Unholy Christmas!
"Behold, fools! The twisted realm shall be adorned with devilish presents aplenty, for dear old Santa Claus has inexplicably joined forces with you. But beware, hapless mortals! If the jolly old man meets his untimely demise, your pitiful game shall come to a wretched end. Struggle to survive until the final ticking of the timer, if you dare to dream of victory amidst this malevolent madness."
Features:
- Santa Claus, a recolour of the wizard, made by ben_lp.
- Prinnies fighting an everlasting Imps' rogue army.
- Prinnies and Imps have the same skillset from Fearless Imps mod.
- Repeat Trigger enabled on most attacking instances so you can hold click while using skills during possession.
- TNT Trap, Secret Door and Time Bomb are available.
- Unholy Gift, bundled with malice, open them at your own risk!
- Snowing all over the map.
Author's Tips:
- Speed, Protect, Rebound and Heal are available to help you survive, use them wisely.
- Include 4 modes specialy designed for singleplayer.
- Noob Mode: Set Speed, Protect and Rebound to your Prinnies. Cast every 5 seconds.
- Easy Mode: Imps are weaker, Prinnies are stronger.
- Hard Mode: Spawn for the heroes a Santa Claus that instantly revive when killed.
- Fool Mode: Set random statistics to Imps and Prinnies every 5 seconds, bypass Easy Mode.
Very clever stuff in this map! However, it is manic from the start, so I never really got comfortable. I lost my Santa just before the clock ran out, so I guess I was never going to win. I would suggest maybe a hiatus at the start to allow the player to look around? It was a long time before I noticed the new trap types, but I never felt I had the time to try them out, which is a shame. Maybe add an in-game message explaining the traps too?
some very clever stuff here using the new functionalities - great work :-)
I played the map, and it was funny, but not really my thing. I liked the snow, and I took a look at the ending and that looked great too. But the penguins are more of a meme creature to me than something I would enjoy actually using. The map was chaotic and loud.
I felt there was very little I could or should do, it basically played itself. There were boxes to take for more units, and I could drop my penguins on the imps to kill them, but I killed all the neutral imps before the timer was over and then it was just a long wait taking on the spawning imps. I played it on default difficulty. That you so often get chickened for so long was a bother too, for that I had to wait a long time. Then right near the end with 30 seconds on the clock suddenly the imps got real strong and I did not pay enough attention to my Santa and it suddenly died, after the entire map of me not needing to care about Santa. It lost me the game and I did not want to restart.
Also I had some TNT traps but they did not provide lava, and there were no walls to break.
Thanks for the feedback, maybe I can decrease the chicken duration or completly remove it but need to find something to replace the effect, else you just have 3 possibles effects with the gift for singleplayer.
When I saw this map in the preview in the workshop, I immediately knew I had to rate it 5 stars. After all there is now a Dungeon Keeper Christmas map (during Christmas season), Santa Claus and Prinnies. So there shouldn't be any reason not to give 5 stars.
This map is pure chaos but lot's of fun. It took me about 3 minutes to kind of figure out what's going on. I didn't have the feeling it was difficult at all and thought it was rather meant to be fun than a challenge.
One of the best Christmas gifts for me this year. Thanks Walter! I didn't expect anything else but something unique and fun from your side and you didn't disappoint me.
P.S.: I actually think it that Walter himself is Santa Claus in that map seeing he was sneaking out of his red robe and is now wearing blue again. One of those lvl10 imps must have hidden it somewhere in the realm.
Thanks you for your kinds words, I'm glad you had fun playing this map but I swear I'm not Santa Claus! :P
I did a small update to spice things up on the last 5 minutes, there is more high level Imps, tell me if it's now too difficult. :p Also fixed the exploit (hopefully?) that could let you win if you let Santa die then wait for the Imps to destroy your dungeon heart.
Map is really easy, you just need to watch out for your Santa's health, however the final wave 1 minute before the end can defeat you if you are not careful but I give you Rebound so use it. :)