Dear community,

as you problably noticed, it has been quiet around the development of Battle Tanks. The sad truth is, our time available for this project and our motivation to work on it are not what they used to be. So we were faced with a decision to make. Battle Tanks exists for almost as long as the Frozen Throne expansion of Warcraft 3 (which makes it almost 12 years old). So seeing it simply die is not worthy of the game.

So we decided the following:

We will make Battle Tanks Open Source

Ideally this would mean that everyone would contribute towards a new version by submitting his / her work to a central repository. The proprietary nature of the Warcraft map files makes this harder than I’d like. So for now, we will only make the map available for everyone, so you guys can see what the map looks like in its current form.

If anyone has questions or suggestions regarding this map feel free (and encouraged!) to voice them (Forum).

The aim – at this time – is to take the input of the community and maybe continue the development in a way that is feasible.
Of course, if someone wants to make a mod or use parts of the code for his own project, he / she is free to do so – it’s open source after all. But we would still like to get credit, if substantial parts of the map have been used (as you can see in the code itself).

Anyway, we hope the map helps some of you and maybe some of you help (the development of) the map.

The BT-Team wishes everyone a merry christmas and happy holidays!

• Fixed the spawn rate of Chaos-Servants (Infernal Robot)

• Highlights
• Added Killing and Assist sprees
• Remade the bounty system, it no longer is based on your tank worth, but the kills you make
• Tank armor now also reduces magic damage by the same percentage as physical damage
• Tank Changes
• Reduced the damage distribution of S.I.C. (Distributor) from 33% to 25%
• S.I.C. and Darkness Sphere now also grant assists
• Reworked Static Charge (Raider), it now triggers when cast a second time, it no longer triggers on damage
• The heal of Shape Memory Alloy (Raider) now takes 1.5s intead of being instant
• Reworked Goblin Synergy (Goblin Shredder) a bit, to make better use of the new armor system
• Increased the movement speed of the Healing Drones (Air Ship) from 450 to 522
• Increased the leash range of the Pacifista (Architect) from 1000 to 1250
• Increased the base HP regeneration from the Pacifistas from 5 HP/s to 120/150/180/210/240 HP/s
• Orb of Darkness (Darkness Tank) now always stuns, stun time increases with damage
• Rebalanced Orb of Darkness (Darkness Tank) damage and cooldown
• Orb of Darkness now only deals 50% damage against buildings
• Removed the mana costs of Missile Battery (Darkness Tank)
• Reduced the pull of Hell Fire (Demon Tank) from 350 to 250
• Reduced the casting time of Devastator Shot (Goliath) from 1.0 to 0.75s
• System Overload now grants 2 bonus armor every 0.5s, instead of an instant full bonus
• The animation of Chaos Teleport (Infernal Robot) is no longer interuptable
• Reduced the max stun of Chaos Teleport from 2.5s to 1.75s
• Item Changes
• Added a new item: Plasma Discharger
• Mass Converter now heals more, when you kill a tank
• Negator Pack can no longer be activated, while being netted
• Increased the cooldown of Negator Pack from 15 to 30 seconds
• Troop Command and Advanced Troop Command are now counted as one item for the spawn delay system
• Black Sun Project now gathers mana in a 700 aoe (from 500), but no longer has a passive regeneration
• Black Sun Project now has an toggleable ability, which lets it pause the mana collection
• Reduced the required mana of the Black Sun Project from 400 to 250
• Emergency Repair now increases its heal with each upgrade by 7.5% (instead of only weapons by 10%)
• Emergency Repair now grants bonus armor based on the healed allied tanks
• Kinetic Shield now increases its block with each upgrade by 20% (instead of only weapons by 25%)
• Aura upgrades are now available at the HQ and Aura Creeps no longer require the Troop Command Center
• Game Changes
• Increased the time window for assists from 5s to 7.5s
• Killing sprees end after 3 minutes without a kill
• Tanks now start with zero armor
• Tanks now receive half XP for tank and buildings kills when they are dead (was 100%)
• Reduced the heal of Strategic Locations from 25 to 15 HP/s again
• All items and abilities that granted magic resistance, now grant armor instead
• The hero info now shows the tanks DPS instead of the respawn time
• Multikills no longer grant extra gold
• Kicks now always need at least two votes to be successfull
• Kicks are now executed instantly, when enough votes were given
• -income now shows a rough estimation of the next force gold you’ll receive
• Skills that apply forced movement no longer work on invulnerable units
• Leavergold is now given out with your passive income over several minutes
• Bug Fixes
• Fixed Teleport Breakers triggering on disrupted teleports
• Fixed the Camouflage Generator from breaking transparency
• Fixed some cases in which the Black Sun was indestructable
• Fixed Ricochet (Raider) from disabling certain damage detection related triggers (like HitnRun)
• Fixed Orb of Darkness (Darkness Tank) from being affect by several abilities
• Fixed Marines from blocking the Control Point capturing
• Fixed Black Sun from sometimes not dieing (hopefully for real this time)
• Fixed a rare bug that caused CPTPs to malfunction and caused performance problems
• Fixed Devastator Shot (Goliath) projectiles from being misplaced, when it was shot above forests or cliffs
• Fixed bad kill interaction between Explosives (Exploder skill) and Mines
• Fixed Root (Guard) and Offroad Engine (Goliath) from disabling Burst Armor
• Fixed Conversation (Darkness Tank) sometimes scoring a null kill
• Fixed Explosives from going off on respawn when the tank died during countdown
• Fixed some minor bugs

• Fixed some possible gold abuse with Tankers Little Helper
• Fixed the cooldown group of Mass Converter
• Fixed the shop pages of the Trade Market for the Light Force
• Fixed the damage block of the basic version of Deflective Armor being too high
• Fixed some rare cases of teamkills and null kills with S.I.C. and Conservation
• Fixed some minor bugs

• Added an ability to ground mines, which lets them self-destruct
• Added a new Titan icon
• Decreased the restock time and mana cost of Heat-Seeking Missiles (Distributor)
• Increased the casting range of S.I.C. (Distributor) from 900 to 1050
• Increased the mana burn of Energy Leak (Darkness Tank) and rebalanced the dealt damage
• The runes around an enemy Obelisk (Titan) are now red, and teal around allied Obelisks
• The Obelisk runes now actually start appearing once the Obelisk is active and not when he is built
• Tanks are now grayed out in shops, when your team does not have the necessary upgrades
• Fixed Black Sun Project starting with too much mana
• Fixed Darkness Tank armor requirements
• Fixed dropped blueprint items ownership
• Fixed the game mode display on the engame screen
• Fixed Negator Pack from removing tank transparency
• Fixed Camouflage Generators from being ignored by the Control Point check
• Fixed Camouflage Generators from being a valid target for Control Point teleports
• Fixed the required number of kick-votes from changing during the vote
• Fixed some minor bugs