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Curse of the Forsaken v3.0.1

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1) This campaign was made on Warcraft III patch 1.30.2. Make sure your Warcraft III is
patched as well. The campaign WILL NOT WORK properly without the most recent patch.
2) Download the campaign and place into your My Documents/Warcraft 3/Campaigns folder.
3) Play the campaign!

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Miscellanous Credits
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Vrykul models by Sellenisko
Forsaken buildings and worker by Ujimasa Hoso
Wretched units by Ujimasa Hoso
Blood elf Buildings by SinisterX
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Lich King by Kwaliti
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Cinematics:
Curse of the Forsaken: Combination of Warcraft 3 cinematics, WoW cinematics (Wrathgate, Battle for
Azeroth CGI, Stormheim Cinematic, Lament of the Highborne) and Warcraft 3 ingame cutscenes from the
campaign
Wrath of the Lich King: WoW WotLK CGI
Invasion of Northrend: Combination of WoW cinematics (5.1 Alliance and Horde Landfall, Broken Shore
Cinematic, Lament of the Highborne)
The Wrathgate: The Wrathgate cinematic

Music:
WoW: Anduin
WoW: Arthas, My Son
WoW: Azjol-Nerub
WoW: Broken Shore
WoW: Dalaran
WoW: Darnassus
WoW: Demon Invasion
WoW: Ebon Hold
WoW: Evil Forest music
WoW: Fate of the Horde
WoW: Icecrown
WoW: Icecrown Citadel
WoW: Invincible
WoW: Lament of the Highborne
WoW: Orgrimmar
WoW: The Wrathgate
WoW: Tirisfal Glades
WoW: Silverpine Forest (Cataclysm)
WoW: Undercity
WoW: Xaxas
Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls: Abattoir
Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls: Ancient Ruins of Dholmour
Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls: Battlegrounds of Eternity
Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls: Blood for Blood
Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls: Crusader
Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls: Full Circle
Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls: Paths of the Drowned
Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls: Runes
Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls: Sartor, Grodoloth, Kordoroth
Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls: The Guise of Man
Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls: Urzael
Dragon Age Inquisition: Adamant Fortress
Dragon Age Inquisition: Calling the Inquisition
Dragon Age Inquisition: Dark Solas
Dragon Age Inquisition: Death on the Bridge
Dragon Age Inquisition: Lost Elf
Dragon Age Inquisition: Siege of Adamant
Dragon Age Inquisition: The Fall
Dragon Age Inquisition: The Inquisition Marches
Dragon Age Inquisition: The Well of Sorrows
Two Steps From Hell: Black Blade
Two Steps From Hell: Dark Ages
Two Steps From Hell: Master of Shadows
Two Steps From Hell: Power of Darkness
Adrian von Ziegler: Angel of Death
Mass Effect 3: An End Once and For All
Resident Evil Remake: Macabre Hallway
Within Temptation: The Silent Force Intro

Sound effects from Heroes of the Storm, World of Warcraft
Voice lines from Heroes of the Storm, World of Warcraft
Tracer voice line from Overwatch

Some lines written by ericwu102

Changelog
- Released.

- Fixed the gold mine bug in chapter one.
- The fountain of health in chapter two is no longer flying.
- Changed the side quest name in chapter two to ''The Cleansing''.
- Renamed mur'guls to murlocs in chapter two.
- Ghosts of Dark Rangers no longer cost food.
- Orc Warlocks have unarmored armor now.
- Darkclaw is dead in chapter four, he won't stay alive.
- Selection on units is removed in all cinematics.

- Side quest in Chapter Three is available almost immediately.
- Difficulty of Chapter Seven has been reduced. The gold mines also have more gold.
- Alexstrasza's line won't trigger before the quest.
- Sindragosa drops a different item.
- Marrowgar will no longer spam his line after his death.

- If you skip the intro cinematic in Chapter Four, Darkclaw's items won't teleport to Sylvanas.
- Phaelynne doesn't teleport with Varimathras in chapter four.
- If a hero dies during the Frostmourne part of the Lich King fight, they won't stay transparent later.

- Overall difficulty of some maps reduced a little.
- The ''bug'' in chapter eleven where all units freeze is no longer present.
- It is now more clear where to go in chapter nine as the blood elven base is visible from the start.
- Some other minor bugs fixed.

- Some small changes happened in Chapter One and Two.
- Most of the quests now get pinged on the minimap so that it's more clear where to go.

- Vereesa now has her voice from WoW: Mists of Pandaria
- The Lich King fight intro cinematic has been changed a little,
now both Sylvanas and Jaina have their lines voiced from WoW.

- Revamp of the Forsaken race and tecthree.
- New building - Royal Laboratory - 10 new upgrades within it.
- Apothecary has a new spell, replaced Alchemic Decay.
- New maps added - Chapter Eight, Part One, all new interludes.
- Chapter Five and Six changed places.
- Chapter Six and Nine revamped.
- All other chapters improved and tweaked.
- All AIs improved.
- Lots of new cinematics that replace the old ones.
- Improved, expanded storyline - most of dialogues changed and improved.
- Some heroes' story has been expanded. There are also new heroes present in the story.
- Most heroes have new spells.
- All hero spells now hotkeyed to QWER.
- New characters added.
- New ''exotic'' items added.
- Cliff slopes fixed in all maps.
- Skip level cheat now works in all maps.
- LOTS of other minor stuff that are not noted here.

- Garrosh collision size reduced to same like all heroes.
- Choosing Lor'themar no longer grants 12 extra food in Chapter Eleven. (The Forsaken farms get killed
if you choose him, making you lose 12 food while his building still gives 12)
- Garrosh is no longer called Jaina in Chapter Eight.
- There should now be enough space at the gold mine in Chapter Seven to expand.
- Dalaran units should now stay neutral in Chapter Four.
- Cinematics in Chapter Five and Nine should no longer run at the same time.
- Chapter Five should now be a little easier.
- Gargoyles should no longer be able to leave the playable area in Chapter Six.
- Shaman can now use Bloodlust again in Chapter Eleven.
- Varimathras now drops his item in Chapter Eleven upon death.
- You can't build any orc buildings anymore in Chapter Three.
- There is now more gold in the gold mine in Chapter Six.

