SC2Mapster

i think once bnet can hammer out all these official, specific categories for tower defense and the like, map survivability wont be as dependent on being on that first page of popularity.

if you like TDs, you should keep your drop down menus on custom > tower defense. likewise, mapmakers should set their map types accordingly.

So, I am taking it that this project is dead too... All of my favorites seem to be dying.

5. Elemental adjacency bonuses. Building a tower with a fire element next to a tower with another fire element will give both of them a minor damage bonus. This, along with the hotspots, is intended to provide an incentive for players on higher difficulties to pay close attention to which towers are placed where.

Won't that make it so you have less diversity though? Since it will mean you will attempt to stack up on as many of the same kind of towers as possible.

The map seems to work fine now, I didn't have a single crash and just played through the game on Brutal, didn't even leak anything except the first few rounds.

Some people seem to claim that it is impossible to setup the maze so the mobs run over the same tile (for example nuke trap) four times. However, it is perfectly doable and quite effective, however, I found it better to have them pass the exact same place trice.

A small bug, when you kill the last boss you get the message "You have learnt a new spell!" even though the game is finished. Overall this is imo the best TD for SC2 thus far. I'm very surprised it didn't fare better in the custom map contest.

EU is running version 1.3, I just checked.

Crashes quite often unfortunately, so this map is unplayable for now but otherwise seems great.

Should be noted that you want the crash report on a forum where only a very small part of the world can post (namely those in northern america), which seems like an odd choice if you want more feedback. Yet I suppose you got enough reports by now.

Amazing map, by the way! I've been looking for a TD like this that involved mazing, waypoints, a variety of towers, and combinations to boot for SC2 and you answered!

Any word on future combos like an upgrade to the prismatic tower? Or 2:1 ratios of elements in a combo which would probably have attack damages of 150%:100%:50% instead of the 125%:100%:75% for 1:1:1 and 1:1 ratios? Think Water:Water:Fire and Water:Water:Water:Water:Fire:Fire.

Granted the learning curve is steep enough, this would be a neat expansion set of towers :)

Speaking of the learning curve, this one is more complicated than anything I've seen before. It's one thing to figure out that there are 4 spawns rather than just 1 (esp. when pressured to skip the tutorial), but the sheer volume of tower choices is crazy and boggles the minds of newcomers. Maybe for the first round, since you can't even afford combo towers (125), you could just show the basic 50 tower (MP only). And maybe in the tutorial, you can visually show something being built via clicking those 6 essences in the bottom right corner. :)

Hopefully EU update is soon many people leave every game because we dont have enough time to build between rounds and the 5 second movie between every round is really annoying.

"Using a model that forces creatures to walk all the way through the kill zone part of the maze, I think I can prove that the maximum is twice for this td."

I'm going to echo this. Given the space restraints and the minimum walkspace for mobs, there really isn't a way to merge all 4 lines into a closer hot spot so that mobs can go through 2x roundtrip. The mobs will walk past the hot spot 4 times, but effectively only pass the sandwich lane twice as you can see in the 2nd picture (with towers). What starts out as a quest to make a long maze becomes 4 shorter mazes, with each lane only minimally stalling the mobs (without towers to deal any DPS in the area anyway). Towers dealing AOE damage will not strike as many targets since mobs will be running in every direction.

If you just stick to the usual enclosure of just one waypoint, you maintain one unified maze: common pathing to all spawns. If you only effectively get two runs anyway via the 4-lane mazing, then you might as well go this route. In total, they will go through twice "roundtrip".

But between splitting the map in half and just enclosing one waypoint, there's advantages and disadvantages to both. On brutal difficulty, you may find it more manageable to do the latter so that your towers can focus on eliminating the outer 3 spawns first, then the inner one last. Splitting the map in half is almost the same though your towers may get confused on which mobs to target first, which means a higher chance of leaking if youre not careful.

Unlike most TDs with waypoints, mazing is and unfortunately has to be much simpler for you to survive the early rounds. Since the towers only have 4.5 attack range at most, the overall maze wont need to be more than 3-4 walls thick with the 2 outer ones for stalling; towers cant reach across another wall anyway. To counter that, I make my walls two towers thick for density.

Using a model that forces creatures to walk all the way through the kill zone part of the maze, I think I can prove that the maximum is twice for this td.

Actually, you can make them have to walk by four times. All you need to do is to block off one side completely. Then the mobs have to go through your maze counterclockwise once, AND clockwise once. For example, if you block off the path between the bottom right and the bottom left, you can force the mobs to walk counterclockwise through your maze to get from bottom right to bottom left, and then back through clockwise to get to the rest of the corners.

yo your map crashes and or units get stuck every game - its been unplayable - great game but fix your technical issues which are ruining your map;...

Posted a crash report. I get them consistently, so if you want more, I can get you more reports easily.