Warcraft 3 Re-Reforged: The Scourge of Lordaeron

[InsaneMonster]

Behold, the english open-beta of the Custom Campaign integration is ready to be downloaded! Here the final changelog. Translations will come later as they become ready. Merry Christmas my friends and fans! I do hope you enjoy my present!

Changelog (12/23/2023)

• The entire human campaign is now bundled in a single .w3n (custom campaign) map file. This allows you to select difficulty in the game, select missions in the game and load saved game through game menus.
• The entire package is around 500 MB smaller than the previous version
• The custom campaign features a custom loading screen inspired from the default game one with the appropriate information about Hive Workshop and the project Patreon page
• File organization is reworked completely: all files (including most of the object related strings) are now contained in only one file, thus making translation and fixing backend much easier
• Object data completely reworked: all custom units are assigned as map-specific or campaign-specific and they are all organized with proper ids
• Chaos damage removed on all creeps where it makes no sense to have it
• Magic damage is now added on all creeps where it makes sense to have it
• Divine armor icon now properly displayed
• Items are completely reworked: they are reorganized, harder to kill and their values make more sense on a global scale
• Integrated some balance changes since 1.31 to Re-Reforged (like Sundering Blades, Prioritize Air and more) plus some other to improve gameplay
• Improved some codex and hint texts on all missions
• Now human scout towers have 1800 sight range on both day and night
• Made Death Pact and Death Ritual cost 0 mana (with longer cooldown, like the integrated Far Sight)
• Racial shops are redone according to the new items categorization system
• General improvements to all models (some are even new, other improved and optimized for 1.36)
• Improved some texture quality (they were lower quality before to save space)
• Added snowcaps for all human and undead buildings where it does make sense to have them
• All ghosts now have a 15% transparency added to them beside the model fresnel effect
• Complete rework of all walking sounds (they loop correctly now in all cinematics)
• Music save/reload bugs now fixed
• Music overall randomization is better when default music is played
• Music doesn't include TFT tracks as default tracks anymore
• Fixed music sometimes not resetting correctly to the intended playlist
• Added new cheats: now "ggwp" (add "-cache" or "-nocache" to make it save the cache or not). You can also display current difficulty using "howhard" and you can enable all campaign buttons using "notimetowaste"
• Codex system UI reworked: now using icons, more space to display text and better hints to avoid issues with scrolling (please note, it's impossible to make it scroll from the start due to an engine limitation)
• Codex system interaction reworked: now codex scrolls give XP to heroes collecting them depending on how difficult they are to find. Their position is also reworked to be easier to find in all maps
• Optimized and improved all trees animations without any trigger usage
• Added some unit (mostly creeps) randomization to increase replayability
• Added some items randomization to increase replayability
• Reworked the final "thank you" screen to be more up-to-date
• Added intro cinematic you can play before playing the campaign and after the end, like in default campaign
• Added campaign logo
• Improved Re-Reforged logo both in maps and in the campaign menu
• Improved custom voice acting
• Improved all AIs
• Optimized AI routines and removed their leaks
• Optimized ALL triggers and removed their leaks
• Rebalanced shades to be less annoying (especially their build times)
• Now dwarven Curators will use their abilities properly
• Reworked checkpoints to avoid bugs and improve their spreading within the maps
• Improved many shots and animations in many cinematics

