Warlock 098 has been released

Warlock 098 Changelog
Download Warlocks: http://www.epicwar.com/maps/179725/

New:
- New spell: Silence (entangle toggle). Entangle has been renamed to "Disable" with toggles "Entangle" and "Silence".
- Removed toggle: Rush (Strafe)
- Added toggle: Thrust (Phoenix)
- Added a new combo (involving Rush and Phoenix)
- Remade Staff of Fireball
- Remade Aegis
- Added new "random spell" commands (in addition to -rs1):
"-rs1" = all players lose one random spell from each column
"-rs2" = all players lose two random spell from each column
"-rs3" = all players lose the same random spell from each column
"-rs4" = all players lose the same two random spells from each column
You can apply random spell commands multiple times, but then risk ending up with columns having no spells.
- Initial gold cost increased to 20 gold
- Masteries now provides 2.5% knockback reduction per level

Fixes:
- Fixed a fatal bug involving the use of the '-teams#' command (it allowed to type commands during game, caused multiple Warlocks to spawn for each player, caused lag, etc.)
- Fixed several outdated tooltips
- Fixed two major bugs regarding the setup constants
- Fixed several effect bugs
- Fixed a bug allowing lightning to pierce shield
- Fixed a bug causing shield to upgradable to level 9 (where shield, as all other C spells are only supposed to be upgradable to level 8)
- Fixed the APM system (write -apm to see your actions per minute of all players - only enabled in round mode at the moment)
... and much more

Balances:
- Bouncer mechanics remade (it now targets closest target regardless of team)
- Initial cost of all R spells increased by 3
- Drain (slow) movement speed reduction increased from 60 to 70
- Time Shift initial gold cost decreased from 15 to 14
- Avatar curse/buff duration changed in favor for the Avatar by 20% (this includes all time based spells, including the new silence spell).
- Avatar HP decreased for low number of players
- Avatar knockback resistance now depends on number of players (12 players will make him take 8 times less knockback)
- Rush gold cost increased by 1
- Swap range increased by 100
- Swap upgrade cost decreased by 1
- Swap (relocate) cooldown decreased by 1.
- Lava treads duration decreased by 2 seconds and hp buff decreased slightly
- Fire Spray (stream) no longer relies on randomness.
- Removed knockback increase from Mask of Death (now matching the tooltip)
- Slightly increased thrust cooldown at higher levels
- Fireball-lightning combo can now be performed using friendly fireballs
- Pocket Watch duration buff slightly increased
- Link (hook) cooldown slightly changed (cooldown at level 1 increased by 1, but decreases faster when upgrading).
... and much much more

Misc:
- Removed the "-tmedit#" command. The "teams#" command can now be used in both setup and in-game.
Thanks to antichristofer at http://antichristofer.deviantart.com/ for loading screen.
Thanks to Moonmage for finalizing loading screen.

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Warlock 097 has been released

Warlock 097 Changelog
Download Warlocks: http://www.epicwar.com/maps/165775/

New:
- A setup system, which will allow multiple commands using just one string: Example:
"-gold 30,dm,sh,C 5 20,10"
This will set gold to 30, mode to dm, teams to shuffle, constant 5 to 20, and number of rounds to 10 and thus starting the game.

- Improved shuffle command. "-sh min" or "-sh max" will start a shuffle mechanism which will either attempt making the smallest teams or the biggest teams possible. 'Random shuffle' is still available by simply writing "-sh".

- Added text to indicate self damage (from Scourge-alike spells). Blue numbers are for 'sacrificial damage' (doesn't add knockback damage)
- Added "-n" command to clear all text

Fixes:
- Splitter (target) issues and exploits have been fixed by changing the mechanics of the spell
- Link (induction) issues have been fixed by changing mechanics of the spell
- Fixed several major bugs in the timer system, causing timed spells to attach to wrong objects. This bug resulted in infinite buff and curse durations occuring occasionally.
- Fixed a point system bug in round mode
- Pillar bug: "Large Warlock Collider"
- Pillar stuck bug
- A bug causing Thrust to get a speed boost when used near pillars

