Welcome to Warcraft

[NhazUl]

Just tell me why I see Diablo on this SC mod.

 

[Trillium]

...continuing the 'blizz fuck their games up before release' theme =)))
recently gave a shot through WoW alpha screenies... alpha models were damn cool, some of them better than the ones used in WoW =))
1) human models were more realistic. more cartoonish, yes, but that not really a reason to make a crap put of it
2) the default troll model was replaced with what we have now. later it was reskinned and turned into TBC Forest Troll (look here)
3) female dwarf model was way better (look here)
4) female nelves had better face tatoos (look here)
5) succubus wore less armour =)) (look here)
6) infernal looked much cooler (look here)
7) female nelf faces looked better (look here)
that's it for now =))))

Combat Log:
Nerd Rage fades from Trillium.

 

[NhazUl]

I extracted some beta tilesets... Here's the City Lordaeron one. I'll add the rest if I have time.

 

[Verhalthur]

Trillium, it was much lower poly and had much lower res textures.
And the dwarf female? Bahahahahahahhaaa

 

[Trillium]

god, those tiles are godlike... Brick and White Marble look much more realistic then the current ones, Round Tiles look smoother and hence are more useful for palace-like terrains and Square Tiles, while looking rather weirs, are very cool (seems like they are missing a bit of tile variation 'cos current Square Tiles allow only 2 variations, right?)

 

[Hallfiry]

Ah, the good old Welcome to Warcraft thread,
I've got something for you guys, some logos, nothing special, but nice

EDIT: Picture was wrong, it wasn't ECTS 2001, it was E3 2001

 

[Deolrin]

"Website Logo 2001" and "ECTS 2001" look best to me, to be honest.

 

[Hallfiry]

Yeah, I've got something new from the history of warcraft 3, the first 3 minutes of an announcement by Rob Pardo at ECTS 1999. It's not the whole audio file, since i could not recover more of it, but it's an important part of the puzzle I think.

EDIT: Here is the holy grail of Warcraft videos, the 90 seconds video that the guy from the betacenter website couldn't find, the Korea gameplay:

 

[NhazUl]

These trees, man.

Also, notice the archery range building at the beginning.

Again thank you, Coolman21.

 

[Hallfiry]

Today's a good day for uploading, here's an other one, this time an official preview from vivendi:

oh, and a german one:

Transcript of what he says: The impressing intro belongs to Warcraft III, the RPS hope of Blizzard. We filmed some of

the most exciting scenes for you on the e3.
We begin with the orcs, one of the five races in the game. Against earlier announcements,
there will be no sixth race. Four of the races are already known, Blizzard still keeps one
a secret. There are the Demons, Orcs and the - wait, we'll show you the missing two very
soon. Meanwhile, we've arranged a team of fighters. These will precipitate themselves
together into the battle. As you see, the perspective on the battlefield always stays the
same, Blizzard abdicated camera tricks. Into the battle! This mini-settlement belongs to
neutral units, wich you don't have to attack, but if you do, e.g. for making booty, other
neutral villages will behave significantly angryly. The neutral enteties don't have to
belong to one of the five main races. These are for example representatives of the Trogs,
a tribe of fish-creatures, plus one of their buildings. The blue guys that our troop
encounters are very well one of the main races, the humans, and because we control the ors
right now, are they our enemies. So our very excitable warriors heavily spank them.
Let's change to the side of the humans. Out of the fancy tower comes a wizard. He'll now
demonstrates a defense spell, that increases the defence value of the knight. Two of our
units deal with the local harasser. A musketeer, the standard ranged fighter of the
humans, helps the heavily armed warrior. The little skirmishes with the map dwellers give
additional gold and [???], but attention, new units are said to be expensive, so keep an eye
on your fighters. We enter the territory of the last race, undead. The pale deadmen have a
nice gameplay trick, they don't build any buildings, and so they can't recruit new
warriors, instead they resurrect fallen enemies. And integrate them into they army, as you
can see here. These two Death Knight would be a very strong enemy for our paladin,
fortunately the man of the good side has special spells against the dark side. this spell
sends the undead back to where they came from. Uhm, to defeat two Death Knight is nice,
but that up there is an undead Anti-Paladin, in a way the King Kong among the sprit
creatures, but our brave little warrior tries it... say thanks zombies, you have a new
fellow for your army.

 

[Deolrin]

Look at those cliffs... And trees... :O

 

[Hallfiry]

Today's my youtube upload day I think:

EDIT:
And there was a Europe Tour in 2001:

 

[Dr Super Good]

Looking at the europe tour 2001, the changes were because of low FPS (too demanding for the time).

