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Mods & Development / Observer spot

« on: September 23, 2020, 09:16:36 AM »

Hi,

Is it possible for someone to add an observer alternative to the next client update? For example when you host a game and select orc-human-random you also can also select observer. When game starts you won't get any units or buildings but still be in game. This would be the best improvement for Warcraft 2!

Any ideas how or if this could be made? : )

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Server.War2.ru / Re: GOW Fix Feedback Wanted

« on: September 10, 2020, 10:54:37 AM »

Another thing that could be balanced at the map is how easy it is to block between hall and gold on all spots. 4 is very easy to block off completely from mining which is very unfair. A piece of dirt could be added in front of mine to disable 3x3 building block.

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Server.War2.ru / Re: GOW Fix Feedback Wanted

« on: September 10, 2020, 07:02:35 AM »

I haven't really read through the thread. But what I have been thinking of to balance gow better is to:
1. Make one dirt to grass at 6.
2. Fill in three squares of grass at 4, where you normally build walls.

I think that will make it more balanced.
If you want to make the map easier to play for newbs, fix the 8 spawn issue. But I think most players wants to keep it as it is.

Now I see that this is suggested before : )

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Everyone on War2USA

« on: August 15, 2020, 06:03:38 AM »

Blid is an old admin from around 2006, he played couple years on the server and since 10 years he have never played anymore, the fact that he just hang here like that to watch the forum and take decision like if it matters make me believe he is just a smurf and troll.. iL is the head admin of the server, he dont play the game anymore, but he is really good to take this game into dictature. Everytime we want to improve this game and it concern CLIENT, SERVER, OR HEAD ADMINISTRATION... He act like it's never possible. I think he only use us as what we call Zombies Network! Something that alot of Russians love to do. At the moment he telling us that we cant have new HEAD ADMINISTRATION because he miraculously made the server on LINUX platform, but whats the point with his personal LINUX computer and a pvpg server that came back from 1995 when linux was not even existing... It make no sens at all, he just dont want nobody to see what is happening in this server, thats what i think. By the way, he will also say all those shutdown are due to dos attack, but it's false again, iL transfert the game to another server six month ago, he probably find a better deal where he pay less, and that server is total trash! Six month ago before he transfert to that server, war2 was not that bad.

And please, dont say ping is not bad, ping is total trash and there 2 reason for it... The server that he just transfert is trash, and he still allow mutiples different clients to connect on the server, wich bring a corruption on the latency. Go try war2usa and you will see what a good ping is!

I understand IL, I wouldn't let some random unknown guy on the internet into my server. Especially with all the drama that is going on. To have one guy access all the personal information, IP:S passwords, usernames etc makes sense. But If you can find someone you trust that you think have the skills to help, I guess that would be a good thing. But as I said, I wouldn't trust people I don't know.

You need to listen to what I'm saying. The ping to the server doesn't affect gameplay at all. Only lag in lobby and joining games. When you start the game you get dis attached from the server. That's why you can play a game even if the server goes down after you started the game.

How do you know the crashing of the server is not from DDOS? The only reason I can see the server crash, is by overload (not likely), an attack or IL is running a server at his home, and he got unstable electricity etc. Most likely it is some kind of attacks. But IL can probably answer this?

Why war2usa has better latency in games is probably because most of the players have good routing to each others. The more players and the more countries around the world that will play, the more it will lag.

BTW. Linux is a good choice when you run a server. It's the most common way to run servers. I have been running many servers with Linux, it's not a bad choice...

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Everyone on War2USA

« on: August 15, 2020, 05:55:02 AM »

Yeah, Tora I know you. And I've seen IL. But this Blid guy everyone is talking about I don't understand why he is a part of this. If he're just for the drama I don't know if it's a good thing. I think it's good that IL dedicates his time to do make the server running and you Tora is doing a lot of good for the community! Thanks. But there is other people that wants to contribute but it seems like this Blid guy is making it hard?

What is the problem with the current server? Sometimes it is down, mostly when it is attacked. Not a big problem imo. If the server is so unstable just move it to a new vps?

