Warcraft 3 Easter Eggs Bonus: Icons & Spells (and Sounds)
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- After recovering from a year of severe senioritis, I'm back with more behind-the-scenes Warcraft 3 stuff! This time I'm looking at icons and abilities, as well as some hidden beta sounds. Special thanks to ScrollsOfLore.com for their archived beta material.
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0:00 - Warcraft 3 Easter Eggs Bonus: Icons & Spells
1:11 - Part 1: The Alliance
9:05 - Part 2: The Horde
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Peon: "Ow".
Best sound effect for being hit ever.
Headhunter still better. *NYOH*
Hit him enough and he should say "Stop hitting me!"
O o f
You're like some kind of warcraft Archeologist and it's amazing.
He is
i guess im randomly asking but does any of you know a way to log back into an Instagram account??
I was stupid forgot the password. I would love any tips you can give me
@Anson Gabriel Instablaster ;)
@Archie Darwin I really appreciate your reply. I found the site thru google and Im in the hacking process atm.
Seems to take a while so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Archie Darwin It did the trick and I now got access to my account again. I am so happy!
Thank you so much you saved my account!
that troll hit sound omg
- yknow, like, *nyoh*
- ...what?
- *nyoooh*
- stop...
@@Saelendious nYoOOOONyoOoNYoNYOOYNOYONOYNOYOoYONOynOnoonYonoYO
Troll headhunters are cats
NYEEESSSS
Gyro
Btw that paladin over the top attack acknowledgement can actually refer to this:"And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger"-Ezekiel 25:17
Or Pulp Fiction that used the same source.
5:22 - the Marine icon is NOT unused. There's a custom game scenario that comes with TFT which simulates zerg vs terran battles. Marines are present there and they DO use that icon!
omg i miss your videos. CANT WAIT FOR REFORGED!!
Agreed :D
holy yeah
Viet Tang oh yeah!
I am curious about the hydralisk in the elf campaign! Will he be the SC2 hydra? The remastered hydra? The normal hydra? I really want to see!!!!
As one can see, this comment hasn't aged particularly well.
These kinds of videos are great for custom map development.
Yes, even in 2019. Because WC3 is still that good.
And now it will be easier to make a use for these secrets with WC3 reforged (i guess)
Ye, this and an mpq browser, still use this for laop making lol
@@fotismanolopoulos1098 oof
@@Artorias1234 yes... It didn't age well at all.
@@fotismanolopoulos1098 I legit do not understand why people are angry about Reforged. You got the arguably best game remastered while they were busy on WoW, is that too much to ask?
People like us Call of Duty fans don't ask for much, and you guys seemingly got the bloody lottery.
holy shit, hello there
edit: well damn it wasnt quite expecting myself to appear in there, but thanks
Thanks a ton for those sound files! They were fascinating.
HOOOOMESTUUUCK.
Where is your previous profile picture (the one shown in this video at 5:58) from? Thanks in advance.
@@LuneMaxwell well I may be kinda late on that because CZcams fucking sucks when it comes to proper notifications, but I recolored a character from Homestuck (from '[S] Cascade' to be precise)
13:47 They used to cry of pain when hit? Sounds great! Why did they remove that?
14:04 Oh...
Wonder why he didn't add the women's cry of pain sounds. Either there wasn't one to begin with or...
@Darwin Rodriguez
In hoping the former
or?
I can't stand there being wrong information out there So I have to clarify a few things and I'll do it in order of when you talked about it.
Holy Bolt used to be a missile not an instant effect much like Death Coil so sometimes units you're trying to heal would die before the holy bolt hit them.That's why it was called holy bolt, when the ability was balanced to no longer having a missile it was renamed to holy light.
Divine Shield could be turned off during early RoC retail, it didn't drain mana
The Half-elf Ranger in warcraft III was one of the cut heroes, they didn't start with a warcraft II analog and change it from there Warcraft 3 was originally going to have six races and it was going to be a "role playing strategy" game.
Burrows were originally the towers for orc and Watch towers were story mode/doodads (it's pretty obvious from the blackrock clan flag).
