Warlock now has dedicated servers so you can play it hosted on Valve servers and enjoy the low latency! I tried it a moment ago and I don't think I would even notice a difference compared to locally hosting (I had 27ms).

I also released a smaller patch with a new active item

- Added new item Pact
• Grants you a buff that enhances the damage of your next spell by 50% for 5 seconds but slows you by 66 for 6 seconds if you make use of it
• Cooldown: 30
• Cost: 10
- Fixed redirector debuff duration ignoring masteries and items
- Set web api version to 4 (http://api.warlockbrawl.com)

New Warlock Dota update!

Changelog



Spells

- Added new spell Y Rock Pillar: Spawn a rock pillar at the target location that blocks players and projectiles
• Duration: 4s (increased by duration mastery)
• Range: 500 (increased by range mastery)
• Cooldown: 30.0 27.0 24.0 21.0 18.0 15.0 12.0

- Added new spell Y Magnetize: Creates a missile that magnetizes its target repelling or attracting enemy projectiles
• When hitting an enemy, creates a field on him attracting your and your allies' projectiles
• When hitting an ally or yourself after bouncing off a pillar, creates a field repelling enemy projectiles
• Duration: 3.00 3.50 4.00 4.50 5.00 5.50 6.00 (increased / decreased by buff / debuff modifiers like pocket watch)
• Cooldown: 22 21 20 19 18 17 16

- Added new spell C Alteration: Alters the position with the next enemy projectile coming close to hitting you
• Duration: 2.0s (increased by duration mastery)
• Radius: 120
• Cooldown: 19.0 17.5 16.0 14.5 13.0 11.5 10.0

- Changed shield to have shorter duration but also shorter cooldown making it a very reactive spell
• Cooldown from 25.0 22.5 20.5 19.0 18.0 17.0 to 14.0 13.0 12.0 11.0 10.0 9.0 8.0
• Duration from 2.8 3.0 3.2 3.4 3.6 3.8 to a constant 1.2 (duration mastery still affects this duration though)
• Added radius scaling, from 120 to 200 210 220 230 240 250 260
- Rebalanced several spells and their cost

Visual

- Removed team color circle and instead added a floating colored team text over each player

- Added nicer looking item level indicators

- Made item and ability tooltip casing more consistent

Fixes

- Fixed wrong cooldown in Wind Walk tooltip

All known crash bugs should now be fixed! Pillars are now also destructible.

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Warlock has existed for a long time and we have been working on a standalone in the previous year. However when Dota2 modding was announced, we have switched to produce the Dota2 version of WL. Also, a completely new version of Unreal Engine has been released and I have been learning the new technology.

Now I think I have the technology and knowledge to create the standalone Warlock game. However, a multiplayer game is useless if there is no community and no matches are hosted. Therefore I would like to see who would be interested in such a game.

Lets review what that standalone WL would mean:

Positive: new features

• controls: key rebinding, new controls like holding the mouse for constant effect
  
• stats (persistent ranking, spell accuracy stats etc)
  
• new mechanics: there are many ideas what new concepts could be introduced into WL, we considered custom spells for example
  anyway, development of the standalone would mean that those concepts could be tested (and maybe some of them will be good)

Negative:

• infrastructure: we cannot compete with Dota's huge infrastructure (dedicated servers, steam integration)
  
• players/community: if there are not enough active players, no matches will be hosted. Dota has a huge amount of players.
  (this is why i am asking if you would be interested)
  
• separate installation: you will need to download a few hunderd MB game and install it
  
• it will take time to make

A multiplayer game can only exist if it has an active community...