Armageddon Onslaught - Pre-alpha teaser!

[IskatuMesk]

Teaser video - www.staff.samods.org/iskatumesk/aopreview.avi

Longing for an opponent of the utmost ferocity, aggression, and brute force? Got a clan of buddies who can take down a computer 7v1 without a sweat? Think your 6pool can defeat any AI in the market?

Break yourself against the ultimate AI opponent, Armageddon Onslaught. With 3 difficulties and an entirely new fourth race at its disposal, this custom opponent will deliver the greatest survival challenge to a group of 7 players. Currently in pre-alpha stages, the AI already shows promise.

Developed by master starcraft modder IskatuMesk, each of the new units the AI builds has unique characteristics, powers, and adhere to a new style sure to get the blood flowing.

The Onslaught has begun.

The pre-alpha preview of this mod was played on maplantis mod night 60.

http://www.maplantis.org/index.php?topic=2156;skip=0

[chris]

question:

will Amageddon onslaught feature the advanced zerg AI from "zerg onslaught"?

[Mucky]

question:

will Amageddon onslaught feature the advanced zerg AI from "zerg onslaught"?

Fail.

[IskatuMesk]

question:

will Amageddon onslaught feature the advanced zerg AI from "zerg onslaught"?

Epic Fail.

Fixed.

[Lavarinth]

question:

will Amageddon onslaught feature the advanced zerg AI from "zerg onslaught"?

To ask that- First one must ask.. Will the Zerg return?

[IskatuMesk]

Armageddon have replaced the Zerg. Ultimately this means the zerg are not playable but if possible I will use global triggering to rig the zerg as an observer "race" for those who want to just watch the action.

I can't recall if it is possible to detect whether a player is a comp or not, though.

[Taeradun]

Pretty sure you can't directly, but if there's some unit that only the AI is able to build and you can guarantee that it always builds that unit within a certain short amount of time (basic worker unit?) then check for whether a player has a hatchery but doesn't have that unit after that amount of time has elapsed.

Global triggers basically allow any trigger commands that don't reference strings or locations, right?

[IskatuMesk]

Actually, I'll be able to spawn my ambient storm effects with triggers. I don't know how but someone said I could (They'd spawn at "0,0", or northeast I think). Otherwise, these triggers will replace the melee triggers and function the same way + setting up the zerg race for observers.

Perhaps forcing the AI to build a certain unit, perhaps the Gloom, will work.

[chris]

Armageddon have replaced the Zerg.

oh, I thought you had somehow fixed it so that there would be four races instead of three...

[IskatuMesk]

That used to be the case but I decreed to cannibalize the zerg for extra unit/graphic slots.