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This is the first version of my Tower Defense mod. Tower Defense maps were very popular in Warcraft III times: Basically a Tower Defense is a game where waves of enemies walk into your base, and you have to build and upgrade towers to protect it from these invaders. In the case of this mod, I included two maps, one for 1 player and another for 2 players. The map for two player can only be played in multiplayer, as the AI cannot play this map. The goal of the game is to protect your base against the invaders by building towers. The one who survives longer wins. The strategy consists of choosing the best positioning and the best types of towers. As you upgrade your towers, there will be choices to be made between different types of specializations. As you kill the enemy waves, you gain loot. With these resources you can trade in the market and build towers/upgrade. Some Questions for you: Should I include this in the Community Maps mod? Or is it better to have it as an independent mod? The mod include some new templates for the towers, but it does not change any template that is used in the game. So you can use this mod without affecting any other map. Want to make another map in this mod? It should be quite simple. If you open Atlas using the mod, you can place the structures and units of the mod, search for "tdef" (the "fake civ" that has all the new units. It is a fake civ because you cannot choose it in game, it is by default in the Tower Defense maps). If you don't want to mess with scripts, it should still be easy to make a map using the mod. Just include this in your map (in the ScriptSettings part of the XML): "TriggerScripts": [ "scripts/TriggerHelper.js", "scenarios/tower_defense1.js" ], Then you just have to place the Wonder (tdef_wonder), which is the only "Conquest Critical" object (that is, if it is destroyed you lose), some workers (tdef_pawn), and the trigger_point_A and trigger_point_B (these are the places where the waves will spawn: A goes for player 1 and B goes for player 2). The workaround I used for the singleplayer map is to place a super OP tower for player 2 that kills all enemies instantly. You can use it in your map too: tdef_tower_ultimate. Next Versions I still want to improve it before sending to mod.io. Your feedback is welcome. Definitely will need balancing. One thing I wanted to do was to include an option to heal some life of your Wonder, costing some food, as this resource is not used much in the map. Have fun! (and let me know how many waves you can survive.) Spoilers below: tower_defense.zip tower_defense.pyromod

That's still an open question at the moment. Moderator's note: This comment, whilst a valid response to an on-topic remark, resulted in an off-topic stream of posts that were relocated here.

the gameplay looks smooth but graphics are only more polished. no impressed by that. but is nice see textbox from campaign units. the sound of DE versions is very superior. those effects.

Oh @#$% the building collapsing animation, beautiful.

I finished. the "face" can be open to attack with a canon. the faceform serves as explorer. uses scans and infrared sensor. uses a kind of segmentata covering the nucleus. and a wifi sensor with radial to receive data.(not all aliens have ultra advanced communication to uses their canon.) the cheat must be: Imnotsayingitbuititwas

Another thing that would be a powerful resource to encourage attacks would be to enable the dropsides in neutral territory. That would be incredible, but I do not know what the players opinion about it would be.

I said before, if they game comes to steam still Win10 exclusive. more campaigns, not only one.

Well, works now. Thanks, you save my day xd

No one is truly saying the game should be a TW clone. Adding battalions (or "squads" as @DarcReaver would say ) does not turn the game into a TW clone.

Is it possible (in a mod) to add a tech or upgrade to a unit that, when researched, gives it some extra HP? (Like healing. Let's say the unit has 100/800 HP, after researching this tech it gets 200/800 or something like that.)

I played the map, much more fun than I imagined, as I am not the fastest I came to 23 wave. Very f&**ing the towers cataputas reminded me medieval TW 2

Hi, congratulations for the initiative. One idea that passed me would be a "survival" type mode in which a growing sequence of enemy hordes would besiege your city in the center. Your city with a good food and wood reserve but more valuable resources were found in areas of difficult defense.

can be uploaded to mod.io?

True, I will take a look at that.

