Feedback & Bug Report

[ShadiHD]

Bug Report

• You can report any bugs you find in this thread.
• When reporting a bug include screenshots if possible and describe the bug with as much details as possible.
• Don't go off-topic.

Feedback

• you can post your feedback in this thread
  
• be as thorough as possible, and offer valid points that you believe can indeed improve gameplay.
  
• Don't go off-topic.

 

[Weas]

I have played it and I must say I love it.

Campaign no. 4 is a bit hard , but I loved it. Loved also the way the buildings are destroyed so the next ones start burning.

Bugs: The animations are kinda laggy I guess. I have brand new PC so cant be hardware. Animations of the cutscenes are laggy too. I find buildings to be too big, should be lower.
If there are no upgrades available for the units, then dont have the option enables so you can see like 0 upgrades done.

 

[Archian]

Unfortunately, Blizzard hasn't optimized Reforged very well so the game can lag on even high end PC's. Which is a shame.

Regardless, just tried playing the campaign. I liked it a lot! Can't wait for more!

Hopefully Blizzard will soon restore custom campaigns.

 

[Mr Hawk]

Hello. Since this is the Feedback Thread as well. I was wondering if you guys the team for Chronicles of the Second War would be doing like Human Kingdom Buildings of Gilneas, Dalaran, and Kul'tiras like in the Future as well as the Units for Gilneas and Kul'tiras? Also the Orcish Clan Buildings of the Warsong, Shadowmoon, Frostwolf, Bleeding Hollow, Shattered Hand, Thunderlord, Laughing Skull Clan, and of course even the Blackrock Clan as well.

For examples for Kul'tiras there's the Green Ships like: Small Boat, Medium Boat, and the Giant Boat from BFA.

Keep up with the Great Work and Stay Awesome. XD

 

[Barorque]

Hello. Since this is the Feedback Thread as well. I was wondering if you guys the team for Chronicles of the Second War would be doing like Human Kingdom Buildings of Gilneas, Dalaran, and Kul'tiras like in the Future as well as the Units for Gilneas and Kul'tiras? Also the Orcish Clan Buildings of the Warsong, Shadowmoon, Frostwolf, Bleeding Hollow, Shattered Hand, Thunderlord, Laughing Skull Clan, and of course even the Blackrock Clan as well.

For examples for Kul'tiras there's the Green Ships like: Small Boat, Medium Boat, and the Giant Boat from BFA.

Keep up with the Great Work and Stay Awesome. XD

Hey there. The buildings will not be unique for each Human Kingdom and Orc Clan, that would be simply too much. There could be some special doodads to set the atmosphere, but remember this is following WC2 story, some kingdoms will not have as much attention to them as others. At least for WC2 campaigns, there could be more for WC1, but that's further in the future.

For the ships, we already have done the bigger ones, a few look more unique than others, but it's their sails that will be the main edited part. Of course Kul Tirans will have their special-boy ships, as is logical ))

 

[ShadiHD]

Hello. Since this is the Feedback Thread as well. I was wondering if you guys the team for Chronicles of the Second War would be doing like Human Kingdom Buildings of Gilneas, Dalaran, and Kul'tiras like in the Future as well as the Units for Gilneas and Kul'tiras? Also the Orcish Clan Buildings of the Warsong, Shadowmoon, Frostwolf, Bleeding Hollow, Shattered Hand, Thunderlord, Laughing Skull Clan, and of course even the Blackrock Clan as well.

For examples for Kul'tiras there's the Green Ships like: Small Boat, Medium Boat, and the Giant Boat from BFA.

Keep up with the Great Work and Stay Awesome. XD

as much as I love to see variations, but as my teammate Moonman said, this is way too much and it's not a our priority to drown ourselves with our already overflowing model assets.

perhaps the good members of HIVE community will do this.

 

[Mr Hawk]

Hey there. The buildings will not be unique for each Human Kingdom and Orc Clan, that would be simply too much. There could be some special doodads to set the atmosphere, but remember this is following WC2 story, some kingdoms will not have as much attention to them as others. At least for WC2 campaigns, there could be more for WC1, but that's further in the future.