- A cinematic in Chapter One now skips properly.
- Malefaction fixed, it no longer works on heroes and Phaelynne won't bug herself.
- Two Raymonds bug fixed in Epilogue.

- Chapter Ten ending cinematic can now be properly skipped
and you can now choose heroes properly if you skip it.
- Vereesa will no longer say her line in Chapter Nine before
she actually appears.
- Finale has been renamed to Edge of Night from Edge of the Night.

- Removed mention of Shadow of Blood in the Epilogue.
- Couple of dialogues rewritten, most notably in Chapter Two.

- Some dialogues in most of the chapters have been updated.
- Sylvanas' voice has been changed to her WoW/Heroes of the Storm voice.
- Cold damage area in Chapter Ten removed,
- Undead in Chapter Five now has less upgrades.
- Few other minor fixes/changes.

- The campaign now contains four optional CGI cinematics. You can choose in the first map to instead view ingame versions of them.
- The campaign now has three difficulties: easy, normal and hard.
- New chapter: Chapter Four – Devil’s Deal.
- Four completely revamped chapters, while all others have received updates of varying sizes.
- Two new interludes.
- Massively updated storyline and almost all dialogues rewritten.
- New background music, taken from World of Warcraft.
- Lots of new soundtracks throughout the campaign in cinematics and boss fights.
- New major characters: Bolvar Fordragon, Grand Apothecary Putress.
- Several characters have reduced roles in the storyline, while few have increased roles.
- Apothecary Phaelynne’s role in the story has been taken over by Grand Apothecary Putress.

Major Chapter Changes

- All chapters have received storyline and dialogue updates. Most of the dialogues have been completely rewritten, all cinematics have been improved in some way.
- Revamped maps have the same or similar storyline as their old versions, but have completely new terrain, cinematics and gameplay.
- Chapter Two: Aiding the Cursed has been removed.
- Lots of other minor updates; only bigger updates are listed here.

NEW: Cinematic: Curse of the Forsaken

Introductory cinematic for the campaign, detailing the Forsaken’s past and their current goal. You will also choose whether you want CGI or ingame cinematics in this map as well as the campaign difficulty (easy, normal or hard).

Chapter One: A Necessary Intervention

- Renamed from Unnecessary Intervention to A Necessary Intervention.
- New intro cinematic.
- Second cinematic (in the Scarlet Crusade base) removed.

Chapter Two: Icy Menace

- All non-orc units have been replaced with orc units.
- Terrain changes, more pathways to the final orc base.

NEW: Interlude: Purpose

While Varimathras advanced through the Alterac Mountains, Sylvanas and her forces travel through the Silverpine Forest.

Chapter Three: Disdain

- Renamed from Forsaken Incursion to Disdain
- New intro cinematic, other cinematics vastly changed.
- Two new side quests.
- Apothecaries can now be trained from the beginning of the map.
- Significant terrain changes to the map.

NEW: Chapter Four: Devil’s Deal

Lead the assault on the Scarlet Monastery, the final battle with the Scarlet Crusade, while commanding a new Forsaken ally, the vampire bats.

Cinematic: Wrath of the Lich King

- Renamed from The Awakening to Wrath of the Lich King.
- World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King opening cinematic available instead of the ingame cinematic.

Interlude: A Royal Coup

- Renamed from The Demon Within to A Royal Coup.
- First part of the cinematic altered.

REVAMPED: Chapter Five: A Rallying Point

Chapter Six: Battle for the Undercity

- Intro part altered, a demon inside the first base must now be killed in order to gain control of it.
- Three enemy Forsaken bases replaced with demon bases.

Interlude: Memories

- New intro part.
- References to Malygos removed.

NEW: Cinematic: Invasion of Northrend

After gathering their forces, the Horde and the Alliance set sail for Northrend.

Chapter Seven: Into the Frozen Heart of Northrend

- Map expanded, whole new part added to the left side of the map.
- The blood elves and Lor’themar are now playable in this map, separately from the Forsaken. The blood elves must destroy Scourge Spires in order to allow the Forsaken forces to advance further.
- The enemy AI will now attack by loading their units into zeppelins and landing outside the Forsaken base, instead of teleporting.
- Enemy vrykul AI added.
- Darkfallen units added to the Undead Scourge AIs.
- New cinematics.
- Second cinematic removed.

NEW: Interlude: Crossroads

While the Forsaken battle against the Scourge at the east of Northrend, the Horde and the Alliance find themselves before an unavoidable hurdle, the nerubian kingdom of Azjol-Nerub.

REVAMPED: Chapter Eight: Azjol-Nerub

Chapter Nine: Hearts in Ice

- Renamed from Echoes of the Past to Hearts in Ice.
- Lor’themar is no longer playable in this map.
- Blue dragons and references to Malygos removed.
- New intro cinematic and an Alexstrasza cinematic added.

Bonus Interlude: Journey to the Sunwell

- Jaina and Lor’themar no longer appear in the cinematic. Aethas now appears in the cinematic.
- Lady Liadrin has a new model.
- More dialogue added.

Chapter Ten: Hour of the Forsaken

- Altered terrain at the part where the Alliance and the Horde fight against the undead.
- The Alliance and Horde bases can no longer be destroyed. Likewise, the undead base they are fighting against cannot be destroyed.
- First part of the intro cinematic changed.
- New side quest.

NEW: Cinematic: The Wrathgate

Bolvar Fordragon and a Horde general finally lead a successful assault against the undead forces at Angrathar the Wrathgate.

REVAMPED: Chapter Eleven: Trial of Monsters

Interlude: Deliverance

- Renamed from Lost to Deliverance.
- Sound from the World of Warcraft Patch 3.3.0: Fall of the Lich King Trailer added.

