Hi,
im Elbadruhel, the designer and maper of “Fall of Lordaeron”, a massive custom map for W3 based in warcraft and WoW lore. I have expended countless hours on the map, recreating the map of Azeroth pixel by pixel, designing factions, paths and units, calculating stats and costs with math programs, coding cool and new spells… It has been a hard work (and it still is since it is not finished yet) but i was happy of doing that hard work due to something: people was able to play it and they were loving the map.
It was new, unique, perfectly done, lore accurated and with a nice gameplay with unqiue features for everyone. Nearly everyone who played it, liked it. And i created a discord for those who would like to become betatesters and help me with the bugs, i have more than 80 guys and girls helping me with the map!
But last patch destroyed everything… You can play the game with no problem, but suddenly, after 10-40 mins, the game freezes. My map had 0 crashes till last patch and with this last blizzard release it always freezes. Is not a proper “crash” but a freeze, the game goes white and everyone is disconected. I cant do anything to solve it since it is a blizzard issue, and people is sad because we can no longer play… Warcraft is dying.
And im not so selfish and dumb to say “warcraft is dying” due to my map getting frozen. BUT, to nearly all cool custom maps being frozen. The admin of a massive discord community of warcraft 3, invited me as mapper to his discord because he wanted my map there so all of them (thousands of players) could enjoy my map. They have played mine and liked it, but they play countless maps every single day, different ones. And after nearly every game you can read always the same message: “it crashed, is sad, i was having fun”.
Most custom maps are freezing since last patch. It is making a lot of people to get frustrated or quit playing warcraft 3. I was working in my map for a year and since last patch bug i have nearly stoping doing anything because “why should i work on it if blizzard doesnt fix the freezing and it is unplayable?”. Is sad, i love this game, i have been playing it since its release, i have bought it 3 times in my life and i dont regret a single penny. It has been awesome for 20 years, but now is being killed, you cant destroy custom games, they kept the game alive all this time…
I have created this topic to tell blizzard: “Ey, you touched something and now custom maps freezes” because they might not know it. But i created it too because countless people is telling me it but they have no place to report it to Blizzard. So i encourage you all guys, to answer here, saying ALL the custom maps that have this freezing bug, in case that might help Blizzard to fix.
Thanks and welcome.
Maps affected:
- Fall of Lordaeron.
- Faction War.
- Volsung’s map.
- Impossible Bosses.
- Robet’s Rebellion.
- Northrend: The Conquest.
- Lordaeron Tactics.
- First War.
- Siege of Lordaeron City.