[Dawn of War 2] Killteam v1.72 - Last version update in post #344

[OneProduct]

To upgrade wargear you click on it, then garrison the drop pod for 3 seconds. You should see "upgrade complete" on the left side of the screen, then you can ungarrison. I did this because changing weapons in the field was a bit silly in my old hero defense mod and it was kind of neat to think that there were extra weapons stored in the drop pod. However I might change this in the future to reduce confusion since this mechanic is only mentioned in the read me file for the download and not in game anywhere. I'll probably make it cost power, allow it to be changed on the field and grant players 1 power after every few waves.

@Sporty
Apparently the dreadnought uses his fist ability with the right hand if he has double claws and with the left if he has a gun, interesting. Will be a default ability then. Chaos dread autocannon doesn't render properly so I won't be using that, it overlaps with the assault cannon too much anyways. The missile launcher's animations are a bit iffy but it's not too bad.

[sporty]

Healing and armour are quite tricky. In my opinion, outside heals should have an effect, if all else fails the Dreadnought should function like other heroes in this regard.

There might be more elegant solutions though. A different armour type could add a nice twist to chaff waves, since AV units could be higher priority targets for this hero... currently, they're not so dangerous when you're not a turret
Dreadnoughts still have an organic component, but since they're mainly machines, it would be flavourful if some restrictions apply to healing. Maybe outside heals couldn't restore the hitpoints completely, only up to a certain level? Might be possible to reduce their effectiveness with a modifier, to compensate for the superiour armour?
No idea whether those can be implemented or not, last suggestion for now would be to use the unit's energy as "hull integrity" or something, with a function similar to current "bubbles". Depending on the energy level, some damage taxes the HP pool, which can be healed as usual. Limits the balancing control over abilities of course, they'd need to be free and only be restricted by their cooldown timer.

I'd prefer if a Dreadnought hero would break the existing mold a little, but ultimately it's your decision whether that's worth the additional time getting the balance right.

[DestroyerX5]

could it be possible for u to make us toggle between using kill moves and not? because it would be so damn awesome if we could choose to do that, and can u maybe lower the cooldown for split the earth for fc because all of his offense abilities have long cooldowns oh and like the guy above said i think it would be cool if there was a venerable dread hero(just some muscle for sm)

and i hope your gonna make a GUO,avatar and maybe carnifex boss after the librarian (although when he splits 5 and everybody gets to fight 1 of him is hell lot of fun)

[FingeredGroges]

Your link is broken by the way, any chance of a new link? I can get onto filefront but it then won't let me download.

[OneProduct]

Fixed the link in the first post. FileFront links die after awhile, I'll have to find a more permanent place to put them in the future but it should hold out till next patch.

[OneProduct]

Venerable Dreadnought hero is done, but decided not to give him the chaos dreadnought's missile launcher due to lack of animations. Here are his UCS lines if anybody is curious:

Spoiler

00 Venerable Dreadnought
01 HP: 1500 | HP-R: 0 | EP: 200 | EP-R: 1.5 | SKL: 22 | M-Resist: 75% | R-Resist: 75% | KD-Resist: Ability
02 The Venerable Dreadnought's armor provides him excellent protection, but he cannot be healed by conventional means. The right arm can be switched for use in either melee or ranged combat. Stabilizers keep weapons accurate even on the move.

03 Double Power Fists
04 DPS: 70 Heavy | AoE: 210 Heavy | KD: Heavy | R-DPS: 25 Fire | AoE: 5
05 Comes with a heavy flamer that does 25 fire damage per second to enemies within 5 radius.

06 Assault Cannon
07 DPS: 80 Heavy Bolter | R: 38 | M-DPS: 40 Heavy
08

09 Multimelta
10 DPS: 50 Melta | R: 24 | M-DPS: 40 Heavy
11 Does 50% extra damage within 14 radius and 100% extra damage within 7 radius.

15 Fist of the Emperor
16 AoE: 10 | D: 7 | CD: 20 | DMG: 75 Melee | KD: Heavy | I-Stun: 7s
17 Deals 75 melee damage, heavy knockdown and stuns enemy infantry within 10 radius for 7 seconds.

18 Charge
19 R: 50 | CD: 20 | DPS: 150 Heavy | KD: Ability | I-Stun: 5s | AoE: 5
20 Charges to the target location dealing 37.5 heavy damage, ability knockdown and stunning enemy infantry for 5 seconds within 5 radius every 0.25 seconds.

21 Smoke Screen
22 R: 40 | D: 15 | CD: 30 | -SUP & +50% R-Dodge for Heroes | +100% SUP & -50% R-ACC for Enemies
23 Fires 3 smoke grenades in an arc around the target point. Heroes standing in smoke are immune to suppression and are 50% less likely to be hit by ranged attacks. Enemies standing in smoke suffer 100% increased suppression and -50% ranged accuracy.

24 Machine Spirit
25 D: 25 | CD: 75 | M-DMG: +50% | SPD: +25% | ARM: +25% | CD: 0% | Berserk
26 The Venerable Dreadnought's machine spirit activates, increasing melee damage by 50%, speed and armor by 25% and removing weapon cooldowns for 25 seconds. During this time the Venerable Dreadnought cannot be controlled and will attack the nearest enemy.

27 Rites of Repair
28 D: 15+ | CD: 45 | Disable | HP: +25/s
29 Disables the Venerable Dreadnought and repairs 25 damage per second as long as the Venerable Dreadnought is not being attacked. Lasts a minimum of 15 seconds but can be maintained indefinitely.

30 The Last Stand
31 D: 12 | CD: 96 | +15% HP | Min HP: 15%
32 Heroes are healed for 15% health and cannot have their health reduced below 15% for 12 seconds.

33 Sweeping Barrage
34 R: 20-50 | CD: 30 | DMG: 300 Bolter
35 Fires 40 bolts in a 55 degree arc from right to left then another 40 bolts from left to right.

