Second Undead Book of Arkain (Patch 1.29.2 or newer!)

[Shar Dundred]

Cheats in this campaign are not disabled, but they aren't supported. If you cheat and encounter any bugs because of that, I won't fix that. There are no known major issues so far, this is just an ordinary announcement.

 

[New Player]

Is this the last book?

 

[Shar Dundred]

For now.
Next up is the True Story of Arkain.

 

[KingSlender]

a wonderfully made piece of art.
story is amazing and words can't describe how amazing it is. 10/10 of course even if it was shorter but i followed your arkain news forum and know your pain. you did amazing nonetheless and i can't wait for the true story of arkain. hope it doesn't take long.

 

[virtualgames]

whether there will be a next book?

 

[Enki555]

Very wonderful masterpiece this is though much shorter than previous ones. Quick question: Is it possible for you to release the map where all nexus are playable? Can't wait for True Story of Arkain also.

 

[renegade]

How do you get the angelic saint's base in the last chapter to be hostile to you?

 

[San]

sometime you gotta become undead to understand what does it mean to be alive

 

[Restia]

1.29 or newer. Sad i'm 1.24
Do you know where to download the 1.31?

sometime you gotta become undead to understand what does it mean to be alive

True but in the earth the only undead that exist is only ghost well if you believe that of course

 

[Shar Dundred]

Uploaded a small hotfix because the damn Demon Slave hero in Chapter One can't follow orders
and refused to stop leveling up.

@Restia: WC3 Download Archive (1.11 - 1.31.1)

 

[Rianslock]

I just felt like reviewing the campaign because wanted to.

Things I liked
- The writing, characters and dialogue are spot on, motivations and personality is pretty good and clear to the player. Even some characters are funny. I never knew the Golden Guard were simps. I was always looking forward to the next level every time I beat the map.
- Difficulty is pretty balanced and is an improvement from the difficulty of the Second Orc Book. Not too frustrating but can take very long, makes me think that if I screwed up, it's my fault, not the game designer's.
- Gameplay and the techtree are pretty fresh and creative.

Things that could be better/needs fixing
- It is very short compared to the previous two Second Books but I kind of understand why. The Undead have mostly been present in the Second Human and Orc books and have been integral to the plot of those Campaign's stories.
- Cinematics: Not to say the dialogue is bad but camera work could be improved to make some shots and camera angles look more dramatic. Instead of just a camera that rotates once.
- On the Epilogue, the loading screen title and description are the same as the Orders of the Watcher interlude.
- On Chapter 2: The side quest isn't marked completed despite the strongholds being destroyed.

Conclusion
- It is a good campaign with great writing, great characters, difficult but fair challenge with a fresh Undead techtree

Missed Opportunities
- It is really short and I wanted more but considering the Undead being in all books having their own plots in the Second Human book, it is understandable, have a great day.
- Missing characters that could've been playable. (Sir Edoarus? Lord Margazzar? Queen Keera?)
- I kinda wished Sir Edoarus and the Bonelords were playable but I can wait for the True Story of Arkain. It was probably torture to make the Second Undead Book when most of the planned maps couldn't work properly and had to be scrapped.

Overall. On a scale of 1-5
I'd give it a 3/5. It has a little something for everyone

 

[Morris]

Finally finished the campaign. Had a great time playing it and I eagerly await the True Story of Arkain.

Despite being a short campaign, it is very challenging and explains in brief how the story of the Undead folds.
What shocked me was the epilogue, I was surprised to see a certain dreadlord back and he was in fact, the Dark One hiding under the Watcher's sight. AND the final scene of the epilogue. I mean was it all a vision or a dream or a manipulation by the Dark One? Did Ornasion repel the Demonic invasion of the Dead Mountain? Have Ornasion and Haran discovered the Cave Orcs and made contact with the Dark Elves? Did they overthrow Quiraness and made Pentiss the new Queen? Did they recover the artifact Aridon required? Did Krom and Meya stop the Souleater Legion's invasion of Salria? Or was all of this some sort of premonition or was it manipulation by Tregakh? I'm very intrigued. An excellent cliffhanger though.