 

[Hallfiry]

And here are two more videos:
A cinematic making of from 2001:

And the cinematic making of from the Collector's Edition from 2002:

 

[NhazUl]

Looking at the last cinematic... Why is Michael Bell not playing Medivh, but only providing his voice?

 

[Hallfiry]

And some more gameplay:
From e³ 2002:

EDIT:
And here is some cinematic footage from E3 2001:

 

[NearbyHermit]

Awesome material,thanks for the support man

I've lately found some Diablo 2 beta material ,I'm planning on presenting it to the world too.

 

[Hallfiry]

Here is some Bill Roper action:
From ECTS 1999:

and E3 2001:

 

[NearbyHermit]

Man,I'm asking you,where do you get all this?

 

[Hallfiry]

Well, I used the internet archive very much, there I visited the old warcraftiii.net site and there was a list with files, on another site, that I can't remember there was an even bigger list, on the old blizzard.com/war3/ page from 2000 there was a list with all recently published articles about wc3, when i saw a filename and a file was not on archive.org, I googled the file, I bought around 200 magazine cds from germany on ebay, some videos I found on myvideo and shortened them, because the warcraft part was only a small part of the video, I googled very much for e3 and ects articles and videos, searched on game magazine sites, wrote to journalists from that time and so on

 

[Kwaliti]

Well, I used the internet archive very much, there I visited the old warcraftiii.net site and there was a list with files, on another site, that I can't remember there was an even bigger list, on the old blizzard.com/war3/ page from 2000 there was a list with all recently published articles about wc3, when i saw a filename and a file was not on archive.org, I googled the file, I bought around 200 magazine cds from germany on ebay, some videos I found on myvideo and shortened them, because the warcraft part was only a small part of the video, I googled very much for e3 and ects articles and videos, searched on game magazine sites, wrote to journalists from that time and so on

Holy shit, you're awesome!

 

[Hallfiry]

As you all know I've got the Warcraft 3 Collector's edition with all of its features. One of these is a concept art slideshow on the included DVD. Here are all images from that slideshow:

65 Images

 

[Kwaliti]

Holy shit, wrap those images in a

Hidden

tag D:

 

[Deolrin]

Hmm... I can see a few images from where a few icons came from, and some of those are from Sons of the Storm.

 

[Hallfiry]

I tried the thing with the

Hidden

, even before you posted it, i also tried spoiler and hide, but it doesn't work, am I doing something wrong?^^

 

[Kwaliti]

[hidden=Click]pictures here[/hidden]

 

[Hallfiry]

EDIT: fantastic, the hidden works now

oh, and here's another video:

 

[Kwaliti]

The first tag isn't right. It's supposed to go

TextHere

, not

Hidden

.

 

[NearbyHermit]

The first video I came across,the thing that started this thread!

I was away for a long time,but did any of you found the game?

 

[Hallfiry]

Actually nobody found "the game", but I found the beta many people downloaded it and we found out many things about Warcraft from it.
And just to say something about your video, I think I've got the same but without the gamespot G.

 

[NearbyHermit]

Actually nobody found "the game", but I found the beta many people downloaded it and we found out many things about Warcraft from it.
And just to say something about your video, I think I've got the same but without the gamespot G.

I ''stole'' it from an old website along with the pictures I uploaded in the first thread !

That was long time ago,I found someone who has the game,that made videos of it on Youtube!
But he claimed he lost it .

 

[Hallfiry]

Nobody on youtube made videos of a prebeta version at home. These versions never leaked, they where only playable at ECTS, E³ and on Bill Roper's computer when he visited game magazines.

 

[NearbyHermit]

Nobody on youtube made videos of a prebeta version at home. These versions never leaked, they where only playable at ECTS, E³ and on Bill Roper's computer when he visited game magazines.

Not pre-beta,but close !

 

[Hallfiry]

It's beta, and everybody has it, not only elzabbul.
But to close the topic, I'll fill the prerelease material thread with all stuff I ever found, I think I'll add around 4 Videos every day and 20 screenshots, some photos and around 4 articles. So in some weeks the thread will be complete.

 

[NearbyHermit]

It's beta, and everybody has it, not only elzabbul.
But to close the topic, I'll fill the prerelease material thread with all stuff I ever found, I think I'll add around 4 Videos every day and 20 screenshots, some photos and around 4 articles. So in some weeks the thread will be complete.

Good luck !

I'll try to find more stuff as well.

 

[Hallfiry]

I don't think you can find more, since my "Warcraft 3 archive" contains more than 750 videos, images, sound files and magazine articles and I've still got many old articles from the internet spread all over my harddrive.

 

[NearbyHermit]

I don't think you can find more, since my "Warcraft 3 archive" contains more than 750 videos, images, sound files and magazine articles and I've still got many old articles from the internet spread all over my harddrive.

