Happy’s post via VK about Warcraft III: Reforged.

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Well, here’re my opinions about the version of Reforged:

In general, the game came out with the garbage that many expected (I, for example).

The differences from the beta are small (at least the latest version). I personally haven’t even set a new graphics – it is disgusting in any form for the competitive tournament (multiplayer).

It’s hard to say about the campaign. I didn’t play, but according to general reviews for the campaign, I think it’s completely nothing.

The main problem is, with the advent of this newest version (graphics, Reforged client), so many bugs and problems have come that, as for me, if they solve, then not all, and not very soon.

What comes to my mind:

1. The engine has been changed, now there is no DirectX9 support (hi a floating mouse, although now it’s not so noticeable, but anyway – there’s no optimization). Now even -graphicsapi Direct3D9 doesn’t work – it stupidly crashes the game (I think the same with OpenGL).
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2. There are almost no shadows – many animations look a bit (it’s difficult to notice, I personally drew attention to the movement of Grunts and Hunts – it is slightly different).
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3. The color scheme has become different – most of the colors have become brighter, and so much so that it seems that the gamma has been raised by 30%. By the way, the only game in my memory for a long time, where in the settings there is no gamma slider.
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4. The sound is buggy. And even from the beta. In short, there is no volume balance. sounds that should be quiet – loud, those that should be loud – quiet, on the contrary.
   
   If it’s even shorter – you set the level “normal” for yourself – the batch begins – the volume increases by 50%. The head begins to hurt.
   
   Well and yes, some sounds seem to disappear. For example, a sword attack (DH / Blademaster), or Archers arrows. In fact, they do not disappear – just their volume when hit, probably 10% of the required.
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5. The client himself – there is nothing (almost). Ladder – no, Clans – no, normal chat – no, custom – I don’t know, it seems to work somehow (it plays host times, profiles do not work. My God, even a freaking team chat, and they do not work (ignore, stats, adding friends, time, number of users).

And the client itself is as raw as beta.
Game settings are squalor. Many chips are missing:
Again – the gamma slider, hotkey settings (do you want a custom one? Go to the .txt file and configure it, and we are too lazy to do it like in SC2!).

By the way, the choice of server (game) is not much affected. With the release of Reforged, cross-servering appeared – this means that if you (well, roughly speaking, from the Europe region) get caught by a Brazilian thread (Canadian, etc.), your Battle.net game may be hosted on ” average “in terms of ping server – American!

So, and you will play on ping 150-200. And again, there is no Reforged to add such a choice in the settings (to play only with players from a certain region). Like SC2 there is such a choice.

In short, there is already a lot of text. In general, my resume will be as follows:
The game itself is 2/10. If there weren’t any technical problems on the classic graphics (mouse, sound, shadows, color scheme), it would give 4/10.

For the rest – the hack is complete, in my memory, the worst release from Blizzard ( for me of course, I am not the most avid fan of Blizzard – but I checked out a lot of their games on the release – this was NEVER).

It’s worth buying only for the sake of the campaign (it’s probably nothing new in the schedule – it’s hard to evaluate, because I’m honestly not up to it now).

Otherwise, you, like the owners of Reforged, are forced (yes, there is no choice), upgrade to the new version – and play, but without the opportunity to put in new graphics. About the fact that you have to play without a ladder, with glitches (shadows, sound, etc.) – as they say, deal with it.

In any case, this is my honest opinion. I will play anyway, even if it were much worse. I don’t play for fun 😊 …

Another thing is what those who played a half-dead game (no matter how sad it may sound), but for fun, and without such technical problems, Blizzard just took it and broke off a ton of old people. Why – I got no idea.

After all, all the newcomers who are playing Reforged now will leave as quickly as they appeared (there is nothing in the game what to do there).

Well, at least there will be tournaments, I’m very happy. To be honest, I don’t really need anything else. I hope that sooner or later Reforged will be launched in China so that you can play with those with whom you can really improve your game.

And now yes, it’s difficult. On the one hand, it is necessary to train players with norms (in China). On the other hand, the classic graphics on the Reforged client look and play a little differently (you need to get used to it).

And the tournaments will now only be on Reforged (I don’t know about China).

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