I'd say the campaign you had in mind some chapters that involve subtlety like Rahandir, Sir Edoarus, Fleshtearer and Pentis going to the capital of Toran to seek the other artifact and how they "persuaded" the Toranites into assisting them and might involve a massacre of the Mage Guild then help them repel the Pyrrean rebels. Or secret warfare where Ornasion and Queen Keera deal with the elven demon worshippers while avoiding the main bulk of the Golden Guard and Elven Army. Oh and a holdout chapter after all artifacts have been recovered and brought to Aridon where we have to defend him from Demons and possibly other enemies who caught the scent while he finishes the spell to secure the Mountain from all outsiders. And perhaps dealing with the Dark One after.
I forgot to mention the part when Aridon plays dead and orders Saphira and Rahandir to act as the Undead fractured into two factions and how Saphira helps Gardon but her true purpose is to keep a close eye on him and Rahandir tends to other matters like 'hiding' Queen Renova's half-elf twins.
In regard to bugs\glitches, other than the ones mentioned by Rianslock earlier, I encountered a glitch in chapter one. As I pushed deeper and deeper into the enemy bases, I built Necropolises to spread blight and build forward bases but I wasn't able to build any other building other than the Necropolises starting from the first area where the Lor soldiers cages are located and the demon slaves base area even though I blighted the whole area completely.

Excellent job, Master Shar and the best is yet to come!

Oh and my imported choices were: Haran'tel Kazor killed and raised into undeath. Saphira and Veringar didn't destroy the tunnels. Largoth and Verginar killing the leaders of both fleets. Sir Ross possessed and Aridon winning the final battle.

I will replay the campaign again and change my choices to: Haran'tel not being killed. Saphira and Veringar destroying the tunnels. the leaders of both fleets surviving. Sir Ross either killed or left alone - Your choice, Shar-. And Aridon losing the final battle.

 

[Ahman]

I enjoyed this campaign a lot, but it sort of... ended suddenly. It's so sad that @Shar Dundred kind of ran out of ideas as he was making this campaign, but I wanted to play as Ornasion more. I hope you make the true story of Arkain the best campaign of them all, cuz it has a lot of potential now that we know what was going on all along. The epilogue of this campaign answers a lot of questions that I had after I played the Second Orc and Human books.

 

[Morris]

I'm replaying the campaign as I said before and this happened lol
Is this supposed to happen? It didn't in my first walkthrough and I just started the mission

 

[Shar Dundred]

The enemies and a large attack force when Aridon dies in the First Undead Book final mission, so yes

 

[Morris]

The enemies and a large attack force when Aridon dies in the First Undead Book final mission, so yes

I wonder else is there in store for me. I got reprimanded by Aridon for letting Rahandir's base fall despite my success. Currently at chapter 2, I won't destroy the secondary bases and focus only on the main base. Let's see what happens.

 

[Axmand]

I already finish the book and here my opinion...

Well, gotta say it was a good campaing, of course the major "con" thing is the duration and that leave a lot of holes in the lore/history of the series...

I can only hope that the maker (Shar Dundred) finish the True History of Arkain ASAP.

Aside of that, good work, wish the best luck...

 

[deepstrasz]

The poll should be changed. Some characters are only mentioned.

Spoiler: prologue+chap1

1. Why does Aridon need or have to tell anyone anything if he controls them anyway? Are they not the extension of his will? Or are they only under his control but with a mind of their own?
   
2. What does the Black Citadel upgrade help with here aside using it as defense spam ?
3. "Let me serve you before I die." Don't worry, you will still even after
4. Ven'gyr is a Warcraft III hero name.
5. How did he recognize Ornasion? I mean, he wasn't actually looking the same. Did he feel his magical aura or something?
6. Troops don't get trained with their first spell on autocast. Wasn't it always so?
7. Urshan doesn't have hero glow and looks like the count. Until he gets turned that is.
8. Why did you have to use Sylvanas' line :|?
9. Does Aridon permit to be addressed as Aridon especially by a new recruit?
   
10. Lol, that Hesrathion dude always has two dreadlords with him. Is that a sort of superstition?

Spoiler: chap2

1. Ice Crown of the Spider King=Helm of Battlethirst.
2. I see Haran'tel-kazor has the exact spells of the Cryptlord. I think you should have gotten more custom-creative with abilities and such since the campaign is much shorter than the other ones and this would have raised its quality.
3. The orcs talk to you but they're not moving and with the back at you. Cave orcs. That's rich. A sort of dark elves. I guess it's part of the proto-races? Are the Dead Mountain's depths a sort of a pool of creation?
   
4. It would look nicer if the undead were trained by buildings instead of appearing all at once. Similarly, with the enemy.
   
