Patch 1.30 PTR Live

[PurgeandFire]

Patch 1.30 PTR

Happy 16th birthday Warcraft 3!

A new PTR has been deployed, and it is massive–especially for melee.

[Patch Notes & Installation]
[Balance Changes]
[Map Pool Changes]

• Updated anticheat to keep the Horde at bay. The warden is back with vengeance.
• Unit button locations and hotkeys adjusted for consistency

Bug Fixes & Known Issues

BUG FIXES

[Mac] Joining a custom game no longer results in a crash [Mac] Loading a saved game no longer results in a crash [Mac] Client no longer crashes when switching between expansions [Mac] Cinematics work again [Mac] Switching between fullscreen and windowed mode no longer causes menu/text misalignment [World Editor] Crash when same ability with different buff ID’s is cast on a unit resolved Blademaster able to path through intended items during Wind Walk again Defend consistently reflects damage from piercing attacks again Killing a Demon Hunter at the end of its Metamorphosis no longer prevents Metamorphosis from being used for the rest of the match Stun works again if the target has already been stunned by an illusion Using Crypt Fiend's burrow/unburrow no longer resets the cooldown for the Web ability Using Town Portal on a moving Tree of Life can no longer cause the spell to interrupt and grant temporary invulnerability Units that can only attack other air units (or groups of units that include one of these units) can attack move to areas where there are trees again Dropped items can no longer be stacked on top of each other (2)TerenasStand_LV: Fixed pathing around Mercenary Camps Cursor matches the mouse position when resolution is taller than wider again Players can rejoin a saved multiplayer game again Clan Message of the Day can be set again Intro cinematic displays again Text scales correctly and is no longer cut off In Windowed Mode After loading a saved game, portraits no longer stretch the width of the screen Ambient sound has been returned to ambience Hero glow for player 12 is consistent with original version again Korean and Chinese installation names of Warcraft III on Windows 10 OS no longer say "StarCraft" in those languages Setting 3 of "Set Ally Color Mode" no longer changes the team color of neutral creeps Team and color no longer reset when clicking on the dropdown arrow in Lobby The cursor no longer disappears behind the black bars of the main menu The scoreboard no longer truncates when a timer is present Tooltips for Keeper of the Grove's Learn Tranquility, Blademaster Critical Strike, and other Critical Strike abilities have been updated to properly reflect changes made in 1.29.0 IME no longer creates a green box in non-enUS clients Opening preferences no longer generates an error The map pool from Random Team has been mirrored to Arranged Team “/fps”, “/apm” and “/ping” visibility will be retained between games [World Editor] The edges of the Editor window are clickable again [World Editor] BlzIsUnitInvulnerable returns the correct boolean value [World Editor] BlzSetSpecialEffectPosition and BlzSetSpecialEffectPositionLoc names are now distinguishable in the GUI [World Editor] Dead units no longer remain selectable when using BlzIsUnitSelectable [World Editor] Improved function names for ability tooltips to turn on/off autocast [World Editor] Values for BlzSetUnitDiceSides can be modified [World Editor] Renaming an Item no longer changes all Items’ names [World Editor] The default GUI values for UnitInterruptAttack and UnitCancelTimedLife no longer cause an error [World Editor] UnitDisableAbility hides an ability with Hide=true and Disabled=false again [World Editor] With an ability that has Disabled=false, attempting to set Disabled to false again no longer causes a crash [World Editor] Adding a hero ability to a non-hero unit via Spellbook no longer causes a crash

KNOWN ISSUES

In 24 player games AI buildings may become stuck in construction (unverified) Unit health and mana bars overlap quest text in the UI Icons are off center when the client is snapped while in windowed mode in narrow resolutions Framerate is not adjusting correctly when running in the background To help visualize and solve mouse cursor lag we have added oscursor to registry that draws the operating system arrow cursor

• Added World Editor support for vJass with JassHelper.
• Most buffs/debuffs can simultaneously apply to the same unit if their ID’s are different
• Added BlzPlaySpecialEffect
• Added BlzSpecialEffectAddSubAnimation
• Added BlzSpecialEffectRemoveSubAnimation
• Added BlzSpecialEffectClearSubAnimations
• BlzSetSpecialEffectHeight will take terrain height into consideration

• Several ladder maps and map pools have been updated! Rejoice! See the full changelog below:
  
