No Strike

Demo File[testing.potatomvm.tf]
(rename the demo if you want to play it in game, tf2 won't play it because the name is too long)
Class Lineup:
Scout (M e n d y $)
Soldier (balls itch)
Demoknight (the fat)
Engi (Seelpit)
Medic (PDA Expert)
Sniper (washy)


Demo booties description "Stronger against swords" is a vague description to their melee resistance. Consider rewording that description.

Mission had almost zero flaws, and should be ready to pass the next session. Keep at it.

As a personal note, I really liked that I can just erase all Uber Medics with CoK + cleave. It was very satistifying.


-Scout + Flare Pyro squad is strange. Consider seperating them out.
-Final Giant Burst Fire Soldier came in a bit late

-Reduce Onion Ring and Axe Throw phase HP by 1k-2k
-Tone down the amount of monoculus spells active at once to 2 during the Spell Caster phase
-Make the Giant Demoknight group spawn in a stream in the final phase. Probably can place a portal where they're spawning and then remove it when they stop. WaitBetweenSpawns 5 should be ok

https://www.dropbox.com/s/08vti1tryne225e/mvm_null_b7_adv_baneful_harvest.pop?dl=0


-Nerfed Rapid Fire Soldiers

-Nerfed Giant Plasma Heavy

I have been asked by Blacky to review this mission and give my opinion on it so here goes.

-Right off the bat I can already point out something bad, and that is the way conch soldiers are handled. The way they are handled, there's at least one alive at any given moment. This makes all bots and giants alike way faster, which is very problematic, as the wave consists of a lot of high power / tanky giants. My proposal would be to make those conches spawn like snipers, with about 20-30 seconds in between spawns and in pairs or groups of 3-4 (please notice to use WaitBetweenSpawnsAfterDeath instead of WaitBetweenSpawns) infinite conch is not ok in any way. The conch support on the last subwave can stay.

-Next, I will tackle the RS Giant Soldiers. Restricting any means of playing the game (movement, visibility, dealing damage) should be used very sparingly, sometimes even not used at all. Those giant soldiers, as of now, aren't very threathening, but they do act as mosquitos that simply annoy you and thus they serve no push in Expert. My suggestion is to replace them with a more threathening giant, like Giant Burst Soldiers, since their support isn't really a big threat to begin with.

-The pistol scout subwave didn't had any threats at all. My proposal would be to mix it with the tank subwave, albeit not at the same intensity.

-Everything else was fine


-Wave 2 looks like "buy crit res or die" which is a very bad thing for this amount of money. I'd say that only the samurais should have crits, to create a sense of dread, while also allowing the teams to risk it by not buying crit res. All other commons should have their crits removed, booster heavies included. Just turn then to regular deflectors. Also remove crits from Giant Tomislav Heavy. Crits have no falloff on miniguns and getting obliterated by a Giant Heavy from a distance isn't fun. You can boost spawn rates in turn to account for the removal of crits (Giant Pyro crits can stay).

-The boss feels like a total bitch to kill. I saw that you already did something to him, but additionally, please remove AlwaysFireWeapon from him and make him unable to airblast. Could also reduce his regen or remove it and give it slight HoK maybe (like 1000 or 2000).

-Everything else is fine


-Overall the wave was ok, but still I picked up some flaws.

-Once again, Giant RS Soldiers. With the Giant Natascha Heavies, it's the annoying duo. I suggest replacing the g soldiers with something else. Hot take: Giant Battalion Soldiers.

-Main issue of this wave are the bosses. As of now they are 3 same bots with little variety, which makes things very boring. Also their smoke screen is a very shitty thing, because of the ranged support bots which come with them, and their pills. My sugesstion is to keep the smoke exclusive to the last guy, make it fire less frequently (the smoke balls) and give all the other g demos some unique attacks. I'm sure you can cook something up, like fires more frequently but deals less damage for example.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/08vti1tryne225e/mvm_null_b7_adv_baneful_harvest.pop?dl=0


-Reworded knockback resistance/immunity on giants explanation

-Replaced Flare Gatling Gun Heavies with Heater Heavies

-Removed final subwave
-Reduced the number of Demoknights and made them spawn faster
-Replaced final Giant Heavy with Giant Deflector Heavy

-Nerfed the two certain energy based Giants
-Reduced spam in the second subwave
-Final Colonel Barrage comes out without delay

-Phase 2 Zatoichi now heals 500 HP instead of 1000 HP

For more detailed changes, mainly of the nerfs, check the bottom of the popfile.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/826341855519965195/860656398969733130/unknown.png

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ez2gml9zpofilf4/Revision%201.zip?dl=0
After reviewing the feedback and the demo, I decided to make some needed changes to the mission.


-Nerfed Giant Rocket Shotgun Soldier

-Made first pyros spawn later
-Replaced Penetrating Bowmen with regular Bowmen

-Fixed bad english
-Nerfed Headless Mann
-Fixed Headless Mann going hyperspeed when he has heads
-Made Headless Mann look more like a zombie

-Replaced Giant Natascha Heavy with Giant Heavy

-Removed crits off Giant Armored Sandman Scouts

-Fixed the icon disappearing after phase 1 dies
-Nerfed Slave Knight Dael

For more detailed changes, mainly of the nerfs, check the bottom of the popfile.

On Wave 6 the phase that's supposedly not working correctly is fully intentional. It exists simply to give a smooth transmission to the next bot phases

no

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xk246rlt5dj2cqk/cool%20mission.zip?dl=0
Minor Revision

Difficulty: Advanced

Custom Upgrades? No

Re-balances to weapons and/or classes? No

Blacklisted upgrades, items, or classes? No

Other restrictions or major changes? Yes (i guess it's a major change)
-All giants are immune to knockback and Giant Scouts have increased knockback resistance

Requests:
-No Shield
-No Heavy + Medic
-No Uber/Crit canteens
-Run with a Heavy once

P.S. Map in the zip file is null_b1

If the map changes to something you have already done and there are still missions for you to do, leave and find an another server. I don't know why you get attached to this event. Carry on.

And to answer your question, no I have not met myself with this kind of situation, but that's probably because I played TT with a group of friends, which is recommended by me, since the chance of this scenario you reported here decreases.