warpdragon commented 6 years ago

Boss: Swiper

1. UNIT

1.1. Lua

AI: The unit should utilize a thinker to attempt to cast spells from a sub-list of his spells but only if they are off cooldown. The sub-list of spells, the level of the spells, and their respective cooldowns, should depend on the boss phase. In Phase 3 the boss should cast Deathly Apparition immediately before the wind-up of his other spells when possible.

1.2. KV

Armor: boss average
Magic Resist: boss average
Status Resist: boss average
Hitpoints: boss average
Hitpoint Regen: boss average
Manapoints: boss average
Manapoints Regen: boss average
Attack Behavior: No auto attack
XP Bounty:
Gold Bounty:
Inventory: Upgrade Core, Boss Heart
Abilities: Thrust, Frontswipe, Backswipe, Reaper's Rush, Deathly Apparition
Any settings typical to other bosses.

1.3. Tooltip

Name: Sabnock
Description: the Swordsman
Lore: Demon.

1.4. Model

Boss models should appear unique and different from existing Dota 2 units.

Style: Demon with a sword.
Base Model: Custom or existing Dota 2 Model
Wearables: Custom or existing wearables rigged using Blender and/or FollowEntity(). Lion head if possible. Weapon should be a very large sword.

1.5. Animations

Run: Normal
Stun/Flail/Spawn/Death/Idle
Additional ability animations detailed in Abilities section.

2. ABILITIES

All abilities should be telegraphed by a particle effect outlining the location, area, and general motion of the ability. Abilities require a significant "wind-up" animation to play accompanied by a targetting reticle before executing the damage, so players will learn to dodge his abilities. All art associated with his abilities should follow a similar style/color palette.

2.1. Lua

Boss Resistance: Used by all bosses.
Cliffwalking: Used by all bosses
Thrust: Long range (~600u), targeting the ground at the location of a player furthest away from the boss up to a certain range. Damages in an AOE line.
Frontswipe: Swing the sword in a 180-degree arc counter-clockwise. Short range (~200u), targetted to hit as many players as possible.
Backswipe: Occasionally (~25%) and immediately follows frontswipe swinging the sword in a 180-degree clockwise arc. Short range (~200u).
Reaper's Rush: Holds the sword to the right, perpendicular to his facing direction. Runs quickly to a far away location in the arena in the direction of the highest concentration of players. Players hit by the sword take massive damage. Enemies hit by the boss's body take moderate damage, are pushed away (~100u), and are slowed. Upon reaching his destination, swings the sword in a 360-degree arc counter-clockwise.
Deathly Apparition: Blink into advantageous position (with lots of convenient targets nearby).

2.2. KV

KV should account for abilities with 3 levels corresponding to the 3 phases. Damage should increase per level. Cooldown should decrease per level.

Thrust: Delay, Range, Width, Target_Max_Range, Target_Min_Range, Damage, Cooldown
Frontswipe: Delay, Start_Angle, End_Angle, Range, Min_Targets, Target_Max_Range, Damage, Cooldown
Backswipe: Delay, Start_Angle, End_Angle, Range, Damage, Cooldown
Reaper's Rush: Delay, Speed, Max_Range, Min_Range, Min_Targets, Push_Length, Slow, Slow_Duration, Max_Damage, Min_Damage, Start_Angle, End_Angle, Cooldown
Deathly Apparition: Range, Cooldown

2.3. Tooltip

Name, Description, KV-entries, Lore

2.4. Icons

Custom icons for each ability

2.5. Particles

Particles should accompany the wind-up animation and be of equal length.

Thrust: A long, narrow targeting rectangle renders from the boss outward over the duration of the wind-up, indicating the precise location of impending damage. This particle should disappear after the wind-up but before the ability animation completes. Additionally, the Ability animation should emit a copy of his sword as a large, poking, sword particle.
Frontswipe: A targetting circle centered on the boss's position should begin as an expanding pie slice counter-clockwise until it reaches the total arc of the location of impending damage. This particle should disappear after the wind-up but before the ability animation completes. Additionally, the Ability animation should emit a trailing particle similar to juggernaut spin.
Backswipe: The frontswipe particle should play in reverse at the appropriate time. The particle should disappear before the ability animation completes. Additionally, the Ability animation should emit a trailing particle similar to juggernaut spin.
Rush: Two parallel targeting rectangles emit from the boss outward over the duration of the wind-up, indicating the precise location of impending damage. Once the boss begins moving a new indicator circle particle should appear at the target location indicating the total arc of the location of impending damage. The particle should dissappear before the ability animation completes.
Deathly Apparition: Simple start/end blink-style particles.

2.6. Animations

Run: With sword perpendicular to him
Ability: Thrust forward
Ability: Swipe clockwise
Ability: Swipe Counterclockwise

3. MODIFIERS

3.1. Lua

Slow Modifier: Units slowed by Rush should have a modifier indicating this
Any other modifier required by previous coding.

3.2. Tooltip

Name: Required.
Description: Required. Should reference KV entry for any relevant values.

3.3. Icons

Possibly the same as the rush ability icon

3.4. Particles

Overhead particle indicating slowed status

4. PHASES

4.1 Phase One

Active while boss is between 100 and 75% HP
Sub-list of abilities: Thrust, Frontswipe and Backswipe

4.2. Phase Two

Active while boss is between <75% and 50% HP
Sub-list of abilities: Thrust, Frontswipe, Backswipe, Rush
Particle/Model: Boss model should gain an indicator particle or model modification to indicate that he is in stage 2

4.3. Phase Three

Active while boss is between <50% and 0% HP
Sub-list of abilities: Thrust, Frontswipe, Backswipe, Rush, Teleport
Particle/Model: Boss model should gain an indicator particle or model modification to indicate that he is in stage 3

carlosrpg commented 6 years ago

Smells like bug bounty material, but I don't think we can get someone to cover that many things

Haganeko commented 6 years ago

Yeah. We're splitting it up, then putting up a bounty

GymLeaderGiovanni commented 6 years ago

Does that include the lore or am I still doing that for free?