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Update: 10 Jul, 2022 @ 3:06am

General

  • Deleted data that was no longer needed

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Update: 9 Jul, 2022 @ 6:58am

General

  • Redid the borders on the Shadow Phoenix loading screen icon

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Update: 6 Jul, 2022 @ 9:28pm

General

  • Added a custom loading screen and quote for the Shadow Phoenix (RoR don't have these for some reason in vanilla therefore Vengeance doesn't either)
  • Redid Vengeance (Arcane Phoenix)'s 2D porthole, it's now much nicer looking
  • Description changes for the Shadow Phoenix and Vengeance (Arcane Phoenix)

Shadow Phoenix
  • Brand new unit card icon that was made by the very talented r1kko
  • Now has the Vanguard Deployment passive
  • Now has the Vanguard Deployment trait displayed on the unit card
  • Now has the Causes Terror passive
  • Charge Bonus decreased from 60 to 59
  • Melee Attack increased from 42 to 44
  • Base damage increased from 135 to 140
  • Armor-Piercing damage decreased from 350 to 300
  • Shadowflight's cooldown decreased from 80 to 60 seconds
  • Shadowflight can no longer be activated while grounded or while in melee
  • Shadowflight Speed buff decreased from 35% to 30%
  • Shadowcloak's cooldown decreased from 120 to 80 seconds
  • Shadowcloak's active duration increased from 12 to 16 seconds

Vengeance (Arcane Phoenix)
  • Brand new unit card icon that was made by the very talented r1kko
  • No longer has the Attuned to Magic passive
  • Removed the Attuned to Magic trait displaying on the unit card
  • Removed the Causes Terror trait displayed on the unit card
  • Removed the Anti-Infantry trait displayed on the unit card
  • Now has the Armored trait displayed on the unit card
  • Now has the Unbreakable passive
  • Now has the Unbreakable trait displayed on the unit card
  • Now has the Siege Attacker passive
  • Now has the Rampage passive
  • Now has the Rampage trait displayed on the unit card
  • No longer possesses Magical Attacks
  • Health increased from 7798 to 7898
  • Melee Attack increased from 50 to 59
  • Melee Defense increased from 54 to 58
  • Speed decreased from 120 to 100, ground speed also reduced
  • Mass slightly reduced

My last major rebalance messed a few consistencies up. I mainly play with Radious overhaul and it's hard to maintain two drastically different sides of the mod since vanilla's and Radious' balancing logics are very, very different from one another.

Anyways... after more testing, I'm mostly quite happy with where the Shadow Phoenix is since its damage now comes from most of its Charge Bonus but the downtime between attacking with them due to their cooldowns felt frustrating so I've lowered the cooldown and increased the duration of their Shadowcloak ability.

As for Vengeance, he's had quite a bit done for him that I feel helps properly express his personality further; he has the Siege Attacker passive which allows him to attack gates (which a lot of large units already have), and he's now Unbreakable but is also prone to Rampaging during battle.

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Update: 4 Jul, 2022 @ 11:33am

General

  • Backend fixes that allowed me to reduce the mod's file size drastically

Vengeance (Shadow Phoenix)
  • Renamed to "Vengeance (Arcane Phoenix)"
  • Finally redid Vengeance's textures. They now look a lot nicer and less eye-soringly contrasted.
  • Vengeance's LOD will no longer go overly saturated at a distance
  • Removed the fog effect that surrounds the unit model

Originally I had conceptualized Vengeance as a Shadow Phoenix but the final lore I had for him was that he was an Arcane Phoenix afflicted by dark magic (but not enough to warp his mind), so it made no sense that his name noted he was a Shadow Phoenix.

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Update: 22 Jun, 2022 @ 4:43pm

Vengeance (Shadow Phoenix)

  • Cost increased from 2500 to 2650

I forgot to adjust its cost in lieu of the new rebalance. Oopsie.