• Updated Mission 09 Epilogue (Vengeance) [v1.2]:
  • Improved some shots in the various scenes
  • Added snowcaps on all buildings
  • Added cheering animations by soldiers when bases are defeated
  • Fixed an issue causing selection to be available after loading a save
  • Fixed timing on the final cutscene when Arthas kills Marwyn and Falric to prevent desync on various locales
• Updated Mission 09 (Frostmourne) [v1.2]:
  • Improved some shots in the various scenes
  • Added snowcaps on all buildings
  • Decreased divine shield duration and increased divine shield cooldown on mirror Arthas
  • Increased the time required for The Guardian to Ice Strike
  • Added UI indicator to show where The Guardian is going to Ice Strike
  • Reworked the path to Frostmourne section items to be useful in next map section and be smart with respect to current hero level
  • Fixed pathing blockers on the first Revenant's force field while progressing in the path to Frostmourne section
  • Reworked AIs of allies and enemies
  • Now suicide will happen earlier and at a better pace
  • Now the dwarfs will not attack the scourge bases
  • Added a new Undead base on the bottom left
  • Improved terrain to prevent Mal'Ganis attacks from being blocked
  • Increased base time required to finish second part of the mission
  • General improvements to terrain (mostly aesthetics)
• Updated Mission 08 (Dissension) [v1.2]:
  • Improved some shots in the various scenes
  • Added snowcaps on all buildings
  • Added the center of the map with enemy AIs
  • Added allied bases
  • Added an altar to revive heroes and an arcane vault to buy items
  • Added some enemies around the ships to reduce how cheesable the map is
  • Fixed a bug forcing certain murlocs to swim to the player when there was no player unit there
  • General improvements to terrain (mostly aesthetics)
• Updated Mission 07 (The Shores of Northrend) [v1.2]:
  • Improved some shots in the various scenes
  • Reworked AIs of allies and enemies
  • Now the green base forces will deploy their defences slower, allowing the player to win by attacking fast enough
  • Made the mission overall easier
  • Reduced the amount of carriable items dropped by creeps in the first part of the map
  • General improvements to terrain (mostly aesthetics)
• Updated Mission 06 Interlude (Divergent Courses) [v1.2]:
  • Improved some shots in the various scenes
  • Fixed a bug on reload that would break cinematic frames during the fight with Diablo
  • Fixed an issue causing selection to be available after loading a save
  • Fixed an issue causing minimap markers that should be hidden to reappear when loading a save
  • Added monks around the map
• Updated Mission 06 (The Culling) [v1.2]:
  • Added back rain
  • Added back the fountain of life
  • Made the mission less cheeseable
  • Made the beginning time to breath for the player a bit longer
  • Added more rewards to exploration
  • Added an optional quest to destroy plague cauldrons that will otherwise spawns endless amount of zombies towards your base
  • Improved the intro cutscene with new animations to reproduce even more the Blizzcon 2018 cutscene
  • Added custom UI to display kill counts
• Updated Mission 05 Interlude (The Prince and the Prophet) [v1.5]:
  - Improved some shots in the various scenes
• Updated Mission 05 (March of the Scourge) [v1.5]:
  • Improved some shots in the various scenes
  • Made the mission overall harder if the player doesn't explore and overall easier if the player explores
• Updated Mission 04 (The Cult of the Damned) [v1.5]:
  • Improved some animations in the various cutscenes
  • Reword the Haunted Gold Mine optional quest to actually award a new income for the player
  • Made income actually meaningful by letting the player to buy soldiers
  • Added custom UI for both remaining soldiers and control points, designed specifically for them
  • Made the mission overall harder (but not by much)
  • During Kel'Thuzad fight, now camera pans are less intrusive
  • Fixed some data being saved to cache without any actual reason
• Updated Mission 03 (Ravages of the Plague) [v1.5]:
  • Improved some animations in the various cutscenes
  • Vastly improved Pudge animations
  • Made the mission overall harder (but not by much)
• Updated Mission 02 Interlude (Jaina's Meeting) [v1.5]:
  - Improved some models and animations in the various scenes
• Updated Mission 02 (Blackrock and Roll) [v1.5]:
  • Improved some shots in cinematics
  • Made the mission overall easier
  • Reworked Searinox fight to now being able to land and be overall more dynamic
  • Now to enter Searinox Canyon the player can use a custom UI designed specifically for that
  • Fixed an issue causing minimap markers that should be hidden to reappear when loading a save
  • Fixed a cheese allowing the player to destroy the orc base before proceeding to the next phase in story mode
• Updated Mission 01 (The Defense of Strahnbrad) [v1.5]:
  • Improved some shots in cinematics
  • Fixed a pathing blocker in the initial camp
  • Improved balance a bit in the various fights

 

[Mr Ogre man]

This really should be Director's Choice

 

[DepRa]

I'm intrigued by the latest update! It looks like I'll have to play through this masterpiece again, which I'm very happy about. Question: did I understand correctly that the latest update only works on the English version? And while you have to wait for the translation

 

[InsaneMonster]

I'm intrigued by the latest update! It looks like I'll have to play through this masterpiece again, which I'm very happy about. Question: did I understand correctly that the latest update only works on the English version? And while you have to wait for the translation

Yes, translating requires a ton of effort, so the best way is to make sure the game is ready FIRST and then translate LATER. This open beta will give my translators time to translate, while I fix any possible bug that eluded my QA.

