Ultimate footmen

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Ultimate Footmen is a popular variation of the custom Footmen map series, for Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, a Real Time Strategy (RTS). Ultimate Footmen is highly distributed on Battle.net, compared with many other Footmen maps.

1 Summary
2 History
3 Updates
4 External links

[edit] Summary

The map was originally known to overpowers all the units and heroes making them imbalanced. This had made the map more fast paced and imbalanced. Many Footmen Frenzy fans the game is known to be imbalanced and rigged. But to the regulars who played the game on a regular basis calls the game balanced in general with only a few imbalances. To regular players the map is known to be balanced in strange ways which many people sees it as balanced. The map has 23 of the blizzard heroes and 30 custom heroes and has a new race known as the demon tier. The map also have alternate 4 and 5 tiers for each of the main races. The map includes the ability for the host(red) to choice between an "All Pick Mode"(AP) and an "All Random Mode(AR)."

[edit] History

The Ultimate Footmen series was released in 2005. It was originally derived from a version of Footmen Frenzy, but has since diverged significantly, adding a variety of original heroes, abilities, and spell, It has often had large delays between releases, prompting speculation that the series was dead. The map was originally created by a gamer with the username VG_Emblem. However, after VG_Emblem enlist the help of another gamer with the username MrApples. Shortly after VG_Emblem and MrApples released "Ultimate Footmen .75" the map had became a big hit among gamers. However after the release of v0.79c, MrApples and VG_Emblem split apart. VG_Emblem has left the project for his "Ultimate Legends" which will bring the AoS and Footmen Wars genres together, and MrApples will be continuing Ultimate Footmen.

[edit] Updates

Current Version: 0.79c
Note: VG_Emblem has released another version, "1.00c Final", which fixes some imbalances, and a couple new heroes, which the original made to "end" Ultimate Footmen and advertise Ultimate Legends. To many it is not an official version but to some it is. See links below.

Highlights of Next Version (Last Updated 3/15/07)
-Team Setup (Players may vote upon FFA, or Teams of 2,3,4,5 and 6) Complete
-Summon Manager (Will greatly reduce loading time/lag by converting object storage from hard disk to virtual) Complete
-30+ New Spells (Many spells have been replaced with 'triggered' ones to add some fresh game play) Polishing
-5+ New Heroes (Including some as suggested in the New Feature Requests section in the forum) Polishing
-Huge Amount of Balancing/Fixes (As always. 0.79c needs a lot of work) In-Progress
-Apple's Save/Load (A Save/Load Code system designed for maximum efficiency, however lacks features such as independent codes) Polishing
-Balance Code (A Code which saves important information regarding what happened in-game allowing us to balance it properly) Waiting on ASL
-Player Profiles (Profiles which track a players average skill rating, and wins, combined with below.) Waiting on ASL
-Unlockable Bonus Content (Extra content/features unlockable by 'codes' bought on the forum with virtual currency obtained from posting) Waiting on ASL
-New Modes (New options aside from All-Random, and certain modes will be made votable) To Be Started
-Rally-Point (Working Smart Rally-Point, which functions to help the player so they can focus on the battlefield) To Be Started