Is this at all related with the old Mountain Ledge Map bug that completely filled the inner region with pathable ground and populated it with monsters? Because I would pay good MTX points to have that happen to me again.
I'm not familiar with that one, sorry. Must've been before my time. I don't think it would be the same thing though.
But seriously... wtf, not even a boss room?
The boss room and rest of the level would still exist in this seed. This issue probably wouldn't have rendered it unwalkable because it's a sealed off area, so I'd assume some of the 17 monsters are inside. If I had to guess, any other monsters would be ones that happened to spawn on raised platforms.
Submit a report with /bug I think it is, maybe /report, but that definitely needs to be removed from the pool of possible seeds! Inversely, trying to figure out why that exploded but that all depends on time.
Yeah, if anyone can get this to happen again I'd be very interested in more information. I have a theory about what's happening (the interior ground of the map is being flood-filled with the impassible ground type from the exterior) but not why yet.
Who the f**k puts a giant picture of themselves behind their desk?
I spotted Goldeneye in the Chamber of Innocence. Poor Sean Bean can't catch a break even in video games...
Have there ever been talk in the office about letting people change their Grandmaster ? Not whenever they want obviously, but with big expansion.
I don't run HoGM, but I just think it would be nice for people that run the map and also those that bought the Grandmaster pack, if they could change it sometimes. Obviously I'm just asking, with no knowledge of how any of this work.
Just curious.
Resubmitting Grandmasters can happen under specific circumstances, like the global resubmit we offered around when 2.0.0 came out. But I don't think it's something we're likely do again, if only for logistical reasons.
The current Hall contains over 500 Grandmasters, and they each have to be assembled (mostly) by hand. I write AI for them, correct bugs, enable auras and minions so they don't have to do setup in the middle of a fight and so on. Sometimes people even submit builds that can't work in the Hall for whatever reason and I have to sort them out somehow. I can automate some of this process, but each one still needs to be manually tested and tweaked.
The more submissions there are, the more time it takes in addition to the rest of the expansion work that needs doing.
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It's not just me of course - programmers are often involved for things I can't do, and even if we refactor something it's unusual for a ton of Grandmasters to break at once. We've also gotten better at automating common fixes over time (i.e. broken/missing stats) so it's rarely a complicated process nowadays.
Anyway, thanks for the report! I'll look into this if it isn't being looked into already.
Underground River uses the Caverns/Den tileset from act 2. It swapped names with Underground Sea (which does use the Submerged Passage/Merveil's Caverns tileset) when we released Atlas of Worlds.
I believe the name "Underground River" originally referenced the river that goes through Merveil's caverns. I'm not sure where "Underground Sea" specifically comes from.
Also I blatantly stole the water from the Aqueduct to make Underground River's river. Said river can only appear in specifically made feature rooms that have fixed orientations, otherwise it would flow in random directions.
I grabbed some sample area layouts to show how both maps relate to their names: http://imgur.com/a/UVQHd
Now there's a name I haven't heard in years. Plague Retch. It's been a long time since that fateful day in 2015. Maybe too long... Would he even be interested in reprising his old role?
I wonder if he'll even have time in his busy schedule for us... or for me?
I guess you folks on Reddit never saw behind the scenes - the kind of friction that happens when you have an auteur like Plague Retch on the team.
We were younger back then. Full of passion. Each of us convinced we could change the world in our own way...
Things got more personal than we were willing to let on in the patch notes. Things were said that I didn't think either of us could take back. But maybe enough time has passed that we can both admit we let our creative visions get the better of us.
I still have his contact information. I always thought he'd call us before we called him, but I guess we never knew how much we needed him until he was gone. I never knew how much I neede...
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