Multiplayer Testers Needed [WIP]
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The MOBA Mod
An entirely new game-mode for AoE

Download The Auto-Updater & Launcher
_{NOTE: THIS WILL NOT WORK IN SINGLE PLAYER MODE}
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Description:

Age of Heroes is a multi-player (3v3) battle arena game inspired and based on popular titles such as DotA2 and LoL. In Age of Heroes you control one of 18 unique Heroes with battle and game-play being centered around the use of unique Hero powers, strategy and a great deal of teamwork. Each Hero has 4 special abilities and level-up entirely differently depending on who you pick! You can buy items to equip your Hero and make them stronger, combinations of items may unlock special item recipes allowing you to create varying different item build-orders.

Your goal is to destroy the enemy team's Ancient but first you'll have to take down the strong towers that protect it and face three other mighty Heroes who will stop at nothing to protect their Ancient and claim yours as their own!

Forget what you know about AoE, Age of Heroes will transport you into a whole new realm.
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Features:

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Map Overview
Full Map Shot
Spawn Area
Center
Side Lanes
Shop
Creep Fighting
Level Relics
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Game Modifications:

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Heroes:
Heroes have three attributes which determine what they excel at. These attributes are Strength, Agility & Dexterity, you can read more about what each one does further down. Each Hero starts with a different amount of these stats and every time they level-up their stats will increase. Heroes are selected in the lobby screen, instead of selecting a Civilization you now select a Hero and your selected Hero will spawn automatically at the start of the game.
Heroes fulfill different roles and have various strengths and weaknesses, they all have 4 unique abilities which help them to complete these roles.
Example Case -
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Stormguard(Berserk)
Role: Strength Hero | Durable | Pusher | Initiator
Health - 255
Attack - 24
Reload Speed - 1.91
Movement Speed - 1.47
Armor - 2/2
Each Level - Strength +29 | Agility +20 | Dexterity +12

Abilities:

(1) Shield Break (Active)
Desc: Stormguard smashes the ground fracturing the armor that enemy Hero's are wearing.
Effect: All enemy Hero's within 4 tiles of Stormguard are hit doing 40 damage and reducing armor by 2 for 5 seconds.
Cooldown: 50s

(2) Flag of Conquest (Active)
Desc: Flying the flag of conquest Stormguard rallies fellow Heroes together under a single banner.
Effect: All Heroes gain +50HP for 40 seconds, after 40 seconds all HP buffs are removed.
Cooldown: 180s

(3) Wild Frenzy (Active)
Desc: Stormguard musters all of his strength and swings his axe in a wild frenzy, dealing huge damage to all who oppose him.
Effect: Stormguard stops all attacks for 10 seconds before entering his frenzy. The frenzy lasts for 15 seconds and gives Stormguard a 10AP increase and reduces reload speed by 1.2.
Cooldown: 260s

(4) Inner Strength (Passive)
Desc: As Stormguard fights on his fallen foes raise his blood-lust and his inner strength.
Effect: Every 10 kills that Stormguard gets he recieves a 20 second strength buff of +40 Strength.
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As you can tell, Stormguard is great at fulfilling his roles of being Durable, a Pusher and an Initiator. He is durable because he has high base health and high strength meaning that he will gain health and health regeneration quite quickly. His is great at pushing lanes or towers thanks to his ability Inner Strength which will buff his Health fairly often, combined with his Flag of Conquest ability Stormguard can boost his health significantly. Shield Break is a great initiation ability as it does a small amount of burst damage but also lowers armor, meaning that his team-mates may take advantage and do extra damage for the duration. Finally, Wild Frenzy which allows him to do a bunch of bonus damage to help push down some towers or even aid in a team fight if timed well.

Planned Hero Abilities: http://zeroempires.net/forum/topic435-aoh-complete-hero-power-list-wip.html
Note: The abilities in the current version of AoH are temporary and will be changed before the Beta release.

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Attributes:
We have seen how attributes are applied to Heroes but what do they actually do?
Strength
Each 10 points = +8HP
Each 165 points = 0.6* HP Regeneration speed
Each 10 points = +1AP (Strength Heroes)

Agility
Each 35 points = +1/1 Armor
Each 10 Points = -0.01 Reload Speed
Each 10 points = +1AP (Agility Heroes)

Dexterity
Each 330 Points = +1 range
Each 10 Points = +0.005 Movement Speed
Each 10 points = +1AP (Desxterity Heroes)

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Items:
AoH has over 20 items already with more to be added. Items cost Gold and can be bought from five locations on the map. Each base has a shop at the rear and there is a side-lane shop in the top and bottom lanes. All of these shops sell the same items and are accessible by standing close to them. There are also two secret shops, one on each side of the river. These shops sell different items that may be a crucial part in the item tech tree.

Items may do various things such as increase the attributes of a Hero, directly buff stats or even give passive abilities such as the Orb of Slowing which we will use as a case example!
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Orb of Slowing
Purchasable: Main Shop
Effect:
(1) (Passive) Slows any enemy Hero that is within 4 tiles of your Hero by 0.1.

(2) Increases Attributes:

Strength + 9

Agility +9

Dexterity +9

Attack Points +3

Costs: 380 Gold
Requires: Bracer(85G), Hero's Charm (80G), Hide of Strength(65G) & Quiver of Speed (195G)
Total Cost: 805G
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This is a really useful item if you're a slower moving Hero that has trouble dealing with escape Heroes, it will allow you to slow their attempts of escape and buy you some extra time to finish them off.
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Creep:
Definition: Creep are units that are not player controlled, they are controlled by AI but serve an important part in the game.
Every 60 seconds a new wave of creep is born, 3 Long Swordsmen and 1 Crossbowman will be created in each lane and begin to travel along the lane until they meet resistance. Creep will fight eternally, sometimes pushing the lane forward and sometimes falling back to their nearest tower where the tower will cause equilibrium to be regained. The creep exist so that you may earn Gold and Experience (represented by food). Each kill that you earn on a creep will give you 2 Experience and 19 Gold.
Creep will gain +2 AP and +5HP every 7 minutes ensuring that they are never too easy to kill!

More Coming Soon™

Credits:
Map Design - EvilPotato
Triggers & Data Editing: ZeroEmpires
AI: Miggins
Moddability: Userpatch
Extensive Help: Cysion
Testing: IdleBeaver, Miggins

[This message has been edited by RealZeroEmpires (edited 09-04-2014 @ 05:29 PM).]