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Truly amazing. I think they will merge the games or something in the end.

Thats what i thought at first hand too But lets think a bit and examine furthermore. For now i have 3 hypothesis, and i would agree that this move was not a coincidence....

1. They made changes so all but specually war3 mods on sc2 expand alot more. More maps, more chance to be approved and sold.
More complex version of this one is that they are giving us a temporary solution until they finishe something big for warcraft 3 Reforged.

2. They made war3 mechanics gamplay because we might face new pack of War3HD assets like we did 2015. I meaan why such an amount of this editor job, if we are only able to play by default with 99% of sd classic models inside sc2.

3.Merging 2 different lore game with 2 different art seems not going to happen, but stealing engine and editor on rts game and fitting it to be war3 friendly furthermore, with advantage to be even more powerfull = thats what could have happen.

This brings alot of benefits like having a constant team who could maintain the game,bring stability and constant updates, reduce the cost of building new engine out of scratch, the sc2 team prooved they are competent to handle the situation !
And at the end, doing this on sc2 engine even open a possibility of new expansions in some future. There would be no need for Warcraft IV. It would basically be just new art....And by the lore,everything until BFA is third war...so...

And...about dividing community we shouldnt be worried cuse : We would build 10 popular custom maps within 3 months. Also, in our new homeland we would have our allies, prooven shamans of sc2,terrainers etc. So no need to worry.

Within 6 months we would have variety of customs. And within 1 year we would ride the horse without mistakes,and horse would listen to us.

So,final conclusion : It is possible they are taking sc2 engine, and this is just a subliminal message telling us to unite and move there.
You probably heard about Ababmer and his terraining skills . He left Reforoged cause it sux and Editor is old xD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycKgW9teCZA

They obviously worked on this for years so I really don't think it's meant to distract us from Warcraft III only temporarily. I dare say it's something much bigger going on.
That would be amazing but seeing the original assets being put in, I doubt they'll make more like the 2010 ones especially when there are Reforged assets now.
Heroes of the Storm is basically a lore mingle. It doesn't matter because in the end it's modding we're talking about.
Well, they could just mix the WcIII team with the SCII team.

Also, that video is Heroes of the Storm or something.

well, that patch came as secred card in pocket. warcraft 3 could have its destiny on sc2 engine, cause theres no progress on reforged ... Maybe it was standalone sc2 team decision to make sc2 wc3 friendly, or maybe it was blizzard exit strategy, cause workng on old wc3 engine was too risky and slow?Plus its beneficil for selling maps and modding... who knows..time will tell...

Yeah, best option imo, to port WcIII to SCII instead of leaving two "dead" games and kill yourself enhancing the older stuff, assuming porting isn't more of a pain than editing the old stuff.

ye but how much time would it take to port like everything? i dont know, at the end i believe they gonna take sc2 engine fit it to wc3,upgrade a bit and make it standalone and port whole wc3 there. Whats happening now is just temporary solution....

Yeah, anything goes as long as we get the games together. So much potential.

It is already happening. Can you check it. I just opened the casc sc2 test

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/674745010872385556/733687324034203798/unknown.png?width=1078&height=587

Can you add me as friend on discord?join w3u ,you will see my name in chat YourKantSappAbabmer

https://discord.com/invite/aRg68gb

But I don't use Discord.

But use it damn..its safe and its live chat. Look they are polishing the textures and removing noise and adding 3d effects on diffuse !

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/674745010872385556/733691840938639472/unknown.png

Those are lower altar of king bricks

Noice!

Edited
https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/starcraft-2-major-editor-update.326043/page-5#post-3435436

hey, try extracting some of those files. Are they actually Reforged assets and not the Classic models from the Warcraft III dependencies pack?

I got a problem to extract the files with casc i have,jesus..create discord and i send u screenshot in 1 click there rofl.... i cant extrct bunch of files at once,i got stacked. i can do only 1 by one. Its white hair blade master from reforged and altar of kings and altar of storms inside casc...

Don't worry. I'm screenshoting them all. It's what we wanted, 2010 versions of the original models.

Check my post there now.

I am trying to understand. They ported features from wc3 to sc2, but what is the real problem there. Even if they make almost same interface of world editor in sc2, the real problem is sc2 code language that is hard for creating triggers? I am rly amateur in this area...Would need a noob explanation