REVAMPED: Chapter Twelve: Fall of the Lich King

Finale: In Damnation

- Renamed from Edge of Night to In Damnation.
- Split into this new finale and the new epilogue. The old epilogue has been removed. The new finale only contains the beginning part with Sylvanas.
- The part with Jaina, Vereesa and Varian has been removed.

Epilogue: Edge of Night

- The third part of the old finale.
- New ending part added.


Techtree Changes

- Structures that previously used the undead birth animation now use a more human looking one: Graveyard, Temple of the Damned, Slaughterhouse, Boneyard and Tomb of Relics.
- Creature Attack Upgrade and Unholy Attack Upgrade have been consolidated into a single upgrade.
- Royal Laboratory no longer requires Dark Castle to be built. Instead, some upgrades now have certain building requirements.

NEW UNIT: Vampire Bat

- Replaces the Gargoyle unit.
- Can use Blood Plague: Infects a target ground enemy unit's blood which deals 5 damage per second for 15 seconds. If the infected unit dies while under the effect of Blood Plague and if there are any enemies nearby, the Vampire Bat will cause its corpse to explode, causing additional 50 damage to nearby enemy units.
- Can use Vampiric Bite: Converts 50% of attack damage done back to life.
- Can use the upgrade Blood Circulation: Increases Vampire Bats' health by 150 and allows them to use the Blood Plague ability, which deals damage over time to enemy units and causes their corpses to explode.

Worker

- Has a new voice.
- Multiple Workers can now construct a single building at the same time (like human Peasants).

Ghoul

- Shadow Claw has a new sound effect. It also no longer makes Ghouls have a visual effect when researched.

Dark Ranger

- Poison Arrow has a new special effect.

Dreadguard

- Has a new voice.
- Attack has been lowered.
- Dreadguards now begin with Drain Life, but must research Spell Runes to use Spell Immunity.
- Dark Arts has been removed.
- New ability: Siphon Life: replaces Drain Life and causes Dreadguards to heal for 50% of attack damage done.

Apothecary

- Now plays a voice line when trained.
- Noxious Cloud has been removed.
- New ability: Cleansing Toxin: Consumes all magical buffs from units in an area. Each unit that is cleansed costs 15 mana.
- Healing Flasks no longer heals enemy units as well.

Banshee

- Vengeance has a new sound effect.

Meat Wagon

- Exhume Corpses has been removed.
- New ability: Defile: creates an area of Blight around the Meat Wagon.

Abomination

- Disease Cloud has been removed.
- New ability: Gorge: Consumes an enemy land unit, slowly digesting it and dealing 5 damage per second to it.

Val’kyr Battlemaiden

- Has a new voice.
- Named changed from Val’kyr to Val’kyr Battlemaiden.
- Increased health and attack.
- Increased gold and lumber cost.
- Raise Dead, Animate Dead and Spirit Sacrifice have been removed.
- New ability: Revive: Brings back to life the corpse of a nearby friendly unit.
- New ability: Unholy Protection: Increases all nearby friendly units' armor by 10 for 10 seconds and restores 150 hit points.
- New ability: Icy Grip: Decreases nearby enemy units' movement and attack speed.
- New upgrade: Runic Attunement: Increases Val'kyr Battlemaidens' mana regeneration rate and allows them to use the Icy Grip ability.


Hero Changes

Sylvanas

- Silence, Black Arrow and Call of the Queen have new icons.
- Banshee’s (Call of the Queen) abilities renamed to Terrify and Scream of Terror. Both abilities have new icons and sound effects.
- One of the Call of the Queen Banshees should now automatically cast Scream of Terror when used.
- Has a new model from Chapter Five onward.

Phaelynne (Putress)

- Replaced by Putress: new model, new voice, new stats.
- Virulence and Malefaction have been removed.
- New ability: Summon Volatile Ooze [E]: Summons a volatile ooze that explodes upon reaching an enemy, dealing area damage to enemy units in the area.
- New ability: Blinding Cloud [R]: Poisons enemy units with a plague, causing their movement and attack speed to be heavily reduced, and causing them to miss their attacks for 15 seconds.

Jaina

- Has a new voice.
- Has a new skin and a new attack projectile.
- Telekinesis, Brilliance Aura and Pyroblast have been removed.
- New (old) ability: Blizzard [Q]: Calls down waves of freezing ice shards that damage units in a target area. Fires less waves than default, but deals more damage and has a higher area of effect at higher levels. Has a new icon.
- Updated ability: Summon Water Elemental [W]: has a new icon. Can use Frost Attack at level 2, and Frost Attack and Frost Armor at level 3.
- New ability: Frostbolt [E]: Fires a frostbolt at an enemy target unit, slowing its attack rate and movement speed.
- New ability: Ring of Frost [R]: After a 1 second delay, creates a Ring of Frost in an area that deals 250 damage to ground units and stuns them for 10 seconds.

Varian

- Bloodbath [R] has been removed.
- Updated ability: Enraged Regeneration [Q]: has a new sound effect.
- New ability: Taunt [R]: The closest 10 enemies are forced to attack this unit.

Vereesa

- Has a new model.
- Has a new voice.
- New hero classification: Marksman.
- Updated stats: now attacks slower than most ranged heroes, but deals more damage and has a higher range.
- Summon Hawk, Cold Arrows, Trueshot Aura and Vengeance have been removed.
- New ability: Aimed Shot [Q]: A powerful aimed shot that deals damage to an enemy unit.
- New ability: Vulnerability [W]: Reduces a target enemy unit's armor and gives vision of that unit.
- New ability: Piercing Shot [E]: Fires a shot that damages all enemies in a line.
- New ability: Sniper Aim [R]: Increases the Marksman's attack rate by 125% for 30 seconds, but heavily decreases her movement speed.

Thrall

- Updated ability: Totem Mastery [W]: Earthbind Totem now also reduces enemy attack speed.
- Windwalk Totem now increases mana regeneration rate of nearby friendly units. Both totems have reduced mana cost.
- New ability: War Banner [R]: Summons an immobile banner that increases nearby friendly units' attack rate and movement speed by 25% for 60 seconds. Has a new sound effect.

