MOBA, short for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena games, started with player-made custom games.

As it stands now, this gaming category has sky-rocketed with a large number of developers competing to excel. We have come a long way since Aeon of Strife, the first MOBA game that was ever launched. It has actually improved ability usage quite a bit.īeta release uploaded to the maps section and available for download: Champions of Azeroth (Beta v1.Nothing can compare to fast-paced, strategic, and intense team gameplay, right? Well, that’s exactly what the best MOBA games offer! Reforged's shoddy changes still cause garbage collection hiccups, but I tried to improve some of the jank with a heavy preload at the start of the match (*complete with fancy loading bar). The pacing between minion waves feels much better. Terrain has received a big update bases have been moved around and areas have been opened up.You get 1 choice per game, so choose wisely. Introduction of elite items! Alter an ability with more powerful effects.Each hero now has a total of 11 standard and 6 elite items to choose from-each altering their abilities in unique ways-making for a whopping total of 289 items.A slew of improvements and features have been added to the map and it feels ready for publishing. I have been grinding through development non-stop in my spare time for the past 3 weeks. Items and heroes may be out of balance many play sessions have been had to do a 'first pass' on numbers but feedback is welcome Fanciful Trinkets is an alpha testing shop that will be removed when items are finalized for every hero Doltish AI earns its title it's not very smart (yet), and you may see them perfoming overzealous charges into the front line or waddling around aimlessly at timesĪlpha Notes- More items are planned for heroes neutral heroes do not currently have their personalized shops implemented (use Fanciful Trinkets until then) Items at Hero Shops do not have hotkeys (old problem of adding item stock via a script so that it can be removed hotkey gets removed) Known Issues- May occasionally experience aberrant behavior with movement abilities interacting with each other (WIP via a state engine refactor) Doltish AI 2.0 featuring Morale System - overhauled state engine for Doltish AI and unique hero profiles (right now, the agent simply cycles through active abilities with a basic priority layout) Forest Camps 2.0 - complete revamp of capturable forest camps: new abilities, tougher to capture, more rewarding when captured, improved minimap identifiers It has been invaluable in testing the general flow and balance of the map!įeature PipelineThese major features are currently in the backlog: If I get brave enough, I have tentative plans to package it up and release it as a public resource when it is less doltish. It is currently rudimentary, but it allows you to play solo and experiment (it was basically made for personal testing). Its unofficial name is Doltish AI, and you can enable it via the -ai command. With that comes my first attempt at artificial player agents. Let me know what you think!įeature: AII've taken a stab at a more complex system than I am used to. The botched Reforged launch has left me skeptical if it's worth putting more time into the project. My intent with this release is to see how it is received. They mimic the 'talent' concept from HotS, empowering particular abilities or adding specific effects to your hero (versus simple stat boosts). Items are personalized to the hero you select, and cannot be acquired by other heroes. It's heavily influenced by Heroes of the Storm's design philosophy, featuring core themes (or 'hooks') with every hero, shared team leveling, simplified 'item' acquisition, quicker time-to-kill, and generated objectives which try to control for average game length. However, this map is quite unique compared to your typical power creep, DotA-style AoS as typically seen in WC3. This is a MOBA/AoS inspired by an old mod I played over a decade ago by the name of SMotA, which had a basic theme of 'turn every Warcraft 3 unit into a hero.'

I am releasing an early alpha version of a passion project I have been working on with the release of Reforged.

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