Randomizer 1: Bane of Bossastiil

[SebaTheLord]

i cant download the campaign because when i click the download it just gives me error that the site is unavailble

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

i cant download the campaign because when i click the download it just gives me error that the site is unavailble

Seems like an issue on side of Hive - I can't download any other map or re-upload this one. We will have to wait.

EDIT: issue solved, the files are now downloadable.

 

[The Nightmare Book]

Looking forward to play and share my humble walkthrough

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

Seems like it can be downloaded now. Feel free to download and enjoy the campaign

 

[Thralldin]

Good campaign! Looking forward to Episode 2!

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

Update 2024 August 24th

Bugfixes

Classic Gyrocopter now has visible model.
Level 2 (Darkstone and Yaw / Blackrock and Roll): Boss should no longer be able to crash the game.
Level 5 (Bane's Stride / March of the Scourge): Lagging is minimized. It may still occur, but it shouldn't make the level unplayable.

 

[Keshozer]

Idea is awesome!

But it would be great to make it completely random. Like "Archimonde stole my ledger..."
"Glad you could make it Naga Myrmidon". Someone instead of Uther. etc etc.

Is it possible?
Mb make it an option for setup.

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

Idea is awesome!

But it would be great to make it completely random. Like "Archimonde stole my ledger..."
"Glad you could make it Naga Myrmidon". Someone instead of Uther. etc etc.

Is it possible?
Mb make it an option for setup.

TLDR: It is possible, but not something I am interested in doing due to technical difficulties of the process.

Main text:
Technically it is possible, but specifically this is not something I am planning to do, because there are several self-imposed limitations.

I have no idea if voicelines can be injected on the fly, and making 800+ voicelines for variations of units per file is out of current scope. And adapting only text is bad - check level 5 on HD mode, one of voicelines for caravan getting to second or third village has only partial subtitles, since I took that map from 1.31.1, where text was written in the trigger action instead of outside file for different voicelines. I know how it could be fixed, but it can potentially break the game if it is modified for multiplayer.

"Archimonde stole my ledger..."

I had played with that idea, but making non-hero bosses into heroes is risky. I try to make modified bosses completable with base version of your army, and only then add randomization mechanics.
In your example, Archimonde (if set up fully) would decimate your level 1 band. Even not fully leveled up, I think he is too dangerous (considering I'm using his NE7 combat form, which is more powerful than how he is saved in the editor).
Also, setting up enemy heroes if they are random has a ton of problems - currently it would require 130+ versions of setups for abilities. Even if I take shortcuts, this will take a ton of time, and I am not interested in investing that much time into an obviously not-really-stable feature.

Someone instead of Uther.

Since I intend for him to appear as he is in U02, he has to stay as he is throughout previous levels. His mechanics will be dependent on his abilities.

Spoiler: Potential spoiler

Lorewise there are limitations to randomization. For example, original casters won't get randomized. Mass randomization does not affect too strong- or too weak-minded (Uther and villagers, respectively).
(making people mindless is a separate process)

 

[The Nightmare Book]

Started my humble walkthrough, and it's already bizarre - on Hard difficulty...

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

Extra hotfix

All classic models now should be visible.

 

[AgentAAA]

absolutely love the idea of this! Any chance we can eventually get randomized defensive structures, too?

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

absolutely love the idea of this! Any chance we can eventually get randomized defensive structures, too?

Hopefully, in next campaign. But if you get Tiny Tower or similar item, it will be based on race of your UI

 

[sha]

