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Mods & Development / Warcraft 2 CustomMaps / Multiplayer Enhancements patch v11, invitation to play

« on: April 14, 2024, 12:23:12 PM »

https://gamebanana.com/mods/507336

Hey guys, its danny again. I made a new visual / audio enhancements patch for Warcraft 2, such as the others from:

https://gamebanana.com/mods/463909
OR
https://gamebanana.com/mods/423843

The reason I made this new mod thread is because it contains way more features, aside from patch v10 and it includes up to date almost all the added up new generation modding features in Warcraft 2 and my mods, including Road of heroes & DAIFE Boosted mod features.

The main highlight from this mod patch is to bring the capacity to now randomizing almost all customized tileets I've got fully functional till this moment (april 14th, 2024), which are about 20.

Tilesets fully functional in this mod are:

Forest-like tilesets:

Forest
Jungle
War1 Forest v2
War1 Forest v3
Rainy Valley Final version

Winter-like tilesets:

Winter
Glacier
SnowStorm
Volcano

Wasteland-like tilesets:
Wasteland
Beach
Desert Normal
Desert Woow (Weapons of our Warfare mod)

Orc Swamp-like tilesets:
Orc Swamp
Night Forest
Dark Forest
Hell
Wetland
War1 Swamp
Tree Valley

Randomizing tilesets work for both, single & multiplayer.

The mod works for both single player (custom maps + base game campaigns) OR multiplayer.

Main purpose from this mod, such as it is for v10 enhancements patch, its to bring audio/visual enhancements for the game. Its a universal patch that can be expanded to any other mod.
The code conditions are tied up to the type of Tileset that is being loaded in-game, so then now its not tied up as for each selectable mission such as I coded in Road of Heroes mod, for example.

How to Install & play ?

1) This mod, alongside any of my other mods, can ONLY work with War2 Combat Edition from https://en.war2.ru - you can set up all default settings into the installer.

2) Extract from package and send the folder: "MPv11Files" to your main War2 Combat Edition folder. Same as for the file: MPv11.exe. This last one will let you load the mod and Warcraft 2.

3) Send the file: "pluginMPv11.w2p" to your Plugin folder in War2 Combat Edition. This plugin file allows all functionality from the mod.

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If you would like to give me any feedback, then dont hesitate to join my both streaming channels:

https://twitch.tv/dannyldd
OR
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfcxs8KSkOiehS9GK9rSAKg

I would appreciate if you can donate any money contribution you can to my paypal address:

https://www.paypal.me/dannyldd

Good luck & have fun

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Mods & Development / Looking up for some help in Lava animations for new "Lava River" tileset.

« on: April 10, 2024, 02:13:55 PM »

Is there somebody interested in doing some graphics artwork for a new tileset called as Lava River in Warcraft 2 ? I have the tileset sheet and your job would just be to give some cool and more realistic animations for Lava in Water tiles, but now with Lava shades (aka: orange, yellow, red shades). I'm looking for someone who would be interested at something like this. Of course, credits for this work will be given to you.

In Lava river v1 I have set some animations already in Shorelines & Water (Lava), but it still needs work there to be properly showcased.

In Lava River v2 there are not animations in shorelines but some in Water (Lava).

There's a video and screenshot into here to showcase the index colors that have to be used for the animations. And a video to showcase how currently its seen Lava river v1 with its current animations.

Video with current Lava animations: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtHUwvs739I6bSXiqF4I3pcJyKw?e=ACGq6z
Any help is really appreciated !

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Battle.net Blizzard server?

« on: March 18, 2024, 09:59:24 AM »

as far as i know, GOG server is always empty there and a known Warcraft 2 streamer, Trogallart actually plays in there with his viewers anytime he's online

https://www.twitch.tv/trogallart

In other case, the most populated server are this one

In case you wanted to play with people, just join up the Discord server from Russian server if wanna find out the community or just join the russian server (european time) to play with any of them.

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Mods & Development / Re: Fond Memories of the Warclan

« on: March 18, 2024, 04:28:23 AM »

Thanks for the kind words. I hope you enjoy the content that its available nowadays around here.

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Server.War2.ru / Re: virus total reports as malware

« on: March 14, 2024, 03:01:13 PM »

so Ed, u see that people still up to date mark combat edition as false positive ? So prob. youtube algorithm did the same and fucked me up.

what could it be ? because its .exe ? unless u can make possible to have war2 in portable mode so it shouldn't be marked as virus.