Balances:
- Splitter (target) mechanics remade
- Splitter (area) rebalanced
- Link (induction) mechanics remade
- Strafe (rush toggle) cooldown decreased by 5 for all levels
- Lightning cooldown increased by 0.5 seconds for level 1. Knockback slightly increased.
- Homing range no longer increases per upgrade. Duration increased by 0.5.
- Boomerang range no longer increases per upgrade
- Range mastery now increases range of all D spells by 15% per level
- Range mastery initial cost reduced by 2 gold
- Life steal mastery initial cost reduced by 1 gold
- All mastery level increment costs reduced by 1 gold
- Thrust-WindWalk combo knockback reduced from 100% to 75%
- Thrust no longer bounces away when colliding with pillars
- Several items have been tweaked (including Lava Treads, Aegis and Cape)

Misc:
- Added team-colored boomerang (thanks to Elven_Immortal)
- New loading screen edited by Moonmage

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Warlock 096 has been released

Warlock 096 Changelog
Download Warlocks: http://www.epicwar.com/maps/157101/

New:
- Added a spell penalty system which will reduce knockback of your primary spell (lightning, homing, boomerang) depending on how many spells you have purchased. Masteries will reduce this effect. Type '-stats' to see the penalty.
- Burning effect when walking on lava
- Replaced magical binding with entangle (missile speed increased, slightly lower duration, bigger AoE and has a new effect)
- Exploding pillars now deals knockback damage (increases damage points), but has less AoE
- Added toggle for rush: "Strafe"
- Added toggle for bouncer: "Recharge"
- Reworked the mechanics of splitter (target)

Fixes:
- Fixed the magical binding knockback bug
- "-League"/"-League" B now also rewards points on round win (this fixes the point reward system in king mode).
- dm is now compatible with custom terrain
- Fixed a 'divide by zero' bug involving lightning and splitter, causing splitter missiles to get stuck
- Fixed a link floater caused by someone leaving they game while being attached to link
- Thrust AoE now has the intended damage
... and many more.

Balances:
- Lava Treads lava damage reduction removed, cooldown decreased from 40 to 30, duration decreased from 5/7/9 to 5/6/7.
- Cape lava damage reduction removed, gold cost reduced from 10 to 8, ms penalty reduced from 8/12/16 to 8/10/12.
- Lightning damage reduced by 1
- Homing duration increased by ~50%, but no longer increases duration by upgrading homing (range mastery will still increase its duration)
- Swap (Displacement) range no longer increases with upgrades. The projectile no longer hits missiles. Scourge cannot be cast during the displacement.
- Swap (Relocate) projectile speed significantly decreased. Relocate now hits missiles. Cooldown decreased significantly.
- Fire Spray (cluster) damage reduced by 0.2
- Thrust damage increase per upgrade decreased from 0.6 to 0.3. Thrust knockback increased ~20%.
- Splitter (Area) cooldown reduced at higher levels

Misc:
- Pillar respawn removed (will still respawn each round)
- Entangle now has a visual AoE effect if AoE mastery is purchased
- Lightning now has a slightly increased visual range when not hitting, in order to remove/decrease the visual 'stretching effect'. It has no gameplay impact.
- Removed "Lava damage increase"
- Splitter (AoE) no longer has a random rotation offset. The initial direction of mini-projectiles will be along the direction of the main projectile.
- Optimization and softcoding on mid-often used triggers (including damage system)
- Command "-tmedit" (used to change teams during games) no longer requires slot number to set teams. Writing -tmedit00111 will now set the first* two players on 'team 0' (red) and the next 3 players on 'team 1' (blue). First meaning those found on top of the list (e.g. red and teal, assuming blue has left the game).

A note: More changes were planned for 096, but was released 'early' due to holidays.

