Necro Corp.

[AceHart]

A cooperative survival map.

Very simple concept, protect your Necropolis for 30 minutes.

Fully tested and found working single-player.

It should support several players too.
Given that I can't host, it's never been tested though.

Two players has the big advantage that one can concentrate on producing troops,
while the other guides the fightings.
Three is really helpful past half-time.
It gets really crowded and, therefore, dangerous.
You really must be at every corner at once...

More?
Don't know.
You might get in the way of each other.
Also, there's probably way too many Creeps...

Just for kicks, there's more Creeps if there's more players.


All players share the same buildings, troops and resources.
Actually, you're all working for your team leader (a computer player).
Hence the cooperative part.


Please find attached, the map (obviously) and a screenshot of a typical game scene.
(No, I didn't win.)


All comments, with the ususal restrictions, welcome.


Yours,
AceHart

 

[PB_and_J]

looks like its not for someone with a crappy comp, lol. Im go take a look at it right now.

 

[Im_On_56k]

Great game, I noticed on the Ziggurat Maximum 5 wasn't in yellow lettering like it is on the rest of the buildings.

Still playing it right now just paused now back to the game!


-edit
The maximum 5 on the zigguats don't seem to work right. Probally since when you upgrade to a spirit tower its not a zig anymore.

 

[PB_and_J]

Its fun, lil hard, and ya the max Zigg doesnt work (I won by massing towers lol). The genetists ultimate transmute give about 1100 gold when used, not sure if that was meant.

 

[AceHart]

Ziggurat limit and tooltip fixed.

> The genetists ultimate transmute give about 1100 gold when used.

Uhm... yes.
You were just lucky to get him I guess.
Consider it a "secret"

 

[AceHart]

I offer +20 rep for the first one to post a replay that shows a victory.
(Viewable in TFT 1.20, with the map version as posted up here).
+30 if there's more than 1 player.

 

[phyrex1an]

You don't have to offer rep, just ask ^^

You get way to much gold, maybe raise the Acolyte gold cost when going to a higher tier?

Edit:
Just relised that I didn't comment the actualy game ^^
Well done, only tested in single player and that was very fun. Multiplayer is often even better. As I said: You have much more gold than you need, in single player dunno about multi.
Why is the freezing breath ability there? Doesn't that only affect buildings?

 

[mase]

Heh, i beat it my first time around lol.

 

[AceHart]

Uhm, phyrex, you posted a replay that requires a WorldEditTestmap...

Also, I don't mind giving out a bit of rep for a job well done.
(+10 to mase for second post).


It would appear that Dark Minions and Frost Wyrms are a major hit.
Hm...

For the Minions, that's rather obvious.
You really need them in the beginning.
And they will stay free too, at least on tier 1.

On the other hand, I must admit that I didn't expect people to go with 40 Frosties...


Actually, phyrex also managed to meet a level 10 Creep.
Impressive.
The chances are low to really low.
Wasn't a Hydra though. Damn


I'll see what I can do.


Yours,
AceHart

 

[phyrex1an]

Uhm, phyrex, you posted a replay that requires a WorldEditTestmap...

Lol, open with we to test isn't a good idea then...

 

[mase]

Thanx for the +rep, i didnt care if i got it or not. Now i can change the words below my name... still havent figured out how to do that yet.

 

[Rad]

So is it just a survival-mod for a standard Melee game? Thats what it looks like... I was never very fond of melee games, I got a rifleman icon once (3 days before the reset the stats that I had no idea about surprisingly) and ever since I lost interest. The only reason I'm posting now is because earlier I looked through our custom maps and thought this would be like a medieval-resident evil or something.. Necromancers in training? Hehe

 

[AceHart]

Don't ask. Try it!

 

[mase]

Its pretty fun (mass frost wyrms lol).
Acehart u just need to lessen the Wyrms a little bit and make them harder to get and also the hero xp is gained to fast i think.

 

[SD_Ryoko]

Okay. That was fun!

-Lil bit easy.
-No clear indication I won? Game just stopped.
-So I think I won.

