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Server.War2.ru / Re: Ladder and Anti-hack

« on: December 07, 2024, 03:50:15 PM »

I'm not sure if you ever even logged in at USA server, but since you're uninformed and saying things that aren't true, I will correct your statement.

Tupac made USA server to give people a place to play away from ru since he and I both had had very unpleasant experiences there 6 years ago and all newcomers were routinely driven away.

Tupac barely ever even logged on USA server to play, like a handful of times a year, but spent his own time and money to give to others. We had a great server and much more positive, friendly, and community-like atmosphere, though still made of imperfect humans that we all are. To say he created it so he could go hack is preposterous.

What you're saying is so far from the truth that it makes me doubt everything you've ever said or everything you ever will say.

Tupac is not who you're making him out to be.

As for me, i don't actually think Tupac used some hackish code on his server.
I never joined his server from my main comp for security reasons, but as i remember, he even didn't use that client-side dll, we use on ru. We checked that several years ago.
I even trust Tupac don't have players' password database as he using irreversable hashes on his server.

Same as i also don't think Tupac really considers ru uses any hackish code on our server as he posted somewhere.
Same as you, we just want everyone to enjoy playing war2 together.
I'd be glad to see everyone playing war2 on one server (of course i'd prefer them to use RU one), but unfortunately players can't come to an agreement with each other.

I'd be happy to have friendly community on RU, but i have to respect the traditions of the community that appeared before I came here.
Looks like we have some ideas how to find consensus between such different approaches though...

The main thing i have against Tupac is his "specifics of hacking culture". When he tries to check the security of your site/server (very good intention), but then he says something kinda: Look! I just hacked your server, i changed your main page! Haha! Now let's try to find the vulnerability I used!
(Of course i know (as him also) that these softwares (runcms and pvpgn) are from 198x-199x and looks like a leaky sieve, full of vulnerabilities. But we have no way to move to something better.)
I find such approach unacceptable, but when i told Tupac about that, he just got mad at me, ran away and said something like I'll get a war if I want it.
That's why i'd prefer to not have any relations to him.

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Server.War2.ru / The Mist Turns Red. Prequel. Act 1. Released!

« on: December 05, 2024, 05:25:37 PM »

THE MIST TURNS RED.
Prequel. Act 1. The Seal Path
New dwarwen race on red islands
with custom abilities and upgrades
5 new missions with 2 difficulty seetigns
and some hidden secrets
NEW Build Queue and Order Queue
NEW Custom Status for units
created by war2ru team

Download new Combat Launcher firstly: https://forum.war2.ru/index.php?topic=7299.0
Then download Combat using it,
Then download Prequel and enjoy.

Please, don't be too strict, the game was finished in a hurry in the last days, we will definitely release updates to fix all the bugs.

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Server.War2.ru / Warcraft II - 29 years! War2Combat 5.0 released!

« on: December 05, 2024, 03:58:34 PM »

So, that happened 29 years ago:

Blizzard Entertainment this week began shipping "Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness," one of the most anticipated entertainment titles this year. Warcraft II, sequel to the company's award-winning fantasy-strategy game "Warcraft: Orcs and Humans," boasts several enhancements including tactical combat over land, sea and air; head-to-head play against as many as eight players; ability for players to customize their own maps, units and sound effects; and rich Super VGA graphics.

https://www.blizzardarchive.com/pub/index.php?id=press951205

So, let me introduce our new build in honor of that day:

War2Combat 5.0!

    - The main developer of the combat have been changed to: Mistral. Reworking the main executable file of the game: fois. Project curator: il
    - The concept of the combat has been changed.
        - The installer with a bunch of confusing settings has been removed, the optimal default settings have been selected, they are used when installing the game.
        - Important system settings of the game have been moved from the registry directly to the main executable file of the game.
        - A launcher has been made for the most important settings, as well as a configurator.
       - Now the combat can be downloaded and updated online, directly through the launcher.