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Warlock 095 has been released

Warlock 095 Changelog
Download Warlocks: http://www.epicwar.com/maps/139289/

New:
- Added link toggle (Induction)
- Added a command to hide time shift 'shadow' from maphackers (-tshide)
- Added a command to set gold rewards to 0 (for those who are too lazy to set constants)
- Added shadow to pillar shards

Fixes:
- Fixed the team shuffle command. -teamshuffle can now only be used by host
- Fixed the boomerang exploit, allowing players to make 'static' boomerangs that do not disappear.
- Fixed a bug causing certain players to gain permanent knockback reduction
- Fixed a bug involving damage reduction and Drain (Weakness)
- Fixed a major bug causing Drain (Weakness) to destroy "link" objects, followed by many bugs including the "link floater".
- Fixed a major bug causing reflected link missiles to change owner and float around under certain conditions.
- Fixed several minor typos in spell descriptions

Balances:
- Drain (slow) cooldown decreased for upgrades
- Drain (weaken) speed increased from 750 to 900
- Drain upgrade cost reduced by 1 gold
- Bouncer damage decreases 20% faster on each hit, and will now consistently reach the minimum damage 1.4 instead of some slightly higher value depending on spell level
- Shield duration decreased by 0.1 seconds overall
- Most item prices have been slightly reduced, and some of the items slightly modified.

Misc:
- Optimized/remade the toggle system

P.S. What do you think about a possible Warlock port to Starcraft 2?

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Warlock 094 has been released

Warlock Changelog 094 Changelog
Download map at Epicwar: http://www.epicwar.com/maps/135859/

New:
- New loading screen by J4CK
- Pillars can be destroyed, shattering into shards
- Added a new constant: Assist point reward (no longer depending on Kill point reward)
- Added two different constant lists (1st list: gameplay constants, 2nd list: reward constants)
- Assists now grant 2 points instead of 1 (kill steal is 1 and pure kill is 3)
- "-donut" terrain shape (in addition to "-circle" and "-square")
- A new item: Pocket Watch
- The "king" in -king mode now heals and gives speed buff to teammates with his special Scourge (Pious).
- King mode can now be played with custom teams.
- Added a 'release button' for link.
- Replaced ensnare with 'magical binding'
- Removed item requirements
- Re-introduced 'pillar knockback' by popular demand
- Improved tooltip on AoE mastery
- Computer difficulty on the host slot determines different game modes for autohost games:
* Easy: Round: Shuffle mode
* Normal: Round: League B (FFA)
* Hard: Deathmatch: FFA

Fixes:
- Stone Ring of Jordan fireball issue
- Homing self-target exploit
- Tooltip on fireball with Staff of Fireball
- Tooltip on bouncer 6 (not capitalized)
- Tooltip on firespray (knockback %)
- Time Shift thrusters can now strike twice with one thrust
- HP regeneration is now active while standing on ice
- Glitchy "rally point" on merchant (items) at the empty slot
- Fixed one of the causes of the 'floating link' bug
- Fixed a bug involving damage reduction and drain life steal

Balances:
- Rush buffed (more speed per damage and slightly more initial speed)
- Homing rebalanced and mechanics changed
- Gravity (Dark Matter) range increased from 800 to 900
- Meteor (Magma) damage slightly decreased
- Splitter cooldown decreased for upgrades
- Splitter upgraded cost decreased by 1 gold
- Splitter (target) child missile range increased while also changing the velocity mechanics slightly
- Wind Walk (invisibility) duration increased from 4.0 + 0.5 x upgrades to 4.4 + 0.7 x upgrades

Miscallenous / general
- Square terrain size has been reduced by 1
- In king mode when king dies, the team of the dead king now gains a hp degeneration instead of a text damage spam. The hp degeneration will not kill, but reduce hitpoints to 1
- Replaced the 0 pillar option with a 'single random pillar'. The 0 pillars option is still available by setting pillar constant to 1, but it will not occur with standard settings
- Added '-mgl' command by demand (starts a 5vs5 game, 10 rounds)

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Warlock 093 has been released

Here's a new Warlock map version!
Bloodline Champions - the Warlock standalone is now in beta!
Go check it out!