Why 1.36? why not 1.31? Most people don't have reforged version

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

Why 1.36? why not 1.31? Most people don't have reforged version

1. Because someone will always ask why not 1.31, 1.30, 1.29, 1.28, 1.27, 1.26, 1.13, 1.10, 1.32, 1.33, 1.35, 1.4923, 2.718281828459045, 3.14159265... I can't satisfy everyone, so I use the tools that are easier to manage for me. Especially since working on LotC HD - changing registry every time I have to downgrade is not something I am willing to do regularly. I recently had to install a tool to change language of the editor to explain to another user some stuff, and it was a whole adventure finding how to get english UI back.
2. There are those who like HD graphics and those who hate them. And those who can't stand playing on SD, while others don't accept anything else. This is a compromise - available in both SD and HD. I originally wanted to have a mix of them in levels, but it would only be available in HD then, and that is not something I wanted. And not all HD assets can bleed through SD easily.
3. I strongly believe that if a user knows how to modify game files or get a different version, they are smart enough to hack into a modification and change it to be playable for them. Or they can politely request the modmaker to do certain big changes with fair compensation for their time and effort, especially since the mod/campaign is distributed for free. Or just pirate the game (not recommended) and use it to play the custom campaign.
4. When making a statement that there are some statistics (like most users having a certain version of game), please provide a link to source of this information as proof that the issue really exists. I have not found information on which version is most used.

 

[Nicks]

Very enjoyable, with some comedy in there.

In mission 8 and 9, Arthas doesn't get randomized. And in mission 9, muradin doesn't either. I don't know if this is intentional or not.

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

In mission 8 and 9, Arthas doesn't get randomized. And in mission 9, muradin doesn't either. I don't know if this is intentional or not.

Did they have Ankhs of Reincarnation or Resurrection ability at the end of previous levels?

 

[Nicks]

Did they have Ankhs of Reincarnation or Resurrection ability at the end of previous levels?

Yes, they were both Mannoroth

Edit: my fault, i should have read the anomalies section

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

Yes, they were both Mannoroth

Edit: my fault, i should have read the anomalies section

It's okay, I myself don't like reading walls of text
I am currently thinking how to change the system for that, but won't implement it coming months due to other obligations and having to rest from testing for a bit.

I agree that this is an issue, but I don't see it as critical.

 

[LightCrusader]

Very fun map!! I hope you make all the campaigns!

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

Very fun map!! I hope you make all the campaigns!

Thank you! That's the plan

 

[Idroose]

I thoroughly enjoyed the campaign, but the randomness is so wild that you could end up with a shade/any perma invisible unit as an enemy and softlocked a side quest or 2, so i hope that is fixed. Other than that it's so chaotically fun if you don't wanna focus on lore and such.

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

I thoroughly enjoyed the campaign, but the randomness is so wild that you could end up with a shade/any perma invisible unit as an enemy and softlocked a side quest or 2, so i hope that is fixed. Other than that it's so chaotically fun if you don't wanna focus on lore and such.

Thanks!
I'm aware of sidequests being softlocked by perma-invisible, burrowed and tranporting units, and will look into it when I'll have time.

 

[The Nightmare Book]

Started my humble walkthrough, and it's already bizarre - on Hard difficulty...

Well, I have finished the walkthrough of this campaign, and what can I say @Yevhen Snizhko..

• Due to the campaign's specific nature, you need to the sheer amount of LUCK to complete it without issues on Hard difficulty. Hell, I had problems mostly on mission 2 - cause that strange blade master boss battle, and final mission - I still don't understand why and how Mal'Ganis kept resurrecting all of his mindless minions.
• That was a hilarious adventure indeed - I could not never thought what I will see next and your challenges are a funny addition to this little chaos.
• I hope that in the next campaign about Undeads, we will have fully randomized buildings and everything else. Or just more random, maybe with lore addition won't hurt.

Keep cooking, cool stuff indeed!

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

Well, I have finished the walkthrough of this campaign, and what can I say @Yevhen Snizhko..

• Due to the campaign's specific nature, you need to the sheer amount of LUCK to complete it without issues on Hard difficulty. Hell, I had problems mostly on mission 2 - cause that strange blade master boss battle, and final mission - I still don't understand why and how Mal'Ganis kept resurrecting all of his mindless minions.
• That was a hilarious adventure indeed - I could not never thought what I will see next and your challenges are a funny addition to this little chaos.
• I hope that in the next campaign about Undeads, we will have fully randomized buildings and everything else. Or just more random, maybe with lore addition won't hurt.

Keep cooking, cool stuff indeed!

Thanks for high praise!

