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Kith posted:Yes. There's the standard Marine and a "Terran Marine": That is absolutely hilarious. They couldn't even be assed to import a firebat when replacing their 40k rip off joke unit. Having to wait for the game to boot up every time you test a map rather than just running it on the current instance is depressing. The fact that you also have to log back in every time is hilarious.
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Any idea on how reforged sales have turned out post refunds?
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Kith posted:He does not. Thanks for answering that, I wasn't feeling like opening up the casc viewer, downloading the maps and looking through. I must have mentally conflated Thrall off his Wolf in 'The Last Guardian' cutscene for Malfurion off his Stag.
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Eregos posted:Thanks for answering that, I wasn't feeling like opening up the casc viewer, downloading the maps and looking through. I must have mentally conflated Thrall off his Wolf in 'The Last Guardian' cutscene for Malfurion off his Stag. I hadn't checked with casc viewer because the Editor has everything indexed. On second thought, I don't know if I want to look - I don't know how I'd react if I found the models in casc viewer but unused in the editor.
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I'm really glad I didn't preorder this thing, but, uh, when is it going on sale? I'd buy it for cheap. I held off on buying Starcraft II for a long time because I was mainly interested in the single player campaign and some people said it was terrible. I got SC2 years later in a sale and it was totally worth $30 for the whole thing. The campaign wasn't amazing, but it was good enough that I wanted to play through to the end. Even with all the jank WC3 reforged has shown, I'd still buy it half price if it went on sale. Every few years I get a hankering for singleplayer RTS campaign, and the original WC3/TFT always does (did?) the trick.
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Apr 17, 2020 05:35
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Just play the original WC3, if you have the CDs. You can patch up to.. Whatever patch it was before they added in widescreen support, without losing anything to the remake. Demake.
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Hell, I still have 1.31.1 with widescreen support and it works. Nags me to update, but plays fine.
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I just slaughtered my ally's hero on accident. Korean text doesn't show up in game when you hover your mouse over a unit, which is usually how I double check bad guys in a skirmish, because their text shows up red. His showed up as blank and based on his positioning and movement it looked like he was fleeing me and then I thought it was funny how he wasnt attacking me. If I get banned for griefing that will be the icing on the shitcake that is reforged
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There were 3 huge bugs in classic I was hoping Reforged would fix. 1. In huge battles in custom maps with tons of units, a rendering problem would lead to unit textures/meshes jumping around crazily between unrelated units, resembling javelins crossing the entire screen. Any unit/building texture visible on screen would get pulled into the writhing mess. Reforged should have removed this rendering limitation. Status: Unknown, haven't checked it yet. 2. The biggest thing limiting large AI games / compstomps - when there are too many AI units at once, or some of them are blocked, usually in 12-24p games, WC3 slows down to 1-2 fps. In classic the difference was jarring, the game would instantly jump from solid 144fps to 1-2. Status: Confirmed not fixed. Very disappointing as it makes any kind of large AI game nonviable. It could've been fixed without altering the rest of the pathing logic outside this very specific situation. 3. In giant custom maps like WW3, too many units moving on the map at once would make units randomly stop moving, or stand still and refuse to respond. There's a clear game limitation on how many units can be pathing at once. Fortunately, this didn't reduce the game FPS, but it made giant games less workable. Status: Confirmed not fixed, by Kith. Curious if anyone knows if #1 was fixed. Eregos fucked around with this message at 05:55 on May 7, 2020 |
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Apr 20, 2020 13:50
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3 is not fixed. I got dragged into a game of Custom Hero Line Wars and they stagger just as they used do.
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I decided to go check if there's been any updates to the game lately. No, last patch was on March 18th. I know that current events have affected development and work conditions for everyone but you'd think a large studio like Blizzard would be able to weather such a storm and continue delivering something. Still no ranked ladder, profiles or clans. We're coming up on 3 months since release next week and the sepia colored backgrounds to differentiate Classic or Reforged mode are still there (was supposed to be a temporary fix but I guess it's very hard for the dedicated team to put in new art or some kind of toggle button).
