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Server.War2.ru / Alaunter, act I. First unofficial campaign for Warcraft II released! (rus only)

« on: July 29, 2019, 05:26:08 AM »

This is a momentous day, dear player!
You are lucky to get the first adapted warcraft fun campaign for Warcraft II - Alaunter.
Many years have passed since the release of the cult game. Many people wanted to create their own campaign... and now, through the efforts of the war2.ru team, we can give this product to you!

The campaign will have three acts, here's the first one in front of you.
The first act of the campaign tells about the difficult fate of the Alaunter country people, about the lawlessness of those in power, about unnecessary wars with neighboring countries ... and while people are strifing between themselves - powerful green creatures land on the coast of the mainland and start a bloody war against all those living here.
The campaign poses the question: what's next? Who will lead people into the battle against an alien, thinking and dangerous race? ...

In the campaign you will encounter strong opponents, dangerous labyrinths, feel despair, but you can still lead your people to victory ...

So, what are you waiting for, my lord? Click NEXT-NEXT, finish all preparations! It is your turn!

Additional Information:
The development is kind of unique:
The campaign is made on the basis of the game from Blizzard: Warcraft II BNE, version 2.02, popular with online players war2.
At the same time, this build excludes everything related to multiplayer and single not related to campaigns.
All the videos, backgrounds, briefings with their voice acting - are replaced to ones, designed specifically for this campaign!
The portraits of the heroes and their voices are also remade.
Menu system is redesigned.

The executable file of the game have been modified: the mission objectives, the icon of the original game, some other details.

All the names, menu items, other text strings, as well as units voices - are taken from the most popular russian translation of Warcraft II TD, ported to BNE by our team war2.ru) and modified in accordance with the objectives of the campaign.

All the usual units in the game (not heroes) are left unchanged. With one exception:
The archer and the ranger (its improved version) - icons are redrawn, and also their voices are changed.
The archer is renamed, and is no longer an elf.

This is an out team experiment. If you like the new archer - we can remake other units in the campaign part 2 and 3.

This campaign contains russian language content only, nothing on english. I just shared it for you to have a look.
Going to translate that into English soon (at least texts via Google Translate)
Also searching for good english voices to make an English version.

ftp://ftp.war2.ru/war2/War2Alaunter1_en.exe English version
ftp://ftp.war2.ru/war2/War2Alaunter1_ru.exe Russian version
link 2:
https://uc09cea47041db5e17211d4259f7.dl.dropboxusercontent.com/cd/0/get/AlnQKn8m_jmyd_JMq2uIkej4xzO7nYL-35tMHZIAZG_Fes-9ZUXmSbk6AVJhgBXpBxE8R97tzhGetRdJ1LtnBKmNPzEWeDCzpOMUYh0nG7AQcA/file?dl=1#
link 3:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t4-H3rLHvI66WJEBs_-eMJL_kV_G9Vy-/view

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Server.War2.ru / Added holepunch status to status page

« on: July 12, 2019, 11:18:54 AM »

Just added last column:
if someone uses the holepunch dll, he will be marked as "HP" there.

All you need to apply the hole puncher, is to download wsock32.dll from here: http://forum.war2.ru/index.php/topic,4982.0.html
and copy it into your war2 directory.

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Server.War2.ru / tk[as] is new admin on the server

« on: July 09, 2019, 06:54:27 AM »

So, tk[as] is admin, again.
I hope that will help him in some positive activity on the server.

He is quite active on the server, together with Warbux and ~ToRa~.
Also looks like he have skills to talk to others. Quite good set for admin, so let's try!

We need new people in our community, so let's invite them together!

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Server.War2.ru / Does anyone use torrent trackers? War2Combat 4.4 on rutracker here

« on: July 05, 2019, 08:56:17 PM »

Not sure if that would be interesting for non-russian community, but let it be so:

1,5 months ago i uploaded war2combat 4.4 to the most popular russian torrent tracker:
https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5732145

Would be interested to spread that torrent to several more trackers: worldwide and national:
english, german, french, spanish, italian, polish and maybe others.

Maybe that will help to promote war2 in the world?

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Server.War2.ru / Warvideo 1.0.0.3 released: support all war2 versions, not blinking

« on: May 13, 2019, 01:09:59 PM »

Warvideo is simple utility to record and playback war2-games in it's own format: dk2.
It's pretty simple to use: just start war2, then start warvideo, press "record game", then play your game, then "stop recording" and save your game into a file.
dk2 format has very good compression rate for war2 videos (much less than possible in avi/mkv) and the best quality.
Could be useful for your own replays collection.