  Map Pool Updates

  MAP POOL UPDATES

  Map Updates (2)Amazonia Reduced the number of Wand of Illusion and Sentry drops by creating proper level 2 Charged items drops (2)ConcealedHills Cleaned up tree placement (2)NorthernIsles Cleaned up tree placement (2)SwampedTemple_V2 Removed all custom data Cleaned up tree placement General map clean up from removing the custom doodads (2)TerenasStand_LV More building area at start locations Swapped creep camps at the expansions - closer expansion is the easier creep camp now Level 8 Wizard no longer aggro's on passing units Swapped the Mercenary camp location with the green creep camp - these buildings are now further away from start locations (4)Avalanche_LV Swapped Mercenary Camp with Fountain of Health Swapped Tavern for Mercenary Camp Added a Tavern to the center of the map Relocated creep camp to prevent accidental aggro (4)BridgeTooNear Relocated creep camp to prevent accidental aggro (4)PhantomGrove_LV Red camps are two levels harder now - Item drop is unchanged Replaced the level 3 Ghost with level 3 Skeletal (8)Ferelas_LV Pushed back several expansion goldmines and creeps to prevent accidental aggro (8)GolemsInTheMist_LV Relocated the 2 Mercenary Camp creeps further to prevent accidental aggro (8)TwilightRuins_LV Swapped the remaining Goblin Laboratories on the outside of the map with the Goblin Merchant's at the center of the map The center creep camps that dropped level 1 permanent items now drop level 1 power-ups Map Pool 1v1 (2)TerenasStand_LV (2)Plunderisle_LV (2)SwampedTemple_V2 (comm) (2)NorthernIsles (comm) (2)EchoIsle (2)TirisfalGlades_LV (2)Amazonia(com) (2)LastRefuge-1.3 (comm) (2)ConcealedHill (comm) (4)TwistedMeadows (4)TurtleRock 2v2 (4)PhantomGrove_LV (4)Avalanche_LV (4)TurtleRock (4)CentaurGrove (4)BridgeTooNear_LV (4)Synergy_big_paved (comm) (4)TidewaterGlades_LV (4)LostTemple (4)TwistedMeadows (4)FurbolgMountain_v3 (comm) (6)GnollWood 3v3 (6)ThunderLake_LV (6)GnollWood (6)Monsoon_LV (6)DarkForest (6)UpperKingdom (6)RuinsOfStratholme (8)Mur’gulOasis_LV (6)RollingHills (6)TimbermawHold (6)StranglethornVale (8)Battleground 4v4 (8)Feralas_LV (8)Northshire_LV (8)Sanctuary_LV (8)TwilightRuins_LV (8)Battleground_LV (8)Deadlock_LV (8)GolemsInTheMist_LV (8)Mur’gulOasis_LV (8)MarketSquare (8)GoldRush (8)Friends (8)BlastedLands FFA (4)Deathrose (4)FountainOfManipulation_v1.1 (comm) (6)EmeraldShores (6)SilverpineForest (6)Monsoon_LV (6)NeonCity(comm) (8)Deadlock_LV (8)Mur’gulOasis_LV (8)TwilightRuins_LV (8)Marketsquare

• NEW META! Tons of balance changes. Including: archmage nerfs, brewmaster nerfs, siege tank nerf, along with very interesting tech tree changes for chimeras and spirit walkers/tauren! See the full list of changes below. Test it now and be sure to leave feedback!
  
