thorgot

While I agree with you that should be fixed, it looks like an oversight with a new race having a new weapon name (Lightning shield versus chainlightning). Furthermore, your tone is rude, as you saying that the engineers are annoying you by not fixing a minor bug caused by a new race not interacting properly with a very old race's expertise and that it "should" work such a way and that the race is "bad" because of this sounds suspiciously like you consider yourself superior to the engineers. Finally, and most importantly, if you'd even glanced at the thread "Warcraft 3 Bug Report Guidelines" you would know that you are supposed to post bugs in the Bug Tracker.

While I agree with you that should be fixed, it looks like an oversight with a new race having a new weapon name (Lightning shield versus chainlightning). Furthermore, your tone is rude, as you saying that the engineers are annoying you by not fixing a minor bug caused by a new race not interacting properly with a very old race's expertise and that it "should" work such a way and that the race is "bad" because of this sounds suspiciously like you consider yourself superior to the engineers. Finally, and most importantly, if you'd even glanced at the thread "Warcraft 3 Bug Report Guidelines" you would know that you are supposed to post bugs in the Bug Tracker.

Races that deal lightning damage should be absorbed by Thor. Getting dealt 120 damage by ravinick's lightning shield without healing it back is kinda getting annoying now. The fact that Thor isn't doing what it's supposed to do isn't cool and unfair as it's a bad race right now :/

I want to throw @Moose a taco party.
Crobat doesn't get any though

well in the past, people have been perma'd so I think a 100 is light enough

The actual production of damage logs (instead of just hearsay) caused me to find something inside BASE WAR3 CODE FOLKS (I NEVER MAKE ERRORS lol)
 
This bug report made me find TWO PROBLEMS with how traditional bonus damage was coded. Fixing this "nerfs" (fixes) some things (like fire effects + bonus damage, poison + bonus damage, and a few other magic effects and + bonus damage) BUT the better news is it probably buffs more things than it hurts.
Races DIRECTLY BUFFED by correction of this bug:
Altana Bob the Novice Kozu Magnus (YUUUUUUGE cause his aura thing) Marine These races should have previously had bonus damage that did not work and now it will work. I'm going to turn a blind eye to this direct buff and reevaluate if any of them are too strong in a couple weeks.
 
ALSO:
Dazzle: Restricted Venom Orb
Magneto: Fixed a bug where it could bypass disarm prevention skills/items
Phyrexian Sieger: the knockback/stun on the scout now check for ult immunity!
 
The moral of the story is, even basic things on War3 can be broken. I am not going to tear through files every time someone says a BASIC mechanic is bugged. if you think a BASIC mechanic is bugged, it is on YOU, THE PLAYER to prove it. Typically these things aren't bugs and typically the player is wrong. I am not going to waste 1-2 hours a week digging through engine code to prove every one of these players wrong, so I mostly ignore it. I was wrong on this one, but I only know this because of the damage logs. Thanks for taking the time to prove it to me Xeno/Fufu

This donation is for a pizza specifically for @Iherdcows
 
No one else can touch it 

Watch TopHattWaffles videos. After the 3rd video I was able to figure the rest on my own (and obviously got help from others with specific issues)

Here's what I used to start learning how to make maps.
 
https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldofLevelDesign
 
 
 

Are you saying you expected them to start a new operation before the previous one had ended?

It would be nice to be able to leave notes about people like "sprays down cts on j day" or "blows into microphone at the start of round, watch carefully" that can be taken into consideration as admin but are not binding rules.

I'm gonna go on a smurf and MFK for sG
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Fixed bugs per http://www.joinsg.net/bugs/warcraft-3/:
Terran Ghost bugs ult not dealing bonus dmg, text print error Stalker had a chance to survive suicide bomb with high magic resistance (e.g. angel) Zergling can't burrow while crouched now Bunnicula self-slow was being removed by ice totem, Bunnicula slow should work properly in all cases again. Bunnicula should never keep a pistol on the first round you play it. Phyrexian Sieger and Bunnicula should not get new game + respawn Cho'gall ult had improper ult CD when blocked Dreadknight had some bugs that were not letting it deal bonus knife damage Scattergunner ult properly lasts 5 seconds (like the info says) instead of 2.5  
If you know any races that attempt to respawn players that have "!respawn_none" set (and thus lose the respawn) please post them here: http://www.joinsg.net/bugs/warcraft-3/respawn-effects-bug-r8/
 
Please continue to use the bug tracker per http://www.joinsg.net/forums/topic/70909-warcraft-3-bug-report-guidelines/
 
Regulars who would like to provide additional value, consider following the bug tracker by clicking the follow button: http://i.imgur.com/ynNv3f4.png
By following the bug tracker, you will get forum notifications when bugs are posted. You can confirm that the bug exists or provide additional info if you have it, and this will save me time and get more things fixed more quickly.
 