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Apr 24, 2020 11:56
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Why'd they think it was a good idea to make the Wisp look like poo poo.
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Groovelord Neato posted:Why'd they think it was a good idea to make the whole entire game look like poo poo. FTFY
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I mean yeah but the Wisp stands out among the shittiness.
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This is probably a weird question but back when DotA was still the big game but not the only game in custom lobby, wasn't there a DotA variant? I think it was on an snowy map or something. I don't remember much about it (whatever it was) and my quick search for dota on a map site returned over 1000 versions, presumably balance tweak variations.
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Apr 25, 2020 23:33
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Milo and POTUS posted:This is probably a weird question but back when DotA was still the big game but not the only game in custom lobby, wasn't there a DotA variant? I think it was on an snowy map or something. I don't remember much about it (whatever it was) and my quick search for dota on a map site returned over 1000 versions, presumably balance tweak variations. Tides of Blood was a big one, that was in a tropical area though.
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Emnity Campaign was snowy/icy and it ruled vv Oh man thinking about Eota is throwing me back in time Half of Dracula fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Apr 26, 2020 |
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Apr 26, 2020 02:04
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Milo and POTUS posted:This is probably a weird question but back when DotA was still the big game but not the only game in custom lobby, wasn't there a DotA variant? I think it was on an snowy map or something. I don't remember much about it (whatever it was) and my quick search for dota on a map site returned over 1000 versions, presumably balance tweak variations. I definitely played EotA which was some kind of insanely overbuilt maximalist version.
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Apr 26, 2020 02:06
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Milo and POTUS posted:This is probably a weird question but back when DotA was still the big game but not the only game in custom lobby, wasn't there a DotA variant? I think it was on an snowy map or something. I don't remember much about it (whatever it was) and my quick search for dota on a map site returned over 1000 versions, presumably balance tweak variations. There were a lot of different variants ranging from incredibly poo poo to pretty great. Remembering the exact time period might help narrow it down. I remember when TFT came out there were a lot of different DotA clones that came out before the people working on the best DotA game seemed to get a decent version going. I think this was around the time of Dota EX, DX,Void, Outland, Unforgiven and whatnot before Allstars became the big one. Of course this is 15 years ago so I could be completely wrong on some of this.
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Hero wars EE and BG were pretty popular too
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Zaphod42 posted:do it aoe 2 definitive is great i'm just now catching up on this thread, is there an age of empires 2: definitive edition thread? I don't see one using the search function
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Milo and POTUS posted:This is probably a weird question but back when DotA was still the big game but not the only game in custom lobby, wasn't there a DotA variant? I think it was on an snowy map or something. I don't remember much about it (whatever it was) and my quick search for dota on a map site returned over 1000 versions, presumably balance tweak variations. i forget the name of it (dota 2? probably not) but there was one where one team had their base in the middle of the map in like a snow/ice island and the other team was around the outside
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Apr 26, 2020 15:33
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Milo and POTUS posted:This is probably a weird question but back when DotA was still the big game but not the only game in custom lobby, wasn't there a DotA variant? I think it was on an snowy map or something. I don't remember much about it (whatever it was) and my quick search for dota on a map site returned over 1000 versions, presumably balance tweak variations. Could it be Aeons of Strife? That came over from original SC I think.
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time for a joke posted:i forget the name of it (dota 2? probably not) but there was one where one team had their base in the middle of the map in like a snow/ice island and the other team was around the outside That was Dota 2 one team had the top of a mountain. I know the Dota Chaos variant was super popular in China.
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Milo and POTUS posted:This is probably a weird question but back when DotA was still the big game but not the only game in custom lobby, wasn't there a DotA variant? I think it was on an snowy map or something. I don't remember much about it (whatever it was) and my quick search for dota on a map site returned over 1000 versions, presumably balance tweak variations.
