Bug: Compiled Mind-Controlled / Heroic discussion bugs and isses

[MatthewMarinets]

What happened?

Recording conclusions following discussion in the discord chat 2024-04-01 re: Mind Control and the heroic tag

Philosophy

AP wants to be fun, but it also wants to meet player expectations. Mind-controlled enemies should generally work, and it's preferable for bosses to not be mind-controllable. We also have a history of minimizing changes to vanilla interactions, so we want to analyze how much impact this will have

Issues

• Maar is buggy once mind-controlled. It is impossible to mind-control him in vanilla, and the heroic tag would not impact any abilities available in vanilla
  • Solution 1: Make Maar heroic
  • Solution 2: Fix Maar's abilities to behave properly (e.g. Blast can target minerals, abilities lack a cooldown)
• Motherships lack the heroic tag
  • on Trouble in Paradise, Maw of the Void, and Safe Haven
  • In modern melee, motherships have the heroic tag to avoid infestor mind-control, so this is within player expectation
  • These motherships can't be mind-controlled in vanilla, but this will have impact on stun abilities like Ultrasonic Pulse and Flashbang Grenades
  • Solution 1: Make motherships heroic
  • Solution 2: leave as-is
  • Solution 3: Make them immune to mind-control through a custom validator to leave stun characteristics the same
• Hybrid on IUD can be mind-controlled
  • This feels wrong, and doesn't match later lotv hybrid, which are heroic
  • IUD hybrid must still be liftable
  • Solution 1: Make them immune to mind-control (possibly with Frenzy or a custom validator)
• Interference Matrix trivializes Kerrigan and can be buggy
  • Kerrigan can become unable to deep-tunnel back on losing health
  • Solution: Have the trigger remove IM debuff on kerrigan before deep tunneling
  • Recommend making IM have less duration vs heroic (e.g. 5s instead of 15s)
  • Alternate solution: Make IM unable to target heroic (less player option, but Ravens are already strong)
• Disables / debuffs vs Heroic
  • Recommend reducing duration / effect vs heroic for:
    • Lockdown
    • Interference Matrix (see above)
  • Note: Thor 330mm Barrage cannon can stun heroic but everyone seems cool with it. It has good risk/reward vs kerrigan with Implosion, at least

What were the expected results?

See interlaced with problems above

Software

While playing