5. The veneration statue is levitating a bit.
6. Orcs in the Caves is not marked as completed upon finishing it.
7. Great Watch towers should have bigger selection circles.

Spoiler: chap3

1. Slowness Aura should look passive. You can make it so with: Button Manager v1.8.2
2. Would have been nice to have a dark elves techtree with buildings and all. Well,, at least the enemy has that.
   
3. Why is Quiraness a drider? Did she get a fusion ritual or something?
   
4. Ensnare research should be under the Icekeeper.
5. It's a bit unrealistic that the drider can burrow as it doesn't have the claws the Crypt Fiend has.
6. Hmm, just realized there aren't any special map loading screens.
7. This chapter is claustrophobic pain.
8. Time for Acolyte repair army. They don't kill the workers like the demons did so it's all good Honour will be their downfall!
9. Ornasion's character summarized: "Bah!"
10. Black Lotus doesn't look black at all.
11. Nice touch with lore bits in various places.
12. Slowness Aura should have a different FX on enemies. It's confusing. First, I did not understand what was casting slow on them.
13. Well, they would be possibly more useful as undead, the dark elves since they would not be able to betray and would require different type of magics upon them to die.

Spoiler: chap4

1. Am I seeing a lack of air units in this campaign? I understand it's caves but this is one huge cave with high walls if such big mushrooms can grow and if that temple fit there.
2. Slowness Aura buff should have a red text title. Just put the title like |cffff0303Slowness Aura|r
3. Ugh, having many units (+summons +workers) makes them queue orders and stagger. Barely playable. Should think of something to replace the woodcutters.
4. I think you should lower the lumber gathering amount as it takes too much time and you might also not make it since you can't afford to just defend with Shieldguards. You could make it so that when you research the Peacemaker, you'd have to defend the base for some minutes from a harder attack from the temple or something. OK, so they attack when you research. What if you cancel ?
   
5. You don't get notification once you reach 25k lumber.
6. Pentiss said the servants should destroy Quiraness immediately after I started the Peacemaker research. That's kind of opposite to the point?
7. How did they distribute the ayahuasca though? Did they spray it or something?
8. Deus ex machina artifact.
9. Aridon the orcophobe.

Spoiler: chap5

1. Krom has no unique artifact?
2. Bonemender has Death Coild not Mend as in the description.
   
3. Frozen Breath research should be under the Frost Wyrm; it's currently one space to the right.
4. The problem with those portals is that they destroy trees.
5. So, no one thought it would be a good idea to build a base up there but the undead?
6. The Demon Gate spam is real.
7. How many times do the demons attack through portals directly to your base?
8. Orgus' troops are blocked by Brightfield's when he wants to attack the demons.
9. There's a lack of wood if you want to finish the optional quests too. Well, if you can get the southeastern yellow base, then yes, there's enough lumber beyond the gate.
10. Krom is 10 but Meya can only reach 7.
11. Heh. Had more issue trying to get the dwarves than the Golden Guard.
12. No enemy air units?
13. Fallen Maiden could make use of some spells like Curse or Cripple or Soul Burn or something.
14. Inferno Tower's selection circle should be bigger.
15. What do you gain for completing the optional quest?
16. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the most defeated of them all?
17. I mean, use the damn artifact on him already. Shut him up.

So, generally, it's a really nice Arkain campaign which came with some novel chapter designs. It however, missed some opportunities, like having Urshan confront his demonkin, maybe Ornasion meeting Ebira. Also, some undead heroes were just NPCs like Rahandir, Saphira, Quiraness' daughter.
With some more polish, it can be made even better if you think it's worth your time.

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[Shar Dundred]

Thank you for the review, straz of the deeps!

Why does Aridon need or have to tell anyone anything if he controls them anyway? Are they not the extension of his will? Or are they only under his control but with a mind of their own?

Why not educate your followers before you send them to spread death?

Why did you have to use Sylvanas' line :|?

Sylvanas line?

The veneration statue is levitating a bit.

So is Aridon.
(For real though, while the idea is kind of funny, that is not intentional)

Why is Quiraness a drider? Did she get a fusion ritual or something?

She is riding an animal rather than being a drider.

This chapter is claustrophobic pain.

It is great, isn't it?

Hmm, just realized there aren't any special map loading screens.

Well, @Rhapsodie was not available and I got other things to do.

Black Lotus doesn't look black at all.

Because when I tried to make it black, it looked like shit and I did not consider it that much of an issue.