    - Now the only executable file of the game, has become a widescreen version, adapted for new modern monitors and showing more game space on the screen.
    - Combat allows you to enter both the official Blizzard server and any unofficial ones.
    - The ddraw configurator and the ddraw files themselves have been updated.
    - Now the OpenGL visualizer is selected by default for rendering the game on modern computers, using shaders for anti-aliasing and obtaining a beautiful modern picture.
      OpenGL correctly displays the BNET chat, but it switches the monitor resolution.
      So, it's still possible to switch to the old GDI, which used to be the main visualizer before. The chat is still displayed in a resolution of 640x480.
      You can also use the new GDI visualizer from the developer narzoul, which allows you to scale the BNET chat. However, it does not support switching to windowed mode.
    - All necessary plugins for the game have been updated and tested.
    - Combat includes the final versions of War2InSight and WarVideo, compatible with current and earlier versions of Warcraft II.
    - The map editor has been updated by the developer: fois. Unit limit check has been removed, and other small improvements have been made.
    - Utilities for map makers have been added: PudPic, as well as WarMaker.
    - A trigger editor for maps has been added: War2 Triggers Editor.


Here's it: https://en.war2.ru/downloads/?file=War2Loader.exe

Please, give me any feedback for this thing.

(It's kinda beta-version, so use if carefully, make a backup of your old war2combat or install this one anywhere else.)

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Server.War2.ru / Re: War2 RU Ladder......

« on: June 07, 2024, 06:18:11 PM »

Just removed everyones' ranks.
Should be counted from scratch if i understand properly

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Cheats

« on: June 07, 2024, 05:40:27 PM »

I answered Ragner in Russian, let me give you a translation of my answer here, albeit with a slight delay:

About cheaters and cheating in the Warcraft II community

Regarding yesterday's revelations from our players:

1. Cheating in any online game is unacceptable - thereby destroying the entire atmosphere of trust between players and the healthy spirit of competition.
Cheaters are the reason why many online games lose popularity.
For example, this is the main reason why our English-speaking comrades do not want to meet newcomers and throw people with new nicknames out of their games. They prefer to play thousands of games with those they have known for a long time, instead of allowing someone new to join, thinking that he might turn out to be a cheater and break the game.
We, as the community administration, are worried and would like to change this situation, but this is not in our power: it is the players' choice to play with whoever they want.

2. Every player understands: cheating is deception.
But the forbidden fruit is sweet. I'm tempted to try it. After all, no one will know, most likely, if everything is done carefully. But one person will know for sure: the person who decided to “try.” Conscience is such a thing, it will gnaw. Today, once you outwitted the others, even if only “for testing”, “as an experiment”, you experienced a feeling of your own superiority. But then for the rest of your life you have to live with this, look these people in the eyes, even virtually. And you can’t talk about this with anyone, or open your soul - after all, they will immediately judge you, reject you, stop playing with you, and stop considering you an honest person. And my conscience gnaws! And it will gnaw and destroy for the rest of its life. Or until the truth comes out.
And think before you “try” - is it worth it to conduct such “experiments”?

3. Still, admitting to deception is much better for the person himself than keeping it to himself. Guilt greatly destroys the psyche and sometimes the body. And for what? Hide from other people and destroy yourself? Is it worth it? Yes, by making such confessions, you inevitably lose your reputation in front of others, and this is the price to pay. But the main thing is that you restore your reputation to yourself! You remove a stone from your soul. The main thing is that you understand that you definitely won’t do anything like that in the future, and you become better. Of course, you lose faith from others, but it will be restored over time, the main thing is faith in yourself!
We will not take any measures from the administration:
- firstly, if you confessed yourself, it’s much better than being “caught by the hand,”
- secondly, and this follows from the first, if you confessed, most likely you will no longer want to take the dubious path,
- thirdly, retribution still comes in the form of loss of trust of other people. But this is the price you have to pay to clear your conscience. And this retribution is ultimately necessary for the person himself in order to cleanse himself. But this is beyond the competence of project administrators.

I urge everyone who has something to confess to do so. Experiencing the consequences in the form of judging other people will be much better for the person himself than constantly experiencing pangs of conscience. However, of course, this is everyone’s personal choice.

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Dedicated to Vladimir aka VOVA1

« on: May 13, 2024, 02:12:27 PM »

ARMilitar just added interview with his son:
https://warcraft2.online/interviews/vladimir-vladimirovich-asmakaev/

RIP Vova1...

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Some can't log in to server since yesterday March 21

« on: March 23, 2024, 06:05:54 AM »

Sorry, was a problem with payment for warcraf2.online domain,
Mirrors worked fine (online mirror and backup mirror, pointed to server.war2.ru and backup.war2.ru)
Main servers (server.warcraft2.online and backup.warcraft2.online) were inactive.