Warlock Changelog 093

--- New ----

- Added 3 new pillar settings (total 9 available)
- Remade special terrain to native terrain types
- Remade mechanics of splitter (target mode)
- Remade rush
- Updated the command list in info
- Lava Treads now displays an integer on the boots icon when they are ready
- Added new spell: Gravity toggle "Force Field"
- Added a new cooldown UI. It is now much easier to see when spells are on cooldown or not.
- Walls added to the CTE as 'experimental' (not compatible with all spells yet).
- Visual effect of homing explosion size on self collision now matches the level of AoE mastery.

--- Fixes ---

- Fixed a fatal bug causing deathmatch mode terrain to become lava (no platform)
- Fixed a potentially fatal bug causing the terrain system to pick an unlisted terrain type.
- Fixed a major exploit allowing players to deal unlimited fireball damage
- Fixed a major bug causing players to gain 2 kills per kill in most game modes
- Fixed tooltips on Lava Treads, Staff of Fireball, Weaken, toggle buttons, Fire Spray, Time Shift, Rush
- Fixed a major bug causing avatar to keep his hitpoint buff if 12 players are playing.
- Fixed a bug causing Lava Treads not to be re-purchasable (or causing players not to be able to purchase certain items after selling Lava Treads).
- Fixed a bug causing Avatar to get 10 seconds lava resistance when using Lava Treads regardless of their level
- Fixed a bug causing Staff of Fireball not to get benefit from range mastery

--- Balances ---

Spells:
- Wind Walk (Invisibility) now has a speed boost (half the speed boost of Wind Walk (Charge)).
- Lightning-fireball combo has been nerfed to 2/3 of the damage. The knockback is unchanged.
- Homing 'instant AoE damage' has been removed
- Homing AoE on self collision has been slightly improved

Items:
- Lava Treads rebalanced

--- Miscellaneous ---

- Reverted many icons. This is an attempt to remove all .blp JPEG palettes to make Warlock compatible with Mac. (The Mac compability project is not finished. We need some Mac user testers)
- Re-scaled the 'force' scale used on gravity. It has no gameplay impact.

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Warlock 092 has been released

Download Warlock 092 here: (epicwar)

Changelog

--- New ----

- New mode: -last man standing (-lm)
- New mode: -king (-kg)
- New Loading Screen (by Dorrogeray)
- New item: Lava Treads
- Remade item: Staff of Fireball
- Wind Walk toggle added: Invisibility
- Warlock model made more Warlock-ish and less elvish
- Many new custom icons added
- Cooldown UI changed


--- Fixes ---

- Fixed a major exploit involving Aegis
- Fixed a major balance issue regarding bouncer
- Fixed a major exploit allowing players to cast missile spells where the missile will be 'stuck' (thanks to wolfrunner). Spells cast on same position will now result in casting it the direction that you are facing.
- Fixed some tooltips
- Fixed a bug causing Drain duration to be half as intended
- Fixed an old bug causing shield not to be cast-able shortly after round start, if it was used shortly before round start.
- Avatar Thrust and Time Shift shades now matches Avatar size


--- Balances ---

Spells:
- Shield duration decreased slightly
- Shield upgrade cost reduced by 1
- Time Shift no longer removes friendly buffs
- Ensnare cooldown at first levels increased
- Link rebalanced
- Link can be denied by a scourger whenever the link caster is on lava. Time Shift linkers aren't denied unless the Time Shift linker is on lava.
- Gravity damage rebalanced
- Bouncer collision size increased from 33 to 38
- Bouncer gold cost reduced from 16 to 15
- Fire Spray (cluster) damage decreased by 0.2
- Fire Spray (stream) cooldown decreased by 2
- Splitter (area) can be cast on self, resulting in a static missile which lasts 10% longer than if it was moving
- Wind Walk rebalanced
- Meteor (Meteorite) AoE is not square root dependent on AoE mastery. The AoE remains similar on average