Seleucids. Idumeans https://www.academia.edu/38121375/Hellenistic-Roman_Idumea_in_the_Light_of_Greek_and_Latin_Non-Jewish_Authors https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?topic=343219.0 About Maccabeans... Galatians (spearman)

I think there is a tech for hp regen in the temple.

On mod, all spartan ranged unit trained in barracks are slaves helots. Free cost, high training time, weak than others ranegd units. I'll go look for more about psilos machimos.

Spartan.

Here is a video of the beta

I don't know what it is. It just looks less "balanced" than the old one, like you took the old one, mirrored it, and made it worse somehow. lol. Sorry if I can't quite put my finger on it. While I still have an interest in architecture and an eye for aesthetics, I haven't taken Architectural theory in 17 years.

Uncertainty can be a guiding light.

Hey @crazy_Baboon well first it would be nice to have some screenshots Then if it's good you will need to sign the art legal waiver before we can do anything with it.

In the actor tab you can switch between entites and actors(all) just filter with grass keyword.

Currently the Engine does not allow changing the sun position through the simulation but pne could add that.

Yes. See all the past release and their (mp) meta.

Now that’s some grade a helpful critique lol

I like the concept, It reminds me to the stalker unit of the protoss I made the War Machine of the move xd Maybe make my own version of the H. G. Wells war machine

Thems some Hella textures.

Tripod from War of the Worlds. Would be awesome if it had an AOE gas attack, heat rays, and creepy sound effects. Oooo-la. Oooo-la.

It's just not aesthetically pleasing. Not as well designed as the others.

Well i made this car whit the weels animated but the animation looks like this in 0 ad I added actor and the blend file wtfAnimation.7z pickup_doble_cabina.blend

Seems that the 4 civs have been leaked by Steam. Cumans, Lithuanians, Tatars and Bulgarians. I have some hope. While DE launch was a mess (altough I liked the graphics) seems that they retooke the game and Microsoft finally threw some budget to fix it (the last 3 patches) Probably AoE DE2 will start with AoE HD as a base. With some budget, they could improve the game. This is the star game of the saga, with more players

It's look like a mod , I sense a big disaster in the beta.

Romans in aoe4??

A disappointment, I hope some gameplay addition.

I expected better graphics.

According to information, suggests that will be based on the times of aoe1, aoe2 and aoe3.

the puzzle is done. the official streaming. https://mixer.com/Xbox

Im waiting aoe4

Personally I think that the comitium and the curia are better representing a kind of civic center. This is the place for the assembly and for the senate. However I do understand that the comitium is not getting a lot of praise and could be ugly. The actual civic center is based on the Basilica Julia finished by Augustus. So using another basilica could be more coherent with the style. The only thing is that the basilica never existed during the first and second Punic Wars. This is a feature the Romans took from the Greeks after the second Macedonian War, based on their Stoa. The first basilica in Rome date from 184 BC (Basilica Porcia). This is a small inconsistency but nothing really problematic since we are still in the good period. A compromise could be the Basilica Opimia with in the front the Senaculum, the Ara Saturni and the Mundus. Like this there are some features of the old Roman tradition.

There's a difference between creating a mod that will be your own game (what LordGood talked about) or creating a mod to test out changes aimed at vanilla more easily. I was talking about the latter. The same way, you can use a knife to kill someone, so knives are bad if you're a peaceful person. So, by your logic, if you're a peaceful person, you should never, ever use a knife under any circumstances and good luck with trying to cut a slice of bread.

I would say, however, that the flaw isn't necessarily with the presence of citizen-soldiers but their implementation. It should take time to mobilise troops, which could make the effects of a rush significantly more devastating as working time can be lost during the time the soldiers are preparing to defend themselves and then during the time they demobilise. It could be even harder if the rusher continuously cycles between different gathering areas, forcing the defender to take an active role in defence if they wish to survive. I've mentioned this idea before, but in fairness, few people seem to appreciate this concept. Definitely though, Darkreaver's concept is much better than the current iteration of the citizen-soldier.

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