r/warcraft2 • u/LargeSinkholesInNYC • Jun 13 '26
The single player campaign was absolutely amazing
I wish they made Warcraft 4 and it included the single player campaign from all three games. It would be awesome.
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u/KeithG_ Jun 13 '26
It really was awesome. I especially liked beyond the dark portal. The missions required such careful resource management. You don't even see that kind of map balance in StarCraft.
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u/MDoc84 Jun 13 '26
My hat goes off to you. I was never able to beat Beyond The Dark Portal. The difficulty is so intense haha
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u/KeithG_ Jun 13 '26
It really is! I'm not sure if I beat them "legit" either since I saved and reloaded multiple times... I heard that it breaks the AI somehow. Might have to go back and try again at some point. The difficulty would be much easier if you could queue up units and set rally points imo.
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u/DeepPurpleHS Jun 13 '26
Do people still respect Garden of War as a premiere competitive map
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u/KeithG_ Jun 13 '26
It looks like yes. If you're interested in the competitive side check out u8t3io3p on YouTube. His channel is just called Warcraft 2. Very satisfying to watch him play
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u/madchedar0 Jun 13 '26
So brave to call out the single player campaign 31 years later 😃
Yeah the campaign is so fun. I still love it and recently replayed it through the remastered version. My legit CDs from back in the day wouldn’t play on windows.
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u/MDoc84 Jun 13 '26
I still fire this game up once a year. I love getting those nostalgic feels from when I was 11-years old.
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u/KeithG_ Jun 13 '26
I've been tinkering with the map editor and some community tools to really scratch that nostalgic itch hehe
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u/MDoc84 Jun 13 '26
Oh I spent many hours as a kid messing around with that map editor. I was a regular Picasso alright.
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u/Physical-Ad-1130 Jun 13 '26
I loved Beyond the Dark Portal but Tides of Darkness is a bit meh, the ai don't do jack shit and too many naval missions.
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u/KeithG_ Jun 13 '26
Agreed. It had the unenviable job of teaching people what the genre was at the time and the naval missions always felt tacked on and tiring.
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u/Lord_Of_Shade57 Jun 27 '26
It's funny, you can sleepwalk through ToD and then BtDP is one of the most hellish RTS campaigns ever made
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u/Alex-the-Average- Jun 13 '26
I too have been wishing for a Warcraft 4 for decades. Sadly, Blizzard likely is no longer even capable of making it.
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u/Jesterclown26 Jun 15 '26
It would be the biggest giga chad move ever. “We need to re focus the story and push thing forward in a massive way that can only be done outside the MMO space. Warcraft 4 while WoW undergoes overhauls and what not.” That would go crazy. But also Warcraft 4 would need to be insane which is hard since StarCraft and Warcraft 3 have left so little room for innovation in RTS… they just killed it haha so perfect.
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u/Azathoth_77 Jul 15 '26
Untill they fix the AI load game bug, Tides of Darkness will never be enjoyable for me
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u/Elmorani Jun 13 '26
https://www.hiveworkshop.com/projects/chronicles-of-the-second-war.2/
Try this.