Nach der Testphase hat Blizzard Entertainment das Update 1.29 für "Warcraft 3" regulär veröffentlicht, das unter anderem eine 24-Spieler-Unterstützung einführt. Ausserdem haben die Entwickler das Leaderboard zurückgesetzt. Ansonsten stehen ebenfalls viele Bugfixes auf den Programm.
Specific Changes & Improvements
Widescreen support added. To prevent stretching there have been changes to the interfaces:
- Added bookends to the in-game interface
- Added black pillars in menus
Game lobbies expanded to support 24 players. We’ve added 12 new team colors. Thanks to Erkan and others for contributing to the new palette:
- Player 13 - Maroon
- Player 14 - Navy
- Player 15 - Turquoise
- Player 16 - Violet
- Player 17 - Wheat
- Player 18 - Peach
- Player 19 - Mint
- Player 20 - Lavender
- Player 21 - Coal
- Player 22 - Snow
- Player 23 - Emerald
- Player 24 - Peanut
Notes
- Ladder standings have been reset; good luck and have fun on the climb
- Replays are incompatible between major game versions
- This will be the last version to support Windows XP
- Automated tournaments will resume next week
Bug Fixes
- Clans can be created
- Mac launches
- Korean locale launches
- Various missing textures located (Thanks to TriggerHappy for the test map)
- Default resolution no longer resembles Felwood
- Ladder maps cleansed of sneaky tower locations near starting mines
Known Issues
- Temporarily disabled Fixed Aspect Ratio in Video Options
- Chaos Kodo Beasts are showing as idle workers in campaign missions
- Unable to input text while keyboard settings are under different languages in zhCN and koKR locales
- Certain elements in World Editor overlap
- Set/GetAbilityOnXXXX functions are renamed to Set/GetAbilityActivatedXXXX
- SetUnitNameAll is disabled for now
- PlaySpecialEffect is disabled for now
- PlaySpecialEffectWithTimeScale is disabled for now
- Crash: With an ability that has "Disabled"=false, attempting to set "Disabled" to false again will crash the World Editor
- UnitDisableAbility does not hide an ability with Hide=true and Disabled=false
- Default map directory is for from maps when creating custom games
- Resolution does not change properly when switching between windowed and full screen
- Tooltips for hero abilities may not be updated
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