Lor’themar

- Has a new model and a new icon.
- Dashing Winds has been removed.
- Updated ability: Flames of Retribution [Q]: no longer does friendly fire.
- Updated ability: Blood Cry [W] now affects a larger area.
- New ability: Living Bomb [E]: adds extra damage on each attack and causes units that die while under the effect to explode, dealing damage to nearby enemy units.

OVERALL CHANGES

- All maps now have new loading screen art.
- CGI cinematics have been removed, they are replaced by their ingame counterparts. (CGI cinematics didn't seem to work for a lot of people before, and patch 1.30 broke them completely for me. Ingame cinematics, however, work for everyone. I will re-add CGI cinematics in the future if I figure out a way to make them work.)
- Most maps have received balance updates to normal and hard difficulty. Normal should overall be easier while hard should be harder. (Normal and hard were very close in difficulty in v3.0. Normal should no longer feel like you're playing on hard, but some maps will remain challenging as they were intended to be. Hard should now feel much harder than normal.)
- Friendly AI Heroes will no longer drop items.
- Aimed Shot, Arcane Barrage, Blood Plague, Blood Plague Corpse Explosion, Consecration, Divine Storm, Divine Purpose, Enraged Regeneration, Frostbolt, Piercing Shot, Revive, Ring of Frost, Sniper Aim, Taunt, Unholy Protection and War Banner sound effects can no longer be heard globally. (Varian's mapwide AAAAAaaaaaGgggHHHHHH is gone, rejoice!)
- Lots of minor changes, such as fixing typos, changing tooltips, bug fixes, etc.

UNIT AND HERO CHANGES

- Dark Ranger - Black Arrows and Poison Arrows now also increase Dark Rangers' attack range by 75. Dark Rangers can now have a maximum of 650 Attack Range. (From 500) (Dark Rangers become too frail in later chapters, this change gives them some additional survivability.)
- Dreadguard – Now has 500 Hit Points (From 600). Siphon Life now converts 35% of damage done back to life. (from 50%) (Dreadguards are too durable with all their upgrades, these changes will make them less so.)
- Banshee – Using Possession on worker units now once again allows you to construct their buildings.
- Meat Wagon - Forsaken Plague no longer deals friendly fire. Also changes Meat Wagons' missile to a cloudy green projectile. (Forsaken Plague is a fun ability, but was not worth using due to its friendly fire.)
- Abomination Outbreak now allows Abominations to afflict a target enemy unit with a deadly plague that festers inside the target, dealing 5 damage per second for 30 seconds. If the afflicted unit dies while under the effect of Outbreak, four Maggots will spawn from its corpse. Also stores maggots inside the Abomination's body that crawl out to fight after its death. Now unlocks in Chapter Ten.
- Royal Laboratory – New upgrade available: Fortified Defenses (50 gold/250 lumber, requires Dark Castle), which upgrades Guard Towers, Coil Towers and Virulent Towers so that they have fortified armor. Unlocked in Chapter Ten.
- Vampire Bats, Black Spiders and Maggots are now classified as undead. (This change is so these units can also be healed by Putress' Elixir of Death.)
- Vrykul units and buildings have new icons.
- Unholy Aura now once again affects mechanical units.
- Gan'arg Engineer's selection circle should no longer fly above his head.
- Dreadlord Jaina has a new model.

CHAPTER ONE – A Necessary Intervention

- The Scarlet Crusade Keep from the first base now drops a Tiny Shadowhall.
- Main Scarlet Crusade AI will now attack when trees fall down.

CHAPTER THREE - Disdain

- An additional gold mine has been added to the south of Sylvanas' base.

CHAPTER FIVE – A Rallying Point

- Garrosh and his forces now use the maroon team color.
- An additional shallow water way across the river in Orgrimmar has been added to reduce units from getting stuck on the bridge.

CHAPTER SEVEN – Into the Frozen Heart of Northrend

- Blood Elves now have a gold mine and a shipyard.
- Blood Elf units now require upgrades to unlock all of their abilities.
- Tiny Shadowhall, Tiny Crypt and Tiny Graveyard are now dropped by the buildings in the first Scourge base.
- Enemy AI should no longer bug and stop attacking.
- Orange AI can now also attack Blood Elves.
- Purple AI can now attack you if you expand to the Orange AI's goldmine. Purple AI will also attack Blood Elves if all Forsaken bases are destroyed.

CHAPTER EIGHT – Azjol-Nerub

- Azjol-Nerub terrain updated, certain paths have been closed off and the way up to Anub'arak is now linear. There are some new encounters and traps and Anub'arak can no longer be reached earlier than intended. Fire traps before Anub'arak are no longer deadly.
- Side Quest revamped. You now have to find three parts of a key to open the way gate. The way gate has also been moved to a new location.
- Signet of the Traitor King is now acquired from the side quest.
- Nerubian burrow attacks in Azjol-Nerub now happen a little less often.
- Ice Rocks now have less health.

CHAPTER TEN – Hour of the Forsaken

- Not doing the side quest should no longer bug the Blood Elf AI, they will destroy the gate leading there themselves.

CHAPTER ELEVEN – Trial of Monsters

- Lich King respawn timer has been increased and is shorter depending on difficulty.

CHAPTER TWELVE – Fall of the Lich King

- All Obelisks should now get disabled properly.
- Twin Val'kyr no longer fly around, instead the additional val'kyr units simply spawn, so the fight no longer bugs.
- Sindragosa boss fight should no longer bug.
- Alexstrasza can now die during the Sindragosa and Lich King boss fights.
- Alexstrasza now resurrects all Heroes before the Lich King boss fight.

Known Issues
- If Quel'Delar is moved to a different spot in the inventory, its abilities
disappear. Drop it and pick it up again to fix the issue.
- Targeting circles fly above the ground in Chapter Six.
- A few sound effects can be heard mapwide.
- Sound effects that are ripped directly from WoW videos sometimes
may not be completely synced with the cinematic.
- Bolvar's Wave of Light special effect is invisible in Chapter Eight.

