Rise of the Destroyer v1.0.6 (Canceled)

[Yae Miko]

Yes, another Warseeker campaign.

 

[Nobel Massina Arben]

Finally! Another epic story campaign.

 

[JimselJoel]

Can I play the campaign without downloading the music and mpq file?

 

[rexor1981]

Hello! Is this campaign the sequel of the dawn of the twilight hammer campaign?

 

[shadowhog]

Can I play the campaign without downloading the music and mpq file?

I have only done the first and second level and there doesn't seem to be any issue.
I also did not see I was suppose to download anything lol besides the map oops

 

[Tryndamere]

Finally a World of Warcraft Campaign adaptation

 

[Sphee]

Small issue/bug I found, etrigg keeps spawning on this spot or in that illusion's spot, and he would be stuck there. I presume it's because of the troll headhunter and the trees around the stone. This forced me to immediately lose the new ally/hero I just got from this same area of the map lol. Please fix, I suggest moving the stone a little far back or just moving that troll. (Ended up killing the troll then etrigg to get him out)

 

[Warseeker]

Can I play the campaign without downloading the music and mpq file?

Yes, but you won't be able to hear music during cutscenes.

Hello! Is this campaign the sequel of the dawn of the twilight hammer campaign?

No, this is a remake of the old campaign.

Small issue/bug I found, etrigg keeps spawning on this spot or in that illusion's spot, and he would be stuck there. I presume it's because of the troll headhunter and the trees around the stone. This forced me to immediately lose the new ally/hero I just got from this same area of the map lol. Please fix, I suggest moving the stone a little far back or just moving that troll. (Ended up killing the troll then etrigg to get him out)
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Noted.

 

[Gulla1999]

Interesting, i will definitely try this when my exam ends.

 

[rexor1981]

Hello Sphee! Use his mirror image ability to free him!

 

[rexor1981]

What was wrong with the DoTH?

 

[BaiyuGalan]

It looks fun

 

[Lord_Of_Outland]

in second mission mo'arg overlord is too strong to deal with him without a cheats my heroes died several times, you need make him a weaker at least reduce his hp

 

[Trương Nhật]

im at chapter 6 and my heroes still lv3. is this bug?

 

[LISBOAH]

I will begin my review

Chapter One:
-While not truly needed, you could add a description of Snowsong. Also, Thrall's summoning ability doesn't state that he has Resistant Skin.
-The Search and Rescue quest says that the prisoners we have to free are orcs, however there are orcs and trolls.
-Since we can't get the Pillage upgrade, there's no need for its icon to appear
-The Snowsong we can summon from the Level 2 ability doesn't have Bash, it has Critical Strike
"... before it start causing trouble..." --> "... before it starts causing trouble..."
-The Elemental Revenant quest has a green icon

Chapter Two
-I noticed a grammar problem in the Warden Bullrok's line while asking us for help: "... how can we you..."
-Pity that Aggra doesn't receive rewards during the optional quests
Ending cinematic: "Have you ever gone a vision..." --> "Have you ever got a vision..."

 

[Warseeker]

im at chapter 6 and my heroes still lv3. is this bug?

No, it is not. Level 3 is the max level in Act One.

 

[Warseeker]

Update: v1.0.1

• Fixed chapter five game cache.
• Goblin units have new soundset.
• Sassy Hardwrench has a new soundset.
• Fixed Thrall's cage in chapter four.
• Fixed searing totem base damage scaling.
• Disabled paladin xp gain in chapter four.
• Reduced Mo'arg's damage and HP in Chapter 2.
• Replaced Maidan of Pain with Vile Temptress in Chapter 2.
• Optional quests rewards are now dropped near the quest giver rather than given directly to Thrall (Chpt 2)
• Minor bug fixes

 

[Tyrande277]

what is a Root Folder means also I have Frozen Throne patch 1.31.1 which came before reforged is it ok with it

 

[Warseeker]

what is a Root Folder means

The folder where you installed the game; Example : C:\ProgramFiles (x86)\Warcraft III\x86_64\

I have Frozen Throne patch 1.31.1 which came before reforged is it ok with it

Yes, you can play on that version. Although, CGI cinematics may not work on it.

 

[Gnuoy]

dang this looks good! would be totally worth it to get some voice actors from 5er for this one.