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Update: 21 Jun, 2022 @ 7:24pm

General

  • Deleted unnecessary data

Shadow Phoenix
  • Cost increased from 1750 to 1800
  • Health decreased from 5628 to 5428
  • Leadership decreased from 87 to 80
  • Charge Bonus increased from 56 to 60
  • Melee Defense decreased from 35 to 33
  • Base Damage decreased from 170 to 135
  • Armor-Piercing damage increased from 330 to 350
  • Splash Attack affects a maximum of 4 entities instead of 6
  • Splash Attack Power Multiplier decreased from 2 to 1
  • Removed Duelist trait from unit card
  • Shadowflight now gives 35% Speed instead of 50%
  • Shadowflight recharge time decreased from 90 seconds to 80 seconds
  • Shadowflight active time increased from 12 seconds to 24 seconds
  • Shadowflight ability now gives +5 Charge Bonus when activated
  • Shadowcloak now gives 60% Ward Save instead of 75%

Vengeance (Shadow Phoenix)
  • New unit icon. The original one I had was the first concept for Vengeance that I wanted to go for but as I learned how difficult texture editing truly was I kind of just settled for what I had now but the icon never matched the unit itself. Now it does ...mostly!
  • Health reduced from 7998 to 7798
  • Melee Attack reduced from 58 to 50
  • Charge Bonus reduced from 68 to 62
  • Melee Defense reduced from 58 to 54
  • Armor increased from 55 to 80
  • Now has a passive 70% Magic Resistance
  • Splash Attack affects a maximum of 12 entities instead of 9
  • Splash Attack Power Multiplier increased from 1 to 1.2
  • No longer does bonus damage to infantry
  • Removed Vengeful Charge ability
  • Renamed Revengeful Aura to "Vengeful Aura"
  • Vengeful Aura's icon has been selectively desaturated to better represent Vengeance
  • Vengeful Aura now passively reduces enemy Melee Attack by -10 instead of -12
  • Vengeful Aura now also passively reduces enemy Leadership by -8

The concept I had going for the Shadow Phoenix was always kind of hard to balance out because I wanted it to do really high damage but without making it overpowered but in reality you could just take 2-3 Shadow Phoenixes and pretty much destroy a Lord or Hero. With this rebalance, the unit is now solely dependant on Charge Bonus in order to achieve its maximum damage output, similar to cavalry, making them truly a hit-and-run unit.

Keep in mind that Charge Bonus activates when a successful charge is done, it then increases Weapon Strength and Melee Attack for 10-15 seconds before tapering off to the unit's default values. A new charge will need to be initiated to restart the buff and so forth.

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Update: 8 Feb, 2022 @ 5:25am

Shadow Phoenix

  • AI now use the flying_melee_shock_highvalue logic for the unit
Vengeance (Shadow Phoenix)
  • Level required to unlock reduced from 34 to 28

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Update: 7 Feb, 2022 @ 5:29pm

Shadow Phoenix

  • Now has the Duelist trait on unit card

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Update: 4 Feb, 2022 @ 6:07pm

Shadow Phoenix

  • There is now sound queue when Shadowflight and Shadowclock are currently active
Vengeance (Shadow Phoenix)
  • Fixed a bug where Vengeance was set in the wrong Attribute Group, now he correctly gives Cause Terror to enemies

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Update: 4 Feb, 2022 @ 2:45am

Shadow Phoenix

  • Shadowflight cooldown increased from 60 seconds to 90 seconds
  • Added additional effect descriptions to Shadowcloak
  • Shadowcloak cooldown increased from 80 seconds to 120 seconds
  • No longer has any Magic Resistance
Vengeance (Shadow Phoenix)
  • Fixed a bug where Revengeful Aura was decreasing Vengeance's own melee attack rather than just enemies
  • No longer has Magic Resistance
  • Vengeful Charge's Melee Attack buff reduced from 12 to 8
  • Vengeful Charge's Charge Bonus buff reduced from 20 to 15

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