Luck on hard required:
I agree that on hard game seems unfair. When I started this series, I only intended to make a bit of relaxing fun, and never expected to have players asking for a mode that is harder to implement, and thus is harder to complete. After all, I wrote in description that I don't recommend randomizing enemies.
I'll be honest here - in this campaign enemies were only supposed to be randomized on level 3 for lore reasons, and it is done manually there. But many players requested that feature, and it seemed to be an interesting challenge for me. Just today I had to reload four times on mission 5 on easy because I didn't handle Royal Guards well enough at start.
While I see that this setting could be twinkled a bit, I regard it as Nightmare difficulty from classic DooM - an afterthought for hardcore players, which gives more challenge, is not even remotely fair, and even the developer has trouble completing the game on it.
(Trust me, previous versions of it had enemies just stay at base after some point, and it was just 100 supply army run-through with no microing. Now player is incentivized to use abilities at least a bit).


Bosses use triggered mechanics. Here is their description step by step:
Boss Blademaster has bladestorm and 1 point in every ability per difficulty level. He creates mirror images (1 on easy, 2 on med, 3 on hard, with the core ability). With each mirror image an extra blademaster is created, and each has:

• Bladestorm
• Same level and stats as Main BM
• No items
• 1 less levels in every other ability (so 0 on easy, 1 on medium, 2 on hard)
• ((Current life and mana of Main BM)/(4 on easy, 3 on med, 2 on hard)) life and mana
• Timed life (15 sec on easy, 30 on med, 60 on hard)

These extra BMs don't create more extra BMs, but they deal full damage, which is compensated by them having less health and mana. I added random tint and transparency for eagle-eyed players to see whom they shouldn't really prioritize.

Malganis has 3 Ankhs. When he is resummoned from altar, he gets them back.
When he resurrects through Ankh (not altar), every dead unit still in the map is recreated for enemy with

• ((25 on easy, 50 on med, 100 on hard)/(number of such units))% health
• Full mana

This affects even buildings, as they technically have a decay timer. So basically anything that died in last 60 seconds will be recreated as almost dead. Even towers in your base if you bypass the attack wave. Trolling? Yes. Playable? Still yes.

Also, while I haven't completed the campaign on hard properly, I can confirm that it is possible to complete the boss fights on hard in one 75+ wave with somewhat proper ability management and completed sidequests.


Randomized everything:
Buildings: I have a table of buildings corresponding to each other, but I'm still not sold on this idea, since requirements are harder to parallelize than upgrades just from how they work in the engine. I'm sure I could do it in SC2, but haven't figured out a way for WC3 yet. Naga are pretty much the only ones who can do anything at any time. If I'll get too much trouble, I'll just limit this feature to farms and towers. (IN-PROGRESS EDIT: just found a way to implement it, so now it seems totally possible. I'll have trouble with upgrades being researched simultaneously, but that is a problem for even-more-future-me).
Workers - I am still thinking what I should do about Acolytes and Wisps using a different gathering system. Ghouls and Shredders are already implemented, and AI uses that quite nicely - Huntresses gathering wood look fun. The draenei workers will not be added in main worker roster, as they were never meant to be usable by player, and their tech tree pretty much does not exist with only 3 neutral units trainable. Thus, if player gets their buildings with Building randomization on, they will not be randomized (except maybe towers).
Inventory items randomization on mission start seems possible and may even get implemented for next campaign. Can't promise that I'll take number of stacks into account though.
Bosses and enemy heroes will not be randomized, because lore. And setting ability levels for all 134 heroes (and possibly more) is annoying. But I will try to make the mechanics more forgiving in the future. I'm not sure if I'll add more chance-based mechanics, as they tend to be not working (first version of BM fight only spawned 1 extra BM on hard during a solo hero vs hero fight with 0 items for player, which was underwhelming).
I'm also thinking about making upgrade parallelization optional just for that extra bit of hardcore (it will be shared by enemy, so they won't be that much harder).
I have no idea what else can be randomized. Mission order? Archipelago mode is a whole different thing. Specific trainable units/buildings? Perpetual randomizer is also a separate project on which someone already called dibs somewhere. Randomized costs? Not in WC3 (to anyone reading this: consider that a challenge). But I will gladly listen to any suggestions and will aggressively criticize them .

Lore - Undead campaign is a huge lore dump for players, so it will be a good place to add some Just don't expect anything too original, it will all be set within current WC lore (with appropriate modifications), maybe with a bit of SC and Diablo sprinkled on top.

