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also sometimes there will just be a bunch of unmoving orbs hovering over the ground, presumably where a battle took place in the past.Kith posted:Edit2: Can TOWA vids linger a bit more on Gold Lost To Upkeep tab? Seeing multiple five-figure numbers there is like doing drugs. yeah sorry i try to but i usually forget. i'll make a point of it. wish this info was exposed in the replay like it is in SC2 replays! i don't have high hopes for net new features in reforged tho.
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i think that’s a comparison someone posted a few months ago that’s like “blizzcon 2018 culling of stratholme preview VS what the game looks like currently”. but i’m just now noticing the 6-wide command card in the blizzcon preview. what’s the deal with that
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clan towa does it again...this time winning a 6 hour and 12 minute mountaineer on Upper Kingdom! here's the replay, here's the vid. there are chapter timestamps in the youtube description the highlights:
 (he blocked me and deleted his messages after we won)  quote:(120:26 / All) Timbx: i am upset
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the combination of no win record and Reforged being fully AT vs. RT means the vast majority of our opponents have extremely limited patience for our bullshit. our average gamelength on most maps in the beta mappool is around 30 minutes for gods sake. shameful anyway iirc we weren't sure they were an Arranged Team until well into the post-perch-assault stage.
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one of my favorite parts of this game is doing something embarrassing to a player once, then later on doing the same thing and getting the exact same result
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Kith posted:1) Why is the combination of Human/Orc preferable to just Human/Human? it's not totally critical to have an orc (human towers are way better in almost all situations, mostly thanks to masonry), but they do bring some nice-to-haves like bats and lightning orbs. bats are a nice get-out-of-jail-free card if the enemy applies a threatening amount of heavy air, and lightning orbs are the best orb for our economic attrition pick off single units style. quote:2) How important are Orb types? quote:3) What are good Neutral Heroes to use for Towa Tactics? quote:4) What stats are most important for certain heroes? (He noticed that Mantles of Intelligence always go to the MK). quote:5) Are there any Mercenary units you'd ever consider using? quote:There is also no better late game assassin than the Blademaster so when it's a hero vs hero stalemate you always want a Blademaster on your side. if you're like me and weren't really paying attention to the balance changes that started in 2018, you can scroll through the patch changelogs (1.29 through 1.31.1) here
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matchmaking is all hosed up on launch day but i can forgive that. what is more amazing is that there is still no ability to View Profile, for winrates or anything else. my first game turned out great though! i happened to be matched with a noob i played one other time four years ago. good chats quote:(0:19 / All) BEARAND: hi Zaphod42 posted:This is whatever the opposite of polished is, holy poo poo good catch, this is a "known" issue (blizz hasn't acknowledged afaik). bizarrely, reforged worldedit doesn't chop up the animations and it looks good, but as you say, ingame animations are badly interpolated or something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vigIq38iRaQ https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/warcraft3/t/please-remove-the-ingame-animation-fps-cap-from-units/13010/23 https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/warcraft3/t/animations-seem-locked-to-60hz/12785
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yes, if you have a version that’s integrated with the modern bnet launcher (i forget whether this started in 1.28 or 1.29), the launcher will automatically nuke your classic install when it “updates”. if you have a pre-bnet2 version, you can just not upgrade and enjoy single player. i also have a 1.30 PTR version installed that works just fine offline
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OK if you want a break from yelling about companies being bad we're still playing sweet games. other than the classic graphics desyncs i think the actual game itself (once you're inside a game and playing) works just great. and most importantly there are billions of noobs just waiting to call you slurs because to them, towers are unforgivably dishonorable here are two games that were fun stomps: this one on Timbermaw had a nonstop action final act which must have been incredibly embarrassing for them (replay) this one on Upper Kingdom had repeated sneak dives by big chim flotillas attempting to...kill mains? (replay) and here were two games that weren't exactly super close, but involved a lot more "trying": on Thunder Lake (my new favorite 3s map), Mata directs us to attempt an experimental choketower. Yes there are zeps but it should be fine. pretty much nonstop fights (replay) a totally classic Golems In The Mist. it feels like 2007. it's good for your soul. and they're zep dropping in your main (replay)
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i think that's a UI fuckup, i have shadows in my classic mode. example