  Balance Changes

  BALANCE CHANGES

  Hero Balance Changes Archmage Water Elemental Level 1: Decreased Hit Points from 525 to 500; increased damage 18 - 22 to 19 - 23 Level 2: Decreased Hit Points from 675 to 625; increased damage 31 - 39 to 33 - 41 Level 3: Decreased Hit Points from 900 to 825; increased damage 41 - 49 to 44 - 52 Brilliance Aura Level 2: Decreased mana regeneration from 1.5 to 1.25 per second Level 3: Decreased mana regeneration from 2.25 to 1.75 per second Mass Teleport Increased Area of Effect from 700 to 800 Blademaster Base Stats Reduced Agility from 24 to 22 Lich Frost Armor All Levels: Reduced slow duration against all units to 4 seconds Demon Hunter Base Stats Reduced Agility from 22 to 21 Metamorphosis Reduced duration from 60 to 45 Keeper of the Grove Force of Nature All Levels: Reduced mana cost from 125 to 100 Goblin Alchemist Healing Spray Level 1: Decreased from 40 to 30 Level 2: Decreased from 55 to 45 Level 3: Decreased from 70 to 60 Transmute Increased conversion factor from .8 to 1.25 Goblin Tinker Base Stats Reduced Armor from 4.5 to 3.5 Pocket Factory Pocket Factory now has Heavy Armor instead of Normal Engineering Upgrade Level 1: Increased spawn interval time for Clockwerk Goblins from 4 to 4.5 seconds Level 2: Increased spawn interval time for Clockwerk Goblins from 3.2 to 3.5 seconds Level 3: Increased spawn interval time for Clockwerk Goblins from 2.56 to 3 seconds Cluster Rockets Level 3: Increased Damage for Cluster Rockets from 27.5 to 30.5 Naga Sea Witch Mana Shield Level 1: Increased damage absorbed from 1 to 2 Level 2: Increased damage absorbed from 1.5 to 3 Level 3: Increased damage absorbed from 2 to 4 Pandaren Brewmaster Breath of Fire All levels: Increased mana cost from 70 to 75 Level 1: Reduced damage over time from 7 to 5, reduced max damage from 520 to 480 Level 2: Reduced damage over time from 14 to 10, reduced max damage from 1000 to 720 Level 3: Reduced damage over time from 21 to 15, reduced max damage from 1360 to 1080 Human Balance Changes Flying Machine Base Stats Increased Hit Points from 200 to 250 Increased Gold cost from 90 to 100 Increased Damage from 14 - 15 to 18 - 19 (air-vs-air only) Militia Base Stats Decreased duration from 45 to 40 seconds Mortar Team Base Stats Decreased half damage radius from 150 to 100 Decreased quarter damage radius from 250 to 200 Priest Dispel Magic Increased cast range from 500 to 600 Added a 5 second cooldown Applies to Doom Guard (Creep); Doom Guard (Summoned); Pandaren Brewmaster (Storm) Siege Engine Base Stats Increased Supply cost from 3 to 4 Spell Breaker Spell Steal Cooldown increased from 3 to 6 seconds Human Items Ivory Tower Base Stats Increased lumber cost from 20 to 25 Reduced stock from 3 to 2 Orb of Fire Base Stats Increased hero bonus damage from 5 to 10 Increased splash damage radius from 140 to 150 Increased gold cost from 275 to 325 Human Upgrades Defend Base Stats Damage reduction reduced from 50% to 40% Reflection damage reduced from 100% to 90% Flak Cannons Tech Tree Now unlock with Keep Swapped command card location with Flying Machine Bombs Fragmentation Shards Base Stats Reduced half damage radius from 275 to 225 Increased quarter damage radius from 250 to 275 Reduced bonus damage for half damage radius from 18 to 15 Reduced bonus damage for quarter damage radius from 12 to 10 Improved Masonry Cost Level 1: Increased to 125 gold and 50 lumber Level 2: Increased to 150 gold and 75 lumber Level 3: Increased to 175 gold and 100 lumber Orc Balance Changes Bat Rider Base Stats Increased bonus damage from 13 - 15 to 16 - 18 Berserker Base Stats Increased Hit Points from 450 to 475 Headhunter Base Stats Increased Hit Points from 350 to 375 Increased Regeneration upgrade from 0.8 to 1.0 Hit Points per second Shaman Base Stats Increased Hit Points from 335 to 350 Increased bonus damage from 8 - 9 to 10 - 11 Purge Decreased mana cost from 75 to 65 Spirit Walker Changed Hotkey from (T) to (W) Tauren Totem Tech Tree Now unlocks with Stronghold instead of Fortress Now trains Spirit Walkers and Spirit Walker upgrades Swapped command card locations so Spirit Walkers are first button Orc Items Scroll of Speed No longer applies to Goblin Sappers Orc Upgrades Berserker Base Stats Decreased the damage debuff from 50% to 40% Swapped command card location with Troll Regeneration upgrade Burning Oil Moved command card location to middle row Liquid Fire Base Stats Reduced the attack