Warlock 096 has been released
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Warlock 096 Changelog
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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.