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

2024 September 11th

Bugfixes

Level 5: if intro is skipped and conditions are met, Jaina will now drop items if challenge on level 4 was completed.
Tiny Mill: now has a DISBTN icon. Icon has been changed.
Grain Caravan: attached model now will have proper team color.

Balance changes

If user has selected option to randomize heroes on level start, and the hero had Reincarnation or Ankh Of Reincarnation, the hero will now be properly randomized. Note: If there were empty slots in the middle of the inventory, items will get moved up.
After serving their prison time, Space Fel Orcs are now back in creep roster at level 7.
Sidequest enemies that gave most trouble (air transports and shade-alikes) are now removed from important zones. Note: players still have to deal with Akama-likes, shadowmelded, burrowed and submerged enemies. There may be a rare occurence of all units being removed, making the task auto-completed or impossible to complete, but the odds of that are very low.
CTF flags are no longer dropped from inventory on death.

New features

Options are optional
Changed settings descriptions to better indicate expected experience changes.

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

2024 September 13th

Bugfixes

Level 8: if intro is not skipped player should now be able to start and complete the challenge without issues.

 

[deepstrasz]

Pretty loony and memey but pretty replayable.
Approved.

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[tvporeba]

I love how insane it is

 

[greasebag]

An extremely replayable, humorous, and fun little variant of the main human campaign. I've been playing through it a few times and it's great.

A few notes I've compiled throughout the course of playing it:

- In Chapter 1, it's possible to get softlocked if one of the Slave Master's guards is an air unit that flees (like this screenshot, although you can just whosyourdaddy to prevent this).

- For whatever reason, some units seem to be bugged and use the rock arch model instead of their unit models (one culprit I've noticed is Stormreaver Apprentice).

- I was somehow able to break the level cap (I think the cap is 3 in chapter 2) and hit level 4.3 in the 2nd mission off of the Blademaster images (I don't know how, and I forgot to screenshot it).

- While most of the levels are fairly challenging, Chapter 5 can present impossible scenarios if you're really unlucky, as I've had 2 royal guards tearing down my base with 28 minutes left to defend.

- Some challenges are extremely difficult (I have never been able to save the villager in Chapter 1 lol), while others are somewhat free (Chapter 3's challenge seems to always complete by the time you save the villagers from the bandits).

- Heroes can roll Soul Gems and completely invalidate a mission attempt, lmao. This is pretty hilarious, and you can also cheese The Culling if you do the same to Mal'Ganis (be warned, Amulet of Spell Shield blocks it).

- If you roll any hero with an air summon (Blood Mage, Beast Master), you can beat Chapter 8 in 2-3 minutes.

One of the campaigns I can say I replay the most. I kind of wish there was a backpack to keep some items for future missions (like Tiny Blacksmith, etc.) since Jaina only appears for 2 missions, and if you can reach Muradin, you're already set to win.

I'm really looking forward to the next Episode, it'd be fun to have every campaign randomized!

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

An extremely replayable, humorous, and fun little variant of the main human campaign. I've been playing through it a few times and it's great.

A few notes I've compiled throughout the course of playing it:

- In Chapter 1, it's possible to get softlocked if one of the Slave Master's guards is an air unit that flees (like this screenshot, although you can just whosyourdaddy to prevent this).
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- For whatever reason, some units seem to be bugged and use the rock arch model instead of their unit models (one culprit I've noticed is Stormreaver Apprentice).

- I was somehow able to break the level cap (I think the cap is 3 in chapter 2) and hit level 4.3 in the 2nd mission off of the Blademaster images (I don't know how, and I forgot to screenshot it).

- While most of the levels are fairly challenging, Chapter 5 can present impossible scenarios if you're really unlucky, as I've had 2 royal guards tearing down my base with 28 minutes left to defend.

- Some challenges are extremely difficult (I have never been able to save the villager in Chapter 1 lol), while others are somewhat free (Chapter 3's challenge seems to always complete by the time you save the villagers from the bandits).

- Heroes can roll Soul Gems and completely invalidate a mission attempt, lmao. This is pretty hilarious, and you can also cheese The Culling if you do the same to Mal'Ganis (be warned, Amulet of Spell Shield blocks it).