Just released new Warvideo version:
- works with old combat (2.0.2.0 exe-based) and also with original war2 2.0.2.0 version.
- works with GOG war2, new combat (2.0.2.1) and also original war2 2.0.2.1 version.
- supports ddraw front buffer. If ddraw supports that front buffer, Warvideo will use it, so, no blinking video anymore.
- no more closing by ESC or Enter (with losing your unsaved video). When you closing Warvideo with unsaved replay, you should confirm you are ready to do that.
- you can just start recording warvideo, then start and restart different versions of war2, video will continue recording, until you press "stop".
- many small fixes related to interface glitches and crashes.
- stats and stats+ work for 2.0.2.0 version only, disabled for 2.0.2.1.

Here's it: ftp://ftp.war2.ru/war2/utils/warvid_with_ddraw/
ddraw.dll with front buffer included (similar to FunkyFr3sh/Aqrit-DDraw-Hack 0.1.5.4).
You can replace that ddraw.dll from yours in combat (or GOG war2).

Please, let me know what else you would want to see in warvid and report about any bugs detected.

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Server.War2.ru / Active warvideo users here?

« on: April 10, 2019, 06:00:10 PM »

Going to make some improvements in warvideo while adapting it for 2.0.2.1

So:
classic warvideo is a GUI window to both record and playback dk2-videos.

New versions are:
- GUI warvideo. Same functionality as classic one.
- Console warvideo. No viewing, only recording. Saves each game separately. Names like datetime_map_players.dk2
- Tray warvideo. Should work similar to console one.

Questions:
- how'd you prefer to handle games? To save them all in one file or to save each game separately?
- how to handle pauses? To skip or write them?
- how to handle pre-game lobbies? To write or not to write them?
- do you prefer to use graphics utility to write games or to start some background console/tray version to let it do it automatically?

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Server.War2.ru / Why to download War2Combat

« on: April 08, 2019, 05:27:37 PM »

Warcraft II: Combat Edition, aka War2Combat, is not just one of many builds for popular Blizzard games.
This is a project that has been developing over the past 15 years, being in fact the standard of modern Warcraft II for the entire active global community of online Warcraft II players.

    Over these 15 years, all the finest mechanisms of working on modern computers under all possible operating systems have been debugged:
    Combat have been tested for all Windows since XP to lastest updates of Windows 10 / Windows 2019, also Linux OS (under wine) is tested and working fine. It includes several new features & bug fixes designed to improve the multiplayer gaming experience.
    Some annoying mistakes of the original game were caught and corrected.
    War2Combat is NOT any kind of warez / pirate software. It handles the CD-keys the same way as “official” Warcraft II from GOG. It will work with GOG server only if you have legal official GOG or Blizzard CD-key.
    Several useful additional programs have been developed: for recording your games, assessing your APM, and for more comfortable spectator / observer mode.
    To fix the graphics, the problems that started with the release of Windows Vista, all available options were tried. Although each of them somehow corrected the graphics, each had certain problems in Warcraft 2.

    As a result, the most talented programmers were recruited, specializing precisely in the nuances of graphics in old and new Windows, and after numerous tests, they jointly refined the graphics to the desired perfect result.
    This result continues to be actively used by the community, therefore any slightest problems are immediately identified and promptly corrected.
    Another common problem of Warcraft II is the inability to create a game so that other players can connect to it. This is an architectural problem of the original game.
    We have done a lot of work to circumvent these problems. There is no such fix in any other existing release.

Although Warcraft II Combat was originally developed as a project for multiplayer – it also worked out the details of a single player game to the smallest detail:

    Improved computer intelligence added, literally tearing anyone, even the most experienced players. However, this option is also great for playing together against computers
    All original video clips, music, sounds & campaigns are fully preserved. However, from this side Combat is hardly different from other assemblies, which in the same way took the original game resources
    The entire original gameplay has been fully preserved: “strange” obstacle avoidance algorithms (pathfinding), tree-chopping, the so-called tower bug, multicast, which could be called errors, have long become features of the gameplay, and therefore are left unchanged.

The most important feature of War2Combat is that the project is being developed with love for the game, by people who actively play it for people who also love war2 and have been playing it for more than 20 years – from the very first days!
And all these people were engaged in and continue to do it for free, in order that everyone could play the best warcraft 2!
That is my new description about combat, posted on en.war2.ru site. For newbies (from GOG or w/e) who just joined and don't know what is it.
What do you think about that?

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Server.War2.ru / War2InSight 1.05RC2 released! (compatible with GOG)

« on: April 05, 2019, 09:46:35 PM »

So, here's it:
1.05 RC1 didn't work with 2.0.2.1 at all, so had to update it to work with it and to allow gog-client also.

