Recording conclusions following discussion in the discord chat 2024-04-01 re: Mind Control and the heroic tag
Philosophy
AP wants to be fun, but it also wants to meet player expectations. Mind-controlled enemies should generally work, and it's preferable for bosses to not be mind-controllable. We also have a history of minimizing changes to vanilla interactions, so we want to analyze how much impact this will have
Issues
Maar is buggy once mind-controlled. It is impossible to mind-control him in vanilla, and the heroic tag would not impact any abilities available in vanilla
Solution 1: Make Maar heroic
Solution 2: Fix Maar's abilities to behave properly (e.g. Blast can target minerals, abilities lack a cooldown)
Motherships lack the heroic tag
on Trouble in Paradise, Maw of the Void, and Safe Haven
In modern melee, motherships have the heroic tag to avoid infestor mind-control, so this is within player expectation
These motherships can't be mind-controlled in vanilla, but this will have impact on stun abilities like Ultrasonic Pulse and Flashbang Grenades
Solution 1: Make motherships heroic
Solution 2: leave as-is
Solution 3: Make them immune to mind-control through a custom validator to leave stun characteristics the same
Hybrid on IUD can be mind-controlled
This feels wrong, and doesn't match later lotv hybrid, which are heroic
IUD hybrid must still be liftable
Solution 1: Make them immune to mind-control (possibly with Frenzy or a custom validator)
Interference Matrix trivializes Kerrigan and can be buggy
Kerrigan can become unable to deep-tunnel back on losing health
Solution: Have the trigger remove IM debuff on kerrigan before deep tunneling
Recommend making IM have less duration vs heroic (e.g. 5s instead of 15s)
Alternate solution: Make IM unable to target heroic (less player option, but Ravens are already strong)
Disables / debuffs vs Heroic
Recommend reducing duration / effect vs heroic for:
Lockdown
Interference Matrix (see above)
Note: Thor 330mm Barrage cannon can stun heroic but everyone seems cool with it. It has good risk/reward vs kerrigan with Implosion, at least
What happened?
Recording conclusions following discussion in the discord chat 2024-04-01 re: Mind Control and the heroic tag
Philosophy
AP wants to be fun, but it also wants to meet player expectations. Mind-controlled enemies should generally work, and it's preferable for bosses to not be mind-controllable. We also have a history of minimizing changes to vanilla interactions, so we want to analyze how much impact this will have
Issues
What were the expected results?
See interlaced with problems above
Software
While playing