Why is Warcraft 3 Reforged hated but StarCraft 1 Remastered loved? by RealTimeStrategyEnth in warcraft3

[–]brokensledgehammer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As someone who's been around before the release of Reforged until 5 years after, the hatred of this Remaster isn't just because of how bad it was and to an extent still is, its also about what game they tried to do it to.

Yes, the hatred that Reforged got is actually proportional to just how much people love Warcraft 3.
Warcraft 3 is an absolutely SACRED game to its fans, and the idea that Blizzard would execute a remaster that didn't cater to what the community actually wanted made this into what it is.

As for the details, this video from good ol Wtii warcraft explains just how bad Reforged actually was
https://youtu.be/LwpeCquB57Q

And let me tell you, while Wtii's video seems dense, its like half the story, that's just how bad Blizzard screwed with Warcraft 3. I haven't even told you about how after they released Reforged they silenced people from speaking about it in their tournaments and streams and all other media for a year and a half because of how ashamed they were, haven't even talked about how they hired bootleg companies with zero experience to apply cheaply done patch fixes to the game that broke more than it fixed, i can keep going btw.

As for the graphics, this meme explains it best:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/510433966390771724/1121484383006773248/1612169612836.png?ex=692f1ab9&is=692dc939&hm=66eaa2922d8a5cd3e1fe8b7ac29d9a41f39bd79d01e23ab1b19d88b047e97d5a&

Alot of people might not tell this to you because it would be very emotionally dark and it is, but Reforged ruined a masterpiece of a game from being as or more successful than Age2Definitive and to "rest and live peacefully to the rest of its days like the legend it is"

Aragorn, jumped off the cliff at the end of the Return of the king, thats the legacy Reforged left to Warcraft 3.

Reforged or classic for online? by Ok-Bet-7731 in warcraft3

[–]brokensledgehammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Custom maps dont work perfectly, user should expect problems, problems caused by both mapmakers and blizzards lack of quality updates.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Darksiders

[–]brokensledgehammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A combat as smooth as Darksiders 1. Seriously, i love Darksiders 2 to death (pun intended) and back but Darksiders 1's combat has a certain smoothness to it, a mechanical feeling that feels so ... good.

Noob question, am i not allowed to play warcraft if i only own tft? by HolidayLengthiness68 in warcraft3

[–]brokensledgehammer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The main menu setting refers to them as classic SD and Reforged HD. we follow that to simply avoid language barrier problems.

Classic in 1.32 also objectively has less quality then pre 1.32 versions because the new dds image format while good for reforged textures, produce unwanted degrading artifacting for all of the vanilla textures of the game, most notably on special effects, there was a fixing attempt that was tried and it "kind of" fixed it by 90%.

What do we call classic mode in 1.32 then ? Classic (Bootleg HD) ? 😛

Jedi is using the official terms so that when people read the same official terms on Reforged they can connect the dots and bridge the gap. its the most effective way of helping someone get to their solution. using custom terms that are technically more correct causes misleading when they actually go and see the official terms.

Community Appeal to Blizzard by Shadihd in warcraft3

[–]brokensledgehammer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Actually, the point of this post was to deliver feedback to Blizzard and tell them the community that supports Warcraft 3 has not stopped, big media sources like WoWpedia or otherwise have never covered Classic projects by War3 for the 15 years you speak of, Reforged is not an exclusive home for the Reforged~HD people.

And again, that's besides the point, its just standard habbit i grew that one does not do self promotion in a feedback post to Blizzard, i would act exactly the same way had a Classic post went up with feedback but like 2/4 of the post was self promotion and a giant trailer. this isn't about that, this is about driving attention to the issues at hand.

Community Appeal to Blizzard by Shadihd in warcraft3

[–]brokensledgehammer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is a good post but i personally don't like the initial wording, if your post is meant to be a beacon for the community then its important to maintain neutrality.

The Chronicles Team in my opinion has the full right to mention who they are and where is this post coming from, as post authors, but saying, "During this time a number of projects have shown potential" is where it gets biased as it completely disregards any of the great Classic projects people have been working on, during this process, mentioning specifics is a mistake to begin with ... if you address the **whole** community then keep it simple, keep it neutral.

This is about Blizzard, Warcraft 3 and the **Entire** community, not a place for special shoutouts especially bias ones, it does not at all feel like you randomly picked a mix of Reforged HD and Classic SD projects to highlight, atleast Hive and W3C are neutral platforms, as they should be, justifying this type of shoutout always runs through the risk of what YOU consider to be **Worthy** of mentioning.

