I have a hard time picturing how they would do this. Warcraft 3 has reforged itself into a minefield. Trying to make changes to it has an increased probability to break something. If the 1.31 client had remained separate, or perhaps even if Patch 1.26 were still live save only for an ACE vulnerability fix, and the distinction between Reforged and Classic was a matter of people playing the old technology as it was then, or people playing the new technology unhindered by backwards compatibility -- and if both had their own servers -- then there would probably be fewer complaints. And also fewer probability of spawning new complaints if Microsoft touches the code!
Anything to do with any game is difficult for this company.
CSW? "Commission on the Status of Women" ?
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CSW? "Commission on the Status of Women" ?
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Maybe we will finally see the truth. That Reforged was made with more love and care than we all ever cared to see, and when the alternatives come to town, they may be even more tragic. Because society and corporatocracy has really fallen that far.
Not maybe. They should bring balance from before they messed it up.
Neither do I.
These seem like realistic expectations.
There we go...
The description of the video at the very least confirms reforged is getting some level of attention.
They're gonna break basic stuff all over again, aren't they?
As a former United States president once said on Joe Rogan in response to the question, "Do you think that we have aliens coming, you know, flying around, or whatever?" we could answer your question likewise:
Ironically, 6 is the one I desire the most.
What models are different from the Beta mentioned in item 4? Do you have a picture of them?
I think I started this trend by uploading things like here:
www.hiveworkshop.com
www.hiveworkshop.com
i still want my alpha druid of the talon 7__7I think I started this trend by uploading things like here:
Reforged Beta Succubus Variants with Whips
Hello! Origially posted by Retera I did not make these models, these are an upload of the alternate style Succubus characters that were removed upon the release of Reforged that were originally included in the Beta, in case for some reason Succubus with a whip was your thing. Some of their...
But part of the issue is that the Beta versions of Reforged, especially early on, had a different model format from both TFT in the old days and Reforged that we have today. So I forward-ported some of this stuff while trying to change as little as possible. In a case like the above, I probably originally updated these almost-unchanged forward ports, but the moderators reviewed or edited the models and did custom game import optimizations like removing LOD data, instead of offering downloads of the exactly historical file forward-ported.
But you can probably get the idea. There were just a bunch of random visual changes back when things were getting worked on.
Furion in the Reign of Chaos 2002 game had a different model that MalFurion in the 2003 Frozen Throne. Originally Reforged had its own new "HD" models for both:
Furion Reforged Beta
This is an unmodified Furion model from Reforged Beta build 13769. If you check my user profile you will see that there is another similar model that I had uploaded. That other model is a fan-made one where I manually tried to dismount MalFurion from his stag, and give him the Druid of the...
This is a reforged artwork from Blizzard/lemonsky, but you wont find it in your game install, etc.
(He wears a cape of leaves instead of a fur cape)
Edit: but suggesting they would put removed content back in the game is just silly. That's like saying they should put old RoC beta models from 2001 back into the game or something, just for fun because custom gamers like to use those files. Microsoft is running a business. They have to focus on what opens wallets.
I'm getting old. If Microsoft published an art bundle with alpha druid of the talon, and alpha priestess of the moon, and basically every other art file from the 2001-2002 alpha screenshots, I think I would buy that art file even if it was a download of a zip that cost a $500-$1000 unlock per person. I would buy it even if it was only in the
.scene format of the 3ds max 4.9 version or whatever from those days, where they were giving out the original source material that nobody at Microsoft even had software to open up anymore. It would be so fun to get that, and to port that to Frozen Throne format to share on Hive, and I have exactly the technology necessary to pull that off, all available in my arsenal in some place or in some form.
So, from my standpoint as somebody who indulges in technology and modding, can we agree that if Microsoft actually does what you are saying, that it would make the game technology even more chaotic? Reforged did not only add new art files. It added new code to process that art. This is to say, they were not interested in preserving the 2002 art technology inside the game and adding more of the same, but rather in selling a newer and shinier thing with the best technology available today regardless of what Warcraft III system internals had been for 18 years.
