CTF Tournament Capture The Flag

[jaundice]

Tournament Capture The Flag [v1.0]

1. Basics of Gameplay

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The gameplay is simple, choose one of the 6 classes, wait for the round to start, and depending on which class you chose, either make your way towards the enemy flag, or defend your own.

Gold and Experience are awarded for:
-Taking the Enemy Flag
-Returning your Allied Flag
-Scoring
-Killing Enemy Heroes

Flags to Win:
Player 1 (Red) Chooses the length of the game at the very beginning, the options are as follows:
3 Flags [Short]
5 Flags [Normal]
10 Flags [Extreme]
15 Flags [Mayhem]

Now you may think that 15 flags would take a very long time, but after testing the map numerous times with my friends, the game is VERY fast paced, and 15 flags could possibly take around 30-45 minutes in it's quickest, and 60-90 minutes if you've got 2 solid teams.

2. Classes
The 6 classes that are in the game currently are each made for a specific purpose, all with abilities that help enforce their blatant purpose. The abilities are made to be short lived, but effective. With the gameplay being at the speed that it is, if abilities lasted for more than 15 seconds, it would be extremely overpowered, so keep that in mind when reading the abilities. (Just for example, the Flag Runner's Temporary Invincibility only lasts for 8 seconds at level 3.)

1. Flag Runner:

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Abilities:
A. Temporary Invincibility
B. Vanishing Speed
C. Phase Break
D. Multiplicity

Description: Low HP, and relatively low damage, this class is built purely for getting that flag and getting the hell out of dodge. One of the strategies my friends and I like to use is Grab Flag -> Multiplicity -> Vanishing Speed, and Phase Break into the goal.

2. Flag Defender:

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A. Defense Wards
B. Poisoned Axes
C. Entrap
D. Crippling Nova

Description: Built to defend the flag, his wards with True Sight will show any of those sneaky Flag Runners and give them a nice heaping helping of damage too, use his Entrap to keep them from running away and Crippling Nova to deal great damage and slow them down so you can go in for the kill!

3. Support:

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A. Spirit Aura
B. Spirit Cleanse
C. Metabolic Aura
D. Lullaby

Description: Made to help out teammates, run in with the Flag Runner to give him your auras and put the enemy heroes to sleep with Lullaby, especially that pesky Nuker! Heal any wounded team mates with Spirit Cleanse to ensure a safe trip back to your Flag Base.

4. Nuker:

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A. Corpsegrinder
B. Abominate
C. Necroshower
D. Skewer

Description: This guy is built like a Sherman Tank, loads of HP and tons of damage to dish out. He's VERY slow, and he attacks slow as well, but he deals massive damage, and all of his abilities will allow you to decimate the competition, but don't plan on scoring any Flags with this guy.

5. All-Rounder:

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A. Crushing Blow
B. Life Burst
C. Mana Leak
D. Barbed Armor

Description: The All-Rounder is, well, just that. He has offensive and support abilities. His Barbed Armor is a good defense boost and returned melee damage, while Life Burst can heal his team mates. Crushing Blow gives him the required Stun effect if he's going to be a real team player, and Mana Leak to make sure those pesky Nukers can't spank his team mates for massive damage!

6. Summoner:

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A. Summon Bear
B. Summon Hydro Demon
C. Summon Fire Demon
D. Summon Bloodfiend

Description: A tough class to play early game, unless you buy some Strength tomes to get his HP up. He's VERY VERY weak in the HP and Damage department, but his Summons are quite the contrary. The Bears make for the first line defense, and the Hydros and Fires provide ranged support, and the Bloodfiend is almost a hero in himself when it comes to Damage, but as all abilities in the game, they only last for a set amount of time, so SURROUND!

3. Screenshots (I apologize for the massive 1st Pic)

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4. Items (Still In Progress)

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1. Tome of AGI +2
2. Tome of STR +2
3. Tome of INT +2
4. Tome of Omniscience (All Stats +15)
5. Tome of Power (Level +1)
6. Gloves of Haste
7. Boots of Speed
8. Potion of Health
9. Greater Potion of Health

I plan on adding some more items, I just need to make sure to limit heroes to 5 independent items so there's still room to hold the Flag, OR I could just leave it as-is, so non-flag running Heroes can hold more items while the Runners will have to be cautious of their Item count.

5. Extra

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The game defaults to -ap, but some commands can be issued to change that.
-ar is obviously All Random, where all heroes for all players are random
-random is if an individual chooses to go with a random hero

I'll upload the map once I'm done finalizing it I need to put in a last bit of polish and protect the map.

 

[Bloodcount]

Seems nice. Goodluck with your project, looking forward too testing it.

 

[Dirac]

I don't like the idea of heroes specialized to do something specific, this can be exploited: if a team has 3 defenders then the flag is completely impossible tp capture...
If there aren't any jungle path, you should add several
Are the main unit heroes? How does the experience system works then...

 

[jaundice]

The specialized heroes aren't overpowered for their job, continuing your example, 3 Defenders would surely be formidable, but a flag runner can blink in and out and wind walk back to base, meaning in order to truly have a working team, you can't just mass one particular class. Experience is gained from Taking the flag, returning your flag, and scoring, as well as creeps in the woods. There are also tomes you can get, so you can level purely from tomes if you're a good flag runner, because you also get money for the aforementioned actions, as well as killing heroes.