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Hello guys,

Not for self promotion, only for personal interest.

I uploaded Warcraft 3 RoC & TFT 1.27 to my personal website, the game is running in browser based on Windows XP and Github v86 project.

Out of the blue, both remastered classics received some enigmatic patches yesterday (about 100 Mbs downloaded for WC2R and less than 50 Mbs for WC1R), but there are no changelogs on Battle.net forums yet.

Checking the version number in the Bnet app reveals that WC2R is now at v1.0.2.2818.

A minor observation: no assets were altered in the "x86/Data" folder aside from a bunch of .json files containing the games' credits in different languages (those can be found in the "Strings" subfolder). Maybe that's about it for the mysterious "updates"?

Long-time WC2 player. I always wanted to play it on my iPad without a keyboard, a mouse, or streaming it off a PC, so I got the Stratagus engine with the Wargus data layer compiled and running natively on iPadOS.

It's not emulated and it's not streamed, it's the actual engine built for ARM64, rendering through Metal. Tides of Darkness and Beyond the Dark Portal campaigns, skirmish, and save/load all work. Touch works: one finger to select and drag-select, two-finger tap for right-click commands, three-finger drag to pan.

This is a dev preview. No App Store build, you build it yourself on a Mac and deploy to your iPad over USB, and the full guide is in the repo. It uses zero Blizzard content, you extract the data from your own copy with the Wargus tooling, same as the desktop version. Multiplayer's in the engine but I'm still testing it on iPad.

Repo and build steps: https://github.com/chrissotraidis/peonpad

The ones in Warcraft 3 look like an AI slop version of the original.

The game manual for the game is genuinely one of the best pieces of literature. It's genuinely better than some of the works from overrated writers such as Franz Kafka and Charles Bukowski.

I used to flip through the game manual over and over because it was just that good. I can only imagine how incredible a reference book would have been if it were 10 times larger.

That story was amazing. I thought it was one of the best fantasy stories I've ever read.

I preferred when the orcs were unapologetically evil. It made them a lot more interesting and fun to play compared to the human race.

Anyone interested in some casual Co op either campaign or even custom maps? Just casual play nothing serious except some maps are really serious from how people made some of these custom maps. 😅

So I was hoping to see if any players from way back in the day are around here. See if I recognize anyone. I used to play the shit out of this game, mainly free castles. I was {DBC}PiMP, would be rad to find some of you DBC guys around.

I remember reading the game manual and looking at the art for the Death Knight. I thought it was the coolest thing ever back then.

I wish they made Warcraft 4 and it included the single player campaign from all three games. It would be awesome.

I imagine this is a common issue, but this has happened to me multiple times over the last however many years. Warcraft 2 WAS working fine, and a recent Windows 11 update has led to the game having slowdown and soft-lock issues.

Initially, I uninstalled the update, and the game went back to working properly. However, that doesn't seem like a sensible long-term solution.

I know there's various community wrappers that have been created. I just want to be able to run the GOG version without it crashing and freezing with new Windows 11 updates. I don't really play WC2 multiplayer. I just like to be able to do the campaigns for the base game and Beyond the Dark Portal once in a while. Can someone steer me in the right direction? Many thanks.

I saw some links to ones online, but the links are all dead now. Are there any current repositories for custom campaigns for warcraft 2?

The game is a timeless classic. It will remain incredibly good for years to come.

I remember playing a few free-for-all games against the bots and I thought it was amazing.

Hi,

I have an original CD of Warcraft II (bought as part of a box set: I, II, PtDP in 1998), but I cannot run it anymore. At the properties, I checked in Win 95 compatible mode, and run as admin mode, but I always get an error message: "This app can't run on your PC".

I tried DOSBox as well, but both setup.exe and install.exe crash, and I get back to the command prompt. The only file I could run from DOSBox, was uvconfig.exe, but it did not help.

Does anyone have any idea what should I try?

Thanks!

Not sure what happened, but the quality of the writing drastically fell down after Warcraft 2.

I loved the story inside the manual. It was one of the best game manuals ever made. Thoughts?

It made the story so much better. Also, I rooted for the orcs for some reason. I just found them to be a lot more compelling.

The story was so good. I have no idea what happened. I wouldn't play any Blizzard game even if I were paid minimum salary to do it.