Extra Downloads
Curse of the Forsaken v1.0 - The very first version of the campaign, released in January 2013.
Curse of the Forsaken v2.0 - The second version of the campaign, released in August 2014
Voice Sets - Voice sets used in the campaign, you're free to use them in your own projects.

Translations
Chinese - v3.0.1, hosted on pan.baidu.com (提取码: bb2w), by nuck001.
Russian - v3.0, hosted on xgm.guru, by kirlandiya.

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Curse of the Forsaken v3.0.1 (Campaign)

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» Vengeancekael:[c] 「Profile :: Message :: Hive Staff」 » Date:[c] 「20/Mar/2013 16:02:25」 » Reasons: » Comment: [Moderated version: 1.01] Not Rated » Rules: [c] 「Map Submission」 [TR]» Contact: [c] 「Staff Contact」 ! 'Reasons' are automated !
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heelp on the second mission i only see black screen, i think because im running at 1.27, i want to update but the updater is automaticly downloading warcraft reforged, does someone have a version of this campaign that works for ver. 1.27
if you have please send me a link
 

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Need little help here.
After I finish chapter 1 and continue game,system tips Cannot load map data , then back to main screen of COF. I tried to run chapter 2 via different version of WAR III ( from 1.24 to 1.28), but it doesn't work.
what should I do?
 
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Need little help here.
After I finish chapter 1 and continue game,system tips Cannot load map data , then back to main screen of COF. I tried to run chapter 2 via different version of WAR III ( from 1.24 to 1.28), but it doesn't work.
what should I do?
you need version 1.30+
 
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Am in Mission 4 atm and after researching the "Reinforced Defenses" my Guard towers are not fortified. Anyone else had that bug happen? Im playing on 1.30.2 and tried on 1.30.4

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1.32 does not have custom campaign support and tomo said that it should be played on version 1.30.2

ive played it on 1.30.4 and it was fine
 
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New question - how do I take the Valkyrie custom model in this campaign and then use it in my own custom map I am making? Is this possible? If so, how do I do this? I would like to use this for the newest version as I can not download the old game file.
 
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So I finally finished the campaign on the hardest difficulty. I must say I was very impressed and immersed in the cutscenes and the atmosphere of the cinematics. By far this was the most enjoying custom campaign I played. It almost felt like an actual campaign. I would love to see more from wow added into wc3. I didn't want reforge, I didn't want an update on graphics. All I wanted was more story-telling put into action in warcraft 3. Thank you very much for bringing majority of that to this campaign. If you are working on anymore I'd love to know about that.

I found a bug in the last mission where when I was fighting the boss that drops the 'blood essence' (forgot the name) Not when she's with the Val'kyr but when she's on her own and she uses mirror image. In that section just as I killed her she mind controlled one of my heroes. (I waited like 5 minutes to see if it was on a CD but I had to actually had to kill Thrall in order to regain him) This part was where I had to use 1 cheat to buy him back. (Only did 550) so I wouldn't destroy my experience vsing the lich King.

- I haven't played WOW like ever, that game destroyed my passion and love for the game I once had for warcraft 3, I plunder almost everyday for years in hopes that a new expansion will come out for warcraft 3. Just playing this campaign alone has given me some internal hope that perhaps more of these will be made in the up-coming future. Once again I would love to say thank you very much in putting time and effort in making this. Was sadage that it had to end.
 
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Does this work on 1.30.1? Please answer.
I'm pointing out that this campaign is made on 1.30.2.
This means your only choice are either 1.30.4 or 1.31.1.
However, both versions are prone for numerous bugs, especially 1.31.1. This version is not recommended, because the whole gameplay is broken if you attempt to load your saves (due to the triggers being malfunctioned). Also, you'll not be able to progress any further due to the black screen problem (when you start the next chapter after exiting the score screen).

1. Can I play this on a patch lower than 1.30? How about higher?

Answer:

1.32 a.k.a reforged - definitely no. Cause no custom campaigns!!
1.31 - you can but it may or may not break some things.
1.30 - recommended patch so yes.
1.29 - I cannot say. Maybe?
1.28 below - I think not.

As that guy said above, some campaigns (including this one) require version 1.30+.
You can download latest version of the game here. Remember, it requires CD-Keys though.
 
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the reforged screen comes up and the game dosent work


The answer is in the section called "Preventing the game from being updated to 1.32+".
Alternatively, you can use Firewall to block "Warcraft III.exe". This will also disable the notification prompt every time when you start the game.
Although this thread is dedicated for 1.31, this trick still works on 1.30.4.
 
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Well today I finally gave myself a space to finish the campaign and I loved it from beginning to end, although I would like you to maybe put Nathanos Marris as captain, as in the human campaign. I found two errors so far, in the fallen mission of the Lich King, one is that the Carriage of Meat, they throw the green mist, something that in previous missions had already been removed, second that during Bolvar's coronation as exanime king, he was go with his normal helmet, maybe you could change that in the designs, but otherwise I love it, even if you don't change it I like the campaign and I recommend it to everyone who comes to play his previous goblin campaign.
 
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How to download chinese version? I cant download
I did not use Baidu to download most files but I can tell you, there is a problem when you download the file from Baidu because the browser tends you to register a new account, which is more difficult than Google Drive or OD (One Drive). You'll probably need a third-party software made by Baidu to download the files, but it's absolutely hard to find.

The tutorial for downloading a files without using Baidu-related app can be found here.
If you want the script, you can download here (requires Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey add-on installed on Firefox/Chrome).
 
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Hey, how's everyone doing? I've been rewatching Jayborino's playthrough of Curse of the Forsaken v3.0 and I thought I should come back here for a moment and let everyone know I'm still alive. It's been, what, almost a year since I last posted here? Been personally quite a tough year for me, but I'm on a bit of a break from everything right now so things are looking up. Jayborino should replay this on hard difficulty so I can suprise even myself by how hard I made this campaign, because I actually don't remember how it even plays on hard. Didn't I make it even harder when I did the v.3.0.1 update? This campaign came out three and a half years ago? The fuck. The pandemic has broken my perception of time.

