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From now on, I will just play with what the game offers, it's kinda neat =)

So I will dedicate this page to the usage of attributemodifiers, I am going to create a kinda new Howl of Rage and give it to Malvack, however I am going to make some changes to it so it's cooler (eh? Eh? the same pun as before!)

Open your data>ini>attributemodifier.ini and have a glance at it, take your time, I'll wait.

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Done? 0k. As you saw there are many playful things, like vision, production, damage, exp, and many many many others that let you have fun. Also you might have realized that, for the most part there are 5 kinds of: FORMATION, LEVEL, BUFF, LEADERSHIP, and SPELL. Here I won't talk about LEVEL, since it's only regards are in experiencelevels.ini and neither will I talk about formation ('cause duh), so let's talk about the other 3. Although it might sound similar, those 3 kinds of modifiers are very different.

In the lowest end of the spectrum there is BUFF, as you could imagine BUFF gives a temporarly buff to the target. One thing you must know is that BUFFs are NOT stackable, if you apply a BUFF over another BUFF the latter with always cancel the former. I said that this was the lowest end of the spectrum because LEADERSHIP cancels BUFF. So if you apply a BUFF and the comes f***ing Theoden your BUFF will dissappear.

Then there's LEADERSHIP, also NOT stackable. While nothing cancels LEADERSHIP per se, you can only have one LEADERSHIP at any time. The only way to lose the LEADERSHIP bonuses is through Freezing Rain or something like that. Finally there's SPELL which IS stackable and doesn't cancel anything nor is canceled by anything. So it is like this:

BUFF < LEADERSHIP < SPELL

That's the real difference between those 3 kinds of modifiers. Now that you know that, you can play with the rest of the attributes.


I want to give Malvack a Howl of Rage that instead of just giving armor and damage buff, also gives the targeted units the ability to gain resources per kill, and I also want this buff to affect heroes and that LEADERSHIP bonuses doesn't cancel it. So, to begin with I will copy the HowlofRage attribute modifier and paste it at the bottom of the file. Now I will change it from BUFF to SPELL and I'll go crazy with the modifiers. In the end, I'll have this:

              

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ModifierList MalvackOutLawLeadershipChant     Category = SPELL     Modifier = BOUNTY_PERCENTAGE 100%                 Modifier = DAMAGE_MULT 125%     Duration = 60000            // 1 min worth of modifiers     ModelCondition = WAR_CHANT     FX        = FX_GenericBuffPersistent60     ReplaceInCategoryIfLongest    = Yes End

Now I will copy the createaheropowers module of Howl of Rage and paste it in malvack.ini. Just to remember, that module looks like this:

              

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//--------------------------------------------------------------------------     //    HOWL OF RAGE SPECIAL POWER Level 1 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Behavior = UnpauseSpecialPowerUpgrade ModuleTag_CreateAHeroHowlOfRageEnabler_Level1     SpecialPowerTemplate = SpecialAbilityCreateAHeroHowlOfRage_Level1     TriggeredBy             = Upgrade_CreateAHeroHowlOfRage_Level1 End Behavior = SpecialPowerModule ModuleTag_CreateAHeroHowlOfRageStarter_Level1     SpecialPowerTemplate     = SpecialAbilityCreateAHeroHowlOfRage_Level1     AttributeModifier         = GenericBuff20     AttributeModifierRange     = CREATE_A_HERO_HOWL_OF_RAGE_RADIUS_L1     AttributeModifierAffects = GENERIC_BUFF_RECIPIENT_OBJECT_FILTER     TriggerFX                 = FX_HowlofRage1     UpdateModuleStartsAttack = No     StartsPaused             = Yes     TargetEnemy                    = No End

Suppose that I have already created the SpecialPowerTemplate required. If you check gamedata.ini you'll find that the GENERIC_BUFF_RECIPIENT_OBJECT_FILTER filter is as follows:

              

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ANY +INFANTRY +CAVALRY -MACHINE -IMMOBILE -DOZER -HERO -STRUCTURE -BASE_FOUNDATION -HORDE -DwarvenBattleWagon -RohanOathbreaker -MordorRamCrew +MordorWorker -IsengardRamCrew -IsengardBeserker -DwarvenZerker -DwarvenZerkerHorde -NoldorWarrior -NoldorWarriorHorde -GondorKnightsofDol -GondorKnightsofDolHorde -WildBabyDrake -WildBabyDrakeHorde -MordorBlackRider -MordorBlackRiderHorde -IsengardFanatic -IsengardBerserkerHorde

And while that is fine and dandy, I want the buff to affect heroes as well, and in that filter, heroes cannot recieve the buff. Also, and this is quite obvious, I will change the attribute modifier in the specialpowermodule of my new power, so now it looks like this:

              

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//--------------------------------------------------------------------------     //    MALVACK HOWL OF RAGE SPECIAL POWER //-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Behavior = UnpauseSpecialPowerUpgrade ModuleTag_CreateAHeroHowlOfRageEnabler_Level1     SpecialPowerTemplate = SpecialAbilityMalvackOutlawLeadership     TriggeredBy             = Upgrade_ObjectLevel1 End Behavior = SpecialPowerModule ModuleTag_CreateAHeroHowlOfRageStarter_Level1     SpecialPowerTemplate     = SpecialAbilityMalvackOutlawLeadership     AttributeModifier         = GenericBuff20     AttributeModifierRange     = CREATE_A_HERO_HOWL_OF_RAGE_RADIUS_L1     AttributeModifierAffects = ANY +INFANTRY +CAVALRY -MACHINE -IMMOBILE -DOZER -STRUCTURE -BASE_FOUNDATION -HORDE -DwarvenBattleWagon -RohanOathbreaker -MordorRamCrew +MordorWorker -IsengardRamCrew     TriggerFX                 = FX_HowlofRage1     UpdateModuleStartsAttack = No     StartsPaused             = Yes     TargetEnemy                    = No End

And that's it, the "buff" will affect heroes and mini-heroes as well.

As you can see, the attribute modifiers can do very interesting things, like making a barrack produce 5x faster, or doubling the archers vision and range, or making a hero learn exp 3x faster than usual and many many many things more.

NOTE: In my experience, for some reason that I cannot understand, the HEALTH and HEALTH_MULT modifiers are everlasting, it doesn't matter that they have a timer (i.e. return to normal health after 1 minute), instead the targeted units will always have the modifier 'til the end of the game. Also SPEED doesn't seem to work, it just messes with the animations, but it doesn't really change the speed of the targeted units (maybe you have the locomotor speed? I don't know).

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