Problem is with regards to it crashing, is because we have someone ddosing it all the time. IL, myself, and Blid are discussing to find and promote a new Linux admin on the server to assist in server outages. Hopefully we will happen soon.

As far as moving to server to a new "vbs." I don't really understand what this means, would you elaborate?

So there is three main ways to run a server. You rent a dedicated server from a server company, this means nobody else will use the server at the same time. One computer for just you. VPS is you rent a dedicated server with other people you don't know, you share one dedicated server. This is very common. Everyone that is renting the server has their own virtual machines running on the dedicated server, isolated from each others. Another option is you own your own hardware, you put a computer in your basement and run it as a server on your own internet connection. Then you only pay for hardware and electricity.

Maybe IL can answer this thread and tell us more about the server environment? I had several servers, dedicated and vps. Now I'm running most of my things in "Google Cloud Platform". You get a good VPS for free first year, then you have to pay a few dollars every month. You also get access to a lot of Google technology. For example if some one would DDOS my server Google has the protection I need: https://cloud.google.com/armor

But still I don't feel like the down time is a big issue with war2...

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Everyone on War2USA

« on: August 14, 2020, 02:57:59 PM »

I have some questions.

Who is this Blid guy? Who are the admins of the server? Are they even playing the game?
What is the problem with the current server? Sometimes it is down, mostly when it is attacked. Not a big problem imo. If the server is so unstable just move it to a new vps? You need more admins to ban people? Can someone list all the resons why we need new server and new admins? All this drama...

When you start a new game, the ping to the server is not an issue. Because the game you playing is independent from the server. The server only makes sure players can find and connect to each others. So how laggy the games is all about the connection between all players in that particular game. Basically the ping to server doesn't affect gameplay.

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Server.War2.ru / Re: eleison BNE EF map pack (updated)!

« on: June 29, 2020, 03:52:20 PM »

FYI, I updated Turtle Rock once more :X

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Server.War2.ru / Re: eleison BNE EF map pack (updated)!

« on: June 26, 2020, 07:21:41 AM »

Hey Warcraft 2 Friends!

I played my two latest maps a bit and came to the conclusion that I had to change some stuff. I did some major updates to Echo Isles and Turtle Rock. Hopefully this is the final release. If you dl the old versions, please delete the old version and re-download again please.

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Server.War2.ru / Re: ss opps

« on: June 12, 2020, 03:13:56 PM »

Was this opp guy very unfriendly? Then it sounds similar to "rudygay" too...

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Server.War2.ru / Re: The best Warcraft 2 maps ever!

« on: June 11, 2020, 06:09:05 AM »

Hey friends!

Would be great if some of you would try out hosting any of these maps and see what you think. Don't judge it after one game though, a lot of players do that when they try new maps :X Take care!

Thanks

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Server.War2.ru / Re: GoW Tournament Saturday June 6th at 3PM Eastern

« on: June 05, 2020, 04:13:59 AM »

Thanks for hosting the tourney Tora! Maybe host a tourney with my new map pack in the future? : )

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Server.War2.ru / Re: R.I.P. Ch0ppy

« on: June 03, 2020, 05:02:19 AM »

Well I’ll say Ch0ppy was a great guy and the chop community lost one of their greats. Losing Ch0ppy is a huge blow to the war2 community.

I’m going to host a 2v2 chop tournament this weekend for the guy.

Maybe we could try make it a 4v4 tourney, with scrambled teams, seed the players into fair teams. Maybe we could get 3-4 teams? Because Ch0ppy loved 4s.

Ch0ppy gave a lot to this community, he will also be missed a lot!

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Server.War2.ru / Re: The best Warcraft 2 maps ever!

« on: May 27, 2020, 09:49:01 AM »

Thank you guys! Yeah runes is more a fun thing. First time you play it, you might get confused for a second, but shouldn't be a big deal. Yeah you can't edit this map in normal map editor, it's a lot of things going on under the hood. I hope people would like to try out these maps for real. They are very competitive. They would have been better if there where people that wanting to test them. But I think they good enough for give a fair fight for both players and fun games!

