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WARCRAFT III VERSION HISTORY
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- PATCH 1.03
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NEW FEATURES
- Each AI player can now be set to one of three different
settings:
Easy, Normal, and Insane.
- Allied AI will teleport to human allies' towns when the towns
are under
attack.
- Allied AI will ping the minimap to indicate where they are going
to attack
next.
- Messages can now be sent when the "Waiting for Players"
dialog is up.
- Added PowerPC optimizations and MacOS X 10.2 specific
acceleration to the
graphics engine.
FIXES
- Fixed an issue with building reimbursement that could credit a
player twice
for canceling a building.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when the system date was set to
> 2038.
- Fixed map loading crash that could result from custom units that
sell too
many items.
- Fixed crash with Avance Sound cards. The fix requires a minor
change to your
registry. If you are experiencing this problem, please contact
our technical
support staff.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when loading a corrupted save
file.
- Fixed a crash that could occur on custom maps during some unit
creation
events.
- Fixed an issue causing localized versions of maps to be passed
unnecessar-
ily.
- Fixed Mass Teleport crash that could result from a target unit's
dying
before spell completes.
- Fixed save/load map interaction that could result in an
unresponsive game.
- Fixed an issue related to unit selection and upgrading Human
towers.
- Fixed an issue with Dreadlord that could cause him to not take
damage
from Unholy Frenzy if he had the Sleep skill.
- Fixed some AI mining issues that could occur when their original
town
hall was destroyed.
- Fixed an AMM chat message bug that could disconnect you if an
AMM team
game message was sent just before game launch.
- Fixed an issue that allowed players to save after choosing
"Continue" in a
single-player mission.
- Fixed a supply issue related to the Demon Hunter and his
Metamorphosis
ability.
- Fixed Zeppelin drop exploit as a method of building locating
through fog
of war.
- Fixed an issue with saving while "Waiting for Players"
dialog was up that
could result in a soft lock.
- Fixed an issue that could create an invincible Mountain King.
- Fixed an issue related to graphical display of auras from
aura-generating
items.
- Fixed an issue with Anti-magic Shell so it now properly
interacts with
magic-immune and non-magic-immune summoned units.
- Fixed disappearance of Sentinel owl in conjunction w/
AOE-targeting
circle.
- Fixed an issue with Huntress' bouncing missile that would allow
it to hit
a secondary target even if it missed the primary target.
- Fixed an issue with rooted Ancients that would cause them to
trigger
Goblin Land Mines.
- Fixed an issue related to Hero illusions' carrying a Ring of
Protection.
- Fixed an issue with Town Portal spell art.
- Fixed an issue with hit point/mana upgrades and Polymorph.
- Fixed an issue with the Abolish Magic ability and allies.
- Fixed an issue with poison that could kill a unit. Poison, by
itself,
should only take a unit to the brink of death.
- Fixed an issue related to the interaction of Shift-adding units
to a group
and unit deaths.
- Fixed an issue related to replays, selection circles, and
changing player
perspective.
- Fixed an issue with Cyclone and moving units creating aerial
footprints.
- Fixed keyboard screen scroll and "Waiting for Players"
interaction.
- Fixed several minor text and tooltip issues.
- Fixed a few improper combat sound assignments on creeps and
NPCs.
- Frost Wyrm attack now also slows air units.
- AI Keepers of the Grove no longer cast Force of Nature on
different cliff
levels.
- Night Elf AI now uses the Wisp's Renew ability effectively.
- Disease (Plague) and poison no longer wake sleeping units.
- Moon Glaive bounce no longer hits invisible units.
- Demon Hunter's attack while in Demon Form no longer damages self
or allies.
- Upgraded building shadows no longer update through the fog of
war.
- Necklace of Spell Immunity no longer drops a Blademaster's Wind
Walk.
- Observers no longer gain full player UI when entering a loaded
game.
- Observers no longer get gold/lumber/supply UI when selecting
neutral
buildings.
- Fog of war updates properly now if you are alt-tabbed out of
game.
- War3 now warns you when you save game or screenshot or profile
if there's
not enough available disk space.
- Improved "We're Under Attack" messages so they trigger
at more appropriate
times.
WORLD EDITOR FIXES
- Fixed Macintosh World Editor crash.
- Added Unit Editor field for building upgrades.
- Increased number of possible dialog buttons from 5 to 12.
- Added blank entries for all units that don't normally have
abilities or
attacks, allowing a user to potentially add these through the
Unit Editor.
- Added Unit Editor field to set unit sounds to that of another
unit type.
- Reorganized limits on pre-placed neutral units. Neutral hostile
buildings now count towards the "unit" limit of 512, and
only passive
buildings count towards the "building" limit of 96.
- Fixed bug where map auto-save could bypass object limit checks.
