Warcraft III - Patch 1.29.1

[StoPCampinGn00b]

Patch 1.29.1 is live on Battle.net!

This fixes the majority of significant issues and bugs that were on the PTR. We're hearing and getting reports of a bunch of custom maps that broke before are up and dandy again, so that's good news.

In the full patch notes from Blizzard, there is also a list of known issues that should be fixed in later hot-fixes / patches. If there are issues still worth reporting that aren't acknowledged by Blizzard, please report them. Cheers, on to the next ones!

Spoiler: Old PTR Post

Patch 1.29.1 PTR

Patch 1.29.1 aims to fix a multitude of issues with installation, broken custom maps, and some faults with the editor. It also releases a few changes such as increasing the BNet channel and clan limit to 255. Please test and see if this patch fixes the issues with custom maps, the editor, GB installation, and other bugs!

Full patch notes and PTR version download:
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/20762147702

NOTE: I will edit this thread when 1.29.1 goes live; no need for another thread when this and other hot fix patches releases.

 

[aeman]

blizzard is really giving lots of love ..... and remaster to this game

 

[DracoL1ch]

So what does this released PTR changed exactly?

 

[chusrubi2]

So what does this released PTR changed exactly?

Omg, he is back!

I hope they release the patch soon enough.

One strange thing is that they didn't include in the bug list that ARRANGED TEAM games are broken.

Polish language is broken too.

 

[PrinceOfThaWest]

I hope for the increased camera view they had on early 1.29 PTR build. At least optional if nothing else.

 

[deepstrasz]

So what does this released PTR changed exactly?

Good question. Basically we can do the testing on the actual patch they've just released.

 

[Xarwin]

I hope that they'll fix the arranged team invitation soon.

 

[RG00]

Will the 1.29.1 aim only to fix issues or they'll add other natives too? As far as I know there are still a lot of natives mentioned in the Producer Update: Natives List thread that weren't added yet.
Also, idk if it has already been said but, I have a small bug since the 1.29 update, when I try to test a map in the editor I can't, unless i saved the map first. It's not a big problem after all but I just wanted to know if this happens only to me XD

 

[deepstrasz]

Will the 1.29.1 aim only to fix issues or they'll add other natives too? As far as I know there are still a lot of natives mentioned in the Producer Update: Natives List thread that weren't added yet.

That will come with time.

Also, idk if it has already been said but, I have a small bug since the 1.29 update, when I try to test a map in the editor I can't, unless i saved the map first. It's not a big problem after all but I just wanted to know if this happens only to me

For me it didn't want to save the test map at all. It worked after going to the editor's preferences and deleting everything but Maps from the Test Map path directory field.

 

[Shar Dundred]

Hero glow for Player 12 is still wrong in the PTR.

 

[muzzel]

Has the image border bug been fixed yet? If not, someone should suggest it.

This probably gets even more important now that we have a mouse api.

(The pixels of an Images right and lower (?) corner get repeated, resulting in nasty artifacts if your image does not have transparent borders).

 

[Khazmo]

Be nice if they'd fix the windows 10 cinematic issues for the campaigns.

 

[A Void]

^ They could just use remastered cinematics that they released on DVD, why use this compressed crap?

 

[chusrubi2]

^ They could just use remastered cinematics that they released on DVD, why use this compressed crap?

I wish they could but, wouldn't that mean downloading them again after each patch?

 

[Tharifas]

I wish they could but, wouldn't that mean downloading them again after each patch?

One would think that it'd mean downloading them once. Why download them multiple times?

 

[chusrubi2]

One would think that it'd mean downloading them once. Why download them multiple times?

You have to re-download A LOT of files that are the same after each patch, why not these ones?

 

[Tharifas]

You have to re-download A LOT of files that are the same after each patch, why not these ones?

Honestly, no idea, but that seems suboptimal.

 

[TKnuckles]

These are contents of folder 1:

And folder 2:

 

[Zordrak]

I hope custom models and imported sound/music datas (mp3) still work on these new patches. I haven't updated to 1.29 yet. Does the sharpcraft editor still work on 1.29? Because i have exceeded the max doodad number in my map already so that i can only edit my map with the sharpcraft editor.

