Chronicles of the Second War: Tides of Darkness

[RH90]

small typing error in the installation guide: the folder to copy the campaign file into is C:/User/Documents/Warcraft3/Campaigns/ ...not Campaings/ be aware of this, if you got create the folder yourself if it's not existing already.

by the way: the textures / models missing, which seemingly is fixed by rebooting your PC, just didn't work for me... till i realized that i forgot to run the CSW installer as admin. after i did that , i didn't even have to restart. worked instantly.

after i ran that thing, closed it without starting the game, completely rebooting the pc and only after that tried the game. No building / neutal building goldmine etc models show up. Every unit is black white grey or red. Many ground textures are grey or totally black....atleast it works for you
still 0/10, not working after several restarts

 

[Kordan]

Lmk not possible to play on mac right?

 

[JStryker47]

I've managed to get as far as the 6th mission and so far, my only minor issue is that when building advanced structures, I have to click on two different hammer icons and then do so again, to switch back to regular structures. Bit of a turn off, but no big deal.

Also, I too had that same issue in the previous mission as Augustus. It was only when I used the vision cheat to look around the map and eventually found the path behind some trees, that I noticed Utok with the exclamation mark above his head. Afterwards, I reloaded by saved game and went back to camp.

Aside from those two minor things, my only problem is that the Reforged game is constantly freezing, lagging, and crashing. But I know it has nothing to do with this campaign, because the game has been doing that for a long time. Honestly, it feels like the Blizzard devs knew that fans would create better content than they ever could, and so purposely made the game unplayable, just to screw with us. Bastards!

 

[Yousef]

Can we get an alternate link to the alternate link? Google Drive has too many people downloading and the Hive is veeeery slow! I can't wait to play this campaign!

 

[ericstreameru]

Can we get an alternate link to the alternate link? Google Drive has too many people downloading and the Hive is veeeery slow! I can't wait to play this campaign!

someone needs to start a torrent, i got the legacy download , but i guess i need more files since the characters was only showing red or white colours

 

[Tamplier]

Can we get an alternate link to the alternate link? Google Drive has too many people downloading and the Hive is veeeery slow! I can't wait to play this campaign!

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[ericstreameru]

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[rcshaggy]

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Thank you!
It really worked for me and moment of truth in order to do the Campaign file and the installer, with the assets...

 

[GoldSh3ll]

after i ran that thing, closed it without starting the game, completely rebooting the pc and only after that tried the game. No building / neutal building goldmine etc models show up. Every unit is black white grey or red. Many ground textures are grey or totally black....atleast it works for you
still 0/10, not working after several restarts

I'm having the same issue.

 

[MelNefys]

After mission 5 Trees are ... well not here ^^ peon can harvest them only after buiild an lumbermill...

 

[Standhaft]

Samze problem for maps corrupted or missing textures, try several times thanks to the comment it work perfectly, and what a game changer! it's unbelievible, just the mission 5 and the interlude, it's frking awesome, thank you so much

Any idea of thon the voice-acings for others language release ?

And Just some minor things, like utok not facing the interlocutor, gold is take 10 by 10 sometimes or some lines repeated in games but rly not big things

Wait, so what did you do to fix it? I haven't been able to play it yet.

 

[Tamplier]

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After mission 5 Trees are ... well not here ^^ peon can harvest them only after buiild an lumbermill...

I assue you had Quenching - it can cause this bug cuz Quenching replaces tree models.
CSW is not Compatible with Quenching

 

[GoldSh3ll]

I got everything to work, I loaded the resources again and rebooted my PC along with a fresh restart of the game, its works perfectly now!

 

[MelNefys]

Wait, so what did you do to fix it? I haven't been able to play it yet.

Like Metamorpheus said at page7, the main problem I had was to Run everything as an "Administrator", and immediately after reboot the PC
For corruped data, I delete the full game, and Re-upload it, I think there is a better way x) and follow strictly the way describe by the CSW maker..

 

[AMarkov]

Hi all! I am sincerely impressed by the project, it is beyond praise. This is probably the best game I've played in the last 5 years. The guys who developed this, you are the best, you were able to do incredible things. Even if Blizzard releases its own version of the Warcraft 2 remake, I will consider your project canon. I was fond of mapmaking in Warcraft, and I was sure that you would not be able to surprise me... but I was very mistaken. There are moments that struck me to the core. Cinematics are something. No spoilers, the lake moment, my jaw dropped, it was something. Thank you for taking me back to my childhood and showing Warcraft 2 in the form that was remembered in my head.

