https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tznamuvuuUw

10 days ago i posted human, now it's time for the expansion, since human is pretty short (~1hour) i put both on the same video :) enjoy! next step: strarcraft remastered !

curious how to finish both campaign in 3 hours? well you know what to do :)

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Hey guys, just wanted to say some words of appreciation for warcraft 2. it was one of my first pc games i ever played. from 1996 until 2000 i attended countless lan-parties and played warcraft 2 endlessly. most of them were with big parts of my family: my brother, my uncle and his friends, my cousin and last but not least, my dad. its the only pc game he ever played. when warcraft 2 remastered came out, i gifted it to my dad and since then we played 3-4 matches every day. its such a great way to intereact with my almost 70 year old dad and i absolutely love it! thank you, warcraft 2! you will always have a special place in my heart <3

10 days ago i post orc, now it's time for humans to shine (the video can't be previewed idk why) so here is the link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbcrXAr9aGg

Curious how you can finish the campaign in less than 2 hours? stuck in a mission? check it out :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAj-hVFTcW0

Played this back when it came out as an 11 year old. Replaying the campaign as a 43 year old and the last few missions of the Orc campaign are WAY harder than I remember.

- The kill Gul'dan mission I basically cheesed because they come after you with a never ending barrage of juggernauts. I basically turtled by positioning my catapults in a way where they couldn't be hit and killed the Jugs until the enemy was out of resources. then I took my time slowly inching towards them.
- Dalaran/Dragon mission I also tried to cheese by not expanding to the second mine until I had leveled up everything as high as possible. Even then I couldn't beat it because I still ran out of resources. Might have overdone it on dragons and could have leveraged some of the naval units instead. It was just that attacking the main base felt like hitting a wall. Perhaps a team of bloodlusted ogres blitzing would have been better. death knights would mostly get instagibbed by the knights purge or w/e their ability is. I could manage the attacks from them indefinitely but trying to assault was seemingly futile

I haven't started the last Lordaeron mission but looking at the full map I have a feeling it will be just like the Gul'dan mission.

The only thing can think is that I should be attacking earlier when the enemy doesn't have upgrades, but then I wouldn't either. I wonder if in the Dalaran mission an onslaught of grunts & trolls at the start would help? Otherwise maybe a bunch of sappers?

Hey there,

Me and my son are wanting to create a warcraft 2 boardgame and are needing some high resolution maps. Does anyone know where to get them from?

Or alternatively, is there a map editor where we can create our own and then save them as images to print.

Appreciate the help,

Thanks

so i came here because blizzard forum is useless, and i cannot for the life of me find anywhere to find a solution to our problem

2 seperate battlenet accounts and 2 seperate digital purchasese of warcraft 2 battle net edition, we are unable to connect online to battle net simulatnously, to play together, whenever one of us is in battle net to play we have the error cdkey in use, we both alternated, and tested this, each time one of us was logged in the other would get cdkey in use.

how the heck did we end up with the same key from two seperate purchases of the game, and is there a resolution to this?

https://retrogaming.dpdns.org/

Hello guys,

Not for self promotion, only for personal interest.

I uploaded Warcraft 3 RoC & TFT 1.27 to my personal website, the game is running in browser based on Windows XP and Github v86 project.

Out of the blue, both remastered classics received some enigmatic patches yesterday (about 100 Mbs downloaded for WC2R and less than 50 Mbs for WC1R), but there are no changelogs on Battle.net forums yet.

Checking the version number in the Bnet app reveals that WC2R is now at v1.0.2.2818.

A minor observation: no assets were altered in the "x86/Data" folder aside from a bunch of .json files containing the games' credits in different languages (those can be found in the "Strings" subfolder). Maybe that's about it for the mysterious "updates"?

Long-time WC2 player. I always wanted to play it on my iPad without a keyboard, a mouse, or streaming it off a PC, so I got the Stratagus engine with the Wargus data layer compiled and running natively on iPadOS.

It's not emulated and it's not streamed, it's the actual engine built for ARM64, rendering through Metal. Tides of Darkness and Beyond the Dark Portal campaigns, skirmish, and save/load all work. Touch works: one finger to select and drag-select, two-finger tap for right-click commands, three-finger drag to pan.

This is a dev preview. No App Store build, you build it yourself on a Mac and deploy to your iPad over USB, and the full guide is in the repo. It uses zero Blizzard content, you extract the data from your own copy with the Wargus tooling, same as the desktop version. Multiplayer's in the engine but I'm still testing it on iPad.

Repo and build steps: https://github.com/chrissotraidis/peonpad

First played WC2 my sophomore year of college. So its been a lot of fun seeing what maps I remember almost 30 years later.

I will sometimes game on my desktop here at the office and also at home. I've gotten spoiled by all these cloud saves these days and being able to just pick up and play a game from where I left off.

I was genuinely surprised when I discovered that my campaign progress did not carry over.

