Frozen Throne Custom Maps

[Lorin Mandaloniz]

Soi recently came back to the game after May and was looking forward to enjoy some of my favorite custom maps only to find disappointment after updating to the latest patch which broke the game for me.

Now im only able to load maps made by blizzard and any custom map ends up with a error. This particular error is unique because it just shows you the error template with no text added to it. (Shows up the normal error window with the red mark and just a black background)

These are with all maps even maps downloaded from Bnet that people are constantly playing today. The only difference between lan and battlenet is that it tells me that something is wrong while on bnet just returns you to the lobby

Here are some ideas to test:

Try launching both versions of World Editor.exe (the x86_64 version and x86 version). In both cases, try to save a blank map. Does it warn you about any script errors in the blank map, or does it save with no warnings?

These are problems I had in the past when I heavily modded my game. If you have only one copy of the game and never touched any game files outside of the game, it is indeed possible that these fixes would not apply to you.

I really really hate when people break perfectly working games and present them with new problems that users have to find out the solutions for, and nobody seems to care about these problems. I am often the only person that seem having the issue, and nobody plays custom games or anything like that.

Starcraft 1.5: Fusion is a series of totally converted Warcraft III custom maps designed to feel and play exactly the same as Starcraft. The project currently has single player and multiplayer maps designed and based on the original and newest Starcraft games.

How are we all going? Well its been like 2 years since I did any work on my Starcraft maps project and that 2 year holiday break from making maps, I have been overseas and started working full time hours have enjoyed every minute of it.

As most of you know or should remember me saying on various sites that my maps project was completely lost in a graphics card failure which I stupidly formatted my main hard drive with everything I had worked on in the project, gone in seconds and the overwhelming headache of trying to resurrect the project from stretch was too much for me to deal with and so I basically left the maps in as they were in an unfinished state.

So fast forward to a week or so ago and while I was searching through so old files on my secondary hard drive (Which i used as a backup), What do you know, I found an unopened version of the Neo Lost Temple map which I could now edit and resurrect my maps project:). I have had a little play with the old maps just to see how well it fairs and there is plenty of work to be done but I am willing to try and improve the map further and I have already begun editing the old map and I have a few new ideas I would like to try out in the new map versions to make the maps more balanced and more fun to play.

I am lucky that since I've been away, a couple of skilled modellers have made some brilliant new Starcraft 2 models and skins for new units I will be adding to the maps project. The first one Ill be showcasing for this news article is the Terran Marauder model and skin created by Fingolfin, and it is an amazing model indeed. The model comes complete with a full Starcraft 2 animation set and a highly detailed skin which I can't wait to see in game.

I hope this news has made most of you all very happy and I am very excited to see what all these new additions and changes will create for the project. I would love to hear comments from as many people as possible about if they are still playing my maps and give me positive feedback to drive me to complete the new maps as soon as I can.

Excellent Pogi, I'll have a look for this wc vs sc map youve suggested and see if there is anything worth taking from it. I really would like to replace all the old models and import sc 2 models of high qaulity like the stalker and marauder models which will look and feel like the marine model does ingame.

Apple buddy, Im very glad to hear that. I will not have a huge amount of time to work on the maps this time around though, as im extremely busy outside of the project but ill do what I can when I can.

Thanks Trilby, glad to be back actually. I have been notified of the amazing work being done on that project and I have watched their videos and It sorta makes me feel my maps are nowhere near as good as them. But I can only do what Im capable of doing and I am trying to make the best maps I can for you guys.

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DotA has its roots in the "Aeon of Strife" custom map for StarCraft. The scenario was developed with the World Editor of Reign of Chaos, and was updated upon the release of its expansion, The Frozen Throne. There have been many variations of the original concept, the most popular being DotA Allstars, eventually simplified to DotA. The mod has been maintained by several authors during development, with the pseudonymous designer known as IceFrog maintaining the game since the mid-2000s.

DotA became a feature at several worldwide tournaments, including Blizzard Entertainment's BlizzCon and the World Cyber Games. Critical reception to DotA was positive, and it has been called one of the most popular mods of any game. DotA is largely attributed as being the most significant inspiration for the MOBA genre. American video game developer Valve acquired the intellectual property rights to DotA in 2009 to develop a franchise, beginning with Dota 2 in 2013.

Defense of the Ancients pits two teams of players against each other. Players on the Sentinel team are based at the southwest corner of the map, and those on the Scourge team are based in the northeast. Each base is defended by towers and waves of units which guard the main paths leading to their base. In the center of each base is the Ancient, the building that must be destroyed to win the game.[1][2]

Each player controls one hero, a powerful unit with unique abilities. In DotA, players on each side can choose one of more than a hundred heroes, each with different abilities and tactical advantages. The scenario is highly team-oriented; it is difficult for one player to carry the team to victory alone. DotA allows up to ten players in a five-versus-five format.[3][4] DotA offers a variety of game modes, selected by the game host at the beginning of the match. The game modes dictate the difficulty of the scenario, as well as whether players can choose their hero or are assigned one randomly. Many game modes can be combined, allowing more flexible options.[5]

Because the gameplay revolves around strengthening individual heroes, it does not require the focus on resource management and base-building found in most traditional real-time strategy games. Killing computer-controlled or neutral units earns the player experience points; the player gains a level when enough experience is accumulated. Leveling up improves the hero's toughness and the damage they inflict, and allows players to upgrade spells or skills.[6] The typical resource-gathering of Warcraft III is replaced by a combat-oriented money system; in addition to a small periodic income, heroes earn gold by killing or destroying hostile units, base structures, and enemy heroes.[7] This creates an emphasis on "last-hitting" to land the killing blow and receive the experience and gold for doing so.[8] Using gold, players buy items to strengthen their hero and gain abilities; certain items can be combined with recipes to create more powerful items. Buying items that suit one's hero is an important tactical element of the mod.[9]

Blizzard Entertainment's 1998 real-time strategy game StarCraft shipped with a campaign editor that allowed players to create custom levels, complete with scripted triggers.[10] One such custom map was "Aeon of Strife". Instead of controlling multiple units and managing buildings, players controlled a single hero unit as they fought against waves of enemies.[5][11][12]

Blizzard followed StarCraft with the real-time strategy game Warcraft III in 2002. As with Warcraft II and StarCraft, Blizzard included a free World Editor in the game that allows players to create custom scenarios or maps for the game, which can be played online with other players through Battle.net. Warcraft III also featured powerful hero units that leveled up and could equip items to boost their abilities, and the World Editor enabled mapmakers to create their own.[11] Taking inspiration from Aeon of Strife and using the expanded capabilities of the World Editor, modder Kyle "Eulogizing" Sommer created the first version of Defense of the Ancients in 2003.[13] The heroes could now sport different abilities and level up skills and equipment.[12] After the release of Warcraft III's expansion The Frozen Throne, which added new features to the World Editor, Eul did not update the scenario and made his map code open-source.[11][14] Other mapmakers produced Defense of the Ancients spinoffs that added new heroes, items, and features. Among the DotA variants created in the wake of Eul's map was DotA Allstars, originally created and developed by custom map makers Meian and Ragn0r, who took the most popular heroes and compiled them into one map.[11] In March 2004, map maker Steve "Guinsoo" Feak assumed control of Allstars development.[15] Feak said when he began developing DotA Allstars, he had no idea how popular the game would eventually become.[16] Feak added a recipe system for items so that player's equipment would scale as they grew more powerful, as well as a powerful boss character called Roshan (named after his bowling ball) who required an entire team to defeat.[13]

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