--- Miscellaneous ---

- Optimized timer systems
- Buffs (e.g. rush) and curses (e.g. slow) are now separated, which means that Time Shift will no longer affect 'friendly buffs'
- Splitter (Area) projectile, now decreases size each time it releases lesser missiles. In other words, its size depends on how many small missiles it is yet to make
- Meteor (Meteorite) effect now matches its area of effect in size
- Shield optimized
- Rush optimized
- Wind Walk optimized
- Thrust optimized
- Thrust animation now displays the player color slightly.
- Ensnare model changed
- Slightly improved multiboard interface
- Avatar HP rebalanced: Bonus HP = 75 x (number of enemy - 1)
- Standard zoom increased from 0 to 300.
- Removed the native collision for good. If a warlock walks against another warlock, it will not try to skip any corners - The warlocks will move against each other until one of them moves


--- Notes ---

- Map size increased quite a lot since the loading screen now uses TGA (no more BLP compression).
- The new icons are not final. We do not need critics on the icons, instead we need replacement suggestions.
- The new Last Man Standing mode may have a fatal bug causing players not to respawn (most likely caused by leavers). The reason for this is unknown, and we didn't manage to fix it before the release.

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Warlock 091 has been released

Warlock 091 has been released
Changelog


--- New ----

- If red slot is 'computer', then the game will automatically start with public friendly settings (round, shuffle). This may be used with automatized hostbots.
- Added new constant (-C 16 ###). Warlock life regeneration (command is not visible in the setup).
- Added more specific values to "-stats" command.
- Replaced Freeze with Ensnare (for now...)
- Bouncer bounces to the caster if there are no other enemies in the arena (Bouncer is compatible in 1vs1 games)
- Shop Time Duration constant now applies on Deathmatch periodic event. -C 5 30 means 180 seconds periodic event (6*30 = 180)


--- Fixes ---

- Fixed a major exploit involving splitter
- Fixed two major exploits involving drain
- Fixed a lesser exploit involving magma
- Fixed constants '-C 10' and '-C 14'
- Fixed a bug causing TS (max level) not to reset damage points
- Fixed a bug causing link effect to stay
- Fixed a bug causing multiboard at endgame to display values for players whose slot status is empty
- Fixed a bug causing messages starting with "-t" to initiate custom terrain at startup. Only messages starting with "-T" will initiate custom terrain at startup


--- Balances ---

Spells:
- Magma: Overall damage reduced
- Magma: Deals more 'knockback', making it slightly easier to escape
- Magma: Grow size when hitting projectiles increased from square factor 800 to 1000
- Thrust upgrade cost reduced by 1
- Drain: Rebalanced - duration nerf for Weaken. Duration increase for Slow, but less effective slow.
- Swap: Rebalanced - has less range, but same cooldown as teleport. Cooldown of Relocate is higher in start, but decreases greatly on higher levels.

Items:
- Pendant 3 now grants 0.10 life regeneration per second
- Mask of Death now grants -0.3 life regeneration and -10 movement speed penalty instead of -22 movement speed penalty.
- Aegis now grants 20% to 30% damage reduction instead of 10% to 20%, but also grants life penalty on -20 to -30 maximum life.

Misc:
- Default lava damage decreased to 9 dps instead of 10
- Avatar gains additional HP regeneration
- Avatar maximum HP decreased by 40


--- Miscellaneous ---

- Added scripted life regeneration system
- Warlocks don't regain hitpoints in lava
- Removed Homing ally collision
- "Denied" sound and text is local to the link caster and the target
- Avatar selection system is no longer probability based

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Warlock 090 has been released

Warlock 090 Changelog

Warlock Arena on Warcraft

--- New ----

- CTE is working again
- Shuffle mode now works for deathmatch
** Teams will shuffle every periodic action (3 minutes, see the UI clock)
** Players in team are rewarded 1 point if the team kills another player
** The killer is rewarded one additional point
** The assister will get one point
** The victim will lose one point
** Gold system works like normal deathmatch
- Added spell toggle for meteor: Magma
- Added spell toggle for swap: Relocate
- Added homing feature: Homing can hit the caster (and allies) resulting in a temporary speed boost and an AoE explosion with 120% knockback (the only knockback rate above 100% in Warlock)
- Deathmatch now has 12 seconds shop time at start
- Invulnerable players (right after spawn) now deals half damage
- Commands "-cam ###" and "-cam###" are now both supported
- Constant added to change initial shop time (the value is halved for deathmatch mode)
- Killing spree and double kill sounds no longer cancels one another. The killing spree sound will be delayed slightly for the situations where both sounds should be played.


