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
[Bugfix] Physical spells would not damage magic immune units

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
AIs will now pool their money together for all purchases
Added code to improve detection of when the AI is stuck and attempts to remedy it
AI will now focus on the artifact wagon and capture it if possible
[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
[Bugfix] Purchasing items sometimes cost the AI no gold

Commands

[Bugfix] -spawnrate now works properly in single player

Battlefields

Candleburg

Kedge's Landing

Moved Red's equipment shop closer to the main hall
Moved Red's item shop to the equipment shop's former location

Gloomreap Mire

Stormwail Peak

Moved Blue's equipment shop closer to the main hall

Verdant Falls

Heroes

Elven Battalion

Aeromancess

Arcane Archer

Blazing Priest

New talent: Fiery Rebirth

Divine Wizard

Infiltrator

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

Mystic Swashbuckler

Rune Knight

[Bugfix] Catapulting Rune would throw spell-immune units

Soul Binder

Soul Strike
- Duration reduced to 6 seconds from 8
- Damage increased
- Mana cost scaling reduced
- Cooldown increased to 20 seconds from 17
- Range increased by 30%
Incinerate mana cost increased

Tactician

Order Attack replaced with Take Command
New Skill: Military Regalia, a result of merging Banner with Great Bow
- Place Banner is now the active ability, replacing Impaling Shot
- Now passively grants the Banner aura with a shorter range, which is temporarily disabled when Place Banner is used
- Passive bonuses reduced
- Place 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
New Skill: Blast Arrow
- Knocks units back from the center of the targeted area, doing damage and causing a chance to miss for a short period
Ensnare renamed to Neutralize
- Now also bombards the targeted area dealing damage over time
Flank
- Reduced time between each spawn to 1 second from 2
Promote
- Melee promotions given higher damage and armor
- [Bugfix] Melee promotions weren't receiving the proper upgrades

Time Cleric

[AI] Merged back into the default AI

Combos

United Creeps

Acid Reaver

Charge cooldown increased to 30 seconds

Arboreal Crusader

Arcane Mistress

Colossus

Crest Witch

New hero!

Dread Shaman

Elder Treant

Timbercurse
- Mana cost increased
- Duration against heroes reduced to 8 seconds from 30

Grim Hag

Swoop's impact throwback speed increased, but deceleration significantly increased

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

Ascendant

Stonegaze
- Effect speed greatly reduced
- Area reduced
Terra Smash
- Duration against heroes reduced by half
- Duration against units reduced to 6 seconds across all levels
- Attack speed reduction increased
- Movement speed reduction now scales from 30% to 50% from 20% to 70%

Behemoth

Miasma's blood fly swarms no longer stack damage
Maw of Death
- Spitting units now deals half damage to structures
- [Bugfix] Can no longer eat ethereal units

Defiler

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

Emberwraith

Forlorn Martyr

Streak
- Cooldown reduction from leveling reduced to 2 seconds per level from 3
- Chaining range reduced
Stormspire range for trigging damage reduced

High Oracle

[Bugfix] Zen Shot would throw spell-immune units
[AI Bugfix] Wasn't effectively taking Ki Strike talent

Incarnation

Nephilim

Reordered the skill sets
Blood Mastery
- Adrenaline cooldown decreased to 5 seconds from 7
- Vampiric Bite
  - No longer hits air
  - Mana cost reduced
- Pain
  - Now gains range with higher levels
  - Cooldown incresed to 9 seconds from 7
Fire Mastery
- Blastwave
  - Mana cost reduced
  - Cooldown increased to 8 seconds from 6
- Scintilate
  - Immolation damage and range increased by 33%
  - Mana cost reduced
  - [Bugfix] Immolation effect should now properly gain levels
- Conflagrate mana cost reduced
- Scorch
  - Mana cost reduced
  - Cooldown increased to 8 seconds from 6
Shadow Mastery
- Dusklash cooldown increased to 7 seconds from 4
- Shadowveil
  - Mana cost increased
  - Cooldown increased to 8 seconds from 4
- Spellbind
  - Area reduced
  - Range increases with level
  - Cooldown incresaed to 9 seconds from 4
War Mastery
- Distract
  - Mana cost removed
  - Cooldown decreased to 1 second from 3
- Plunder
  - [Bugfix] Now removes helpful buffs from the target instead of debuffs
- Retaliate will now only respond to damage from normal attacks
- Shred mana cost reduced
- Swipe
  - Mana cost reduced
  - Area of effect increased
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

Sorrow Liege

Combos

Fel Horde

Crimson Squall

Mana costs increased

Glacial Tyrant

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

Mercenaries

Blackguard

Air attack range reduced to 300 from 600
Shadowclap
- Cooldown reduced to 8 seconds from 11
- New talent: Building Shadows, increases the damage by the delay