Broadsword Rumble!

[PhillipEarl]

This is a team map - four players, two teams! Allies change every game for a new experience!

In beta right now, but stay tuned for updates!

[Callex]

Nice map, I'm just wondering... How did you get the random seed? For the varying alliances, I mean.

[PhillipEarl]

Thanks! Side 4's corporate raider is just one of three random unit groups that were pre-designated, all of which will spawn a corporate raider for Side 4, so the player can't really tell a difference.

Each unit group, if and when spawned, will turn a different ally switch on, which makes different players allies depending on the switch activated.

Then on mission load I have a trigger that spawns a random unit group. I made sure that the trigger only fires once so only one alliance per game load is possible.

Any bugs that you could find?

[scottlu]

Hi Phillip - Al, Kathy, pinchies and I played this MP map, and my side allied with Cyan (according to the message), but when my units got close, cyan still attacked.

So either there is a bug in the mission, or in WI. Let me know.

[Callex]

Ah! I tried the same method a short while ago but it didnt work. It seems it was because the trigger condition was 'map loaded' and so the random group spawned was allways the same hehe.
Thanks for the help, that's a really useful technique!

[PhillipEarl]

scottlu wrote:

Hi Phillip - Al, Kathy, pinchies and I played this MP map, and my side allied with Cyan (according to the message), but when my units got close, cyan still attacked.

So either there is a bug in the mission, or in WI. Let me know.

Ahh..... No I think it's the mission - Since Cyan had the "mission loaded" trigger that set the switches to off but also created the unit group, it's likely that the unit set the switch to on, but it got set back to off again by the same trigger. I think I can fix. New version uploaded. Thanks!