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RE: ZDoom Wars 1: v3.0g

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 10:45 pm
by Slyfox
Recently hopped back onto ths game and still love it, good job mah man; On another note, I personally feel now that virus turrets no longer hits ghosts they kind of unneeded, especially if i can upgrade them for 3 mana

RE: ZDoom Wars 1: v3.0g

Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 10:12 pm
by Mr. Repo
Ah cool, I'm glad you're giving it a shot again. It's definitely been a while eh?

Anyway about turrets... admittedly the ghost hitting was a quick fix because I was being bombarded with requests about how they were ruining games more so than the previous few years all of a sudden. There still is a difference between the two though: single shot are more accurate, do more damage, and are quicker (I think) while spread does the opposite. I guess it's more of a question of dumb fire vs a concentrated stream of fire. I do agree that they could be adjusted more and for the next release I'll definitely try to make a more apparent difference between the two.

RE: ZDoom Wars 1: v3.0g

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 5:20 am
by Ivan
Why does Tyketto's map have a random gimmick boss pop up? I thought those were gone. I got killed by that bitch fucktard Tyketto who happens to one shot everyone with super retarded projectiles, I want an explanation and my money back. Also, I need some water for my salt...

RE: ZDoom Wars 1: v3.0g

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 5:22 am
by Ru5tK1ng
Get better at dodging. Perhaps throwing some salt back into the mine will lighten your load.

RE: ZDoom Wars 1: v3.0g

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 5:24 am
by KeoTheLegend
Ivan wrote: Why does Tyketto's map have a random gimmick boss pop up? I thought those were gone. I got killed by that bitch fucktard Tyketto who happens to one shot everyone with super retarded projectiles, I want an explanation and my money back. Also, I need some water for my salt...
You're upset you lost to me. The Legend conquered hyper Alucard.

RE: ZDoom Wars 1: v3.0g

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:04 am
by Flareon
lolnub

RE: ZDoom Wars 1: v3.0g

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 11:13 am
by fr blood
Nerfing the turrets when the Wendigo stay very usefull for his price compare to more expensive units like Mech Walker/Maximus, they won all duel against the strong units, are some the complainers blind ?

I hope you already fight a spam of yeti, seing ur bosses being killed instanly...

RE: ZDoom Wars 1: v3.0g

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 3:10 pm
by Slyfox
...What? I haven't used hexen or seen it played recently, but iirc yetis are pretty expensive and only really destroy at close-mid range; mesh walkers are better at long range and maximus... eh you got me there (although they hurt like fuck regardless of their slow attack speed)

RE: ZDoom Wars 1: v3.0g

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 3:17 pm
by Ivan
Yeti's can hurt themselves, for some reason, too.

RE: ZDoom Wars 1: v3.0g

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 6:11 pm
by Slyfox
I actually forgot about that since I don't normally play hexen

RE: ZDoom Wars 1: v3.0g

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 6:19 pm
by Mr. Repo
fr blood wrote: Nerfing the turrets when the Wendigo stay very usefull for his price compare to more expensive units like Mech Walker/Maximus, they won all duel against the strong units, are some the complainers blind ?

I hope you already fight a spam of yeti, seing ur bosses being killed instanly...
I barely understood that, but what I'm gathering is basically you're saying that a ghosted monster beats monsters that for the most part can't hit ghosts, cost more, have different roles and that's a basis for change. I really don't understand the issue here to be blunt. You put down a few ghost monsters and Yetis fall fairly quickly.

To expand a bit more upon what Slyfox said: Meshwalkers are pretty awesome tower defense monsters and excel in longer distances. They're also monsters at mid range tower defense. Yeti/Wendigos are at their best at close to mid range usually on the ground, and Maximus are at their best in a tower or large crowd of flemoids for support. They can't hit ghosts, but they shoot over most other low tier Chex monsters, do ridiculous damage and have the most HP of any non hero monster in the game. My point is none of those guys are candidates of being a good way to gauge the Yetis strength ESPECIALLY at a close range duel where Yetis are at their best. The only thing close off the top of my head would be the Mancubus, but the difference there is it's not a ghost and it can hit ghosts when upgraded so they can't really be directly compared either.
Ivan wrote: Yeti's can hurt themselves, for some reason, too.
Actually that bug was fixed quite a while ago.

