With Warcraft III getting some peculiar love from Blizzard recently, it’ll be interesting to see what the future holds for the franchise. The latest patch comes on the heels of the first Warcraft III invitational in February. Standard patch features like hero balances and bug fixes have also been implemented. Most notably, the object limit has been increased to 30,000. The patch also includes some map-making changes for World Editors. If you’re somehow still on Windows XP, you might want to update soon, as 1.29 is the last version that will support the dated operating system. The game’s ladder standings have been reset to give players something to work toward again, and its automated tournaments will start back up again next week to help players enjoy the grind. New team colors include some common hues such as maroon and turquoise alongside more novel ones like peanut and wheat. We knew Blizzard was dabbling with the increased player count back in February, but now it has officially arrived. Game lobbies can now hold 24 players, double the original 12 player limit. Sadly, the game retained the quickly dated 4:3 screen ratio all these years.Īdditionally, it appears Blizzard wants to draw more players back into the online battle. Warcraft III launched right before widescreen monitors became the norm. To mitigate screen stretching when in widescreen, Blizzard placed bookends in the in-game interface and pillars in the menu systems. While widescreen support may not sound like a big deal, for a game as old as Warcraft III, it’s pretty darn neat. Patch 1.29 is a hefty update that both adds new elements to the nearly 16-year-old game and contains many gameplay balances.

Blizzard has just released the largest Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos patch in years, one that finally adds widescreen support to the classic RTS. But it seems Blizzard doesn’t want fans to forget about its fantasy world’s original identity as a real-time strategy (RTS) game. Nowadays when people think of Warcraft, they think of World of Warcraft, the most successful MMO of all-time.

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