WarCraft III Megathread

[Ardenaso]

Dev team is already dismantled and those who were working on it are looking for new jobs sounds like it was a great year.

looks like it.

Michael Scipione has left Blizzard and we didn't know

https://www.reddit.com/r/warcraft3/c..._warcraft_iii/
https://www.reddit.com/r/WC3/comment..._warcraft_iii/

[Theoris]

Sad and embarrassing just how poorly Blizzard handled Reforged, and only for them to ultimately throw it in the trash. Such a waste.

They really should have just left the original WC3 alone.

[czarek]

In general graphic isnt that bad but there is one huge proglem. Ambient is 60dps models are 30dps lol.

[Muxtar]

Dev team is already dismantled and those who were working on it are looking for new jobs sounds like it was a great year.

Well giving the fact that these people created pure garbage instead of legendary game it had once been, I have no pity for them. If I were employer I'd even thought twice whether to hire them in any game-developing company after such fail.

[Unlimited Power]

Well giving the fact that these people created pure garbage instead of legendary game it had once been, I have no pity for them. If I were employer I'd even thought twice whether to hire them in any game-developing company after such fail.

This was a management failure. Blizzard started taking preorders for WCIII: Reforged without even informing the development team. It was the same team that made the Starcraft remaster and used to do most of HotS development as well. In other words, they're more than capable of good releases given proper management.

[Lord Pebbleton]

Everyone that worked on the project should feel embarrassed and consider working in another industry.

I had absolutely NO expectations about the game, because my main (and only) reason to buy it was to play the campaign on hard mode with the new graphics. It barely did that and I was constantly afraid to save and come another day because every update meant corrupted map files. I completed Rexxar's in three days to avoid having to start an act again. I play to enjoy myself, not to get stressed out over an idiotic thing such as this.

Also I had a situation where clicking on the next campaign mission just sent me back to title, I think it was the human campaign.

Virtually zero reason to do anything else after completing the campaign, so what you gonna do? Go back to original Warcraft 3 and play custom campaigns that are often more interesting than Blizzard's. But NO, even if you own the old game you cannot play it, because fuck you that's why. I spent an entire evening trying to gain access to a game I have had for 10 years or so just because Reforged was there.

Mass Effect Andromeda sucked ass for most people. Now imagine if ME:A, along with being bad, also locked you out of ever playing Mass Effect 3 again. That is Reforged.


I am appalled that such a shitty product could make it out at all. I repeat, I had literally zero expectations apart from the bare minimum, and even I was disappointed. I hope they never reforge another game, I have caught wind they want to do something with Diablo II. I am not a huge fan of it, but I would rather wait whatever time is needed for the community to remaster it, rather than buy another abomination from Blizzard. And if the community doesn't remaster it, I guess I will skip playing it altogether, because screw these business practices.

[Verdugo]

Everyone that worked on the project should feel embarrassed and consider working in another industry.

I had absolutely NO expectations about the game, because my main (and only) reason to buy it was to play the campaign on hard mode with the new graphics. It barely did that and I was constantly afraid to save and come another day because every update meant corrupted map files. I completed Rexxar's in three days to avoid having to start an act again. I play to enjoy myself, not to get stressed out over an idiotic thing such as this.

Also I had a situation where clicking on the next campaign mission just sent me back to title, I think it was the human campaign.

Virtually zero reason to do anything else after completing the campaign, so what you gonna do? Go back to original Warcraft 3 and play custom campaigns that are often more interesting than Blizzard's. But NO, even if you own the old game you cannot play it, because fuck you that's why. I spent an entire evening trying to gain access to a game I have had for 10 years or so just because Reforged was there.

Mass Effect Andromeda sucked ass for most people. Now imagine if ME:A, along with being bad, also locked you out of ever playing Mass Effect 3 again. That is Reforged.


I am appalled that such a shitty product could make it out at all. I repeat, I had literally zero expectations apart from the bare minimum, and even I was disappointed. I hope they never reforge another game, I have caught wind they want to do something with Diablo II. I am not a huge fan of it, but I would rather wait whatever time is needed for the community to remaster it, rather than buy another abomination from Blizzard. And if the community doesn't remaster it, I guess I will skip playing it altogether, because screw these business practices.