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Gildiss posted:Tides of Blood was a big one, that was in a tropical area though. I no joke like Tides of Blood the most of any of the Mobas I played. Unless you count FMVH, a game that nobody except a banned poster on the first page remembers. I think, by the way that this map I'm asking about was just after Dota got big and they might have tried to... expand it and have a sort of franchise. Dota presents, a Icefrog production sort of thing. I don't remember it being good though lmao Drakyn posted:Like everyone else said, there were a lot of 'dotas' before allstars became synonymous with it. I recall playing a version with my friend a few times whose map was circular, with the two main creep lanes running around the edges and converging at 7 and 2 o'clock, and it was snowy. Forget what its dota branding was though, sorry. Ahhhh, this is sounding pretty close.
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I remember being really bad at Tides of Blood
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Mandalay posted:i'm just now catching up on this thread, is there an age of empires 2: definitive edition thread? I don't see one using the search function Omg if you make one I'm there. There is an HD thread many pages back but I think the DE deserves its own. I posted in the strategy thread that I consider it the gold standard of remasterings. I then compared it to reforged because from what I gather that was a big swing and a miss yr new gurlfrand! posted:I remember being really bad at Tides of Blood Were you good at dota? ToB had a real similar skill set but a much broader scope it seemed. If you were bad at managing your hero you could still save your money and instead build creep towers that would spawn additional lane creeps iirc. It was a great way to initiate a push, by having additional creeps show up unannounced at the enemy tower. Man I loving love tides of blood. Milo and POTUS fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Apr 26, 2020 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:I no joke like Tides of Blood the most of any of the Mobas I played. Unless you count FMVH, a game that nobody except a banned poster on the first page remembers. FMVH the vampire hunters map? With the sound clips from Blade etc? Loved that one hell yeah.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Man I loving love tides of blood. It was the best of the dotas a shame nobody ripped it off. The battleships dota was really good too.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I no joke like Tides of Blood the most of any of the Mobas I played. Unless you count FMVH, a game that nobody except a banned poster on the first page remembers. Dozens of us remember Force Majeure Vampire Hunters! Dozens!
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Milo and POTUS posted:Man I loving love tides of blood. Wasn't the guy from Dune a playable hero in that? Man custom maps were a riot back in the day
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Horizon Burning posted:still can't believe how badly blizzard hosed this up lmao at the fact that square enix of all companies is the one who's clowning on blizzard by doing everything they're trying to do except better.
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Half of Dracula posted:Wasn't the guy from Dune a playable hero in that? Man custom maps were a riot back in the day Yeah and he was pretty good too.
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I was always a huge fan of Advent of the Zenith, some crazy fun heroes in there and it was more in the tides of blood format. Tons of custom assets in it too, though I don't remember it being played a ton.
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time for a joke posted:i forget the name of it (dota 2? probably not) but there was one where one team had their base in the middle of the map in like a snow/ice island and the other team was around the outside The one with three lanes? Same guy made a dota styled map about sieging a city? Forget the name but it was cool. TGG posted:I was always a huge fan of Advent of the Zenith, some crazy fun heroes in there and it was more in the tides of blood format. Tons of custom assets in it too, though I don't remember it being played a ton. Man I remember that. Desert of Exile, too. I wasn't a huge fan but I was in the clan with the guy that made it for awhile, there were some real characters.  now I'm sad. 
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Best dotalike map was Age of Myths, that had some wild custom abilities.
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There was a map where you picked a tank model and loaded up with specific weapons, and they would do things like automatically fire at dudes in range or allow you to shoot a big rear end bomb or you could load up on extra armor plating or faster engines. Instead of a tank you could pick an airship that was very fast, but was much less sturdy than other vehicles, etc. Some models had less than 6 slots available but made up for it in other ways. The game ruled and it was the best of the DOTAs but the nature of the game was very much about just deciding on a build than actually playing it which meant there was a "Correct Way To Play" and you'd absolutely get demolished by a guy with zero recourse. And then you'd play as that next game, and then after a while everyone was doing the same poo poo. It was still a really cool game/idea, though. Playing it blind with a bunch of randos was a LOT of fun. SirSamVimes posted:lmao at the fact that square enix of all companies is the one who's clowning on blizzard by doing everything they're trying to do except better. Trials of Mana and FF7R are doing so loving well both in sales and in players' sentiment by completely remaking two very, very old games. Meanwhile Blizzard failed at a loving model swap.
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