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Thank you too abelhawk. Your easter egg and secret videos are usefull and funny at the same time! WC3 is one of my favorite games of all time and thanks to you I can enjoy every bit of it to the fullest!👍🙏
Dw, she'll now do maw daylies (until they need her again to be the „morally ambiguous anti hero/villain while we fight the firster ones and the incarcerator in the darkness lands)
Only after that one bad, narcissistic writer got a hold of her, writing her into a Mary Sue, and putting a self insert of himself into the story who is subservient to her heel and bootlicks it. Before that, she was amazing. But then, bad writing choices ruined Kerrigan as much as Sylvanas. Similarly the lackluster at best Knaak novels about the Well of Eternity ruined the pre-story to Warcraft. I could not believe how shallow, uninspired, uncreative and hamfisted those were.
About the Goblin Laboratory: In RoC they weren't invulnerable. That was added in TFT. When editing the unit to remove the Reveal, they made it override the standard abilities, which meant overriding the invulnerability. This also happens with Grom, Tyrande and the Keepers. In RoC Heroes had inventories by default, but in TFT they turned the inventory into an ability. Since those heroes had their abilities changed for those maps, the newly added Inventory ability was also overriden. This happened when Blizzard decided to replace the MPQ files system with the CASC one
This video had me in absolute awe. The thought that I was able to find most of the gameplay easter eggs when I was a kid somehow makes me proud. Although, it makes sense as I typically like to explore as much as I am able to in every game that I play. I guess old habits die hard. Thank you for unlocking some core and beautiful memories, Abelhawk! Appreciate it!
- You're not alone at being very nitpicky about faction colors. - Reforged replaced the blue trolls with green trolls in the second human mission. - Reforged also fixed Shandris being an archer in NE mission 1.
-Reforged also fixed the trigger of the earthquakes damaging buildings whenever an obelisk was claimed (just 500 dmg to all of the buildings of the opposite team)
@@LordThomasPassion Because of the bugs it introduced and the new EULA about custom maps. Several Iconic levels that were "reforged" play worse than the original, such as The Culling, and many people weren't happy with many of the new models. And you can't un-Reforge you version of the game once you do so you're stuck with a buggier, worse version of warcraft 3 basically
Right. And I have to mention this un-confirmed rumors spreading among the people which is about the original actor for Arthas - Justin Gross - refused to work his role in WoW because Blizzard paid him so little for his work. From my knowledge, the only 'source' that backs this up is literally a random guy on the internet claiming that he sent an email to the actor himself and gotten the answer from him, without any kinds of photographic reference to back it up further. So if you were to be a function human being, you'd be wise not to believe that nonsense, unless you can confirm that rumor either by Blizzard or the actor himself. I had to bring this up, because a lot of people conveniently seem to believe in this rumor, just to give themselves an excuse to bash on Blizzard on last time.
@@JohnnyCasey i remember justin himself saying he wouldnt mind voicing arthas again, but then again we may never know for sure. he has his own channel on youtubes
@@KingLich451 Yeah, and that's a different bit where it was him talking about "Will he do the voice for Reforged". rather than "Why was he switched out for Arthas' voice in WoW"
1:17:39 To be fair, WoW changed so much in the terms of story and lore that a person who only occasionally gets a glance at it and only knows the story from the RTS series can get quite confused.
What is this dragon hero from Warcraft 2 doing here and why is he so damn powerful? Huh, Warcraft 2 Hero Death Knight? Clever, but wasn't he killed or something between the Second War and the times of Naxxramas? Wha? Illidan? You're _alive?_ Ooh, this one Paladin hero dude from Warcraft 2! Ooh, another Paladin hero dude from Warcraft 2! And he's got a waifu that comes from the same mission! And they're sci-fi! Umm, why are these -Pandas- Pandarens a thing if they were a running(or I guess strolling) joke among the devs? Demons don't die? Neat, Archimonde didn't get his *one of the most notable Decino's fans* to kill him! Wait, Draenei...are not these freakish but cool doodos? Akama...reversed? Except...wasn't he?... ... ...Why are Undead in the Horde again?
@@The-jy3yq I feel like WoW could've been way more interesting if it had three big factions instead of only two. The undead remnant should've been their own thing.
@@The-jy3yq "why are undead in the horde again?" Lmao, literally the reason I never played WoW on release, while being a true Warcraft simp. In retrospect I kind of regret it because I'm sure I would've enjoyed early WoW, but eh.