I think I can straight up say, pirate it. Original game cannot be bought anymore, its abandonware replaced by an unfinished abomination. Its even possible to play it online on different servers.

[hllfrmththrsd]

I have no pity for the devs neither - they messed it up, it's their project and they have handled it poorly. Do not start 'it's blizzard' or 'it's activision', you don't know how project management works. There are always people behind decisions, the devs. If Blizzard or Activision does anything, it's that they set goals but how do you achieve goals, it's devs problem and looks like they failed.

[lolmmofuture]

rip this fking game LOL, literally ruined a legendaary game beyond belief

"i will take my place, amongst the legends, of the past." - Medivh, W3 night elf ending

let this game be remembered for what it was, not what it beacme

lol same could be said for retail wow but thats another story

[Kolvarg]

I have no pity for the devs neither - they messed it up, it's their project and they have handled it poorly. Do not start 'it's blizzard' or 'it's activision', you don't know how project management works. There are always people behind decisions, the devs. If Blizzard or Activision does anything, it's that they set goals but how do you achieve goals, it's devs problem and looks like they failed.

Sure, but you don't really know what goals they were actually given internally, and whether the set deadlines were realistic for the set goals and resources available.

It is indeed true that is fairly blind to just blame Blizzard, but it's even worse to just blame it on the devs without really knowing what happened behind the scenes. As other people said, the same team made multiple good releases before this project, so it's in extreme bad faith to assume it's their fault.

[Lord Pebbleton]

I think I can straight up say, pirate it. Original game cannot be bought anymore, its abandonware replaced by an unfinished abomination. Its even possible to play it online on different servers.

Ye I didn't want to say it outright, but tbf I paid for my classic Warcraft 3 copy so even if I pirate it I suppose it is within my right to do so. I grabbed it from HIVE as other users here have suggested me to do. Works fine and is 100 times more enjoyable than Reforged. I am currently playing the campaign where you have the Dreadlords get all op with necromantic magic.

[Easo]

The thing is - they could afford to fix the game, but they knowingly let it be dropped after the negative review wave and the first anemic patches.
And now there is no one to ask them about the game on Blizzcon this year.

[Ardenaso]

Ye I didn't want to say it outright, but tbf I paid for my classic Warcraft 3 copy so even if I pirate it I suppose it is within my right to do so. I grabbed it from HIVE as other users here have suggested me to do. Works fine and is 100 times more enjoyable than Reforged. I am currently playing the campaign where you have the Dreadlords get all op with necromantic magic.

rowan the wise undead chapter or legends of arkain undead chapter?

[Lord Pebbleton]

rowan the wise undead chapter or legends of arkain undead chapter?

Done Rowan the Wise and a good number of the Arkain chapters. I completely lost interest during the human Arkain book where you have to siege the huge city with cannon towers. I exausted my resources during a 3 hour tug of war where I could not do anything for the longest time, adn if I tried to assault the undead base inside the city I would get slaughtered by an unkillable Crypt Lord and a swarm of abominations.

I tried restarting and I went for the main objective straight away, and my base was destroyed by continuous attacks at all times. There is difficult and then there's that.

[Alatie]

Well giving the fact that these people created pure garbage instead of legendary game it had once been, I have no pity for them. If I were employer I'd even thought twice whether to hire them in any game-developing company after such fail.

When you pay your devs so little they have to think if they will eat today or skip meals its not the dev fault its the eomployers sad fuck up.

