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Gnome or Dwarf?
Love it!
Hate it!
I wonder if in the next update we will see some changes or not..
I'm more curious as to why only the DK and DHs are getting this treatment.
Almost all of the other heros except for maybe.....Mountain Kings, KotG, Lich, Crypt Lords, Dread lords, and a few of the neutral heros could all be both male and female.
Hell a Female Arch Mage is one of the main characters of the story lol; and they chose to only make female versions for DK and DHs? Potm has lore reasons, some others too but most?
........5 dollar content packs? lol
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Could have sworn I saw a new Sunwell asset a bit ago. If they're redrawing the map to be like it's WoW layout it would be in the back though on SWP rather than in Silvermoon proper.
The males are in the game, they just don't have models yet and are all represented by Arthas. They didn't choose to only make female versions, the female model simply happens to be the one that's defaulted in game right now.
I would suspect this is done on purpose to get people to familiarize with the female, gauge feedback on how fans would react to something that is obviously new and divergent from classic War3. If it were just randomized and working-as-intended, people who don't often play undead might never see the female DK in action just due to RNG, and there wouldn't be much feedback and data gained on that.
I mean to be honest, the biggest complaints so far have been 'I don't have male options!' and since Blizzard has always planned the male DK to be in there, there isn't really anything they have to worry about. IMO it would be a bigger concern to if people weren't even aware there was a female DK model at all.
And to be honest, we're still gonna get a lot of that since only a very small tiny fraction of players follow beta and datamine news. The vast majority will likely not even be aware this game has Multiplayer skins, even when it's listed right on the 'package.
While I agree with the concept here. I do feel obligated to make one small correction.
WarCraft 3 Not WarCraft in general, was known for it's iconic strong, female characters. Before WarCraft 3 the only Strong Female character was Aleria, who existed in just a few missions of Beyond the Dark Portal (The WC2 expansion) and whose character existed for the sake of there being an Elven hero unit (with BtDP being a hero focused story). Aleria is also incidentally the second female unit to exist across all previous WarCraft games, and the only one to exist across both WC2 games. (The first female unit in WarCraft game history of course being garona, who was unplayable in the WC1 orc campaign and served as a plot device)
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female DKs do fit the lore; as the scourge killed indiscriminately.
Female paladins however actually don't fit the lore or rather might not. It would be stupidly easy for blizzard to retcon it though as there isn't anything in the lore that specifically says that only men were allowed to join the Order of the Silver Hand. The first Paladins were men sure, the Knights with the highest virtue were recruited to form it (Uther, Tirion etc) and even some clerics who would then join the knighthood (Turalyon).
But I can't really see anything that says that the Silver Hand ever made it a rule that would only allow men to join. Some might argue that The Alliance is based on human history, and in human history women could not be knights. But that doesn't really count imo. Blizz could kill that with a sentence that just said something like "While women didn't join the order in the early days, it wasn't due to any rule. Uther wouldn't turn away new recruits based on gender" and then blammo.
If that isn't enough well then Joan the Maid says hi too lol.
(tl;dr I agree with you people are effing silly)
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I demand Male mage and female priest units! Stop forcing male elves into the priesthood! equal rights for dwarven riflewomen!
One thing I'd really like to see them change to match WoW is the design of the Tomb of Sargeras and Suramar.
Without WC3 WoW was, by dev admission, just another MMO with heavy Everquest influences lol.
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I'm pretty sure that other dude was thinking of DotA. DotA and by extension the entire MOBA genre, was born in the WC3 custom map screen.
Some people convinced themselves that WoW was for some reason because of those popular maps like Sols open RPG that let you use codes to import characters from previous games I imagine.
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Context. The rest of my post indicates that I am confused as to why they would only make female versions for those two heros as opposed to every hero where it makes sense. I didn't say anything that, unless snipped and taken out of context, suggests that I think they are only making female DK and DHs.
Had that person said DOTA/LoL I would have fully agreed. While Starcraft was the first game to feature such maps (Aeon of Strife comes to mind), it was WC3's DOTA that eventually spawned the entire genre. But to say that WoW was is a silly mistake considering it was halfway through development when Reign of Chaos released and I daresay the custom map scene only really took off with Frozen Throne.
I also remember maps like War of the Ring and Dark Deeds. Man I hope the custom game scene is as vibrant in Reforged as it was back then.
Yeah it was a stretch but that was the only sense I could make of it. (Dang I forgot about AoS!)
Yeah those TFT maps were amazing for sure. I remember one that was Orcs vs Humans and it was basically just supposed to be a sim of WC1 and you'd have a base that spawned units and auto-sent them to attack the other base. (I guess basically moba without heros?) Ah, yes. I thought I had heard somewhere that the old maps would all work in reforged too; hope that didn't get cut.
New update is here - 3v3, 4v4, and FFA are available. Still no Night Elves though
If the future is female...get ready for apocalypse.
And the night elves have always been my favorite race I'm waiting for. It's a shame to admit, but it's been around 2 weeks since I bought Reforged and just today I discovered that I have access to the standard version of W3. IMO The standard version is much clearer
Yeah, I think Paladin, Blood Mage, Blademaster, and Farseer could also have been fine candidates for female versions. People who got the Spoils of War edition will already have the option of having a female Archmage with the BFA Jaina skin. I'll definitely be interested to see if they will be expanding on those.
My guess as to why the started with just DK and DH was because Undead and Night Elves were being developed later and they had more time to explore those kinds of design choices.
I got hooked to WC3 1v1 and it's clear to me that old graphics are superior if you really want to win. It's easier on the eyes, icons are just better, no weird mouse lag.
I kinda expected pros to play original to seem more old-school and og, but it's on a whole other level.
There is still hope for the custom maps scene, good ideas for mobile games could spawn there.
Shadowlands is real world
The Maw is China
The Jailer is China government
Sylvanas is Blizz