I'm wondering if the Jaina dying setpiece may instead have just been an introduction to resurrecting heroes at altars? Fried has... interesting input sometimes
@@highlordlaughterofcanada8685maybe you didn't in older versions, another one I was thinking was arthas resurrection might have worked on her at some point as a tutorial or that it worked on heels at some point, or maybe she wasn't a hero character
@@busterbackster1 You were once going to have control of Uther and Arthas in mission two so no, I doubt you didn't have an altar at any point in that mission. Whatever the original purpose of Jaina dying and reviving was about, it likely had nothing to do with an ability or the altar. It was more than likely related to a cut quest if anything as Altars are just gameplay mechanics and not actually canonical lore, even back then.
Glory to Ablehawk and the Horde! Hey man, just wanna say that I love your videos and I enjoyed your playthrough of Reforged as well, hope you didnt push yourself too hard making this. Anyways, I hope this year for you will be great.
1:12:30 You only pointed it out for this map, and it might be obvious, but I'd like to mention that there are a few maps in wc3 that are pretty much copies of earlier starcraft maps, such as March of the Scourge -> Desperate Alliance The Spirits of Ashenvale -> The Kel-Morian Combine A Dark Covenant -> Fury of the Swarm King Arthas -> Eye for an Eye Dreadlord's Fall -> True Colours, which you mentioned there's also a few maps that just seem quite similiar but I can't say why. Like Where Wyverns Dare always reminded me of Ruins of Tarsonis.
WHAT!? You could repair bridge, im shocked, after playing the game since it came out for countless thousands of hours im shocked at my stupidity of never even trying🤣 Awesome video by the way!
23:54 Whoa... That even sounds more canon that the Sourge paying goblins for a bit of traveling. In fact they just made bridges out of corpses... WoW Quel'Danas still doesn't make any sense though.
Goddamn Abel, I find you every few years with new videos, I watch them, and miss WC3 again. I played this game since I was LITERALLY 5 years old, and goddamn, now I want to find a download for the original WC3
47:41 Even though it's just your voice pitched up, it still manages to sound vaguely convincing. Nice job! 1:13:05 This one's good too, for a different reason :P
really nice job man, and great job adding more, some might think you're just combining all the episodes into one, but you went the extra mile to add in more and add extra stuff to look at to go along with what you were saying. It was worth the effort man, keep up the good work and hope to see you make more videos from other video games
Hi there, i don't know if this was addressed before and i kept forgetting to mention it, but on Terror of the tides campaign, mission 6, you can also clear the trees by using an elder sasquatch which you buy from the last mercenary camp, it has force of nature. Even though the trees hiding the camp are on the long road and the mercenary camp in on the short one, just choose the long road for the carts while your units go to the camp, it's pretty close and it doesn't take long. Also thank you for your work on showing all these easter eggs!
About Peons in Path of the Damned mission - I think in early version of the game this thing wasn't implemented, so once you captured the Peon - you could build an entire technology of orcs... Or better say, Warcraft II orcs
They're kind of Warcraft 2,5 orcs - there are only Ogre Magi(no unupgraded Ogres), no DKs and only one player has access to Dragons, but there are Raiders and Warlocks straight from...Warcraft 1? Also, they have heroes(only Blademasters and Farseers, but still), so that's another thing to be aware of
3:20 I remember this line being used in the warcraft 3 demo game, in the level where you are tasked with destroying the human outpost. They probably only forgot to remove it from the main game.
If any remember Tales of the Past, the WoW machinima. Arthas actually says "I'm so tired" at the end. Someone must have also been digging around and found that line and put it in as a nod. Would have never guessed that until now.
1:15:59 It is the other way around. A Song of Ice and Fire is not the first Game of Thrones novel, but Game of Thrones is the first Song of Ice and Fire novel. However, the title 'Game of Thrones' is more widely known because the HBO TV-series kept this name for the whole duration of the series because apparently they thought it sounded better.
I honestly wish they kept some of the more disturbing imagery in the game. It really sells the point of why those moments (like stratholme) are so brutal i love it.
I am confused throughout your explanation of the exodus of the horde because i remembered that i played the mission with all of these ULD and Ghost instead of Naga 😵
You forget about Jim Henson's "The Dinos", and the science-TV-show skit where the scientist always uses a little kid called Timmy to do the experiments who... tends to explode, and then uses the running-gag line of "We need another Timmy!" Timmys being used to triggers in this game are easily relatable to that: "We need another trigger, so we need another Timmy!" The undead Timmy also fits as a South Park reference at the same time.
Fun fact: The Pandaren were originally planned to be the Alliance Race added in The Burning Crusade, before someone pointed out that the Pandaren lacked any motivation to fight the Horde. Thus, the redesigned Draenei.
hearing the WC3 music shoots me back to 2006-2008, all i ddi was play custom maps after school. Would wake up at 4am. Still now, i remember those winter nights fondly..
