Eve of the Apocalypse: Twilight

After booting up war 3 and logging into bnet, I got a patch today. Since this patch when I go to set up a lan eota and set the random races I get a war 3 fatal error. Anyone else experience this or have a hotfix for it?

Thanks

It's completely and utterly broken, we know. DarnYak is working on it. In the meantime, play a different map.

Late fall you can probably expect it to work again, Yak mentioned no sooner than October Which means d may very well come out around Christmas or early next year.

It's gonna be happening to a LOT of other maps at the moment as well. It kinda fucked up all the custom maps.

Did the latest patch do this, or is it something else?

the fact that blizzard failed to fix the bug it was trying to fix AND failed to release the working replacement, is what borked wc3.

Thanks for the heads up. Blizzfail crits triggermaps for 10547(857623 overkill.) See ya's in Oct i guess.

Hey, DotA still works.

Yes, the old version that was still using DR.

I read at wc3c that Blizzard added a compatibility mode for DotA.

The AI on Dota is actually quite good, but it could be my less than pro experience. But it's definitely far superior to EotA's.

I thought dota didn't have AI.. isn't that a custom map that has it??

It might be, I'm not sure, and I don't play much. But the AI on there are actually quite intimidating.

EotA's AI would be awesome too if that's all i had to work on. Hell, I can't work on it at all.

DarnYak

Meh, maybe one of these days (versions) you'll devote to AI. Storm with a competent 10v10 would be freaken crazy.

Doing AI is like making the game and more in thought and work. Take for instance, a "stupid AI" wouldn't abuse imbalances which for winning that's the most logical route, but if such imbalances exist, rather than modifying the AI, you would find yourself fixing that balance.

I almost forgot to mention this part as well, a good AI looks ahead at various possibilities with a kind of a point system and picks the one that leads to the "best", but after that it has to reevaluate and run that all over again to check if that route is even viable anymore then goto the next best route, and so on. In which case it can take a LOT of resources. See Kasparov vs. Deep Blue.