- If you roll any hero with an air summon (Blood Mage, Beast Master), you can beat Chapter 8 in 2-3 minutes.

One of the campaigns I can say I replay the most. I kind of wish there was a backpack to keep some items for future missions (like Tiny Blacksmith, etc.) since Jaina only appears for 2 missions, and if you can reach Muradin, you're already set to win.

I'm really looking forward to the next Episode, it'd be fun to have every campaign randomized!

Thanks for high praise!

Regarding the issues:

Flying enemy - I thought I fixed that. I hope to come check on it in the coming weeks. Thanks for uncovering this.

Rock arch enemies - not a bug. It is a reference to one such arch having a Stormreaver model in Reforged (check core game Human 8, right below the Ziggurat gauntlet). They have same stats as stormreavers and exist simultaneously. I may need to add portraits for them at some point though.

Level cap break - this is a side effect of how I handle hero randomization (especially if they randomize on start). I intend to keep it this way to counteract some other changes that I plan to add in further campaigns, and if it turns out unnecessary I'll fix it. From my current point of view, it gives some semblance of later levels being harder for this campaign, as user can get maxed pretty fast, and then enemies become much stronger, like in Guild Wars 1 with endgame content. As for the Blademaster Images - they are mechanically actual units and give xp. Not sure if I want to nerf them that much, since they are pretty challenging.

Royal Guards on level 5 - I am aware of how hard fighting them is. Due to how random seed works, I am unable to make enemy spawn them later, and I currently don't plan to move them to higher tier. It is possible to counter them either by good micro, or by starting production sooner. And, as I always said, randomizing enemies was not an intended experience, and is only supposed to be a challenge mode for experienced players (which you seem to be ).

Challenges - this is the only thing in campaign that I show as potentially impossible (as in H1). On H3 I timed it specifically to be done around that time - fast players will go the usual way and discover that the bridge is rebuilt after they complete the main route, completionists will stay and notice that it is rebuilt.

Soul Gem - I expected this when I found out that AI knows how to use them, and chose to keep them for this effect. But I would be grateful if you told me how many times you encountered an enemy with Soul Gem - maybe I'll fiddle with it.

H8 with air summons - there's more - you can invalidate it with Dragon Turtle

Backpack system - I specifically don't want to transfer items from heroes that leave you, because from story view it seems fully illogical. But I plan to add unit backpacks and even let units use all items, but not drop them on death. These items will be untransferable, though. Maybe I'll compensate the player by giving their cost on next mission.

Again, thanks for high praise, and hopefully I'll be able to start working on next campaign soon.

 

[greasebag]

Thanks for high praise!

Regarding the issues:

Flying enemy - I thought I fixed that. I hope to come check on it in the coming weeks. Thanks for uncovering this.

Rock arch enemies - not a bug. It is a reference to one such arch having a Stormreaver model in Reforged (check core game Human 8, right below the Ziggurat gauntlet). They have same stats as stormreavers and exist simultaneously. I may need to add portraits for them at some point though.

Level cap break - this is a side effect of how I handle hero randomization (especially if they randomize on start). I intend to keep it this way to counteract some other changes that I plan to add in further campaigns, and if it turns out unnecessary I'll fix it. From my current point of view, it gives some semblance of later levels being harder for this campaign, as user can get maxed pretty fast, and then enemies become much stronger, like in Guild Wars 1 with endgame content. As for the Blademaster Images - they are mechanically actual units and give xp. Not sure if I want to nerf them that much, since they are pretty challenging.

Royal Guards on level 5 - I am aware of how hard fighting them is. Due to how random seed works, I am unable to make enemy spawn them later, and I currently don't plan to move them to higher tier. It is possible to counter them either by good micro, or by starting production sooner. And, as I always said, randomizing enemies was not an intended experience, and is only supposed to be a challenge mode for experienced players (which you seem to be ).

Challenges - this is the only thing in campaign that I show as potentially impossible (as in H1). On H3 I timed it specifically to be done around that time - fast players will go the usual way and discover that the bridge is rebuilt after they complete the main route, completionists will stay and notice that it is rebuilt.

Soul Gem - I expected this when I found out that AI knows how to use them, and chose to keep them for this effect. But I would be grateful if you told me how many times you encountered an enemy with Soul Gem - maybe I'll fiddle with it.