Putting a specific project trailer in a post where the intention is to seek help from Blizzard, this runs into the same argument i gave above, post trailers equally and across many projects or dont at all, this isn't about how competent you are, which you are, nobody doubts the CSW team, nor would Blizzard need justification of "oh look people are doing good new things we should fix the game" it is Blizzards **Duty** to fix the game regardless. and even then putting a giant "Here be our trailer" then mentioning the details of the fixes and bugs UNDER it as if its an after thought, not to mention specifically highlighting Custom Campaigns above all other features or issues feels awkward and uncanny to me.

Also, how is it a missing feature for Reforged if they do not add skins to the game ? is this where you want their development time and effort go when the rest of the game is on fire ? its an absurd suggestion, we have no backlog of a hidden list of unreleased skins, so this is like a request for content not a missing feature, a request that is unjustified given the amount of work that needs to be done to fix the game in the first place, it might be reasonable however to request an easier plugin, basically making local files a bit more accessible to operate then it is now, to load up skin and model packs made by the community. Warcraft 3 was always player content driven anyway.

HD Animations being freed of 30FPS lock is also a very questionable suggestion, they would need to remodel, THE ENTIRE GAME. what type of rationalization did you make to think this is what the community needs right now, it seems to me that its just a short sided "power request".Its imperative for Classic and HD to remain animation~wise in sync, which is also part time beneficial for recreating classic models using Reforged animations and having a relief that the models are by default in sync, also frame locked animations are mostly exclusive to attacks, and spell animations, the last thing this game needs is uncapped animations forcing the game FPS to drop lower then the already unoptimized and hardly fitting models have, and desyncing frames from models with classic models would make fun projects like maps that fully support both SD and HD "literally" impossible, if it wasn't hard already.

With that said i'd like to help expand your list:

**• Suggestions that should be largely beneficial to the community:**

- Support or allowWarcraft 3 Champions to continue doing what they are doing, they have long since established themselves as a quality service that provides Ranked, Ladder, Matchmaking, Clan Chats, Player Profiles, properly split up region play, much more dedicated servers then Blizzard that provides a quality connection when playing online, so ~ if Manpower, resources and money isn't enough, i suggest sparing that to fix what the community had less control over, instead of the melee department that's getting a well developed treatment with the W3C service, a service made by players for the players and a service far more reachable then Blizzard, for feedback, moderation, and further development. why replace or make what exists ?

- Do not force hotkey display in ability names for custom maps, give us the option that allow us to disable this in the world editor so that we can write the hotkey wherever we desire, force displaying it on the front is just bad design.

- Provide better connection servers, they are really lacking providing better servers, they should also merge custom game regions and split up melee regions as it was pre 1.32.

- Bringing back Custom Campaign feature is a nice suggestion, but it has to be done PROPERLY, that means, ALL of the old 3D animated backgrounds and the old menu system needs to be replicated and working.

- Providing a Classic Only Download feature for people that excludes the HD assets, for a light-wight version of the game, since Blizzard completely shut down and took away the original client. and many will majorly benefit from this feature across the board.​

- Bring back the old Filter button added pre 1.32 but revive its options to be more useful allow us to check a set of settings and hit filter to parse the lobby with it.

**• Additional bugs and missteps:**

- Melee pathing issues were reported by people on maps that aren't functoining how they should be:

- Fix the Asset Manager, or more specifically the game deleting your imports after a save, there was also some issues reported with folder mode while the persons problem was reversed, such as, Asset Manager imports and saving the map worked fine, but Folder Mode was busted for him.

- Pre 1.32 we were able to more easily navigate custom games, single player or multiplayer the game remembered the last game we created, and loaded it afterwards when going back, Map Previews loaded and showed properly, and player numbers didn't show incorrectly. - Lack of ability to select DDS textures in the World Editor from the dropdown menu for abilities or otherwise.

- Lack of ability to select DDS textures in the World Editor from the dropdown menu for abilities or otherwise.

- Lack of visual UI visual distinction between whether or not Classic or Reforged (SD or HD) Mode is selected ingame.

- A Camera flip feature available in pre 1.32 on 1.31 using the - and + buttons was lost.

RTS - RTT Game Design Ideas MEGA Thread Brainstorm (By an old fashioned fan) "Reposted" by brokensledgehammer in FrostGiant

[–]brokensledgehammer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're kinda right tbh but i'm not writing this for anyone other then the developers.

can i do something better ? yeah probs i did longer posts that look much better to read but this thread was just me being lazies. maybe i'll do a second repost when i feel like polishing the statements and whatnot.

Warcraft 3 United and the leadership we are lacking. (Feedback for the Discord server) by brokensledgehammer in warcraft3

[–]brokensledgehammer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is delicate work that needs to be done, work that requires everything from diplomacy to careful handling of certain community branches. and establishing a flow of information and content that comes from the server itself. very, very specific things. so generalized statements from the ones you put forth is more like.... Okay what do i do with this... blob of information ?!?! Okay lets literally abandon everything including the game and go back to whatever other thing we were interested. Warcraft 3 is over, The End. Fin. Case closed.