36 Rigorous Stroke
37 D: 8 | CD: 30 | DMG: 140 Heavy | V-Disable: 8s
38 Target vehicle takes 140 heavy damage and is disabled for 8 seconds.

42 Meltastream
43 R: 28 | D: 4 | CD: 30 | DPS: 75 Melta | AoE: 7.5
44 Superheats the air within 7.5 radius of the target area, dealing 75 melta damage per second for 4 seconds.

[sporty]

Yay, it's really happening. Can't wait

[Mithril-hound]

He could fight a carnifix, amazing.

[OneProduct]

Today I'm starting the balance work for the Kommando Nob and Weirdboy. If anyone has ideas I still need 1 ability for the Psionicist and 1 or 2 non-weapon specific abilities for Avitus.

If someone is interested in making a logo for the game let me know. I'm more interested in some fancy artwork rather than plain text though.

EDIT: Kommando Nob is done, here's the UCS:

Kommando Nob

00 Kommando Nob
01 HP: 750 | HP-R: 2.25 | EP: 200 | EP-R: 1.75 | SKL: 17 | M-Resist: 0% | KD-Resist: None
02 Armed to the teef with explody bits.

03 Twin-linked Shoota
04 DPS: 100 Bolter | R: 38 | M-DPS: 25 Melee
05

06 Assashun's Knife
07 DPS: 60 Power | AoE: 120 Power | KD: Medium | +5 SKL | R-DPS: 50 Bolter
08 Grants 15% melee resistance, 5 skill and immunity to light knockdown.

09 Rokkit Launcha
10 DPS: 45 Missile | AoE: 6 | M-DPS: 25 Melee
11 Rokkits only track vehicles but the splash damage is still effective versus infantry. Enemies closer to the impact point take increased damage.

12 Spechul Shoota
13 DPS: 25 Bolter | R: 26 | AoE: 5 @ 60 Degrees | KD: Light @ 33% | M-DPS: 25 Melee
14 Does 50% extra damage to enemies within 13 radius and 100% extra damage to enemies within 6.5 radius. Has a 33% chance of dealing light knockdown.

15 Stikkbombs
16 R: 40 | CD: 15 | DMG: 5x40 Heavy | KD: Medium | AoE: 4.5
17 Throws 5 stikkbombs which deal 40 heavy damage and medium knockdown to enemies within 4.5 radius. Enemies closer to the impact point take increased damage.

18 Stunbomb
19 R: 40 | CD: 25 | I-Stun: 7s
20 Throws 5 stun bomb in a 42 degree arc around the target location.

21 Stickybomb
22 R: 25 | CD: 30 | DMG: 100 Melta + 100 Melta vs V | KD: Medium | V-Immobilize: 8 | AoE: 5
23 Thrown stickybombs attach to any target and detonate after 3 seconds. Deals 100 melta damage and medium knockdown to enemies within 5 radius. If the target was a vehicle, it takes 100 extra melta damage and is immobilized for 8 seconds.

24 Booby Trap
25 R: 25 | CD: 15 | DMG: 75-150 Heavy | KD: Medium | AoE: 5
26 Deals 75 heavy damage and medium knockdown to enemies within 5 radius and an additional 75 heavy damage to enemies within 2.5 radius.

27 Kaboom
28 AoE: 10 | CD: 60 | DMG: 275 Heavy to Enemies & 100 Heavy to Self | KD: Ability
29 Deals ability knockdown to enemies within 10 radius. Enemies take 275 heavy damage while the Kommando Nob takes 100 heavy damage.

30 Stikkbomb Armor
31 D: 10+ | CD: 10 | DMG: 50 Heavy | KD: Medium | AoE: 5
32 While active, melee attacks against the Kommando Nob have a 15% chance of setting off one of his stikkbombs, dealing 50 heavy damage and medium knockdown to the Kommando Nob and enemies within 5 radius. Toggling on triggers a 10 second cooldown.

33 High Explosive Shells
34 R: 26 | CD: 15 | DMG: 100 Bolter & 200 SUP | AoE: 5
35 Deals 100 bolter damage and 200 suppression to enemies within 5 radius of the target.

36 Rokkit Barrage
37 R: 15-65 | CD: 25 | DMG: 3x50 Heavy | KD: Heavy | AoE: 5
38 Fires 3 rokkits which deal 50 heavy damage and heavy knockdown to enemies within 5 radius.

39 Assassinate
40 D: 5 | CD: 30 | DMG: 180 Power | -50% DMG & SPD & ARM
41 An enemy infantry target takes 180 power damage and suffers 50% reduced damage, speed and armor for 5 seconds.

42 Luv da Dakka
43 D: 10 | CD: 30 | CD: 0% | KD: Light
44 The twin-linked shoota does light knockdown on hit and its cooldown is removed.

[Zabulus]

Sorry to be a damn newbie but.. I can play the game solo, however, when I try to run the game with the -modname killteam all the games are greyed out \ cannot join. Even the annihilate games etc.

What am I doing wrong?

[OneProduct]

When running a mod you can only ever play with other people who are also running the mod, games hosted by people without the mod will appear greyed out. Because of a bug with the way mods work, victory point games in the public games list show as Killteam, even though they aren't.

If you want to play with other people, you will likely have to either specifically ask some friends or organize an event in the Steam group listed in the original post.

[Zabulus]

Ah ok thanks..

[sporty]

Stikkbomb armour sounds fun. Will certainly be an interesting choice.

No ideas regarding the Psionicist (that's the one with all the Force Barrier stuff?), came up with two possible abilities for Avitus though.
First one could be something that increases sight range temporarily (Keen Eyes, Eagle-Eyed, Marksman-Vision...). Yeah, sounds boring, but should be useful for a heavy ranged hero. Additionally, I found the concept of Avitus baiting ranged enemies interesting... maybe let him deploy a decoy that draws ranged fire, or give him increased accuracy/damage against enemies shooting at him (since they give their position away)?