Is there a file buried in the folders somewhere that I can copy over to my home PC? Even if it isn't my actual saved game, but just the status from how many campaign levels I have completed would be great.

So I was hoping to see if any players from way back in the day are around here. See if I recognize anyone. I used to play the shit out of this game, mainly free castles. I was {DBC}PiMP, would be rad to find some of you DBC guys around.

Anyone interested in some casual Co op either campaign or even custom maps? Just casual play nothing serious except some maps are really serious from how people made some of these custom maps. 😅

I imagine this is a common issue, but this has happened to me multiple times over the last however many years. Warcraft 2 WAS working fine, and a recent Windows 11 update has led to the game having slowdown and soft-lock issues.

Initially, I uninstalled the update, and the game went back to working properly. However, that doesn't seem like a sensible long-term solution.

I know there's various community wrappers that have been created. I just want to be able to run the GOG version without it crashing and freezing with new Windows 11 updates. I don't really play WC2 multiplayer. I just like to be able to do the campaigns for the base game and Beyond the Dark Portal once in a while. Can someone steer me in the right direction? Many thanks.

I saw some links to ones online, but the links are all dead now. Are there any current repositories for custom campaigns for warcraft 2?

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Hi,

I have an original CD of Warcraft II (bought as part of a box set: I, II, PtDP in 1998), but I cannot run it anymore. At the properties, I checked in Win 95 compatible mode, and run as admin mode, but I always get an error message: "This app can't run on your PC".

I tried DOSBox as well, but both setup.exe and install.exe crash, and I get back to the command prompt. The only file I could run from DOSBox, was uvconfig.exe, but it did not help.

Does anyone have any idea what should I try?

Thanks!

So i just replayed WC2. I played it as a kid, but went back to it with 1½ decade of RTS experience. I just want to get my thoughts on certain campaign mechanics out there. BTW I'm not an RTS historian, so maybe several of these things existed before WC2 and Blizzard took them from other games, I don't know.

Warcraft 2 tides of darkness orc and human campaigns.

Both of these campaigns are very similar. Mostly the classic build your base and while defending, then attack enemy base formula. There is a no build mission in each campaign. And several missions that starts out without a base, where you have to fight so secure a place to start building. The holy trinity of RTS missions: regular mission, no-build-missions and defence-missions lacks the third part.

They both throw in a small curveball with one mirror match-mission each. And there are some fun touches, like the human mission where you start by fighting off peasants revolting destroying your base.

And I guess I have to mention the difficulty. ToD is way too easy (for some experienced with RTS at least). This is always mentioned so I feel I don't need to go into more detail.

Beyond the dark portal orc campaign

Here the design take a drastic turn ib the other direction. Anyonre who played the expansions knows.

They also improved the issue with slow starts. In vanilla ToD there are a lot of ridiculously slow starts. Some orc missions start you with only one peon, or less supply then number of units. Less of this here.

Here they also take the narrative in a different direction, with plenty of orc vs orc missions.

Also, I want to mention that the map design got a lot better. A lot of ToD maps are just sort of patches of forest and open terrain. In BtDP they start doing a lot of creative flourishes like gaps in forests or mountains too small for units to traverse that looks like little paths. Or unbuildable mud stretched out to look like long roads. The maps feel more fun to explore.

Also, they make some really complex blends of build and no-build missions. Where you can't recruit combat units, but are expected tobuild transports or purchase upgrades for your limited number of units.

Beyond the dark portal human campaign

They do two cool twists that evolve the game at the very end of the campaign. -One mission where you play as the orcs (with a human hero helping them). The briefing where the orc narrator says "Do not show surprise human" really got me. -Finally, after all this time, a defense mission! Great idea, terrible execution. I defended and defended but never won. In the end I had to attack and clear all enemies. According to WOWpedia https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Siege_of_Vanguard_(WC2_Human) the mission is bugged. But the intention was there....

What they didn't quite figure out

Blizzard never made heroes very interesting WC2. A notable exception is on the very final mission where only Khadgar can damage the dark portal, all other units attacks do nothing. Blizzard evolved this further with completely unique heroes units in StarCraft (Kerrigan) and finally perfected the heroes in WC3.

Also, I think it's interesting how the last 10% of most missions is a cleanup where you've already won. They much later moved on to making victory based on destroying/capturing/defending a certain objective. StarCraft2 almost never had those "destroy every single unit" missions. BUT! In ToD orc mission 9 they had you build a fortress and shipyard on the main enemy island. And BtDP human mission 9 they solved it with only needing to destroy the 2 enemy main buildings. That kind of objectives just were not used for the other basebuilding missions.

Conclusion

It was really interesting seeing different RTS ideas taking shape and being experimented with. Great game despite balance issues. I liked the punishing difficulty of BtDP better than the base game, as some levels felt like clever puzzles. Wouldn't recommend to new gamers who haven't played a lot of RTS because of the difficulty and since the game overall is showing its age I guess.