Warlords Battlecry III v1.01 Patch Released
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- Fixed a random crash to desktop involving the A.I.
- Fixed a crash to desktop involving Undead (especially in Multiplayer)
- Fixed a crash caused by the Knight's Quest ability (involving having 2 or more sides of the same race in the same battle).
- No more free Call the Dead for Liches
- No more free Call the Dead for Liches
- Serpentslayer now works
- Engineer skill now works
- Vampire is now causing Fear correctly
- Fixed hotkeys for: Freeze, Call the Dead, Summon Blades & Sword of Sirian
- Removed Imps from the Wood Elf list in the editor
- Removed Elven Hunter from High Elves & Dark Elves in the editor
- No matter the bonuses applied, all spells now take a minimum of 1 mana to cast.
- No more double XP from hero skills on summoned troops.
- Typo: Fixed requirements for Wight from Dark Mill to Boneyard
- Typo: Added info text for seals & turtles
- Typo: Updated (Flaming Arrow) text to better describe what happens
- Typo: Updated (Resist Fire) text to remove the word (immune)
- Typo: Graveyard now mentions that it builds Skeleton Cavalry
Balance Changes
- Daemon: Imps get Fast Attack Speed
- Dwarves: Dwarf Infantry now take 32 sec & 30g, 75m (not 30sec, 25g, 70m)
- Dwarves: Berserkers now take 85 sec & 300m (not 75 sec & 275m)
- Dwarves: Khazrimi Guard now take 100 sec & 175g 225s (not 90 sec & 150g 200s)
- Hero: Assassination attempts vs. Heroes now subtract the target hero's level from the percentage chance of success.
- Hero: Comprehension spell no longer gives a flat 50% reduction to skill costs. It gives 25% + 5% per level of mastery (max of 50%).
- Hero: Armageddon does 100 + 50/lvl damage (not 100 + 100/lvl)
- Hero: All-seeing Eye now gives +5XP per point (not +10XP)
- Hero: Bronze Golem spell is now 60 Mana (was 36 mana)
- Hero: Decreased the effect of the merchant skill (now increases at half the previous rate)
- Hero: DEX now gives 1 Resistance per point (not 1 per 2 points)
- Hero: DEX now gives 1 Armor per 2 points (not 1 per 4 points)
- Hero: DEX now affects a hero's attack speed, not Morale (see below)
- Hero: Energy Skill now gives +5% mana regen per point (not +10%)
- Hero: Guardian Oak now gives +5XP per point (not +10XP)
- Hero: Healers no longer get Arcane Magic. replaced with Regeneration
- Hero: Ice Storm does 100 + 50/lvl damage (not 100 + 100/lvl)
- Hero: Invigorate spell now affects attack speed as well as movement speed
- Hero: Pillar of Fire does 100 + 40/lvl damage (not 120+ 60/lvl)
- Hero: Priests no longer get Arcane Magic. replaced with Magic Resistance
- Hero: Raise Champion Spell is now 65 mana (not 50 mana)
- Hero: Resist Missiles now gives resistance to missiles, not immunity
- Hero: Ring of Ice does 50 + 25/lvl damage (not 40+ 20/lvl)
- Hero: Rune skills now give +5% Life per point (not +10%)
- Hero: Slimemaster now gives +5XP per point (not +10XP)
- Hero: Spell recovery times (see below)
- Hero: STR now gives 1 Combat per point (not 1 per 2 points) and base hero combat is now 4 (not 8)
- High Elf: Moonguard max mana is now 25 (from 35), starting mana is now 10 (not 20)
- High Elf: Multitarget mana cost is now 25 (not 20)
- Knights: Inquisitor gets electrical damage
- Miscellaneous: Halved prices of items in shops
- Plague: Cryohydras now cost 200m 160c (not 200g 160c)
- Ssrathi: Towers now do 35 Piercing/Poison Damage (was 30 Fire)
- Swarm: Wasp now has Assassination (vs. air units only) like a Gnoll.
- Swarm: Scorpions get Fast Attack Speed
- Swarm: Towers now do 20 Magic Damage (was 30 Fire)
- Undead: Fallen Knight skill now costs 600g 800m (was 400g 500m).
- Undead: Wights now cost 70m to morph (was 50m).
- Undead: Slayer Knights now cost 250m to morph (was 200m).
- Undead: Doomknights now cost 350m to morph (was 300m).
New Rule Spell Recovery Times
- For a time, after a spell is cast, a hero may not cast another spell.
- This time is a number of seconds equal to 1, plus the base mana cost of the spell multiplied by the level of the spell and divided by 50. So for a 30 mana spell, 5 th in the spell list (level 5) this would be 30*5/50 = 4.0 seconds. For Heal Self, this would be 1*8/50 = 1.16 seconds.
New Rule Hero Attack Speed
- A hero's attack speed is now based off of his DEX, not his MORALE. Morale still affects all of his troops, but his own speed will be 1 second less 0.01 second for every point of DEX over 10. This may not go lower than 0.4 seconds.
New Features
- 2 New music tracks
- 15 New Magic Items
Lobby
- Improved dedicated server
- Improvement to the automatic restart mechanism
- Text input buffer increased
- Automatic patch update
- Icon for players currently in a game
- Player idle icon
- Updated help messages
- Private message window
- Various stability improvements