 

[Tyrande277]

The folder where you installed the game; Example : C:\ProgramFiles (x86)\Warcraft III\x86_64\

Yes, you can play on that version. Although, CGI cinematics may not work on it.

That means I don't have to download the cinematics and THANK YOU

 

[Apprentice Darkmoon]

I like this campaign and I can't wait to play it when it is finished.
Just some things:
-There is a bug in chapter one when Eitrigg gets stuck in the monolith located in the orcish base.
-In the mission to protect the goblin base, I think some workers can repair the defense towers, and have a few more units to defend the base as well.
-When you play the dungeon mission to save Thrall, the items you had from the previous mission dissapear.

So far, is a good jewel that will shine in the future just like the Forsaken campaign you made and I loved it. Keep going, Warseeker.

 

[deepstrasz]

1. The enemy seems to prioritize on attacking Thrall rather than the wolf.
2. Abilities are normal Warcraft III ones. Thrall's are quite underwhelming, a mix of Rexxar and Muradin, mostly the latter though. Eitrigg is just a Blademaster but he's called Warrior and we don't get to choose his abilities from the start. Vol'jin=Rokhan/Shadow Hunter. Garosh is also a Warrior but his abilities=Cairne's.
3. Elemental Revenant quest's icon is a green square.
4. Snowsong wasn't moved to the attacked Orgrimmar after the secret meeting.
5. Some transmissions run too fast.
6. Should make quest items into runes/variable so that they won't occupy inventory space.
7. The Glyph of Purification remains, can it be used later on? Same with the Family Locket.
8. Sucks that you tease players with stuff that could have been but isn't in the campaign yet (unavailable "instance" in this version). Could have just added the stuff in an update rather than have dummy material lying around.
9. Gladiator Thrall's Storm Bolt isn't on Q but on T hotkey.
10. Can't beat all arena contenders as there's no healing. You have to resort to respawning which is lame. Actually, the golem kills you two times.
11. Control Elemental's hotkey is T as the Feral Spirit's. Spells in this chapter are not QWERT anymore besides Thunder Clap.
12. Some of the centaurs attacking Cairne's party are going back from whence they came to their caves, both Khans actually and some smaller ones.
13. Level 2 Searing Totem says it gives 0-0 damage.
14. Not sure how the orc and goblin reached the other island after their boss got the ship for himself. I guess, they used a rowboat?
15. Thrall has his armour back now, in the prison?
16. Something invisible attacks Aggra during the scene where they rescue Thrall.
17. Three heroes based on intelligence is pretty gameplay diversity killing.
18. Apparently they also locked the wolf with him.
19. Chapter 6 could have been designed as a race against the greedy goblin to get the caches. Instead, you have to kill a dozen Snowsongs to avoid the mines. That if you don't care about immersion and just use the hero respawn system continuously.
20. Rockets destroyed trees two chapters ago but not in this one, hence the counter-intuitiveness using them in that chapter for that specific thing.
21. Linearity could be done nicely; trees suddenly falling after a quest completion is immersion breaking.
22. There are two burning caches near the Trade Prince; if you destroy them, you get the Big G quest message each time.

It's a more story driven campaign than anything else, the gameplay being classic non-melee and repetitive.
To make matters worse, it's not even finished. You might want to mention that so no one else would be fooled.
But it's quite enough to be

Approved.

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[Re uben]

Hey its a great campaign, but anychance you will made campaign base on Warlord of Draenor

 

[VanAndro]

About "Resurrection Stones"

This isn't the first map I've played with the Resurrection Stones, it just happened to 'fill the pitcher' with water. Excluding a single Creator of such campaigns to all others, I want to say the following:

- the charm of the game is lost when you can be reborn to infinity INSTANTLY. There is no challenge for you because you are immortal. Play the last two campaigns of Resyak (High Death: The Scourge of Kalimdor and The Legend of Mikokoro) and see a possible solution.

- what I could suggest is to have a delay in the rebirth of the character with a minimum of 5 minutes. So at least I would feel encouraged not to walk around the map like a tank crushing everything in its path, but I would be more careful and make more effort to keep the character from dying as infrequently as possible.

- a limit on the number of rebirths can be set

- maybe at some level in the game these things will not be appropriate to apply but it would be great to minimize this as much as possible

ABOUT THIS map: It's a good idea to store items in the stones, but why are there no items on the next level and the stone is empty?
Played on v.1.30 unfinished - I like the terrain, the story but I miss the challenge in the way of the hero.

