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Battle Tanks 8.51 - Exodus - 2008-08-18

Hey guys,
kinda big changelog this time. A lot of new stuff for you to play with and a major rebalancing, I hope this will make the game better and more enjoyable for you.
And thanks to TKF for the Custom Mode suggestions, I really like it nowWink

v 8.51
  • Set the maximum speed to 522
  • Reworked Custom Mode
  • Replaced Jet Propulsion (only Sky Tank) with a new ability
  • Replaced Mini-Factory (Tinker) with a new ability
  • Replaced Mines (Exploder) with a new ability
  • Changed Shutdown (Titan) a bit
  • Changed System Overload (Sky Fortress) a bit
  • Goblin Turbo (Goblin Shredder and Goblin Tank) now provides a percental speed bonus instead of a fixed one
  • Hailfire (Titan) now also hits and stuns air units
  • Hailfire deals less damage (1200 / lvl -> 1000 / lvl)
  • Devil Explosion now only hits ground units
  • Devil Explosion has a smaller range (1000 -> 900) and deals more damage (800 / lvl -> 1000 / lvl)
  • Keep on Fighting (Titan) won't let your HP drop below 25% again
  • The Bombs of Bomb Carpet (Sky Fortress) now deal damage in a larger area (400 -> 500)
  • Turbo Boost (Sky Fortress) is now a bit faster and deals more damage (500 / lvl -> 600 / lvl)
  • Increased the movement speed of various tanks
  • Improved the Frost Aura (Frost Robot) slow (-5% / lvl -> -7% / lvl)
  • Shadow Walk (Trader) now has a constant cooldown and speed bonus
  • Reduced mana costs of Repair (Light Tank)
  • Reduced mana costs and increased healed HP of Soul Restore (Ghost Tank)
  • When a player leaves his factories will be sold
  • Treants and Servants now also use the new pathfinding system
  • Troop Command Center is now cheaper (3500 -> 2750 gold)
  • Reduced the mana costs of the Troop Command Center creeps
  • You won't receive Reinforcements anymore when buying creep upgrades
  • Reduced the costs of the creep upgrades (att: 1400, def: 1500)
  • Reduced the range and increased the cooldown of Confusion Magic
  • Reduced the range of Ghosts of Doom
  • Removed the -highbounty and -weakcreeps commands
  • Added High Bounty and Weak Creep options to the Custom Mode
  • Fixed the multiple Troop Command Centers bug
  • Fixed a bug, when a player had multiple bombs and died in a net
  • Fixed some stuck positions
  • Fixed some minor bugs


Re: Battle Tanks 8.51 - k-bones - 2008-08-18

Conf Magic? Hm, I thought it's already bit too slow for a wep like that.

So, when's the Gazlow coming? :wink:

Re: Battle Tanks 8.51 - Althend - 2008-08-19

Waw huge work for this new version. ^^

Re: Battle Tanks 8.51 - Morkardar - 2008-08-19

Lord of the Sky makes Sky Tank as fast as someone with speedpack (upgrade).
They chased me with no speedpack at all.

Sky fortress ulti is now weaker, and still good!
You gain 50% spell imunity and immobilize the enemy... he can still shoot.
This makes the tank still dangerous for bystanding enemy tanks.
Not like a instant life saver at all anymore but still worth being called ultimate!

Nice balance change!

Re: Battle Tanks 8.51 - k-bones - 2008-08-19

Decreasing magic ranges when long guns are still imba... both good and bad o_0

Re: Battle Tanks 8.51 - TKF - 2008-08-19

The custom mode selection (the last one) still confuses me. So it's not possible to change the text? in Uncharted Waters, the button text shows the current mode (Trader on / Trader off). When you was able to change the color, isn't the text also possible to change?

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Some hosts still host 8.50, cuz they think you removed the -hb command and doesn't care to click custom mode to select it from there -.- noob hosts are angry cuz they are noob!

Re: Battle Tanks 8.51 - Exodus - 2008-08-19

As I already said, there is no function to change the button text. Right now the dialog will be created, the host chooses an option, then the dialog will be completely cleared and recreated with the buttons and their new values and shown again. Depending on the boolean values a different color code wil be added before the button text. But you can't do that with an already existing button.

Re: Battle Tanks 8.51 - VanHelsing222 - 2008-08-19

Confusion Magic (4444)
Cooldown: 1.33
Damage: 444
Range: 888
Upgrade (1111)
Damag: +110
IMO Upgradecosts are too low... 110 Damage for 1111 Gold
and I think the "old" Confusion Magic was better than the "new" one

Re: Battle Tanks 8.51 - nostralias - 2008-08-20

Not sure if this belongs here, but in version 8.50, you could type "-hb" at the start of a Normal Mode game, and the game would become High Bounty. It seems that "-hb" does not work in version 8.51. Is this intentional? Is the only way to have a high bounty game, to go through the menu selections of a Custom Game?

Re: Battle Tanks 8.51 - Prog - 2008-08-20

nostralias Wrote:Is the only way to have a high bounty game, to go through the menu selections of a Custom Game?

Yes it is.

Re: Battle Tanks 8.51 - TKF - 2008-08-20

It's also a way to prevent big high bounty abuse, in order to use high bounty now you have to play custom mode with custom settings.

I still dislike many still hosts 8.50 cuz they think -hb has been removed completely in 8.51 and want to play -hb game, that's not a good sign.

Re: Battle Tanks 8.51 - ycoseth - 2008-08-20

I'm a big fan of both of the Weapon changes. The new Confusion Magic is great, a solid alternative to Fire Arrows at the 850-900 slot. I hope many of the other suggestions find their way in as well.

Re: Battle Tanks 8.51 - TKF - 2008-08-21

I don't get it, goblin and sky tanks are kinda super fast tanks which get speeds above 450. Rest is below, unless you get aura from a barricade. Since exo kinda set the speed limit from 450 to 522, maybe add a third upgrade to speed packs? :mrgreen: Or 2000k speed item, 100+ speed, 2k upgrade 200 speed xD. So a average 300 speed tank get to live out 500 speed.

Just a blunt suggestion....

Re: Battle Tanks 8.51 - Vomitus - 2008-08-22

Hmm... interesting:)
I think 3rd upgrade on "update speed" item would be nice(+50 speed) to achieve +200 speed.
But speed pack itself would not give 200 speed but only 150. And this would be a matter of question - to bu speed pack, buy update speed lvl 3 or waste one slot for extra 50 speed and teleport.
BTW: I think Trader Hunter Pack should maximize your speed and give +(250..300) temporary speed bonus instead of 150.

Re: Battle Tanks 8.51 - Exodus - 2008-08-22

Why don't you just try the Hunter Pack?

Re: Battle Tanks 8.51 - Gammagulp - 2008-08-25

Damn - I was away the week, when the new version comes out Smile , great work I suppose.

To the hunter Pack. I dont use it, because I cannot update it to ultimate Pack, if the enemy starts to use mines or smoke generator.
Thats the same reason, why I dont use steel hull ^^, gold hull can go for Power packWink

Re: Battle Tanks 8.51 - TKF - 2008-08-25

Perhaps a more recipes? Also for hull improvements?

I have a suggestion for making recipes for the hulls here.

Re: Battle Tanks 8.51 - Gammagulp - 2008-08-26

But let Exo (and others) get some break, that he is able to make a new version if he could map again. Or he just get a burn out Smile .