Well, they would be possibly more useful as undead, the dark elves since they would not be able to betray and would require different type of magics upon them to die.

Death = no reproduction.

Slowness Aura buff should have a red text title. Just put the title like |cffff0303Slowness Aura|r

I'll try that one again.

Ugh, having many units (+summons +workers) makes them queue orders and stagger. Barely playable. Should think of something to replace the woodcutters.

How many workers did you call upon?

Aridon the orcophobe.

I mean, well. Yeah.

How did they distribute the ayahuasca though? Did they spray it or something?

They unleashed the gas into the heated tunnels!
Yeah, I think this is breaking the geneva conventions, I have to call Pentiss about that one...

The problem with those portals is that they destroy trees.

Problem? I made it happen that way.

I mean, use the damn artifact on him already. Shut him up.

If only it was that simple, eh?

 

[deepstrasz]

Sylvanas line?

Oops, I mean the Banshee. If I'm not mistaken, Sylvanas had that soundset as well in RoC.

(For real though, while the idea is kind of funny, that is not intentional)

Could try making the statue levitate over the platform.

She is riding an animal rather than being a drider.

Yeah, realized in the following chapter.

It is great, isn't it?

If I could get there and strangle you, yeah.

Because when I tried to make it black, it looked like shit and I did not consider it that much of an issue.

Could try a reskin or to give you a black mushroom model instead.

Death = no reproduction.

Right but that has its limits. They are not immortal are they? If they are, how on Earth (I'm sorry, under Earth) did they not overpopulate?

How many workers did you call upon?

Well, I had the miners, 12 for repairs and 12 for wood. Maybe a few more for one expansion in the northern orc base and some to repair the statues and wagons.

 

[Shar Dundred]

Right but that has its limits. They are not immortal are they? If they are, how on Earth (I'm sorry, under Earth) did they not overpopulate?

Intrigue, betrayal, politics, creatures, cave orcs?

 

[deepstrasz]

Intrigue, betrayal, politics, creatures, cave orcs?

Mass civil war?

 

[Anaxie]

Cool the final part to act 2 is out

 

[LISBOAH]

I just finished playing this last second book.

I really enjoyed playing it, mostly because it is centered on the Undead, my favorite Arkain race.

First: The whole Nexus faction. It was only fitting that the Undead, the longest civilization in Arkain, who was composed of individuals from several races, to have such variety of units avaiable.
Second: Both Ornassion and Haran'tel-kazor. These two characters have been given enough screen time for them to be three-dimensional, Ornassion especially. I loved his interactions with Pentiss and the Dark Elves because it showed that he, despite being a dreadlord turned undead, have standards. In some aspects, he is more honorable than most of the human characters.
Third: How Shar made time to explain the Dark Elf culture and how their society works.
Fourth:

Spoiler

The whole Epilogue!!!

One of the greatest plot twists in this story. Largoth is the Dark One.

However this makes me think: was Largoth Tregakh the whole time? I am asking because the demons know Largoth. Perhaps Tregakh took the form of a dreadlord and called himself Largoth while he recovered. Or perhaps Largoth was a dreadlord that attempted to absorb the shards of Tregakh and instead the Dark One took over his body. Only time (and Shar) can tell...

I am not sure who to believe regarding Aridon's and Tregakh's argument. Considering their actions and morality, any of them could have done what the other accuses.

However I feel obliged to say some critics.
First: The campaign is too short. Yes, I know Shar grew fed up with this campaign, but it saddens me just how short this is. The Dark Elf Arc was perhaps the only arc in this campaign and it was only three chapters.
Second: We only played with five heroes (two of which we only played in the final mission). I wished to play with some of the heroes we played during the First Book, like Rahandir, Sapphira and the Fleshtearer. Plus, we didn't have the option to play with Sir Edoarus, Queen Keera, Urshan, the Bonelords and even Quiraness (as a servant to Pentiss)
Third: We didn't have the opportunity to use the full might of the Undead Nexus to its full extent. The best we had was on Chapter One, but we couldn't train them.

 

[deepstrasz]

It was only fitting that the Undead, the longest civilization in Arkain

Life is rare. We see that in the real world. The universe was born undead and will end so, probably.

am not sure who to believe regarding Aridon's and Tregakh's argument. Considering their actions and morality, any of them could have done what the other accuses.

Never trust a demon, even if only visually appearing to be one.

Fleshtearer

I discarded that one choosing for it to die but I would have expect it not to since, undead and well, Shar.