Ou - Ou -Ou Warseeker - Gold. For what purpose do I accumulate gold coins when I kill an enemy? I saw nowhere a store or a way to use them. But these are "white kahari"

 

[U-K6]

played till 5th misson these are the changes i want

1 there are some rock chunks near the end which should break instantly if even one dies not need asap but a good qol change in the future

2 remove the granite golem magic immunity to make the fight against it more interesting and not just a drag and maybe even nerf it a bit because the fight was just thrall reviving and then dying over and over and i had to do nothing

3 in third mission centaur ai keeps running back to cave when you fight them and as they come from two sides i didn't notice that and then they had stacked up and it was a nightmare

overall a very fun campaign and a good way to experince my sec fav wow expansion

and i will be waiting for it to get completed so i can give my 5 star




EDIT - finished it today and another thing i want is maybe items dropping from those staches for the player or maybe put some items of the prison mission in the last? because i felt like there was a lack of good items and suddenly all the items appeared in that mission and a gem of true sight so that mines just don't feel like a annoying thing you can't do something about

 

[Warseeker]

The enemy seems to prioritize on attacking Thrall rather than the wolf.

I know. I think that's because he is an intellect based hero.

Eitrigg is just a Blademaster but he's called Warrior and we don't get to choose his abilities from the start. Vol'jin=Rokhan/Shadow Hunter. Garosh is also a Warrior but his abilities=Cairne's.

They are minor characters that don't play anymore role later in the game.

Should make quest items into runes/variable so that they won't occupy inventory space.

Which quest items are you talking about?

The Glyph of Purification remains, can it be used later on? Same with the Family Locket.

No.

Sucks that you tease players with stuff that could have been but isn't in the campaign yet (unavailable "instance" in this version). Could have just added the stuff in an update rather than have dummy material lying around.

I'm still thinking whether it's necessary to add those instances or not.

Thanks for the approval!

Hey its a great campaign, but anychance you will made campaign base on Warlord of Draenor

Unlikely.

It's a good idea to store items in the stones, but why are there no items on the next level and the stone is empty?

The items don't transfer to the next level?

Gold. For what purpose do I accumulate gold coins when I kill an enemy?

I will add shops later on.

 

[deepstrasz]

Which quest items are you talking about?

All of them.

 

[Warseeker]

Update: v1.0.2

• Minor bug fixes.
• Fixed stash cache
• Removed goblin mines in chapter 6.

 

[U-K6]

Update: v1.0.2

• Minor bug fixes.
• Fixed stash cache
• Removed goblin mines in chapter 6.

NICE!

those mines were very very very annoying thanks for removing them

 

[Iván Scarsella]

some characters are not seen, Jaina, elementals and Thrall sometimes, in mission 3 I can't select the earth elemental with the spell and I can't advance. this happened to me in other campaigns, is there a solution?

 

[deepstrasz]

some characters are not seen, Jaina, elementals and Thrall sometimes, in mission 3 I can't select the earth elemental with the spell and I can't advance. this happened to me in other campaigns, is there a solution?

Just play on the recommended version. Read what it is at the bottom of the map thread description.
I played it on 1.30.4 and it worked perfectly.

 

[Rokoltira]

not play this campaign buggy for me

 

[Warseeker]

not play this campaign buggy for me

What is your game version? You need version 1.29 or newer to play this campaign.

 

[U-K6]

Great! now those strength items gonna roll!

 

[HuanJuan]

I played this campaign many times (mostly from the beginning, because of the unique way to play it), and I encountered on the second chapter strange things. The enemies are doing way less damage than should be on normal difficulty. Fel Stalker do 1-4 damage, Bloodfiend 1-4 damage, and ect. The Last patch are did things right, but some things are just... makes too easy to play.

 

[Warseeker]

Great! now those strength items gonna roll!

Yes, in addition Thrall is a melee hero so him being an intelligence based hero makes him weak.

I played this campaign many times (mostly from the beginning, because of the unique way to play it), and I encountered on the second chapter strange things. The enemies are doing way less damage than should be on normal difficulty. Fel Stalker do 1-4 damage, Bloodfiend 1-4 damage, and ect. The Last patch are did things right, but some things are just... makes too easy to play.View attachment 405340View attachment 405341View attachment 405342

Fixed.