H8 with air summons - there's more - you can invalidate it with Dragon Turtle

Backpack system - I specifically don't want to transfer items from heroes that leave you, because from story view it seems fully illogical. But I plan to add unit backpacks and even let units use all items, but not drop them on death. These items will be untransferable, though. Maybe I'll compensate the player by giving their cost on next mission.

Again, thanks for high praise, and hopefully I'll be able to start working on next campaign soon.

Of course, anytime! I'm really looking forward to the future installments man, I love randomizers. I pointed out quite a few things but it was never anything that put me off from continuing with the campaign.

I honestly had no idea about the Stormreaver model bug in Reforged, I can't believe that's even a thing lmao. Have to say I really enjoyed the humor in the campaign as well.

I have beaten Chapter 5 a few times, but when the footman says "...the undead forces have arrived!" and you realize there's a royal guard with his elemental burning down your towers, you know you're in for a rough 30 minutes. I just pray I get my own with priest spamming haha

I think a backpack system would help, sometimes when you finish a challenge you end up with way more items on the ground than you can use, and it's a task to run your hero back and forth for selling.

Off to do another run, I'm not stopping until I complete the Chapter 1 challenge

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

2024 November 2nd

Eye candy

Settings: changed the dialog to be more accessible. This should also allow easier adding of new settings in future campaigns.
Level 5, Interlude after level 6: changed subtitles in lines referring to enemy forces. Voicelines are unchanged, as they were correct from the start.

 

[Chaosium]

Did a playthrough of the Alliance campaign and it was good fun, well done Few things:

• During the defense mission, I did the challenge to destroy the caravan before it reaches the first village, but then the entire map started spawning zombies forever, now I would assume that's what happens when you DON'T do the challenge, but that did not seem right
• Got a dreadlord hero with both Shadowstrike and Death & Decay with the D hotkey, remapping it or swapping a spell perhaps would be nice
• Admiral Proudmoore is absolutely insane xd

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

Did a playthrough of the Alliance campaign and it was good fun, well done Few things:

• During the defense mission, I did the challenge to destroy the caravan before it reaches the first village, but then the entire map started spawning zombies forever, now I would assume that's what happens when you DON'T do the challenge, but that did not seem right
• Got a dreadlord hero with both Shadowstrike and Death & Decay with the D hotkey, remapping it or swapping a spell perhaps would be nice
• Admiral Proudmoore is absolutely insane xd

Thank you for the praise!

The defense mission challenge is intended to flood you with more zombies if you complete it. This is my take on the idea that if the user has skill, they should have a bigger challenge. So if the player completes it, they get (approximately) 5 times more spawns than if the sidequest is completely failed. And the price of not completing the challenge is missing several potentially good/expensive items. As the completion message says: "You've saved your people. Or did you?".

Abilities with same hotkeys - I have plans to make custom heroes for Patreon supporters with abilities of their choosing, so rebinding them all is not going to solve anything, as there are more abilities than letters and keyboard keys. I recommend switching to grid controls if possible, or using custom keybinds, or clicking them with the cursor.

Yeah, Proudmoore has all his stats from the Rexxar boss fight. While he IS insane, I always make sure a boss hero can't complete the full campaign solo.

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

Update 2024 November 11th

Bugfixes

Shopping spree is over!
Special thanks to greasebag for providing videos with detailed overview of bug cases
Heroes will no longer get stuck in place after buying a lot of items.
Heroes will no longer keep an item ability of a randomized item.
Updated item descriptions for shop items and Scroll of Shielding.
Due to these changes, stacking bonus no longer exists.

Perfectly balanced...
General: Transport Ships, Frigates, Battleships and Juggernauts should no longer be available as random units.
Note: Zeppelins and Sky Barges are still available.

As all things should be.
Level 2: Enchanted units will no longer appear prematurely, and are no longer available for enemies.
Level 5: Spawned Mindless will no longer stare menacingly at the player's base, and will keep on moving.
Level 5: Arthas will no longer get to level 6 immediately if he levels up while having level 1-4.
General: Heroes won't get past the level limit on any map anymore.
General: Jaina and Muradin will always keep their unique color.

