Warcraft 3 patch 1.22

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

Originally Posted by WARCRAFT III: THE FROZEN THRONE VERSION HISTORY

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Patch 1.22
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FEATURES

- 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.

ya there are some problems I dled it and restarted wc it won't come on said that the
wc3.exe could not be found. I'm reinstalling wc now.

As I said earlier, this patch was indeed a disappointment.
The balance changes are barely noticeable, the only thing I feel I'm getting is the loss of JASSNewGenPatch, hopefully only for a short period of time.

- Fixed DotA-specific sound effects on Intel Macs. lolwut fail

Not to mention this patch breaks tons of installations, with barley noticeable melee changes, why did they have to test this for MONTHS? Best feature is the hiding pings.

yep still doesn't work.. can anyone help me?

I've tried like more then 30 times so far the patch just keeps failing and I've never had problems with patching before.

Umm, have you re-started your computer. . .

Mine bugged, but then I re-started in Safe mode, then again in normal and voila it works. Also JNGP = phailz, but that is usual.

Seems like the testers just did a cracker jack job.

The patch fails hard; it's made bnet lag like never before.

I patched fine, everything just takes AGES.

The battlenet lag is probably because so many people are updating and should calm down after a day or so.

I also patched fine from Europe (northerend) however from US (azeroth) I received a patching error when trying to download it.

I say a lot of the errors are caused by dicy installations and recomend that everyone who encounters such problems atleast attempts a reinstallation and then reupdate.

Not rly, dsg. The lag's never ever been like this. And I remember bad patch lag.

What is the point to reduce the fps with the cheat command maxfps ?

Troll-Brain, it probably will help preformance on low spec systems like laptops.

Reducing the overall FPS reduces memorry and graphics load proportionally which may help systems with low end or intergrated graphics.

It can also be used to prevent WC3 from hogging graphioc recources in the case of computers which use dual screen through 1 graphic card.

That doesn't make sense; it's a chat. Doesn't work online.

Thus, it's completely pointless unless you intend to solely play campaigns.

I dont like the patch too
nothing really important changed

e.g. what would be with a fix of running Wc3 on Dualcores? Patch sais its fixed but its not completely and it took me a long time to make it run (regeneration data)


it also didnt work for me at the first time and said it did not fing "war3.exe"
load MV C++ and it works fine