- Fixed Sound Editor bug that would sometimes delete an imported
sound file
from the map if it was imported from outside the War3 directory
and the
Test Map feature was used before the map was saved.
- Fixed force issue that would cause Force 11 when you selected
Force 10
for a trigger in the editor.
BALANCE CHANGES
Humans
- Brilliance Aura has been reworked, and is no longer % based.
It now adds
a fixed amount of mana per second to units under its power --
.75, 1.5,
and 2.25 respectively by level. While it's just as effective
with mass spell-
casters, players will find it is less powerful (though still
exceedingly
useful) with Heroes.
- Divine Shield now costs 25 mana, down from 75.
- Blizzard no longer goes up in radius as the level of the ability
increases.
- Water elementals now last 60 seconds, down from 75.
Undead
- Gargoyles' ground attack was substantially upgraded. They now
do 21-24
damage, up from 16-18 damage. They also have less armor (3, down
from 5),
but also hit harder against air units, doing 51-63 damage, up
from 46-57
damage. Note that they are still just as effective against air
units as
they were before, but their ground attack has been much
improved.
- Death Pact now costs 50 mana (down from 75), and can be cast
twice as
frequently as before (15 seconds cooldown from 30).
- Lich Heroes now have far more hit points, as they now have 15
str + 2/level,
up from 13 + 1.6/level.
- Frost Armor is now an auto-cast spell which will target units
under attack
if auto-casting is enabled. Frost Armor also costs less mana -–
40 down
from 50.
- The Spirit Tower Upgrade now costs 160/40, up from 120/40.
- Crypt Fiends' attack was slightly improved.
Orcs
- Headhunters have more hit points (350, up from 280), but also
strike more
slowly.
- Stasis Trap no longer stuns friendly units, but has a shorter
duration
(6 seconds, down from 12 seconds). Stasis Traps, when they are
set off,
also destroy other Stasis Traps within their area of effect.
- Kodo Beasts now have 1000 hit points, up from 790 hit points.
They also
attack more slowly than before.
- Orc Barracks cost less lumber: 50, down from 70.
- Watch Towers now do 16-18 damage, down from 19-22 damage.
- Grunts now have 700 hit points, up 20 from 680.
- Shaman's attack is far less powerful. They attack somewhat more
slowly,
and also do 11-12 damage, down from 14-16 damage.
- Stasis Ward and Sentry Ward no longer inhibit movement or
building
construction.
Night Elves
- Sentinel can now be removed from a tree with various dispels
(Wand of
Negation, Dryads, etc.), as well by attacking the tree with a
peon or siege
unit (previously, the tree had to be destroyed -– now it merely
has to be
damaged).
- Mana Burn no longer affects units with Mana Burn (Demon Hunters,
Satyr
Soulstealers, Felhounds, etc.).
- Thorns is now a %-based ability that reflects 10%,
20% or 30% of melee
damage dealt by level.
- Wisp's sight radius increased by 25%.
- Detonate now does 225 damage against summoned creatures, up from
150.
- Non-tree buildings now have 5 armor, up from 2.
- Ballistae now have an "Attack Ground" command.
- Force of Nature cooldown reduced to 20 seconds, down from 30
seconds.
- Treants now last 60 seconds, down from 75 seconds.
- Eating trees now gives a constant, non-stacking healing effect
for 10
seconds.
- Moon Wells now spend mana on health and mana replenishment
separately. For
instance, if you sent a 0-mana, nearly dead Demon Hunter to a
Moon Well,
and the Moon Well had 100 mana, your DH would gain 25 mana, and
100 health.
Before, the Hero would gain 200 health and 50 mana. This change
does not
affect the benefits of healing a unit without mana.
Creeps
- All melee creeps in between levels 1 and 5 are slightly more
powerful.
- All creeps of level 6 or higher now have Hero magic resistance.
- Creeps of level 7 or higher will behave more intelligently in
general.
- All creeps of level 7 or higher now deal Chaos damage.
- Level 10 Dragons no longer have spell immunity.
- Many minor creep balance tweaks to damage and abilities.
- Mercenaries are now more accurately priced in general, which in
most
cases amounts to price decreases.
Items
- Scepter of Mastery no longer will drop randomly in multiplayer
maps.
- Tome of Power, Mask of Death both increased in level (8 to 9 and
8 to 10
respectively).
- Wand of Lightning Shield is now a level-3 item, down from level
6.
- Sentry Ward item now comes with 3 charges, down from 5.
- Periapt of Vitality now gives 150 hps, up from 100.
- Pendant of Mana now gives 250 mana, down from 300.
- Tome of Experience now gives Heroes 150 experience points, down
from 200.
NOTE: Replays are incompatible between major game revisions. (1.02
replays
cannot be viewed with the 1.03 version of Warcraft III.)