Now here's RC2.
The only difference is it now supports all known versions:
2020 (combat 4.3 and earlier), 2021 (original, gog and combat 4.4).
So, use it to both record and playback your games.

ftp://ftp.war2.ru/war2/utils/War2BNEInSight105RC2.exe

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Server.War2.ru / Idea: Streaming integration to combat

« on: April 02, 2019, 08:10:03 PM »

It depends on your setup that you use for streaming.  If you use a single monitor and full screen,  you can use OBS with the "UScreenCapture" plugin that was designed for SC1 and Diablo.  If you want to stream in Windowed mode,  you can use either of these 2 DDraw files and then use Alt+Enter to enter windowed moded.  I find that UScreenCapture is the BEST method for streaming because it doesnt suffer from any performance loss that you will experience when you run in windowed mode (screen stutter,  inaccurate mouse scrolling,  etc).  None of which you would notice if you're just playing casually such as playing through the scenarios.  But if you're trying to play online vs real people,  you definately need to be using UScreenCapture and full screen on a windows 7 machine.

@iL   Speaking of which,  we really need to get UScreenCapture on the downloads page before it disappears for good.  It's hard to find as it is already.  Download it here:  https://www.videohelp.com/download/UScreenCapture2015.zip?r=hswlrskmwcK   and modify the link here:  http://en.war2.ru/tutorials/how-to-live-stream-warcraft-2/ to point to the server.war2.en location.  The mouse plugin is already on our server,  but uscreencapture is not.

I never tried to stream, no idea how to do that.
So, question to you:
http://en.war2.ru/tutorials/how-to-live-stream-warcraft-2/
Is this article still actual?
As i understand you recommend UScreenCapture on all windows vista-7-8-10?

Would the be a good idea to just unpack UScreenCapture/OBS somewhere on war2combat installation, then apply patches (are they still actual?), then configure it (changing some registry keys?)
Then you just will need to register on twitch and then post your twitch key to settings.

I think it's the installer part to unify such type of typical activity.

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Server.War2.ru / General thoughts about gog and war2.ru servers and our relations

« on: April 02, 2019, 06:06:28 AM »

Had conversations with Burnt about GOG and this story between us and them.

So, my thoughts:
- As i understand, GOG admins are not interested an any relations with us. They are officials and we are nobody.
Otherwise, would be interesting to talk with them about war2 community.

- I don't want to steal players from GOG community. They made a great job attracting war2-players, we should appreciate that.
That's not a good behavior to come to their server and say "download combat and come to war2.ru, your server is shit, your client is shit, and ours are the best". Even if that's partially true...

My position now:
- players should know there's another war2 server: war2.ru with the strongest war2 players who played war2 all these 25 years and are the best in war2 in the world. Also this server have many enhanchments: status page, extended commands, active moderation, icons and many other beautiful modifications.
They feel free to play on any server they want. They can add server.war2.ru to their gateway list and play using GOG war2 on both war2.ru and GOG, or use War2Combat and play on both war2.ru and GOG also, switching between them any moment.

We should not prevent players to run from war2.ru to gog, if players don't want moderation - let them join gog. Otherwise, welcome to war2.ru.

- We can make tournaments on GOG server, the main question is how to make them interesting to newbies. Otherwise our top players will just come and win everybody as usual.

- I don't want Combat to be a pirate warez client. Actually it isn't. Combat is a project which task is to make war2 maximal playable for most players on new computers under most OS: lastest or previous windows, linux, mac - everywhere it's possible.
Combat's goal is it have been delevoped for all these years, so lots bugs have been fixed, all fixes and impovements have been tested carefully.
Main attention payed to multiplayer, so it should be more comfortable for multiplayer than any other war2 build, and it is.
At the same time, Combat works with single player also perfectly. We didn't do any serious fixes for that, that was just nothing to do with single player.

So, War2Combat is just one of war2 builds, based on bne version, and some players think War2Combat is the best one.

War2Combat will not work on official GOG server without legal cd-key, same as original GOG-war2 build.
Combat designed to be as compabible with official GOG client as possible, just with it's improvements and bugfixes.

- We all like war2, so our task is to make both servers maximally player-friendly. GOG server could be frienldy for newbies, war2.ru server - for experienced players.
Our task is to make all our tools compatible with all the war2 versions. I already updated war2ppatcher and war2ploader for compatibility with original 2021 and also with gog 2021. You can use war2ppatcher to fix bugs in GOG, you can use war2ploader to start GOG and get uPNP and lat/resBug fixes. You can get it yourself on GOG war2 or use War2Combat build and use everything built in 1 installer. It's up to you.

