Tried Warcraft 3 Reforged
Posted: January 29th, 2020, 1:05 pm
Disclaimer, I don't have reforged and for now I don't intend to buy it, keep reading and you will understand
Seems the release is a shit show, see https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/wa ... es.321818/
Blizzard has "removed" the original game, playing classic now involves playing reforged with "classic" graphics
The reforged installation downloads 27GB~ vs 1.25GB~ original installers, ROC+TFT for patch 1.26, and it has no "playable" option mid-download, full download is required to play
Installation size is 26GB~ vs 1.23GB~
Playing the game requires login into the battle.net program
EotA surprisingly for the most part works, played a 50 minutes games but the AI was winning by the end so I gave up, allied AI still sucks
The performance is about the same at least on my system, big battles seem smoother
Doesn't mess with the old installation, I can play on eurobattle.net no problem
Changes in general in warcraft 3:
The camera, at least the zoom values seem to changed a bit I usually do -zoom 2600 but now is farther than original game, -zoom 2400 seemed more like -2600 in the original game
The audio, Blizzard has added extra new sounds for some units, the game seems to be able to play more sounds at the same time, which makes the game extra noisy
The graphics are less bright in general (and there is no brightness setting) and units seems to float onto the terrain. Many graphical effects, like spells, has been improved or changed, the changes can be seen even with the non-reforged graphics, orc catapults have a new skin, one positive change here is an option that makes buildings and objects become transparent to see units that go behind them
UI, has some positive changes like mana bar for units and +exp floating text, though the UI has big empty zones with the 16:9 change
Bugs:
There is something going on with buildings in construction, they are not clickable, but they can be boxed, also some buildings in construction don't show up, al teast elder treant ultimate while it's building, but it shows up when it finishes building
Buildings with mana don't show the maximum, i.e. the unit upgrade building shows only the current mana i.e. 200/10000 now shows only 200
Buildings seem to die faster than in the original
Seems the release is a shit show, see https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/wa ... es.321818/
Blizzard has "removed" the original game, playing classic now involves playing reforged with "classic" graphics
The reforged installation downloads 27GB~ vs 1.25GB~ original installers, ROC+TFT for patch 1.26, and it has no "playable" option mid-download, full download is required to play
Installation size is 26GB~ vs 1.23GB~
Playing the game requires login into the battle.net program
EotA surprisingly for the most part works, played a 50 minutes games but the AI was winning by the end so I gave up, allied AI still sucks
The performance is about the same at least on my system, big battles seem smoother
Doesn't mess with the old installation, I can play on eurobattle.net no problem
Changes in general in warcraft 3:
The camera, at least the zoom values seem to changed a bit I usually do -zoom 2600 but now is farther than original game, -zoom 2400 seemed more like -2600 in the original game
The audio, Blizzard has added extra new sounds for some units, the game seems to be able to play more sounds at the same time, which makes the game extra noisy
The graphics are less bright in general (and there is no brightness setting) and units seems to float onto the terrain. Many graphical effects, like spells, has been improved or changed, the changes can be seen even with the non-reforged graphics, orc catapults have a new skin, one positive change here is an option that makes buildings and objects become transparent to see units that go behind them
UI, has some positive changes like mana bar for units and +exp floating text, though the UI has big empty zones with the 16:9 change
Bugs:
There is something going on with buildings in construction, they are not clickable, but they can be boxed, also some buildings in construction don't show up, al teast elder treant ultimate while it's building, but it shows up when it finishes building
Buildings with mana don't show the maximum, i.e. the unit upgrade building shows only the current mana i.e. 200/10000 now shows only 200
Buildings seem to die faster than in the original