I... don't get how that's a reply to me (if it indeed is).
Same way a DVD still works. They store the frames of state into the replay, and not the player commands. Difference is likely a 10-100 times file size.
Minor changes in game engine result in subtle state variances. The result is that old replays will go out of sync.
That is still a work in progress.
they also have whole story of player's input, including camera movements, and it only affects replay size, nothing else. You aint said anything.
I dont care, just let me do that, if there will be desync - alright, but most likely there won't be any between minors
Lol. Have you seen the screenshots? It's... Pretty stark.
They are working to get the option back, but it is likely non trivial.
it's because of the windowed mode. I preffer this because its fast to alt tab and game is still rendered. If you want it to minimize as before add line to shirtcuts path for native fullscreen mode
Even the smallest thing can screw a replay up completely.
Well easiest solution would be official version shuffling software or redoing the way replays are recorded to be like Dota 2(incredibly hard so better option is some smooth replay software)
Well, I don't remember any particular game doing it like that. Usually my games went down on the bar and that's what minimizing means.
Well if you turn on windowed mode in any other game it will work like it does now in Wc3. Windowed-Fullscreen(with no window borders) is best display mode to me, alt tabs fast, normal fullscreen makes game stop rendering, pause itself sometimes and bringing it back up especially with Source running games from Valve takes aaa lot of time and may even crash it rarely if too much stuff happened that it needs to catch up with. There are other minor gains from that like fixing screencapture with using just PrtSc button(which may not work on some of the games, especially some older Need For Speed games dont work with that for me and i have to use screen capture software to do that....)
For the record, some info about how Warcraft 3 internally manages replay files against maps can be found here:
Well we should get ingame option to edit binds like......seriously every other game in existence at this point xD
Because it is still wrong... It is like watching a 4:3 broadcast, like Diagnosis Murder, in 16:9. Just not right.
No it isn't invisible, it is probably the most visible feature in the game and makes the models and UI thiner and weirder. I don't get why they changed the screen to that, since it stayed as normal fullscreen for 16 years, and the game was created like that, everyone was used to it, no reason to change that...don't tell me that it was deproportionate because no game developers would make a game have a screen like that and maintain it for 16 years, besides that empty space in the UI is just annoying and useless.
So max clan members is 255 too?
Have you ever owned a 4:3 monitor? Because Warcraft 3 was designed for them since 2002.
No it does not... The field and UI is the same as before.
One could only play Warcraft III using a 4:3 aspect ratio resolution. Any other aspect ratio resolution else, eg 1920x1080 for 16:9, resulted in the 4:3 composition being stretched to fill the screen area. This effectively made the game screen pixels non-square. The result is everything appears stretched out of shape. Most noticeable with the command card buttons as those must be square.
Warcraft III was created with support only for 4:3. This is very different from modern Blizzard games like StarCraft II which were created with support for 4:3, 16:9, 16:10 and a whole load of other aspect ratios.
Except that is exactly why it has been added now... Warcraft III has not been maintained for 16 years. They finally are getting around to maintaining it and adding features that should have been added long ago, such as wide screen support.
Hopefully it is just a temporary hack while they work on an expanding UI. After all Blizzard is no stranger to such a thing as StarCraft II has such a UI.
Blizzard hosts the maps. As such they can offer you download speeds that will saturate most consumer grade connections. I often get >>10 MB/sec downloading.
