Tellurian is a mod for Impossible Creatures that adds a swathe of new content and radically alters the balance and gameplay of IC without sacrificing what we believe to be the essence of the game. The mod contains dozens of new creatures, new maps, bug fixes, balance adjustments, UI enhancements, and much more.
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The Tellurian team extends our heartfelt thanks to the following developers:
- MightySarion, for his tireless work in trudging through IC's code and his efforts to make extra teamcolours possible. - Ulrik de Muelenaere (https://www.github.com/ulrikdem) for making available code to patch the Insect Invasion .dll to allow AI bots in multiplayer. It is thanks to Ulrik that we have been able to rebuild the Tellurian .dll to remove some very insidious glitches.
We would also like to thank the following community members for contributing to the Tellurian project: - Brandon (BChamp), for his work on the Tellurian AI, as well as the Pacific Reef and six player Hill Fort maps and also for giving some fantastic advice and driving discussions on the subject of game balance. - Will (WillSO), for his help in modifying our new .dlls. - Stella, for their lovely maps. - Logan (LBFrank), for his lovely maps.
And finally, we must of course thank our wonderful Patrons for helping to keep Tellurian ticking over via their generous donations. https://www.patreon.com/Tellurian
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- fixed error causing a crash if the Tellurian Public Beta was not installed
- corrected Badlands henchman spawns, world props, and invisible resources
- proper sight radius text restored
- fixed bolas spider/elephant head scaling
TELLURIAN 2.9.1.0 CHANGELOG
TUNING:
-- Leap attack range increased to 36.
-- Charge attack speed boost reduced from 3x to 2x; slight range increase.
-- Loner fixed; previously they took 3x damage from all attacks.
-- Flying range (NOT flying artillery) now gets a 1.25x damage multiplier (matching the high ground bonus).
-- Stink slowdown increased from 0.4x unit speed to 0.2x. Stink duration reduced by 20 ticks across the board.
-- Electric burst now delivers its full damage in one tick.
-- ALL artillery now does 0.8x friendly fire damage (most were at 1.0x, poison was at 0.75x).
-- All the lovely aesthetics of hover (eg the wobbliness) have been removed. This is purely practical, to see if it fixes the hover crashes...
ATTRCOMBINER:
Frontend Changes (if you're a player, the below is relevant to you!):
-- Herding rewritten and given a newly-established "herding_ehp_bonus" domain; as such, herding creatures with low defense will no longer be overcharged.
-- Horns cost reduced (parameters changed to {-10, 100, 180, 530} from {0, 120, 200, 550}).
-- Flyer base cost completely removed. Instead, flight now applies an imaginary multiplier to EHP, damage and mobility; these adjusted numbers are then used for all cost calculations.
-- Poison frog can now have leap attack (thanks BChamp!).
-- Charge Attack and Leap Attack moved to EHP and Damage domains; charge a bit more expensive.
-- Minimum flyer build time increased to 40 ticks.
-- Sonic cost reduced slightly.
-- Slight increase in cost of water speed (for both pure swimmer and amphib).
-- Pack Hunter Direct Range and Sonic cost increased by a new multiplier, set to 1.15.
-- Flying range now has a small associated elec cost (as flying range now gets a 25% damage boost).
-- New attr_parameters.lua file in Tellurian/Data; this lua allows us to easily choose between sight radius and power display and more! See the file for more information.
MISC. BALANCE CHANGES:
-- AA Tower attack damage increased from 2x 10 to 2x 12.
-- Defense upgrade cost greatly reduced; some other upgrade costs marginally tweaked.
-- Level 5 research cost reduced from 2500/5000 to 2000/4000.
STOCK CHANGES:
-- Zebra given herding.
-- Poison frog given leap (made possible thanks to great research from BChamp!)
-- Armadillo speed increased from 18 to 23.
-- Dragonfly torso given +2 defense; head given +3 hp. Head melee reduced by 1, front legs melee reduced by 1. Damage scaling increased, so size 12 dragonflies still do the same damage.
-- Scorpion has had 1 melee damage moved from pincers to tail.
-- Leap FX added to tuna, lion, gazelle and poison frog; charge FX added to narwhal.
-- Termite given barrier destroy.
AI:
-- AI knows stink does not counter range.
