Warcraft III: Reforged Patch Notes
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.
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.