[Ardenaso]

there's gonna be a new update for Quenching Mod

https://s1.imagebanana.com/file/210211/rNiYLIT5.JPG
^ Quenching 1.2 info.
Gonna be released soon in English, once translated



Full changelog

Client updates

To avoid too many bugs, we disabled the following features

Now quenching with W3Champion has a compatible button
Anti-harmony function switch(on by default）
Quenching campaign switch(on by default,the original campaign is pre-installed in a custom campaign）
Unit change switch(on by default）
Automatic file update off, the first time you open automatic update on
File version detection,if there is an update on the official website will prompt
Added complete delete function, button is located in the upper left corner
What’s new

Added map editor finished (battle platform) fix button
Custom campaign module, instructions for use are located in the “campaign” tab
Added as many hero skins as possible
Fixed a Bug where some fog lens adjustments could cause dropped calls
Campaign update

Added 3 levels of the orc great escape
Added acknowledgements:Stan som picture effect display
Made a background video of the Great Escape of the orcs using Unreal 4
Added map built-in achievement display
Redo the gameplay to solve a series of bugs before
Added custom campaign - ghost painting peach character [ Scarlet mission ] not fully adapted
Graphic updates

Optimized shadow performance of SD models in HD
Modified Vertex algorithm for HD model
Redo terrain normals and reflection algorithms
Solved the black block problem.
Modified masking and reflection algorithms for HD models
Added an HDR-like algorithm
Modified the Bloom effect to make it more visible
Modified the edge Blur algorithm, now the range is more accurate
Made a tone mapping closer to the natural color gamut
Art updates

Redone a lot of ground textures
Redone the tree model.
Added experimental texture Badlands
Modified the normals of the trees.
Added city-state terrain exclusive tree material
The mini map of the carnival UI is now bigger
Movie UI changes are limited to quenching battle,normal battle unchanged
Redrawn the Ramp diagram
Redrawn the IBL map
Modified the DNC lighting model according to the new shader
Recreated a large number of terrain vegetation
Source: http://www.warchasersreforged.com/1.txt

[The Stormbringer]

Those motherfuckers. This is the 30th Anniversary of Blizzard Entertainment, and they didn't even have the GUTS to apologize to us for the absolute shitshow that is Warcraft 3 Reforged. No sign of allowing us to download and play on the old client and old Battle.Net servers, no sign of any sort of team to fix bugs and implement promised features, no sign of ANYTHING remotely even mentioning it during their entire god damn presentation! Diablo 2's remaster had references to the STARCRAFT remaster in comparison!

This is it. I am officially no longer a Blizzard fan. I might buy and play some of their games if they interest me in the future, but I'm not doing pre-orders, I'm not doing Collector's Editions, and I'm not gonna let myself get hyped anymore. It's been a good run, but the old Blizzard is dead. They would have never allowed this travesty to happen.

[Ardenaso]

Those motherfuckers. This is the 30th Anniversary of Blizzard Entertainment, and they didn't even have the GUTS to apologize to us for the absolute shitshow that is Warcraft 3 Reforged. No sign of allowing us to download and play on the old client and old Battle.Net servers, no sign of any sort of team to fix bugs and implement promised features, no sign of ANYTHING remotely even mentioning it during their entire god damn presentation! Diablo 2's remaster had references to the STARCRAFT remaster in comparison!

This is it. I am officially no longer a Blizzard fan. I might buy and play some of their games if they interest me in the future, but I'm not doing pre-orders, I'm not doing Collector's Editions, and I'm not gonna let myself get hyped anymore. It's been a good run, but the old Blizzard is dead. They would have never allowed this travesty to happen.

don't give up hope yet, the community is attempting to fix Reforged themselves with Retera, the Chronicles of the Second War team, and the Re-Reforged team

[Xilurm]

don't give up hope yet, the community is attempting to fix Reforged themselves with Retera, the Chronicles of the Second War team, and the Re-Reforged team

Should've been Blizzard in the first place though.

It was a slap in the face when they said that you can play with the original Diablo 2 graphics, meaning you can change it back to how it was. Wc3 fans can't even do that. They're stuck with a malformed pile of shit.

They even said all the cinematics were remade! WC3 didn't even get that except for the very first cinematic for some fucking reason.

[Verdugo]

They even said all the cinematics were remade! WC3 didn't even get that except for the very first cinematic for some fucking reason.

And the second-to-last one, which they somehow managed to make worse.