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.
The 2 Player Campaign is an ongoing project by The-Spoon. It involves editting all of the existing Campaign created by Blizzard so that it can be played with 2 players. This will allow you to join up with a partner to replay the campaign and save Azeroth, and this time you can't cheat!
PROGRESS SO FAR: The Human and Undead Campaigns have been completed so far. With the Orc Campaign planned-ready.
HOW IT WORKS: It may be unclear how there can be a '2 Player Campaign'. I release every chapter on The Hive Workshop individually, and then add them to packs once the Campaign is completed. To carry the item and hero data between the levels a Save/Load Code system is used.
As some of you may have already figured out, we have four new administrators. These new promotions were set in place because we felt the admin system could use less strict organization, so expect your problems to be solved with much more haste than before.
Finally another patch has been released for Blizzard Entertainment's latest game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. However I am sure most of us cannot help but feel slightly disappointed at the one single change the patch brought. Fixes, however, are always welcome and I am sure many people with limited internet access will find this patch to be of great use.
Patch Notes:
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty - Patch 1.0.3
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue preventing some players from accessing offline play from the login screen.
Blizzard is hosting a custom map contest! Prizes will be distributed to the makers of the three best maps. Each winner gets $5000 and a trip to BlizzCon 2010, where attendees will have the opportunity to play and learn about your map. You have until September 11 to submit your work.
Aren't we supposed to be a map-making community after all? Get working!
Important contest rules
THIS CONTEST IS OPEN ONLY TO RESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, MEXICO, CHILE, ARGENTINA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, SINGAPORE, FRANCE, BELGIUM, THE UNITED KINGDOM, LUXEMBOURG, GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND, SWEDEN, FINLAND, DENMARK, NORWAY, SPAIN, IRELAND, RUSSIA, THE NETHERLANDS, SOUTH KOREA, TAIWAN, THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, THE CZECH REPUBLIC, CROATIA, THE UKRAINE, POLAND, BULGARIA, AND HUNGARY WHICH ARE: (i) OVER THE AGE OF MAJORITY IN THEIR COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE ON THE DATE REFERENCED BELOW AS THE START DATE FOR THE CONTEST; AND (ii) WHO ARE NOT RESIDENTS OF THE STATES OF NORTH DAKOTA, VERMONT, CONNECTICUT, OR MARYLAND IN THE UNITED STATES; THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, CANADA; OR RESIDENTS OF THE AUSTRALIAN STATES OF VICTORIA, QUEENSLAND OR THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY ("ENTRANTS"). If you are under the legal age of majority in your country of residence, but are (i) over the age of 13 years of age and a resident of the United States of America, or a member country of the European Union other than Spain, or the United Kingdom; (ii) who is least 14 years of age and a resident of Spain, the United Kingdom, or Russia; or (iii) who is at least 15 years of age and is a resident of the Republic of Korea; and one of your parents or legal guardians must submit a signed, written statement that they have read, understood and agree to these Contest rules with your entry, and that such agreement constitutes acceptance of these Contest rules on behalf of you and themselves.
(i) A Map should be a "Custom," UMS map, and not 1v1, 2v2 or 3v3 Map (aka, "Melee Maps"). Melee Maps will not be considered in the judging process;
(ii) The Map shall not exceed 10 megabytes in size;
(iii) Voice over tracks that are incorporated into a Map shall be in the English language, and shall not feature explicit or obscene language;
(iv) All music featured in the Map must either be the entrant’s original musical composition and performance, or music from a Blizzard product; and
(v) The terms and conditions of the StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty End User License Agreement shall be strictly enforced, subject to these Rules. In the event that Sponsor feels that a Movie was created in violation of the foregoing agreements and/or policies, such as through the use of a "Private Server," that Map will be disqualified from the Contest.
Hello everybody
A scheduled maintenance will occur tomorrow August 11 in the timeframe 15:00-17:00 GMT.
The server will be upgraded from 2 GB of memory to 4 GB. Hopefully this will make things more snappy :)
EDIT: Apparently they decided to shut down the server and install the extra memory immediately even though we had arranged that it should happen tomorrow.
Blizzard has yet again blessed their newest game with a patch. It promises to fix the annoying technical hitches with campaign achievements not appearing when they should and also an apparent bug some people were having with single player mode. Still no sign of balance or content changes....
However recently a leak has hinted that they are planning to overhaul the Starcraft II custom map system completely. What they have in store for us however only time can tell.
Official patch notes...
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty - Patch 1.0.2
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue where campaign mission victories would not always trigger properly.
Fixed an issue where some players were unable to access single-player features.
A new Starcraft II patch has just been release.
Unfortunately it only contains 2 fixes, which is not much but is ok considering the game has been out for less than a week.
The first is a bug fix for surround sound 7.1. Although this does not affect everyone it has its uses.
The other is an optimization for campaign saves. It is unclear exactly what this does, however any form of optimization is always welcome.
Official patch notes...
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty - Patch 1.0.1
Bug Fixes
Campaign saves have been optimized.
Fixed an issue with sound not playing on some 7.1 systems.
We are pleased to announce that Starcraft 2 can now be bought from stores, and of course, installed. You are able to install it, just by inserting the DVD on your DVD drive, or, install it from your download, and wait until tomorow for the Digital Release to be allowed.
To prevent confusion, YES. YOU CAN PLAY.
Also, if you wish to purchase or add your game on Bnet, you can do it here.
The beta of the upcoming Blizzard Entertainment game Starcraft II - Wings of Liberty came to an end on Monday night when blizzard shut of the beta servers for the last time. Patches will no longer be supplied and it is now impossible to activate the phase 2 client due to the beta severs being offline. The Beta should also get removed from your battlenet account shortly in preparation for the game's release.
It has been a pretty memorable game beta, having the usual mix of bugs and issues one expects but also having numerous controversial issues and irritating issues like poor support for people outside America. Ranging from major changes like facebook support or real ID to minor ones like balance changes people seemed to never get enough of discussing them. However despite all this, most people agree that the end product of the beta is a game worthy to become game of the year.
So what is next? Starcraft II - Wings of Liberty will be released in most countries on the 27 of July 2010 for PC and MAC. This will bring many features the beta did not have like a epic single player campaign and new art content for use in custom maps. Additionally it is hoped that all servers worldwide will be functioning fully allowing people outside America to play custom maps. Anything more only time can tell.
Blizzard has released yet another patch for the beta of their up comming game Starcraft II - Wings of Liberty. A number of bugs have been fixed as well as some additional ballence changes. The patch is available world wide, so remember to update as soon as possible.
Patch Notes - Beta Patch 17
Bug Fixes
•Many of the following bug fixes were intended for internal testing only, and are now being reverted.
•250mm Strike Cannons can no longer deal damage to hidden targets.
•Barracks build time decreased from 65 to 60 seconds.
•Bunker build time decreased from 40 to 30 seconds.
•Canceling morphing Banelings now returns 75% of the cost like other morphing Zerg units.
•Hellion range reverted from 6 to 5.
•Reaper build time decreased from 45 to 40 seconds.
•Zealot build time decreased from 38 to 33 seconds.