speed debuff from 80% to 60% Reinforced Defenses Base Stats Reduced from 200 to 150 lumber Tech Tree Unlocks with Stronghold instead of Fortress Spiked Barricades Cost Level 2: Reduced from 175 to 125 lumber Level 3: Reduced from 275 to 175 lumber Troll Regeneration Swapped command card location with Berserker upgrade Undead Balance Changes Acolyte Base Stats Increased Hit Points from 220 to 230 Increased Hit Point Regeneration while on Blight from 2 to 4 per second Increased armor from 0 to 1 (6% damage reduction) Increased movement speed from 220 to 250 Destroyer Base Stats Reduced Hit Points from 900 to 850 Reduced Orb of Annihilation bonus damage from 20 to 15 Frost Wyrm Base Stats Reduced Frost Breath attack duration on Heroes from 10 seconds to 3 seconds Necromancer Cripple Reduced mana cost from 175 to 150 Unholy Frenzy Reduced drain from 4 to 3 Hit Points per second Raise Dead Increased base summon duration from 40 to 45 seconds Obsidian Statue Base Stats Reduced Hit Points from 550 to 500 Skeleton Warrior Base Stats Increased Hit Points from 180 to 190 Skeleton Mage Base Stats Increased Hit Points from 230 to 240 Undead Buildings Haunted Gold Mine Base Stats Reduced Blight radius from 960 to 768 Reduced cost to 225 gold and 210 lumber Necropolis Base Stats Reduced cost from 255 to 225 gold Reduced build duration from 100 to 90 seconds Ziggurat Base Stats Increased Hit Points from 550 to 600 Undead Items Orb of Corruption Base Stats Decreased armor reduction from 5 to 4 Sacrificial Skull Tech Tree No longer requires Graveyard to purchase Base Stats Decreased stock regeneration from 60 to 45 Undead Upgrades Cannibalize Swapped command card location with Frenzy upgrade Ghoul and Abomination Decreased the duration from 33 seconds to 20 seconds for Ghouls and Abominations Ghoul Increased healing from 10 to 16 per second Abomination Increased healing from 15 to 25 per second Devour Magic Decreased damage against summoned units from 180 to 160 Disease Cloud (Abomination) Increased damage from 1 to 2 per second Reduced duration from 120 to 90 seconds Exhume Corpse Now generates Crypt Fiend corpse instead of Ghoul corpse Frenzy Swapped command card location with Cannibalize upgrade Skeletal Longevity Increased duration time from 15 to 20 seconds Increased cost from 50 to 75 gold Skeletal Mastery Now unlocks with Halls of the Dead Stone Form Moved command card location to the middle row Night Elf Balance Changes Archer Base Stats Increased Hit Points from 245 to 260 Tech Tree Improved Bows command card location swapped with the Marksmanship upgrade Chimeras Base Stats Decreased half damage splash radius from 125 to 100 Druid of the Claw (Bear Form) Base Stats Decreased bonus damage from 29 - 44 to 25 - 40 Druid of the Talon Base Stats Increased cost from 135 to 150 gold Faerie Fire Reduced duration on units from 90 to 70 seconds Reduced duration on heroes from 60 to 40 seconds Dryad Abolish Magic Reduced damage against summoned units from 300 to 250 Applies to: Eredar Sorcerer, Naga Couatl, Centaur Sorcerer, Polar Furbog Shaman, Forest Troll Shadow Priest, Kobold Geomancer, Mur'gul Snarecaster, Nerubian Seer, Salamander Seer, Watery Minion Snarecaster, Tuskarr Healer, and Ice Troll High Priest Glaive Thrower Base Stats Increased bonus damage from 36 - 53 to 51- 68 Huntress Tech Tree Moonglaive now unlocks with Tree of Ages Sentinel is researched by default Mountain Giant Base Stats Decreased cost from 425 to 350 gold Decreased Supply from 7 to 6 Hippogryph Tech Tree Hippogryph Taming is researched by default Hippogryph Rider Base Stats Increased Hit Points from 765 to 780 Night Elf Buildings Ancient of War Base Stats Reduced Hit Points from 1000 to 900 Reduced bonus attack damage from 44 to 36 Tech Tree Removed Sentinel upgrade – researched by default Ancient of Wind Tech Tree Removed Hippogryph Taming upgrade - researched by default Ancient Protector Base Stats Reduced build time from 60 to 55 seconds Decreased rooted attack cool down from 2 seconds to 1.7 seconds (24.75 to 29.12 damage per second) Decreased uprooted attack cool down from 1.5 seconds to 1.4 seconds (19.67 to 21.07 damage per second) Moon Well Base Stats Increased mana regeneration at night from 1.25 to 1.50 per second Chimera Roost Tech Tree No longer requires Ancient of Wind to build Neutral Balance Changes Purge Reduced damage to summoned units from 400 to 200 Neutral Items Boots of Speed Now have a stock of 2