 

[pyf]

Warcraft III 1.29.1.9149 PTR has been released

 

[Yours Truly]

Can anyone post the download here? I'm having trouble reaching the US network to update my Wc3 because my lowkey modem in Southeast Asia cant download the patch.

 

[PurgeandFire]

Fixed the link in the main post.

Can anyone post the download here? I'm having trouble reaching the US network to update my Wc3 because my lowkey modem in Southeast Asia cant download the patch.

Patch is out now!

 

[Jocker]

Is this it?

 

[PurgeandFire]

^Yes.

Just as a heads up to anyone reading this thread, patch 1.29.1 has been released to the wild. We'll update the news soon. Not all the issues have been fixed--they will release another PTR shortly with a new round of fixes and iterate accordingly:
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/20762157875?page=1

 

[Kacpa2]

I have an idea for general quality of life feature....Something like Black Box era Need for Speed games had....EA Trax or simply Jukebox with game's soundtrack and option to turn it on and choose where to play it. For example for Main menu to choose other track, like in TFT to have Reign of chaos theme and on bnet ability to turn on RoC's music and such, and maybe even ingame music too. Something like this would be probably very welcome feature to many people especially those who want to customize their game. Someone could for example use Wc3 Orc theme 2 remake and use it instead of tft theme added, add Arthas's theme to main menu, or use Night elf Defeat theme from RoC on TFT battle net menues.......Just a thought....

 

[Wrath-Boy]

Hi,

1.29.1 is out. Dark Deeds Final map is fixed too

 

[darwin]

I've discovered a bug/feature of the new patch that is going to be a big problem for me. I'm running version: 1.29.19160.

I'm using a custom UI that worked fine before, but now looks like this:

Note that the bricks are not part of the custom UI of course. The custom UI is there in its entirety; it's just no longer stretched to the side of the screen. It looks like Blizz added an extra section to the UI.

Is this fixable? I don't even know where these brick UI textures are in the game so even if I could make a new greenish texture that matches, I wouldn't know where to upload it.

Anyone got any ideas here?

EDIT:

There's a similar problem with my Battle for Tatooine map which places the multi-board toward the center of the screen rather than on the right side:

 

[4rankie]

there is now two more Blp files to edit for the sides of the UI can get them out of the MPQ and edit them

 

[HB.]

They've managed to kill 1.29 replays already, so whatever replay-base was built within the last weeks, it joins the pre-1.29 replays in a trashcan.

Horrible.

So far I've been trying to stay neutral towards them despite their shockingly poor work, but now I can clearly see every next patch they release destroys the game more and more.

Also, their choice of priorities strikes me as a provocation.

 

[Trakya]

In time game will get better, how long will take no one knows, but its better than no update. 15 years old game. Old devs are long gone like Rob Pardo and Cris Metzen.

 

[MooNek]

EDIT:

There's a similar problem with my Battle for Tatooine map which places the multi-board toward the center of the screen rather than on the right side:


View attachment 296966

^This!!
I don't get it how people don't talk about this more. Also same goes for in game messages, but on left side of the screen. Multiboards look awful right now, and this has to change asap.

 

[Kacpa2]

In time game will get better, how long will take no one knows, but its better than no update. 15 years old game. Old devs are long gone like Rob Pardo and Cris Metzen.

Cris didnt work on programming he was artist so war SamWise. Plus even they wouldnt really be super familiar with it from the get go if they didnt work on it for over a decade. Just be patient, new team learned the engine and coding for it already and they fix stuff fast now, not slowly like 2 years ago. Just report the issues and be patient

 

[Trakya]

Why people seems to ignore the slow battle.net download map speed? I can download World of WarCraft with 11MB/s while 5MB map in Warcraft III battle.net i have to wait like 40-50 seconds with 40-60kb/s. This makes no sense. I hope they get rid of that slow dowload at battle.net. Also even the map size is changed to 128MB or 160MB(I truly do not know) the slow load while you wait for game to load is god awful, but no body pay attention to this. We still have to use optimizer's to increase load speed.

 

[Yours Truly]

Why people seems to ignore the slow battle.net download map speed? I can download World of WarCraft with 11MB/s while 5MB map in Warcraft III battle.net i have to wait like 40-50 seconds with 40-60kb/s. This makes no sense. I hope they get rid of that slow dowload at battle.net. Also even the map size is changed to 128MB or 160MB(I truly do not know) the slow load while you wait for game to load is god awful, but no body pay attention to this. We still have to use optimizer's to increase load speed.

