Warlock 089 has been released

Warlock 089 Changelog

Warlock Arena on Warcraft

--- New ----

- Removed "Press Any Key" (by adding new loading screen)
- Added host command: "-teamshuffle" which will shuffle teams
- Added new mode addon: "-shuffle"
** shuffle mode addon will shuffle teams each round
** shuffle mode addon is currently only supported by Round mode
- League mode (activated by -league or -league B) is remade.
** League mode now sets all gold reward constants to 0 and ice off
** League mode no longer starts the game
- Ending multiboard now displays best killing streaks of each player
- Ending multiboard now displays 'golden text' for the best values in each category
- Killing spree's are no longer reset between rounds
- Extended version of "holy sh!t" sound added for 11th spree and beyond. The number of the spree is correctly displayed even beyond the 11th spree.
- Drain toggle spell added


--- Fixes ---

- Fire Spray now aims correctly
- Fire Spray, gravity, link etc. now deals reduced damage to frozen target as intended
- Fixed a typo in link upgrade
- Drain now damages the same amount as it heals.
- Fixed a major bug in Avatar mode, causing the avatar to keep his stats when not being avatar anymore


--- Balances ---

Spells:
- Fire Spray fire ball interval has changed from 0.06 seconds to 0.08
- Fire Spray cluster mode knockback reduced to 65% instead of 70%
- Drain upgrade cost reduced by 1
- Drain intelligent auto aim (temporarily) removed (due to a bug)
- Drain velocity and collision size adjusted
- Drain duration increased from 3.0+0.5*upgrades to 3.6+0.6*upgrades
- Drain movement speed reduction decreased from 100 to 80
- Wind Walk damage decreased from 7+upgrades to 6+0.8*upgrades
- Wind Walk cooldown tweaked
- Gravity projectile pull reduced by 25%

Misc:
- Avatar now deals 150% damage instead of 200%.


--- Misc ---

- Optimized spell system
- Optimized some spells
- Optimized damage function
- Optimized sound system
- Life steal and rush only work on actual damage and no longer by respectively shooting immortal or being immortal (either from shop time or spawn)
- Bot communication temporarily disabled due to errors

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Warlock 088b has been released

Warlock 088b changelog

--- New ----

- New setup command: -rs1 (removes one random spell from each spell column for all players)
- Conditions for -tmedit removed
- Titles


--- Fixes ---

- Fixed a major exploit gold exploit involving Stone of Jordan Ring (reported by reteip123)
- Fixed an exploit allowing players to purchase both displacement and teleport (reported by T1nn3r)
- Fixed a bug causing games which have been tmedit'ed never to end


--- Balances ---

Spells:
- Teleport cooldown reduction from level 8 to 9 is now 0.5 instead of 1.
- Thrust cooldown reduction from level 8 to 9 is now 0.5 instead of 1.
- Thrust damage increase reduced to 0.6 per upgrade
- Thrust-Wind Walk combo deals 60% of the knockback from the sum of Wind Walk and Thrust, instead of just ignoring the knockback caused by Wind Walk.
- Freeze upgrade cost reduced by 2 gold at all levels
- Time Shift duration increased from 3.5 to 3.6

Items:
- Mask of Death now decreases movement speed by 22 instead of 20
- Mask of Death now increases knockback taken by 6%
- Cape now decreases movement speed by 8, 12 or 16 depending on item level
- Helm now decreases movement speed by 5, 10, 15 depending on item level


--- Misc ---

- Thrust-Wind Walk combo now counts as 'one hit'. It will display one damage number instead of two. Same for its AoE.
- Added the base of a new feature, which will allow new spells

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Warlock 088 has been released

Warlock 088 changelog

Changelog

--- New ----
- Ice terrain.
*** Ice has 50% to spawn in the standard arena
*** Ice does not shrink as the platform
*** Ice can be made in the CTE (Custom Terrain Editor). See download section.
*** Ice can be disabled by "-iceoff" or "-league B" on startup
- Scoreboard in end of the rounds ( points / kills / deaths / assists / total damage done / fireball accuracy )
- New pillars: Green Pillars. Suggested by Deathsin (slightly modification)
- Remade Splitter (target mode)
- Remade the Stone of Jordan Ring
- Added rare easter egg

--- Fixes ---
- Fixed a potential timer bug
- Fixed a bug causing Ghost and Avatar mode not to end
- Fixed a bug causing the command "-tmedit" to set FFA spawn when a wrong code team edit code is written.
- Avatar / Ghost will no longer spawn at same location as Warlocks
- Fixed various tooltips

--- Balances ---
:::Rebalanced items:::

Freeze:
- Cooldown decreases by 1 per level instead of 0.8
Boomerang:
- Cooldown decreases by 0.7 per level instead of 0.5. Exception on first levels is now 2.1-1.4 instead of 1.5-1
Gravity:
- Decreased maximum level by 1
Homing:
- Missile duration increases by 0.5 instead of 1.0
Lightning:
- Collision size reduced from 56 to 50
Meteor:
- Basic AoE decreased from 210 to 200
Time Shift:
- Damage point reduction now starts at 70% instead of 90%

Avatar mode:
- Avatar hit points is now based on number of players (adds 100 + 50 * number of players in HP to Avatar).

--- Miscallenous ---
- Optimized triggers related to the 'casting spells' event
- The UI race "Warlock" display bug has been reduced only to affect one race

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