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Blizzard posted this job ad last week: Lead Game Designer, RTSquote:Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a Lead Designer to help shape the future of our RTS games: StarCraft, StarCraft 2, and Warcraft 3. The ideal candidate will have an absolute passion for Real-Time Strategy games, experience leading development teams, and a drive to help other designers reach their full potential. Notice how they specifically don't mention new RTS games, just the existing ones. Either this is a new role created just now that's supposed to cover their entire Classic Games division (whatever that even is nowadays) or someone just left. Just more proof of Reforged being rushed to rake in the preorder cash.
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Jun 1, 2020 00:06
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Tubgoat posted:Are Wind Riders now Wyverns or vice versa? I'm reasonably sure either change is consistent with copyright cuckoldry. They were originally wyverns. It got changed to wind rider randomly with all the other units.
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Jun 1, 2020 01:58
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The Orc unit has always been called Wind Rider, at least since the release of The Frozen Throne.
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Jun 1, 2020 02:04
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:The Orc unit has always been called Wind Rider, at least since the release of The Frozen Throne. It was called Wyvern before Frozen Throne. It was the release of Frozen Throne that changed a bunch of units' names, and some units' models. Gyrocopters became Flying Machines (and got weakened/cheapened *severely*... I miss the stronger but more expensive flying machines), Steam Tanks became Siege Engines, Catapults became Demolishers, Wyverns became Wind Riders, Ballistae became Glaive Throwers, etc.
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Jun 1, 2020 02:19
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None of those are copyrighted words though? Or were they just TOO similar?
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Jun 1, 2020 02:35
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changing catapult and ballista is just stupid seeing as those are common terms for siege weapons
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Jun 1, 2020 05:18
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Yeah. Especially since demolishers are just big catapults, and wtf are glaive throwers. In Warcraft 2 the orcs used Catpaults. Maybe they switch night elf ballistas to something dumb because the alliance in 2 used them.
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Jun 1, 2020 05:23
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Yeah. Especially since demolishers are just big catapults, and wtf are glaive throwers. I think the alliance got the ballista technology from the high elves anyway. But I could be wrong.
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Jun 1, 2020 09:26
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I always assumed they changed the names of units that were generic to something more unique, probably for some copyright reason. Wyvern is a well known fantasy creature while Wind Rider is something specific to this game etc etc
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Jun 1, 2020 10:42
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In WoW they're referred to pretty interchangably as wyverns and wind riders. https://www.wowhead.com/item=25532/swift-yellow-wind-rider https://www.wowhead.com/item=93386/grand-wyvern
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Jun 1, 2020 10:49
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It might just be an earlier version of the Grommash thing, where they wanted a name/design they could copyright themselves rather than any of their own infringing.
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Jun 1, 2020 10:58
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Flayer posted:I always assumed they changed the names of units that were generic to something more unique, probably for some copyright reason. Wyvern is a well known fantasy creature while Wind Rider is something specific to this game etc etc Yeah I kinda assumed it was like how Games Workshop gave stupid "official" names to all the factions so they could be copywritten or whatever.
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Jun 1, 2020 16:29
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Groovelord Neato posted:Yeah I kinda assumed it was like how Games Workshop gave stupid "official" names to all the factions so they could be copywritten or whatever. Elf? Nonono Aelfs That’s stupid and derivative, and no one is going to think it’s distinct. I have a better idea. Aelves
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Jun 1, 2020 17:57
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They already had Duardin for Dwarfs. What is it now? Fyreslayer or something ludicrous like that?
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Jun 1, 2020 18:03
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jokes posted:Elf? Nonono Aelphz
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Jun 1, 2020 18:30
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Where does Grubby play? He made a comment about having to play against bots or against battle.net (same thing) so it sounds like he's not playing there. I do see tft games in Gameranger
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Jun 2, 2020 20:13
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Milo and POTUS posted:Where does Grubby play? He made a comment about having to play against bots or against battle.net (same thing) so it sounds like he's not playing there. I do see tft games in Gameranger W3Champions. I've been enjoying his youtube a lot lately.
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Jun 2, 2020 20:18
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I'm glad HOTS died because it was dumb when he was streaming that over wc3.
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Jun 2, 2020 23:02
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgYyGfr36xg I'm watching him play this match and it's the first I've seen him play using the reforged models and stuff. I surprisingly don't hate it? I don't think it looks great but I expected much worse. I like the water elementals
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Jun 3, 2020 07:26
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Grubby's epic mastery of the TC never gets old.
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Jun 3, 2020 09:23
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Groovelord Neato posted:I'm glad HOTS died because it was dumb when he was streaming that over wc3. 
