SpellForce 3 Versus Edition - Patch #2 - Various Fixes & Balancing Tweaks

General Changes:

• Added translations for cinematic subtitles

• Fixed Old-Haalâyash campaign savegames only being loadable by players who own SpellForce 3: Soul Harvest

• Fixed players being able to change other player's race in skirmish lobby

• Temple of the Eclipse Godess: Small bugfix

• The game will no longer write unnecessary debugging information to disk while playing

• Fixed custom lobby screen popping up before entering a Versus match

• Implemented a fix that may circumvent the missing text issue

• Blackheart Jungle: Re-visiting the map via the world map no longer causes trolls to die. Also, the heroes should no longer spawn at the bottom left of the map but rather at the temple entrance.

• AdjustedNorthern CoastImproved visuals after Akrog's speech.

• Added Class Templates for Noag in the Character Generator

• AdjustedAkrogReduced strength of Chieftain Mark and Moon Spirit Revenge abilites

• Bundled Cloak of Shivers effects in one condition each

• Spectator Mode: "Free Spectating" now shows the partially revealed map for the spectating player

• Adjusted names of towers and refineries (SH races)

• Cleaned up various skirmish hero & RTS skill tooltips

• Improved visual effects on RTS units

Balance Adjustments: Creeps

• Normalized casting speed of all wyverns to 1.5s

• Lightning Wyvern spell now only hits up to 15 targets in a long chain

All Factions

• Range of all capitals have been increased by 25 to help with initial capital harassment

• The "Worker Armor" Upgrade now costs 5 Food and takes 20 seconds to research for each step.

Humans

• FixedRoyal MageFixed Incinerate not dealing areal damage on level 2
• AdjustedParagonAttack speed increased from 0.17 to 0.22
• AdjustedParagonShield duration reduced from 60 to 40s
• AdjustedParagonShield amount reduced from 750 to 500

Orcs

• AdjustedOccultistReduced the attack speed of Blood-Blessed Claymore (III) to be in line with the other weapons
• AdjustedFlesh GolemReduced summoning cost for Flesh Golem from 75 iron to 50 iron. New cost: 75 Food, 50 Iron, 75 Black Ash

Elves

• AdjustedRanger -> TrueshotReduced damage dealt from 250 to 200
• AdjustedGuardianIncreased health from 550 to 600
• AdjustedDruid HeroBasic attack range increased from 80 to 100

• Druid Hero: Elen's Fire now inflicts magical damage, but 20% more

• Wanderer: Upgraded Wanderers now deal 25 Magic and 25 Pierce damage per hit, down from 30 / 30

• AdjustedWardenIncreased iron cost from 2 to 3. New cost: 5 Food 3 Iron 4 Supply

• Treant: Elen's Roots no longer hits air units

• AdjustedDruidThe area of effect heal has been reduced from 20 HP/s to 10HP/2s

Dark Elves

• AdjustedGuardian of NorIncreased sword damage. 72(Base), 84, 96 to 80(Base), 90, 100
• AdjustedReaperKiss of Nor cooldown increased from 10s to 30s
• AdjustedTarantulaIncreased health from 500 to 525
• AdjustedBasiliskReduced pierce resistance from 25 to 0
• AdjustedStriderReduced health from 1500 to 1400
• AdjustedStriderIncreased supply cost from 4 to 5

• Twisted One: No longer immune to sacrifice effects from Guardian of Nor

• AdjustedBroodfatherSummoning cost reduced from 150 souls to 125 souls. New cost: 75 Food, 75 Iron, 125 Souls.

Dwarves

• AdjustedHigh-HierophantReduced attack speed from 0.29 to 0.25
• AdjustedHigh-HierophantIncreased cooldown of Barrage from 15 to 20

Trolls

• Cost of basic economic buildings increased.

• Tree Chopper -> Cost increased from 9 to 13 Stone

• Stone Breaker -> Cost increased from 9 to 13 Wood

• Hunting Hut -> Cost increased from 9 to 13 Wood

• Starting resources increased to 52 Wood, 52 Stone and 10 Food

• AdjustedPlaguebringerUpgraded weapon damage has been reduced: 90(Base), 140, 190 down to 90(Base), 110, 130

• Plaguebringer: Basic attacks no longer cleave

• AdjustedPlaguebringer -> Infect BuildingsCost reduced from 15 to 10
• AdjustedPlaguebringer -> Infect BuildingsCooldown increased from 15 to 20
• AdjustedPlaguebringer -> Infect BuildingsDuration increased to 10 seconds
• AdjustedPlaguebringer -> Infect BuildingsDamage reduced from 60 to 30 on Level 1, from 60 to 50 on Level 2
• AdjustedChieftainUpgraded weapon damage has been reduced: 150(Base), 175, 215 down to 150(Base), 175, 200

• Chieftain -> Come Here: No longer increases impair intensity on level 2, but increases range from 90 to 130

• Chieftain: The Troll Guard now only accepts actual trolls