 

[Chaosy]

Not bad, not bad.

 

[StoPCampinGn00b]

Moved to front page. Thank you Purge and thank you Blizzard

 

[Eat_Bacon_Daily]

Woahhhhhhhh, some of these changes are jaw dropping. Tauren totem with spirit walkers is a crazy change.

 

[deepstrasz]

The melee part hurts my brain.

 

[pOke]

Does the vJass support include highlighting and such?

Blizz trying to remove the need for 3rd party editors

 

[Chaosy]

Which is great tbh.
Only missing feature is adding more tilesets, I do not really care about the rest.

 

[BloodSoul]

Now that's something I wasn't expecting. Really nice move! Specially because of vJass support, and this: "Ambient sound has been returned to ambience" - Not many people even cared about it, but it makes a difference for me.

EDIT: It's not mentioned in the official change log, but they added the other missing native for unit ability mana cost, which is nice! GJ.

native BlzSetUnitAbilityManaCost                   takes unit whichUnit, integer abilId, integer level, integer manaCost returns nothing

 

[Himperion]

Blizz trying to remove the need for 3rd party editors

Hive: We're going to make our own editor with Hookers and Coke/Jass and VJass.
Blizz: Nope, Hold my beer.

 

[Chaosy]

They still got ways to go though.
JNGP had some really cool stuff going on which not even WEX has.

 

[_lycan]

Hive: We're going to make our own editor with Hookers and Coke/Jass and VJass.
Blizz: Nope, Hold my beer.

I think the issue is that regular editor is still way slow and lacks a lot of core functionality (for now) though, for example, the ability to create custom folders for races, custom folders for imports, being able to drag and drop units to different folders (once they implement them), etc.

A lot of quality of life changes that could streamline editing a lot.

 

[SA Dashie]

They actually did it. And many years later at that. It's like the treatment that they gave StarCraft, but more tailored to the Wc3 community needs. Even to the point of using 3rd party resources made by the community. Little nuts considering that I can't think of another large game company use 3rd party tools from their community as legit extensions. To me this is more ambitious than what they did with brood war and that Blizzard actually know how to handle these kinds of updates with satisfying the community.

Kudos Blizzard!

 

[deepstrasz]

They actually did it. And many years later at that. It's like the treatment that they gave StarCraft, but more tailored to the Wc3 community needs. Even to the point of using 3rd party resources made by the community. Little nuts considering that I can't think of another large game company use 3rd party tools from their community as legit extensions. To me this is more ambitious than what they did with brood war and that Blizzard actually know how to handle these kinds of updates with satisfying the community.

Actually it happened with other companies as well.
Gothic 3 had a major bug fix and overall enhancement all made by the community and endorsed by the game's publisher.
Heroes of Might and Magic V included the random map generator made by the community for one of the game's expansions but they pretty much just took the community made program and did not do anything to improve it further.

 

[Remixer]

I'm along with Darklycan51 about the editor functionality. There would be so much ease if some quality of life changes were made and the editor capacity overall improved, for example what Darklycan51 said and these:
1. Ability to change units/abilities/objects race and categories by dragging and dropping it in the Object Editor.
2. Ability to create custom folders and sub-categories in the Object Editor.
3. Ability to remove and delete multiple selected objects at once in the Object Editor.
4. Ability to streamline values in the Object Editor on selected objects (for example selecting the entire human race, and changing value of "Hit Points" would change it for all selected objects (Human Race))

5. Option to set default menu settings to pop-up menus (it is really tiresome to always select Abilities by clicking on the data field -> Custom -> Scroll) - would be useful if one could select it to always open up the Custom Abilities first.
6. Replace data values to a desired values (for example changing the regeneration rate "0.00" to "0.50" on all objects/objects selected) (also make this able to be used on ability field).
7. Option to see/edit Game Constant via Object Editor - at least armor tables etc.
8. Ability to rename units directly from the tree-view on the left, without opening its data.
9. Ability to sort objects in the Object Editor by rawIdCodes/Alphabetical Order/Race etc.

