Element TD

[Karawasa]

And yes, progress is going along very nicely. In fact....

Enjoy the first public beta. This is not the first Beta in case your wondering, its about the 10th. All the previous ones have been played by friends of mine or friends of friends.

This is a BETA. If you find a bug or have a balance concern, EMAIL ME. [email protected]

Thanks

PS: EVERY tower has seen a change in some way. Thus, don't be afraid to get something, for fear that it sucks (if it sucked in 2.5). My goal was to make every combination viable IF played right. Also, the GAME IS HARDER. Creeps have more armor, so you will have to play smarter.

 

[mrchak]

3.0

Hey all - I just stumbled upon this thread. I'm the dude who made the map in the first place. I'm glad there's such an interest in going forward with enhancements and balances to the map. I'd like to be involved in the process if thats cool with you all.

Brian

 

[emjlr3]

who wants to bet that is total BS

 

[mrchak]

It's REALLY me.

It's not total BS - I don't know how I can prove it to you - send an email to [email protected] and I'll reply to it telling you that the post wasn't bs.

It's REALLY me, and I REALLY am interested in what you are doing

Brian

 

[Karawasa]

Its the real deal. That email has been in the map for ages. I see really good times ahead.

 

[Karawasa]

Beta 2 Out:

-Samerandom mode added, enjoy.
-Widgetizer used on map, load time should be quite reduced for ppl with bad computers.
-Some more trigger cleanups (memory leak removal) exit time should be further reduced
-Money towers nerf to damage
-Fixed arrow hotkey conflict, now its R
-Acid bomb duration down to 5 seconds at level 1
-Creeps no longer have that mana healing effect when hero mode is activated
-Creeps summoned by undead towers shouldn't be able to block anymore
-Undead tower creeps buffed slightly via attack speed CD lowering
-Infernal tower buffed slightly via attack speed CD lowering
-Crypt tower damage buffed slightly, now crypt has instant death lvl 1, tomb has instant death lvl 2 (instead of 2/3)
-Periodic Tower of the Elements saw a range increase of 50, cost up to that of pure (24k)
-Darkness and Light both saw buffs to their damage. Darkness tower lvl 1 went from 82 dps to 90. Light went from 78 to 85 dps. Subsequent amplfied, refine, focused, pure changed as a direct result.

Enjoy

 

[Unregistered]

k, i just wanted to let you know that i just lost in an Element TD (2.5, hopefully by now you've done something about this)

i really like metal towers and want to use them, but there really is no way (that i know of, and besides random) that i can go metal towers without dying

i decided to try something new, by going 5 interest, and the 3 fire, light, earth/3 fire2, light2, earth2

i started with fire, got 2 interest, got light, 2 interest, and earth

by that time i had a large amount of electricity towers, i converted 2 to metal towers

i started upgrading the cheap upgrades slowly, but started doing worse and worse

eventually i died selling all my electricity towers to upgrade more, but nothing

also, when i go mass metal towers (assuming i have the money... somehow) even then they are not that effective

 

[xflip04]

Hey mrchak can you please tell me how you got those neat element icons on the loading screen? I tryed emailing you but you never emailed me back

 

[Eilhal]

I have some really good suggestion that me and a few others were talking about while playing... first one is making all selections in the begging going into Dialog boxes (I will do this I would just like to have an unprotected copy of the latest version I don't know if it's protected haven't checked) also adding the ability to choose when your elementals come when on random... while you wouldn't be able to choose what the elemental would be but you would get to choose when it came by using an ability that is given to your hero when random mode is activated. Also in my opinion Darkness towers should have longer range then Light towers.... then may do more damage but are still considerably less effective then light because light has more range and more attack speed.... I will do all of these upgrades myself if someone would like... if you think these aren't good ideas please tell me so I don't waste my time

 

[mrchak]

Loading Screen custom graphic

Well, first of all, you need to make a cool square graphic (square as in dimensions, not in coolness). I think it has to be like 256x256 or 512x512 - something like that. You import it into your map using the import manager. In the Game Interface menu, you find the graphic you want to replace (I replaced the night-elf graphic - you know the shield with the glaive and arrows behind it?) And that's that!

if you want your graphic to be transparent or semi-transparent you have to save it as a TGA with alpha values. If you don't know how to do that then you should mess around until you figure it out. I'm sure there's tutorials available all over the internet.

That's basically it. As far as how I made the graphics in the first place, that was a long process- it took a long time but it was a lot of fun.

 

[Karawasa]

Beta3

This release will be infamous for fixing two HUGE problems that have haunted Element TD for ages.

Beta 3:

-Creep clump problem FIXED *Problem 1*
-Creep spawn reworked, last creep synchornized regardless of Difficulty *Problem 2*
- (-ar) and (-sr) added
-Darkness range up to 1500
-Light and darkness both saw attack CD decreases coupled with damage decreases
-Undead tower creeps further buffed

 

[mrchak]

Feedback of beta 3

Level 14 corpse decay - they disappear and reappear again (glaive throwers)

Firelord ability Immolation is TOO strong- it should be like half as damaging. At
level 6 it does SO much damage you don't need towers anymore.

Rain of fire kills your undead skeleton helpers.

Perhaps the enchantment tower spell "inner fire" should cost 25 or 20 mana instead of 35

Furthermore, we should consider a multiboard instead of just a leaderboard. They take a lot more programming, but can display a plethora of information and are very sweet.
It could display:
Player name
Random mode or not)
Current elements (briefly display)
Kills (perhaps)
Net worth
Lives
Difficulty
As well as sorting players by rank of lives

In addition, it could incorporate:
Interest Timer
Current Level (and if current level is fire, water)
What the next level is perhaps? It could simply be a symbol (like fire, water,etc)
Next-level Timer
Game mode

 

[Karawasa]

I am 100% noob at multiboards though. I will ask emjrl3 if he wants to do it. It is a GREAT idea i must admit.

Other suggestions/bug complaints will be resolved for next beta.

 

[CenshiCheese]

Theres a tutorial on leader Bordes, you prolly should give that a read instead

 

[Karawasa]

Theres a tutorial on leader Bordes, you prolly should give that a read instead

I meant multiboard .

 

[mrchak]

Multiboard

I'll design the multiboard.

It's not TOO bad, but it needs to be carefully designed and maintained. Basically it's just a nxm grid with whatever information you want, each cell of the grid can have a small icon and also text. You set the width of each cell column and you also can have a cell span multiple columns (much like a table in html)

chak

 

[mrchak]

Multiboard example

Here's my first stab at a multiboard for the game.

I'm not sure if seeing which elements your opponents have would be useful or interesting or just a waste of space.
The problem I notice is that with the extra information it takes up more of the screen...

 

[Sim]

sweet

Damn nice

Keep up the good work !

 

[escpy]

command -equalize dont work ? as i enter it before lvl 1 ..

 

[CenshiCheese]

Wow, as a first stab taht really hit hard, thats the best multyborde ive ever seen.