Warcraft 3 world editor shallow water license#

Warcraft 3 world editor shallow water license#

The Warcraft III World Editor's license agreement spoke only of the ownership over the program itself, not maps made with it: Additionally, Blizzard shall have the right to maintain the Custom Game on Blizzard?s Arcade service even if the developer of the Custom Game requests that Blizzard remove the Custom Game from the Arcade service.' Without limiting the foregoing, you hereby assign to Blizzard all of your rights, title and interest in and to all Custom Games, and agree that should Blizzard decide that it is necessary, you agree to execute future assignments promptly upon receiving such a request from Blizzard. The 'Starcraft II Custom Game Acceptable Use Policy' reads:Д¬ustom Games are and shall remain the sole and exclusive property of Blizzard. They explicitly changed it to not allow something like DotA ever happening again without them having the rights to it. The wording for the WC2 and WC3 editors was different. They just never tried to prevent distribution before. Technically speaking, they've made that claim since the very first editor program for War2. But hey it's Blizzard, killers of the mapmaking community. They need to unify all their SC2-engine-based games into a single platform around the arcade, for fuck's sake. I could see W3HD working as a standalone just like Heroes of the Storm, but I think that would be a mistake. The best outcome would be for them to improve SC2 with all those things that didn't make it from W3, and then release it there. In W3 you could create new units easily with a few clicks, while in SC2 you have to create attack and armor types with their own model instances, which is a goddamn pain in the ass and doesn't really provide any advantage over the old simpler system. Aside from the obvious technical improvements that had to happen anyway the bulk of the game was just a step back in so many aspects.ДЄnd then they overcomplicated the editor with bullshit no one wants or needs to use, but still have to deal with. Overall, SC2 is just worse than W3 in many aspects.

W3 had circa 14 cliff levels, with shallow water and deep water, and included a cliff-advantage system were units had stat advantages when attacking from better positions.Дon't forget the day/night cycle too, and its repercussions in the map as a whole, as well as the stat modifiers when fighting at night. They're just considered as buildings, and you can't fill the map with mineral nodes (the would be equivalents of trees).ДЄlso, cliff levels are limited to 4, and one of them isn't even usable by ground units. Yeah, SC2 has no destructible doodad system. Its funny, i remember reading that WC cant be properly remade in SC because it cant handle the trees being interactable.