Voodoo Lodge wasn't the only building removed from RoC beta, originally everyone of the 4 races had a second building for spellcasters, it enabled the caster to be built held the upgrades for them Humans trained their spellcaster from the mage tower (now high elven barracks) and upgraded from the arcane Sanctum, the Orcs Upgraded at the voodoo lodge, the Night Elves from the bear den It enabled Druids of the claw, originally druids of the talon were trained at the ancient of lore. And the spellcaster upgrade building for Undead was the Sacrificial Pit...There now you know why UD have one more building than everyone else.
Call Storm is back as the monsoon ability
The Berserk for Trolls icon is actually a holdover from when Grunts had the ability to berserk in the RoC beta, it was the neutral version of the ability icon as the ability was originally on forest, ice and dark troll Beserker creeps.
The Shadow Hunter only wore the Tiki mask on his face in the FROZEN THONE BETA in the RoC Pre-beta he was similar to the retail FTF model.
Burning Oil was never called Fire Rocks but in the TFT beta None of the new siege weapons were in the game so Catapults not demolishers and they had fiery rock missile projectiles they're still in the game just hidden.
Swiftness Aura was at one point the Ranger's Aura, Also Endurance Aura and unholy aura had their effects swapped during beta.
Awesome! Where'd you learn all this? I thought I did my research well, but I must be overlooking some useful sources.
some info is just logical conclusion drawing, for example the holy bolt missile is still in the game (altho its not the prettiest), and some info was gotten from poking around in beta .slk files (like stats and descriptions of spells), in there its confirmed that endurance aura was the unholy aura we have today
@@Abelhawk Well I followed Warcraft 3 as it was being made and beta tested religiously and bought it the first day it was out.
I didn't have the beta but I followed every Patch note and a website of a beta player who blogged everything (before it was called blogging) The website was called Tauren Totem towards the end of the RoC beta, eventually I don't remember that it was called before after all it was 16 years ago or so.
Makes sense endurance aura was previously health Regen and movement speed
What exactly monsoon does? (Sorry,i have a lot of time to plat the game)
12:21 Anyone wonder if this concept was the original inspiration for Lucio's respective healing/speed aura beats in Overwatch?
3:35 I remember very clearly that in RoC 1.00 you can definitely turn off Paladin’s Devine Shield, at the time it cost 125 mana and doesn’t last nearly as long. It doesn’t really make sense to turn off such a skill so I guess that’s why it was patched later in TFT.
wasn't the turn off option there because the cooldown wouldn't start untill you deactivate it? So if there was a small fight, you were forced to activate it and the enemy retreated or was defeated, you could turn it off and have the cooldown tick instead of waiting like 30 seconds for it to turn off normally and then have the cooldown tick
@@apipek The thing is it only last 10 seconds iirc (at the time), which wasn't even long enough to cover a small battle and it cost way too much mana. Plus the cooldown starts when you turn it on (but I could be wrong, RoC 1.00 was 17 years ago). It was buffed and I think it's just right where it is now, since Paladin's role in HU army is mostly supporting/healing, he's not that threatening.
I believe back then invulnerable units couldn't be healed. I know for certain magic immune units couldn't be healed. If you wanted to heal your Paladin with a priest I believe you had to cancel the shield, but it's been a very long time since I played the original.
Brandon Kellner Hmm I don’t remember the healing part either
@@brandonkellner2920 I remember it. The paladin couldn't be healed with divine shield on and you could deactivate it with the icon shown here. The duration was 10/20/30 seconds, according to the level, and the cooldown actually did start as soon as it was activated. Also, the AI only used it when it was was close to death, unlike now, where they turn it on upon taking damage.
peon: gets hit by a sword, a hammer, a spear, an axe, a fire, and other dangerous weapons
also peon: *Ow*
*ow*
God, I need Part 2.
SOON!
Don't forget, Lich has a different icon in Reign of Chaos and the Frozen Throne. It has a different appearance as well between those games. I prefer their Reign of Chaos design more than the Frozen Throne.
uther: paladins cannot fall prey to vengeance arthas
also uther:
STRIKE DOWN UPON MY UNHOLY ENEMIES WITH HOLY FURY AND VENGEANCE AND DEATH
Not to mention they gave paladins a talent in world of Warcraft that is literally just called "vengeance" lol
Where did you get highres redrawing of Mountain king icon xd?
Its really amazing a game so old has a such active community.Never will regret anything I did because of it.Btw glad you're back.
