July 2013 News Batch

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Top 3 Resources

Project's Spotlight

Hive's Arena

Hive Quiz

Community Spotlight

News

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Terrain work by [Mad]Lion

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Maps

Models

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Spells

	Troll Ridge Type: Melee Category: Medieval / Warcraft Author: UndeadImmortal (Recommended)
	Astral sea Type: Melee Category: Medieval / Warcraft Author: Erkan (Recommended)
	Realm of Carnage Type: Strategy / Risk Category: Medieval / Warcraft Author: GhostThruster (Recommended)

	Stormgare Footman Type: Unit Category: Human Author: takakenji (Useful)
	CopperAxe Type: Attachment Category: Many Author: Sin'dorei300 (Useful)
	Warcraft_Car Type: Unit Category: Human Author: eubz (Useful)

BTNGoblinRifleman by Sin'dorei300 BTNmy22ndBirthDay by NFWar BTNSpellHover by JollyD

	SWAG MODE Type: No Target Category: vJASS Author: Lambdadelta (Highly Recommended)
	Alliance System Type: System Category: vJASS Author: Doomlord (Recommended)
	Freezing Bow Type: Target Ground, Target Object Category: GUI / Triggers Author: Jad (Recommended)

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Terrain work by Oziris

Tides of War - Tides of War is a campaign based on the book Tides of War.
The main characters are Jaina Proudmoore and Sylvanas Windrunner.>>
Read more about the storyline in its Map Development thread.

This map development has been chosen again as the Top Project Spotlight for July

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Artwork by Mr.Goblin

Modeling Contest #25 - Ascension A Thread Starter for a model contest, do please continue if your interested.

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Warcraft III Questions:

[1 Rep] What are the names of the dragons that were mentioned during a Night Elf Campaign interlude from TFT. [3 Rep] What campaign can you make 3 sheeps talk and gives you a special round? name both the chapter and campaign. [5 Rep] Who is DARKNESS in Warcraft III? give at least 3 explanations that he is being mentioned somewhere.

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Made from China

Made by user Kitabatake is a fast paced sword fighting game that is fast to learn and hard to master.
It supports a variety of game modes & team configurations and more features are added with future updates.

The latest version 0.99h is out, as changes were made:

Version 0.99h

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• New Content
  • New Full-screen setting selection system.
  • New Loading Screen.
  • New blood effects upon taking damage.
  • New terrain: Beach
    • A beach that shares the theme of the island terrain while having only half the surface area.
      This makes it ideal for dueling and deathmatch games for 6 players or less.
    • Available for: Deathmatch, Duel Arena
• Improvements
  • Combat damage floating texts and Damage Log entries now display actual damage taken (takes armor reduction into account).
    • Damage log now omits any damage taken during spawn protection (because it doesn't reduce health anyway).
    • Damage log now displays damage taken during the current round (For example no longer displays damage taken on previous duel round).
  • Multiboard now omits lives if life limit is not set.
  • The knockback system no longer generates dust on very low velocities. Looks smoother, cleaner and more natural!
  • Creep unit tinting colors adjusted for a more natural look.
  • Tavern terrain adjusted
  • The water in aqueducts and fountains in the "Jade Throne" terrain has been remade to look more realistic.
  • During setting selection, the inventory now displays game mode description and is free from clutter seen in earlier versions.
  • Deathmatch mode now requires bot threshold 2, which means you cannot start a deathmatch round alone.
• Balancing
  • Tumble ability range will now temporarily decrease upon spamming the ability. Very rapid spamming will cause the unit to stumble.
• Bug fixes
  • Massive multiboard bug fixed.
    • The multiboards will no longer have random rows missing at random times.
  • Multiboard text stacking bug fixed.
    • Text will no longer appear stacked on itself in multiboards.
  • BattleZone area respawning fixed.
    • Players will no longer spawn outside boundaries.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the Damage Log to persist and replace the scoreboard after a round ends.
  • Fixed a possible fatal error from the combat systems.
  • Fixed game getting stuck if player leaves during duel.
• Miscellaneous
  • Selecting deathmatch mode now automatically sets kill limit 15 if no other victory conditions have been set.

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SEE THE COMPLETE CHANGELOG HERE: LINK

Sunken City is a 3-player Dungeon Crawler/RPG map by spasorc that contains puzzles to solve, quests to complete, highly customized heroes to master, hundreds of items to acquire and hard challenges to overcome such as bosses, traps and difficulties. Cooperative teamplay and replayability are unique features that will provide exciting gameplay experience.

Its latest map version, 1.5.2. [Hotfix], has been released! see changelog here:

Version 1.5.2. [Hotfix] [16.08.2013]

General Changes

• Fixed a minor bug with a chest.
• Fixed a bug where Chest Keys would become unusable if used outside of range.

Classes

Tidewarrior

• Attack Speed provided by Depth Frenzy has been increased to 55% up from 40%.