Anyway, I have no idea what's going on with Warcraft 3 nowadays. I'm gonna say nothing, but maybe I'm wrong. I wanted to buy Reforged once it went on sale so I can play the official campaigns, but it never does so I guess both Blizzard and I are pretending it never happened.

It'd be fun to do that Rise of the Blood Elves update I've been talking about... for years now? Oof. I'd like to say someday I'll do it, but honestly, I've actually been writing my own fantasy book quite seriously for the last 3 or so years, especially this year, and that's where all my creative energy goes these days. Writing a book is hard. It's torture. Sometimes you force yourself to push through a chapter and you think you wrote the greatest pile of shit in existence and wonder what illness set you upon this path, then you reread it a week later and discover you're a god. You find one profound sentence and wonder why no one ever told you you're a genius. Then the next day you wonder again whether anything at all you wrote makes any sense and if you should just quit while you're still sane. And so it goes on and on. But I'll do it. I'll finish it! Then hopefully someday I can come back here and shamelessly shill for myself.

I haven't really been playing a lot of WoW lately either so I haven't really been super following up with what's going on. The story of Shadowlands has been horrifyingly amusing to follow, at least. I'm dreading how Sylvanas is gonna end up (they're gonna Kerrigan it, I know it), but I'm here for the memes. At least we'll always have the memes.

Anyway, thanks for reading my madman's yearly update. Not sure why I ranted about writing. It's great to see lots of people are still playing these campaigns, though. Thanks for all the kind comments, even though half of them are people asking why the second chapter won't load.
 
Hey, how's everyone doing? I've been rewatching Jayborino's playthrough of Curse of the Forsaken v3.0 and I thought I should come back here for a moment and let everyone know I'm still alive. It's been, what, almost a year since I last posted here? Been personally quite a tough year for me, but I'm on a bit of a break from everything right now so things are looking up. Jayborino should replay this on hard difficulty so I can suprise even myself by how hard I made this campaign, because I actually don't remember how it even plays on hard. Didn't I make it even harder when I did the v.3.0.1 update? This campaign came out three and a half years ago? The fuck. The pandemic has broken my perception of time.
Glad to see you're still around! You know the Hive will always be here for you no matter how long you spend away. IIRC playing through this the campaign is quite hard on hard difficulty (doable but really hard, other than the last mission which I think is impossible imho without a gold cheat). Honestly after playing through RotBE I don't know what you would even change about it but if you do decide to go back to this then I'd recommend working in v1.31 or v1.27.

Hope you're doing well after having such a tough year!
 
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Hey, how's everyone doing? I've been rewatching Jayborino's playthrough of Curse of the Forsaken v3.0 and I thought I should come back here for a moment and let everyone know I'm still alive. It's been, what, almost a year since I last posted here? Been personally quite a tough year for me, but I'm on a bit of a break from everything right now so things are looking up. Jayborino should replay this on hard difficulty so I can suprise even myself by how hard I made this campaign, because I actually don't remember how it even plays on hard. Didn't I make it even harder when I did the v.3.0.1 update? This campaign came out three and a half years ago? The fuck. The pandemic has broken my perception of time.

Anyway, I have no idea what's going on with Warcraft 3 nowadays. I'm gonna say nothing, but maybe I'm wrong. I wanted to buy Reforged once it went on sale so I can play the official campaigns, but it never does so I guess both Blizzard and I are pretending it never happened.

It'd be fun to do that Rise of the Blood Elves update I've been talking about... for years now? Oof. I'd like to say someday I'll do it, but honestly, I've actually been writing my own fantasy book quite seriously for the last 3 or so years, especially this year, and that's where all my creative energy goes these days. Writing a book is hard. It's torture. Sometimes you force yourself to push through a chapter and you think you wrote the greatest pile of shit in existence and wonder what illness set you upon this path, then you reread it a week later and discover you're a god. You find one profound sentence and wonder why no one ever told you you're a genius. Then the next day you wonder again whether anything at all you wrote makes any sense and if you should just quit while you're still sane. And so it goes on and on. But I'll do it. I'll finish it! Then hopefully someday I can come back here and shamelessly shill for myself.

I haven't really been playing a lot of WoW lately either so I haven't really been super following up with what's going on. The story of Shadowlands has been horrifyingly amusing to follow, at least. I'm dreading how Sylvanas is gonna end up (they're gonna Kerrigan it, I know it), but I'm here for the memes. At least we'll always have the memes.

Anyway, thanks for reading my madman's yearly update. Not sure why I ranted about writing. It's great to see lots of people are still playing these campaigns, though. Thanks for all the kind comments, even though half of them are people asking why the second chapter won't load.
Hahaha, so you already know what happened to the World of Warcraft story. Let me explain: Sylvanas (Battle for Azeroth): All will serve Sylvanas (Shadowlands): I will never serve

Kel'thuzad (Warcraft 3) : Told you my death would mean little.
Kel'thuzad (Shadowlands): Wait! Stop! I can give you power! Aaaaah!!!!

I'm glad you're back. I hope one day you will create a custom Warcraft campaign themed World of Warcraft Legion
 
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Hey, how's everyone doing? I've been rewatching Jayborino's playthrough of Curse of the Forsaken v3.0 and I thought I should come back here for a moment and let everyone know I'm still alive. It's been, what, almost a year since I last posted here? Been personally quite a tough year for me, but I'm on a bit of a break from everything right now so things are looking up. Jayborino should replay this on hard difficulty so I can suprise even myself by how hard I made this campaign, because I actually don't remember how it even plays on hard. Didn't I make it even harder when I did the v.3.0.1 update? This campaign came out three and a half years ago? The fuck. The pandemic has broken my perception of time.

Anyway, I have no idea what's going on with Warcraft 3 nowadays. I'm gonna say nothing, but maybe I'm wrong. I wanted to buy Reforged once it went on sale so I can play the official campaigns, but it never does so I guess both Blizzard and I are pretending it never happened.