--- Fixes ---

- Fixed a bug in shuffle mode causing the randomized teams not to be completely random. Players next to each other (player number) tended to be on the same team.
- Fixed a potential bug involving Fire Spray toggle and Deathmatch
- Fixed a common bug causing first blood or killing spree sound not to be played if the killer is on a spree. Killing sprees now have higher priority than first blood.
- Fixed a bug causing "ending [player]'s [spree]" to be missing
- Removed a "wincount" debug message
- Fixed the pillar hide exploit also known as Large Warlock Collider (LWC), which could generate extreme velocities for a warlock hiding in multiple pillars.
- TimeShift now removes slow.
- Meteor (meteorite mode) is no longer affected by gravity.
- Fixed a bug causing UI text to disappear when draw mode is initiated.
- Fixed a bug causing "fireball accuracy" to count during shop time.
- Fixed a bug causing multiboard to display incorrect point values in Avatar mode.
- Fixed a bug causing splitter missiles to deal damage to pillars.
- Fixed a text bug when a player is on killing spree above "holy s***"
- The '-untitle' command now affects the multiboard


--- Balances ---

Spells:
- Splitter target mode now deals a small AoE damage if it lands near an enemy, but doesn't release any projectiles
- Gravity damage reduced from 0.4+0.2*upgrades to 0.3+0.1*upgrades
- Gravity no longer requires AoE mastery
- Gravity gold upgrade cost now increases with 1 gold instead of 2
- Gravity force reduced by 10
- Time Shift doesn't shift damage or hitpoints without reason. If you won't lose any life during time shift, you will keep what you regenerated or stole. Same for damage points.
- Homing mechanics slightly changed

Items:
- Blood Sword cost reduced from 16 to 14
- Aegis cost reduced from 17 to 16
- Staff of Fireball cost reduced from 15 to 13
- Staff of Fireball impact reduces fireball cooldown from 4.8 to 3.0 instead of from 4.8 to 3.2

Misc:
- Avatar hitpoints increased 10 per player (from 50 to 60)


--- Misc ---

- Changed some models
- Optimized the shuffle function
- Optimized some system functions

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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

Loading screen and preview screen by Hichigo
Heroes of Newerth is creating an alternative Warcraft like universe.
Warlocks could be ported to the HON engine in the future.

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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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Warlock Brawl 087b has been released

When will this be released?
What needs to be done:
- High resolution custom terrain editor
- Final balances, in particular lightning and splitter
- Map preview change
- Make balanced constants for 1vs1 in "-League B"
- Map protection improvements
- Make a command to set which spells will be allowed (may be postponed)


Changelog - Warlock 087b - This changelog is not complete

New
- New pillar: "Tree theme"
- New item: "Blood Sword"
- New item: "Aegis"
- Remade mode: "-ghost"
- New mode: "-avatar"
- New powerful spells: "Cataclysm" and "Torrent" only available in the new modes while playing as Ghost or Avatar.
- New settings option: "-healme" (this is a test thing so far)

Balances
- Splitter target mode damage reduced from 2.3 to 2.0
- Splitter target mode knockback reduced from 70% to 55%
- Splitter target mode cooldown reduced by 3 seconds
- Splitter target mode child missile range reduced by 20%
- Teleport cooldown rebalanced
- Thrust cooldown rebalanced
- Displacement cooldown rebalanced
- Rush rebalanced
- Meteor knockback reduced from 100% to 80%
- Fireball collision size increased from 23 to 25
- Time Shift cooldown rebalanced
- Link cooldown reduced by 1 second
- Meteor basic AoE has been increased by 10
- Bouncer upgrade cost reduced by 1 gold
- Bouncer collision size increased from 20 to 23
- Drain cost increased by 1 gold
- Lightning collision size reduced from 64 to 56
- Cluster collision size increased from 22 to 23
- Firespray collision size increased from 20 to 22
- Firespray cooldown now decreases by 1 second for each upgrade instead of 0.5
- Cape knockback reduction removed