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Floor is lava posted:important question what do you mean "spectating"? in war3, camera movement is client-side only - it's not an ingame "Action" so it doesn't get sent to other players or recorded in replays*. in a live game, observers/referees don't have any kind of autofollow option, and when viewing replays, "Auto-Camera" just tries to intelligently place the camera where the selected player is currently issuing actions. *as far as we know. this was definitely the case in classic, but they've added some new actions to the replay format that i believe nobody knows about. the suspicion is that they're mostly related to the new natives added to worldedit, but there's at least one that shows up in melee games so idk. i feel like it's not camera movement though, because it'd be a very common action if that was recorded. all of that to say: No
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the games keep rolling in i have the flu so i was up at 5am eastern to play some nice morning games with my eurofriends. first, we had a fastclick stranglethorn where there was nonstop action straight from heroes coming out until main mines ran out. this is the game the video iggy linked above is from. Replay | VOD then we had a nice hourlong birthday bash for our birthday boy Mata. we had races unbecoming of a perch and the enemy DK got the blink dagger so we were stuck on the ground on this upking. but it was still a delight. kind of the inverse of the first game - that was nonstop tier 1 early game play all game, this one was 30 straight minutes of lategame antisiege until their spirits were broken. Replay | VOD for this next one i have to rewind a bit because i don't think i posted it here. a couple weeks ago, Iceberg-Slim and i had an extreme 2s game on Centaur Grove versus a decent duo. it went for 90 minutes and we nearly lost it multiple times but eventually pulled it off at the very last second. i'm talking level 10 warden and death&decay killing everything while we repeatedly fall back to backup tower blocks. the talkative guy on the other team, cdawg3x, took offense to me calling him an owned racist noob and after they lost he chatted with me for a while about how it's actually good and correct to say racist stuff. anyway, this evening we're queuing for 4s and i notice that cdawg is doing so as well. what do you know, we ran into him! this game had some of the best chat we've gotten in a while. Replay | VOD quote:(29:12 / All) Vee: adding every one of you to my tk list oh yeah we didn't VOD it but this game was pretty close and we supposedly got reported for our "tact" 
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Telebite posted:When a VPN is enabled (for example by using Open VPN), it takes over the entire LAN on a computer, so that all Internet traffic (web, bittorrent, anything that uses Internet) goes through the VPN when the software is running. one of my favorite things is when someone tries to be pedantic but is just blatantly incorrect
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they didn’t remove LAN, just log out from the main menu and you can host LAN games. the real fuckup is the classic graphics desync. there are some (unknown) events that get handled differently by classic vs reforged graphics-running clients, and that results in an instant desync. when this happens on battle.net, the participating clients “vote” on which fork of the game state to continue with, and the vote-losers get kicked. if it’s 50-50 it appears to be a coin flip. and they didn’t play the last game on tft, they just switched the host and obs to classic graphics. the vote situation described above is what happens when there’s a neutral server hosting the game. when it’s LAN (like dreamhack was), there’s a single source of game state truth: the host client. the host (and the observer, obviously) were using reforged graphics while the players were using classic. when a desync occurs in that situation, the host always wins, the desynced player just gets kicked, no voting. this is what happened to thorzain twice. he’s gotta be pissed about that...he did not look happy after the series there was another notable desync on day 2 - neutron vs lawliet (NE mirror) on EI, lawliet tried to set up an AoW creep at his merc camp but neutron successfully pulled the merc creeps who killed the AoW, then lawliet desynced. after like 20 minutes of deliberation, they agreed to replay the beginning of the game identically to the desynced game. weird stuff
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TGG posted:Ok why the hell can I not just play a 1v1 against comps without making a drat custom online lobby? I keep wanting something to be alright about this remake but what the gently caress. I'm in a lobby waiting for other players to load when it's just me and the loving ai! i get what you're saying. but you can make a LAN game by logging out (open the game, open menu, log out). or you can do a whole convoluted thing to do a single player vs AI game. Unrelated! we played a game tonight against our new nemesis cdawg3x (story here). it was a super close one (vod, replay) that i very much wanted to win. i just got a heart rate monitor - check out the correlation between my heart rate and my APM during this adrenaline-filled high stakes game: 
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the game was broken in a new way for a few days earlier in the week when some (longish?) games would be suddenly ended by the server shortly after the first player leaves (e.g. one, two). but it seems that's stopped for now so we're still building towers! here's a Twilight Ruins from today where we have to fight against two full control groups of dragonhawks: replay | VOD then we played three Bifocal Reverse Gilderbases in a row. well the first one didn't end up being a BRG. but each of these are special delights for us and horrible experiences for our enemies. replay 1, 2, 3 | VOD