 

[HankHell69]

I honestly don't really know but I'm guessing it is not working because it is a W3X file and not a W3N file like rr_prologue? Nonetheless I'm sure it will be corrected here shortly. I'm just happy that now we have the Orc Prologue and Human Campaign in custom campaign format. That is hours of playability.

 

[Mr Ogre man]

I honestly don't really know but I'm guessing it is not working because it is a W3X file and not a W3N file like rr_prologue? Nonetheless I'm sure it will be corrected here shortly. I'm just happy that now we have the Orc Prologue and Human Campaign in custom campaign format. That is hours of playability.

View attachment 457265

You have to use rr_human.w3n
Hive is having issues uploading the file (it's 2gb)

 

[Spiros kall]

what it have the todays updatE?

 

[InsaneMonster]

what it have the todays updatE?

I manged to upload the campaign file on Hive.

 

[Sunzero]

Hey InsaneMonster question, were did you download the Guardian Model for the frostmourne mission ? (the Death revenant) It super cool and I would love to use it for a custom map

 

[InsaneMonster]

Hey InsaneMonster question, were did you download the Guardian Model for the frostmourne mission ? (the Death revenant) It super cool and I would love to use it for a custom map

It has been made for Re-Reforged. It mas made by @Mr Ogre man under my commission. Use it, take it from the campaign, but give credits to the project.

 

[Mr Ogre man]

It has been made for Re-Reforged. It mas made by @Mr Ogre man under my commission. Use it, take it from the campaign, but give credits to the project.

Wait, it's not made by me! I simply retextured it and updated a couple of details, but the original model is on Hive

 

[Sunzero]

Wait, it's not made by me! I simply retextured it and updated a couple of details, but the original model is on Hive

OHHH I see, it's the Grim reaper/Wright Reforged Model by Victorz. I love the retextured and the extra details you added. Anyway you could upload that version Mr Orge Man ?

 

[DepRa]

Where can I find out how the translation is going? I want to go through the company with the latest update, but I’m waiting for the translation, and I don’t know how long to wait. + you mentioned that changes are still possible during beta testing of the latest update

 

[InsaneMonster]

Where can I find out how the translation is going? I want to go through the company with the latest update, but I’m waiting for the translation, and I don’t know how long to wait. + you mentioned that changes are still possible during beta testing of the latest update

It doesn't entirely depend on me. So I can't give you an estimate I am sorry.

 

[Mr Ogre man]

OHHH I see, it's the Grim reaper/Wright Reforged Model by Victorz. I love the retextured and the extra details you added. Anyway you could upload that version Mr Orge Man ?

 

[Tipsilon]

Heaps of praise for you Insane Monster. Love this project, keep it coming!

 

[Raddazong]

Öhm... sorry to ask, but:
Is there an alternate Download-Link?
Every time I try to download this campaign OR "The Exodus of the Horde", the download fails at around 50%...
Has anyone else this problem?

 

[InsaneMonster]

Öhm... sorry to ask, but:
Is there an alternate Download-Link?
Every time I try to download this campaign OR "The Exodus of the Horde", the download fails at around 50%...
Has anyone else this problem?

Mmmh I guess it's an Hive thing. Try to contact the website staff, or @Ralle directly!

 

[Celicni]

Every time Kel'Thuzad teleports in his fight on level 4, the camera teleports somewhere up above way out of any action. This is very annoying.

 

[InsaneMonster]

Every time Kel'Thuzad teleports in his fight on level 4, the camera teleports somewhere up above way out of any action. This is very annoying.

This is very known and it's fixed in internal version. Updating this requires a ton of time... so I am accumulating fixes before I push it to the website.

 

[Hersonrock]

I believe you are a hero por putting work in this game.

