Next Version

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

General

• New feature: Perks!
  • Located at your altar, perks are available at levels 1, 30, and 50
• Energy
  • Unused energy no longer provides an experience bonus
  • Energy is only enabled in Stormwail Peak and Gloomreap Mire
  • Energy is now gained based on your hero level, 1 energy per 2 levels
• Generators
  • Time requirement removed
  • Crystal generators removed
  • Base Generators
    • Cost incresaed to 250 gold from 150
    • Health reduced to 900 from 1800
    • Build time reduced to 30 seconds from 180
    • Repair time reduced to 30 seconds from 120
  • Arcane Generator
    • Upgrade time decreased to 30 seconds from 60
    • Maximum mana reduced to 300
    • Missle Storm and Impaling Field removed
    • New spells: Thump and Rain of Chaos
    • Shockwave
      • Mana cost reduced to 180 from 450
      • Damage reduced to 350 from 700
      • No longer hits buildings
      • Damage size reduced by 33%
      • Speed reduced by 25%
  • Defense Generator
    • Energy cost increased to 5 from 3
  • Devestation Generator
    • Energy cost increased to 7 from 4
    • Upgrade time increased to 120 seconds from 60
    • Range reduced to 500 from 600
  • Execution Generator
    • Energy cost increased to 10 from 5
    • Upgrade time increased to 120 seconds from 60
    • Charged attack damage reduced to 35 from 60
    • Attack speed cooldown increased to 0.5 seconds from 0.35
  • Explosive Generator
    • Energy cost decreased to 6 from 12
    • Detonation charge time reduced to 180 seconds from 240
    • Now deals half damage to allies
    • Damage dealt is a percentage of maximum health
      • Generators: 100%
      • Structures 25%
      • Heroes: 25%
      • Units: 50%
  • Replenishment Generator
    • Energy cost increased to 5 from 3
    • Upgrade time increased to 30 seconds from 3
    • Maximum mana reduced to 400 from 500
  • Siege Generator
    • Energy cost increased to 12 from 9
    • Upgrade time increased to 120 seconds from 60
    • Base damage reduced to 70 from 94
• Command Towers
  • Cost reduced to 250 gold from 500
  • Health increased to 900 from 500
  • Effect range increased to 800 from 500
  • Repair time increased to 60 seconds from 10
  • Build time incresaed to 90 seconds from 10
  • [Bugfix] Spawning next to a command tower would sometimes ignore the tower's orders
• [Bugfix] Some skills or items would trigger attack procs

AI

• Lots of tweaks to various behaviors
• Should be less prone to sometimes run into enemy waves alone, particularly early game
• Can now port within the first 20 seconds of a game
• Now builds generators
• Normal and Insane AIs will build defense towers and upgrade outposts with excess gold
• Normal and Insane AIs will take over destroyed outposts
• Insane AIs will now use command towers
• Added code to improve detection of when the AI is stuck and attempts to remedy it
• [Bugfix] AIs wouldn't receive their starting gold
• [Bugfix] Allied spawn towers were being counted twice when trying to decide what to build
• [Bugfix] Code intending to prevent AI heroes from chasing fleeing heroes was not functioning as intended
• [Bugfix] Found a bug that can cause an AI player to loose all their gold

Heroes

Elven Battalion

Blazing Priest

• New talent: Fiery Rebirth

Infiltrator

• Attack of Opportunity
  • [Bugfix] Now properly hits stunned units
  • [Bugfix] Damage calculation was too high for side hits
• New talent: Subtility
• AI updated

Soul Binder

• Soul Strike
  • Duration reduced to 6 seconds from 8
  • Damage increased
  • Mana cost scaling reduced
  • Cooldown increased to 20 seconds from 17

Tactician

• Banner now has a generic racial powerup from non-elven heroes
  • United Creep: Bloodlusts units
  • Grim Brigade: Slows enemies
  • Fel Horde: Drains enemy's mana
  • Mercenary: Vulnerability, heavily reduces a single enemy units armor for a short time

Time Cleric

• [AI] Merged back into the default AI

United Creeps

Crest Witch

• New hero!

Elder Treant

• Timbercurse's duration against heroes reduced to 8 seconds from 30

Icespinner

• [AI Bugfix] Wasn't properly using crystal

Master of the Hunt

• Hamstring may now target air units

Scarab

• Smite's percentage damage now scales up to 30% over its levels

Grim Brigade

Behemoth

• Miasma's blood fly swarms no longer stack damage

Defiler

• Devouring Plague
  • Cooldown increased to 60 seconds from 30
  • Duration increased to 8 seconds from 6

High Oracle

• [AI Bugfix] Wasn't effectively taking Ki Strike talent

Nephilim

• Blood Mastery
  • Vampiric Bite
    • No longer hits air
    • Mana cost reduced
  • Pain now gains range with higher levels
• Fire Mastery
  • Blastwave mana cost reduced
  • Scintilate
    • Immolation damage and range increased by 33%
    • [Bugfix] Immolation effect should now properly gain levels
  • Conflagrate mana cost reduced
• Shadow Mastery
  • Spellbind
    • Area reduced
    • Range increases with level
• War Mastery
  • Distract mana cost removed
  • Plunder
    • [Bugfix] Now removes helpful buffs from the target instead of debuffs
  • Retaliate will now only respond to damage from normal attacks
• Power Mastery
  • Ignis Salvo
    • Mana cost reduced
  • Immortal's Breath
    • Mana cost reduced
    • Cooldown reduced to 30 seconds from 60

Putrid Eidolon

• [Bugfix] Rotting Grove's Prolonged Decay talent usually didn't work

Fel Horde

Glacial Tyrant

• [Bugfix] Artic Cataclysm would only apply level 1 of the debuff

Mercenaries

Fire Knight

• Redesigned & now a playable hero!

Wretched Chef

• New playable & hirable hero!

Items

• Gloves of Evocation bonus increased by 50%
• Felskin Gauntlet's cooldown decreased to 45 seconds from 180