Mechanic Functionality Improvements:
1. Create a field that allows users to copy/paste objects and force the pasted objects to the height values they were copied from (if you levitate object up and copy it, the height gets reset)
2. Allow users to place objects using the same pathing on top of each other (not just to overlap each other partly, like what happens if you hold down Shift)
3. Allow users to rename/recreate locust ability (and other "god abilities) - if possible.
4. Ability to "jump to" selected object data (for example you could jump from Ability to the specific buff it uses by selecting the "Buffs Used" field and right-clicking and "Jump to Data")
5. Request: Please fix the data values of Envenomed Spears to proper ones (Attack Speed slow and Movement Speed Slow fields are messed up and names are mixed up)
6. Ability to hide visual icon buff from specific abilities/buffs (and ability to add and remove specific buffs at will via triggers).
7. Ability to rotate/scale objects around a set point (rotating a fence around its end, rather than its origin - at least if the object does not have a pathing value).
8. Option to turn off selection circle and health/mana bars on specific unit type / specific unit (rather than doing some tricky magic by using negative selection sizes etc.)

 

[Abovegame]

This will give birth to new tactics in melee. Very interesting changes with Acolytes, Meat Wagons, orcs, etc..

 

[Wareditor]

Great job Blizzard!

 

[Remixer]

I tested it some.

At least with slow it works quite nicely. Creating 2 slows with 50% slow makes the unit movement speed 0 and 3 slows with 25% slow makes it 25% of the original speed (100%-3x25%)

Seems to work properly even with abilities like Silence.

 

[Kam]

For the cursor testing:

1. Run regedit
2. Blizzard entertainment -> warcraft iii -> video key
3. oscursor regkey
4. Set to 1

 

[edo494]

Added World Editor support for vJass with JassHelper.

so like, I can open the normal editor now and shove vJass code in and it gets transpiled for me autoamtically? I didnt believe they would do this, but they went ahead and did it

 

[Remixer]

@Kam
Some buffs, like Polymorph stacking works a bit weirdly. The buff is just written over the old one and yeah... might want to do some changes to that (make the new buff just rewrite the old one, rather than on top of it.

 

[Kam]

@Kam
Some buffs, like Polymorph stacking works a bit weirdly. The buff is just written over the old one and yeah... might want to do some changes to that (make the new buff just rewrite the old one, rather than on top of it.

If you have a list of buffs acting oddly let me know.

 

[Rui]

Woah! Quite a lot of changes. Expectations were towards more editor and less balance, though we can all appreciate the huge fixed bug list.

Most of the melee changes I can agree with, including night elf upgrades researched by default, buff Mana Shield, nerf Brilliance Aura, nerf orb of corruption, and I even proposed one such reduction to Blademaster agility.

Only the change to bat riders makes me uneasy. I reckon they'll make large team games more cancerous. As they were, it was already hard enough to stop a flock of them from overrunning everybody's base. Players were frequently harassed to choose forfeiting their base, or teleporting back and risking their team lose a fight elsewhere.

One thing I feel could use a small nerf is the frost effect, as applied by the nerubian tower's attack, Lich's Frost Nova, hitting a Frost Armor, and frost wyrm attack, or at least the latter. Always felt the MS and AS slows were slightly too high.

Keep up the good work (@Kam and classic team )

Spoiler

And if you ever find it possible to enable more than 16 ground tiles, PLEASE DO!

 

[PurgeandFire]

Woahhhhhhhh, some of these changes are jaw dropping. Tauren totem with spirit walkers is a crazy change.

definitely. can't wait to see people try some tauren strats. I think they'll still suck, but hey it'll be fun as hell to watch!

This will give birth to new tactics in melee. Very interesting changes with Acolytes, Meat Wagons, orcs, etc..

yeah, I'm definitely curious about the fallout. Some changes feel a bit drastic tho. I like the buffs to unused units, but there isn't much guarantee that those units will make it into the meta. I'm more worried about the nerfs to the units who were core to the meta (e.g. destroyer)

but it is only PTR. So I'm excited to see how it plays out, and hopefully ppl will point out the kinks and imbalances over time.

so like, I can open the normal editor now and shove vJass code in and it gets transpiled for me autoamtically? I didnt believe they would do this, but they went ahead and did it

yep. or at least, that is the intent. I haven't verified it just yet, but that is definitely the goal of the change. I also didn't believe they would do it, but it is awesome that they did! The patches have been a bit of a pain for all modders--juggling WEX versions and whatnot. Hope this increases the patch adoption!