- That's sad GOG server have no such useful commands like /r, /con, /games. i have no idea what to do with that, but i think we should do what we can:
we can make something like "status page". We can use bots to control most channels to know approx amount of players in gog chats. Not sure what we can do with games. Looks like we need some programming for bots on GOG server.

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Server.War2.ru / Who installed gog war2? Need help, check registry

« on: March 30, 2019, 07:09:23 PM »

I'm looking into registry:
Section:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\GOG.com\Games\1418669891

Do you have the same path to gog war2 configs in your registry?

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Server.War2.ru / Need to hack the cdkey changer

« on: March 30, 2019, 03:09:43 PM »

Here's an old cdkey changer from 2005. Packed by something.
Need to unpack and get unpacked file.
Final purpose is to remove that "\Warcraft II BNE\" from the end of path.

Also any other better cdkey-changers welcomed.
Also encryption algorithm welcomed.

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Server.War2.ru / War2Combat 4.4.3 released! warlat,resBug,uPNP,GoG server,+CD-keys compatibility

« on: March 30, 2019, 01:00:00 PM »

Upd:
Updated Combat to 4.4.3:
    - One more fix for DEP
    - Some small installer improvements

Upd:
Updated Combat 4.4.1 to 4.4.2:
    - For CD-keys management compatibility, Warcraft II version changed from classic 2.0.2.1 to GoG 2.0.2.1
    now combat not requires to manage any CD-keys after being installed by GoG. It just uses GoG's cd-keys, together with GoG.
   GoG's KeyChanger added to combat.
    at the same time, install.exe have been renamed to install.mpq. (Also by GoG 2.0.2.1)
    - ddraw_test2 removed and replaced to ddraw_Aqrit by FunkyFr3sh (aka fois)
    That's sufficiently improved version based on test2.
    - ddraw_test4 removed and replaced to ddraw_CnC by FunkyFr3sh (aka fois).
    That supports OpenGL rendering with lots filters.

Previous post:
So, here's it:
    - Updated War2Ppatcher for 2.0.2.1 supporting warlat and resBug fix.
    - Updated War2PLoader for 2.0.2.1, removed antihack, removed autoupdate as attached to server.war2.ru

Added cd key changer autostart during installation. Path still should be fixed.

Get new versions from downloads secton!

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Server.War2.ru / Need your help with Stealthbot for Gog

« on: March 30, 2019, 05:29:32 AM »

Please, help me to configure stealthbot.

That's absolutely high-priority task to let us join their server by some bot, with some functionality, so i tried to download last stealthbot from official site and config it.
I got an error:

Warden.dll does not support checkrevision for CheckRevisionD1.mpq 2/2/2019 22:11:56

in local hashing mode,
and

Error -- BNLS has failed CheckRevision (Product: W2BN).

in bnls mode.

I have no more time and forces to understand how the things work.
Please, somebody who is more experienced:
- can you make some kind of bot login and work on gog server?
- can you make a detailed instruction how do that to let me and others join gog using that bot?

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Server.War2.ru / War2Combat 4.4 released! Compatible with GoG server

« on: March 28, 2019, 09:21:09 PM »

    Combat adapted to new official version by GoG released today.

    At the same time it's still compatible with unofficial servers.
   
       Attention:
    this version should work with GoG-server better than original Warcraft II GoG.
    But, because of GoG compatibility requirements, it works much worse than previous combats incompatible with GoG.
    Use it only if GoG compatibility is more important than everything else.
    One of recommended options - to install this version into a separate folder and use it only when you need GoG-server.
    Fixing some of listed problems - in plans for future releases.

    Version details:
    - Warcraft II version changed from 2.0.2.0 to 2.0.2.1. Because GoG doesn't support 2.0.2.0.
    As a result, all utilities for Warcraft II: war2insight, warvideo, warlatency, zwarlat, war2observe, loader+antihack and uPNP not work anymore.
    As a result, options for installing these utilities are disabled by default in installer.
    - Added new gateway for official GoG server.
    As a result, have to increase the version of gateway list to 2000. Now gateways from clients with previous version: 1001 will be rewritten after joining.
    But we have to follow official version. I hope, other servers owners will also increase their server version to 2000 soon.
    - Added w2cdkey.exe utility into utils folder.
    A reason: official GoG server requires different CD-keys from different clients. Need to change cd-key to join GoG-server.
    Where to get cd-key - is another question. For example, GoG gives cd-keys when you buy the game on their site.

You can download versions 4.4 (lite, std, full) in download section.
Please, let me know if something goes wrong with it.
It just first quick night build. Version 4.4.0
Minimal changes to just start it quickly.
I didn't upload full version on: german, french, spanish, italian, polish. There's not so much place on ftp to keep both 4.3 and 4.4 full versions. Uploaded full english and russian only.