Warcraft 3: Remastered Will Work with Old Custom Maps
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Warcraft 3: Remastered Will Work with Old Custom Maps
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#2dota lives
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#3dota lives
wintermaul lives!
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#4Oh I’d be thrilled to play WC3 Tower Defence again. Those were loads of fun.
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#5dota lives
When I was tinkering with dota map, it used abysmal number of various hacks. I doubt that it'll work.
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#6Unfortunately I doubt it will still have LAN.
A sorely missed feature that makes a game really feel like it's yours after purchase rather than just on lease until the servers shut down.
I'd be happily corrected about this though.
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#7This really doesn't belong on HN and...
I'm pretty sure this is false on some level. I played through the campaign on the original this last year and every new patch released broke my save files irreparably. Are they claiming that WC3R will work with every version ever put out of WC3? They couldn't even make that happen on the original.
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#8The story of making the Starcraft 1 custom maps work on the remaster is pretty amazing:
http://0xeb.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/StarCraft_EUD_Emu...
Basically a lot of the maps were using a buffer overflow in the scripting to read and write all kinds of internal data structures in the game engine. If you're rewriting a game from scratch, how can you possibly make the new engine bug-compatible with the original to this extent? A single data structure's layout or a single variable's location changing will break everything.
I wonder whether there are any similar landmines in Warcraft 3?
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#9Interesting - will they only work with the latest patch (1.12 I think?) as custom maps did? There were some breaking changes that meant you couldn’t use older versions of maps.
I’m very excited for this - so much creativity flowed out of that map maker - it created (or rather, popularized) multi billion dollar genres in MOBAs and tower defense. Hope wintermaul wars gets popular - that was one of my favorites.
Re: Warcraft 3: Remastered Will Work with Old Custom Maps
#10This really doesn't belong on HN and... I'm pretty sure this is false on some level. I played through the campaign on the original this last year and every new patch released broke my save files irreparably. Are they claiming that WC3R will work with every version ever put out of WC3? They couldn't even make that happen on the original.
A little refresh on actual HN guidelines:
"Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. "