For the ships, we already have done the bigger ones, a few look more unique than others, but it's their sails that will be the main edited part. Of course Kul Tirans will have their special-boy ships, as is logical ))

Oh ok then. It's Understandable. Ether way. I look forward to seeing the Warcraft 2 Human Buildings, and Orc Buildings as well as the Units on the Models for Mods once you guys get done in terms of the Campaign for the Orcs and Humans on the Second War Campaign to Beyond the Dark Portal.

Ether way between like the Human Nation Unit Packs or Orcish or just the Package of the Warcraft 2 Assets as a whole. You guys keep up with the amazing work. I hope to hear some exciting news on the Human Campaign. Keep up with the Great Job and Stay Awesome.

 

[Warianos]

Hello there!!

Just played the campaign and I loved your work! I have a love of the warcraft franchise so much that I really felt nostalgic when playing and seeing the effort your are putting on this game!

Regarding the feedback,
First Mission,
I saw that, when cinematic appear, the game continues to be running which means that:
1. Wolfs attacked
2. Cinematic appeared
3. Grunts being killed and peons being killed
4. Your goldmine has collapsed
5. Did not have any more money to buy any peons
6. To get the other 15k wood it took extra 30 minutes to finish the mission with 2 peons xD

These issues of the game continuing while at the cinematic also appeared on the other missions but with no problems on the gameplay itself

 

[The orange anarcho badger]

Hi folks. This project has got me all excited for the Warcraft series again. Never really liked WC3 but 2 was always a favourite growing up and I really like the care and the updating of wc2 with some of the better features of wc3 retroactively adopted to make your campaign really mint. Very impressive work.


The only little piece of feedback I would offer for the campaign would be the campaigns could be a bit stiffer with a challenge. While the contents engaging the first 3 missions is just building up and attacking more or less passive AI. Replaying the missions again I feel like the AI could be more aggressive on hard. More attacking and building up defenses etc, especially on hillsbrad with the stormwind refugees, they could use a buff for building up forces and attacking more often.


And 4 little ideas of a personal nature that might improve the game somewhat.

• A pet peeve of mine from the series overall is the building to unit scale difference, though I can see you guys have already addressed it somewhat, a reduction of size of units of say 5-15%? would look aesthetically pleasing to me. The hero in your game mounted was as large as a town hall.
• Regrowth of forests. It would be neat if the game had regrowing forests and trees, just to keep your defences and settlements contained and less exposed, doesn’t have to be super fast but at least regrow to keep the shape of the forests intact after a while. Maybe add a burn off or salting mechanic to create spaces where they don’t regenerate for access to mines and stuff?
• And unit veterancy. One thing all strategy's games need is veterancy for units, makes trying to keep them alive and Shepard them as your missions goes on all the more engaging.
• And how about buildable walls like some of the town's and with gates, that'd make defending more fun

Other than that really nice work. Ill donate a few bucks to this project coz you guys are killing it. Keep up the good work

 

[The orange anarcho badger]

Also one other question. Will you be implementing multiplayer or solo custom games with the new units and factions? Coz i'd love to play around with dwarven, elven and orcish stand alone factions for battles.

 

[niklos]

Bug Report

• Hi everyone. On the last level, the ship are not making noise when firing. Nor when they are attacked

Feedback
=> Great work guys ! I Love that mod ! Keep on going !

 

[Barorque]

Bug Report

• Hi everyone. On the last level, the ship are not making noise when firing. Nor when they are attacked

Feedback
=> Great work guys ! I Love that mod ! Keep on going !

We'll check SNDs of either ship models or the missiles. Although I'm sure the missiles had those a default Reforged thing

 

[Mr Hawk]

I actually have a bug report on the mod. Basically, when I tried to download the maps to play them the Map Loadout wasn't showing and the Units and Buildings wasn't showing as a well since the maps didn't load the models or it hasn't been updated for a long while now.

 

[Barorque]

I actually have a bug report on the mod. Basically, when I tried to download the maps to play them the Map Loadout wasn't showing and the Units and Buildings wasn't showing as a well since the maps didn't load the models or it hasn't been updated for a long while now.

Are you playing in HD / Reforged?
Have you followed the "How to install"?

 

[Mr Hawk]

Are you playing in HD / Reforged?
Have you followed the "How to install"?

Oh I'll have to check my settings for Reforged to see. I forgot about that.