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

A note on W3R2 update:
Campaigns now use the old style of level selection, with levels on the right side. I am currently not planning on updating level selection background.
I am also not planning to play around the new melee unit and hero skins, mainly because I can't check how they work inn-game yet.

 

[Miódziemniak]

Hearthglen holdout was brutal. I was under the impression that zombies don't flood your base if you don't let the caravan reach the 1st village.. yet after i killed the caravan in the green base the zombies still flooded my base.

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

Hearthglen holdout was brutal. I was under the impression that zombies don't flood your base if you don't let the caravan reach the 1st village.. yet after i killed the caravan in the green base the zombies still flooded my base.

That is intended. This was my attempt to make game harder if player plays well (destroys caravan early).

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

Update 2025 April 5th

Perpetual is here!
Special thanks to greasebag for providing videos with detailed overview of bug cases.
Special thanks to Twitch Trolls Grant community for funding creation of Perpetual mode.

• Settings now allow to use Perpetual mode (developed separately from nchp1903), and enemies can now be perpetualized as well.
• For info on how to set perpetual unit types, check the corresponding sections in description, ReadMe or in-game on Settings level in Quests menu.
• New option: Randomization Mode - Perpetual, Chaotic, Random.
• New option: Randomized enemies - Perpetual.

Visual polish

• All heroes will have hero glow at their origin point.
• Non-heroes and heroes that are in their place will have no glow.
• Baseraider Arches now have portraits.
• All portraits that were broken by 2.0 update should now be fixed (as much as it is possible without editing models).

Balance changes
General

• Hydralisk, Zergling, Marine and Space Orc now behave and look more like their SC1 versions. (Space Orc is considered to be a Firebat)
• Heroes now gain experience from creeps after level 5.
• All units that are stationary or don't have any attacks are now level 0.
• Added Sammy! (Samwise Didier cube) and Kobold Shoveler (Kobold with human face) to unit pool for Captain and other untrainable assistants.
• All melee heroes with campaign skins now have a separate version of them with default skin to avoid visual inconsistencies.
• All tomes are now being applied if heroes are randomized.

Level 1

• The villager you have to save for the challenge has had his health doubled.

Level 2

• Extra mirror images of boss will have 1/16th of current mana and health of original Blademaster (down from 1/8th).
• Extra mirror images of boss no longer have Bladestorm, and expire in 10/20/30 seconds (down from 15/30/60 seconds).

Level 9

• Mal'Ganis no longer revives buildings when using Ankh. Units revived this way are now vulnerable to dispelling.

Bugfixes
Level 2

• Increased amount of gold in gold mine up from 20000 to 30000, and added a gold mine with 30000 gold at orc base.
• If original Blacksmith is destroyed but Feranor is still alive, units will now get enchantments.

Level 5

• Jaina won't drop her items anymore if challenge on level 4 is not completed (this requires replaying through level 4).

Level 9

• Heroes added with Reforged and based on them now will be properly randomized at the start of the level if resetting army/heroes are selected on Chaotic mode.
• Guardians from NightElf03 will now get bonus damage if Frostmourne is collected.
• Heroes will no longer lose items if Frostmourne cinematic is skipped.
• Morphing heroes should no longer have any issues with their stats after getting Frostmourne.
• Captain is now guaranteed to be killed at the end of the Frostmourne cinematic.

Known Issues

• On SD+ mode, some objects use HD models. This mostly concerns custom units, heroes and standard units with changed model, and some effects. I have no idea how to import a model for SD+ mode without modding the game files, and personally think that this adds to the immersion of the campaign.
• If hero is morphed when level is finished (for example, Demon Hunter is in his ultimate form, or Alchemist is under the effect of Chemical Rage), their abilities will be reset on the next level if army is set to be non-resetting. This is a part of a fix for their morphed forms being saved.

 

[Yevhen Snizhko]

Update 2025 May 4th
Special thanks to FreeHugz for bringing these issues to my attention

Bugfixes
Level 2 - Enchanted Jailor Kassan should no longer be a random unit in place of Footmen.
Level 3 - Challenge quest is now displayed properly.

UI
Jailor Kassan and his Enchanted version now will appear higher in unit selection.