-Fun mass quantities of units.
-Dissaopinting the restrictions on units you can make
-Yet its easy enough to win anyway without them.

Confusing in beginning. How gold? was the first question I thought of. Then, how unit? I seem to have figgured it out.

-How gold?
-How unit?

The necropolis is most confusing about the summons. I couldn't tell the difference between upgrades, and creating units, because they are all mixed in. First go, I spent all my money on the upgrades, thinking it would upgrade my skeletons. THEN I figgured it out.

But I found those upgrades are a waste anyway. You can't use those items while training units; and the item summons arn't that good as oh.... frost wyrms. SO just tech and train, screw summons.

-Research icons at facility not fixed; they jump around sometimes
-1 abom house?

-Necro Ability
Doesn't start with default ability ACTIVE.... raise dead? How annoying. Periodically gotta find them all and right click to activate.

-Hero kinda joke.
Fun tho. Make me LOL how fast he levels once I finally get him. Bing bing bing bing damn things 6 already.

-FIRELORD RULES

-Building Misrepresentation
Alter trains banshe. Pit trains hero. Good lord!

This map is a LOT of fun!
But I beat it on second try. So.... I don't feel compelled to try again. I'd rather lose last moment and keep trying than .... win

If you get frost wyrms and can't win - you suck.

I like how the abilities all say what they are doing! This is great cuz with such mass chaos and clusterfucks everywhere, I can see they did it

Now for my biggest gripe

Banshee. Sucks.

You make me angry.

Banshe comes in with autocast on.

Therefore, she will NEVER HAVE MANA TO POSSESS.

Okay. So I turn ALL BANSHEES OFF!

For some gsdfklgjdfl reason, THEY STILL CAST!

So there is STILL no mana for possess.

I try everything to get em to stop. they NO STOP!

So. Watch my replay.

I move ALL BANSHEE off the battlefield. To recharge.

FINALLY, they can possess.

Guess what? Creep to strong to possess. Damnit. God damnit.

And then?

Since banshees chase the creeps back in town?

They use ALL THERE MANA AGAIN

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Banshee useless

-I got 7000 gold and no ways to spend it.
-I got a hero, with no lil potion or something for him to sip
-Bosses would be nice.
-Coordinated attacks? Seems like just random monsters of X level. Ever think about like, a group of this with a leader with an aura from one side? Or something? Or a pack of these plus a pack of those giving them some buff?

 

[SD_Ryoko]

On another note

You play again

Theres no 'other' path to take because of whats available to you

You gotta start with skeles

Then you get gouls and spiders

Like history repeat itself

Nothing changed.

 

[SD_Ryoko]

I play again. While I waiting to go out.

-Only upgrade was one attack damage. No other upgrades what so ever.

-No waste time on upgrades.

-No waste time on banshee (stupid banshee)

Just made some aboms.

Frost wyrms take way too little time to make. You can mass those things easily.

Last five minutes, just kinda repaired stuff, no new units.

Hero AOE spells are useless.....

I dont really care where my hero is or what he doing. He die near end, but nothing to do with him until then. Mostly AOE, and ... useless

I'm not really afraid of your creeps.

You need like a 4x scale creep

Just some creep to appear on my screen and I say "OMG OMG shiiiiiiit"

 

[Rad]

Ehh, you need to balance it for multiple players... Its IMPOSSIBLE with 3 people. Its not that we sucked, its just impossible! I watched a few of the replays and they looked alot easier. Only 2 minutes in and we were swamped with at least 12 different creeps (Mainly crabs), elapsed game time was 6:32 seconds.

All I did was make skeletons and they built just like Ryoko's replay did, lots of skellies... heh, we arent playing that again

 

[SD_Ryoko]

like Ryoko's replay did, lots of skellies...

I learned very quickly, that it doesn't get any better than FREE

And... the skellies were FREE



When new version?

I wanna play. Plz.

 

[MeRcChRiS]

lol i played with some friends and whene there builder died they kept trying to use mine...