 

[JCASHrip]

I have a bug to report. I followed the instructions, load CSW in the campaign installer, start the game and I get to the point where battletnet pops up and wants me to sign in. My game crashes after signing into battlenet and I get an error with the pop up saying "The application encountered an unexpected error". I even tried turning off wifi to see if I can play offline but I also get an error message that way as well. Does this mod no longer work after the recent update? I saw someone else post something similar and wanted to see if anyone has been having the same issues or is it just me? Thanks!

 

[Barorque]

I have a bug to report. I followed the instructions, load CSW in the campaign installer, start the game and I get to the point where battletnet pops up and wants me to sign in. My game crashes after signing into battlenet and I get an error with the pop up saying "The application encountered an unexpected error". I even tried turning off wifi to see if I can play offline but I also get an error message that way as well. Does this mod no longer work after the recent update? I saw someone else post something similar and wanted to see if anyone has been having the same issues or is it just me? Thanks!

Apologies for not addressing this on Hive.
Current patch has changed and broken some custom games, including our demo campaign missions.
Until we fix these issues there is no way to play it.

Fear not though, there were already some hotfixes from Blizzard as well as other modders working on it.

 

[JCASHrip]

Apologies for not addressing this on Hive.
Current patch has changed and broken some custom games, including our demo campaign missions.
Until we fix these issues there is no way to play it.

Fear not though, there were already some hotfixes from Blizzard as well as other modders working on it.

Thank you so much for your timely response! I’m late to this party and just learned about this project a few days ago. I’m very excited about what you guys are doing, I’m glad it hasn’t lost momentum, a little bummed I can’t play it but will be checking back for updates. Is Hive the best place to follow you guys or somewhere else? Also, shout out to the Shadi’s of the world!

 

[standardtrickyness]

My computer can't run reforged is it possible to play this in classic WC3?

 

[SirWinsALot]

Hi, so I downloaded the content and applied the instruction- the campaign launches fine, but it's missing Unit models both during the cuts scenes and the game - I can see the shadow of the peon, but not the peon itself.
Is there a known fix, what am I missing exactly?

 

[ShadiHD]

Hi, so I downloaded the content and applied the instruction- the campaign launches fine, but it's missing Unit models both during the cuts scenes and the game - I can see the shadow of the peon, but not the peon itself.
Is there a known fix, what am I missing exactly?

You need to follow the installation guide.

• download campaign > put it in campaign folder.
• Download CSW installer > put in where you have installed WC3.
• Download "CSW Aseets.csw".
• load up the CSW installer, you'll be prompted to look for where the "asset" file has been downloaded, click it, and let it unpack until it's done.
• restart PC.
• Start WC3R and open custom campaigns from the main menu.
• Play!

 

[SirWinsALot]

You need to follow the installation guide.

• download campaign > put it in campaign folder.
• Download CSW installer > put in where you have installed WC3.
• Download "CSW Aseets.csw".
• load up the CSW installer, you'll be prompted to look for where the "asset" file has been downloaded, click it, and let it unpack until it's done.
• restart PC.
• Start WC3R and open custom campaigns from the main menu.
• Play!

This is exactly what I've done and stated saying "applied the instruction" - it went fine with no errors, but game is unplayable as I see no units at the moment.

 

[Fra83]

Hello...got like other ppl the same issue and i tried to reinstall the campaign:

 

[DaWombat]

This is exactly what I've done and stated saying "applied the instruction" - it went fine with no errors, but game is unplayable as I see no units at the moment.

Hope someone figures this out exactly. I had the same issue and literally just re did the asset install, didn't restart my computer, and now it's working.

 

[Niko101]

Hi I have been playing the new chronicles of second war in the orc campaign. Im at the point where you assault Tyr's citidel. It goes to a cut scene and then you have to hold out as your peons construct a fortress. Theres a problem. The peons dont construct a fortress and when the timer runs out you dont succeed. The mission just never ends. Please help idk what to do from here tried a few things.

I will also add that at times when the cutscene to hold out for 6 minutes finishes you sometimes instant fail mission. Unsure why.

 

[kambata]

Hello...got like other ppl the same issue and i tried to reinstall the campaign:
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I have the same issue, the cutscenes are also broken and the characters appear all white or red. Updated my drivers, GTX 1660 Ti.

Any solution ?

 

[easycheese]

i had the same issue with the red characters in cutscenes. after i re-ran the installer the problem went away.
i get quite a lot of fps lag and i have a nice PC (3080, 12700k).
the game is very good.

