RTS Hero Units

glassJAw · 2002-12-09T13:42:07

I''ve been working on an RTS game with my friend, and we recently went over the topic of heroes in multiplayer. My friend, not being a programmer, had some crazy idea about players designing their own units during the game or something (that''s right out). I originally liked the idea of Tiberian Sun-style heroes, like Ghoststalker where you can only have one instance of the unit at any time. I didn''t much like how you could build another Ghoststalker if your first one died though. Now I''m not so sure having heroes in multiplayer is such a good idea, so here''s what I plan on doing: This game is infantry-centric (it has vehicles but they will be much harder to build than infantry) so I plan on only having infantry "heroes". When one military infantry unit does something extraordinary, like takes on 10 guys and kills them all, or is the only survivor of a massive battle, he will become a "hero". There will be some sort of visual indication when you select him that he is a hero. When you send the hero off to fight the enemy, all of your units within a certain radius of him (inspired by his courage and fighting prowess) will charge alongside him. The whole pack of them will only take 50% damage from enemies, and maybe have a slightly increased rate of fire. 50% may seem a little drastic, but in our game, infantry can only take about 4 shots before they die. Of course, it will be a rare event to have one of your units turned into a hero, and the hero will still be as vulnerable as anyone to snipers (unless of course the hero is a sniper, in which case he might shoot first ). So what do you guys think? Sound like a good idea?

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Started by glassJAw December 08, 2002 10:34 AM

10 comments, last by glassJAw 22 years, 1 month ago

Fuzztrek

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December 09, 2002 01:34 PM

quote:
Original post by nickwinters
Warcraft 3 has overdone the heroes. Heroes can wipe out full armies. All anyone does is build up their heroes. I''m yet to see any brilliant manuever around defenses, or forcing enemies to split their troops, two front battles, decoys, etc. It''s all about heroes.

Only if you let them

garconbifteck

122

December 09, 2002 01:42 PM

quote:
Original post by nickwinters
Warcraft 3 has overdone the heroes. Heroes can wipe out full armies. All anyone does is build up their heroes. I''m yet to see any brilliant manuever around defenses, or forcing enemies to split their troops, two front battles, decoys, etc. It''s all about heroes.

Well, heroes become a lot weaker when your archers/missile units are fully researched out. 10 can take out a hero and with the time it takes him to travel to the next one to cut down... The hero''s over and out.

Heroes are lethal in WC3 when they lead an army, not on their own.

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