There is one fly in the ointment - from a game design point of view, the game is a little outdated, but I understand that you squeezed everything possible out of the core engine of WarCraft 2 and WarCraft 3. Introducing more mechanics simply made the game more complicated. I didn’t really like the difficult mode, it took too long to kick neutral-hostiles, whose killing does not pay off the cost of killing. BUT this is a small thing.
I think you're a wild success compared to Blizzard's failures. There is a second reason for purchasing Reforged, for those who haven’t bought it yet (the first, released a little earlier than Re-Reforged), downloads prove this.
No spoilers, the credits scene is great!

I would like to support the project and its authors, but I am in a region from which I cannot top up your account. Could you open an account in a popular cryptocurrency (BTC, ETH, XRP)?

Special words of gratitude for Tamplier, because. I know that he is from Ukraine. Dude, you're cool for continuing to support the project despite adversity. I am on the other side, but I am not an enemy (Republic of Belarus). I'm just a person who lives. I hope all this madness ends and returns to relative normality. I remain of the opinion that we are fraternal peoples, but I understand that even after the end of the conflict, the stigma of mistrust and passive hostility will remain for decades. And there is no way to remove it. Nothing more to add, thank you.

*some people have some problems with Reforged. I only had errors and crashes in Reforged itself and minor bugs in the campaign itself, but no loss of textures, models or other unpleasant things, the most immersive experience.
I downloaded pure Reforged and installed all the content according to the documentation on a pure Reforged client of the current version (and I didn’t even need to restart my PC)! Hope it helps someone.

 

[Soddyqt]

Guys.. I had to create an account here, which is something I never do anywhere, for nothing. Just to give me word of appreciation to the team behind this.

I am at mission 6 so far, and it has been absolutely amazing so far. Growing up playing Warcraft 1, then 2, then 3, then 15 years of WoW pretty much, also having read all the lore.
I am astonished by the quality of the work that has been done in terms of scenes in between missions, gameplay, heroes' competences, everything.
The attention to detail is everywhere. The respect given to each character in terms of personality, gear, dialogues.. truly brilliant.

You deserve to be so much rewarded by Blizzard and the community for your work.

I have not had so much fun playing a video game since many many years. Really, thank you.

 

[PanZaraza]

Found the solution to missing textures. You need run csw with administrator,load textures, and reboot pc TWICE

 

[Duncan99]

I am not able to follow the download instructions...I don't have any warcraft iii launcher and every time I try to run the CSW installer I have the following window:

Where the CSW_Installer should go?

 

[Standhaft]

Like Metamorpheus said at page7, the main problem I had was to Run everything as an "Administrator", and immediately after reboot the PC
For corruped data, I delete the full game, and Re-upload it, I think there is a better way x) and follow strictly the way describe by the CSW maker..

Alright cool, I will try uninstalling and a fresh install and see if it works.

 

[AkulaSubmarine]

It's... It has left me speechless. The only thing that prevents me from envying you is the knowing how many efforts have been put to this. A mapmaker myself, I know very well how difficult and exhausting the modding is. Thus, the quality of this project scares me. It's beyond any words and understanding, what true and loving Warcraft fans are capable of. What a nice present our beloved game has gotten for its anniversary.

 

[ericstreameru]

someone needs to start a torrent, i got the legacy download , but i guess i need more files since the characters was only showing red or white colours

i made a pack with the files needed to play csw , packed it into 1 file with winrar, here is a magnet link, magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1aac95a9c8d32abd79e458ba0da2d4034c954530&dn=ChroniclesOfTheSecondWar.rar

 

[HankHell69]

I've encountered an error on The Lost Isles Boss Fight which you can reload to that specific point of the mission if you die (very convenient). However when the boss fight initiates Rend and Maim are sealed into the first segment but it is only Maim in the arena. On the second part of the arena fight after destroying three of Cho'galls void replica's he bugs off outside the arena so you can't hit him. I believe I ran into this because I didn't realize Rend was supposed to be in the party even though he was in the cutscenes at the start. I'll hop on later and perhaps I'll have to restart the mission over and make sure Rend and Maim are present.

Just a heads up for anyone if you see a hero in a cutscene and he is not present at the start of the mission do not try to progress otherwise you will hit a dead end somewhere down the line.

Edit: I restarted The Lost Isles and Rend is still present in the beginning cutscene but not present in-game which you will not be able to progress further once you reach the fight with Cho'gall. It is only Zuluhed and Maim. Anyone else run into this progression bug? Also I just noticed there is no marker showing I've completed chapter 2 and 3 and also the lost chapters as well. Perhaps since Chapter 2 and 3 not marked as complete Rend didn't carry over???

 

[Standhaft]

Why do the assets take so long to download? I just finished reinstalling Warcraft 3 and downloaded the campaign, but the damn assets are still only barely 165 MB out of 1.2 GB done!

