I tried world edit but I don’t really know how to extract the file
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You have to install the CD version of the game. In that version, the menu has a Custom Campaign button in the Single Player section that lets you choose the file of the campaign.
But, if you obtain the game from Blizzard Entertainment, it will be very difficult to load the custom campaign. It might be possible, but it will be difficult. I heard stories that if you try to open the campaign in the World Editor and save the campaign, then it will become corrupted and you cannot play the campaign anymore. This was happening to people who reached out to me during the Patch 1.30 and Patch 1.31 leading up to Reforged.
Now, as long as you do not actually save the campaign, it still might be possible to launch it from the World Editor. This requires a complex series of steps. You will need to click on the special Campaign Editor option in the toolbar, which will be a small icon with a picture of a book. This will launch a separate window that will be titled Campaign Editor. In this window, you need to use the Open File option (from toolbar or menu) and open your campaign file. Then, still in the specific Campaign Editor window, you might be able to launch the campaign by opening one of its maps and testing them, but I just tested this and I don’t see an easy way. It looks more annoying than I remembered.
So, here’s a better plan. In the old version of the game, it used to be possible to launch the campaign from command line. Basically, type CMD into the windows RUN/cortana box and it should offer you a program called Command Prompt .
Then, in this window, you must type a command first to change directory to load the directory of your Warcraft III installation. On my computer, this command is:
cd C:\Program Files\Warcraft III\x86_64
The exact directory of your Warcraft III installation will depend on your computer, but you will know it is the right one if it contains a sub folder named “x86_64” like this.
Then, after you type this command, in the old version of the game what we would do is to run the game with the extra flag -loadfile MyCampaign.w3n but it is more difficult now and in Reforged they wanted to prevent launching the game for old users so that they would instead use the Battle.net Launcher, so now the game only launches as it used to if you pass it the extra flag -launch .
So, now you enter the command:
".\Warcraft III.exe" -launch -loadfile NameOfCampaignFile.w3n
And I thought something like this worked in the past, but it’s not the right command. I tried it and it doesn’t work, so you’ve got to find something similar online. Something like this exists, or at least used to.
Oh i understand and thank you
I see in 1.32.4 I already have a separate tab where I could fit a custom campaign