Fixes
- Wind Walk level 7 now increases movement speed
- Immortal targets (right after spawn) no longer displays 'yellow text tags' when taking damage
- Immortal targets can no longer be pulled by link and gravity
- Freeze 7 (available with Stone of Jordan) no longer has 0 casting range
- Life steal no longer works on pillars
- Wind Walk no longer deals AoE damage to the main target. This solves the known 'extreme knockback issue' of Wind Walk.
- Arisen in -ghost mode can no longer hurt the hidden
- Boomerang can no longer be cast at close range, resulting in a major 'boomerang flyback'
- Cape no longer has twice as much hp regeneration as it was supposed to

Miscellaneous
- Meteor now has shadow
- Meteor size is depending on the level of metoer and AoE mastery
- Some triggers are optimized

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Warlock Brawl 087 has been released

Warlock 087 changelog

New Stuff
- New item: The Stone of Jordan Ring
[There will not be much new, but we are currently trying to work something out]

Balances:
- Boomerang: Reduced cooldown for the spell on the first upgrades.
- Drain: No longer increases speed after changing direction. Collision size reduced.
- Fireball: Collision size increased (from 20 to 22).
- Lightning+fireball: Reduced the AoE range of the explosion
- Life steal mastery: Life steal increased from 6/3% to 8/4% per upgrade.
- Mask of Death: Life steal increased from 24/12% to 32/16%
[More to be added - feel free to suggest]

Fixes:
- Splitter no longer has a 0 second cooldown
- Displacement no longer interrupt the target's spells
- Helm 3 now displays the correct hp bonus and knockback reduction
- Bouncer now has correct tooltips
- Life steal mastery upgrade now has correct tooltips
- Staff of Fireball no longer keeps the fireball damage when it is sold
[More to be added - there are a lot of technical issues, which we are currently working on]

Miscellaneous:
- To set constants, you can now write -c instead of -C
- Drain will reduce additional damage points when the caster has full hitpoints.
[More to be added]

Notes to the bug finders:
- If you take damage while rush, the attacker will still gain 'damage dealt' on the score points. This is intended, thus you can still kill players who are under the effect of rush.
- If you move at a great velocity toward a pillar, you will be knocked back - just as in real life.


Feel free to suggest balances and report bugs which are not stated in the log already
... none of the technical bugs are listed yet, since their cause is still somewhat unknown

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Warlock Brawl 086 has been released

Warlock 086 changelog for Garena maps is out

New
- New mode (for fun mode): -hidden*
- New mode (for fun mode): -vampire**
- Oath remade (now active)
- Drain remade (now more competetive)
More to be added...

Balances
- Time shift: rebalanced, duration is now constant
- Freeze: frozen warlocks only take 0.8 times the damage
More to be added...


*-hidden:
One player is hidden (permanently invisible who has the new unique Cataclysm spell instead of Scourge)
All other players need to kill the hidden
If you kill hidden and have dealt enough damage, you will become the hidden
Friendly fire is on. Dealing damage to friendly will result in a reduced change of being hidden.
Points are gained by killing the hidden and killing other players while you are hidden.
Teamkills count as the hidden's kills.
The person with most points win.

**-vampire
Same as -hidden with following exceptions:
Warlocks who are killed by the hidden will arise to fight for the hidden

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Warlock Brawl 085 has been released

The latest Warlocks map has been released

Bug fixes:
Fixed a major item exploit involving light helm
Fixed a bug causing first clarity potion to fail
Fixed a bug causing text messages to appear twice in startup
Fixed a major exploit/fatal which caused host to be able to use startup commands after startup.
[more to be added]