[OneProduct]

Done trying to balance the Weirdboy, will probably find out that he's too OP after some people actually play with him but oh well. Spellcasters with AoE abilities are harder to balance and I don't have time to try him out. Here's the UCS:

Weirdboy

00 Weirdboy
01 HP: 675 | HP-R: 1.5 | EP: 200 | EP-R: 2 | SKL: 17 | M-Resist: None | KD-Resist: None
02 Ranged spellcaster. Da brainy one.

03 Waaagh Rod
04 DPS: 25 Pure | R: 7-50 | AoE: 6 | M-DPS: 25 Melee
05

06 Zzapin' Stikk
07 DPS: 50 Pure | R: 38 | M-DPS: 25 Melee
08

12 Zzap
13 R: 50 | CD: 15 | DMG: 100 Pure + 10/hit @ 9 hits | AoE: 15
14 Deals 100 damage to the initial target then hits another target within 15 radius for 10 plus the previous hit's damage. Hits up to 9 targets.

15 Foot of Gork
16 R: 15-70 | CD: 60 | DMG: 300 Heavy | KD: Ability | I-Stun: 5s | AoE: 10
17 Deals 300 heavy damage to enemies within 10 radius. Deals ability knockdown and stuns enemy infantry for 5 seconds. Enemies closer to the center take increased damage.

18 Rokks
19 CD: 120 | DMG: 33x50 Heavy + 6x75 Heavy + 3x100 Heavy + 3x150 Heavy + 4x200 Heavy | KD: Light-Ability
20 Tiny rokks deal 50 heavy damage and light knockdown, small rokks deal 75 heavy damage and light knockdown, medium rokks deal 100 heavy damage and medium knockdown, large rocks deal 150 heavy damage and heavy knockdown and 'uge rokks deal 200 heavy damage and ability knockdown.

21 'eadbanger
22 AoE: 10 | D: 5+ | CD: 25 | DPS: 35 Pure | -10 EP/s
23 Immobilizes the Weirdboy and deals 35 pure damage per second to enemies within 10 radius. Must be maintained for at least 5 seconds.

24 Warp Vomit
25 R: 30 | D: 10 | CD: 30 | DMG: 75 Pure + 10 Pure/s | -50% SPD | AoE: 12
26 Deals 75 pure damage and ability knockdown to enemies in 12 radius and reduces their speed by 50%. Deals an additional 10 pure damage per second for 10 seconds in 12 radius.

27 Sparky Armor
28 R: 50 | D: 15 | CD: 15 | DPS: 20 Plasma | AoE: 10
29 Deals 20 plasma damage per second for 10 seconds within 10 radius of the target hero.

30 Open yer Gob!
31 R: 50 | CD: 10 | HP: +33% | AoE: 7.5
32 Heals 33% health to heroes within 7.5 radius of the target.

Next up is design and balance for Avitus, balance for Psionicist and design and balance for a Plague Lord using Shuma's currently WIP model for it.

[Shuma]

The plague lord will be done by tomorrow, monday at the latest. Just saying.

[Mithril-hound]

You two are a great team Its great that this mod is moving so fast, and so well.

[OneProduct]

Psionicist UCS:

Psionicist

00 Psionicist
01 HP: 750 | HP-R: 2.25 | EP: 200 | EP-R: 1.75 | SKL: 17 | M-Resist: 15% | KD-Resist: Light
02 Melee spellcaster hero. Behold the power of recursion!

03 Psionic Spear
04 DPS: 60 Melee | AoE: 120 Heavy | KD: Heavy | R-DPS: 50 Heavy
05 25% chance on kill to be awesome

12 Psionic Push
13 R: 18 | CD: 10 | DMG: 100 Heavy | KD: Heavy
14 Deals 100 heavy damage and heavy knockdown in a 66 degree cone with 18 radius.

15 Psionic Repulsion
16 AoE: 9 | CD: 15 | DMG: 50-150 Heavy | KD: Heavy
17 Deals 50 heavy damage and heavy knockdown to enemies within 3 radius, 6 radius and 9 radius.

18 Psionic Shield
19 D: 12.5 | CD: 30 | -100% Received Accuracy
20 Projectiles fired at the Psionicist collide harmlessly against the psionic shield.

21 Psionic Cage
22 AoE: 15 | D: 9 | CD: 30 | DMG: 50 Heavy | KD: Ability | +50% ARM
23 Creates a collapsing cage of psionic barriers which deal 50 heavy damage and ability knockdown on hit. Enemies hit by the outermost barriers are knocked inwards towards the next barriers. The Psionicist takes half damage while the ability is active.

24 Psionic Symbiosis
25 D: 5 | CD: 15 | +50% SPD | -KD | +8% HP/s while moving
26 Grants +50% increased speed, knockdown immunity and heals 8% health per second while moving for 5 seconds.

27 Psionic Pac Man
28 D: 12.5 | CD: 90 | DMG: 150 Heavy | KD: Heavy
29 Deals heavy knockdown when the mouth opens and 150 heavy damage when the mouth closes.

30 Psionic Tornado
31 R: 15 | D: 9 | CD: 90 | DMG: 25 Heavy
32 Three rows of psionic barriers rotate dealing 25 damage per hit.

Onto Avitus now.

[-Str!ker-]

You know, what about releasing a few small maps that are balanced for specific situations like being surrounded or funneling through choke points. By having them focused and small in size they shouldn't be to huge of a download and run better for lower end machines.

[-Delta-]

Avitus 2 abilities hm it would be something that would benefit him at range with all weapons I was thinking something to keep the mob off his tail or a sweeping attack.