 

[Abovegame]

I think that taurens are still Tier 3 but building the Tauren Totem at Tier 2 is a neat thing. So if you intend to switch to taurens or add on to the army you don't have to worry about building it once you go Fortress.

I honestly like that trolls got some attention, we may see more of them in future strats. Whereas Acolytes got pimped and i doubt it will be worth it for the Blademaster, maybe only when the Undead is teching so he can not reproduce them but it seems a waste of time to kill them now ( just guessing ).

 

[MyPad]

Added World Editor support for vJass with JassHelper.

Now that is mostly unexpected. Perhaps MindWorX is going to (Blizzard official, not original author official) maintain vJASS.

 

[Spatulon]

Yes! BlzSetItemExtendedTooltip seemingly got fixed! So awesome!

Being able to edit the name/tooltips of individual items is pretty cool.

However, I've lost some functionality with that change:

My map has been updating item tooltips in shops (because the natives affected all items of the same ID previously). Since we're able to programmatically create items now, it seems like a kink in workflow to have to go create an item in the object editor any time you want to sell it in a shop (and then have to update the shop item whenever you change the item in your code etc...).

There might be some hacky solution to simulate shops but I haven't thought of an elegant one yet.

Anyway, I'm so happy that it works now that I don't even really care.

edit: it's pretty easy to just make a shop system from abilities. whatever, it's not really an issue

 

[wrsuperboy]

Hasn't anyone noticed that audio driver is changed from Emulated Miles into FMOD?
So, what's the difference?

 

[wrsuperboy]

Some issue about DotA in 1.30.

Edit:
Also the World Tree don't show.(model missing?)

 

[PurgeandFire]

Hasn't anyone noticed that audio driver is changed from Emulated Miles into FMOD?
So, what's the difference?

ooh, that is interesting.

I'm not sure about the difference, but I know Miles had a vulnerability that allowed you to inject custom dll's as *.mix files to run in wc3. That might be why they switched. Plus fmod is modern and well-maintained, whereas Miles isn't.

 

[wrsuperboy]

Finally campaign movies can be watched on Win 10. But subtitle font size is too large! (My wc3 language is Simplified Chinese)

 

[BloodSoul]

View attachment 301665
Some issue about DotA in 1.30.

Edit:
Also the World Tree don't show.(model missing?)

The button works, but it's misplaced.

What's that ability/button exactly?

 

[yatyfornetreg]

Yes! BlzSetItemExtendedTooltip seemingly got fixed! So awesome!

Being able to edit the name/tooltips of individual items is pretty cool.

However, I've lost some functionality with that change:

My map has been updating item tooltips in shops (because the natives affected all items of the same ID previously). Since we're able to programmatically create items now, it seems like a kink in workflow to have to go create an item in the object editor any time you want to sell it in a shop (and then have to update the shop item whenever you change the item in your code etc...).

There might be some hacky solution to simulate shops but I haven't thought of an elegant one yet.

Anyway, I'm so happy that it works now that I don't even really care.

It reads

• [World Editor] Renaming an Item no longer changes all Items’ names

My Engrish no good, but that say item name, that no say item item description

Anyways, it would be great if they really have fixed

native BlzSetItemExtendedTooltip takes item whichItem, string name returns nothing

.

My Diablo2-like item system awaits this fix for months.

 

[Spatulon]

It reads

My Engrish no good, but that say item name, that no say item item description

Anyways, it would be great if they really have fixed

native BlzSetItemExtendedTooltip takes item whichItem, string name returns nothing

.

My Diablo2-like item system awaits this fix for months.

yeah it's fixed

 

[BloodSoul]

It reads

My Engrish no good, but that say item name, that no say item item description

Anyways, it would be great if they really have fixed

native BlzSetItemExtendedTooltip takes item whichItem, string name returns nothing

.

My Diablo2-like item system awaits this fix for months.

They fixed it - I tested it earlier.


