Oh that reminds me. There's an abuse for CoM. If you're in the hydra mode, you can cast spell 1+spell 2 one time each, but keep repeating that. The lings will stay in the battlefield until you stop casting, so you can pretty much attack the whole base with that. Lol, I'll be fair and not use these abuses I found in game.

I maxed mana, what did you want me to do? What controls his HP? It's really random, sometimes I get 300 sometimes I spawn with 800. 4000 hp is sexy, lets me tank cannons. Also, if I acid mist, then I'm going to get raped because the mist form's lack of hp and defense capabilities, it won't matter if I stun him, Samurai will just pull out archon rape on me and kill me. I also went lurker egg and I died I think, but I got teleported back to base without losing a life.

You know that you can morph into lurker to regain your original form right?

Yes, but that is one second downtime, plus 20 mana for every transformation, and the fact I am not doing any damage unburrowed as a lurker. ninja trumps me, he does the same thing, but is invincible during the duration, traps his opponent and scales better, all for under 50 mana.

You remain burrowed if you begin the combo while your are burrowed. Mist Exchange rape's Ninja's MP, letting you have your way with him long enough for a Wind of Horus ---> Acid Trap ---> Hyperviolence combo = nothing survives.

This map has so much anticipation and everyone not on beta testing has high expectations...

As Samurai, when you're collecting materials for your armor, it sometimes doesn't give you the materials. Like you failed to collect it or something. This is intentional correct?

Thank you, kind sir. I am doing my best to provide anyone who gives my map a chance the best AoS experience your e-time can buy. Also, we're only on Alpha stages, but you can join us in the testing any time. (I test often, almost 5 nights a week.)


The materials you gain do not sync up exactly with the patch's supply. The way it is set up is that you will gain let's say Stone after this many seconds of gathering stone. Whether of not your current patch of stone will last until that marker is unrelated. You will only gain materials at ~1:1 with the number of patches you go through for the first couple gatherings, after that the time scales beyond the duration of one gathering session. (There is also a plus side to this, as to where if you are interrupted and have to leave the patch, the gathering is preserved until you begin your next gathering session.)

UPDATE: Went through some crazy balancing today on just about every playable hero. The 7 completed heroes are closer to being bug-free than ever before. I will probably release the 8th hero during Friday night's testing session.

Thank you everyone for the help and support. Judging by how much fun I think the game is turning out to be, and the (almost completely) positive feedback from many testers, I can safely say that I am sure this will turn out to be an Epic AoS to be remembered.

Damn i can't want for this map and its anticipation...

This abuse has been managed as of right now. Thanks for pointing it out. Also, any more that you find I'd love to know about =)

@Everyone: Who wants to test today???

I should be available if you need someone.

Changes for today (So Far...):

1. Increased Randomization of Items (Randomly based on heroes selected.)
2. Serpent's first spell now functions in parts as opposed to one short function.
3. Serpent's other first spell has been slightly increased in duration.
4. As mentioned earlier, CoM's abuse dealing with continuous mist summons and Nightmare usage has been addressed.

In 2 hours from now I may have from 2-12 people that may or may not want to test. I'll msg you then.

Should be available fairly Soon for testing

Another thing I did was touch up the temporary strings involved with character selection. The available back-stories have been linked into the map as of now, and I am suddenly reminded of how many more still need to be written. I know we have ones for psychopath and ninja laying around that need editing, but did anyone write any of the other ones? I would like to get caught up with these perhaps sometime this weekend, so let me know if you have your story ready for editing.

If your map ends up being over 200KB, you will need to trim wherever you can (stories)

I'll find more abuses and the like once I get my hands on the newer version.

I'll be able to test, just drop me a PM or something, as i cant get on op sen.

Map is already twice that. Stories in the map are 3-4 lines contained in 1 string, and will not be omitted.



*Given* I already found about about the Mindlock bug, and 2 CoM bugs today though, so any other that you find (or abuses) that'd be great. - Well, not great, cuz obviously we don't want anything like that to pop up, but if it does pop up then yeah reporting it here once again would be great.


You missed out on some epic testage... Isn't your CD key muted though? I will PM you if you're online tomorrow for additional testage. (and anyone else who missed out today - sorry)

UPDATE: Testing went good today. Positive feedback all around, bugs are almost completely owned. Triggers for the next characters are being written up currently. See you guys tomorrow after work.

Ha yeah, testing was really fun. And Serpent does not suck, no matter what other people say! Lol, somehow I managed to outexperience everyone else Besides purp, but I raped him. Try to make bcs have +3 ups, since I had 24 air ups, and that's only on lings. Spell3 + Spell4 = Pure Ownage.