-- AI knows that SB towers can damage flyers more.
-- AI will now build SB towers in response to digging units as well as camo.
-- Bug fixed where AI would not build workshop or creatures in certain situations.
-- Hard and Expert AI will research motivational speech when they begin researching L3 and are not under attack.
MAPS:
-- New map: Sandbar! A small 1v1 map with a heavy emphasis on aquatic combat.
-- Pier updated; renamed to Oculus.
-- 2SPEC_Plateau spawns fixed to match non-spectator version.
-- Badlands spawns adjusted; player positions now match those of Deep Freeze.
-- Kemarau updated.
UI:
-- Ability tooltips now contain MUCH more useful information.
-- ICO account creation screen is now more robust.
-- ICO name entry dialogue box now displays its title.
-- Multiplayer menu button details restored; LAN IPX option removed.
-- Top player on the leaderboard now has some added flair.
TELLURIAN 2.9 CHANGELOG:
New Creatures:
- Lion! HUGE thank you to Seb for funding the lion with his extremely generous Patreon donation. This patch would not have happened without him. Think of it as a beefier size 5 lioness without pack hunter.
- Alligator: a tough size 5 amphibious critter, great as a range base.
- Giant Squid: a size 9 direct-range unit.
- Colossal Squid: technically a remodel of the old giant squid, with some HP shifted from the head to the torso.
Creature balance changes:
- Grizzly Bear: Size increased from 4 to 5. Defense reduced to 20 from 33. Melee damage reduced from 13 to 10. Speed reduced from 29 to 27.
- Bolas Spider bite damage reduced from 4 to 2 and head health reduced. Some speed moved from torso to legs.
- Electric Eel: Bite damage reduced from 4 to 2.
- Colossal Squid: Became colossal. HP moved from head to torso, torso defense reduced from 11 to 9.
- Polar Bear: Size increased from 5 to 6, HP increased from 250 to 30, defense reduced from 30 to 25, land speed reduced to 23 from 26. Keen sense added.
- Hippo: Speed reduced from 21/24 to 20/18.
- Bull: Speed reduced from 29 to 25.
- Crocodile: Speed reduced from 26/27 to 18/25.
- Moose: Speed increased from 20 to 27.
- Mountain Lion: HP on torso increased to 38 from 32.5. You’re welcome WSO!
- Killer Whale: Size reduced from 9 to 8. HP and range distance reduced slightly. Now makes several level 4 sonic combos.
- 10% coal cost increase for all non-artillery ranged units.
- Flying artillery is no longer charged for having range longer than the range cap.
- Defense is now cheaper than HP; if two units have the same EHP, the higher-defense unit will be slightly cheaper. In effect, units now only pay for 90% of their defense (power remains unchanged, however).
TELLURIAN 2.8.1.2 CHANGELOG
Bug fixes:
- FIXED THE LANGUAGE BUG AT LAST! :D
TELLURIAN 2.8.1 CHANGELOG
QOL:
- Three additional teamcolours added (pink, yellow, black)
- Maps now display resource locations on the minimap
UI:
- Creatures may now possess a total of six melee attacks, and new attacks have been granted to the Scorpion, Porcupine, Man O War, and Komodo Dragon
- "View online stats" text line will now only display on postgame screens from ICO matches
- Note about the TAB key will only display in game lobbies hosted via ICO
BALANCE:
- Hovering tweaked to reduce effectiveness of hoverblocking (min. rank 2, higher base cost, shorter distance)
MAPS:
- Added all spectator maps and fixed 2SPEC Vacation's display name
- Added Zombies: Hill Fort from Sigma Scrambler week two
TELLURIAN 2.8 CHANGELOG
NEW MODELS:
-Snail (Remaster)
-Gazelle (HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZIV!)
MAP CHANGES:
-Maya modified to make mid a bit less powerful
-Viridis Ravine starting hench and impass map fixed
-Glacier spawns altered
-LBFrank Custom Maps 2 are compatible again!
