Orcs & Humans: Orc Missions (ALPHA)

[arman193]

Im realy confused orgrim doomhammer was on warcraft 2 not 1 in warcraft 1 Black hand was Warchief so i think you made warcraft 2 Custom campaing Second War :|
But away good campaing

 

[LordPerenolde II]

Orgrim Doomhammer was in warcraft 1 as well. It's basically "the player" leading the orc armies in the orc campaign under the command of Blackhand before having him killed.

 

[deepstrasz]

Orgrim Doomhammer was in warcraft 1 as well. It's basically "the player" leading the orc armies in the orc campaign under the command of Blackhand before having him killed.

Indeed. Warcraft II painted the Orcs & Human orc player that way.

 

[Blasterixx]

Just finished playing this one as well, i played on version 1.29

Spoiler: Small Review

It is a decent campaign if you were new to the game i guess, but for someone who is familiar with the war3 gameplay and other custom maps and campaigns this one doesn't really bring much to the table.

~Negatives:

- Really bad grammar!

Almost every line of dialogue has something wrong with it, is like someone used google translate to write the dialogue.. yea is that bad, most of the times i couldn't even understand what the characters were saying, i was too confused, this is pretty bad considering a big part in a custom campaign is the story telling and the dialogue, and when that sucks it downgrades the whole campaign by a lot, you can't really take the story seriously when the dialogue is this bad, trying to read the lines must be one of the hardest things to do while playing this campaign

- The gameplay sucks!

Every mission in this campaign where you have to fight an enemy human base has literally the same gameplay and routine..
1. you start with 4 ~ 5 peons with no gold and wood and almost no buildings.
2. You do get your hero and 3 ~ 4 units to start with which is good but is not enough because you still have to wait to build your economy to be able to compete with the enemy bases.
3. The enemy human bases always start with 100 units and all their buildings and economy maxed out.
4. After you finally manage to build your economy (which takes like 10 minutes) and an army you just go and clear the enemy bases and that's it.

It would have been fine if the first 2 missions were like this, but every damn mission? really?...

all enemy bases are the same, all fights against them are the same, and the worst part is that they don't even have heroes on their own which is just lame.

And how can i forget about the fact that the grunts and raiders have medium armor for some reason which makes them pretty bad fighters while the humans have heavy armor, this must be the first time when i saw an orc unit being weaker than a human unit, how is this even possible...

Talking about units, they are so bad, they are somehow worse then their melee counterparts, the only decent units are the raiders and warlocks but they also die pretty fast, the only decent thing about the whole orc army was the death and decay spell from warlocks and that's it.

- Lots of items, only 6 inventory slots.

What can i say, there were so many items i left on the ground because i can't do anything with them, inventory full, welp rip items, nice knowing you.

There was also that one mission with saving Garona, so many keys to open doors, again 6 inventory slots, i had to drop most of my items just to be able to carry keys to open doors and because of that i also lost many good items cuz i couldn't even get them back because the mission ended too fast and all the routes are blocked at the end, gg.

- The story is bad

What can i say about the story, nothing really, "Me orc, me go kill humans because why not, oh no. . we lost many orc allies while fighting humans, oh well, might as well go fight them some more and lose more orc allies because . . why not, the end".

Talking about the story i must say the mission with saving garona is just great, the conclusion of the mission was perfect what can i say, "i saved your ass only to tell you that you are my enemy and then she runs away because why not, like what even was that, 10/10 story and waste of time.

Another weird one, the Ogre and daughter of Blackhand, again i gotta save the daughter just to kill her at the end? why was she against blackhand? why did Doomhammer kill her? nobody knows.


~Positives and more negatives combined:

- For a campaign where you only have 1 hero the spells of that said hero need to be something amazing to play with, but they are just your old classic war3 spells, the only good spell was shockwave because yea, shockwave is an awesome spell, but is not enough to keep the gameplay fun, I think shockwave pretty much carried the whole gameplay on its back, if there was no shockwave, there would have been no gameplay.

- I did like the dungeon crawl type missions, they were done well.

- There were a few mini boss fights here and there which were good but waaaay tooo eaaaaasyyyyyyyyyy, like wtf, not only that the bosses deal like no damage as it is but you also get healing runes every 10 seconds or something, that's insane, i don't think my hp ever dropped under 90%, those healing runes ruined the boss fights big time! (and i was playing on hard).

- There were a few interesting and unique items which i actually liked, the ones that give stats and also have an ability to use were cool, and there were some from mini bosses which were decent, getting mask of death made my hero pretty much immortal which was kinda funny.

- The only praise i can give to this custom campaign must be the terrain design, it is very well made, all the maps feel unique and alive, only if the gameplay had some sense of strategy or something interesting going on... other than attack move repeat.



My rating for this custom campaign is a C

 

[Masky]

Amazing Campaign, i loved it a lot <3

 

[Mirkerus]

Great campaign! one of the best i've ever played.