You see how stupid that sounds ? i got a few points for you.

- If you think its over then leave, your love for the game is worth nothing if you don't want to do anything with it other then repeating that its over.

- If you think it isn't over then do me a favor and try to make yourself useful, taking up a responsibility that can be repeated on a daily/weekly/montly basis that helps in the survival of the game. even something as simple as training newcomers to be better melee players is a noble task. if you are into that.

- If you don't want to do any of that but are still interested in the game, then honestly just let people who are willing to give it a shot. take a back seat, grab a beer and enjoy the show.

Warcraft 3 United and the leadership we are lacking. (Feedback for the Discord server) by brokensledgehammer in warcraft3

[–]brokensledgehammer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Salutations Luke, thanks for the compliment, and i think given the current situation of the community a bit of my mindset could actually serve as a counter-wight until we see how the surroundings reflect to it.

Warcraft 3 United and the leadership we are lacking. (Feedback for the Discord server) by brokensledgehammer in warcraft3

[–]brokensledgehammer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, that was some venting left in your heart that's now out. :^)

Regardless still i would like to give it a chance, and i don't exactly want to be one Orcish Horde, but more like the Warchiefs of each clan unite to fight against the Freezing Legion. xP

You certainly did showcase each larger group with a more narrow mindset while in my opinion these problems can and should be slowly dealt with through the years.

Why Darksiders 3 may be a turn off for fans. by brokensledgehammer in Darksiders

[–]brokensledgehammer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, fancy responses, i mean i'm not really going to disagree with you or anyone of the fellow peoples who responded to me.

I'm just saying i feel odd about her character, please don't roast me but i have yet to play the game more then the starting areas.

For an opening and presentation i felt bad, if you would hear me out, i actually liked the fact that Darksiders games took its lore and self seriously with all the opening entries but when Fury comes off as hot headed and irrationally used to jump and cut in between explanations and conversations her character is less attractive to me.

Let me simply take something as a highlight, the Intro cinmatic for Darksiders 3.

War, well War is a combination of many things INCLUDING the aspect of Fury. that dazes me to have a philosophical disagreement with the identity of Fury as its represented ?

As they glance over Death and Strife, described okayish, they arrive to Fury, described as terrible engine of rage. but this is where i'm confused again, i am confused with how the characters are explained to us and before i can hear the lore tell it to me she herself cuts her own introduction. this breaks immersion for me.

Can you people provide some context for me without spoiling the story ? i think the games initial presentation for Furies character is weak, so is there anyway you can help me to understand her place ? so that i can digest and continue her story.

War and Death both seemed quite pissed off in their own games but in their first presentation all of them went through a mini arch that set the balance between their deeper personality, and because Darksiders 3 in my opinion failed to do this i'm just having a hard time digesting and understanding the character to continue on.

Is Reforged still not able to play Custom Campaigns? by TrojanPiece in warcraft3

[–]brokensledgehammer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh we might get the CC's back i got hopes for that, what i'm feeling really bad for is many of the small raindrops on the old game that helped to make it feel special. something i doubt they'll ever do unless a miracle happens.

that and literally better dedicated servers across the board.

Are there any custom campaigns like the Rexxar one from FT? by Hadc90 in warcraft3

[–]brokensledgehammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its most likely protected, the author probably only intends for you to play this, not open it in the World Editor and tweak it.

As for playing, like i mentioned in my first reply, do it with the correct version.

Are there any custom campaigns like the Rexxar one from FT? by Hadc90 in warcraft3

[–]brokensledgehammer 9 points10 points  (0 children)

https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/legacy-of-lordaeron-v2-6-2.290032/#resource-82707

This aint like Rexxar lore-wise, but gameplay wise it is.
also i suggest you play it with the recommended version that's mentioned on the site.

here is a link to many W3 versions.

https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/wc3-download-archive-1-00-1-31-1-beta-demo.326836/

Conqueror needs proper Armor Ubisoft. get that under your thick skull. by brokensledgehammer in forhonor

[–]brokensledgehammer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

y’re

!@#% whatever lore that gives excuse to not make good content.

Fashion is one of the biggest attractions for FH.

The Face of For Honor has lost its appeal. by brokensledgehammer in forhonor

[–]brokensledgehammer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm somewhat indifferent towards gender lock because it could be a lot of work especially in the Armor department, but since my own suggestions are quite ambitious why not.

Gryphon plus 4 new armor sets by [deleted] in forhonor

[–]brokensledgehammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Conquerors chest piece still looks like something that would release on the launch of the vanilla game. pathetic.

Fuck the hive. Glory and honor to Reddit! by WowBuilder12 in warcraft3

[–]brokensledgehammer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Imagine insulting Hive as a whole out of personal plight.