 

[JCASHrip]

As an update to my issues yesterday, I was finally able to start up CSW! The passion is abound in this work and you can really tell you guys put your blood, sweat and tears into this! I was worried I would experience some bugs along the way given the recent posts. However, the first two missions went by bug free - no glitches, cinematic issues, color weirdness or anything like that. However, once I completed the second mission, the game was stuck on a black screen with no sound and no way to exit the game, forcing a hard quit. I was able to open the menu but clicking "exit game" did nothing. I will try again later and update this post. Thanks again for all of your incredible work!

 

[JCASHrip]

I am not able to follow the download instructions...I don't have any warcraft iii launcher and every time I try to run the CSW installer I have the following window:
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Where the CSW_Installer should go?

It might be different for everyone but my installer goes here:

That is where you should find the .exe for Warcraft III. I also had to put the campaign in a different location than what is detailed, because for some reason Warcraft 3 wants to use my onedrive. I imagine others might be different as well, so mine looks like this:

 

[ericstreameru]

Why do the assets take so long to download? I just finished reinstalling Warcraft 3 and downloaded the campaign, but the damn assets are still only barely 165 MB out of 1.2 GB done!

you can download from my torrent im currently hosting, set my upload to 500mbps.

 

[stalkerlp]

i fix my stutter problem i change game HDD to SSD and good.

this is so good incredible job! i like it so much! crazy good.. you guys well done!

It was very enjoyable and very detailed.

thanks for this.

 

[Standhaft]

Finally managed to get it to work, working well so far.

 

[Empire]

I've encountered an error on The Lost Islands Boss Fight which you can reload to that specific point of the mission if you die (very convenient). However when the boss fight initiates Rend and Maim are sealed into the first segment but it is only Maim in the arena. On the second part of the arena fight after destroying three of Cho'galls void replica's he bugs off outside the arena so you can't hit him. I believe I ran into this because I didn't realize Rend was supposed to be in the party even though he was in the cutscenes at the start. I'll hop on later and perhaps I'll have to restart the mission over and make sure Rend and Maim are present.

Just a heads up for anyone if you see a hero in a cutscene and he is not present at the start of the mission do not try to progress otherwise you will hit a dead end somewhere down the line.

Edit: I restarted The Lost Isles and Rend is still present in the beginning cutscene but not present in-game which you will not be able to progress further once you reach the fight with Cho'gall. It is only Zuluhed and Maim. Anyone else run into this progression bug? Also I just noticed there is no marker showing I've completed chapter 2 and 3 and also the lost chapters as well. Perhaps since Chapter 2 and 3 not marked as complete Rend didn't carry over???

Yea i have the same Problem :-(

 

[wisequark]

Lmk not possible to play on mac right?

I was able to get it to work by putting the campaign file into ~/Library/Application Support/Blizzard/Warcraft III/Campaigns though I have no idea where the assets go so everything is white

 

[Danym333]

This is the best campaign I've played in any stradegy game! So good , Good story telling, way more detail and deep story than the original wc2 along with more visuals and OMG the scene of the horde armada at the shore from the original wc2 remade by you guys was AMAZING! lol I'm only half way done and I'm loving it so far. Great work!

 

[HankHell69]

This is the best campaign I've played in any stradegy game! So good , Good story telling, way more detail and deep story than the original wc2 along with more visuals and OMG the scene of the horde armada at the shore from the original wc2 remade by you guys was AMAZING! lol I'm only half way done and I'm loving it so far. Great work!

Let me know if you run into a progression breaking bug in chapter 12.

 

[Swiftism]

Hi,

Running the game on 1.32 windows 11. Reforged itself works fine but I'm struggling to get CSW to run at all.

So far I've followed all the instructions and can click on the tides of darkness page in the campaign list. It takes me to the list of different parts of the campaign but no matter what one I try to start I get the following error message:

Warning

This map has been saved by a more recent version of the editor.
It may contain data which are not supported in this version.

Continue loading map?

If I click yes, it just shows the error message over and over until the game crashes. If I click no it black screens warcraft and I have to exit game.

Any help would be great.

 

[Uncle]

Hi,

Running the game on 1.32 windows 11. Reforged itself works fine but I'm struggling to get CSW to run at all.

So far I've followed all the instructions and can click on the tides of darkness page in the campaign list. It takes me to the list of different parts of the campaign but no matter what one I try to start I get the following error message:

Warning

This map has been saved by a more recent version of the editor.
It may contain data which are not supported in this version.

Continue loading map?

If I click yes, it just shows the error message over and over until the game crashes. If I click no it black screens warcraft and I have to exit game.

Any help would be great.

Any reason why you're not on the latest patch? The game has campaign support again. I'm a little out of my element here but I assume this is meant to be played this way.

