Warcraft III - Patch 1.28.1

[StoPCampinGn00b]

Warcraft 3 Patch 1.28.1 is live
Link to Battle.net post
Launcher / Patching / Installing Issues (1.28 / 1.28.1)

The expected minor followup to 1.28 is here. The only thing missing from the patch notes on the left, is about the order IDs bug. It has indeed been confirmed fixed, meaning maps broken or partially broken by 1.28 should also be fixed. We expect for the mention of the the order IDs fix to be included in the patch notes after Blizzard updates their thread.

We'll add more information here and in Patch Discussion if / when new info surfaces. Stay tuned!

Previous patch: Warcraft III - Patch 1.28

Update 2:
@MindWorX reverse engineered the functions that control the artificial latency in network games, both for LAN and Battle.net games. Previously, the functions returned 100 for LAN and 250 for Battle.net. But as of this patch, both functions now return 100, which means Battle.net latency has been reduced.

(Single player) NetProviderLOOP = 100
(LAN) NetProviderLTCP = 100
(Battle.net) NetProviderBNET = 100

Update 3:
So since we got reports that the battle.net delay feels the same, we've concluded that while the code has changed, it's probably not fully implemented yet. That could explain why it isn't mentioned in the patch notes. The good news is that the code being changed probably leads to it happening for next patch, may it be 1.28b, 1.29, or something else.

 

[Kam]

Please post any issues you encounter.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Hm.

Glad they got that ID stuff fixed.

Looking forward to less anemic patch notes. : )

 

[Deleted member 212788]

Next up, 1024x1024 .blp files? Anyone?

 

[Frotty]

order ids not fixed?!

 

[StoPCampinGn00b]

order ids not fixed?!

Sorry if I didn't make it clear enough. I edited it to stress even more so that it has been fixed, but it's not included in the patch notes as of yet

 

[Dr Super Good]

They really need to improve their patching process. Currently every patch redownloads pretty much the entire game which is about 500-1000 MB of data. Before the patches used to be at most 70 MB.

Why not move to CASC and be done with this nonsense?

Tested and it appears >512 dimension BLPs are still not supported.

 

[klemen]

They really need to improve their patching process. Currently every patch redownloads pretty much the entire game which is about 500-1000 MB of data. Before the patches used to be at most 70 MB.

Why not move to CASC and be done with this nonsense?

Tested and it appears >512 dimension BLPs are still not supported.

I don't understand it either. It is as if the new patching system can't even do differential updates, unless something was so messed up in 1.28 that they had to replace the whole game.

They are even replacing war3.mpq and war3x.mpq which used to never change. All mpq changes used to be done via patch mpq. From 1.27 to 1.28 to 1.28.1 we are essentially downloading the whole game every time.

 

[Strikest]

Finally... I'm really glad they fixed the order IDs, but I can't believe they let them stay broken for a month. Killed a lot of games during that time I imagine.

 

[Dr Super Good]

They are even replacing war3.mpq and war3x.mpq which used to never change. All mpq changes used to be done via patch mpq. From 1.27 to 1.28 to 1.28.1 we are essentially downloading the whole game every time.

I am guessing they lost the ability to support the patch MPQs. WoW, SC2 and D3 before migrating to CASC used a different kind of MPQ patch system in the form of patch blocks which were applied to the main MPQs and archived in folders to allow for replay support. The solution now is to patch directly to the main MPQ files by copying them from a master copy.

Not sure why they do not move WC3 to CASC rather. CASC would only need to download the files that change so patches would be 20 MB odd at most.

 

[Strikest]

Anyone else having trouble applying patch? I'm stuck at 76%:

 

[Dr Super Good]

Anyone else having trouble applying patch? I'm stuck at 76%:

It has to download a few hundred megabytes of data. Depending on connection speed this could take a long time. It took me 4-5 minutes at 10 MB/sec (80,000 kbps download speed).

 

[Strikest]

Well it was fast, took me like 5 minutes to reach 76%. Now it's been stuck there for an hour. Besides, I think I already downloaded the patch via B.Net. This should be the patching menu where they apply the patch, no?

 

[Dr Super Good]

This should be the patching menu where they apply the patch, no?

Nope. You just download a launcher from BattleNet that starts the Blizzard update agent which then downloads the entire game MPQ archives again. The process involved 5 minutes of 10 MB/sec download for me which is at least 1,000 MB of data.

 

[VakarlanS]

The patch is completed for me, but it seems to have the classic warcraft 3 side black bars, even after editing the resolution in REGEDIT, it still did not change. Would like to have some help in this field.

