Re: Single Player Project Wotlk
Brie Hoffler
Light be with you. And Blood and Honour and - you know the drill. I've been playing on and off (for too many years now) on single-player repack experiences, mostly on Wotlk. I love playing by myself and immersing myself into the lore and world without any hurrying or locked content or farming or whatever. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.
Have you ever wanted to play a single-player version of World of Warcraft? Either to test out classes, learn dungeons or just explore the game world and see content you otherwise would never see, this can all be done by running a local private server. And it is surprisingly easy to do so.
There are several single player projects for different expansions. Typically the older expansions work better, while the newer ones may have missing content, scripting bugs or have no support for bots. I'll be using the Single Player Project Classics Collection for the rest of this guide, but much of the information should carry over to the other expansions as well.
Running a single player server is a lot of fun. Even though there are still bugs with some bot behaviors, they are still a great addition to the game. This whole project is still under active development and these bugs are often fixed in fairly regular updates. These will download automatically when you run Launch_Servers.bat.
Thanks to conan over at ac-web we finally have a decent viable option for an offline single player World of Warcraft using AI bots. It should be noted that this has been being worked on at this point for at least 3 years and last month he released his last full package with only updates coming in the future.
This makes possible:
- Inviting bots to party (or using the Dungeon Finder) and playing dungeon, raid or doing some PvP
- Summoning your alts as bots to quick item exchange, casting some spells, buffing, leveling, crafting, etc.
- Random PVP with bots of opposite faction or dueling with bots from your faction
- Trading and auctioning
- Making World of Warcraft even a completely single-player game!
This was because I never had any enthusiasm for them other than as games to play with friends. To my mind they were in the RTS genre to be played against other people, not single player games to be explored. And even then, of Blizzard games, StarCraft and the Diablo games were far more popular in my group of friends. I only picked up the Warcraft games over the years because they were the game of the moment for people at the office. I think Warcraft II may have literally only been installed at the office and not at home.
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