Avitus abilities(idea):

Furious Charge: Enemies hit by furious charge are knocked down and stunned for a total of 2 seconds.

Zeal and Fury : under this ability Avitus is immune to knock back and shrugs off most blows.

Only when he is mortally wounded can he use this ability kind of like Tactical advance and is fueled by killing many enemies... Many.

[The Useless]

Hey, I'm just curious and this may have already been posted, but do you have an idea on when the next update will come out that include more races?

[OneProduct]

The next patch which should be ready in another 2 or 3 days is mostly about new heroes. The patch after that will be tyranids but that probably wouldn't be for at least a week after the hero patch and there's also the risk I get pulled off of this for StarCraft 2 for awhile which wouldn't help.

[highonsinz]

Can't wait to make use of Psionic Pacman

[OneProduct]

It's too nice a day outside today to be indoors working on the mod so I'm just going to release what I've done so far and go biking.

Killteam v1.5: http://www.mediafire.com/?i57s65ipjg7pjlg

Notable additions:
-New heroes: Kommando Nob, Weirdboy, Venerable Dreadnought and Psionicist
-Deep deployment: Enemies now have a chance to deploy by drop pod or deep strike at random positions near heroes
-Spawn protection for enemies: if you are camping a spawn, they will spawn at a different point, if you are camping all spawns, all enemies will use deep deployment
-Boosted default enemy damage by 12% since it was a bit easy overall. Remember that the host can adjust the damage if you feel it is too high or low.
-Miscellaneous balance/bug/cosmetic changes

full change log

1.41 -> 1.5

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--GENERAL
---------

AI
-Enemies will now prefer stationary targets for abilities that have a delay before casting or do not track their target (e.g. grenade barrage, stikkbombs, rokkit barrage, boomgun, doombolt)

ENEMIES
-Increased overall damage by 12%
-Fixed a miscalculation that caused heavy bolter type weapons to do 33% more DPS than intended

GLOBALS
-Increased the red cost of Larraman's Blessing from 360 to 600

MISC
-Removed a lot of legacy files to make the mod size smaller

TEXT
-Scoreboard now lists kills using gamertags instead of player numbers
-Fixed the tooltip for the adjustment toggle on the ripper

WEAPONS
-Set the scatter angle of non-aoe ranged weapons to 3

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--HEROES
---------

APOTHECARY
-Consecrated Bolter DPS reduced from 100 to 75
-Neural Toxin no longer affects bosses
-Neural Toxin now costs an additional 10 energy per second after the first 10 seconds

FARSEER
-Reduced the cost of Levitation Field from 40 to 30
-Reduced the cost of Spiritual Rites from 40 to 30
-Reduced the cost of Time Field from 50 to 40
-Reduced the cost of Eldritch Storm from 60 to 40
-Reduced the cooldown of Eldritch Storm from 120 to 90

FORCE COMMANDER
-Is now a Relic Space Marine
-Charge now pushes enemies away more aggressively so it's less likely the charge will be stopped prematurely
-Split the Earth cooldown decreased from 90 to 75
-Orbital Bombardment cooldown decreased from 90 to 75

KOMMANDO NOB
-Added this hero

MEKBOY
-Have a Taste no longer causes setup weapons to teardown
-Bouncy Shield knockdown type changed from ability to medium

PSIONICIST
-Added this hero

SORCERER
-Rain of Fire no longer does friendly fire damage (for real this time!)
-Doombolt and Teleport hotkeys switched (blame hellic!)

TECHMARINE
-Signum Artillery no longer causes friendly knockdown
-Fixed meltagun damage and tooltip. The meltagun was actually doing 50 DPS and the tooltip said 80 DPS. The meltagun actually does 60 DPS.
-High-Powered Shot (Bolter) damage increased from 75 to 100
-High-Powered Shot (Meltagun) now looks awesome

VENERABLE DREADNOUGHT
-Added this hero
-Cannot be healed by abilities but instead must shut down to repair
-Does not bleed
-Must be near drop pod to change wargear
-Vehicle armor takes significantly less damage from most weapons, but beware of meltas, rockets and heavy melee.
-Probably needs some balancing

WARBOSS
-Bommaboyz now spawn at a fixed distance from the target rather than at the edges of the map (less buggy)
-Bommaboyz will now despawn after 7 seconds in case they fail to trigger correctly
-Bommaboyz are now spawned as enemies to prevent a situation in which they could cause SCAR errors
-Charge now pushes enemies away more aggressively so it's less likely the charge will be stopped prematurely
-Reckless now grants +25% damage, +40% energy gains from damage taken, -5 skill and removes medium knockdown resistance. Formerly it was +60% damage, +40% energy gains from damage taken, +5 skill and -40% armor.

WARLOCK
-Had accidentally reduced his melee skill to 17 last patch. It's back up to 22.

WEIRDBOY
-Added this hero

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--BOSSES
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LIBRARIAN
-Fixed a bug where librarian clones could cast full strength avengers (they have a weaker version)
-Librarian clone force sword was using the vanilla weapon instead of one specific to the mod
-Phase 2 healer now only heals every 15 seconds instead of 10

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--CHAOS
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DREADNOUGHT
-Berserk now triggers at 50% health instead of 33%
-Storm bolter torso guns now leave tracers

HAVOC
-Havoc autocannon DPS decreased from 60 to 50 (for real this time!)