 

[DarK.DooM]

Okay I'm having major issues with the patch again just like I did when 1.28 came out a couple weeks ago. Can anyone help for a sec I think I might know a solution?

 

[_lycan]

They really need to improve their patching process. Currently every patch redownloads pretty much the entire game which is about 500-1000 MB of data. Before the patches used to be at most 70 MB.

Why not move to CASC and be done with this nonsense?

Tested and it appears >512 dimension BLPs are still not supported.

I'm not sure if that's how it really works, i think it says it's downloading everything but it skips files you already have.

At least that's how Hearthstone works, you see a 1.4gb update just for some text and then it's finished in 2 seconds.

 

[Kaijyuu]

Given the usual speed of my connection, I probably did not download a full gigabyte of data.

If it's true that it diffs what you have to what's available, it'd be nice if it gave accurate download predictions instead of worst case. A quick diff shouldn't take long at all and it's nice information to have before committing to a download.

 

[A Void]

Btw, it's "known issues" not know issues.

 

[KILLCIDE]

Awesome! Patch downloaded easily for me. I haven't checked for any WEX issues.

 

[Dr Super Good]

At least that's how Hearthstone works, you see a 1.4gb update just for some text and then it's finished in 2 seconds.

Yes that is because that is how CASC works... CASC replaced MPQ in their modern games because it is easier to patch.

Test Map still does not work... WorldEdit is still incorrectly placing the test maps inside the Warcraft III folder in Program Files instead of Documents.

 

[Wardota2 Gamer]

I like the new updates in Wc3 even though it has bugs Blizzard will keep working and working until they will make Wc3 better.

 

[StoPCampinGn00b]

Added an edit:

Uncomfirmed reports of the battle.net action interval being reduced from 250ms to 100ms (now the same as LAN)

Info sourced from user "ldq" from the WC3c discord.

 

[Spacebuns]

Next up, 1024x1024 .blp files? Anyone?

Oh please, let this be a reality Blizzard.

 

[klemen]

To all people being stuck with updater: happened to me with last update.

1. Uninstall w3
2. Delete registry entries and all files from appdata belonging to blizzard
3. Reinstall
4. Pray it works. Took me 2 days and several reinstalls last time. Absolute insanity.

 

[pyf]

[...] Before the patches used to be at most 70 MB

@Dr Super Good: Depends on one's game locale. As an example:
- War3TFT_127b_English.exe: 80.3 MB
- War3TFT_127b_Francais.exe: 187 MB
- War3TFT_127b_Italiano.exe: 238 MB

 

[A]mun]

Takes quite some time here, not getting full speed sadly.

Maptesting worked
Had to add the font folders into the .mpqs again

 

[puffdragon]

Bliz, stop w/e you are doing with wc3. Stop it, go back, write a real, a grown ups changelog for everything you did since 1.26.

This is unbearable, I have no choice but stop the map development till you either stop patching or start being a adults about your changelogs.

 

[OnyxTheDark]

Gg, New Jass Editor don't recognize TFT once again thx to 1.28.1
Not a major issue, that I can fix, but still annoying

 

[harooooo]

So there is no way to download this patch and launch it offline? (

 

[Dr Super Good]

The patch is completed for me, but it seems to have the classic warcraft 3 side black bars, even after editing the resolution in REGEDIT, it still did not change. Would like to have some help in this field.

You need a 4:3 display to not have the bars. Or you can disable aspect ratio correction in the game settings but then the game looks ugly due to stretching.

I'm not sure if that's how it really works, i think it says it's downloading everything but it skips files you already have.

Even if it does not use the files it still downloads 1GB of data which is excessive. I watched the update process use 10 MB/sec download for several minutes using the Windows 10 task manager.

At least that's how Hearthstone works, you see a 1.4gb update just for some text and then it's finished in 2 seconds.

CASC systems work differently. They show data remaining which is data that needs to be processed. Before they moved to CASC when it said 1 GB the patch was 1 GB of data to download.

If it's true that it diffs what you have to what's available, it'd be nice if it gave accurate download predictions instead of worst case. A quick diff shouldn't take long at all and it's nice information to have before committing to a download.

Any difference to game data means you need to redownload the main MPQ archives, which are ~1GB in total as each is 400-500MB each. Even if they added a silly 1KB button to those archives, they need to be redownloaded entirely which is 400-500MB. Their solution to the MPQ file system mess was to bypass it entirely by performing checks from the normal file system level. Instead of having to edit the MPQ files with changes, they redownload them.