Now everything works! Thanks to Tora!

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Support Requests / Re: Too many password tries on Battle.net

« on: February 09, 2024, 09:10:27 AM »

Hey!

I play from time to time. I was trying to remember my password and I did too many tries it boot me out of Battle.net. I would create a new account because I don't care about that account, but I can't even entry Battle.net menu.

And I didn't read any error message, so, how long I will be banned or do I have to do something?

Thank you!

Hi!
Yes, hackers trying to bruteforce passwords from time to time, so we have to make some simple protection system against them.
pvpgn and war2 doesn't know about password bruteforcing, so there's no any messageboxes included.

Ban should expire itself in 12 hours or something like that...

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Server.War2.ru / Merry Christmas!

« on: December 25, 2023, 06:27:39 AM »

Merry Christmas!

I have no enough time for war2 right now, but that is a great day today!

Merry Christmas to all of you!

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Server down/slow as fuck

« on: December 25, 2023, 06:20:15 AM »

Looks like working fine last days.
Let me know if troubles appear again.

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Server down

« on: December 11, 2023, 01:22:24 AM »

Thx for your report, fixed

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Server.War2.ru / Re: help i cant join games

« on: October 24, 2023, 06:50:41 PM »

maybe something changed on your ISP side?
Many internet providers began to move their ip's to gray zone.
You can check your real ip using any "check my ip" services...

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Server.War2.ru / download.war2.ru - new mirror for ftp.war2.ru

« on: August 15, 2023, 05:45:51 PM »

Just hosted the mirror for old ftp service.

It's not "ftp", it's http and https.
Both works the same way:
https://download.war2.ru/war2/
http://download.war2.ru/war2/

Now contains the same files as ftp.war2.ru/war2, but have different location:

ftp.war2.ru - location - Russia.
download.war2.ru - location - Atlanta, GA.

Please, check that and let me know which one works faster (or maybe some more troubles will appear?)

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Server.War2.ru / Re: SHUSH 100% HACKS / PROVEN

« on: August 13, 2023, 05:06:14 PM »

to be able to view smurf accounts.

I'd say looks like a very bad idea as for me.
If someone will look and know how it works, that will mean everybody will know how it works. And how to bypass it then.

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Server.War2.ru / WarCraft 2 - THE MIST TURNS RED - New custom campaign

« on: August 01, 2023, 04:18:36 AM »

Several months of hard and secret work resulted in the creation of one of the most advanced additional campaigns for Warcraft 2!
The latest technologies and developments were involved, various previously unseen game mechanics were introduced.

The War2ru team has once again raised the bet on the quality and level with which new campaigns should be released!

In addition to the ordinary missions (oh, no, they are not ordinary at all!), in which the AI has become MUCH smarter and stronger,
for the first time in the history of Warcraft 2, we have done pre-game TUTORIAL, in the format of a small mission (in the best traditions of newer strategies, for example, Warcraft 3).

During the training, you will be able to appreciate the new control mechanics, new unit abilities, new icons and sprites.

Also, the campaign provides TWO difficulties of the game!

But that's not all! During the game you will be surprised more than once.

But this, we are sure, will not prevent you from passing our campaign.

You might even be able to find our secrets and Easter eggs, who knows?..
________
Of course, the campaign has a simple but fascinating stand-alone storyline that will keep you entertained:

The king of the country of Lakitor, one of the kingdoms of the Old World, has received disturbing news about the severance of ties with a distant but rich Colony in the New World.
There are rumors that recently local Orc tribes in the colonized lands began to behave suspiciously actively.
Now a significant part of the country's budget is cut off from the kingdom. And, unfortunately, there is still a long and hard war with the neighboring country of Dorlanes. The king faces a difficult choice: either the continuation of the war, or an attempt to return the Colony.
King Lakhar III makes a choice.

So what, warrior? Stop resting!
It's time to show what you really stand for!
May the Holy Light protect you!

EN: https://downloads.war2.ru/war2/Maps%20&%20Campaigns/RedMist/War2RedMist_en.exe
RU: https://downloads.war2.ru/war2/Maps%20&%20Campaigns/RedMist/War2RedMist_ru.exe

Any wishes, suggestions, comments are welcomed!