Hello people it is time for some Emiki's Hero Arena updates!
This is a fairly big patch as it kind of includes the work of both v2.3 and v2.4. As for why patch v2.3 wasn't uploaded...well, i had to recreate the patch due to the virus which wiped my computer and the patch was relatively incomplete anyway...
No new heroes for the time being, but I've reworked a bunch of them:
Major reworks:
- Dante, the Dark Ninja
- Hades, the Malicious Archfiend
- Hudson, the Golden Warden
- Maverick, the Fullmetal Dwarf
Minor reworks:
- Angel, the White Apparition
- Calypse, the Shadow Harbinger
- Erwin, the Lightning Mage
- Jillian, the Silver Reaper
- Sewall, the Oblivion Seer
- Wrath, the Raging Beast
(The database is updated to better describe the reworked heroes, and subclasses were added where appropriate to reflect their secondary playstyles.)
Other hero changes:
- Stat gain per level for all heroes was standardized to avoid major stat discrepancies in the late game. Each hero's total stat gain now ranges from 9.0 to 12.0, where previously there were outliers as low as 7+ and as high as 15+. (i might revisit this because stat gain is a basic yet effective way to distinguish scaling between heroes)
- Minor changes to many hero abilities.
Additional changes:
- Magic resistance for non-heroes was rebalanced.
- Minor changes to items (primarily active items) which were too strong/weak.
- Kill gold increased slightly early.
Future update direction:
I'll be working on the AI next patch, because I want the AI's to be smarter so I can more accurately assess the power level of the reworked heroes. I'll also likely update some player commands and functions for the same reason, oftentimes the fast forward and max level functions were too one-dimensional and gave a skewed perspective on a hero's strength.
PS. I'll take this opportunity to talk about the countless number of bugs in the game currently. If you're playing and you keep getting a Fatal Error! crash message...well unfortunately it happens to me too and I have no idea how to fix them, so in the meantime i hope you can bear with them and try to enjoy the game anyway...
That's all for today!
- Emiki
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