8:45 That icon looks a lot like the flying machine's true sight ability. Perhaps it originally increased their sight radius?
Seems like most of the upgrades were inspired by Age of Empires since they have same names
Like Town Watch and Town Patrol
No?
Awesome stuff as always. Great to see more of these W3 videos.
Great to see more videos from you again! :)
I believe the Paladin's old battle cry was a reference to Pulp Fiction, "I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my brother!"
I’ve waited so long! Great job as always. I hope you have a better position at your work so that we can see more of these.
I m really happy to see you back!
Prolly late to the party here, but with the Orcs having Burrows in WC3, it was part of Thrall's idea to roll back on the Orcs' savagery by farming roots and fungi and whatnot inside the burrows, but then during raids he realized how efficiently they protected the Peons as they shot arrows and threw spears out the windows, more efficient behind walls instead of in the open.
Glad you're still with us, good luck with part 2
12:20
Agreed. Orc is very dependant on Shoadow Hunter and Healing Salve from the shop for healing
glad you're back! Loved your videos about WCIII easter eggs :)
Yes your back, hope work is going good.
"Expanded View" defintely looks like a Copter ability! 8:42
3:08 - they're allies.
You’re back!! I love your Warcraft videos!
12:55 the right one os now Skull shield.
wasn't it called something like "Ice Wyrm Shield"?
@@blacksnk7 I believe it was Frost Wyrm Skull Shield
Oh, that's right! In the Dungeons of Dalaran, I believe. Forgot about that.
Abelhawk not just the dungeons of dalaran! If you go to the third act of rexxars campaign, there is a hidden shop north of the first human base that contains an item known as “wyrm skull shield” or something along those lines. I believe it gave a very modest amount of armor but I could be wrong. Hope to see you mention this in the follow up video! :)
Yes, and it's inconsistent border still bothers me, just like Ironwood Branch.
SO happy to see you again! :-)
YAY, so happy you're back!
Glad to have you back man. Love the videos
Glad to see you back, man
Love your content dude!
Nice to see you backl! I can answer why pig farms were changed to burrows - beta testers thought that Orcs were too vulnerable to rushes as they had nothing like Alliance militia, Undead lumber ghouls/ziggurat upgrades or Night Elves' Ancients. Burrows were created to fix it. Btw I think one of European versions (Italian maybe?) still use "build more pigfarms" message :)
The German exclamation is "need more (pig)farms".
Right. Thanks.
8:10 you missed the refference there from Pulp Fiction
@@smilealchemist4325
The actual Ezekiel 25:17 is different than what it is in movie, though. So it's rather a reference to movie.
It was mentioned in his quote references video.
@@smilealchemist4325 Ez 25 17 is made up actually
Dude, this so is freaking useful for us modders! Love you
Very nice to see a recent upload! :)
soo glad you're back.
The priests in roc were still high elves, however in tft they are actually blood elves since quel'thalas is gone after the undead campaign in roc. Hence the changed designs which is quite a nice touch.
And I believe the "Call Storm" ability was for the old Farseer hero, when he was riding a Wyvern. You can even see it in the bottom right of the alpha screenshot that shows the thunder coming down.
Huhuu! The series is back!
Greetings from a big Brazilian Warcraft 3 (and 2) fan! :)
Obrigado por assistir!
You're finally backk
Ahhh yes, your voice deepened even more, that is a pleasure to listen to!
Just a fun fact for the shadow hunter. Back during the frozen throne beta the shadow hunter actually had an in game model that wore the mask. Idk why they didn't keep it personally I thought it was cooler looking than what we got
Sorceresses having a Water Elemental skill would have probably been a nod for the CONJURER unit of the humans in WARCRAFT 1: Orcs and Humans.
The last skill of the conjurer unit there is summon water elemental.
I assume they just put it on Hydromancers in campaign?
@@CIAinTaiwanAndUkraine The Hydromancer campaign units of Kul Tiras are also seen in the world editor.
SKILLS:
1.Slow (Neutral hostile version)
2.Polymorph (Neutral Hostile version)
3. Crushing Wave (Weaker version than of the Naga Royal Guard)
That's a really good point! I didn't make that connection. It'd be fun to make a video showing all the threads of connection between all the Warcraft games.