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--ORK
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DEFF DREAD
-Rampage now activates at 50% health instead of 33%

KOMMANDO SQUAD
-Removed detection

NOB SQUAD
-Frenzy now activates at 50% health instead of 33%
-Size set to 1 to improve pathing

SHOOTA NOBS
-Removed detection
-Size set to 1 to improve pathing

SLUGGA NOBS
-Swamp 'Em now activates at 50% health instead of 33%
-Size set to 1 to improve pathing

STORMBOY NOBS
-Size set to 1 to improve pathing

WARTRUKK
-Wartrukk armor type changed from vehicle to light vehicle (not so resistant to front armor shots)

[OneProduct]

Shows I don't test my own mod enough:

Hotfix, Killteam v1.51:
FileFront: http://www.filefront.com/17147803/killteam_v1.51.rar
MediaFire: http://www.mediafire.com/?apohf56pwaf53d2

-Fixed a SCAR error
-Drop pods were buggy so for now they just deep strike

[highonsinz]

Downloading now

Minor bug has cropped up, I have still got access to original "red" powers, or some of them. Of course I can't use them, but it looks a bit odd
Healing grenade HoT is not affecting wierdboy.
And the dread and wierdboy cannot revive.

[Axyl]

was gutted the Dev Marine didn't make it in this update..
still, LOVING the Dread.
Whoever's idea that was is a GENIUS and thank you.

hope you enjoyed the weather, Oneproduct, now get back indoors and make us our mod. hehe

Shows I don't test my own mod enough

Don't worry mate, you code it...we'll test it!

[-Delta-]

Avitus sweeps too? forgot to mention that on my little suggestion for the none weapon based abilities.

[sporty]

Some impressions from a complete game today:

Rites of Repair weren't too useful for the player with the Dread hero. Spawns were set to 3, you couldn't avoid all incoming fire, and receiving a hit means sitting through the entire cooldown without healing. Regeneration rate also seems a bit low when playing with hero-leveling. The revive global ability doesn't affect the Dreadnought. Speed becomes an issue in the boss fight, he can't escape a vortex.
Weirdboy Warp Vomit seemed to overshoot its target regularly, and Open yer Gob is plagued by the same problems as the Bioplasma projectile it uses (terrain collision). Sparky armour and Eadbanger seem to have some overlapping functionality, no?
First victory of the Librarian, his second phase is probably too tough... we only got through by separating the clones, and that was with leveling. Likewise, we drew the vortices away during the last wave, and simply beat him down. Maybe those could spawn near the Librarian again if the distance between them gets too high?

The Psionicist racked up tons of kills, no complaints from the player with that hero. No feedback on the KNob yet, but it's definitely a very impressive release

[Dharkhar]

Very great mod ! I've tried it with friends (so, 5 players), and it's quite fun.
The only bad thing I've to say, is for the apothecary, I think you've forgotten to give him sm_fist_hero for his bolter, he doesn't seem to fight in close combat... Maybe you've added it, we tried the 1.41 version

[Promythyus]

Played a game of Killteam with Imperial Honour earlier today. Besides being FREAKING EPIC, we had a couple of errors:
- The Total Kills section only showed the kills of player 2, not all players (I had 1000 odd, he had 800 and it only showed total kills as 800)
- Every so often we got a fatal scar error (Didn't kill the game though). This is the output from SCAR-trace.txt:

-- FATAL SCAR Error! --
SGroup_GetSpawnedSquadAt: Invalid Spawned SquadGroupObs index 9
Lua chaos_lord.scar Ln 21 (lord_of_terror)

[highonsinz]

Yes, total kills has always shown the bottom player on the list for me come to think of it.

[spellpower]

If you open the module file and remove the lines referring to patch 2.2 content it should probably work I imagine. The lines look like:

archive.01 = GameAssets\Archives\220_sound.sga
archive.01 = GameAssets\Locale\English\English_220_speech.sga
archive.02 = GameAssets\Archives\220_data.sga
etc.

Probably irrelevant but yeah that doesn't work for the current 1.5.1 version. Can load the mod, choose heroes but CTD when the first wave comes or the 5th wave. Just saying this incase it matters in making the mod better.


On to the feedback! As sporty said, the rites of repair couldn't be effectively used for the dead hero unless you literally trudged halfway across the map to some isolated place and healed... Though I like having the dread unable to be revived, makes it a challenge hero in which if you die it's all over. Guess it's a reason for being a bit more powerful than other heroes? As for the hero regen gained by leveling, my friends and I found maybe a little buff would be ok, but it's more challenging as it is now and it makes the apothecary's heal more significant (i.e. choosing the right player to heal). The new Psionicist with support (heal/ngy) from other heroes can take out waves by itself, though it seems to decline in power as the game goes on. Lastly is the libarian battle. Maybe it's just me and my friends, but range heroes suffer in that battle or maybe it's just that they cant seem to do enough dmg ><. The dread's big body seems to be an easy target for the libarian to hit lol.

Sorry for the big slab of text, but that's it for my feedback. Eagerly awaiting next the version release. Keep up the good work OneProduct!

[Ash is your god]

First of all, thank you a lot for this mod ! It's totally awesome, especially for someone like me who used to like Last Stand but was waiting for something new.
I just have one or two things to tell about the balance :
- psyonicist is very very fun, but really too much strong. I was able to go to the wave 35 alone after my mate left, until looted tanks arrived ! I really love this hero, but he is too awesome. I think you should add 4 seconds on the shield cooldown, and it will fix everything.
- For the most part, i think warboss is a bit weak. he doesn't have any really big special move and can't endure as much as the others, with their awesome selfheal. maybe you should add a heal to the "I"m angry" move.

Anyway, thank you for everything, and good luck !

[DestroyerX5]

thank you so much for adding the Ven dread...love him and the new psionic hero is pretty cool too keep up the good work mate =)

[Dofd]

The Mod is freaking Epic as mentoined a thousand times before
The Ven dread is just epic but the heal function of it is some sor of crap
It just heals tooo slow and if u are atacked u have to wait really important seconds before u can heal again
AAnd for that the weirdboy can't revive
But keep up the good work man
Looking forward to relaease 1.6 with tyranids as enemys

[OneProduct]

I'm fixing up the weirdboy and venerable dreadnought a bit and adding two new heroes, should be ready in 2-5 days, depending on how hard I feel like working on it. I'll just tease you with the pictures:



After these two I'll be getting right on tyranids. For the moment I'm putting Avitus aside because I really can't think of enough good abilities for him which aren't passive. When your theme is "I'm a guy with a big gun" it's hard to make abilities. :P After tyranids I'll probably add an Imperial Guard command squad hero and a tyranid summoner hero.