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Server.War2.ru / eleison BNE EF map pack (updated)!

« on: May 24, 2020, 07:14:17 AM »

EDIT 2: Turtle Rock Updated again... After some testing. Links updated :)
EDIT: I did some major updates to Echo Isles and Turtle Rock. Hopefully this is the final release. If you dl the old versions, please delete and re-download again please.

It's finally done! After years of making, it's time to release my WC3 Map Pack!

Featuring:
Echo Isles BNE
Lost Temple BNE
Terenas Stand BNE
Turtle Rock BNE
Twisted Meadows BNE

These maps guarantee competitive, fun and fair fights!
A few years back I got the idea to make some maps inspired by some of the most popular maps from Warcraft 3. I also wanted to make better, fair and more competitive maps for High Resources - EF play.

Since it is hard to find people that really want to beta test the maps I've been working hard by my own with balancing and finding bugs. So hopefully they are solid enough. They are all counting on the ladder.

Some of the maps includes rocks in the terrain. On my maps you can always build right next to the rocks, so you can close off chokes easily. There is also some runestones to help game play with chokes close to water. In earlier versions players could build on light dirt, I removed this since it confused players too much, it was mostly a design thing, to make maps look more like original WC3.

I also wanted to make more 1v1 competitive smaller maps like Starcraft and Wacraft 3 maps. The issue with Warcraft 2 is that there is no good way of observing in game. So even if the original map is just two spawns I balanced the map for 4 spawns, making the expansions as extra spawns. Even if there is four spawns these maps won't work that good in 2v2, they are made for 1v1. There is also one bigger map that works with 4v4, Lost Temple.

Solid 1v1 maps: Terenas Stand BNE, Echo Island BNE

Turtle Rock BNE, Twisted Meadows BNE also works good for 1s...

I hope you guys like it!

I would like to see a tournament hosted on these maps. Tora you want to put in some prize money? Xurnt, Justin make some commentary? :)
If you play any of these maps and stream, please post it here in this thread :) Thank you!

Would be nice if this map pack could be added to next War2Combat release.

Since they are all well known maps in RTS community I think this could be a nice addition to Warcraft 2.

All maps and images in zip:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gp4sqcK6MUL36_UBDB6t7q1Jn2TWuyFV/view?usp=sharing

Echo Isles BNE - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fp7v8fEKFdw8VyvXvxTzJYKZWL2yrhM8/view?usp=sharing
Lost Temple BNE - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j8_beBEDU5JPql1xg2KMFHgTrSJVdgiP/view?usp=sharing
Terenas Stand BNE - https://drive.google.com/file/d/14i42-FFWisEaeZzTdIi87ka_6io0surD/view?usp=sharing
Turtle Rock BNE - https://drive.google.com/file/d/12ZBJlshPl5tejykCyX5YSh1OcqGDBIZ8/view?usp=sharing
Twisted Meadows BNE - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qf89RtpNtcIU6nmV9fudEK-iF6_W2t4D/view?usp=sharing

Echo Isles BNE Screenshot
https://i.ibb.co/TLXdbxQ/Echo-Isles-BNE-JPG.jpg

Lost Temple BNE Screenshot
https://ibb.co/0CHqj6k

Terenas Stand BNE Screenshot
https://ibb.co/5MxH3dh

Turtle Rock BNE Screenshot
https://i.ibb.co/8MLX1dF/Turtle-Rock-BNE-JPG.jpg

Twisted Meadows BNE Screenshot
https://ibb.co/WzkL2kp

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Lets talk combat edition, spells a and balance!

« on: November 04, 2018, 04:07:45 PM »

Best way to balance game would be to give knights a consistent speed upgrade instead of healing. Make bloodlust some sec lower in duration and lower invis duration. Invis would be op if lust is nerfed. This way knights can run away from lusted ogres, and game will be much more even.