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Mods & Development / Re: War2Mod development log

« on: March 13, 2024, 07:04:25 PM »

so Ed, can u please tell me what is new on here ?

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Mods & Development / Re: Road of Heroes (ROH), new war2 mod - Invitation to play (Development completed)

« on: February 21, 2024, 08:11:33 AM »

Thanks for uploading the fix!  I'm afraid this is just too difficult for me, however.  On Human mission #3, I spent all 40,000 Gold just trying to defeat Orange on the starting island. It was very hard, especially with the guard tower behind trees and constant attacks from Red. I had to build 2 barracks and deplete all my resources. I had to save/load about 20 times. I finally defeated Orange and realized I haven't even built a Shipyard yet (I'm not sure I have enough gold now for 4 oil platforms and a shipyard). Lol.

These look really fun, but I think the difficulty of your Upgraded Multitileset version is more balanced! I might return to playing that version.

Thanks for your effort!

what difficulty did you play in human3 ?

will keep on balancing out the difficulty better off. Really appreciate your feedback bud.

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Mods & Development / Re: Road of Heroes (ROH), new war2 mod - Invitation to play (Development completed)

« on: February 19, 2024, 05:40:45 AM »

Sorry for the terrible video quality, but just to show how bad I'm doing:

I tried building more peasants first, then more archers first, then a barracks first. Kept my healthy guys in the front lines, less healthy guys in the back. Had all my peasants working. But I just got overwhelmed each time.

Edit: Wait a minute! I just now tried the "easier" mode, and it gave me 4 peasants instead of 2!  I thought "friendly" was easier? I also noticed that "Hard" mode gave me 2 peasants, the same as "friendly" mode. Maybe the two plugins were mixed up?

sorry, my bad buddy. I corrected it now, +2 peasants and +2 footmen in human2.

The difficulty is balanced out on my own experience and had no other testers to have around. Version 8.7 is released now with that little rebalance

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Mods & Development / Re: Road of Heroes (ROH), new war2 mod - Invitation to play (Development completed)

« on: February 18, 2024, 04:56:05 PM »

I think I figured it out. I downloaded the latest version of the Widescreen patch (version 6), and those problems went away.  It might have been the last version of the Widescreen patch that caused those issues!

Can't wait to play this now.

hey, i hope you have fun with the content around, bud. Take your time to check out the features. If you're willing to get up to date with the modding features, please dont hesitate to join the live streams in

https://twitch.tv//dannyldd

OR

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUO479yrAhjnAzA6BU_pnTw

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Mods & Development / Re: Road of Heroes (ROH), new war2 mod - Invitation to play (Development completed)

« on: February 18, 2024, 03:29:14 AM »

Wow, that was fast! Thanks, Danny. I'm starting with the Human campaign. For some reason the first Orc mission crashes when I select a resolution of 1280x704 using ROH_HD.exe. Any ideas on why?

did you download the new files ? ROHfiles folder + new plugin files?

Remember to not set more than 1 pluginROH file in your Plugin folder.

I'm checking out and seems to load ok, unless I missed up something. Thank you for the feedback, bud. I cant check out all the possible issues for myself.

Edit:

Try to check the missions out with a smaller resolution like 960x544 (resolution = 3 on widescreen ini file)

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Mods & Development / Re: Road of Heroes (ROH), new war2 mod - Invitation to play (Development completed)

« on: February 17, 2024, 01:52:51 PM »

if you playing on server you can use command /song X
just write in chat /song 10 or something
songs are from 0 to 26
you can play any of them in multiplayer on serv

I'm playing offline campaigns only. I know the game can't save the music position, but can the current track keep playing where it is? In other words, disable a saved game from loading any track at all.

i've randomized the music. Each time it starts a new mission, restarts or reloads a game, it will play a new music. It will be in next version.

Nice, can't wait!

i've uploaded road of heroes v8.6.

New feature to randomize the music in-game & Friendly mode. Even easier difficulty than 2nd mode.

i hope you enjoy it

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Mods & Development / Re: Road of Heroes (ROH), new war2 mod - Invitation to play (Development completed)

« on: February 15, 2024, 04:56:09 AM »

if you playing on server you can use command /song X
just write in chat /song 10 or something
songs are from 0 to 26
you can play any of them in multiplayer on serv

I'm playing offline campaigns only. I know the game can't save the music position, but can the current track keep playing where it is? In other words, disable a saved game from loading any track at all.

i've randomized the music. Each time it starts a new mission, restarts or reloads a game, it will play a new music. It will be in next version.

