Top 5 Missing features

General Discussion
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1 - Fix the glitches causing my favorite custom map DOTA LOD to crash
2 - Upgrade cinematics so that they are actually new
3 - Remove the new Editor rule causing all maps to lose creator credit
4 - I prebought reforged thinking that I could play on tournaments again, why did you remove it?
5 - Return player’s statsics check. Why did you even remove it to begin with?

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I disagree with the 3rd, because it’s Blizzard that created warcraft 3 not community. Community created playable maps with Blizzard Assets that exist in the game and 3rd party softwares for coding and modeling.

They make that rule because map creators can build standalone mods and then profit. This is copyright and if you haven’t read I suggest you read end user license including Custom Game Acceptable Use Policy.

Now days like Youtube video content creators only want money so they can quit their jobs. The old days of creation product for the community by voluntary development is dying and there are rare cases that there is such people including me.

I can agree on the rest.

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Custom Campaign is the biggest missing feature.

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  1. profiles
  2. ladder
  3. desyncs/joinbugs/ping-issue fixes
  4. costumkey interface
  5. performance&visual upgrades to the reforged mode
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My top 5 (I am not a multiplayer user):

  1. Performance in-menu and in-game.
  2. Global illumination or at least time-of-day with overcast cloud shadows as in the initial reveal screenshots.
  3. 12-unit cap removal, or at least a hotkey to select all-army and all-workers (as in SC2)
  4. More reforged maps in the campaign as promised and new maps to expand the lore.
  5. Custom campaigns.
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How this is a feature?

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  1. Custom campaigns
  2. Better optimisation
  3. Campaign with better cutscenes, cinematics and new lore, just as promised
  4. Multiplayer changes to make it as it was before Reforged
  5. More models
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  1. Performance in-menu and in-game (better optimisation…please fix the fps drops, stutters… freezes in reforged mode, its annoying even with a high end PC).

When the game runs smooth, properly in a stable way with reforged graphics then you can put back all the things that it got removed (ladder, custom campaigns, profiles, etc etc etc…)

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@MrNonsense
Blizzard promissed quote " 4 hours of reforged cutscenes " and what we got is 4 minutes of actual video which is impressive and everything else which is underwhelming.

While some people do beg for donation from patreon for their maps, nobody profits directly from the world editor.
Icefrog and his map Dota1 made zero dollars for the editor simply existing, he had to use a diffrent engine and take his creativity and ideals into a steam application and start building everything from scratch - that includes units pathing, models, animations, everything was done from scratch. He had to invest money in creating new software that cost a lot and only then make his first dollar. Also this is a funny fact but dota2 IS FREE - you only pay if you want some skins.

  • You could argue that blizzard made dota1 famouse for him as a platform and didn’t get any money for their good will, but before icefrog made a contract with steam he contacted blizzard and offered to work with them but they declined since they didn’t think his project will gather enough money for their joined investment.
    and another funny fact - many people bought warcraft 3 not because of w3 but because they only wanted to play dota with their friends, so blizzard made money on the back of icefrog.
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Yeah and my project is also development cost on me, but the difference between Icefrog and me is that I do not seek profit for my investment. And it cost a lot monthly but for me the entertainment is my reward.

And yes custom games are in bad place now since the mentality of people is to build something and profit of it. This is why you see don’t quality maps for reforged and you see old maps. If there is a quality it becomes a modd and then sold for money. In the old days(2004-2005) it was from the community for the community for free. That I’m looking forward with this project that me and crew are working and our goal is not profit.

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Since you create a map on the world editor, once you finish the project and create a software on steam that includes skins for money / base game cost - bliizard can tell steam to give them 100% the profit to THEIR bank account instead of yours, since the map layout was made in their engine. It is recommanded that if you ever intend of getting money for your project, that you will stop using the world editor and move into a diffrent software.

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have you even read my post? Let me repeat it again. We do not seek profit for our work. I pay to my crew for their tasks and I also do my tasks for this project. We want new fresh content for Reforged.

Since development cost is on me I have no problem work pro-bono. You can say I’m crazy but it is what it is. And if people like our work and love to play that map then that’s the reward which is most important for me not money profit.