[eris]

Nicely done with the mod.

Having a couple of issue with CTD when doing both the sorcerer's rain of fire and the techmarine's air strike. other than that, having alot of fun with it.

Any chance of a warp spider exarch so we have some 100% ranged eldar love?

[OneProduct]

I imagine the rain of fire + artillery strike crash is because of the intensity of the graphics as they aren't directly related to each other, so I can't really do anything about that unless I removed the graphics from them but I'd prefer not to.

I don't think I'll be doing a warp spider hero unless you can provide a very convincing list of abilities as ranged auto-attacking is fairly boring. I always welcome suggestions though and I've already made two heroes using suggestions posted here, but there's no guarantee. I've also sort of got the next batch of heroes already planned out so to be honest chances are kind of low.

EDIT: Picture on the left two posts up is the Iron Warrior, featuring a custom skin by Ruelle. UCS:

Iron Warrior

00 Iron Warrior
01 HP: 600 | HP-R: 1.5 | EP: 200 | EP-R: 1.75 | SKL: 17 | M-Resist: None | KD-Resist: None
02 Iron Warriors are masters of siege warfare. Armed with grenade launchers and capable of building turrets to keep enemy units suppressed, the Iron Warrior keeps enemies at bay while bombarding them from afar.

03 Automatic Grenade Launcher
04 DPS: 40 Bolter | AoE: 5 | R: 5-50 | M-DPS: 25 Melee
05 Fires 6 grenades over 3 seconds then reloads for 3 seconds

06 Plasma Grenade Launcher
07 DPS: 35 Plasma | AoE: 5 | R: 5-50 | M-DPS: 25 Melee
08 Fires 1 grenade every 3 seconds

09 Cybernetic Link
10 AoE: 25 | D: 15 | CD: 35 | +7% DMG & SPD | +5% RAN | -10% CD | +1 SKL
11 For each hero in range, each hero gains 7% increased damage, 5% increased speed and range, 10% faster reload and 1 skill for 15 seconds (eg. if 3 heroes are in range you each get +21% DMG & SPD, +15% RAN, -30% CD, +3 SKL).

12 Iron Within, Iron Without!
13 R: 50 | D: 25 | CD: 25 | +33% ARM | -33% SPD | -KD
14 Target hero takes 33% less damage and is immune to knockdown but moves 33% slower.

15 Point Blank
16 AoE: 10 | DMG: 100 Heavy | KD: Medium
17 Deals 100 heavy damage and medium knockdown to enemies within 10 radius. The Iron Warrior is also knocked down.

18 Temper
19 R: 20-50 | D: 15 | CD: 30 | AoE: 10 | DPS: 20 Fire | -50% SPD
20 Fires 4 incendiary grenades in an 80 degree arc around the target point. Enemy infantry passing through the flames take 20 fire damage per second and have their movement speed decreased by 50% for 5 seconds after being hit.

21 Rending Iron
22 AoE: ~20 | CD: 75 | DMG: 150 Heavy | KD: Ability
23 Calls down a barrage dealing 100 heavy damage and ability knockdown to enemies in the area.

24 Hail of Iron
25 D: 10 | CD: 30 | -Reload | -Accuracy
26 Removes weapon reload time but decreases accuracy.

27 Pulse Stopper
28 R: 5-50 | D: 7 | CD: 20 | AoE: 10 | I-Stun: 7
29 Enemies within 10 radius of the impact point are stunned for 7 seconds.

30 Heavy Bolter Turret
31 DPS: 25 Heavy Bolter | R: 5-49
32 Has a 360 degree firing arc and causes suppression damage. Repairs automatically when out of combat.

33 Lascannon Turret
34 DPS: 40 Pure | R: 5-49 | D: 10
35 Swaps the turret's heavy bolters for lascannons. Cannot fire while upgrading.

[eris]

hmm.. not sure exactly what 'very convincing' translates to.. and how much information you'd need.

for the 7 base skills..
1. Teleport - obviously
2. Spinneret Shot - Pretty much as the codex. A single high power shot which ignores armour. Boom headshot, for a tougher mob, say one nurgle marine. 20 second CD?
3. Entanglement - Can 'root' mobs in a small area, making them unable to move. Fairly fluffy.
4. Monofilament Wave - A knockback ability which travels outward from the Exarch in a specific direction, knocking back units it hits. Useful for keeping mods of the ranged guys/healers as well as saving the melee guys butt if he's taking too much damage.
5. Phase - The Exarch and nearby allies phase out slightly, reducing damage recieved and letting them gain energy from the warp. Not that fluffy, but in keeping with what's in the game.
6. Shuriken Platform - We have the eldar weapons platform model, but no eldar turret in the mod yet. Could have a Brightlance upgrade.
7. Doomspinner / Monofilament Web - Pretty much pulled from the new Night Spinner rules, an AoE 'nuke' causing heavy damage to things in the area and damage to things which move while in that area for a duration afterwards (i think you had a similar mechanic already done for the chaos lord).

In terms of weapon choices..
Death Spinner - basic default weapon, i guess on a par with the mek boys basic gun.
Spinnerete Rifle - Slower rate of fire, armour piercing, perhaps knockback
Powerblades - Increases melee damage and reduces damage taken in melee, much like the other caster melee weapons.

So while he'd be 'just another ranged dps guy', he brings in eldar turrets, can root and disrupt mobs and act as a 'mana battery' to help the healers rather than doing any healing himself. Synergy is cooler than just letting him have a heal. I can look through the other heroes abilities and try and put down some numbers for the abilities etc if that helps.