 

[Anserov]

This is remake of my favorite campaing from original blizzard game. All you need to know is that this remake is just perfect.A product of true love and honor for the original, full of small details, with REAL cutscenes (not just a camera hanging over the character's head), a bunch of models, rich and interesting missions that make you sweat at high difficulty. Thank you kindly InsaneMonster for your hard work. Can't wait for scourge campaing remake! If you need text to be translated to russian, write me. But I can only translate, no experience with the code, sorry.

 

[necrolight10]

I remember playing WC3 back in the old days... I used to play footman wars, melee maps, and many others. I enjoyed the game pretty much back then. When I heard that blizzard was lauching warcraft reforged, I insta bought it. Shame it wasn't what they promised. Well, after being VERY disappointed with the game, I left it there. Today, years later, I just stumbled with this Re-Reforged project, and I just finished the human campaign. Dammit, it was awesome. Thanks for this. Gotta play the Horde campaign now too. Can't wait for Path of the Damned to come out!

PS.: Also, I loved the WoW references! It enriched the lore a lot!

 

[korby]

Hi,
I'm having some issues during the first mission, the game crashes while on the path to recruit from the second village or when I reach Strahnbrad, right after the cinematic.
I've tried reinstalling the game and the campaign, I played with the graphics settings in more ways that I can count, I tried doing or ignoring side-quests, taking only Arthas to Strahnbrad, taking only the footmen or militia, but nothing works. Can't even complete the mission with a cheat, just so I can get to the second mission.
Help? :/

 

[DraeneiWorker]

Wow. The last mission with holdout is kinda hard because lvl7 lich won't let you take his goldmine so easily.
Anyway, campaign is just perfect. Perfect.

 

[Wlarius]

Had it downloaded for a while now, but finally managed to play it.

And I gotta say that this project is truly amazing. Re-Reforged alone makes my purchase of Reforged totally worth it. (And maybe another project, but I praise that elsewhere.) This is how I saw Warcraft 3 when I first played it as a little fry. And it took a FAN to make it a reality, after Blizzard defiled its memory. ONE FAN.

IM is twice the king Blizzard ever was.

 

[Elrath]

is the rest of the campaign in the works or is it just the human campaign?

 

[Ravager16829]

is the rest of the campaign in the works or is it just the human campaign?

The Undead Re-Reforged campaign is also released, but it's currently in progress (only the first 2 chapters and the interlude are done, though it's not 100% yet).

 

[DesMarekle]

Since I can't find a proper place/thread to report bugs, I'm just going to do it here:

• Dargal's ability says there's a 2500% chance to multiply damage by 6 (or some such) - is it supposed to be like that or did you forget some interpunctuation and meant for it be 25.00%?
• During the Kel'Thuzad fight, the camera jumps to the upper left corner of the map/arena after each fel-fire-phase.

I'm currently playing through all the re-reforged parts released so far for a second time - really like the changes with the latest version. Also, obviously, what you do is insanely good overall.

 

[DesMarekle]

After re-playing Hearthglen and Stratholme: Those are still the most annyoing missions in your whole campaign. You created such interesting maps, but it's extremely stressful to actually explore them.
Build up my base, defend against an attack every 2 minutes, repair and re-build everything - and at the same time explore the map?
Build up my base, defend against an attack every 4 minutes, repair and re-build everything, kill Mal'Ganis every 5 minutes, cull Stratholme AND explore the map?
No thank you! What I did in my first playthrough a year ago was play those maps on easy to see everything and know where to find optional objectives and codexes, then re-play them on normal, just rushing through the map. This time, I rush-explored the second half of the Hearthglen map, which I just didn't get to during the first phase of the mission, while Uther besieged the undead. In Stratholme, I tried multi-tasking, but failed the mission the first time because I desperately tried to explore rather than run back and fro whenever Mal'Ganis turned up or was defeated. The second time around I just whosyourdaddy'd Mal'Ganis whenever he'd respawn with two knights permanently stationed in the city before then deactivating the cheat and continuing my exploration of the map. When everything was explored, I faced Mal'Ganis normally and that phase was actually fun.