Balances:
Scourge: Lower knockback at distant targets (100%-75% knockback depending on distance)
Oath: No longer deals damage
Thrust: Slightly reduced range on upgrades
Thrust: Removed life steal requirements
Thrust: Maximum upgrades increased by 1
Teleport: Slightly reduced range
Teleport: Maximum upgrades increased by 1
Fire Spray: Reduced number of fireballs by 1 (from 7 to 6 at level 1 even though it stated 6 in 084)
Fire Spray: Cooldown now decreases with upgrades
Time shift: Gold cost for learning is now 15 instead of 16
Link: Damage increases by 0.1 for each upgrade
Link: Maximum upgrades increased by 1
Gravity: Slightly reduced damage AoE
Clarity potion: Now gives 1 gold refund in case it fails.
[more to be added]

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Warlock Brawl 084 has been released

Warlock Brawl 084 has been released

Changelog:
New stuff
- Custom terrain
- Bouncer removed
- Fire Spray added
- Special happening sounds are now also displayed by floating text messages
- Damage display size now depends on damage
- Gravity now displays damage
- Boomerang model changed
- A total of 16777216 fireball colors are now available. Command is: -fbc RRR GGG BBB

Bug fixes:
- Minor bug causing teleport 'Last Second Save' sound to trigger incorrectly
- Fixed a lag bug caused by gravity
*** A few more bugs / flaws yet to be fixed ***

Balances:
- Gravity AoE slightly reduced
- Cluster buffed by 0.5 damage and requires less range upgrades at early levels
- Time shift duration nerfed
- Oath cost increased at higher levels
*** Many balances are yet to be made/listed/tested ***

Miscellaneous:
- 'Last second save' is now local, and can't be seen or heard by enemy warlocks
- Map protection increased
More to be added

Notes
- If you want to make your own Warlock map, you should read the "Custom arena" topic in general chat(here)

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Warlock 083 released

Changelog

New:
- New mode: Deathmatch (currently a prototype)
- New defensive ability: Time Shift
- New item: Boots of Endurance
- New item: Cloak of the cursed
- New splitter module: Splitter has two modes (normal area mode and new target mode)
- Oath has been remade
- New player command: -Splitter toggles the mode of splitter (Area or target mode)
- New player command: -oath ## changes the sensitivity of Oath (it will only trigger if damage is above ##)
- New terrain (green)
- Multiboard now change text transparency of death Warlocks
- New sub-mode: League mode (pre-set constants)
- New game interface: Undead console. Unused icons removed/blackened
- New loading screen (by Shang)

Fixes:
- Oath now correctly cancels link
- Oath activates even if the hit would have been fatal
- Link effect issue

Balances:
miscellaneous
- Lava damage increase has been decreased from 0.5/round to 0.3/round
- Frozen warlocks only take 1/4 lava damage
- Items rebalanced

spells
- Gravity has been completely rebalanced
- Splitter now has cooldown reduction per level
- Splitter now has a secondary mode (useful against 1 target in particular)
- Oath now returns damage
- Oath cooldown is based on avoided damage
- Oath takes no damage points when blocking
- Freeze now has cooldown reduction per level
- Freeze upgrade cost rebalanced
- Boomerang cooldown increased by 1 at all levels
- Homing target mechanism changed and now targets closest to spell cast point
- Thrust now costs 10 gold
- Teleport now costs 9 gold


Gameplay notes:
-Deathmatch
- Team mode and FFA is available in Deathmatch
- Deathmatch winning conditition is based on points (cap is defined by host)
- Points - Assist: 1 - Killsteal: 1 - Pure kill: 2 - Death: -1
- Players revive after 10 seconds and are invulnerable for 5 seconds after respawn
- There might be many constants in deathmatch, which can't be changed (prototype)
- Knockback and lava damage modifiers (items) will only take effect when you respawn

-C league
- Preset constants. Almost all constants are set as default with following exceptions:
- Lava arena shrink per player is set to 13
- Rounds are set to 12
- Terrain (-C 12) is not pre-set and can be modified before writing -C league

Time Shift and teleport?
- The perfect suicide combo, but can be 'denied' if target uses scourge. Note that scourge will only cancel link if the link caster uses time shift.



Notes:
- There might be changes, which are not listed
- There may be balance issues in 083
- Warlock 082b is the first stable Warlock version
- Deathmatch is only a prototype

DOWNLOAD WARLOCK 083 Here!

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