Anyway, I know you've got things you're working on, just wantedto throw some ideas in there

[MDragoon]

Ideas for this character that I've had so far are:

Optical sensor: increase team ranged dps for a limited time.

I don't see him as a "front lines" kinda guy so something that buffs other people to keep em dead before they get to you seems like a good idea. his optics increase weapon accuracy and I'm not sure how accuracy works in killteam, but ranged dps boosts sounds good, and it synergies with other ranged damage dealers as well.

Alternate fires for weapons: not sure exactly which weapons you were giving him yet, but I was thinking of going with a Bad/Good/Best idea for the weapons.

Their normal damage would be best against certain things i.e. shotgun vs tough mobs or rocket launcher against vehicles. but then they would have an ability that didn't make them do what they already did better, but make them able to handle other types of enemies for a tiny duration. Like a lockon shot or spread missle for the rocket launcher that was good for hitting multiple targets or a single tough target (not both but one or the other)/explosive shells for the shotgun doing decent (but not rocket) tank damage, or a heavy bolter having a vengeance rounds/auxilary grenade launcher/dps rounds or something like that to make it better against less swarmy enemies.

Sprint: if he has setup times, he might as well be able to run so he can setup quicker and I'm sure he won't have a teleporter. Maybe it could do light knockback too


Know no fear: Simply Knockback immunity and a knockback melee attack arc for a duration. something to keep him from getting swarmed on and insta dying because I doubt his melee dps will be impressive at all

that's all I got for now

[OneProduct]

Trying to fix the venerable dreadnought's healing. I want to keep him different in that only he can heal himself. What I'm thinking of doing is having him shut down for X seconds then after the whole duration he gains Y health in one shot. The idea here is that you can't just shut down and gradually heal while tanking (since he takes much less damage than normal heroes). This basically just forces you to shut down before your health drops dangerously low and encourages you to find a safer place to shut down. If anybody else has suggestions for an alternate healing method I'm open to it as well, I'm trying to figure out something that's good for healing without being too good considering his high armor.

The picture on the right I revealed a few posts up is Shuma's plague lord model which I'll be designing abilities for today. If you have suggestions for that now's your chance and I'm all ears.

[Dofd]

What about some unholy Minions he can summon for example two plague marines from the corps of your foes

[MDragoon]

Ability ideas for the nergle termie.

Blessings of the plague father: either toggle-able or duration based light or medium knockdown resist and hp regen buff for allies in an area.

Nurgling Grenade: A plague grenade with low AOE but infects enemies with an AOE damage aura that spreads.

Swarm of flies: if he's gonna be slow, the vanilla knockback + ranged damage reduction and stun on this move would be great. Not sure what the area on it should be though, would have to test it.

Nurgles Rot: causes him to act like a "poison cloud" maybe toggle-able too.

Gift of undeath: Curse an enemy with reanimation on death, causing them to fight for you and dealing damage over time to them when you use it and when they reanimate, kinda works like a timer on it's own. Making it health % based would be a good idea. like 4-5% health per second with a 30-40 second cooldown (should only work on non-vehicles)

That's all I've got for now, pretty basic, not sure if they'd be much fun, though I kinda like the first one

[OneProduct]

Plague Lord design is done, I just have to balance him and write his UCS lines. I'll probably be releasing the patch tomorrow between 11:00h-13:00h GMT -5 or so and I'll be hosting games.

[Axyl]

Great news, OneProduct.
Can't wait to try out the Devastator Marine and the Iron Warrior.

[OneProduct]

Killteam v1.6
FileFront: http://www.filefront.com/17169999/killteam_v1.6.rar
MediaFire: http://www.mediafire.com/?87toofatyt1ypy5

Two new custom heroes, hero rebalancing and a new map.

EDIT: D'oh. Apparently the Iron Warrior's texture only shows up if you have your settings on ultra. Any texture artists know why? I notice that default armor textures seem to have multiple layers which are each smaller version of the previous layer so I imagine it has something to do with that.

change log

1.5 -> 1.6

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--GENERAL
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GLOBALS
-Tyranid global abilities should no longer show up when selecting a Tyranid hero in the lobby

MAPS
-Added "(6p) The Last Stand" by Dofd

SCOREBOARD
-Now shows total kills properly

TANKS
-Front armor protection reduced from 90% less damage to 75% less damage (front armor is 2.5x weaker)

WARGEAR
-You no longer need to garrison the drop pod to change wargear, you just need to be close to it.

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--BOSSES
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LIBRARIAN
-NOTE: Hopefully this will make phase 2 more doable. I know phase 3 is still tough but it would require more dramatic changes which would take more time. I'll come back to it after more core things.
-Phase 1 HP reduced from 21000 to 20000
-Phase 2 HP reduced from 4200 each to 4000 each
-Phase 2 healer and fighter are now vulnerable to light knockdown
-Reduced phase 2 healer's healing from 30% to others or 15% to self to 20% to others or 10% to self
-Phase 2 healer spellcast frequency reduced from once per 15 seconds to once per 20 seconds
-Phase 2 fighter spellcast frequency reduced from once per 10 seconds to once per 15 seconds
-Phase 2 The Avenger knockdown type changed from ability to light
-Phase 2 The Avenger damage reduced from 225 to 175
-Phase 2 Ignite Sould impact damage reduced from 400 to 200 and lingering burn damage in the AoE reduced from 50 to 25
-Phase 3 HP reduced from 21000 to 20000

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--HEROES
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APOTHECARY
-Healing Grenade now detonates on impact. While the delay was intended to allow heroes to enter the radius, it's probably better to just let the Apothecary worry about aiming.
-Healing Grenade projectile speed increased from 9 min/18 max to 25/25
-Neural Toxin is now a timed ability lasting 7 seconds rather than a toggled ability
-Advanced Healing no longer prevents energy regeneration while active in addition to removing 10 energy per second. It only removes 10 energy per second.