Added Ring of Armor. Purchasing Ring of Armor (suggested hotkey: "say buy armor") will give 100 armor and a helmet for $2,000. Every time you have the ring at ROUND END while you are ALIVE it will add 50 additional armor the following round, capping out at 250 armor. If you purchase it while dead, it will only give you 100 armor the first round. Obviously, it is optimal to purchase it right before a round ends while you are alive. Round End is defined as when any "Terrorists/Counter Terrorists Win" condition is met.
 
Heavily altered Khanian Ammo Resupply. Ammo Resupply now costs $3,250 (up from $1,250) and gives you 20 reserve ammo every 30 seconds. It gives reserve ammo to a primary if it exists (even if you have your secondary out). If you have no primary, it puts reserve ammo in your secondary. If you are reloading a gun when the timer ticks over, you will get skipped. This is to prevent bugs with reserve ammo. To me, this is the same as if you don't throw your nade before Gloves of Warmth timer ticks you don't get a new nade - and I'm fine with that. There are ways to address both problems, and I am choosing not to because the item is good enough as is.
 
 

Added Ice Totem ($4,000) - reduces bash/stun/slow effects to 0.4 seconds at maximum. If you notice any slow/stun not affected by Ice Totem, let me know. 99% should work correctly but there might be 1 or 2 stuns coded differently than the rest.
Added console prints when you get bashed. Hopefully this will help you tryhards decide when Ice Totem is appropriate since most bash durations aren't known. It won't print for certain stuns (e.g. Entangle).
[W3S] Bashed by Human Alliance for 0.75 seconds Released Phyrexian Sieger at 2750, Bounty Hunter at 4250, and Bunnicula at 5000.
 

BUG REPORTING
Bug reports will no longer go in a pinned thread (as in the past) but will instead be posted on our bug tracker. Posts in elsewhere, including this forum section, will be infracted, hidden, and recreated in the bug tracker. Please post them in the bug tracker and save me 30 seconds and save you some infraction points.
http://www.joinsg.net/bugs/warcraft-3/
The bug report page is also listed on the Warcraft subforum, so it should be easy for everyone to navigate to (no excuses).
 
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED BUGS
I will create reports for bugs I know of and post them in the bug tracker. If you know if ANY bug (no matter how minor) please post it in the bug tracker.
Please do not post duplicates of any bugs. Frequent improper use of the bug tracker will result in infractions and/or bans.
If you have new/additional information OR if you have experienced the same bug - FEEL FREE to post in any preexisting bug report to say so. If multiple people have seen the same thing, it means I won't need to confirm a bug exists myself most of the time.
 
CONTACTING STAFF/ADMINS DIRECTLY
Please don't be this person. Numerous times in the past I have heard "well I told so-n-so weeks ago" but I never heard anything of it. Also numerous times people PM me and I ignore the messages because I am focused on other things and don't get around to reading them. Or I might read it and think "ah that's a pretty minor issue..." and I forget about it and nothing ever happens.
Please don't use my play time (or other staff/admin's play time) as your opportunity to unload your bug reports on me. I will likely not respond, meme you, or tell you to post it on the bug tracker. Basically unless it is a game breaking bug, I'm going to flat out ignore you.
THAT SAID: if it is a game breaking bug (xp exploits, cash exploits, rampant abuse of anything that gives players an unfair advantage in any way) please contact me or another staff member directly via steam or the forums. We will try to fix it and punish anyone ASAP.
 
WAR3BUG
If you regularly visit the forums (which as a regular, you probably should) PLEASE post in the bug report section and not in war3bug. War3bug is there for ease of access. If it is between you reporting a bug and not reporting it, use war3bug. If you will be on the forums later anyways, please save it for the bug report page. The bug report page will be checked and maintained frequently, where war3bug might be checked once a week or less. Serious bugs should ALWAYS go in the tracker.
 
SPAMMING WAR3BUG
Spamming war3bug on the servers is a nuisance. War3bug over the last year (possibly longer) has basically been a cesspool that contains about 50% garbage and 50% bugs. About 75% of the things sent as bugs are not bugs but misunderstandings of race skills/mechanics. As such, we pretty much infamously ignore war3bug. It's filled with so much garbage that it really isn't worth my time reading. Here's some items from the last month as examples of what you should not post in war3bug.
 
 
In the future I will start punishing for spamming war3bug. I might revoke your access to commands (this takes effort) or temp ban you (this is easy). Guess which one will prob happen.
Even if you aren't playing when I temp ban you, it will go towards the 6 ban rule (or 4 for same offense: griefing/trolling) because they will be longer than 30 minutes.
Please stop spamming war3bug.
 
 
I will leave the old war3 bug report thread up temporarily in case anyone knows they posted bugs and wants to copy pasta from it to the bug tracker.

