Next Version

This is a list of planned changes for the next version of Twilight.

General

• Mercenary Heroes hired from taverns now use the new AI
• [AI]
  • Now prioritizes upgrading items over purchasing new ones
  • Insane AI's will now claim thier own gold rather than pooling it to human players
  • If no human players are present on a team they will now...
    • Repair their buildings!
    • Hire mercenaries to defend bases!
    • Build spawn towers!
    • Purchase upgrades!
  • Now combines gems with +5 helms
  • Certain heroes will be more aggressive at defending lanes
  • [Bugfix] Was not getting the proper gold discount when upgrading items
  • [Bugfix] AI's should be far less likely to start the game all in the same lane
• New Zombie Apocalypse mode, enabled with HCL option 'Z'

Commands

• New command: '-h', displays the health of all magical shields on selected units

Battlefields

Kedge's Landing

• [AI] AI heroes will now fight for control of the moontear spawn point
• [AI] AI heroes will now pickup Moontears

Gloomreap Mire

• [AI] Computers will now hire Digmasters if there are no human players on the team

Stormwail Peak

• [AI] AI heroes should be much less likely to place multiple Obelisk Control Towers on one Obelisk
• [AI] AI teams will now send workers to build Obelisk towers

Verdant Falls

• [AI] AI heroes will now participate in font battles
• [Bugfix] AI heroes will obey the no respawn rules for Font battles

Heroes

Elven Battalion

Aeromancess

• New talent: Buffet
• [AI] Has a new spell AI

Arcane Archer

• [AI] Updated spell AI

Blazing Priest

• [AI] Has a new spell AI

Divine Wizard

• [AI] Has a new spell AI

Rune Knight

• [AI] Updated spell AI

Time Cleric

• [AI] Forks no longer loose health over time when controlled by the AI

United Creeps

Acid Reaver

• [AI] Has a new spell AI

Arboreal Crusader

• [AI] Has a new spell AI
• [Bugfix] -s wasn't working

Arcane Mistress

• [AI] Has a new spell AI

Elder Treant

• [AI] Updated spell AI

Master of the Hunt

• [AI] Updated spell AI

Scarab

• [AI] Has a new spell AI

Grim Brigade

Ascendant

• Stonegaze
  • Damage to petrified heroes reduced to 10% of current health from 15%
  • Cooldown reduction for higher levels increased
  • Duration on heroes reduced
  • Duration on units reduced to 5 seconds across all levels
  • Area increases with level
  • Mana cost increased
• Sentinel
  • Evasion while flying reduced to 60% from 80%
  • Base health reduced to 70 from 120
  • Stoneform's damage reduction reduced to 15 from 20 and minimum damage increased to 2 from 1
• [AI] Updated spell AI

Behemoth

• Miasma's Bloodfly damage is now randomly dealt, but it should average out to the same total. This change is to reduce lag caused by many flies.
• [Bugfix] Maw of Death and Anchor can no longer directly target units to avoid problems when trying to click a loation
• [AI] Updated spell AI

Defiler

• Devouring Plague cooldown increased to 30 seconds
• [AI] Has a new spell AI

Emberwraith

• [AI] Updated spell AI

Forlorn Martyr

• [AI] Updated spell AI

High Oracle

• [AI] Has a new spell AI

Incarnation

• [AI] Has a new spell AI

Nephilim

• Disabled until I have time to fix him since people can't stop abusing his bugged inniate

Putrid Eidolon

• Fungal Armor will now only trigger from normal attacks, not spells
• [AI] Updated spell AI

Sorrow Liege

• Royal Guard
  • No longer blocks all damage from towers
  • Now blocks a maximum of 75% of damage from non-heroes, down from 100%
  • Guard health reduced
• [AI] Has a new spell AI

Fel Horde

Glacial Tyrant

• [AI] Updated spell AI

Mercenaries

Blackguard

• [AI] Updated spell AI
• [Bugfix] Shadowclap's damage delay was not being properly calculated

Units

Elven Battalion

• Priests' polymorph has been replaced with a 30 second stun using the Sleep graphic

United Creeps

• Tricksters' polymorph has been replaced with a 30 second stun using the Entangling Roots graphic
• [Bugfix] Serpant Wards no longer grant bounties

Grim Brigade

• Lost Souls' polymorph has been replaced with a 30 second stun using the Shadow Strike graphic

Fel Horde

• Changed the animation for Sunder Armor so they make their annoying cast sound less often

Items

• Glacial Wall proc rate cut to a third of its former rate
• [Bugfix] Guise of the Witchdoctor's life conversion was being blocked by shields