CHAOS LORD
-Has been renamed Khorne Lord to differentiate from the Plague Lord. In the future the patch notes will refer to him as such.
-No longer has melee right of way
-Skulls for the Skull Throne duration and cooldown increased from 10 to 15
-Lord of Terror cost reduced from 40 to 30
-Eye of Chaos cost reduced from 50 to 40
-Hemorrhage cost reduced from 40 to 30
-Kill the Weak knockdown type changed from light to medium
-Fixed a bug which cause Kill the Weak to not restore health if the unit was killed by it
-Daemon Sword knockdown type changed from light to medium
-Blood Maul was doing 100 DPS rather than 80 DPS as listed in the tooltip. It now does 80 DPS.

FARSEER
-Fortune was only lasting 15 seconds instead of its intended 25 second duration (bug fix)
-Spiritual Rites healing increased from 20% to 25%

FORCE COMMANDER
-Rally's non-healing effects were applying to mines/traps/vehicles. They now only affect infantry as intended.
-Orbital Strike cost reduced from 50 to 40
-Split the Earth cost reduced from 50 to 40
-Iron Halo cost reduced from 40 to 30
-Power Sword knockdown type changed from light to medium

KOMMANDO NOB
-Stikkbombs no longer cause friendly knockdown
-Rokkit Barrage no longer causes friendly knockdown
-Stickybomb no longer causes friendly knockdown (not sure it did to begin with)

IRON WARRIOR
-Added this hero

LIBRARIAN
-Force Dome cost reduced from 50 to 40
-Force Dome cooldown reduced from 60 to 45
-Force Dome tooltip had an error, it actually does pure damage, not heavy.
-Force Dome no longer heals the Venerable Dreadnought
-Purify cost reduced from 40 to 25

MEKBOY
-Reworked More Dakka, it now removes weapon cooldown and grants light knockdown.
-Bouncy Shield energy drain reduced from 10 to 5 energy per second
-Bouncy Shield must now be maintained for at least 5 seconds
-Bouncy Shield cooldown decreased from 25 to 20
-Mega Rumblah cost reduced from 50 to 40
-Now teleports over obstacles while moving
-Have a Taste healing increased from 25% to 30%

PLAGUE LORD
-Added this hero

PSIONICIST
-Psionic Push cooldown increased from 10 to 15
-Psionic Push knockdown type changed from heavy to medium
-Psionic Shield duration decreased from 12.5 to 10
-Psionic Shield now actually has a 30 second cooldown like its tooltip says, up from 12.5

SORCERER
-Chains of Destruction cost reduced from 50 to 40
-Chains of Destruction cooldown reduced from 120 to 90
-Chains of Destruction damage type changed from heavy to sniper

TECHMARINE
-Artillery Strike no longer requires the Techmarine to face his target
-Artillery Strike cost reduced from 50 to 40
-Missile Turret rate of fire increased from 5.6 to 2.5
-Missile Turret DPS increased from 25 to 40

VENERABLE DREADNOUGHT
-Can now ressurect fallen heroes
-Now takes 33% less damage from anti-vehicle weapons (down from 16/24 [2/3] of what heroes take to 12/24 [1/2] of what heroes take)
-Now takes 25% less damage from power/plasma weapons (down from 12/24 [1/2] of what heroes take to 9/24 [3/8] of what heroes take)
-Smokescreen energy cost increased to 25 from 0
-Fist of the Emperor energy cost reduced from 50 to 30
-The Last Stand energy cost reduced from 60 to 40
-The Last Stand healing increased from 15% to 25%
-The Last Stand minimum health cap increased from 15% to 25%
-Machine Spirit cost reduced from 40 to 30
-Machine Spirit cooldown reduced from 75 to 50
-Rites of repair cost reduced from 50 to 40

WEIRDBOY
-Can now ressurect fallen heroes
-Is now vulnerable to bleeding
-Open Yer Gob can no longer be accidentally interrupted
-Open Yer Gob projectile speed increased from 25 min/30 max to 35/35
-Headbanger is now a timed ability lasting 5 seconds rather than a toggled ability
-Headbanger now stuns enemies in its radius
-Headbanger now makes the Weirdboy take half damage while active
-Headbanger radius reduced from 10 to 7.5
-Warp Vomit no longer overshoots its target

[Axyl]

Excellent! Fast turn around, OneProduct.
I have to go to work in a short while, so won't be able to play till 2moro, but may i ask when we can expect to see the Avitus/Devastator Marine make an apperance?

Can't wait to try the new changes, not least of which being the removal of the Healing 'Nade's fuse.

[highonsinz]

Looking good, will try it out later today.

[OneProduct]

Sigh. Another patch, another hotfix.

Killteam v1.61
FileFront: http://www.filefront.com/17170662/killteam_v1.61.rar
MediaFire: http://www.mediafire.com/?a06iracuw89rum8

hotfix

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--HOTFIX
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-Some enemy abilities were using the wrong damage types. When I made the dreadnought I had to make a whole new set of damage types to accomodate his vehicle armor and I missed a few changes.
-Iron Warrior texture now displays at all video settings
-Iron Warrior turrets can now shoot in a 360 degree arc as the tooltip says
-Iron Warrior Automatic Grenade Launcher scatter increased from 0 to 5 (the ability related to the weapon increases the scatter to 10)
-Iron Warrior Hail of Iron cooldown increased from 25 to 30 to match the tooltip

[eris]

heh nicely done.

but just noticed that if the iron warrior builds a turret, upgrades it to las and it's then destroyed, you don't get the 15 of the 50 points back. guessing that's not intended as it's not the case with techmarine turrets which have been upgraded to missiles.