RE: ZDoom Wars 1: v3.0g

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 10:10 pm
by fr blood
Mr. Repo wrote: Actually that bug was fixed quite a while ago.
And what about the Inquisitor ? When you use him most of the damage that he takes are from his grenades, can't you do something about that ?

RE: ZDoom Wars 1: v3.0g

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 10:41 pm
by Mr. Repo
Actually that bug was fixed quite a while ago, too.

That was one of the very first changes I made from the last Ventris era release.

RE: ZDoom Wars 1: v3.0g

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 3:37 am
by Ivan
Couple complaints:

- Why does Spectre A and B share the same cap? That makes no sense...
- Spectre A and B have such low mass, when I try to teleport them I just push them around, this needs urgent attention IMO.
- Entity is hard to get to go to certain places and it's even harder to teleport it because of it's AI. Something should be possibly done about this, like giving Strife the ranged teleport as well or something.

RE: ZDoom Wars 1: v3.0g

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 6:05 am
by Mr. Repo
-That's a bug. You can set the CVar "SpectreALimit" to 8 as a temporary solution until it's fixed.

-I've left their mass like this because I feel their ability to be shoved around kind of makes them a bit more resilient and less fragile. I'll still poke around with it a bit and see what I can do.

-I had a prerelease version where every class had projectiles for teleporting. It was an absolute disaster for balance overall so that's why it was changed to the way it is currently. If I do change this the number of times you can teleport a monster will be limited. I stand by this decision and won't be swayed. However this isn't the first time I've been requested to change it back to projectiles so what I'm going to do is make that option a CVar for the next release without limiting anything. Players definitely should have the option especially since it was originally introduced that way to being with.

Oh and to reply to a previous post and since I brought up CVars a few times, you actually can turn off map based bosses and monsters via CVars as well. For Tyketto's Den, the Cvar is "ZDWars26 Boss" and setting it to 1 will prevent Tyketto from spawning.

RE: ZDoom Wars 1: v3.0g

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 12:54 pm
by Ivan
Cool thanks for the CVar information, hadn't known!

RE: ZDoom Wars 1: v3.0g

Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 10:06 pm
by Arctangent
I was kind of surprised to look at how Flem spores are created when I got curious and took a peek at the code. I'd just thought they came out of the producer, not that they were projectile-based. Have you considered making their summon projectile visible? It feels like being able to see how your flem spore production is happening would let Chex players better plot out their producer placement, as well as giving them a better idea where their horde will end up.

RE: ZDoom Wars 1: v3.0g

Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 8:06 pm
by Ivan
Are missile trails and other effects clientsided in this?

RE: ZDoom Wars 1: v3.0g

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 1:48 am
by Mr. Repo
Arctangent wrote: I was kind of surprised to look at how Flem spores are created when I got curious and took a peek at the code. I'd just thought they came out of the producer, not that they were projectile-based. Have you considered making their summon projectile visible? It feels like being able to see how your flem spore production is happening would let Chex players better plot out their producer placement, as well as giving them a better idea where their horde will end up.
Well the way I see it there really isn't a way to help plot the spores out even with seen projectiles. The Flem Meteor is about the only thing I could see the benefit from this, but even then since the spores projectiles spawn randomly in a 360° radius there still is no real way to track where they end up. Then take into account the spores having minds of their own... I dunno I just honestly can't really see how this would benefit that much seeing how its so random.

However I will try it out regardless to see if it makes a difference and if it does, I'll change it for the next revision. Not making any guarantees though.

Ivan: To my knowledge, everything that could be made clientsided has been done so. I wouldn't mind being proven wrong though.

RE: ZDoom Wars 1: v3.0g

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 4:33 am
by Ivan
Do strife trails have this clientside? Where are the trail objects?