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This is the new map I've been working on. It is based on The Thing in Space from Brood War, which is based off the movie "The Thing." The goal in the game is simple, The Thing tries to kill all the scientists, while the scientists try to kill The Thing. The Thing - The game starts with 1 thing who is randomly chosen. He moves a little faster than humans and is a Changeling with 50 health. He has the ability to disguise himself as a scientist whenever he wants. He also has a melee attack that does 5 damage at a very fast rate of fire. The Thing can take down 1 scientist by himself, but not 2. When he kills a scientist, the scientist becomes a thing. Scientist - Everyone not chosen as the thing will spawn as a Scientist. They are ghosts that do 10 damage and have 100 health. They're guns hold 10 shots, which can be refilled at a ammo station near the top left corner. They do not have shared vision and have a limited sight radius. Scientist(The Thing) - Same exact thing as the Scientist except it has the ability to transform back into The Thing. Also has a new feature not in old versions called Inject Leech. This ability does 10 damage over 10 seconds to any unit. It can be used when The Thing is blending in with all the other scientists to scare them. Use it on another player to make him paranoid, or use it on yourself and blame someone else. Another feature is that all players are the same color. This makes it hard to distinguish who is who. I'll be releasing the beta version when SC2 comes out, as I haven't been able to try it with anyone else o_o I'd appreciate any thoughts, ideas, or suggestions. Hope you guys play it when I release it :D Here is the beta version: [url blocked] Please email any suggestions, bugs, or compaints to madlinsen@gmail.com
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The Thing wins when all the scientists have become things. The scientists win if they kill off all The Things
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sounds interesting, so its like kinda like frozen tag and cop and robbers?
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haha if you wanna think of it that way. the movie was a horror movie so its supposed to be more scary than frozen tag or cops and robbers games XD
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As long as it can reset so that everyone in the game has a chance to be the Thing then I think this could be pretty cool.
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Well it plays through once and then you'd have to rehost. But The Thing is randomly chosen so you just have to get lucky.
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Why don't the scientists just group together if 2 can take down the thing? I ask as I haven't played the version in broodwar.
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Ya that was a pretty big problem in the broodwar version. All the scientists grouped up, and even if the thing was in their midst, he couldn't do anything. It usually ended up with random accusations and scientists shooting each other. That's why I added the Inject Leech ability. So if The Thing is with a group of scientists, he can do damage to them even while disguised without them knowing. When they find out, I imagine it'll become pretty chaotic XD
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Well I think there would be much more satisfaction winning as the Thing than as the group of scientists, so that's why I suggest having the game reset once one side is victorious. But then I guess you have the problem of the person who was previously the Thing now either being the thing again, or, in the case where this is prohibited, people being able to more easily guess who the Thing is when he/she is disguised.
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ya ehhhhhhh. I don't really think reseting it would work. It's not like halo zombies where theres rounds and stuff. This is supposed to be like the movie.... kinda. You either survive or you don't, no lives haha
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lol k, could still be cool- just it'll be a lot cooler for the person who is the Thing... I guess that's the point but I don't know if a lot of people will stay interested when they keep rolling scientist
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being a huge "The Thing" fan i really hope you make this, and you make it good gl!!! hope to hear more in the future
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thats true, but it depends. As the thing, I can see it being fun because you get to kill people and you get to trick them. But scientists get the paranoia, and anxiety lol. Cause you never know whose the thing, who to trust. When someone dies, everyone in the game hears a scream. So its like, "Oh shit" I'm next kinda feel. Which can be fun i guess
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lol sounds like a hilarious map! definitely will give it a shot when release comes.
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You should give the scientist a spell to remove the things scientist appearance and project him in his true form for 5 seconds, make it look like a hydra shot (needle launcher) and when it hits make him explode with tonnes of blood so it's like his human form just explodes off of him
haha if you did this dude it'd be totally bad ass, and you could release updates for weapons and maps to keep people hooked!
I'm just spitting ideas at you now lol
Maybe give the scientist 5 minerals for every 30 seconds he survives and let him buy things? (like supply depo or upgrade or even like a med-pack for other survivors or yourself)
It would also be sweet if the thing could cast dark swarm... too bad though lol
I'll download this for sure as is it sounds real fun lol
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I'm releasing the beta just as it is. There are no special effects right now. It's basically the BW version for anyone who enjoyed that. I'll keep trying to add in new things the galaxy editor can do. I like your removing the things appearance for a bit idea. I was thinking that every 5 minutes, there'd be an antidote that a scientist can pick up and shoot at 1 person. That'd make it a little bit more interesting
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nice I'll DL for sure
I also got to thinking maybe give ghosts a Stim that deals no damage and is on a 30 second cooldown?
Antidote would be sweet too, it would almost form alliances in some cases but would add paranoia because you don't know who you can trust!
perhaps if you hit the original thing with the antidote it would give the OG Thing a speed boost like stim?
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o_o lol i meant antidote more like your version oh the spell that made the thing transform back into itself. kinda like to test if they are human or not. And I'm not so sure of stim, cause that makes it too easy to hit and run the thing, who only has +1 speed to the scientists.
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Ahhh good ol Brood wars "The Thing". Will be playing for sure.
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