It'd be fun to do that Rise of the Blood Elves update I've been talking about... for years now? Oof. I'd like to say someday I'll do it, but honestly, I've actually been writing my own fantasy book quite seriously for the last 3 or so years, especially this year, and that's where all my creative energy goes these days. Writing a book is hard. It's torture. Sometimes you force yourself to push through a chapter and you think you wrote the greatest pile of shit in existence and wonder what illness set you upon this path, then you reread it a week later and discover you're a god. You find one profound sentence and wonder why no one ever told you you're a genius. Then the next day you wonder again whether anything at all you wrote makes any sense and if you should just quit while you're still sane. And so it goes on and on. But I'll do it. I'll finish it! Then hopefully someday I can come back here and shamelessly shill for myself.

I haven't really been playing a lot of WoW lately either so I haven't really been super following up with what's going on. The story of Shadowlands has been horrifyingly amusing to follow, at least. I'm dreading how Sylvanas is gonna end up (they're gonna Kerrigan it, I know it), but I'm here for the memes. At least we'll always have the memes.

Anyway, thanks for reading my madman's yearly update. Not sure why I ranted about writing. It's great to see lots of people are still playing these campaigns, though. Thanks for all the kind comments, even though half of them are people asking why the second chapter won't load.
it's great to see your still out there, I myself have been on a RP servers playing as the scarlet crusade and it actually had me visit today about this old campaign you had. Odd that we both visited this site after being away for a bit.

I'm going to get my old 1.27b version of war3 out and start playing the 3.0 version since I still have that saved on my old backup drive.
These are Awesome campaigns and still have always wondered why these are not "Director's Cut" Rated.
 
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Hey, how's everyone doing? I've been rewatching Jayborino's playthrough of Curse of the Forsaken v3.0 and I thought I should come back here for a moment and let everyone know I'm still alive. It's been, what, almost a year since I last posted here? Been personally quite a tough year for me, but I'm on a bit of a break from everything right now so things are looking up. Jayborino should replay this on hard difficulty so I can suprise even myself by how hard I made this campaign, because I actually don't remember how it even plays on hard. Didn't I make it even harder when I did the v.3.0.1 update? This campaign came out three and a half years ago? The fuck. The pandemic has broken my perception of time.

Anyway, I have no idea what's going on with Warcraft 3 nowadays. I'm gonna say nothing, but maybe I'm wrong. I wanted to buy Reforged once it went on sale so I can play the official campaigns, but it never does so I guess both Blizzard and I are pretending it never happened.

It'd be fun to do that Rise of the Blood Elves update I've been talking about... for years now? Oof. I'd like to say someday I'll do it, but honestly, I've actually been writing my own fantasy book quite seriously for the last 3 or so years, especially this year, and that's where all my creative energy goes these days. Writing a book is hard. It's torture. Sometimes you force yourself to push through a chapter and you think you wrote the greatest pile of shit in existence and wonder what illness set you upon this path, then you reread it a week later and discover you're a god. You find one profound sentence and wonder why no one ever told you you're a genius. Then the next day you wonder again whether anything at all you wrote makes any sense and if you should just quit while you're still sane. And so it goes on and on. But I'll do it. I'll finish it! Then hopefully someday I can come back here and shamelessly shill for myself.

I haven't really been playing a lot of WoW lately either so I haven't really been super following up with what's going on. The story of Shadowlands has been horrifyingly amusing to follow, at least. I'm dreading how Sylvanas is gonna end up (they're gonna Kerrigan it, I know it), but I'm here for the memes. At least we'll always have the memes.

Anyway, thanks for reading my madman's yearly update. Not sure why I ranted about writing. It's great to see lots of people are still playing these campaigns, though. Thanks for all the kind comments, even though half of them are people asking why the second chapter won't load.
Nice to hear from you! I almost said "Nice to hear you are doing well" after you outright said it's been a tough year and I think many of us can relate. Glad to hear taking some steps back has helped so far. I can say there was definitely a languishing feeling in the early and middle part of the year where I struggled to find motivation to do things I previously enjoyed doing. Sometimes recording or streaming would elicit similar feelings like you described when finally getting through writing a chapter. It's followed by that feeling of "wtf am I even doing anymore" and then some times passes and suddenly it hits you that hey, this is turning out pretty good! Recently, I am beginning to pull out of that, of which I'm thankful for because it's a bit too much of a roller coaster. I hope your ideas keep coming along for your book and always remember that your brain can be tricky/negative when it comes to validating your own work!

I know you have some retrospective regrets about some of your choices in your two projects, but I'm someone who has played pretty much every major, public campaign and can confidently say yours are easily in the Hall of Fame; they have aged really well and will remain staples of community content. Realistically, I don't think I'll be playing these on Hard difficulty and I tend to avoid hardest difficulties of all usermade stuff, nothing personal there haha. Tangentially, I've had this omnipresent idea of a "From the Vault" type series where I revisit my favorite campaigns from the past and these two certainly make the cut if I ever start a replay series like that.

Maybe I'll regret saying this, but holy fuck your "chapter won't load" comment issue is way too relatable as I get these messages/comments endlessly as well. Warcraft 3 usermade content fans, are you ok? I play other old games with all sorts of different patch levels, yet this is the only community that remains perpetually perplexed over basic versioning issues that creators even go out of their way to clearly address on their project pages. No matter how many times I try to help people, they keep asking over and over and over, it's sort of maddening to the point I've just given up.

Anywho, it's neat to hear you're working on something, so make sure to share it with us when you're wrapping up - glad to hear you're still around in some form or another!
 
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Glad to see you're still around! You know the Hive will always be here for you no matter how long you spend away. IIRC playing through this the campaign is quite hard on hard difficulty (doable but really hard, other than the last mission which I think is impossible imho without a gold cheat). Honestly after playing through RotBE I don't know what you would even change about it but if you do decide to go back to this then I'd recommend working in v1.31 or v1.27.

Hope you're doing well after having such a tough year!