 

[HuanJuan]

Second Map:
After completend the Family Locket quest, the locket is not disappered from the inventory. (Not a big bug, but it's here)

 

[McCauc]

Second Map:
After completend the Family Locket quest, the locket is not disappered from the inventory. (Not a big bug, but it's here)

Somewhat similar problem, Locket does go away and I do get the Tome reward but the optional Quest doesn't get marked as complete, but it's not that big of a deal. What I wanna know is where can I watch The Shattering Cinematic? In-game it says that it won't work in 1.31 so I can watch it alternatively in youtube but I can't seem to find anything not even in Warseeker YT channel.

 

[HuanJuan]

Somewhat similar problem, Locket does go away and I do get the Tome reward but the optional Quest doesn't get marked as complete, but it's not that big of a deal. What I wanna know is where can I watch The Shattering Cinematic? In-game it says that it won't work in 1.31 so I can watch it alternatively in youtube but I can't seem to find anything not even in Warseeker YT channel.

it's in the description. You can find the link there here. I don't played this campaign nowdays honestly, because of the fact, that author/creator updating the campaign here, and you downloading it: you can replay the whole campaign from the beginning, because it's incompatible with your existing save files. I had some swearing words when I experienced it, and I still swearing when I see a notification here, so I'm probably never going to play again. Because: NEW UPDATE MEANS A REPLAY FROM THE BEGINNING. No matter what... (It's a good campaign either way, but my nerves are never going to be better)

 

[Warseeker]

Somewhat similar problem, Locket does go away and I do get the Tome reward but the optional Quest doesn't get marked as complete, but it's not that big of a deal. What I wanna know is where can I watch The Shattering Cinematic? In-game it says that it won't work in 1.31 so I can watch it alternatively in youtube but I can't seem to find anything not even in Warseeker YT channel.

it's in the description. You can find the link there here. I don't played this campaign nowdays honestly, because of the fact, that author/creator updating the campaign here, and you downloading it: you can replay the whole campaign from the beginning, because it's incompatible with your existing save files. I had some swearing words when I experienced it, and I still swearing when I see a notification here, so I'm probably never going to play again. Because: NEW UPDATE MEANS A REPLAY FROM THE BEGINNING. No matter what... (It's a good campaign either way, but my nerves are never going to be better)

Updating the campaign may break the save files sometimes. I know it's frustating to replay from the beginning, but this is the case for most of the campaigns and there is nothing you can do about it. Nonetheless, you can use cheats to complete the missions quickly.

 

[McCauc]

Updating the campaign may break the save files sometimes. I know it's frustating to replay from the beginning, but this is the case for most of the campaigns and there is nothing you can do about it. Nonetheless, you can use cheats to complete the missions quickly.

Didn't realize it was just the Cataclysm Trailer, thought it was something you made. Ty for the replies ^^

 

[Rennathrim]

I must say I enjoyed this one a bit, however it is a bit rough around the edges in some instances. In the first mission, before entering Orgrimmar where Eitrigg and Thrall have their little monologue, Thrall says the same thing twice, (I do not remember what he said as I just breezed through the entire act in one sitting). Also, in my opinion, spell immune enemies in a hero-based campaign that really need to use their spells, sort of...ruin the fun of it. It makes it a repetitive sitting of "wait till they bash each other to death", which was MOST prevalent with the Granite Golem (god I hated fighting that). It became repetitive even more so when I had to respawn 3 times on hard difficulty just to sit and wait till Thrall kills it. Or I get lucky with the Bashes enough times.

Flavor text would also be nice, albeit not required, such as changing the tooltips of heroes to match their own titles, or the descriptions of units when hovering over their icons, and also fixing the stats told in the tooltips. Thrall's slam says it removes buffs in the learning tooltip, but when hovering over the actual ability, it only says it slows movement AND attack speed (something which it does not, only MS). Aggra's fire totem (the one that stood out the most to me) says something around 30-ish damage, when in reality it deals like 10, according to its stats in-game. Also, the end objective in the first mission felt...incredibly underwhelming, considering it had the tone of "at least one horde building must survive" but only 1 or 2 elementals spawned at once (although thinking about it now, I understand it is the very first mission, so I'll gloss over it).

Lastly, did you pull the dialogue from like, the books or something? Because honestly, its insanely good. If you wrote it yourself, then props, it's been a while since I actually sat through cinematics and not being bored. And should Knights only have 400ish HP on hard difficulty? Also I loved the autosave.