^ This... I can't download the patch at all.

 

[Trakya]

well I believe you require some redistributables to make it work. I use windows 7 and windows 10 downloading patch without problems. But I have these files. Maybe it could work for you as well?

 

[DracoL1ch]

Cris didnt work on programming he was artist so war SamWise. Plus even they wouldnt really be super familiar with it from the get go if they didnt work on it for over a decade. Just be patient, new team learned the engine and coding for it already and they fix stuff fast now, not slowly like 2 years ago. Just report the issues and be patient

im sorry but how does "15yo game" can have any "patience"? Each day of unfixed trouble leads to another drop off from online, the more you wait, the less it worhy. I can't see any points in those.

 

[Kacpa2]

im sorry but how does "15yo game" can have any "patience"? Each day of unfixed trouble leads to another drop off from online, the more you wait, the less it worhy. I can't see any points in those.

Were you waiting for update you didnt know would ever come with features noone ever expected for 15 years straight? Putting in such scope is idiotic, We wait here and now and only for 2 months from first time we got 1.29 in ptr. First issues were fault of people not testing fully the PTR, other issues are constantly being fixed and worked on and in far faster response than before.....with 1.27 we had to wait a year for any kind of reply or info to fix other stuff, plus it was also getting through with some changes like migrating all stuff to Documents, and fixes for Wc3 running on win10. Now we get vast improvements we wanted for editor and they are ironed out. It is worth no matter if we wait extra week or 2 for it to be fully fixed, so just stop with that stupid attitiude.

Why people seems to ignore the slow battle.net download map speed? I can download World of WarCraft with 11MB/s while 5MB map in Warcraft III battle.net i have to wait like 40-50 seconds with 40-60kb/s. This makes no sense. I hope they get rid of that slow dowload at battle.net. Also even the map size is changed to 128MB or 160MB(I truly do not know) the slow load while you wait for game to load is god awful, but no body pay attention to this. We still have to use optimizer's to increase load speed.

Depends on various things.... in best case scenarion you will get 1-3mb/s, cross realm with bots always caps at 100kb/s and think it's bot's that do bottleneck it with it there. Lower DL than that... hmm i really dont know why you get it as slow......
About map sizes....reasonable map makers will rather stick to keeping the weight as low as possible as i do. I really didnt see any maps that exceed 60mb(titan lands KoT and LoP are 20-30-ish rn, before KoT was 51mb for some time) Using out the limit with maps now is rather hard and only could happen with excessive import of music or audio. So dont worry. However you're right DL should be faster seeing it at solid 3-4mb/s as limit would be good enough. Cross realm could be also natively supported like cross realm whispers and friends and so on.

 

[Kyrbi0]

They've managed to kill 1.29 replays already, so whatever replay-base was built within the last weeks, it joins the pre-1.29 replays in a trashcan.

Horrible.

Hasn't that been the case for literally every single Patch ever? Replays don't travel across Patches. Yes, it's annoying to lose them, but nothing has changed from the way things have always been. So why the anger now?

 

[Trakya]

maybe because the roll back patch tool no longer works with 1.28+ So then you're unable to roll back patch and to watch replays.

 

[Kyrbi0]

There was a roll-back tool?

 

[Trakya]

Yes, but no longer works from patch 1.28+ Tutorial:wvs - Eurobattle.net WiKi

 

[HB.]

Hasn't that been the case for literally every single Patch ever? Replays don't travel across Patches. Yes, it's annoying to lose them, but nothing has changed from the way things have always been. So why the anger now?

Converting replays between 1.26 - 1.28 using a converter app was a 1 second task (not referring to the patch switching tool, which required a lot of effort). Therefore there was an easily accessible replay database built from 2011 to 2018.

1.29 has turned replay files upside down, killing the aforementioned database.

Now 1.29.1 killed 1.29 replays. And it's not the end for sure.

 

[pyf]

maybe because the roll back patch tool no longer works with 1.28+ So then you're unable to roll back patch and to watch replays.

