(last updated: January 1, 2008)
As Jungle 5 enters beta stage, I thought I might as well post the specs as well. Here are the highlights:
(updated) Easy mode is the good-old-days version 1.0 behaviour. Items listed below only apply to Hard mode.
No Tax... is not true. There's a new "invisible" tax which applies on how many things you build/buy. Also, when you buy something at top-right corner, the price of that item increases, for example, SCV increases $1 each time, up to $55 each (original cost is $25).
Cat will also get more cash if they kill more. So take advantage on killing things.
Cat feedages - same as the old ones, such as nexus feed $12, dark archon feed $17, etc... Here are some new feedages:
- Zergling now feeds about $6
- Stargate now feeds about $6
- Zealot now feeds about $6
- Civilian now feeds about $6
Spells for Cat:
[new] Freeze Mouse - freeze a specific mouse for 1 or 3 seconds with 1 or 2 dts respectively.
[new] Mouse Magnet - moves all mice' units in arena towards the Cat, in particular, move the probe behind the civilian towards the cat. Cost=1dt
(updated) [new] Base Raider - this gosu ling rips all walls in its way, but is vulnerable after 3 seconds (ie: it has only 2hp!), dies in 5 seconds after being vulnerable. Cost=2dts and have a $45 refund upon its death.
[new] Acidic Slaughter - a "kill air" unit. It cannot be killed by Scourge, but definitely killable especially to Storm (*this is a hint there!). Cost=1dt. $50 refunds will be given once the unit dies.
[new] Mind Control GOD - a godly unit with the ability to Mind Control indefinitely. Yes, you can mind control SCVs and probes, but probes die automatically, and SCVs can't mine minerals. Cost=14dts.
Cloaked Ghost - a cloaked unit that has a specific role on locking down probes for an extended period of time. While ghost does 0 (zero) damage, you can use it to block exits so to "trap" the mouse or anything. Also it can be uncloaked just to save energy. Cost=3dts. $100 refunds will be given once the unit dies.
Monkey Vessel - a Science Vessel with Irradiate, EMP, and D-matrix for 2 dts. Classic unit.
Queen - a Queen with Ensnare, Broodling (cost 200+ mana), and best of all -> the ability to infest Command Center (it's not an easy task). Cost=2dts.
Kitty - a kitty with no base attack. But it has 2x attack upgrade rather than 1x for the big Cat. Cost=4dts.
Mice Poison - a poison to apply on a specific mice player. It will random an action every second, ranging from doing nothing, to kill one of your unit (meaning your probe if it's the only thing you have). Cost=2dts.
Infested Terrans x2 - a classic bombing spell with 2 bombing units. In the old days people would put a Zergling near the spawn so the bombers will "self-destroy". Now the Infested Terrans spawn 1 second apart, thus the suicidal Zergling could only get 1 bomber to suicide. Cost=3dts.
Rob Money - rob all mice players' cash by $1000 for each dt.
Get $100 for 1 dt - this is a trading mechanism between dt to $100. There is an option for you to set as automatically getting a dt once you have $100, or to leave the $100 unchanged.
SCV/Money Score Board - displays statistical chart at top-left corner.
Probe Locator - repeatedly pings the designated player's probe in the minimap.
As you could guess, I'm quite focusing on Cat's playing experience on this one. I hope the removal of tax and the inclusion of some lethal spells for Cat would do some justice to this wonderful (or would-be-wonderful) map. Any suggestions would be appreciated unless I heard of it before.
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4 comments:
The magnetism shouldnt grab the whole just an area around the cat, a location 10x10 would be good
the refounds should be lower
the kitty should not do x2 a x1,5 should be good
i love it. except all mice cry rigged. so i have to play 2.2 forever now.
baphomet: Thank you so much on the stats. Comments follow:
Area Magnetism was something I thought as well, the original idea was to repeatedly attract everything within an area (ie: 10x10) to Cat. There was a lot of drawbacks in the game play. So I changed it back to only attract once (or twice), but the spell wasn't justify for 1 dt. So then I changed it to attract the whole arena. We could have a further discussion on this. If I were to make it an area-spell, I would be giving refunds for it upon usage. Again, we can discuss further on this.
Refunds: please be abit more specific on which refund(s) is not justify.
Kitty's attack upg: I do share the sympathy of having 1.5x, but too bad Starcraft doesn't support 1.5 as the upgrade multiplier (ie: it has to be integer such as 1 or 2). Again, we could have more discussions on this, as the bottom line of having 2 is that: in early game, kitty cannot kill Mouse in 1 hit (well, unless Cat has 2 or more attack upgrade), and kitty could be lethal to walls in mid and late games. One thing to note is that Kitty is very weak compare to the Cat, not only it has minimal armor, it has only 3000hp. So a spawn of lings will do the job if cat-player were to separate the Kitty and the Cat.
Again, thanks for your suggestions. I look forward to more discussions on these topics.
russell: haha I have that alot. The fact is that not only there's a rigged version of 2.2 (yes, the map is locked but it's not invincible. I have something that breaks the map protection of any protected maps, I bet some kiddos out there have this and mod the map), most players are Mice and they (generally) suck - they only know how to build a Nexus and run away from Cat without knowing to kill the Nexus before. They always run at the last minute, and they chose not to check minimap.
I feel bad for typing all these now, well I just wanna express how I feel about the Jungle community. I could understand that people don't like UpKeep/Tax. But I couldn't understand why people continue be clueless about the basics that are in ALL (including the ones that I don't make) versions of Jungle, including Nexus feed, and Cat's upgrade (yes imagine noobs don't know this).
It would be great help to push 5.0 to the public more. I really want the skill-level of the general public to get higher.
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