 

[StoPCampinGn00b]

Update 2:
@MindWorX reverse engineered the functions that control the artificial latency in network games, both for LAN and Battle.net games. Previously, the functions returned 100 for LAN and 250 for Battle.net. But as of this patch, both functions now return 100, which means Battle.net latency has been reduced.

(Single player) NetProviderLOOP = 100
(LAN) NetProviderLTCP = 100
(Battle.net) NetProviderBNET = 100

 

[MindWorX]

WEX updated for 1.28.1.

 

[Wasabee]

Do I need legit software for the update?

 

[chusrubi2]

Update 2:
@MindWorX reverse engineered the functions that control the artificial latency in network games, both for LAN and Battle.net games. Previously, the functions returned 100 for LAN and 250 for Battle.net. But as of this patch, both functions now return 100, which means Battle.net latency has been reduced.

(Single player) NetProviderLOOP = 100
(LAN) NetProviderLTCP = 100
(Battle.net) NetProviderBNET = 100

Wow! Good news!

 

[A]mun]

So the ping is lower (which is a big change indeed) and they do not even care to announce it officially???

Did that happen by accident or? Really confusing

edit: going to check that out real quick
edit2: can't confirm, still feels laggy like 200+ms

 

[WhiteFang]

The patch is completed for me, but it seems to have the classic warcraft 3 side black bars, even after editing the resolution in REGEDIT, it still did not change. Would like to have some help in this field.

Take a look in the options and un-tick fixed aspect ratio if it's ticked

 

[VakarlanS]

Take a look in the options and un-tick fixed aspect ratio if it's ticked

You need a 4:3 display to not have the bars. Or you can disable aspect ratio correction in the game settings but then the game looks ugly due to stretching.

Thanks!

 

[micca]

Where can I download it? It says "there was an error applying upgrade". I clicked on the battle.net button in warcraft 3, after the patch was downloaded I clicked on the restart button and it shows me this message. Any ideas what to do?

 

[MindWorX]

WEX has been updated with a fix that allows you to test maps directly from the editor again, which should make mapping bearable again.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Another messy patch... Can't believe we have to re-download WC3 basically every patch. They're starting to take the firefall route and I hope they quickly get onto a better route.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Any ideas what to do?

Reinstall from BattleNet download and try again. If persists run as admin and try again.

 

[micca]

thanks it helped

 

[chusrubi2]

I've played 2 games in Battle.net and the delay feels exactly the same as previous patch.

 

[Selaya]

The base War3.mpq and War3x.mpq haven't been touched for years. Or at the very least, there is no reason to do so, as you can just overwrite stuff in War3patch.mpq instead, so I literally cannot understand why it is redownloading everything.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

The base War3.mpq and War3x.mpq haven't been touched for years. Or at the very least, there is no reason to do so, as you can just overwrite stuff in War3patch.mpq instead, so I literally cannot understand why it is redownloading everything.

Starting to look like they're read only as of 1.28a now.

 

[cacbo]

Update 2:
@MindWorX reverse engineered the functions that control the artificial latency in network games, both for LAN and Battle.net games. Previously, the functions returned 100 for LAN and 250 for Battle.net. But as of this patch, both functions now return 100, which means Battle.net latency has been reduced.

(Single player) NetProviderLOOP = 100
(LAN) NetProviderLTCP = 100
(Battle.net) NetProviderBNET = 100

They didn't do anything about ladder. It's pretty much the same.
This is probably applied when you host games on bnet which nobody does anymore due to host bots..

Also, warden is not running anymore after these patches started... Is there any news on it? Did devs mentioned anything about it?

 

[StoPCampinGn00b]

So since we got reports that the battle.net delay feels the same, we've concluded that while the code has changed, it's probably not fully implemented yet. That could explain why it isn't mentioned in the patch notes. The good news is that the code being changed probably leads to it happening for next patch, may it be 1.28b, 1.29, or something else.

 

[fireblasts]

my world editior no longer works gets a black screen eveytime I try to test a map. but I get the Warcraft 3 mouse change and can move my mouse around... any ideas? it worked on 1.28...

 

[TriggerHappy]

my world editior no longer works gets a black screen eveytime I try to test a map. but I get the Warcraft 3 mouse change and can move my mouse around... any ideas?

The testmap feature is broken in 1.28 and 1.28.1.

It works in WEX: SharpCraft World Editor Extended Bundle