WE'RE LOSING AT FUN, WE'RE LOSING AT INTERESTING MECHANICS, WE'RE LOSING AT OVERPOWERED RACES, WE'RE LOSING OLDFAGS, WE'RE LOSING AT KEEPING ENGINEERS AROUND, AND WE'RE ESPECIALLY LOSING AT MEMES
 

 
IT'S TIME TO MAKE WARCRAFT GREAT AGAIN
 
 
 
THE FIRST THING WE'RE GONNA DO IS FIX BUGS...
AND WE'RE GONNA MAKE THE BUGS PAY FOR IT!
WE'RE GONNA MAKE MOLE WORK AGAIN, NO MORE SPENDING YOUR HARD EARNED CASH JUST FOR A DUD SHOPITEM! WE'RE GONNA MAKE PYROMANIAC MINES ON AMERICAN TURF, AND THEY ARE GONNA WORK CORRECTLY, NO MORE BLOWING UP FROM FIRE BEING NEARBY  
THEN WE'RE GONNA GET BETTER DEALS...
WE AREN'T MAKING GOOD DEALS ANY MORE!
WE'RE GONNA GET SOCK OF THE FEATHER FOR $2,000 INSTEAD OF $2,500 WE'RE GONNA MAKE WEAPON SLING, A NEW DEFENSIVE ITEM THAT REDUCED THE CHANCE OF GETTING DISARMED BY 70% FOR A MERE $2,000!  
THEN WE'RE GONNA MAKE QUALITY OF LIFE CHANGES
WARCRAFT IS GONNA BE BETTER THAN EVER
WE'RE GONNA MAKE CRUSADER'S WISH NOT SPAWN GUNS IF YOUR RACE SPAWNS WITH GUNS IN THAT SLOT ALREADY - NO MORE GETTING JIPPED OUT OF YOUR HARD EARNED GUNS! WE'RE GONNA SELL THE AUG AND SG ON THE GUNS MENU! WE'RE GONNA MAKE EVADE PSEUDO RANDOM, GREATLY DECREASING THE CHANCE THAT 25% EVADE TRIGGERS 5/5 TIMES, WHILE ALSO GREATLY DECREASING THE CHANCE THAT EVADE TRIGGERS 0/5 TIMES! SEE THE LINK FOR MORE DETAILS. THEN WE'RE GONNA BUFF OUR RACES,
BECAUSE, BOY DO WE LOVE OUR RACES
ABADDON IS GOING TO HAVE A 3 SECOND ULTIMATE (UP FROM 2.5) AND HIS APHOTIC SHIELD WILL BLOCK 90% OF DAMAGE (UP FROM 80%) ADVENTURER'S ROGUE CLOAK IS GONNA HAVE AN EVADE CHANCE OF 18% (UP FROM 16%) CORPSE BOMBER IS GONNA DEAL MARGINALLY MORE DAMAGE WITH HIS DETONATION DEFAULT IS GONNA BE IMMUNE TO A LOT MORE, INCLUDING POISON, CRIT, BASH, LEECH, WEAPON DROP, FIRE, SLOW, KNOCKBACK, AND MAYBE EVEN MORE! DEMON HUNTER GRENADES ARE GONNA DEAL 18% OF THE GRENADE DAMAGE PER TICK AS FIRE, UP FROM 13% DISTORTION IS GONNA REGENERATE BLINK CHARGES EVERY 0.9 SECONDS (DOWN FROM 1.0 SECONDS) DRAGON KNIGHT IS GONNA HAVE HP REGEN OF 2.0 (UP FROM 1.5) DROW QUEEN IS GONNA HAVE AN EVADE CHANCE OF 22% (UP FROM 20%) GOLDEN TAIL IS GONNA BE ABLE TO ULT EVERY 0.95 SECONDS (DOWN FROM 1.0) INFECTED IS GONNA HAVE AN ADDITIONAL 550 HEALTH IN THE STARTING ROUNDS (UP FROM 450) KEEPER OF THE GROVE'S ULTIMATE RANGE IS INCREASED BY ALMOST 50% LOBOTOMIST BANISH AND LOBOTOMIZE LAST MARGINALLY LONGER LORD JARAXXUS SHOOTS CHAIN LIGHTNING MARGINALLY FARTHER MASTER OF GO CAN HEAL SLIGHTLY MORE FREQUENTLY BY JUMPING (0.5 SEC CD TO 0.2 SEC CD) MOLECULE IS GONNA HAVE 35% EVADE (UP FROM 33%) NATURE WISP IS GONNA HAVE 60% EVADE (UP FROM 50%) AND IS GONNA START WITH 15 LEVELS NOW (LIKE ZERGLING) NIGHT ELF IS GONNA HAVE 28% EVADE (UP FROM 25%) PISTOLEER IS GONNA ULT EVERY 2.5 SECONDS (DOWN FROM 3) PUDGE DISMEMBER IS GONNA LAST 1.75 SECONDS (UP FROM 1.5) PYROMANIAC IS GONNA BE ABLE TO KNOCKBACK EVERY 2 SECONDS (DOWN FROM 4 SECONDS) RANGER OF THE WOODS IS GONNA ABSORB 40% OF DAMAGE INTO HIS ARMOR (UP FROM 30%) TERRAN REAPER IS GONNA BE ABLE TO ULT EVERY 5 SECONDS (DOWN FROM 6) SIN IS GONNA DEAL 70% BONUS HEADSHOT DAMAGE (UP FROM 49%) UNHOLY PALADIN IS GONNA GET 1.8% LIFESTEAL PER TEAMMATE (UP FROM 1.6%) WIZARD OF THE EVERLASTING IS GONNA ABSORB 100% OF DAMAGE INTO HIS ARMOR (UP FROM 50%) ZERGLING IS GONNA BE ABLE TO ATTACK 0.75 SECONDS AFTER UNBURROWING (DOWN FROM 1 SECOND)  
THEN WE'RE GONNA ADD A RACE TO THE SERVER
BECAUSE WE'RE TIRED OF THE SAME OLD RACES
BATTLEFIELD PRO IS NOW PLAYABLE AT 4500 TOTAL LEVELS! REGEN WAS REPLACED WITH AN ALL NEW, NEVER BEFORE SEEN, BRIEFLY TESTED ULTIMATE! GO GIVE IT A WHIRL! THEN WE'RE GONNA MAKE STRIDES IN CODING EFFICIENCY
BECAUSE WE'RE TIRED OF ALWAYS LAGGING 
(NO GUARANTEE THIS MADE A NOTICEABLE EFFECT ON THE LAG.. IT PROBABLY ISN'T A HUGE DIFFERENCE, AND I WON'T KNOW TILL I SEE IT LIVE)
WE'RE GONNA RECODE REGEN FROM THE GROUND UP BECAUSE REGEN WAS UNNECESSARILY BEING MANAGED EVERY SINGLE GAME FRAME WE'RE GONNA CHANGE HOW SPEED IS SET, BECAUSE SPEED WAS UNNECESSARILY BEING RECALCULATED AND RESET EVERY SINGLE GAME FRAME WE'RE GONNA STOP UNNECESSARILY STORING PLAYER WEAPONS EVERY 2 GAME FRAMES FOR CRUSADERS WISH, AND START STORING THEM EVERY TIME A PLAYER PICKS UP OR DROPS A GUN  
AND THE BEST PART IS? ALL OF THIS IS ALREADY LIVE!

