Thursday, July 1, 2010

ZDWars Public Beta 2.9 is now OUT!

So, here it is. Two years down the line, and with a new set of monsters.

Changelog:
Balance Changes:

New Additions:
-To celebrate ZDoom Wars' 2 year anniversary, every faction has recieved a new unit.

-Updated the manuals, etc. etc.

-Made the list of units effected by the Repair Drone in the Strife manual more specific.

-Updated and changed the F1 Help screen.


Bug Fixes:
-The player class previews in the Multiplayer menu should no longer flicker with doomguy graphics.

-Hero death sounds should be much more audible now.

-EvilSpacetomato has greatly revised the C-375 height limiting system. It should work much better now, and allows unconditional ladder use. There is also a height indicator on Virus players' HUD that shows how high you are. 384 units is the max height. C-375 can now use the water entrance into Tech Monolith.

-Some jumps were removed from Retrofitted units to slightly reduce bandwidth usage.


Map Pack:
-Blazing Colosseum scripts revised to eliminate the double deep and damaging ground bugs, by evilspacetomato.

-The slime in Despair Canyon now kills units who fall or are spawned in it.
-Some graphical glitches on Despair Canyon were fixed.

-Wierd bases has been made more attractive.
-The delay between the center of the level lowering in Wierd Bases has been doubled.

-Da Void's skybox has been fixed.
-Da Void has been made more attractive.
-Some areas of Da Void have been changed to be more accessible or less campable.

-The watery pits on either side of the bridge in Valley will now kill monsters.

-The sector that would kill players instead of teleporting them in Something Epic has been fixed.

-Fixed a spot in Grimwald where large monsters couldn't pass through.


Doom:

New Additions:
-The Doom Faction has a new unit: The Lost Soul, unlocked alongside imps.

Balance Changes:
-Cyberdemon price raised from 130/115 to 140/125.

-Spider Mastermind attack variance increased from 8 degrees to 10.
-The Spider Mastermind now fires 4 bullets per attack cycle, up from 3.
-Spider Mastermind minimum damage raised from 14 to 16.

-Buffed Cacodemon melee damage from 12 to 13.
-Increased Cacodemon melee range from 72 to 84.

-Pain Elementals will now attempt to distance themselves from opponents who are within 800 units.

-Archviles will now distance themselves from enemies who are within 500 units.
-Archviles now only lose 10 health per resurrection, down from 15. This means they can resurrect 90 units if they are not hit otherwise, up from 60.

Bug Fixes:
-Retrofitted Pain Elementals would not attack at range.

-The invisible Lost Soul projectile made sounds.


Heretic:

New Additions:
-The Heretic Faction has a new unit: The Gas Pod, unlocked alongside Ophidians.

Balance Changes:
-The point at which D'Sparil begins spitting triple fireballs has been changed from 1600 health to 2200 health.

-Lich Whirlwind height decreased from 32 to 24.

-Maulotaur melee speed increased by 3 tics.
-Maulotaur health increased from 4200 to 4400.

Bug Fixes:
-Nitro Ghost Mummies could not be unlocked using normal mummies.


Hexen:

New Additions:
-The Hexen Faction has a new unit: The Swamp Stalker, unlocked alongside Chaos Serpents.

Balance Changes:
-Enchant radius raised from 200 to 225.
-All Enchant-able Units are now immune to radius damage coming from other Enchanted units.

-Menelkir damage reduced from 10 to 9.

-Enchanted Chaos Serpent direct damage reduced from 6 to 4.

-Enchanted Bishop direct damage reduced from 5 to 4.
-Enchanted Bishop projectile homing max turn angle lowered from 9 to 8.

-Wraith ranged attack damage reduced from 8 to 7.

-Wendigo health boosted from 850 to 1000.

-Enchanted Ettin magic attack chance raised by 30.

-Centaurs now fire 3 magic projectiles when enchanted, up from 2.

Bug Fixes:
-Homing chaos Serpents and Bishops were immune to radius damage.


Strife:

New Additions:
-The Strife Faction now has a new unit: The Order Turret, unlocked alongside Reavers.

Balance Changes:
-Devastator Crusader's melee attack has been sped up by 2 tics.
-The Crusader's missile now has a slight homing ability, increasing its effective range.
-Crusader price lowered from 40/10 to 35/8.
-Pre-upgraded Crusader price lowered from 55/12 to 40/9.

-Crusader retrofit price lowered from 15 to 12.

-Gargantuan Sniper Templar price change. It now costs 18/7, instead of 40/6, which was dumb.
-Templar retrofit cost reduced from 15 to 10.

-Stalker width reduced from 30 to 20.

-Alien Spectre fleeing range increased from 2000 to 3000.

-The Programmer will now move away from foes who are within 1200 units.

-The chance of each unit effected by a Repair Drone of resurrecting has been increased.

-Removed the inheritance from Rebels and Acolytes, so they theoretically won't set on fire now.

Bug Fixes:
-Spectre A dropped 10 mana, instead of 25.
-The pre-upgraded Devastator Crusader's melee attack was slower than it should be.


CQ:

New Additions:
-The CQ Faction now has a new unit: The Slime Carrier, unlocked alongside Super Cyclops.

Balance Changes:
-The commonus split upgrade now effects the spores created by Slime Meteors.
-Slime Meteors now drop 6 spores on death, up from 3.
-Slime Meteor spawn chance increased by 30, and idle spore spawn chance increased by 15.
-Slime Meteor's health has been increased from 250 to 300.

-Boosted the chance of a Flem Spore spawning a bipedicus or larva.

-Flem Spores will now always successfully spawn, though their spawning of the flemoid itself is not full proof.
-The way Flem Spores move about is a little more randomized to avoid overlapping spawns.

-Cyclops pain chance raised from 40 to 50.

-Resurrection Slime summon balls are no longer +RIPPER.
-Resurrection slime can now pass through monsters and will always successfully spawn.

-Super Cyclops damage reduced from 8 to 7.
-Super Cyclops health reduced from 750 to 700.


Bug Fixes:
-The Slime Meteor is now referred to by its proper name in the onscreen message and manual.
-The Slime Meteor summonball was 5 units too thin.

-The Super Cyclop's frames during its chase state were not evenly distributed.



Virus:

New Additions:
-The Virus Faction now has a new unit: The Shield drone, unlocked alongside Greater Prisms.

Balance Changes:
-Spore health increased from 65 to 75.
-Spore attack rate sped up by 2 tics.

-All Virus units are now immune to the explosions from other Virus units.

-Air Carriers now carry 30 drones.
-Air Carrier health raised from 600 to 750.

-All of the Leader's attacks can now hit ghosts.

Bug Fixes:
-C-375 was not resistant to KaBoom damage.

4 comments:

  1. Wow.
    That's alot of things changed.

    Quick question, I can't access the downloads, any idea why?

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  2. nice update!
    although I think the shield drone should be
    able to slightly push enemy melee units with its shield attack thing since they seem rather weak to use when against chex.

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  3. Typo on the F1 help page if you haven't seen it already or someone hasn't told you about it... near end of first paragraph tree spelled as "tre"

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  4. Greaat, I like most of it, but did you really need to boost the cyberdemon price? It was high enough as it was LOL!

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