Archer Wars - Update 1.02

[tojooko]

Long time after first release I'm forced to update it second time :P

To download map go there:
http://www.mediafire.com/archerwars

Current version 1.02

Little description:
AW is only skill based map - no autoattacking, only 4 active skills. Only your accuracy can lead you to win. Right now there is only 1 hero, but I think we'll make new ones.

Screenshots

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/4643/shot0000oc.jpg

Runes!:
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/9900/shot0001iy.jpg



TO-DO
BALANCE ((but how?) :(
Dynamic killing spree gold receive - every kill in spree gives you extra gold - need rework, but with S2 help
Fix bugs - I know they are here... I hope you will find where :P
Better team management - in orginal there was option of 2v2v... , 3v3v..
Force S2 to upload it on their servers - I suppose it will be "soon" ^^
Water - requires time and some patience:P
Rework of special effects on water (like Freeze) - need S2 help too

PS. To everyone who doesn't see map in practice: you can open console (CTRL+F8) and paste it:
StartGame "practice" "FOREVER ALONE" "map:Archers102"

In order to simulate multiplayer playing you can use this function:
AddFakePlayer 2
It will spawn just standing heroes. Use it in lobby!



Hall of fame:
tojooko- coding
Friendd - map design
Special thx to:
Oloko for being indirect coding teacher
Schm0ftie for skipping hero selection code (http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showpost.php?p=13476528&postcount=10)

Changelog


-Changed Archer hero model.
-Map rework
-Added runes (DD, Regen, Invi and Special!)
-Automatic hero selection
-Removed water due to reflections problems :(
-Minor code fixes


Old changelogs:

1.01
-Reworked 1st and 2nd skill. Now in place of AttributeBoost is located
passive second shot. 1st shot has 2 charges ( only 1 until we take
passive), which both have individual cooldown, damage and range
( 2nd charge depends on passive).
-Meld is now located on second skill slot ( W hotkey)
-Fixed some bugs
-To everyone having problems with water refraction: There is NoWater
version available for download. As I have written below I can't work on
that now, but it will be solved in next patch.
-Fixed description: Archer now has only 4 active skills :(
-different items arrangement in shops

1.00
1st release

[Roozi]

Hi,
the link is giving me internal error. Can you upload it elsewhere like mediafire?

[tojooko]

Hi,
the link is giving me internal error. Can you upload it elsewhere like mediafire?
No problem:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sajc3dk7kdumt2m

[Roozi]

Wow, really good job, thumbs up. I am looking forward to play this with friends.

[Winwolf]

Love this map in wc3!!!!!!!! Lets see hows yours!

[IamKongor]

posted a thread in general discussion to get some attention :)
And by the way, I loved playing this map and I really wanna play it it HON now :):)

[tojooko]

posted a thread in general discussion to get some attention
I'm going to do it, but 1st I want to finish Dream problem so people will be able to vote for my map.

[Friendd]

The map is still in BETA, if anyone find bugs or have an idea what can I change/add, please inform me by PM or here in this topic.

[FlameStick]

I played Archer wars a few time in wc3 and was really fun FFA with 8-10 people.

Looking forward to this!!!!

[Fielding]

Looks pretty good, I'm interested to try it out

[Thysios]

Imo the spells should be called 'Shoot' instead of 'Shot' :)

[an7hraxjax]

lol the ulti is quite cool :D
i like it!

[tojooko]

Imo the spells should be called 'Shoot' instead of 'Shot' :)
Thx, will be implemented in new update

[R4Lts]

0000

[R4Lts]

Cool idea
Looks pretty good

some of my suggestions/game problems:

1.water reflection is a disaster i cant see anything when my archer is in lakes and cam is exactly facing to her its too white

2. some part of this land is not designed well its like they are broken / somehow like graphical problem but i think u can fix it with map editing again
I wish I could send some screenshots of those parts but,,

3.it was better if u could stack 1st & 2nd ability like bomba's 3rd ability this way you have another slot for invisibility
im not comfortable with pressing D and prefer to use QWER keys only

4. shop looks too ...
could u arrange them a little better?

5. i prefer to see bomba flaming effect on ult/instead of pyromancer wnd ability but thats only my idea :P

well done with this map i am looking forward to play it &
I hope s2 accept to upload it


Good luck

[tojooko]

Thx for feedback RooinTan


1.water reflection is a disaster i cant see anything when my archer is in lakes and cam is exactly facing to her its too white

It's sad but I can't do anything with that now, becouse my PC is broken and working on GeForce 2 graph card :(


3.it was better if u could stack 1st & 2nd ability like bomba's 3rd ability this way you have another slot for invisibility
im not comfortable with pressing D and prefer to use QWER keys only

Hmm I wasn't thinking about moving Meld, but now I see it's good idea. I can't do 1st skill stacking so easly becouse two,same shooting skills gives more possibilities of skill tree. But I'll make 2nd shot passive ( allows you to use 2nd time 1st skill, but damage depends on this passive skill), so both of us will be happy:p



4. shop looks too ...
could u arrange them a little better?
Well I'll try to. In orginal there was 20 buyable items and autoassembling recipes were hidden. I've made same in reccomended shop and I think in game you wont need to use any other. Gold here is realy hard to farm so I've never bought eg. Death Tools (3x30g) one time.



5. i prefer to see bomba flaming effect on ult/instead of pyromancer wnd ability but thats only my idea :P
I can check it,but I won't promise anything

[tojooko]

New update - 1.01. More info in 1st post

[Token]

tried it out, fantastic work; how do we get this approved for online play?

[IamKongor]

Nice update :) wanna try it in multiplayer now!!!

[poison2003]

need multiplay nao

[Sam`]

just says connecting to game server when i click create game.

[Oloko]

just says connecting to game server when i click create game.

You need to pick Practice as the server type. You can't play custom maps on officials servers.

[RockRocks]

Hey dude i totally support ur map it rocks i played it a lot on wc3 so i hope we can play it multiplayer some time on hon :D

[zaxu]

Good work. Hope S2 adds this asap. I often need a break after some bad games and Archer Wars was what i played when i took breaks from dota.

[LonJAXsoN]

Very nice.

[gordija]

The map looks awesome, but I guess I found a bug

Dunno if im doing something wrong, but whenever I start the game, I got a random hero and sometimes I respawn out of the map. Doing as said, im getting the map on "maps" folder and loading it on practice mode. Any idea?

Keep the good job! :]

[Maginox]

nice

[tojooko]

Well, It's quite outdated, I should have uploaded update long time ago. I'll do it today
EDIT: Done, update is released

[Ramisama]

Major bug spotted!! you can't hit another archers while they are under fog of war and im 100% sure of it - its my greatest fluking technique!!

please get this to official servers <3

[tojooko]

Thanks, fixed it.

[Valjin]

So will this be up for multiplayer or is it jsut dead? and is there no way to play this with friends yet?

Also I found that the buy menu shows you symbol of rage´, but you can't rly buy it dunno if it's a bug

Awesome map bro :D

[tojooko]

It is dead...
And it does not depend on me to revive it. I'm not working on anything there until S2 doesn't release any S2 custom map support :(

Exception: As long as I'm visiting this forum I'll keep this map playable. Shop bug is not included here:P. Anyway, thanks for info

Thanks for positive feedback too :)

[Andromeda]

Played this in wc3 and was pretty addicted. Are custom maps ever going to get support??

It wasn't fun to get mowed down by the host because they were the only one without delay. Archer wars using HoN would be pretty intense with real players. Hoping for support in the future..Maybe with 3.0??? :P

Good work bro

[WoxxeH]

The "AddFakePlayer 2" doesn't work for me... :(