Doing somewhat better, thanks! There's a bunch of things I had planned to change. I think the most significant changes I had in mind was adding some troll enemies to break up the monotony of fighting the undead in the Quel'Thalas chapters, redesigning the map where Kael'thas goes full demoncrazy and adding a new intro cinematic. I think there was also some draenei stuff I wanted to add, involving them more early on and such so the story is closer to what it is in WoW, so it would have been a somewhat significant update, actually.

But it's fine in its current state as it is. Except that cinematic where Aewynne faints. I can't express how much I hate that. Why didn't she just lower her weapon!?

Hahaha, so you already know what happened to the World of Warcraft story. Let me explain: Sylvanas (Battle for Azeroth): All will serve Sylvanas (Shadowlands): I will never serve

Kel'thuzad (Warcraft 3) : Told you my death would mean little.
Kel'thuzad (Shadowlands): Wait! Stop! I can give you power! Aaaaah!!!!

I'm glad you're back. I hope one day you will create a custom Warcraft campaign themed World of Warcraft Legion

Weirdly enough, I'm mostly fine with Shadowlands, even though I'm not really into the concept of what they came up with. I quite liked all the zones themselves and their stories, but the actual "main" story surrounding Sylvanas is presented so badly. I don't even care that this was clearly not planned 10 years ago and they just came up with a new story for her, but like it wouldn't even be that bad and infuriating if they just had her talk like a normal person instead of constantly talking in cryptic monologues and sassy one liners.

it's great to see your still out there, I myself have been on a RP servers playing as the scarlet crusade and it actually had me visit today about this old campaign you had. Odd that we both visited this site after being away for a bit.

I'm going to get my old 1.27b version of war3 out and start playing the 3.0 version since I still have that saved on my old backup drive.
These are Awesome campaigns and still have always wondered why these are not "Director's Cut" Rated.

Thanks for the kind words!

Nice to hear from you! I almost said "Nice to hear you are doing well" after you outright said it's been a tough year and I think many of us can relate. Glad to hear taking some steps back has helped so far. I can say there was definitely a languishing feeling in the early and middle part of the year where I struggled to find motivation to do things I previously enjoyed doing. Sometimes recording or streaming would elicit similar feelings like you described when finally getting through writing a chapter. It's followed by that feeling of "wtf am I even doing anymore" and then some times passes and suddenly it hits you that hey, this is turning out pretty good! Recently, I am beginning to pull out of that, of which I'm thankful for because it's a bit too much of a roller coaster. I hope your ideas keep coming along for your book and always remember that your brain can be tricky/negative when it comes to validating your own work!

I know you have some retrospective regrets about some of your choices in your two projects, but I'm someone who has played pretty much every major, public campaign and can confidently say yours are easily in the Hall of Fame; they have aged really well and will remain staples of community content. Realistically, I don't think I'll be playing these on Hard difficulty and I tend to avoid hardest difficulties of all usermade stuff, nothing personal there haha. Tangentially, I've had this omnipresent idea of a "From the Vault" type series where I revisit my favorite campaigns from the past and these two certainly make the cut if I ever start a replay series like that.

Maybe I'll regret saying this, but holy fuck your "chapter won't load" comment issue is way too relatable as I get these messages/comments endlessly as well. Warcraft 3 usermade content fans, are you ok? I play other old games with all sorts of different patch levels, yet this is the only community that remains perpetually perplexed over basic versioning issues that creators even go out of their way to clearly address on their project pages. No matter how many times I try to help people, they keep asking over and over and over, it's sort of maddening to the point I've just given up.

Anywho, it's neat to hear you're working on something, so make sure to share it with us when you're wrapping up - glad to hear you're still around in some form or another!

Oh yeah, I've definitely been feeling similar in regards to writing. I'm glad you're managing to get through that. I'd say for me, it's actually not as much a struggle of finding the motivation but the discipline to just get through it, cause as much as I love writing, that feeling of inspiration that makes the words flow themselves is honestly not there a lot of the time, so it's mostly a matter of just sitting down and getting through it. I think a big part of it is also managing my own expectations. Did this chapter turn out as I wanted it? Not entirely, but I'll leave it aside for now and return to it later. Most of the time I find that, as you said, it's actually pretty good! It might need more or less work, but that gut-feeling of disappointment I sometimes have when I first finish it mostly ends up being false. You can fix a turd and make it good, but if you don't have anything, you don't have anything to fix. It's good to be self-critical, even though it's sometimes a struggle not to get overly critical of yourself.

I think these campaigns, in a way, were a great help there. Aside from the fact that the mostly positive feedback left me with a feeling that I am doing something right, they were good practice in writing stories without the burden of actually creating the world, the characters, etc. I still had to juggle a lot in regards to pacing, dialogue, language, characters being consistent, and so on, which I think I succeeded in (at least in CotF v3.0, I think RotBE leaves a lot to be desired), so working on all that definitely left me with enough certainty that I can write my own story. Writing a book is a whole different beast, however, there's much more to consider than writing this kind of campaign where you have quite severe constraints.

But back to Warcraft 3, it's quite humbling that you (and everyone else who commented) think so highly of these campaigns! Being somewhat removed from them for years now, as I re-watched your playthrough of CotF v3.0, I was actually finding myself thinking, hey, this is really fun! Weird to say that about my own work, but as the fantasy author Joe Abercrombie once said (I'm paraphrasing), he loves his books cause they're exactly the kind of shit he loves to read. I guess that's why these campaigns worked. There's a lot of work involved in making them work, but at the end of the day, I just wanted to make something that I found fun to play.

If you do end up revisiting them, I'll be there to offer my thoughts in chat or comments! It's much easier to praise or shit on myself years after. I also find it oddly amusing to mock my own work. Seriously, why did Aewynne faint!?

And LOL I also wondered whether I should mention the "chapter won't load" thing. Hilariously (or infuriatingly), as I was watching your videos of the campaign, I think pretty much every video had multiple comments of people asking this question. Maybe the instructions I left are too vague? I also think a lot of people pirate this game so they may not be familiar with various versions of the game. Not sure, I don't really have any proof of that. Maybe people outside the mapmaking community just don't know about different versions. Interesting stuff.
 
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