I see, my mistake
3:38 You can enable disable-compatible abilities by changing some gameplay constants
Finally! Nice to hear your voice than see you type lol
Great video, really interesting concept. Hope the rest is as good and not too far away too
My Lord were Very glad that your back
Nice remake of the Cataclysm login screen at the end. Same goes for the campaign level select menu remakes.
11:53 No as you can see on the icon there is a Orc Far Seer hero, back than he was a flying hero. The spitiwalker, a unit which had a current shaman model had a different abilities, espicially buffs and auras. And now, these ones is for alpha/beta shamans, which had back than orc warlock models. Earthbind called storm which in full meaning of the word bind flying units to the ground, making them vunerable for melee attacks. But banish, yes, was a spirit walkers one.
You're the best my man
I miss u
Dudu I absolutely love your videos!
So that's where the rocket upgrade icons came from... Here I thought I knew everything.
I never would have thought that the blue Kael face was early mana shield all along. Dwarfload and dwarfunload I for the longest time believed to be custom made too...
Almost 20 years later there’s a lot of Icons I couldn’t tell what they were supposed to be. These videos fixed that. Thank you
the priest icon changed simply because in frozen throne they are blood elves now, therefore the icon had green eyes under that blue glow
Another absolutely Stellar video man! I appreciate the time and effort you put into these extremely awesome videos!
Also Warcraft 3 is definitely one of my favorite games of all time I'm hyped for reforged
10:16 Thats because burrow wasnt a "farm-like" sturcture from the start, but was a primary defensive structure(not for digging roots) and orcs possesed both of them(for food obviously there was a pig farm) and not because to show they arent bloodthristy anymore.
So happy to see this video pop up. 2019 is gonna be a good year for WC3 fans!
This is insightful
Very good movie. Thank you! ;)
At last, the mystery of “Dwarf In/Dwarf Out” is revealed!
I just finished your entire Warcraft 3 maraton... the memories :3 Warcraft 1 was my first PC game ever and warcraft 2 was first game I had on my own first PC. I always loved Blizzard and their games. It makes me so angry when I think about them now and how most of the talent left the company... or rather the company allowed them to leave. It's so sad.
7:11 Excatly, but this took place in alpha, they were called dwarven demolition squad and they workd excaly as their precursors from WarCraft II.
In the earlier version of warcraft 3 the kodo beast use to have a walk and run ability turning on and off the drums
he seek,he explore, but most importantly, he shows
These videos are awesome.
Welcome back, Abelhawk!
You did it. You absolute mad lad you did it. I love you
Its awesome that defense of the ancients also known as dota compiled all these forgotten and scrapped units,skills, items to make the most popular moba
Ah how much I've missed these, you have no idea. Here's hoping the next one comes out soon too, without real life getting in the way.
I wish you had more viewers.. Like to make this video it propably took you couple hours if not DAYS but plebs want to watch mindless gameplays rather then quality, well edited videos like this one.
Keep up the great work and i m sure you will "make it" eventually.
Hopefully when reforged hits ;)
Kinda funny to think that Kodo’s used to be like Lucio from overwatch with those abilities
Priest icon changed because they all became blood elves in frozen throne, same with their model textures. Why the sorceress didn't get a new icon though I dont know.
I know it's a year late but... I think on her Icon you just dont see her eyes, so they though that it's fine to stay with this one
There's Inn destructible or doodad in one of the pallettes. This might have been functioning as a previous version of Tavern, but they might left it for the sake of lack of heroes on there. The building and the icon represent the same thing.
Hey Ablehawk,
nice to see a new video of yours in my sub feed!
Are you going to look into WarCraft III: Reforged? It would be so awesome, you're just the face of easteregg hunting of the WarCraft Series.
Sincerely
A fan of your Videos
Holy crap! Christmas came early this year!
4:26 In Heroes of the Storm, Kael Thas has a talent that allows him to summon a mana shield for himself based on his max amount of mana. It's becoming quite clear the Blood Mage hero was intended to have a mana shield, then the idea was dropped and scrapped and reused in HotS.
That Crypt of the Necrodancer music at 13:42 made that so much funnier, lmao
Abelhawk, I think the animal war training was the special ability for knights. Also I don't when this happened, but they have a new upgrade called sundering blades, which deals for damage to medium armor.