37:00 The awakening of Stormrage, you can make a tree of life near to goblin shop and use a teleport directed to the ghoul area, and kill them so now you dont have time limit to finish that mission. You could try to kill undead base, but there is Tichondrius with his divine armor
I began playing this game as a demo on my dad's laptop ! It was a revelation ! I still remember the Ghost, I was so afraid that she would destroy me before the 30 minutes that I never realized it was a naga now
Night elf last mission (Furion, Illidan) you can give the Shadow Orb to Illidan. Just sneak behind the downside undead base with Furion, cut down trees, and go really close to gap and drop the item.
1:13:14 i gotta admit, my first thought was that it was a reference to the 4th mission of Starcraft which is called "The Jacobs Installation" which was a top secret place where the Confederates experimented on the zerg, hence the "reject" because it was a failed experiment.
I miss the days when Blizzard were like this, the amount of extra funny shit in each of their games from way back when shows the effort that went into them beyond just the superficial
39:15 I can explain this one. Those abilities are from a function added later in the editor’s history. (Reforged I believe?) If you use the unit in game, it’ll only have the spell immunity. My hunch is that parameter was going to be used for unit/ability skins (per the name given in the editor.) Older maps opened will have the abilities set to their default abilities for the base unit in the ability skin spot. (Hell before frozen throne, the editor had way less functionalities.)
In Cry of the Warsong, even if Grom isn't hostile towards you, he will attack any Watch Tower or Orc Burrow that you build near his base. And he exclusively destroys them using Raiders. I have no idea why that was included. The AI controlling his base is very capable of defending itself so why isn't the player allowed to supplement his defenses?
I wonder if 12:50 was gonna be a tutorial on using the Altar of Kings? If I'm remembering correctly, resurrecting hero characters was a somewhat new concept at the time, so it'd make sense the team might want a way to introduce it to players
I Know it may be a while.... But what does ULD Mean? I'm Genuinely Curious... Its got my Head Scratching for a while, its probably something simple or in my face kind of thing, cuz its linked or used when talking about unused dialogue, but it doesn't hurt to ask, yeah...? As my Efforts in Finding its Definition is Fruitless (or maybe I Just ain't doing it right...) Edit: Just Found the Meaning of it.... and of course its something simple I missed in the First part of the Video, but I'm on point of it being about Dialogue, regardless still an Idiot for missing something that just needs some Attention and Active Listening...
Really love your videos! :D I'm easter egg-er too! :D since I was kid! :D Btw. '' Iron Maiden - Where eagles dare '' (more) 'cause, they're fans of Iron Maiden for sure! :D
You missed one in the custom campaign the demo after the thunder lizards you can go through some of the trees there’s a crate in it is a circlet of nobility
I played WC3 15 years ago, which I got from some random public computers. I play it again recently on Reforged. At first I was confused when I saw that the Sea Witch in Prologue Campaign become Naga and not some ghost like before but I only thought it was only changed in Reforged, not because of Demo version. Anyway, what about the Reforged campaign's Easter Eggs? Because some of the map were very different than the original, like the culling of Stratholme and the destruction of Silvermoon
9:20 There's a total of 3 of these... - (shown)The northwest corner of Operation: Chrono Storm(Final Allied mission set in Moscow. Easily accessible using Chrono Legionnaires or Nighthawks, but SpySat makes it easy to find(damn Allies and their map reveal tech in RA1 and RA2)) - An island near the southeast corner of Operation: Red Dawn(First Soviet mission set in DC. Accessible once the airport is captured, just be lucky with where to Paradrop) - Near the southeast corner of Operation: Red Revolution(Second to last Soviet mission set in Moscow. Just get a Flak Track with an Engineer onboard to it, you're capturing the airport next to it anyway...)
Honestly, the Forgotten One looks a lot like Mantorok from Eternal Darkness - and it's possible they were inspired because Frozen Throne came out *after* ED on the Game Cube.
Damn, W3 campaign is honestly one of the biggest impact on my childhood. Here is the ranking of chapters based on my personal preference (Exodus of the Horde and Founding of Durotar are excluded due to their deviate characteristics.) From least favourite to favourite: 7. Eternity's End (RoC NE) 6. The Scourge of Lordaeron (RoC Hu) 5. Path of the Damned (Roc UD) 4. Curse of the Bloodelves (FT Hu) 3. The Invasion of Kalimdor (RoC Orc) 2. Terror of the Tides (FT NE) 1. Legacy of the Damned (FT UD)
At 35:36, I think devs changed Shandris's model to a normal archer to fit in better in the cinematic. The Shandris's model looks comically large relatively to Tyrande's which would've made the cinematic shot look awkward especially at such a close angle.