Items

• Fixed a bug where Nature Guardian's active effect could affect more than one unit.
• Fixed a bug where Fiery Cleaver could not be used by the Reforging system.

SEE THE COMPLETE CHANGELOG HERE: LINK

The Wolf Pack - Is a social group dedicated to the wolfs and wolf-loving users of this site, if you wish to be the Big Bad Wolf of this site that wants to rumble with hooded users then this is the right group for you.

Heroes Tale Project Group - A group made from a map project the 'Heroes Tale'. Very useful for discussions and updates of the map.

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Users MrStormyZ and Azothan has presented a latest release of warcraft III related videos!

MrStormyZ

Amazonia

More Videos

Azothan

Turtle Rock

More Videos

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Terrain work by Alagremm

I hereby apologize for the late posting of this news, and as well as the images taken without permission last June Monthly News Batch 2013. Congratulations to those who won the Merit Badge part 2 award, and the newly appointed Shadow Dancer award. The Lab - a new subforum has been made, this place is properly organized for GUI to JASS and to use it as a base for prototyping, concepts or anything related to its coding material. Programming - another subforum has been made and this place is very useful for those who likes to program and code in C++, Java, PHP, or any programming language.

Do you have any important information to spread among the community by means of Warcraft III, Starcraft II, or Diablo III news worthy? or above the category?. If you do, please post it at Staff Contact for we the Staff can inspect it first before we announce it for site news.

 

[Magtheridon96]

Here are some JASS questions.
Currently, you have the Hive Quiz labeled with "JASS" when the questions are about Wc3 in general

• [3 Rep] What is the approximate size in bytes of a JASS location? (Acceptable error is +/-20 bytes)
• [5 Rep] Who is the user with the second greatest number of spells rated 4/5 by a moderator or better in the Spells section?
• [8 Rep] How many (v)JASS libraries in all has Nestharus made and posted online since the beginning of time?
• [10 Rep] How many times has Nestharus used the TriggerEvaluate native in all of his resources everywhere (As of September 2, 2013)?

Notice that the rewards are different now.
+1 is negligible at best, so I thought we should probably do +3, +5 and +8 (or maybe +10) instead

And notice the third question. Just to give you a hint of how hard it is, users have to look in all of these places:

• JASS Section Submissions
• JASS Section Resources
• JASS Section Graveyard
• Small Codes and Snippets
• Spells Section
• TheHelper.net's Forums
• Wc3c.net's Forums and much more

 

[Statharas]

TFT, Blood Elf Campaign, 3rd level, sheep take you to the Crossing, a Blood Elf TD. I don't remember what the sheep said, but they were flying.

 

[Vengeancekael]

Hmph, keeps getting messier everytime, especially the Community Spotlight.
You should probably mention that the SC Art tools are now in open beta.

 

[Doomlord]

DARKNESS is a guy without DSL who likes to phone people and screen calls.

He is mentioned by the Dread Lord hero, Arthas the Death Knight and the Demon Hunter hero.

Arthas: Who is this Darkness anyway?
Dread Lord: Yes? Darkness, hey, what's up?[...]
Demon Hunter: Darkness called[...]

Dragons mentioned in 'Unfinished Business': Ysera, Alexstrasza.

 

[Orcnet]

This is indeed a really late news gentlemen, I'm sorry for that I just got tight schedules outside, so about the hive questions:

TFT, Blood Elf Campaign, 3rd level, sheep take you to the Crossing, a Blood Elf TD. I don't remember what the sheep said, but they were flying.

Correct, have my 3 rep :>

DARKNESS is a guy without DSL who likes to phone people and screen calls.

He is mentioned by the Dread Lord hero, Arthas the Death Knight and the Demon Hunter hero.

Arthas: Who is this Darkness anyway?
Dread Lord: Yes? Darkness, hey, what's up?[...]
Demon Hunter: Darkness called[...]

Dragons mentioned in 'Unfinished Business': Ysera, Alexstrasza.

Excellent, have my 5 + 1 rep :>

 

[Daffa]

Y U NO Add More Quiz?

 

[Doomlord]

Thanks very much

 

[Binsu]

I am very thanful for featuring my HT group here, Orcnet!

 

[Sunreaver]

First Answer:Unfinished Business Night Elf Campaign Alexstrasza & Ysera
Second Answerungeons of Dalaran Blood Elf Campaign Sheeps were flying with fire forgot what they talk.

 

[Daffa]

^too late

 

[Chen]

About the DARKNESS, the DARKNESS is a guy that loves to phone people especially the Demon Hunters and Dreadlords.

He should be a guy that needs to get DSL. His line is always busy.

He is a Death Knight. As the Death Kgnights says "I am the darkness".

 

[Binsu]

Please do avoid answering questions that are answered already and is approved to be correct

 

[Orcnet]

Sorry Feathermoon and Chen Stormstout, the questions has been answered already.

 

[Sunreaver]

Then where can I answer latest hive quiz question for last month ?

 

[Avex]

The sheep say "Baa Raam Yoou" in reference to Babe if I recall properly.