The Hive is a Warcraft III modding community. If you are totally new to the game or very skilled, you may either learn and get help or teach others: there is a place reserved here for you! The site also contains a vast resource section including most of the resources that anyone will ever need for a Warcraft project. You will find campaigns, icons, maps, models, skins, spells and tools. Extensive tutorials contain realms of information on how to create, improve and perfect your resources and maps. The Hive's forum allows everyone to talk about the game, modding, making resources and many other subjects.
Today I installed vbseo on the site.
vbseo (vbulletin search engine optimization) will (hopefully) make the search engines like hiveworkshop more and give us higher pagerank on google which will put hiveworkshop higher up when searching for 'warcraft 3 maps' or something.
I am glad to announce a new hosted project here at the Hive Workshop, The Kingdom of Kaliron.
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The Kingdom of Kaliron is a save/load RPG designed for multiplayer. Plunge into the kingdom of Kaliron as you aid the struggling townsfolk in rebuilding and securing their land from the war with Qual'Xel only to uncover a grim secret.
Last night, Blizzard finally completed beta testing its newest Warcraft 3 patch, 1.22. The patch finally attempted to rectify some standard melee balance problems that have plagued players for almost a year now. Also some minor new features were added to Warcraft 3 which many players may find quite useful. To crown all of this, some additional new melee maps have been added to be used in standard melee to liven it up a bit.
Patch Details
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- There is now a replay auto-save feature in the options menu. Replays
are automatically saved to the "replay" folder.
- The game is now automatically saved in the event of a potential
disconnect. These saved games are placed in the "save" folder.
- Player color selection can now be limited by the number of players in
the game using an option in the "Advanced Options" screen during game
creation.
- Added an option to always show unit and building health bars.
- You can now enable and disable the display of minimap signals
from players and other observers using chat commands:
/showminimapsignals and /hideminimapsignals.
- Added a new in-game cheat "maxfps" to limit the maximum frame rate to
the given number. Example: "maxfps 30" will set the maximum frame rate
to 30 FPS.
BALANCE CHANGES
HUMAN
- Scout Tower repair rate changed from 12 to 20.
- Knight damage increased: Attack cooldown changed from 1.50 to
1.40 and base damage increased from 25 to 28 (Average damage is 34).
UNDEAD
- Increased Ziggurat base armor from 1 to 5.
- Reduced the build time of the Necropolis from 120 to 100.
NIGHT ELF
- Reduce the Orb of venom poison duration from 10 seconds to 8 seconds.
- Increase the experience gain from Dryads from Level 2 (40xp) to
Level 3 (60 xp).
FIXES
- The cooldown on unlimited usable items (example: the staff of
preservation) now persists after the item is dropped or traded.
- A cooldown exploit with potions has been fixed.
- When you unburrow a Crypt Fiend, its auto-cast will no longer be toggled
off.
- An exploit bug in which items could lose their cooldowns when transferred
between heroes has been fixed.
- Fixed DotA-specific sound effects on Intel Macs.
- Fixed sound falloff on Intel Macs. Distant sounds should now still be
audible.
MAPS
- New maps from contest winners:
- (2)MeltingValley
- (2)RoadToStratholme
- (4)CentaurGrove
- (4)TidewaterGlades
However all may not be as good as it seems. Many people have reported problems with the update. Updating to 1.22 may sometimes fail with an error message supplied by battlenet or even the program in charge of installing the patch. Many useful third party tools like WEU and JassNewGenPack fail to operate after performing the update. Finally many loyal Warcraft 3 melee players say that some of the melee balance changes were not enough or were in the wrong direction.
Thus sadly this patch is not as well accepted as the previous patch (1.21), which removed the need for a CD to start the game. Hopefully, however, any problems with this patch will be fixed soon (especially with third party tools like JassNewGenPack.
At least mac users will be happier thou as it seems some audio bugs have been fixed.
Two decades have passed since the demonic denizens, Diablo, Mephisto, and Baal, wandered the world of Sanctuary in a vicious rampage to shackle humanity into unholy slavery. Yet for those who battled the Prime Evils directly, the memory fades slowly and the wounds of the soul still burn.
When Deckard Cain returns to the ruins of Tristram's Cathedral seeking clues to new stirrings of evil, a comet from the heavens strikes the very ground where Diablo once entered the world. The comet carries a dark omen in its fiery being and it calls the heroes of Sanctuary to defend the mortal world against the rising powers of the Burning Hells – and even the failing luminaries of the High Heavens itself.
Recently two new contests have started in The Arena. The first contest to recently start in the Arena is the Phoenix Trial #3, which is being hosted by Werewulf. The second contest that has started in the contest is the Mini-Game Contest #2, hosted by myself.
As many of you may have noticed, there have been some BIG changes in the forums the last couple of days. This post is to inform you all of some of the more important changes.
Many forums have been moved, and some have been merged with others. Take a close look around for what you want. It is mostly likely still there. Hiding. :P
Staff ranks have been rearranged.
Staff members no longer have colored names in the forum. All staff members do have bolded names, however.
Each staff member now has an extra user title under their avatar that specifies the areas in which they are in charge.
It is the hope of the administration that these new changes will better The Hive and give the community a boost!
There could be more changes to come. Some staff members are being moved around, some are being removed (because of inactivity) and some new people might be added....
Don't be alarmed by the sudden changes. The Hive is improving because of them!
Hello everyone
As many of you (who know me) know, I am a firefox fan. And therefore I would like to help spread firefox. The mozilla group (the people who are developing firefox) has released firefox 3.0 and they are trying to beat the world record in most downloads in 24 hours. So I would be happy if all of you would download firefox 3.0.
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Are you ready to make history? Are you ready to set a World Record? Today is Download Day. To become part of the official Guinness World Record you must download Firefox 3 by 17:00 UTC on June 18, 2008, or roughly 24 hours from now.
Hello everybody!
Recently I have hired two new global moderators to help us secure our hive.
I have hired General Frank and Ghan_04 to serve the hive as global moderators.
Hello everyone!
Hiveworkshop will soon be getting another feature. We will be showing people's maps and mods on the front page. This way people can get their projects promoted. In exchange people will have to sponsor the hive by donating a small fee.
Here is the first map in line (you cannot request this at all yet):
City Of Drugs is basically a 'Live A Life' map where you can be a citizen, join mafia gang, police force or become a drug dealer. You can buy houses, marry, have kinds, dance , be a farmer, be a cook, buy cars, units, go to prison, upgrade, build economy, deal drugs etc. However, next to the main idea it has nothing to do with loap.
The main differences are: There is a goal, each job has promotion levels, players are balanced, every player can be anything he wants (police, drug, mafia, cook, mailman, farmer), terrain, minimum on memory leaks, nice custom models, intensive gameplay and other
Every player will start the game as a citizen and will be forced to join Mafia, Drug or Police force. Ones joined u can still do side jobs as cook, farmer, delivery boy etc There are also a lot of map activities during the game: Animals escaping from the zoo, hooligans trashing the streets, mafia gangs fighting for territory etc. You can also buy guns and weapons or even buy an Armor/Mech that can be worn by the hero.
Some people run away as soon as they smell something similar to the word LOAP. But this map truly glorifies that map category in my opinion.
Anyway, you will have to wait for the system to be deployed in order to get your own map displayed here.