BALANCE:
-Anglerfish no longer gets charged twice for flash
-Costs for deflect modified; high-level deflect units are cheaper
-Special case for flying deflect added
-Speed is now slightly more expensive
-Cost exponent at levels 1, 2 and 3 changed to 1, to decrease spam cost. Base level costs adjusted accordingly
-AA towers now have 30 sight radius and do 12.5 damage per tick for 4 ticks (up from 10)
QUALITY OF LIFE:
-Gyrocopter multibutton position altered to avoid overlap with stat display
-Several creatures modified to correctly play sound effects
TELLURIAN 2.7 CHANGELOG
NEW MODELS:
- Blue Ringed Octopus (Remaster)
- Hatchetfish (Remaster)
- Tuna (Remaster)
- Humpback Whale (Remaster)
- Blue Whale (Remaster)
- Skipper Caterpillar (Remaster)
- Giant Pacific Octopus
NEW MAPS:
- Pier (By Stella)
- Glacier (By Bchamp, painting by Steve)
- Midway Atoll (By Kiki)
- Soothing Oases 2v2 (Modified from Soothing Oases by Bchamp)
- Maya (By Phil)
- Pacific Reef (By Bchamp, painting by Steve)
- Crag (Remastered)
PRE-EXISTING MAPS ADDED TO TEL:
- Furor (By Logan)
- Eroded Duos (By Logan)
- Kolam (By Logan)
BALANCE:
- The following abilities are now charged for via a new method: herding, pack hunter, camouflage, digging, regeneration, frenzy, perforate, barrier destroy and horns. Ask me for more information.
- L4 base cost reduced.
- Double range now charged for appropriately.
- Cost reduction for pure swimmers has been toned down significantly
- Spawn positions fixed on several maps
- Big snake is dead. Very long units are now shorter and can no longer teleport.
- Sub-tile units are dead. No units should now be able to fit in a 1-tile wide gap; message me if you find one!
- Stink cloud now has a slightly smaller radius and only 30% slowdown (down from 50%).
- Frenzy damage taken reduced to 1.3x from 1.5x (damage dealt still at 1.5x).
- Leap attack damage time reduced (was 2s, now 1).
- Artillery projectile speed increased from 25m/s to 35m/s.
- High-damage artillery range increased.
- Camel has a larger sight radius.
- Eagle HP scaling increased with size.
- Killer whale torso HP increased.
- Insect flier speed moved to wings.
- Velvet worm and Caterpillar speed descaling at large sizes reduced.
- Spitting spider and Cobra ranges and damages adjusted.
- Porcupine has Perforate, a new ability to indicate its armour piercing abilities.
- GLOBAL RANGE DAMAGE REDUCTION: All non-artillery ranged stocks have had their DPS reduced by 18% to facilitate additional high-power combos at each level.
- Build cap on fences implemented; you can now only make 150 fences. This doesn't work perfectly.
- Quill burst damage doubled.
- Assorted other slight tweaks.
AI:
- AI will now only queue 2 creatures at defensive chamber when under attack before reverting to normal chamber choice.
- AI will build more Anti-Air towers at higher levels than before.
UI:
- Vast improvements to henchman stat display
- Added stat display to Rex and Lucy
- Creatures will now display their respective coal and electricity costs when selected in-game
- Several text adjustments to accomodate lower resolutions
- Multiplayer chat command help improved
- Updated leaderboard and events headers
MISC QUALITY OF LIFE:
- Pack Hunter now removes herding automatically on combinations with both abilities.
- Loner now removes pack and herding.
- Changes to Attrcombiner to facilitate Kev’s app.
Donations
No donations accepted
Goals:
1) Balance IC, so that as many stock creatures are as useful as possible.
2) Fill out the IC genetic library with new, interesting stock creatures that are useful without being overpowered.
3) Provide a whole new experience without sacrificing the fundamental feel of IC.
4) Introduce modelling and modding techniques which have never before been available to anyone besides the Impossible Creatures developers themselves.
5) Be continually updated, and improved, so that no creatures remain overpowered or "abused" for long.
Full creature list:
Albatross Alligator Anglerfish Beluga Blue Ringed Octopus Blue Whale Bolas Spider Colossal Squid Cuttlefish Diamond Python Gazelle Giant Pacific Octopus Giant Squid Hatchetfish Hornbill Humpback Whale Lammergeier Lion Malayan Tapir Man O War Mantis Shrimp Naked Mole Rat Narwhal Oogpister Ostrich Pistol Shrimp Skipper Caterpillar Snail Spitting Spider Tuna Velvet Worm Whale Shark