 

[deepstrasz]

Hi,

Running the game on 1.32 windows 11. Reforged itself works fine but I'm struggling to get CSW to run at all.

 

[Sapprine]

Bug in chapter 6
Troops stuck after bridge collapse

Spoiler: spoiler: spoiler

Troops stuck after bridge collapse

 

[Hemozz]

i just bought Reforged today, then downloaded this demo, added to Documents\Warcraft III\Maps, opened game and went to single player , custom games, opened map 1 and most of assets are white and menu area is green. I checked the options and its set to Reforged and not classic. i also checked the preferences file and hd=1

i have the same issue, how did you resolve it? or were you not able to resolve it?

 

[deadmaniac]

Hey guys, first of: I cannot put into words, how I have always wanted a campaign like this. I also made a few attempts doing a campaign from the pov of the horde in the second war, but this is beyond my wildest dreams. I will also go so far as to say (and seconding Danym) that this is the best campaign in any RTS I have ever played. I may be sleep deprived and too much into it right now, but this may be the thing to WC3... nah RTS campaign building what BG3 is to RPG games.

I will make a full review after I'm through but right now I wanted to report a bug, which pretty much breaks the game and prevented me from advancing.

Spoiler: bug report

In the second phase of the fight with Cho'Gal, he has the tendency to run down to the goldmine, as he isn't blocked by the cliffs. He then stands around there and doesn't come back. Also I wanted to know: in the third phase, his AOE is at some point not survivable anymore, no matter how far you run away from him. Is that intentional? I'm playing this on Hard btw. And one more side note: is it also intentional that Rend doesn't show up in the level (and the next) despite being in the cutscenes?

edit: attached an image. also my workaround for the moment was to whosyourdaddy him, but still it was a really intense fight and quite memorable. well done!

thank you so much for all your work and dedication! absolutely love this and can't wait to finish this.

 

[Green4]

So far - one of the best custom campaings for Reforged, in my opinion.

 

[ImMikeGaming]

Just Finished Chapter 1, take a look if you are interested in seeing how the campaign is looking. Didn't encounter any bugs on this one.

01- Zul'Dare

 

[mile9086]

Awesome mod

 

[Warglaive91]

Excellent work hive group, I love this campaign, I will upload it to my YouTube channel

 

[Augustus]

Oh and by the way...This is now my headcanon...

I seriously hope you will consider making your own private WoW server one day, with a map that reflects the one you made and with the lore you guys are making. I would LOVE to see these models used in a private server... Keep the good parts of retail, revise the weird parts, and get rid of the crap parts (shadowlands etc)

 

[Standhaft]

Encountered a glitch where mission was not recorded as completed. I realized this when I didn't have all of Utok's side quest abilities unlocked even though I had done all of his side quests (so far). I am going to try replaying the mission later to see if it gets updated but just thought I'd share.

Otherwise, no further issues for me personally and it's going pretty well.

 

[Sapprine]

Utok's Spirit Revival's tooltip says 240 second cooldown, but in actuality it's a 120 second cooldown.

Spoiler: Spoiler: Bug Report

 

[biscuits99]

Found the solution to missing textures. You need run csw with administrator,load textures, and reboot pc TWICE

This worked for me. Loaded textures, rebooted, loaded textures, rebooted. Then it was ok.

 

[Belladrais]

Update 23-Aug-2021: We have now released the polished missions 1 to 4 as a campaign, made possible with the Quenching Mod.

Just joined, so please forgive any ignorance, but I'm wondering why at the bottom of the install directions, it says "Not compatible with the Quenching Mod" but then here it says made possible with the Quenching mod.

I also am experiencing the issue of the in-game models only showing up as White base models with some appearance features showing up. The town hall, and buildings all do not show up as well.

I just did a fresh install, and am about to do the computer reboot.

I will attach any necessary photos/screenshots.

 

[Belladrais]

Just joined, so please forgive any ignorance, but I'm wondering why at the bottom of the install directions, it says "Not compatible with the Quenching Mod" but then here it says made possible with the Quenching mod.

I also am experiencing the issue of the in-game models only showing up as White base models with some appearance features showing up. The town hall, and buildings all do not show up as well.

I just did a fresh install, and am about to do the computer reboot.

I will attach any necessary photos/screenshots.

For me: I did run CSW as admin originally, but it didnt do the trick. My fix was Deleting CSW through the installer, then running it again as admin, and re-installing, then rebooting. I am seeing the correct textures and buildings now.

For those seeing the white/red models. I would recommend trying the above with what I did.

 

[MichaelVanBrunn]

Absolutely Amazing stuff, really enjoyed the variety of quests and things to do in every mission.

 

[Mathematician]

What other languages are you planning to translate this amazing creation into?