Warcraft 3 - New PTR Patch Keeps Remaster Hope Alive

The example of Warcraft 3 shows that Blizzard supports its games almost forever, the new PTR patch even brings balancing changes.

For the Fan base, this is of course another clue on a possible one Warcraft 3: Remastered, similar to the original Starcraft. According to a developer statement, Blizzard only publishes a revised version when the game has really been fixed and is in an almost perfect state. Accordingly, the current updates could pave the way and the Warcraft 3 engine work up for modern computers and operating systems, as well as make overdue balance changes.

Below you will find the test server patch notes for Warcraft 3:

PTR WarCraft 3: Reign of Chaos v1.29.0.8920

Specific changes & improvements

Team colors revision v2 (Props to Erkan for setting us on the path)
Camera reset to 1.28 height

Bug fixes

- Korean client crash resolved
- Custom hotkeys no longer unbind Esc
- Matchmaking now starts when using community maps
- Alchemist's Healing Spray now self-heals
- Various missing textures located (Thanks to Trigger Happy for the test map)
- Default resolution no longer resembles Felwood
- World Editor limits raised for reals:
- Neutral Units - 2.048
  Neutral Buildings - 384
  Player Units - 4,320
  Player Buildings - 2,400
  Items - 1,024
Queuing actions behaves correctly
Ladder maps cleansed of sneaky tower locations near starting mines

Hero Balance Updates

Blademaster

Mirror image

Decreased Mana cost (all levels) from 115 to 100

Shadow Hunter

Serpent Wards

Level 1: Increase damage from 11-13 to 14 to 16; Increase HP from 75 to 90
Level 2: Increase damage from 23-26 to 27-30; Increase HP from 135 to 165
Level 3: Increase damage from 41-45 to 48 to 52; Increase HP from 135 to 200

Dread lord

Carrion Swarm

(Buff) Mana Cost (all levels) 110 → 100
Level 1: 300 Dmg to 400 Dmg
Level 2: 600 Dmg to 700 Dmg
Level 3: 1000 Dmg 1200 Dmg

Demon Hunter

Mana Burn

(Nerf) Mana cost increase from 50 to 60

Priestess of the Moon

Attack speed

(Buff) change default from 2.46 to 2.33

Scout

Increase movement speed from 270 to 300
Level 1: Reduce mana cost from 100 to 50
Level 2: Reduce mana cost from 75 to 50

Known Issues

Selecting LAN in Asian locales crashes the client
Esc on Mac has a chance to close the client
Opening a scoreboard will temporarily freeze the game during a multiplayer match
TriggerAddCondition () now requires you to add (Condition ()) around the "function funcname"
Constant native DecPlayerTechResearched not working
The GUI equivalent for SetAbilityOnIcon and GetAbilityOnIcon have invalid parameters causing the editor to throw errors
World Editor crashes with bad IF statement syntax
Cannot set research to a lower level using SetPlayerTechResearched
DecPlayerTechResearched causes SetPlayerTechResearched to set level at a lower value
PlaySpecialEffect and PlaySpecialEffectWithTimeScale are not working correctly
The Italian client is missing menus

Notes

Replays are incompatible between major game versions
This will be the last version to support Windows XP