PREVIOUS THREAD: >>11959663This thread is dedicated to the discussion of any classic games made by Blizzard Entertainment; those being every game released from their early days as Silicon & Synapse to the release of Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne (2003). Fans of Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo and even older series like The Lost Vikings, Rock N' Roll Racing and Blackthorne are all welcome here.For a short history of Blizzard and a list of all their games, check out this wiki:>https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/List_of_Blizzard_Entertainment_games- COMMUNITY PASTEBIN -You can find custom content made by other /vr/ users, as well as download links, mods, guides and more by visiting our community pastebin:>https://pastebin.com/nsWYpXG3Relax, talk and play. Let's have a good thread.
Changed/updated:- added anon's Testing Waters III map- replaced dead download link for Diablo 2- added link to Cactus, a Diablo 2 version switcher- minor grammatical improvements
I wish there was a source port of Warcraft 3
>>11998158why? the game works fine on modern versions of windows. it's not like you have to emulate it or some shit.
>>11998168full on mods and server browser centralization
>>11998183fair
>>11998158I wish SC had an editor as powerful as WC3's.
>>11999559WC3 was both simple and had advanced options
>>11999684It is vastly easier to make a decent playable map in Star Edit than World Editor, let's be real. World is very intuitive and well-designed but it has way, way more options and menus to sort through, and Starcraft lacks things like deformable landmasses that add a lot of complexity to Warcraft's maps; not to mention, assigning teams/controllers to factions and setting base locations is a lot more complex in WE than SE.
*ahem* FUCK PROTOSS
>>12000143If I get to dream big about my lofty desires, I would also say something a conversion tool that lets you put in any RTS game map and have WC3 do some tricks to bring other games into it. Imagine Dune or Command & Conquer just having WC3 mechanic campaigns to play
>>12000210>I would also say something a conversion tool that lets you put in any RTS game map and have WC3 do some tricks to bring other games into it.
>>11998158Never mind Warcraft 3, I'd like to see proper sourceports for Warcraft II and Starcraft. 90s Blizzard is best Blizzard. Diablo II was pretty good too, despite being early 2000s.
>>12000243> I'd like to see proper sourceports for Warcraft II and StarcraftNever forget.Never forgive.
>>12000268Leaked source code is legally useless.
>>12000278No one can prove that you used it to understand the machine code that you reverse engineered.
>>12000281Machine code != source code.
>>12000285Read again.
>>11997934Anyone here ever play the bootleg third-party expansion packs for wc2, etc?>>12000143>Having an easier way to play other than LAN tunneling or the like would be greatThis really makes me miss services like what GameRanger used to be.
I want to kiss Thrall's green balls <3 muaaI just installed W3, I love Thrall so baaaad, going to play with my beloved warchief
>>12001347>t. discord troon
Another /cbg/, another round of purges
This level 8 catacomb is fucking suckass. It's ten rooms full of 10 mudmen each with large openings instead of doors. I do the "take two steps back to get them to hang up on each other and only have 2-3 next to me at a time" thing but they're pathing all retarded, I'm melee pathing all retarded because selecting a square in mixed floor and enemy mouseover is retarded. If I hold shift then the closest retard at whom I would swing stops one step short while three behind him all run up around me. This is an irritating fuckfest and if I hadn't been able to start by scouting down a long wall that had no LoS into any room it would have been utter nonsense with 40 mudmen chasing me.
Blizard games are overrated
>>12001710Could be worse. It might also legitimately get worse for you in the caves: You can end up going against ranged asses who also look to throw lots of melee attacks, keeping you stunned with blocks while you get surrounded. See if you can grab some resistances before you head down.
>>11998158Forget that, we need a source port of D2. So much arcane knowledge on how to mod that game has been lost to time, or buried away on random discords. D2MOO was making decent progress reversing 1.10f, but hasn't had a commit in 7 months.
>>12000281>>12000290no one can prove it but they can make pretty well educated guess of what happened if a project came out around the exact same time window the source code got leaked and for some lawyers that's enough.
>>12001898>good thing... bad!Blizzard games are fundamentally well-made in a way that very few games are, and they deserve the praise they get.
>>12001702At this point it's pretty clear that /vr/ moderation is intentionally working against us. That "dat boi" wrestling thread that has absolutely nothing to do with retro games has been allowed to persist for nearly 2 days, and it's not like the moderation just isn't here; they were perfectly happy to delete several no-no replies like somebody posting floigan earlier. I've noticed responses to deleted posts in a good 30% of the threads today so they're on a binge. My posts here >>11999559 and here >>12000143 were deleted, as well as a post I made in that guy's Tom Clancy games thread, but I received no ban for them and they left some of my other posts like >>11999919 up. I have no idea what to make of it.I'd really like to know what happened. At what point did the moderation say, "we're going to delete some random innocent posts but leave up a completely off topic thread" and then do it on a daily basis. Are the mods and jannies even real? Is it just some kind of algorithm deleting content at near-random? It's an absolutely bizarre state of affairs. /vr/ didn't used to be like this.
laddering on warcraft 3 pvp today is really fun and everyone should try
>>12002243>/vr/ didn't used to be like this.That hack did a number on the chans.
>>12001918>the unique acid beast posse that uses archer combat AIClassic
my hardcore barb just died
>>12004003Condolences. What was your build/gear and where did you get fucked?
>>12002243>I have no idea what to make of it.Besides here I'm only really in the Doomgen and occasional Elder Scrolls threads, neither have gotten hit anywhere near as hard as these ones have. I could go full autismo and pour over and compare "post quality" between each though it wouldn't explain the deletion of the non-shitposts.>>12004003RIP spaghetti family.
>>12003297>wc3 ladderingFun but very tough, I recall from back in the old bnet days.>>12003378>>12004117Putting aside the fact a ton of bots and glowies purposefully contaminate every board, how much of it has to do with the hack making a bunch of the remaining quality anons leave this site for other chans, etc? There were many good posters in these Blizz generals before the hack and the drama; I don’t think a lot of them returned. I only come here when I have a few minutes to kill, but it seems like the post quality (minus the omnipresent troll shite) was pretty good from 2020-2022 and has slowly declined ever since, with a big drop after the hack. Way too many “mario64 sucks/gcn sucks/boomers really thought X/solves gaming/what more do you need” posts to be organic, unless this site is becoming such a joke that it’s an initiation rite for gen alphas to do baby’s first troll here.