Some noticeable bugs regarding gameplay:
- DaybreakRooster and DuskWolf sound effects are being played at 100% volume regardless of what you defined in your war3 sound settings.
- I was watching a stream earlier, and a peon which was queued to build a Watch Tower got its tower "phantom texture" stuck for a while. The streamer didn't see exactly how that texture disappeared, but he mentioned that the peon died a few minutes later.

 

[wrsuperboy]

The button works, but it's misplaced.

What's that ability/button exactly?

Yeah, I've found that, too.

The ability button is Earth Spirit(the shown hero)'s Aghanim Scepter Skill, called "Petrify". Patch 1.29 has bug relating to UnitAddAbility(), bringing bug to this ability.

Following link is where you can find what I reported 2 months ago about the bug.
[Feedback] Compiled List of 1.29 Bugs & Issues

 

[wrsuperboy]

Since the game data isn't organized in MPQ anymore, how can I get the newest common.j?

 

[Daffa]

So now buffs actually stacks? Wow, just gotta do some crazy skill set then...

 

[BloodSoul]

Since the game data isn't organized in MPQ anymore, how can I get the newest common.j?

Looks like they intend to change their file system to Casc (same as WoW).

 

[Chaosy]

There are ways to open that, I remember searching on youtube on how to open WoW mpqs

 

[yatyfornetreg]

They fixed it - I tested it earlier.


Some noticeable bugs regarding gameplay:
- DaybreakRooster and DuskWolf sound effects are being played at 100% volume regardless of what you defined in your war3 sound settings.
- I was watching a stream earlier, and a peon which was queued to build a Watch Tower got its tower "phantom texture" stuck for a while. The streamer didn't see exactly how that texture disappeared, but he mentioned that the peon died a few minutes later.

Awesome, thanks for that information.

 

[yatyfornetreg]

Since the game data isn't organized in MPQ anymore, how can I get the newest common.j?

There's already built-in JassHelper, why do you still need common.j? I don't see a reason for that.

 

[wrsuperboy]

Looks like they intend to change their file system to Casc (same as WoW).

Thank you><

 

[aeman]

sad to realize that i don't have the activation key for Warcraft III
i really want to play patch 1.29 and their higher counterpart
but i don't have money to buy a new one

 

[Retera]

Edit: During this video when I mentioned, "I'm reviewing Patch 1.30," I meant that I was reviewing it in video form, via this video.

 

[Chaosy]

Did not even consider that, yeah that is a huge problem for backwards compatibility
That is just scratching the surface, when I start to think about it.

Somehow it feels like this will break local file support, but I do not have 1.30 so I cannot confirm.

 

[Graetgames]

yeah... i got that on the VFG Discord..... and all bot will crash in 3 weeks......

 

[edo494]

ooh, that is interesting.

I'm not sure about the difference, but I know Miles had a vulnerability that allowed you to inject custom dll's as *.mix files to run in wc3. That might be why they switched. Plus fmod is modern and well-maintained, whereas Miles isn't.

wasnt the way to get past 8mb limit made by loading .mix file as dll with the function that loads maps from disk overwritten?

There's already built-in JassHelper, why do you still need common.j? I don't see a reason for that.

Its nice to see common.j and also diff it with the old version one to see all the changes, sometimes changelogs can forget a thing or two, but code never lies, lets say an argument changed its type or number of parameters for functions but they forgot to note it down, your map suddenly doesnt even load and who knows why

 

[Daffa]

Gonna rain the spell section next. These new stuffs are a waste if not used properly

 

[Dr Super Good]

Hasn't anyone noticed that audio driver is changed from Emulated Miles into FMOD?
So, what's the difference?

One is not 16 years old? They likely needed to do this to fix ambient sounds which were disabled due to compatibility problems with modern Mac.

As this API is modern this may have other advantages. I suggest people test out what sound formats Warcraft III supports play back of. It might have fixed the mp3 playback difficulties. It may also have added support for new audio formats.

Since the game data isn't organized in MPQ anymore, how can I get the newest common.j?

Use CASC viewer. It is made by the same people as MPQEdit. It has a bug with some StarCraft II mods, (possibly file path is too long) however it works perfectly otherwise. This is the same tool used to extract assets from WoW, SC2, HS, D3, OW and HotS (SC as well?).

 

[MyPad]

Gonna rain the spell section next. These new stuffs are a waste if not used properly

Can't wait for the spell section to be filled up with new spells as well.