Welcome back
The master has returned
He is back! Wooo!
good job
i've been waiting for another :D can you make ones for starcraft 1 & 2 if there is any
Healing Drums of Kodo Beast look very cool
god damn you got some big vision globes ma dude
The BTNThievesGuild icon is in the current game version, even an HD version of it.
The BTNHumanArtilleryUpOne, BTNHumanArtilleryUpTwo and BTNHumanArtilleryUpThree icons you show were named Steel Artillery, Thorium Artillery and Arcanite Artillery respectively (three levels of the same upgrade) but it was already said to be unused in the RoC beta.
Advanced Mining is the second level of an upgrade, the first one is Improved Mining with its own icon BTNImprovedMining, which is still in the game.
Divine Shield can be configured to be able to turn it off in the object editor. There is also a gameplay constant CanDeactivateAvatar but the display name suggests that it is not yet implemented.
There is a gamestate GAME_STATE_DIVINE_INTERVENTION declared in the common.j. I wonder if that has a relation to the BTNDivineIntervention icon.
There is a doodad Inn with the model Doodads\LordaeronSummer\Structures\Inn\Inn.mdx or scorched variant Doodads\LordaeronSummer\Structures\InnScorched\InnScorched.mdx. Your units run past an Inn at 3:52.
BTNFireForTheCannon, as you said, is used by Breath of Fire (Neutral Hostile). The Infernal Machine has this ability and features a cannon. They probably did not want to use the normal Breath of Fire icon with the panda being in it. Other units that feature cannons are some of the ships like the Human Frigate and the Human Battleship.
The BTNMarine icon is used nowadays in Terrain Marine (in contrast to Marine).
The RoC beta files indicate that there were Cold Arrows, Swiftness Aura and The Black Arrow abilities classified as human abilities. Those may have been abilities of the elven ranger hero. An icon that looks like Cold Arrows is also seen at 5:16.
The Scattershot Rockets upgrade in the RoC beta says "Provides Mortar Teams with an area of effect anti-personnel attack.".
The tank piloting abilities are actually still partially in the game code and yes, they linked to the dwarf icons mentioned. It is similar to the couple ability of Archer/Hippogryph. You could either merge a Rifleman or a Mortar Team with a tank to form a new unit. But this was from RoC 1.00, the RoC beta files indicate something different, that you could load multiple units into a tank.
In the RoC beta files, the Create Goldmine ability says "Unearths a gold mine from the ground that contains 2000 gold." in its uber tooltip and research tooltip is "Must be level 5 or higher to learn this ability." like other ultimates in this version, yes.
The BTNExpandedView icon is used in a neutral ability but the ability's associated object data was already commented out in the RoC beta. I do not know what it does.
The BTNOrcLumberUpgradeTwo icon is still in the game, even an HD version now.
Salvage is the internal name of the Pillage ability but indeed only Peons had it in the RoC beta. Maybe they changed the effect at some point.
In the RoC beta, the Berserker Rage ability used by Grunts and that used the BTNBerserk icon actually granted attack speed "Increases the attack speed of Grunts by 30% for 15 seconds." and increased the art scaling by 30%.
The Healing Drums and Speed Drums abilities were indeed activatable and costed mana per second.
The BTNEntrapmentWard icon is also used in the Shamanic Totem item, which casts Item Purge (3), accordingly it is used in the Item Purge (2) and Item Purge (3) abilities. The BTNGrimWard icon is used in the Frost Wyrm Skull Shield item (Item Armor Bonus (+2), Spell Damage Reduction).
Like for the Avatar ability, there is a gameplay constant for Wind Walk CanDeactivateWindWalk not yet implemented.
I do not know about Smash but Taurens had a Warstomp ability with a chance for double damage. The Critical Strike ability of the Blademaster used to do triple damage on each level instead but the chance was different per level. The Tauren Chieftain by the way had the Command Aura ability that increased the attack damage of friendly nearby units. He already had the Reincarnation ability but it costed mana (which you can still configure to do so in the editor).
This is what I needed in my life and did not realise
Hell yeah. A good video.
Hooray!
I missed you Abel, yay!
very interesting
YES I LOVE THESE VIDEOS
They would probably be called the "Azerite" upgrades in Reforged lol
Is Arcanite Reaper called Azerite Reaper in WoW? Idiot.
Nortwin Jesus dude it’s just a BFA joke
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