Warcraft 2 - What should be changed? - VERY IMPORTANT FIXES

Hey. So this thread is only about “quality of life” (especially multiplayer) and what should be changed so everybody would enjoy the game. THIS IS NOT A BALANCE THREAD.

VERY IMPORTANT - SHOULD BE CHANGED ASAP:

all things are already fixed (some of them has been moved to “less important changes” due to other fixes that kinda “cooperate” with these changes, for example: we still cant kick trolls from lobby which is important change but we can actually make a private server so troll wont join)

LESS IMPORTANT CHANGES (FOR NOW) BUT WOULD BE GOOD:

  • adding to the game stats and online ranked multiplayer. atleast 1vs1 like SC1 has.
  • being able to download the maps from the room
  • battle net app doesnt show that you play Warcraft 2
  • online gameplay speed: 8 seems to be a bit too fast meanwhile 7 seems to be a bit too slow, i doubt anyone will use anything below 7 except absolute beginners… or even worse? it literally turns almost turn based below 6 there should be something between speed 7 and 8 on multiplayer
  • no replays - i cant learn from my mistakes on multiplayer games because i cant just see the replay. that feature to watch your games would be awesome - not a priority for now but heavily required
  • pinging map on multiplayer would be useful in team games if you would like to show where to attack or what to defend.
  • customizable hotkeys!
  • automatic ping on map when your units are attacked so you know where to look rather than looking around the map to find where is the battle.
  • would be good if we would have faction colors for chat to easier identify who we are talking with - nothing really necessary for now, just a simple suggestion
  • cant kick players - …and even worse, you cant kick or change team of the players in the lobby menu so for example you can make a room named “2vs2” or “FFA” and somebody will join any team to make it 3vs1 or not FFA and you cant do anything. You cant kick that person or change his team,
  • there is a very very very little graphic bug in some map tilesets where the pickaxe dissapears when worker enters the mine
  • would be so nice if we could use the classic or at least let us pick the classic color template for the UI/menus,
  • pathfinding could be a bit improved - it seems to be even worse than the old original SC1 pathfinding.

ALREADY FIXED:

  • counting timer while starting online game
  • diplomacy menu is back
  • passworded servers
  • chat issues with no “all” or “team” while chatting
  • “use map default” option in skirmish multiplayer games
  • region lock implemented

I’m very happy that we managed to fix all of critical things in one patch.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QOL CHANGE YOU WOULD MENTION JUST MAKE A POST THERE. IF IT’S A QOL CHANGE (NO BALANCE) THEN I MIGHT ADD IT TO THE LIST. Thank you for reading.

THE THREAD HAS BEEN UPDATED TO THE:
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December 4, 2024
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Last thread update: December 8, 2024 (EU time)

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Why is Blizzard so silent? They should communicate with us. Tell us to expect something or not. I will not buy the game until at least promise they will try to fix things.

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Blizzard doesn’t talk to their small communities

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I added two more issues. Most of them like adding a color or displaying latency are so simple,easy and quick to fix and they would let us play a proper game without lags. Lets hope that any of these QoL changes will be addressed.

we can only hope that they do or else people will go back to the old versions of war2

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Another thread issue update. I guess it will be the last one for now.

It needs a matchmaking system with ranks to climb. That is one of the most important things for me. This game is better than anything else Blizzards puts out, so let’s put some effort into it. A Bronze/Silver/Gold/Platinum/Diamond/Master/Challenger ranked system would be a lot of fun.

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Let’s fix the gameplay issues first and then talk about balance and ladder

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Added another thing. Replays would be awesome, people could learn from their mistakes and learn the current build orders in general.

Would love to have replays. Blizzard pls make it happen.

I added another minor thing like pinging on the map for your allies so you can show where you want to attack/defend. Let me know if you got any other QoL ideas so I could add them there (dont post balance issues in this thread, YOU OGRE MAGE)

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Ideally I’d also like an automatic map ping when my stuff is attacked, like in SC. IMO it’s not super eye-catchy in Warcraft

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Oh yeah, I forgot about that. It’s not displayed in Warcraft 2 minimap where somebody attacks you. They should add it definitely. I edited and posted your suggestion in thread. Thank you.

I also added another important thing that came to my mind recently and is available in every other blizzard RTS games - CUSTOMIZABLE HOTKEYS.

If anyone got some good QoL changes ideas just let me know but don’t post balance issues in this thread.

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1: enable ships to be repaired(apart from the transport ships, no ships can get close enough)(transport ships can be repaired).
2: add a 64 bit executable(it will increase performance on high end systems).

Thanks for the suggestions, but being able to repair ships would be an actually balance patch, not an QoL patch I guess.

Also I thought the game has already 64bit executable? I have 0 problems with performance on modern PC.

you were simply mistaken. i have done my research however and found the game to only have a 32 bit executable. i opened task manager when the game was running and all 32 bit executables have the words 32-bits next to them. this executable does. it is also present in a folder named x86, which is where 32 bit executables is stored. 64 bit executables is stored in folders named x64. being unable to repair the ships seems to be an ancient oversight, as transport ships can already be repaired.

It’s an anti snowball decision. Repairing/healing offensive units is a huge balancing issue and just bad design. I’m glad that war2 doesn’t have it.

One of the issues of aoe

Hmm okay, but isn’t 32 bit executable actually better if it still works on 64 bit systems? Because of that the game can be also played on older PC.

That still would affect balance in some form and it’s just a “fix thread”.

Btw. There is another issue. There is no “use map default” resources option to choose. It was there before. I add it to the list as some people mentioned on forum it can break some user maps from being played.

it is possible to supply both a 32 bit executable and a 64 bit executable. starcraft 2 still does. the lack of 64 bit executable prevents it from running in newer versions of mac os. which is why there is no mac version. i already know of the lack of use map default. it needs to be fixed, as of right now, no custom maps can be played properly. i am going to run a test to see if there is any way to get warships close enough for them to be repaired.

The DESPERATELY need to fix the original graphics mode.