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Jun 3, 2020 10:00
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HotS was the DotA clone right? Did they shut it down or something? I couldn't imagine having blizz resources and shutting poo poo down. It just seems designed to piss people off
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Jun 3, 2020 13:17
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Milo and POTUS posted:HotS was the DotA clone right? Did they shut it down or something? I couldn't imagine having blizz resources and shutting poo poo down. It just seems designed to piss people off The game still exists and is playable, but they killed the pro league (right before Christmas) and dramatically reduced the dev team. It's basically in maintenance mode.
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Jun 3, 2020 15:26
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Milo and POTUS posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgYyGfr36xg To each their own, but it looks like a barely animated mobile game to me. Losing the cartoony graphics just sucks out so much of the charm.
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Jun 3, 2020 20:13
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I don't play any mobile games so I have no clue how good they look. Phones seem like they'd be poo poo for playing tbh
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Jun 3, 2020 20:47
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Oh wait, Wyvern -> Wind Rider, they wanted the focus on the Orc and not his mount.
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Jun 4, 2020 11:19
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Tubgoat posted:Oh wait, Wyvern -> Wind Rider, they wanted the focus on the Orc and not his mount. The actual mount is referred to as a Wind Rider in WoW. It's also referred to as a Wyvern interchangably.
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Jun 4, 2020 11:29
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The Wyvern rides the wind, the orc rides the wyvern. They should be called wyvern riders
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Jun 4, 2020 17:24
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I want a bug where the Kodo part of the Kodo Beast is invisible and there's just a troll drummer floating around disappearing units.
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Jun 5, 2020 03:10
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Milo and POTUS posted:The Wyvern rides the wind, the orc rides the wyvern. They should be called wyvern riders Wind Rider Rider
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Jun 5, 2020 12:10
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Been playing some of that new Command & Conquer Remastered and God dammit! Why couldn't Blizzard put like even just 10% of this effort into their WC3's remaster. Playing C&C just makes me feel how lovely Blizzard is nowadays. For those living under a rock, here's a decent video/review of it to give you an idea. Now let's all laugh at Blizzard some more now. (And sorry if this post comes off as shilly...)
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Jun 7, 2020 21:54
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That's funny that the same company that was hired for the wc3 remaster did a bunch of work on cnc remaster as well (and apparently did a very solid job with cnc)
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Jun 8, 2020 09:45
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Blizzard North + Westwood Studios when??
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Jun 8, 2020 11:02
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So what's the current state of affairs with WC3 Reforged? I loved the original and am thinking of picking it up. I understand it's super underwhelming compared to what was promised, but all I want is the original game sharpened up a bit and otherwise left alone. Is it that, or is it a supremely broken version of a game that was already fixed? Edit: Before anyone suggests I instead get CnC Remastered, I already purchased it.
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Jun 22, 2020 05:42
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If you just want singleplayer for a bit then yea it's fine. Some of the multiplayer stuff that should have been there in the first place is supposedly coming down the road. It's better than its launch but I feel it will never lose the shoddy remake stink.
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Jun 22, 2020 05:52
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George H.W. oval office posted:If you just want singleplayer for a bit then yea it's fine. Some of the multiplayer stuff that should have been there in the first place is supposedly coming down the road. It's better than its launch but I feel it will never lose the shoddy remake stink. That's fair. I'm just looking to relive the Chaos/Throne campaigns really because I'm old and suck at multiplayer. But the campaigns were loving awesome and I loved how of all Blizzard's RTS, W3 was the easiest (for me at least) game to micro with the smaller control groups and some units having auto-powers.
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Jun 22, 2020 05:54
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chaosapiant posted:That's fair. I'm just looking to relive the Chaos/Throne campaigns really because I'm old and suck at multiplayer. But the campaigns were loving awesome and I loved how of all Blizzard's RTS, W3 was the easiest (for me at least) game to micro with the smaller control groups and some units having auto-powers. This was all I wanted from Reforged (well, okay, I wanted them to remake all the cinematics instead of just the intro) and I had a good time replaying the campaigns. Some of it is quite pretty with the new graphics and tile sets.
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Jun 22, 2020 05:57
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Some of the ~lore~ changes that were made to the campaign are kinda fun. Stratholme's hidden bosses are pretty cool. There aren't a whole lot of good changes, though.
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Jun 22, 2020 11:40
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Noticeable changes to the campaigns do drop off after the undead campaign, with the exception of a few levels in the Blood Elf Campaign. But what changes are there are nice. Including naming the captains that appear in the human campaign.
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Jun 22, 2020 20:26
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BlazetheInferno posted:Noticeable changes to the campaigns do drop off after the undead campaign, with the exception of a few levels in the Blood Elf Campaign. But what changes are there are nice. Including naming the captains that appear in the human campaign. I dunno, Gul'dan with a very open, very revealing robe wasn't great (doesn't skip leg day though)
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