allows you to push the enemy back and win instead.

• Mandatory purification mission, it's what the protoss do. On a smaller scale you could go AVP style and have a squad of elite Nerazim Zealots with cloak, blink and high damage trying to take out an terran installation that a parasitic Zerg larva slipped into, hell that would make an awesome custom map on its own.

Anyone else wants to do some ships? :D

I made one to get a feel of all the new HotS doodads, then I remembered i made one in beta aswell so i put them in the same map and then decided to make a space battle...

@Alnatair: Go

Skyboxes only shows up with ingame camera settings nowadays, press 'V'.

Yeah, I gave it a shot.

@Telthalion: Go

So you're saying I should make a pitch black abandoned lab? Who knows, I just might.

I might have overlooked what you're referring to but you might want to specify the problem?

Dark forest, really big trees prevent the sunlight from reaching down, should be a place to expect spiders and the like.

My progress, and a not so bright idea.