 

[kambata]

i had the same issue with the red characters in cutscenes. after i re-ran the installer the problem went away.
i get quite a lot of fps lag and i have a nice PC (3080, 12700k).
the game is very good.

It WORKED ! Re-installed the patch and it is fixed, thanks !

 

[Branden2123]

Secret Mission 1:
-Alexstrasa would not become vulnerable after fleeing back to her nest. Upon multiple reloads she became vulnerable and I was able to kill her.

Secret Mission 2:
-It doesn't count as completed (Showing that I finished it in hard or normal difficulty), and none of my items on heroes carried over to following missions. and Tharbek did not get his level increased. When I now try to replay it from my last save on the map, it gives my computer the blue screen of death.

Secret Mission 3:
-It does not count as completed. I have not tried replaying it yet.

Chapters 12 and 13:
-Rend is not a hero. It seems like he is supposed to be but I do not own him as a unit, and he doesn't appear as a character. However, his dialogue still pops up and I will see him in the cut scenes. I tried replaying chapter 12 and Rend will not populate in as a hero.

Chapter 14:
-Rend is not a hero, and when I defeat the Archmage and destroy the Violet Citadel it doesn't give me an objective complete past killing the Archmage. I can complete the first phase of the mission just fine with Ogrim (however, he doesn't appear to keep any of his items from the Stratholme mission). I have tried using cheats as well as multiple reloads for the VCIolet Citadel bug and nothing seems to work here. I have done multiple replays on hard as well.

I love the campaign though, you guys did a great job! I'm looking forward to seeing your next project after you hammer out the bugs here.

 

[Gotohell_since_2000]

Secret Mission 1:
-Alexstrasa would not become vulnerable after fleeing back to her nest. Upon multiple reloads she became vulnerable and I was able to kill her.

Secret Mission 2:
-It doesn't count as completed (Showing that I finished it in hard or normal difficulty), and none of my items on heroes carried over to following missions. and Tharbek did not get his level increased. When I now try to replay it from my last save on the map, it gives my computer the blue screen of death.

Secret Mission 3:
-It does not count as completed. I have not tried replaying it yet.

Chapters 12 and 13:
-Rend is not a hero. It seems like he is supposed to be but I do not own him as a unit, and he doesn't appear as a character. However, his dialogue still pops up and I will see him in the cut scenes. I tried replaying chapter 12 and Rend will not populate in as a hero.

Chapter 14:
-Rend is not a hero, and when I defeat the Archmage and destroy the Violet Citadel it doesn't give me an objective complete past killing the Archmage. I can complete the first phase of the mission just fine with Ogrim (however, he doesn't appear to keep any of his items from the Stratholme mission). I have tried using cheats as well as multiple reloads for the VCIolet Citadel bug and nothing seems to work here. I have done multiple replays on hard as well.

I love the campaign though, you guys did a great job! I'm looking forward to seeing your next project after you hammer out the bugs here.

I want to echo that Rend observation on missions 12-14. it was very confusing, and felt like it was a glitch that he appears for cut-scene cinematics and disappears for the game-play, most especially true on Cho-Gall fight, because he is obviously there trapped in the same rooms; Even if he is a NPC that does nothing, at least you would see him. (Chogall maybe could cast the dark-entangle on Rend and he is trapped on the corner of the room for the entire fight)

Most importantly: On 14, I destroy the Violet Citadel and nothing happens, i remain stuck on the Cross Island and victory is not achieved. Even after restarting the mission and trying again. For now, I'm stuck on 14; but since i loved the game so much i will probably replay again from the beginning in the meantime.

 

[Jet Black]

Tol Barad mission crashes few seconds after the flying machine event, impossible to finish...

 

[codyf65]

Im loving chronicles of the second war, but i think ive come across a glitch. In chapter 12, Rend is not showing up at all. I only have the 2 heros. I played all the way to the end fight with chogall before i realized he was supposed to be there too.

 

[govard]

@ShadiHD When will there be 1 patch that fixes problems and glitches in the game and normal balance in missions?

 

[niklos]

It seems like I might have not post my report at the right place so... Sorry for the double post.

I am having an issue that make me not able to continue the campagn. You will find all the details at the link below (including a video of the issue)

Thanks !