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alchemist baby. that would annoying as hell to play against
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two games...one map...two great games hero hunting vs. some depraved tav-ressing item addicts: replay | VOD a heroic last stand, but is it enough? replay | VOD
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Eregos posted:Peon says 'work work' with a lower tone of voice now for no reason. i thought you were a crazy person for convincing yourself of something weird like this but i checked and it's true. Work Work is played back slower in reforged. lol
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Frustrated posted:Did I never notice it before or did Blizzard redo the player colors? Some of them are so close to each other it's practically impossible to tell which players units are which. Purple is especially bad. which purple 🥴 yes, a couple years ago when they increased the player limit from 12 to 24, they added 12 new colors, and with Reforged they enabled them in ladder games. you can see them all here, including their official names some of the colors are unpleasant or similar, yeah. but if the complaint is regarding competitive play, that’s what the ally color modes are for this is also a hard problem i think - they didn’t just poo poo the bed on this one completely. 24 distinct team colors! that’s a lot to come up with. my only serious complaint is that Snow is very close to white (your own units’ color) on the minimap. but again, if i wanted to minmax my solo record i’d just turn on boring rear end ally colors
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if you have a roc and/or tft war3 key associated with your bnet account, you can download and play reforged through the launcher (on classic graphics only)
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chaosapiant posted:Oh that’s awesome! I still have my original WC and FT keys on BNet. So is there any point at all in getting reforged? only if you like the HD graphics/want to play the "new" campaign (barely changed)/want to earn icons&skins. i believe you can earn melee win icons without owning reforged, but you need HD reforged to collect campaign related icons. there is a new map setting in worldedit that lets you set a custom map to SD/HD (normal), SD only, or HD only, but idk what happens if you try to join an HD only map with a "basic" reforged client.
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Tubgoat posted:If I could buy Cartooned and not also Remastered, I'd get Cartooned. But as Blizzard is run by lovely loving assholes, I will have to satisfy myself with Carbot's animations (which are fun and also the punchlines are funny). i thought you had to be at least 13 to sign up for the forums?
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All that is old is new again
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twisted meadows goblin lab has 395xp and toxp is 100 and level 3 is 500. so you would have needed to also kill a skeleton or a little greenie or something
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have you found the highperch "dota replay" easter egg?
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highperching, mountaineering, towering, etc. are a viable strategy mostly because of upkeep so i've never minded it 
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oh i thought this had been posted here but i guess not https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-22/blizzard-absorbs-activision-studio-after-dismantling-classic-games-team evidently the classic games team was dissolved in the fall
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totally agreed that reforged hosed up a ton of stuff in amazing ways, but worth noting that for years before reforged you could not play 3s or 4s AT. it was not possible due to a tiny playerbase and a queue system that basically discouraged searching, and then for a while before reforged they actually fully broke AT serverside. now it is possible to play AT, both technically and in terms of playerbase. we haven’t played for almost a year now for various reasons (including frustration caused by some gameruining bugs like Stun Hex, Bridge Desync, and Serverquit) but that was a big deal for clan towa. we got a solid few months of wigs out of it which was wonderful after years of almost nothing
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:FWIW they seem to have solved the desync issues at least yeah i think they took care of that in early 2020. but remember when the Bridge Desync ruined a major tournament
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in 2007 i was making beer money by cheesing 25 wins (lossbotting to rock bottom MMR and then firelord tower rushing) and selling those accounts so noobs could play in whatever the main dota league was that required an icon
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theres a new patch and you can zoom WAY out
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the rumor is that it’s because of the Honda Grom. idk for sure tho
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Med School posted:So I am playing classic through the reforged client because I never bought reforged but have the old keys on my account from back in the day click Launch Editor in the bnet launcher. right under the big war3 logo
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fwiw mata roasted me for how low octane some of those clips were back in 2008
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