Here are suggestions for improving both maps:

- Hearthglen:
1. Solution: Reduce attack frequency and increase the total time to hold out.
2. Addition: Make it optional to seal off the middle entrance to the city. This could make an interesting secondary objective (fix a breach in the wall by collecting wood or something).
- Stratholme:
1. Easy solution: Double (at least!) Mal'Ganis' respawn time.
2. Creative solution: Split the level - the first part is exploration of the city surroundings, the second part is a culling-race with Mal'Ganis. Maybe the gates are closed once the people in front of the gates are killed. To re-open them, some objective needs to be achieved. The service entrance might play a role. In this phase, the surroundings could be explored. Then, once inside the city, it's just killing people while occasionally dueling Mal'Ganis. Maybe cut base-building from the level altogether? There could also be a militia in the city fighting Arthas and Mal'Ganis to make this more interesting.

I know you're actually working on the Path of the Damned now and probably consider the Scourge of Lordaeron finished for good, but please consider this.

 

[DesMarekle]

Just finished the campaign once more - even more fantastic this time around.

One more idea for improvement:
When a codex is sighted, create a temporary ping on the map, accompanied by a sound and possibly by a small text message. I overlooked many codices and ended up backtracking a lot. Sometimes, I even skipped through Jayborino's Letsplay of the specific level to see where the codices are.

 

[empleat]

Hard Difficulty is absolutely insane! I farmed every single thing you can possible farm and used items, hero spells. I had all units healthy didn't lose any unit in mission "plague of the Loardaeron" and at the end of map. I get swarmed by like 90 zombies that completely destroy my army. I killed dragon last mission i explored whole map, i couldn't possibly have stronger army. Even skills on units checked everything optimized. Yet i get swarmed just by like 10 times larger army that i can even possibly kill with that, and sadwitched from both sides! I played old W3 on hard and never had problem in this mission early in the first place and i wasn't even using items etc. or later in Androhal. Not sure also how to kill Wagon before it reaches first village when 3 powerful waves attack you at the same time! And at that time you cannot even kill wagons with what you have!

EDIT: i went outside and healed fully and mana and i realized unded go from bottom if you pick up create yet but there is such delay. Still it was rough fight kinda and had to use all spells and items, if i didn't it would go on differently and when you play normally you don't have all this and cannot prepare for everything. Still never had this problem in old warcraft 3. Might not be that well balanced as other ppl say, don't know also how would you kill Wagon in Andorhal before it reaches first village will see. It is easier if you lose couple times and know what awaits you, but that is not well design.

Yeah than i already struggle on Pudge, hard is just too difficult, i will play just on normal, this is stupid...

Even on normal it just takes to kill Uther forever because Bosses get invincibility, and boss fights are not even interesting... Or world boss before malganic that protects frostmourne

 

[empleat]

Don't even bother playing, play original campaign (switch to classic in menu). Takes x times longer to finish same levels. In original game i didn't lost single unit and cleaned locations that very next impossible on hard and have to afk to refill hp on units basically. Boss fights are annoying and take super long are not interesting in any way. Original warcraft 3 has same 10 times more responsive units and original campaign is like 100 times better. It is not even worth explaining, well this mod sucks, it is nothing special even gameplay is boring...

Yeah just finished defending Hearthglen 30 minutes on Hard in old W3 and i cleared even last wave and killed 10/10 litch. But it is impossible in new, you cannot even kill wagon convoy... Balance is horrible also, i don't have problems in old W3... Literally was maxed on 70 supply and cleaned even last wave LOL!

I appreaciate effort but it is nothing special old W3 campaign is much better in every aspect, well it is reforged that sucks! DOn't understand even units are super responsive in old W3 and pathing is not such issue and guess some new balance patch + performance issue mess up pathing in Reforged?

I enjoyed only cinematics, otherwise mod is worse than original game and dull annoying, especially boss fights, even on standard, but old W3 on hard is like walk in park...

Don't get offended just saying... Don't understand how anyone can like this original game is like 1000* better still, Reforged just sucks!

 

[deepstrasz]

Don't even bother playing, play original campaign (switch to classic in menu). Takes x times longer to finish same levels.

If you like and want to play the original, then go ahead. The whole point of this reiteration is not to be exactly as the original. I see you've commented and especially rated very much based on feelings rather than objective points. Whether you like something or not, it doesn't make it better or worse. Please revise your rating or do not rate at all.