Hotfix Update - August 12, 2020

[Vinz]

HOTFIX UPDATE - AUGUST 12, 2O2O

Blizzard said: August 12, 2020 We’ve just deployed hotfixes to address the following issues in version 1.32.8 of Warcraft III: Reforged – Fixed an issue with player slots not being displayed properly in loading screens and match results. Fixed an issue with the Reforged Scroll of Protection spell effect. These fixes will be automatically patched by the Blizzard Battle.net Desktop App.

 

[AIfred]

Fixing a Player slot problem could lead issues to save/load systems..

 

[DracoL1ch]

yay quick patches, just like they promised when moving to CASC years ago!

 

[fenix140]

I don't want to create more Flame, but because Blizzard hasn't improved the editor yet. They have already broken support for JNPG and various systems, and Lua is not sure whether or not it will be compatible with new patches in the future, as happened with vjass.

How long will it take to fix all these issues, apart from the old editor that used to work fine on low-resource PCs, but the current editor has lag spikes despite having a well-capable PC?

yay quick patches, just like they promised when moving to CASC years ago!

It is true.

 

[Chaosy]

Fixing a Player slot problem could lead issues to save/load systems..

What's your point here, that they should not fix it?

 

[Linaze]

How long will it take to fix all these issues, apart from the old editor that used to work fine on low-resource PCs, but the current editor has lag spikes despite having a well-capable PC?

For me the WE runs better now than it has in near two decades of usage. Maybe I'm an anomaly, is the consensus that the WE is actually slower?

 

[Bribe]

For me the WE runs better now than it has in near two decades of usage. Maybe I'm an anomaly, is the consensus that the WE is actually slower?

The editor as a whole as well as the Test Map process runs incredibly slow now, whereas a year or two ago the thing was lightning fast (in comparison).

Framerates are also less than half of what they were before, ever since the Lua patch.

Not to mention the nearly 30GB of wasted assets that I don't even use because I don't use Reforged, but are required to occupy my PC because of "reasons".

 

[Linaze]

The editor as a whole as well as the Test Map process runs incredibly slow now, whereas a year or two ago the thing was lightning fast (in comparison).

Framerates are also less than half of what they were before, ever since the Lua patch.

Not to mention the nearly 30GB of wasted assets that I don't even use because I don't use Reforged, but are required to occupy my PC because of "reasons".

Interesting. I will concede that testing is probably a bit slower for me as well (although not benchmarked) but operating the WE is noticeably faster (for me). Framerates in-game might be lower (again, haven't benchmakred) - in any case as far as classic graphics go it most certainly does not dip below 120-something which for me is perfectly fine.

I keep hearing this rant about 30GB of wasted assets which while annoying I really don't see as a major issue unless you're stuck on a 128GB SSD or something similar.

 

[Bribe]

Interesting. I will concede that testing is probably a bit slower for me as well (although not benchmarked) but operating the WE is noticeably faster (for me). Framerates in-game might be lower (again, haven't benchmakred) - in any case as far as classic graphics go it most certainly does not dip below 120-something which for me is perfectly fine.

I keep hearing this rant about 30GB of wasted assets which while annoying I really don't see as a major issue unless you're stuck on a 128GB SSD or something similar.

I bought a "minimum specs to run WarCraft III" laptop for a hundred euros a couple years ago, and yes it has a 64GB SSD inside. It actually was pretty damn fast and could run War3 at 60FPS easily at max settings across the board, but since Reforged I have to keep the settings all set to Low (not that it matters to me what the game looks like when I'm just using it to test code).

 

[Chaosy]

I have not experienced any noticeable drops in any performance personally.
But I also am a lot over the minimum specs so probably why.

 

[loktar]

I keep hearing this rant about 30GB of wasted assets which while annoying I really don't see as a major issue unless you're stuck on a 128GB SSD or something similar.

I have a 500GB hdd in my laptop. So that's 6% of my entire storage capacity that serves no purpose at all.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

The editor as a whole as well as the Test Map process runs incredibly slow now, whereas a year or two ago the thing was lightning fast (in comparison).

Framerates are also less than half of what they were before, ever since the Lua patch.

Not to mention the nearly 30GB of wasted assets that I don't even use because I don't use Reforged, but are required to occupy my PC because of "reasons".

The problem with test map is that the game is so slow to start now. It has nothing to do with the editor and all to do with the general performance of Reforged being abyssmal.

To me, the worst part of reforged is still the ridicolously amateurish game menu. Something like this is an embarassment for a multi-million dollar company.

 

[AIfred]

What's your point here, that they should not fix it?

They could've atleast told us about it before releasing it on the Patch and making Auto-Update.

 

[Bribe]

They could've atleast told us about it before releasing it on the Patch and making Auto-Update.

That's what hotfixes are for: they didn't know about it until after it launched. I'd rather have hotfixes than a broken game until the company waits for the approval of a big patch.

 

[looking_for_help]

Not to mention the nearly 30GB of wasted assets that I don't even use because I don't use Reforged, but are required to occupy my PC because of "reasons".

What I think is strange/interesting is that the new models still appear in the world editor when placing units.

So although I don't even have reforged, all units/buldings/etc are in reforged graphics in the WE. Only when I actually start the map, the graphic switches back to classic.

While this somehow explains technically why the extra 30 Gb are needed, it doesn't really make sense from a programming/game design point of view. I would definitely prefer to see units in classic graphics all the time when using classic, especially if this would safe 30 Gb of space.

 

[loktar]

You can change that in the WE settings though. But it should be SD by default in non-Reforged.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Glad all the time they took updating the back-end to allow for these kind of hotfixes worked. : )

 

[pr114]

Test Map may be so much slower because it now attempts to first connect to the server (showing the lion gate on screen) before loading the map.

I have tried using Test Map with disabled internet, and then it throws an error after the Lion's Gate sequence, after which I'm presented with an 'Offline' button that immediately fires map loading.

 

[DracoL1ch]

Test Map may be so much slower because it now attempts to first connect to the server (showing the lion gate on screen) before loading the map.

I have tried using Test Map with disabled internet, and then it throws an error after the Lion's Gate sequence, after which I'm presented with an 'Offline' button that immediately fires map loading.

hell, how else would they show you the skins on units? Killer feature noone wanted but deserved.