Gameplay was average, it wasn't outstanding, nor downright unplayable or boring.
Terrain was sometimes great sometimes just okay.
Cinematics were pretty good.

I'll definitely be popping back in to check if its been updated from time to time, and I am looking forward to its progress as its got potential.

If I could, I'd give it a 3.5, but Hive only allows for 3. Regardless, keep going!

P.S. Spice up the description of the post a little bit, maybe, since (as a person who didn't watch the vid linked) I had no idea this was a Founding of Durotar-ish styled campaign. Buut that's up to you.

 

[Warseeker]

I must say I enjoyed this one a bit, however it is a bit rough around the edges in some instances. In the first mission, before entering Orgrimmar where Eitrigg and Thrall have their little monologue, Thrall says the same thing twice, (I do not remember what he said as I just breezed through the entire act in one sitting). Also, in my opinion, spell immune enemies in a hero-based campaign that really need to use their spells, sort of...ruin the fun of it. It makes it a repetitive sitting of "wait till they bash each other to death", which was MOST prevalent with the Granite Golem (god I hated fighting that). It became repetitive even more so when I had to respawn 3 times on hard difficulty just to sit and wait till Thrall kills it. Or I get lucky with the Bashes enough times.

Flavor text would also be nice, albeit not required, such as changing the tooltips of heroes to match their own titles, or the descriptions of units when hovering over their icons, and also fixing the stats told in the tooltips. Thrall's slam says it removes buffs in the learning tooltip, but when hovering over the actual ability, it only says it slows movement AND attack speed (something which it does not, only MS). Aggra's fire totem (the one that stood out the most to me) says something around 30-ish damage, when in reality it deals like 10, according to its stats in-game. Also, the end objective in the first mission felt...incredibly underwhelming, considering it had the tone of "at least one horde building must survive" but only 1 or 2 elementals spawned at once (although thinking about it now, I understand it is the very first mission, so I'll gloss over it).

Lastly, did you pull the dialogue from like, the books or something? Because honestly, its insanely good. If you wrote it yourself, then props, it's been a while since I actually sat through cinematics and not being bored. And should Knights only have 400ish HP on hard difficulty? Also I loved the autosave.

Gameplay was average, it wasn't outstanding, nor downright unplayable or boring.
Terrain was sometimes great sometimes just okay.
Cinematics were pretty good.

I'll definitely be popping back in to check if its been updated from time to time, and I am looking forward to its progress as its got potential.

If I could, I'd give it a 3.5, but Hive only allows for 3. Regardless, keep going!

P.S. Spice up the description of the post a little bit, maybe, since (as a person who didn't watch the vid linked) I had no idea this was a Founding of Durotar-ish styled campaign. Buut that's up to you.

Thanks for the feedback!

Yes, the dialogues in the first missions was copied from the books but with some changes.

 

[Ziv Noel]

So far so good, I surprisingly enjoy the gameplay a lot, and while so, the storyline. Props to you for doing this for our community. The story of pre-Cata is pretty damn well-written but kinda underrated, the ppl should know the horror of Deathwing and his destructive nature, the love story of our Warchief, the tragic death of Cairne, the growth of Go'el and his journey to becoming a Shaman. All very well executive through your campaign. Cheers to that! Looking forward to the next Act!
(In some of the late chapters, Thrall did abandon his armour but his model doesn't get replaced while imprisoned by the Alliance.)

 

[Warseeker]

Update 1.0.5:

- Added zone music from WoW into the campaign. You can now play without having to download the external files and enable local files.

I also tried to make the Cataclysm cinematic work on patch 1.31 using this tutorial but to no avail. The custom movies only work on patch 1.29.

 

[HuanJuan]

Update 1.0.5:

- Added zone music from WoW into the campaign. You can now play without having to download the external files and enable local files.

I also tried to make the Cataclysm cinematic work on patch 1.31 using this tutorial but to no avail. The custom movies only work on patch 1.29.

I liked Act I, hope Act II soon released. The Remnants named campaign with 3 chapters are not going to be ever finished?

 

[Warseeker]

I liked Act I, hope Act II soon released. The Remnants named campaign with 3 chapters are not going to be ever finished?

The remnants?

 

[HuanJuan]

The remnants?

Sorry, it's another person project. I somehow thinked you are doing it, but no.