ReplayKit is a third party tool. Blizzard is not involved in its development afaik.

 

[HB.]

Who cares about Blizzard?

This game is alive thanks to the community and its leaders who have dedicated their time and funds to organize tournaments, set up hostbots, edit the archaic maps, develop apps and handle the problem of hacks on their own.

 

[Kyrbi0]

If there was a 3rd-party tool allowing us to use old replays, then it's really not Blizzard you should be upset at but rather those 3rd-party-tool-creators; they need to get on the ball & fix up those programs. Or new people need to remake them.

And anyway, my point still stands: Blizzard has never done anything but invalidate the replays of a previous Patch. I get the frustration, however, of that process happening so much faster now than it has in the past (because of the relative frequency of Patching).

Who cares about Blizzard?

Top kek.

 

[DracoL1ch]

Who cares about Blizzard?

This game is alive thanks to the community and its leaders who have dedicated their time and funds to organize tournaments, set up hostbots, edit the archaic maps, develop apps and handle the problem of hacks on their own.

Oh u better stop right there bruh, I got banned for a while for speaking like that too actively. People here claims blizz gods and ready to wait for their words of wisdom forever. Who cares about lost souls like we, who believe that community defines the game, not vice versa.

 

[pyf]

They've managed to kill 1.29 replays already, so whatever replay-base was built within the last weeks, it joins the pre-1.29 replays in a trashcan.

Horrible.

So far I've been trying to stay neutral towards them despite their shockingly poor work, but now I can clearly see every next patch they release destroys the game more and more. [...]

[...] And anyway, my point still stands: Blizzard has never done anything but invalidate the replays of a previous Patch. [...]

After patching any video game, it is quite common that both their current replays and savegames now are incompatible.

maybe because the roll back patch tool no longer works with 1.28+ So then you're unable to roll back patch and to watch replays.

Maybe you are using the wrong tool for that?

The current version of ReplayKit (v1.28) supports all TFT patches from 1.10 to 1.28f.
Previous ReplayKit versions with support for WC3 versions down to and including v1.00, are also still available for download

Converting replays between 1.26 - 1.28 using a converter app was a 1 second task (not referring to the patch switching tool, which required a lot of effort). Therefore there was an easily accessible replay database built from 2011 to 2018.

1.29 has turned replay files upside down, killing the aforementioned database.

Now 1.29.1 killed 1.29 replays. And it's not the end for sure.

Support for v1.29.x replays in ReplayKit is hopefully only a matter of time, since Blizzard is not involved in this project afaik.

Who cares about Blizzard?

This game is alive thanks to the community and its leaders who have dedicated their time and funds to organize tournaments, set up hostbots, edit the archaic maps, develop apps and handle the problem of hacks on their own.

ReplayKit is indeed a third party tool. Blizzard is not involved in its development afaik.

If there was a 3rd-party tool allowing us to use old replays, then it's really not Blizzard you should be upset at but rather those 3rd-party-tool-creators; they need to get on the ball & fix up those programs. Or new people need to remake them. [...]

This.

 

[DracoL1ch]

After patching any video game, it is quite common that both their current replays and savegames now are incompatible.

dota2
supports every fucking replay made from 2015 till today. How they did it? m i s t e r y
meanwhile wc3 can't even support the very same balance-wise version or at least provide official tool for converting

just for the record: replay contains jsut a block of bytes with game version, which doesnt affect anything. It should allow to "ffs just run it now, IDC what version it was then" option to ignore that value. Completely. But hey, let's wait till another universe heat death for it

 

[Trakya]

Dota2 is build in Unity? Warcraft III is 15 years old and its not easy to rewrite the old code used by old machines and programs. But I agree the change should happen. Maybe someone can suggest it on the classic forums?

 

[Kyrbi0]

dota2
supports every fucking replay made from 2015 till today. How they did it? m i s t e r y
meanwhile wc3 can't even support the very same balance-wise version or at least provide official tool for converting

just for the record: replay contains jsut a block of bytes with game version, which doesnt affect anything. It should allow to "ffs just run it now, IDC what version it was then" option to ignore that value. Completely. But hey, let's wait till another universe heat death for it

I mean, I agree with you in an ideal world. But:

vs.

I think it's a disingenuous comparison, at best.