Yes trinity, i looked into it, and it is because all of the disco songs are being played by about 15 sources at the same time when you switch songs (its setup to play the song at 0 volume to mute that song)  But doing this floods the audio channels and hits the max producing this error message.  Scrub is correct, it cannot be fixed unless the map is fixed and then compiled.
 
a fix i've found is to uncheck "is not looped" and then have it trigger off instead of playing at 0 volume.

Staff's approach to forum updates in one picture:
 

I removed racetop10 because it was delaying xp load at the start of new maps. It was fine when I originally added it but I think server lag + the queries were causing issues.
I'm going to try to address the server lag and plenty of other problems (no promises) when I'm working less, in about 2-3 weeks.
 
I know War3 feels like a redheaded stepchild and I'm sorry but there isn't much mental capacity left for me to deal with it this last few months.

Yep, I spent a weekend working on a version of !ws with partial text matching and saving the skins you selected per weapon to put on all our servers. Then Valve announced that their new policy was that all such plugins were not allowed. So I stopped working on it and removed it from our dev server.
 
I think they were a bit heavy handed to permanently ban accounts on their first wave, but I also find it hard to sympathize with people who ignored all the messages from Valve during the many months of grace period while Valve slowly turned on the GLST system. People who had a plugin that wasn't clearly banned by Valve (like some of the custom knife plugins) didn't deserve a permanent ban like that.

Same. Condensed view doesn't work.
 
Also, more importantly, "Load more activity" doesn't work, so I can only see new posts from the last 24 hours. If I go more than 24 hours without looking at the forums, I am now guaranteed to miss posts.

Same. Condensed view doesn't work.
 
Also, more importantly, "Load more activity" doesn't work, so I can only see new posts from the last 24 hours. If I go more than 24 hours without looking at the forums, I am now guaranteed to miss posts.

Grab Free Day - A staff member graciously takes the round off to grab the warden and spectate you, allowing you to bring him wherever you want. You could swing the warden into the terrorists, but you wouldn't want to because that would shorten your LR. Right?