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Mods & Development / Re: Road of Heroes (ROH), new war2 mod - Invitation to play (Development completed)

« on: February 13, 2024, 09:54:51 PM »

Thanks for the response! Do you know if there is a way to randomize the in-game music? Every time I load a game, the music starts over. Since I have to save/load a lot to win, it means I always hear the same music on repeat

Also I'm curious, what map editor do you use for scenarios?

Thanks!

Search for Puddraft. The best map editor by all means. For warcraft 2.

I think its possible to randomize the music. Will get it incorporated for the next RoH version, which may probably include a 3rd even more easier mode for it. And probably the last version for quite a while in that mod.

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Mods & Development / Re: Road of Heroes (ROH), new war2 mod - Invitation to play (Development completed)

« on: February 13, 2024, 01:01:46 PM »

several bug fixes for the AI to make them more competent against player.
They can now for example:

- use death knights or mages to harass the player alongside their armies on transports or ground. Casters can use blizzard or death & decay on peons, such as multiplayer strategy.
- Comps can now break walls. Player can build walls.
- build cannon towers
- train & send goblin sappers / demo squads to attack the player
- build way better off around their bases to optimize their available space.
- repair buildings with few workers
- infinite resources to get in late game, if being previously set in order to force player to win the game by defeating them or completing objective.
- smarter comps to attack different locations.
- comps can now lay siege on islands, recover those units and get to another.

yea lol but all of this code was maked by me 

Yes, you did. Never said the opposite. ai fix plugin did wonders in this mod )

so ed, many new generation features thanks to U ))

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Mods & Development / Re: Road of Heroes (ROH), new war2 mod - Invitation to play (Development completed)

« on: February 13, 2024, 11:58:42 AM »

The resolution can just be changed in the Warcraft_II_HD.ini file, which comes with the widescreen patch files. The ROH_HD.exe file is *just* for playing the game in widescreen resolution (whichever you set in warcraft_ii_hd.ini file).

ROH Easier mode is definetely harder than DAIFE mod, which was more oriented to showcase the original intended difficulty by Blizzard Entertainment in the original campaigns, yet it never managed to be accomplished. Since the maps still needed several testings, bug fixes & checking out overall computer behavior in speed for attacks, upgrades, workers count.

I made this Easier mode for ROH in an attempt to allow more casual level people to being capable to see the new generation features for warcraft 2, yet the original main difficulty for that mod is Hard mode, which was previously tested up (& stored) on the youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/@dannype3

or the previous one which was deleted by false accussations from Youtube, dannyldd.

The difficulty from War2 DAIFE 7.0+: https://gamebanana.com/mods/356009

and DAIFE up to v6.954: https://gamebanana.com/mods/288680

are the same.

Only difference is that from v7.0, I incorporated some new generation modding features for war2 like:

- multiple tilesets across the campaigns
- customized damaged portrait icons for units
- upgrade alerts.
- little tweaks for bug fix purposes on mission objectives.
- kills counter on units
- Sound Alerts for gold/lumber/oil.


Road of heroes on the other hand, have some difficulty variants which also include several bug fixes for the AI to make them more competent against player.
They can now for example:

- use death knights or mages to harass the player alongside their armies on transports or ground. Casters can use blizzard or death & decay on peons, such as multiplayer strategy.
- Comps can now break walls. Player can build walls.
- build cannon towers
- train & send goblin sappers / demo squads to attack the player
- build way better off around their bases to optimize their available space.
- repair buildings with few workers
- infinite resources to get in late game, if being previously set in order to force player to win the game by defeating them or completing objective.
- smarter comps to attack different locations.
- comps can now lay siege on islands, recover those units and get to another.

and way more.

I was recently requested to make a 3rd even easier mode in case Easier mode wasn't enough.

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Be that as it may, I hope you enjoy the content around, bud. There're other less harder mods around like Weapons of our Warfare, Demo extended challenge, Legacy of dalaran enhanced, u8's micro campaign Enhanced, some customized patches with audio  & visual enhancements for custom maps or even multiplayer.

All of this in the main page for all these mods:

https://gamebanana.com/members/submissions/mods/1738346?

good luck & have fun