Time to have more fun. No more crappy wand of shield
WARCRAFT III VERSION HISTORY
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- PATCH 1.03
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
NEW FEATURES
- Each AI player can now be set to one of three different
settings:
Easy, Normal, and Insane.
- Allied AI will teleport to human allies' towns when the towns
are under
attack.
- Allied AI will ping the minimap to indicate where they are going
to attack
next.
- Messages can now be sent when the "Waiting for Players"
dialog is up.
- Added PowerPC optimizations and MacOS X 10.2 specific
acceleration to the
graphics engine.
FIXES
- Fixed an issue with building reimbursement that could credit a
player twice
for canceling a building.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when the system date was set to
> 2038.
- Fixed map loading crash that could result from custom units that
sell too
many items.
- Fixed crash with Avance Sound cards. The fix requires a minor
change to your
registry. If you are experiencing this problem, please contact
our technical
support staff.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when loading a corrupted save
file.
- Fixed a crash that could occur on custom maps during some unit
creation
events.
- Fixed an issue causing localized versions of maps to be passed
unnecessar-
ily.
- Fixed Mass Teleport crash that could result from a target unit's
dying
before spell completes.
- Fixed save/load map interaction that could result in an
unresponsive game.
- Fixed an issue related to unit selection and upgrading Human
towers.
- Fixed an issue with Dreadlord that could cause him to not take
damage
from Unholy Frenzy if he had the Sleep skill.
- Fixed some AI mining issues that could occur when their original
town
hall was destroyed.
- Fixed an AMM chat message bug that could disconnect you if an
AMM team
game message was sent just before game launch.
- Fixed an issue that allowed players to save after choosing
"Continue" in a
single-player mission.
- Fixed a supply issue related to the Demon Hunter and his
Metamorphosis
ability.
- Fixed Zeppelin drop exploit as a method of building locating
through fog
of war.
- Fixed an issue with saving while "Waiting for Players"
dialog was up that
could result in a soft lock.
- Fixed an issue that could create an invincible Mountain King.
- Fixed an issue related to graphical display of auras from
aura-generating
items.
- Fixed an issue with Anti-magic Shell so it now properly
interacts with
magic-immune and non-magic-immune summoned units.
- Fixed disappearance of Sentinel owl in conjunction w/
AOE-targeting
circle.
- Fixed an issue with Huntress' bouncing missile that would allow
it to hit
a secondary target even if it missed the primary target.
- Fixed an issue with rooted Ancients that would cause them to
trigger
Goblin Land Mines.
- Fixed an issue related to Hero illusions' carrying a Ring of
Protection.
- Fixed an issue with Town Portal spell art.
- Fixed an issue with hit point/mana upgrades and Polymorph.
- Fixed an issue with the Abolish Magic ability and allies.
- Fixed an issue with poison that could kill a unit. Poison, by
itself,
should only take a unit to the brink of death.
- Fixed an issue related to the interaction of Shift-adding units
to a group
and unit deaths.
- Fixed an issue related to replays, selection circles, and
changing player
perspective.
- Fixed an issue with Cyclone and moving units creating aerial
footprints.
- Fixed keyboard screen scroll and "Waiting for Players"
interaction.
- Fixed several minor text and tooltip issues.
- Fixed a few improper combat sound assignments on creeps and
NPCs.
- Frost Wyrm attack now also slows air units.
- AI Keepers of the Grove no longer cast Force of Nature on
different cliff
levels.
- Night Elf AI now uses the Wisp's Renew ability effectively.
- Disease (Plague) and poison no longer wake sleeping units.
- Moon Glaive bounce no longer hits invisible units.
- Demon Hunter's attack while in Demon Form no longer damages self
or allies.
- Upgraded building shadows no longer update through the fog of
war.
- Necklace of Spell Immunity no longer drops a Blademaster's Wind
Walk.
- Observers no longer gain full player UI when entering a loaded
game.
- Observers no longer get gold/lumber/supply UI when selecting
neutral
buildings.
- Fog of war updates properly now if you are alt-tabbed out of
game.
- War3 now warns you when you save game or screenshot or profile
if there's
not enough available disk space.
- Improved "We're Under Attack" messages so they trigger
at more appropriate
times.
WORLD EDITOR FIXES
- Fixed Macintosh World Editor crash.
- Added Unit Editor field for building upgrades.
- Increased number of possible dialog buttons from 5 to 12.
- Added blank entries for all units that don't normally have
abilities or
attacks, allowing a user to potentially add these through the
Unit Editor.
- Added Unit Editor field to set unit sounds to that of another
unit type.
- Reorganized limits on pre-placed neutral units. Neutral hostile
buildings now count towards the "unit" limit of 512, and
only passive
buildings count towards the "building" limit of 96.
- Fixed bug where map auto-save could bypass object limit checks.
