Comments - PiesOfNorth

Thanks. I had considered adding some infested heroes to melee, but never got around to balancing them for that.

Unfortunately this would not work in the newer versions of war3.

There's a lot of data in the game's SLKs that you simply cannot customize from within the tools provided by the game, and that's why a mod is necessary.

Specifically, new terrain types (creep), soundsets, and event objects attached to models.

No, I don't have the time to continue adding things to this project anymore. I consider it finished.

Np. Infested Heroes are unlocked automatically. You can get them from the Spawning Pool.

This level definitely marks a jump in difficulty. I will try to offer some advice.

You might want to select Easy difficulty from the custom campaign screen. Enemies have much less health on Easy, so it shouldn't be too bad.

Cairne is a very good hero here, with War Stomp he can help your army tear through their helpless units.

It's a good idea to take the two extra gold mines near your starting position as early as possible. The extra income really helps you get a good-sized army.

Devourers aren't really meant to be good anti-air by themselves. Like StarCraft, they are support units that you want to pair with Mutalisks or Hydralisks.

It's a good idea to make some Scourge so you can quickly kill dragons and chimaeras.

Night Elf units tend to clump together and have low hit points. If you're making a mostly ground army, Defilers are very good on this mission with Plague, and Dark Swarm to protect your guys from all their archers, dryads, and towers.

If you haven't infested the Orcs in the previous mission, it might be a good idea to go back and grab them. Having your army supported by Bloodlust and Kodo Beasts is a massive benefit. In fact it might even be too good :P.

New answer as of today: YES

Hello. Nice mod. I remember trying a version of the beta modded to piggyback on the shareware battle.net server. It crashed a lot and eventually stopped working altogether once blizz pulled the shareware from bnet.

Nice to see this piece of gaming history preserved!

I'm wondering if you'd be willing to release the arr\*.dat files used by this mod, so they could be looked at in DatEdit.

Also, would support for the Editor be possible?

This is an older project of mine. Ultimately I had to stop work on it in early 2020 because it was too difficult to find people to regularly playtest with, and I soon found my personal life far too busy to play it even if I could find players.

This final build, from my experience, is fairly stable. I won't say it's perfectly balanced, but while playing with randoms on battle.net, I was able to see all sides of each map achieve victory multiple times, so I would consider it quite playable

Still, I am proud of the work that I did on this project. I am uploading it here in the interest of preservation. Since I am no longer working on it, anyone who comes across it is welcome to make their own version to improve upon it if they so choose.

The forum would probably be best. I have just added a new 'Bug Reports' section.

You'll have to have a separate installation of wc3 that's at version 1.28. Thankfully, it's easy enough to get.

There's a link in this donwload's readme that will point you to the right version. You cannot play on battle.net with it though, of course.

The mod currently is only designed to work with the included custom campaign 'ZergCampaign.w3n'.

Before playing other maps or campaigns, you should turn off the mod by renaming War3Mod.mpq to something else.

Just bumped the planned '1.0' release to next year. There is one more chapter planned, and I didn't want to rush it. Didn't realize it would 'bump' the mod lol.

There will be an update early next month. It will unfortunately not include Chapter 7, but will otherwise be significant. Stay tuned!

Wow, this looks sweet!