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Warcraft III: Reforged Patch Notes
Version 1.32.4
April 28, 2020

Art

• All Melee units and buildings have received a team color polish pass to increase vibrancy and gameplay readability.
• Female Demon Hunter scaled up to match closer with Male Demon Hunter’s silhouette.
• Waterfall changed to use Replaceable Textures. Its tint automatically adjusts in game based on the map tileset.
• Visual effect used for the first stage of buildings damage changed from smoke to fire for better readability.
• Adjusted fire visual effects placements on the Townhall, Keep, and Castle for added readability during their damaged states.
• Northrend Trees have been updated to match Classic visuals. There are now four visually distinctive tree wall sets:
  • Northrend Icy Tree Wall
  • Northrend Tree Wall
  • Snowy Tree Wall
  • Scorched Tree Wall
• Footprints have been updated for the following groups:
• Trolls have their own unique footprint.
• Undead units with missing footprints are now fixed.
• Vehicles now have continuous rolling footprint.
• Fixed an issue with the Female Demon Hunter’s hero icon appearing incorrectly when disabled while in Demon form.
• Tuskarr Trapper now throws his own spear when attacking.
• Portrait animations have been updated for the following units: Peasant, Sorceress, High Elf, Lich, Dreadlord, Balnazzar, Mal’ganis, Keeper of the Grove, Night Elf Runner, Cenarius, Illidan (Demon Form), Tree of Life, Tree of Ages, Tree of Eternity, and their corrupted counterparts.
• Reduced Violence updates:
• Female Death Knight updated with correct visual effects for spell casting.
• Ogre Magi no longer disappears in the middle of its attack animations.

Custom Games

• Single Player mode has been re-enabled. This can be accessed from its own Create Games section in the Main Menu.
• Fixed multiple crashes on custom games such as Custom Hero Survival.
• Several fixes have been applied to Instance API natives related to unit attacks.
• Blizzard.j and common.j are no longer considered when computing save checksums.

Editor

• The “Export All” option in the Asset Manager now functions correctly.

Gameplay

• Destructibles flagged as “Walkable” no longer cause desyncs between Classic and Reforged.
• Reforged Troll mercenary unit selection circles are now smaller and more aligned with Classic.
• All Neutral unit selection circles now properly match the Reforged unit models.
• Creep camps are easier to see on the minimap.
• Permanent morphing units, such as the Obsidian Statue, will no longer briefly display their disabled morph ability icon while transforming.

Graphics

• Game lighting adjusted to improve Reforged readability and colors.

Sound

• Doom Guards now have the correct sound effects for their air and ground attacks.
• Forest, Dark, and Ice Troll Trappers will no longer play the Berserk sound effect when casting Ensnare in Reforged mode.
• Alchemist facial animations and acknowledgement sounds updated.
• Flesh Golem facial animations and acknowledgement sounds updated.

User Interface

• Sepia tone backgrounds in Classic mode have been reverted.
• The “Use Command Button for Hotkeys” on Mac now functions as expected.

We’ve just released a hotfix patch to address several issues.

April 29, 2020
Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused Multiplayer win totals for Collections to be set to zero.
• Fixed a bug that prevented players in some regions from joining custom games.
• Fixed a bug that prevented players in some regions from starting any game.
• Single player custom games can again be created in the Russian locale.
• Reduced Violence Mode is again enabled where required.

OP updated with full patch notes for version 1.33.0.

Warcraft III: Reforged Patch Notes

Version 1.34.0
December 1, 2022

Clans

• Players can now create and join a Clan.
• The Clan option is accessible via the social tab.
• Members of Clans will have the following ranks:
  • Tauren Chieftan
  • Shaman
  • Grunt
  • Peon
• Players at the Chieftain and Shaman rank will have the option to kick, promote, or ban clan members.
• Clans will have their own unique Clan channel.
• Player Profiles now display your Clan, Rank, and Clan Tag.
• Players’ Clan tags are displayed in Social Menus and Chat.

Player Reporting

• This update adds automated player reporting to the game.
• Players can now report others for: Language, BattleTag, Clan Name, Clan Tag, Clan Description, Clan Message of the Day, Clan Chat, Cheating, Game Name, Offensive Content, or Gameplay Sabotage.

Custom Games

• Added Join-by-Name functionality.
  • Players can join games by typing in the game name in the text box at the bottom of the Custom Game list.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Matchmaking backend processing has been improved for team games.
• Added an information screen that explains ranked play in-game.
  • This can be accessed via the “I” icon in the Versus menu.
• Chat refreshes properly when switching accounts.
• Improved right-click context menu consistency to support Report Players, Invite to Team, and Invite to Clan.
• Added a notification indicator on Social button when you receive a request.
• Various visual improvements to ranked badges.
• Various visual UI/UX improvements to the Leaderboard.
• Player Profile can now be accessed from the main menu and single-player screens.
• Player battletag numbers are now visible everywhere.
• Visual improvements to the match history screen.