- Fixed Sound Editor bug that would sometimes delete an imported
sound file
from the map if it was imported from outside the War3 directory
and the
Test Map feature was used before the map was saved.
- Fixed force issue that would cause Force 11 when you selected
Force 10
for a trigger in the editor.
BALANCE CHANGES
Humans
- Brilliance Aura has been reworked, and is no longer % based.
It now adds
a fixed amount of mana per second to units under its power --
.75, 1.5,
and 2.25 respectively by level. While it's just as effective
with mass spell-
casters, players will find it is less powerful (though still
exceedingly
useful) with Heroes.
- Divine Shield now costs 25 mana, down from 75.
- Blizzard no longer goes up in radius as the level of the ability
increases.
- Water elementals now last 60 seconds, down from 75.
Undead
- Gargoyles' ground attack was substantially upgraded. They now
do 21-24
damage, up from 16-18 damage. They also have less armor (3, down
from 5),
but also hit harder against air units, doing 51-63 damage, up
from 46-57
damage. Note that they are still just as effective against air
units as
they were before, but their ground attack has been much
improved.
- Death Pact now costs 50 mana (down from 75), and can be cast
twice as
frequently as before (15 seconds cooldown from 30).
- Lich Heroes now have far more hit points, as they now have 15
str + 2/level,
up from 13 + 1.6/level.
- Frost Armor is now an auto-cast spell which will target units
under attack
if auto-casting is enabled. Frost Armor also costs less mana -–
40 down
from 50.
- The Spirit Tower Upgrade now costs 160/40, up from 120/40.
- Crypt Fiends' attack was slightly improved.
Orcs
- Headhunters have more hit points (350, up from 280), but also
strike more
slowly.
- Stasis Trap no longer stuns friendly units, but has a shorter
duration
(6 seconds, down from 12 seconds). Stasis Traps, when they are
set off,
also destroy other Stasis Traps within their area of effect.
- Kodo Beasts now have 1000 hit points, up from 790 hit points.
They also
attack more slowly than before.
- Orc Barracks cost less lumber: 50, down from 70.
- Watch Towers now do 16-18 damage, down from 19-22 damage.
- Grunts now have 700 hit points, up 20 from 680.
- Shaman's attack is far less powerful. They attack somewhat more
slowly,
and also do 11-12 damage, down from 14-16 damage.
- Stasis Ward and Sentry Ward no longer inhibit movement or
building
construction.
Night Elves
- Sentinel can now be removed from a tree with various dispels
(Wand of
Negation, Dryads, etc.), as well by attacking the tree with a
peon or siege
unit (previously, the tree had to be destroyed -– now it merely
has to be
damaged).
- Mana Burn no longer affects units with Mana Burn (Demon Hunters,
Satyr
Soulstealers, Felhounds, etc.).
- Thorns is now a %-based ability that reflects 10%,
20% or 30% of melee
damage dealt by level.
- Wisp's sight radius increased by 25%.
- Detonate now does 225 damage against summoned creatures, up from
150.
- Non-tree buildings now have 5 armor, up from 2.
- Ballistae now have an "Attack Ground" command.
- Force of Nature cooldown reduced to 20 seconds, down from 30
seconds.
- Treants now last 60 seconds, down from 75 seconds.
- Eating trees now gives a constant, non-stacking healing effect
for 10
seconds.
- Moon Wells now spend mana on health and mana replenishment
separately. For
instance, if you sent a 0-mana, nearly dead Demon Hunter to a
Moon Well,
and the Moon Well had 100 mana, your DH would gain 25 mana, and
100 health.
Before, the Hero would gain 200 health and 50 mana. This change
does not
affect the benefits of healing a unit without mana.
Creeps
- All melee creeps in between levels 1 and 5 are slightly more
powerful.
- All creeps of level 6 or higher now have Hero magic resistance.
- Creeps of level 7 or higher will behave more intelligently in
general.
- All creeps of level 7 or higher now deal Chaos damage.
- Level 10 Dragons no longer have spell immunity.
- Many minor creep balance tweaks to damage and abilities.
- Mercenaries are now more accurately priced in general, which in
most
cases amounts to price decreases.
Items
- Scepter of Mastery no longer will drop randomly in multiplayer
maps.
- Tome of Power, Mask of Death both increased in level (8 to 9 and
8 to 10
respectively).
- Wand of Lightning Shield is now a level-3 item, down from level
6.
- Sentry Ward item now comes with 3 charges, down from 5.
- Periapt of Vitality now gives 150 hps, up from 100.
- Pendant of Mana now gives 250 mana, down from 300.
- Tome of Experience now gives Heroes 150 experience points, down
from 200.
NOTE: Replays are incompatible between major game revisions. (1.02
replays
cannot be viewed with the 1.03 version of Warcraft III.)
Time to have more fun. No more crappy wand of shield