 

[Championfighter25]

Spoiler: General thoughts and suggestions

Choices of the Dead:
- The bestiary was set to hostile while the other buildings were neutral.

Chapter 1:
- A timer for Aridon's reinforcement waves could be added. Mainly for the player to know when to keep his upkeep high or low.

Chapter 2:
- aincient tunnels -> ancient tunnels
- Ice Crown of the Spider King's Beskerk ability should be put directly on Haran. It being on an item makes it harder to cast when you need it the most. Same for Pentiss' tome.

Chapter 4
- Sludge behind trees are ''luckily'' the second worst thing to be hiding behind trees.
- The elixir path seemed too suspicious, so I took the direct battle one instead.

Chapter 5
- The first time I attacked the GG or dwarves I noticed they didn't say anything about me attacking them until about 10 seconds passed
- Krom seems way more serious than his regular self in this chapter, guess a few days with Meya does that do all.

Epilogue

- That roast was beautiful, period.

Ultimately, the most unfortunate thing was that we never got missions like the Siege of the capital of Toran, the Bonelord attack on the Tribal Dominion and the Purificator mission from the undead perspective.

Although short, it was nice while it lasted.

 

[Shar Dundred]

Version 1.10 released!

Changelog

General:
- Grammar fixes
- The Demonblood upgrade now requires a Black Citadel and a Graveyard instead of a Halls of the Dead and a Graveyard
- Fixed the icon of Slowness Aura

Beginning:
- The Beastiary is no longer hostile

Chapter Two:
- The statue is no longer levitating
- Orcs in the Caves will now be marked as completed when the Strongholds are destroyed

Epilogue:
- Fixed the loading screen texts

 

[chrsitian12]

Hey man I really love this campaign the story and dialogues are really good, are you goin to make a night elf arkain?

 

[LISBOAH]

Hey man I really love this campaign the story and dialogues are really good, are you goin to make a night elf arkain?

There are no night elves in Arkain, nor any race resembling them.

 

[chrsitian12]

There are no night elves in Arkain, nor any race resembling them.

Shame oh well thanks and really like your campaign keep the good work

 

[Heimgri123]

Now i've only reached the second chapter, but when i completed the side quest, it kept spamming that i had completed it.

 

[Shar Dundred]

Uploaded a hotfix, bug fixed.

 

[Mvicio]

Finally get to play this campaign.

Mission 1. Probably my favourite, we get to see the undead armies at their full extent. Having members or all the races, some even extinct. A pity that we couldnt see the bottom part of the mountain
Unless Aridon is defeated in FUB, pretty easy chapter.

Mission 2. Really like the "moba" fight, the cave Orcs were a delightful surprise, a protorace that survived under the death mountain. I would've prefered that the units were produced instead of spawned, but anyway a decent chapter.
Loved Haran and Ornasion relationship, both leaders of their Nexus but totally diferent.
Left the Orcs alone, only made the chapter harder, no change during the campaign.

Mission 3. I hate this one, despite being a good dark elven Lore chapter.
Too narrow corridors, no meat wagons, i didnt like the elves units at all (fucking lashers)
It was fun playing with Pentiss thought.

Mission 4. Second to best. Did the drug route, i dont really care at all about what happens with the Dark elves, they'll end dying and become undead servants, so if we can minimize the losses, great.
These Orcs were really Faithful, but not enough, if they really worshipped Aridon, they'll have surrender to the undead, becoming and Ally (or undead servants) and giving up their resources.
A pity we never get to see the giant sludge in action, or some unit/Ally made by sludges.
I knew i couldnt trust on Pentiss and her plan, but It worked quite well so she deserved some points.

Mission 5. BONE ARMY TIME. Playing as Krom and Meya, fighting Hersation lituenant and a HUGE demon army, but no army can stand against the army of Bones.
Finally SIR ROSS is back, but only as a cinematic soldier and a huge help on the mission as both the GG and the dwarves help you fight the Demons.
I completed the secondary mission by cheesing it. Holy crap, the dwarves are 200% stronger than the Demons. Of course no change.
A pity this is the end of the campaign, i would Love to play the siege of capital of Toran, the elven forest, the deathfight between Ornasion and the Demons, and the purificator map.

I Wont Talk about the finale because os a mayor spoiler, play It yourself and suffer It.

