I know I already replies cynical on this patch. Yet I feel compelled to make a bit of a more serious post to include some feedback. After all, I want this game to succeed.
I’m truly stunned by how poor this patch is. It does not contain a vast amount of minor updates which are literally just minutes of work to execute and of which many probably need very little amount of coding or in depth knowledge about this game. As Ryan is informed on Discord of many minor things it is weird to see none of these addressed.
For example:
- MMR search ranges are still unclear, but empirically we see that this is still very, very poor balanced. You can pretty much copy past the methodology of W3Champsions, or basically an other game to have this improved.
- Creep AI was altered; but is not mentioned anywhere (e.g. Maruk Deepseers now summon minons when the camp is triggered, instead of when the Deepseer takes first damage)
- On Fulburg mountain the ogre camp item drops are fixed instead of linked to a item table; hence they still drop rings +2 which were removed from melee gaming a long time ago.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/433552809607036930/718520764550348820/unknown.png
- Thrall unmounted is still a mounted thrall in the world edit
- Sylvananas is mispelled in the world edit.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/433552809607036930/718557804369018900/unknown.png - Goldmines of NE still not showing up is still a thing
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/277878600424882177/714926571558928474/unknown.png?width=1204&height=677 - Many maps still don’t have critters
- Massive, massive, massive amount of drops and desyncs
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/433552809607036930/718562127589277787/unknown.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/433552809607036930/718572362181640232/unknown.png
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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/433552809607036930/723532151475404910/unknown.png
- Persistance of joinbugs
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/433552809607036930/718936519414644887/unknown.png
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CGs are split; yet versus games come cross reaml with insane ping
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/433552809607036930/723641864930197535/unknown.png -
Versus matches don’t have a secrurity check to see if all players are entered into the game (3on3 versus game shown below).
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/433552809607036930/729273754005274644/unknown.png -
Replays still flip ascend/descend sort after you watched game
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Still not possible to see mapvetoes when in a team and you are not the captain
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Still not possible to see the maps when in a team and you are not the captain
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Still not possible to see which races your team members have selected after once everyone selected
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Chat window still sluggish as hell, overlaps with CG lobby / information
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Huge amount of clicks needed to go to replay, veto maps, host with observers,.
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Still not clearly visible which icon is which race
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Still no basic profile available
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If disconnected; you can connect or play offline. There is no option to quit game.
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Messages read in game still show as unread in social tab of the blizzard launcher
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Occasionally, units fail to respond unless ESC is pressed first.
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Basic in game commands are still not working (time, stats) and those that do work are not disclosed properly anywhere (!hideminimapsinigals !mute (name)
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Selecting female version of heroes in collection menu is not saved if a game is played prior to closing the .exe (wut)
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As far as I’ve heard, this security breach was not addressed
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/warcraft3/t/critical-security-alert-duplicate-account-name-and-battle-tag-id/24690 -
GUI Triggers for changing player name are broken.
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No grace period for those who lose a single packed at their ISP introduced (was available since 15 years)
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Campaing progress still only saved locally; yet support often suggest reinstalls. Voiding all campaing progress. As well if one changes to an other (new) computer
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You can create a game with bots only (game will crash if started)
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/433552809607036930/706177833214410802/nicejobblizzard2.png -
“Set unit movement speed” function no longer works
Some minor ones may be fixed, but note that the most of these were reported, take only minutes to fix and are fully neglected. This is so sad. The level of interaction with the community is poor, as was never blizzard his strong side. But even minor reported issues now do not seem to get communicated internally.