Chronicles of the Second War: Tides of Darkness

Chronicles of the Second War: Tides of Darkness Relive the events of Warcraft II orc campaign, reimagined in Reforged engine. Experience rich lore from the events of the Second War, based on classic games and novels. Enjoy the gameplay that merges best features of WC2 and WC3, through RTS and...

www.hiveworkshop.com

 

[niklos]

Hello,

This morning, I decided I wanted to give it a new try. I redownloaded everything (assets, installer, everything) and reinstall. I had to redo the whole campagn, it was a pleasure by the way, but I still have the same issue. The game crashes at the end of the dragon mission.
@Tamplier any news about that bug ? Is there anyways I can help (is there any logs that could be usefull ?) Thanks !

 

[niklos]

Hello folks. I saw the game got updated but I did not see anything about the bug at the end of the dragon mission. Did it get a fix by any chance ?
Thanks again for all the great work !

 

[TerranicII]

Tol Barad doesn't seem to recognize when I kill everything at the second citadel. Is there some problem with the triggers or events that I need to know about?

 

[kajji08]

Aright.. due to issues with Reforged 2.0.. I had to reinstall the campaign and now, naturally, all my saves are broken and I was at the end of the campaign and not in the mood to play through all of that again. Could anyone share their saves for the latest version or perhaps tell me how to skip to a level or something?

Thank you.

 

[Cloud_the_Angel]

Hello, I don't really use Hive much so apologies if I do something wrong here. I'm on Chapter 11 so far and have found some bugs.

1. When Utok dies while holding an ankh, and while he has his reincarnation passive but on cooldown, the ankh won't trigger and he will die but he won't drop any of his items.

2. Some missions don't seem to count as completed when beaten, though they do let me play the next missions. This is the case for me for Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Lost Chapter 1, and Lost Chapter 2. Doomhammer also didn't get the items and levels from Lost Chapter 2 into Chapter 10.
Maybe since the lost chapters are secret missions they're not supposed to give bonusses but Idk. Screenshot below.

I also have one piece of feedback. I really heavily dislike the way the human cities and castles are designed. The walls are very pretty but they completely break the gameplay and it just feels awful to attack into a walled city. Your units cannot path around them or to attack the units on top of them, and your melee units just get stuck on the edges of the walls trying to reach the archers but being unable to. When you have large scale battles in an RTS, you must be using the attack move command, but you just can't in the cities because of the way they're designed.
I'm sorry I know you probably put a lot of work into making those cities because it really does look pretty.

EDIT: Ok, update on my last bug report since I've now finished all the missions.

Lost Chapter 3 also didn't get marked as completed, and Zul'jin did not get his items from Lost Chapter 2.
When Tharbek becomes playable again in Chapter 14, he was also missing the items and Tharbek Training levels from Lost Chapter 2.

When Chapter 14 switches to the Cross Island section, Utok looses his items despite me not having lost him on the previous mission he was a part of (Chapter 12?). I think both Utok and Tharbek also loose their inventory again when switching back from Cross Island to Lordaeron / Fenris Isle.

Also, I'm not sure if you're supposed to have other heroes than Orgrim on the last section of Chapter 14, but there was a small secret area that can't be reached without some kind of teleport. So maybe Zuluhed is supposed to return and fight with Orgrim? Or maybe I just missed the way to get to that area.

Anyway, thank you for the campaign, it was very enjoyable.

 

[pjden]

Hey,

Of course I love your campaign! I played it a few times ;-)

I'm on MacOS so I guess a few things in the W3 engine are not optimal I know this. My hardware is not the bleeding edge topnotch one but neither it is ENIAC-old. I'm playing on the lowest settings, just in case.

Now to the issue I met.

The last mission exclusively in the 4th part (the assault on the Capital after destroying naval infrastructure) goes to 5-10 FPS and it's before I train dragons. At that point I have about 120-150 food utilization.

I have a few theories, mainly because I have no idea how map content is cached.

1. Is it possible that all parts of this mission is loaded (Landing Island + Cross Island + Capital City) hence finished parts of the mission are clogging the memory?

Could the Cross Island be made into a separate mission to alleviate the issue?

2. Assuming defending units are spawned deep behind the walls after naval infrastructure is destroyed... could it be spawned in stages and not all together?

I don't know how they actually are spawned I'm just guessing...

Do you think it's worth trying to optimize the last mission?

And once again - thanks for this campaign. It is the single reason I bought WC3

Bless you!