The Main issue as everybody said, the duration. Really short but anyway it was a nice campaign.
I was looking to fill some lore gaps during this campaign like in FUB but the short stories and the True Story will fill them, probably.

4,5/5, Better than Orc book thought.

 

[Shar Dundred]

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[Law Law]

When I want to open your campaign, it will automatically said fatal error?

 

[Carefree World]

There are too few playable chapters in this undead campaign 2. Even orc campaign 2 has 15 playable chapters. As the protagonist, the undead only has 5 playable chapters. Is that a little less? Or is aken's legend used to set off the Terrans and orcs? That's why we designed so few chapters?

 

[Enki555]

There are too few playable chapters in this undead campaign 2. Even orc campaign 2 has 15 playable chapters. As the protagonist, the undead only has 5 playable chapters. Is that a little less? Or is aken's legend used to set off the Terrans and orcs? That's why we designed so few chapters?

Shar Dundred supposedly had a difficult time with SUB. Originally there were supposed to be about 12 playable maps, but most of them had tons of bugs, and story writing was edited numerous times by him.
After Fifth mission: Sixth one- Queen Keera and Ornasion's war in the eastern part of the elven kingdom. This was a map where we were supposed to fight Golden Guard, Demons Slaves Elves, Souleater legion, and Elves. The results are decisive undead victory and, later, the formation of Daviliad nexus.
Seventh- Toran mission. Edaorus and Fleshtearer might fight alongside Torans against Pyrrean rebels while Rahandir and Pentiss deal with Mage Guild. It would've been a macro mission like chapter 4 of SHB at least. The results are Mask of Illusions obtained, Torans allied with undead, and the formation of Fallen Mage guild encountered in SHB.
So far that's all gleaned from seconds books and undead short stories. There would've been the defense of dead mountain mission, Kezzar nexus vs Souleater legion (Old Hatreds short story) where we kill Hesrathion and meet Ebira, Salria arc (possibly undead Vanessa as a protagonist xD), and Gates of Hell mission from undead pov (in this scenario, however, it would've been Ornasion that kills Kersidar instead of Brian). Hopefully, these will be added in True Story.

 

[SilverBoltHBp]

Does this work with reforged and how do I install it. ty

 

[Shar Dundred]

Reforced does not offer Custom Campaigns yet so no, it doesn't work with Reforged yet.

 

[JackBlaze]

Did anyone have any issues while trying to build their structures on blight during the first mission? Because, on several occasions while I tried to, I got the "Can's build on blight" message.

 

[Mamut]

Also i have a issue witch chapter 1. Its about RAS unit, whenever they transform in ghost form his level is drop to base level, dropping mana from 600 to 300, however he can still use all his spells

 

[JackBlaze]

Spoiler

Damn, seems like Aridon's got some real serious selective memory . That bit aside, fantastic campaign as always man, short as it was.

 

[KingsNJenssons]

so how would you play this in 2021 because i can only get 1.27b or reforged and it crashed instantly with 1.27b

 

[Shar Dundred]

Same way it was 2020 if you have no 1.29.2 backup) :
WC3 Download Archive (1.00 - 1.31.1 + BETA & DEMO)

I am afraid there is no alternative.

 

[watcher89]

The legend of Arkain series is hands down the best custom campaign I have played till date. (Believe me I have played tons of WC3 custom campaigns till now)

The plot, the option of having to make choices which affect the story, the characters, everything about it is a 11/10 for me. I can't wait to play the next part of this epic series. Tbh I keep logging in and checking every now and then to see if its up yet

Nothing negative I can think of honestly. But if you do put a gun to my head and ask me to cough up atleast one fault, then I would say I do have a bit of gripe regarding Gordon's voice line which goes "For the Lick King." But then again that is as insignificant as it gets. XD


So great job man. All the best to you and keep up the amazing work.

Oh yeah before I go. I have one little doubt with regards to the human book. If there any way to keep Greymoore alive in the second book?

 

[N00b-Morti]

Man i thought i had this issue just with old maps, but apparently even this that is really recent is in .w3n and i don't know why it doesn't load. Any idea of what may be going on? Why your map doens't work on my reforged game?

 

[Shar Dundred]

That's because w3n files are custom campaigns, not map files & Reforged does not let you
play custom campaigns.

 

[N00b-Morti]

That's because w3n files are custom campaigns, not map files & Reforged does not let you
play custom campaigns.

Soooo.... the only way to play it would be using a non-reforged version.

 

[Shar Dundred]

Sadly, yes.