Ah man you're so greedy

Good job on finding all this !

Do you have pictures of those magazines or are they just text?

If it happens to be text,please post one,I'm dying to read something about this subject

 

[Hallfiry]

I allready began posting those vids, just go to the prerelease material thread, I'll post material there untill my complete collection is online. I post the magazines as swf, so you can view them online. Many of the Magazines are in german, so we'll have to translate them for those who don't speak german. When all magazines are uploaded as swf, I'll make a pack with all of them in pdf and upload it as attachment.
Prerelease material

 

[NearbyHermit]

I allready began posting those vids, just go to the prerelease material thread, I'll post material there untill my complete collection is online. I post the magazines as swf, so you can view them online. Many of the Magazines are in german, so we'll have to translate them for those who don't speak german. When all magazines are uploaded as swf, I'll make a pack with all of them in pdf and upload it as attachment.
Prerelease material

Lol,man rep isn't enough to thank you for doing this,good job !

So far,this thread has done its fair duty

I have a question,have you ever stumbled upon :

A year ago,I posted in this thread about this game,but people were speechless and you weren't around in that time,I believe,so do you know anything about it?


Off-topic:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Dysic
http://www.youtube.com/user/war2combat

If someone is interested !

 

[Hallfiry]

Yep, I know some things about it. The game was never released, not even a beta. One guy, who I can't remeber who he was, claimed that he and his group manage that games like Warcraft adventures are canceled, because they are professional prerelease testers and are asked by firms to test games and say what they think about it. The next thing is that there were acctually even german soundfiles for thrall and so on. I think that was in a video from the late 90s, that was published by the gamestar magazine. I think it was just for magazine preview that they made these sounds, but who knows. The same video as in german also exists in english. There are some screenshots that were released. When you visit the very old blizzard.com site or battle.net at archive.org, you will see there some news about the game that were posted and the game site of it, just like war2 or diablo1 had one. At the end of the Warcraft 3 collectors edition art book, there are the warcraft box covers from war1, war2 and a conceptional for war3 and next to them there is the boxart for warcraft adventures.

EDIT:
Here are the two pages:
War1 to WarAdv

The forgotten Warcraft 3 box cover:

ULTRA EDIT:
I attached the ultra high res version with improved colors.

 

[niika]

that nightelf looks like a vampire :O

 

[NearbyHermit]

That night-elf is a cool night-elf !

Long live the betas

 

[Hallfiry]

I updated the Prerelease material thread
And please post comments!

EDIT: I found a Warcraft 3 beta editor for version 1.21 and a model and texture viewer for the beta mpq.

 

[NearbyHermit]

I updated the Prerelease material thread
And please post comments!

EDIT: I found a Warcraft 3 beta editor for version 1.21 and a model and texture viewer for the beta mpq.

Sweet

Those models are awesome,I'll have to say Blizzard ****ed up a brilliant idea for a new one

 

[Dr Super Good]

EDIT: I found a Warcraft 3 beta editor for version 1.21 and a model and texture viewer for the beta mpq.

Where is this beta version mpq you talking about. Also why bother with a beta version of 1.21 WE.

 

[Hallfiry]

@Dr Super Good: You dhave not downloaded the beta, yet? Visit my youtube profile and read the details of "Warcraft III Alpha Preview" or "Warcraft 3 Alpha 2001". There you will find the download links and I think my pack includes all patches up to 1.21 of the beta. And it's not the beta version of the 1.21 editor, it's the editor for the "warcraft 3 beta version 1.21".

 

[supertoinkz]

guys
some information regarding warcraft 3 beta

Link

explore wc3 beta through the warcraft 3 links on the left

 

[NearbyHermit]

guys
some information regarding warcraft 3 beta

Link

explore wc3 beta through the warcraft 3 links on the left

Wow

This website is golden !

 

[Hallfiry]

I don't want to be unfair to the guy who made the site supertoinkz posted, but it's nothing special. Around the time from 2000 to the end of 2001 there were many sites with these collected unit stats and so on. One problem of the site is that the screenshots are downscaled and have lost much quality. The news archive is quite nice, but also nothing special and they don't even have videos. Of course there are more screenshots on that site than in my Warcraft 3 prerelease material thread, but only because it's very hard to bring the screenshots in the correct order.
I hope you understand that I just don't like this euphoria for nothing.

 

[NhazUl]

I saw some techtree and ability properties for the first time (like, for example, the full skill set of the arch druid). But you do have reasons to not like NearbyHermit's euphoria because you've gathered much more material.

Btw, about the beta editor... It works only under patch 1.21, and then I can't run the game because it requires 1.03. Also it seems that all content was patched in Beta 1.21 to be identical with the retail version. :/