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Chronicles of the Second War: Tides of Darkness

Author(s): Bagysta, Barorque, Marthen, Mr.Goblin, ShadiHD, Tamplier, Whirlwind, Kam

Tags: Campaign, Contains External Material, Reforged, Medieval / Warcraft

Size: 1823.07 MB

Rating: (97 ratings)

Downloads: 80379

Created: Sep 27, 2020

Updated: May 15, 2024

Resources: 1

State: Approved

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Chronicles of the Second War:
Tides of Darkness
Relive the events of Warcraft II orc campaign, reimagined in Reforged engine.
Experience rich lore from the events of the Second War, based on classic games and novels.
Enjoy the gameplay that merges best features of WC2 and WC3, through RTS and RPG missions.
Explore mysterious places and conquer mighty cities with beautifully crafted terrain and decorations.

*** Installation Guide for Windows OS***

Action Visual Clue
This campaign is available for those who have purchased a copy of "Warcraft III: Reforged": https://warcraft3.blizzard.com/ latest version 1.36.1
If you have the Demo version of CSW (circa 2020) installed - delete it and clean up the retail folder from its assets
Make sure your game settings are set HD reforged graphics
Download the campaign file
Put campaign file into C:/User/Documents/Warcraft3/Campaigns/
(Or make that folder yourself, if you never played a campaign before)

Download installer Asset Installer
Put installer into Warcraft 3 folder where Game Launcher.exe is placed

Download asset pack Asset Pack
Run CSW Installer.exe as Administrator

Click button “Load Resource” - pick the Asset Pack

Wait till the archive is unpacked
Reboot your PC
Launch "Wacraft III: Reforged" game
Go to “Single Player” → “Custom Campaign”

Play the game.
Remember that Campaign works only in HD (Reforged graphics) game settings.
The Campaign is not compatible with Quenching mod.
If textures were not applied after installation of asset pack - reinstall assets one more time.

*** Installation Guide for MAC OS***

Action Visual Clue
This campaign is available for those who have purchased a copy of "Warcraft III: Reforged": https://warcraft3.blizzard.com/ latest version 1.36.1
Make sure your game settings are set HD reforged graphics
Download the campaign file
Put campaign file into folder for campaign in MAC OS
Download asset pack Asset Pack
Right click on the TOD_Campaign_Assets.csw file and open with Archive Utility.
Unzip the Asset Pack as you would a zip file into the retail folder within the Reforged installation directory.
Open the terminal and enter the following exactly:
defaults write "com.blizzard.Warcraft III" "Allow Local Files" -int 1
If texture issues persist after the above steps, try restarting the machine.
Launch "Wacraft III: Reforged" game
Go to “Single Player” → “Custom Campaign”

Play the game.
Remember that Campaign works only in HD (Reforged graphics) game settings.
The Campaign is not compatible with Quenching mod.
If textures were not applied after installation of asset pack - reinstall assets one more time.

*** Installation Guide for Linux OS***

Action Visual Clue
This campaign is available for those who have purchased a copy of "Warcraft III: Reforged": https://warcraft3.blizzard.com/ latest version 1.36.1
Make sure your game settings are set HD reforged graphics
Download the campaign file
Put campaign file into folder for campaign in Linux OS
Download asset pack Asset Pack
Follow the following guide but for Warcraft 3 Reforged: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxet_LLQIwE&t=424s
This runs Reforged under Steam's emulation layer
Unzip the Asset Pack as you would a zip file into the retail folder within the Reforged installation directory
The tricky part is finding your "home" directory where you put your custom campaigns. In one user's case (agibsonccc) the filepath was the following:
/home/agibsonccc/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/2542504305/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Documents/Warcraft III/Campaigns
The way proton works is you have steam and then an "appid" followed by a "prefix". The appid is basically a mapping to a "game" you specify in the left side in steam. That's wine's root directory. drive_c is C: then from there the paths should be the same.
If texture issues persist after the above steps, try restarting the machine.
Launch "Wacraft III: Reforged" game
Go to “Single Player” → “Custom Campaign”

Play the game.
Remember that Campaign works only in HD (Reforged graphics) game settings.
The Campaign is not compatible with Quenching mod.
If textures were not applied after installation of asset pack - reinstall assets one more time.

Features

✦ 17 Missions packed with captivating gameplay

✦ 5 hours of Cinematics capturing and expanding on important lore moments

✦ Lore conveyed through immersing gameplay, bringing you back into WC2 era

✦ Voice Acting for over 1500 lines, from unit quotes to cinematics

✦ Soundtrack recreating original Warcraft II music, made by talented artists

✦ Heroes & Characters introduced through gameplay and cameos

✦ Oil Resource system from classic Warcraft II, for immersive naval experience

✦ Boss Battles with engaging and challenging mechanics inspired by World of Warcraft

Recommended PC Requirements

Hardware Value
Operating System Windows 10 64-bit (latest version)
Processor Intel Core i7
Video GTX 1080
Memory 32GB
Storage 3GB (for campaign files)

Known Issues

Place - Scope Bug Priority for fix in next patches Comment
1 Global Sometimes Oil UI Warning messages can be played during cinematics Medium Need to investigate jass oil script and fix it.
2 Chapter Nine: Razing of Tyrs Hand Enemy AI doesnt send troops via transports to attack player. Medium
3 Chapter Eleven: Quel’Thalas Troll camp AI might work weird. It has to be rewritten to JASS instead of GUI. Medium
4 Chapter Ten: Stratholme Mounted Gul’dan model has issues with facial animations. Probably need to rework model form scratch. Medium
5 Chapter Ten: Stratholme Enemy Naval AI is not attacking player Medium Require a lot of effort on investigating AI script and testing.
6 Global Upon Loading Saved game, the custom wc2 music list is played over like second layer. Medium
7 Global Building and Unit models willbe updated in next pathces (pkb effects) Medium PKB effect were removed cuz it caused a lot of crashes before 1.36.1
8 Global Some unit animations and models will be fixed and improved Medium
9 Chapter 13: Tomb of Sargaras Sometimes Rend Visual Aura Effect (BlackRoll and Roll) is not displayed . Medium
10 Global Gul’dan spell “Inferno” - summoned infernal need to be better balanced. Low
11 Global Cho'gall and Ogre-Magi Spell animation sometimes overlap and duplicate. Low
12 Global Facial Animations are not stable in the maps that have a lot of dialogues. Low The problem is that faceanim sometimes doesnt work for unknown reasons, and dev need to manually try another faceanim. Change and testing takes a lot of time.
13 Global Items that need custom models:

Mana potion

earth elemental summoning token

Low
14 Global Melee unit can attack enemy unit that is standing on the wall, no matter how big difference in Z axis is. Low Melee Attack in game enginge doesnt take into account Z axis. In order to fix this, the additional pathing blockers has to be palced. Tedious and time consuming work that could delay release for many weeks.
15 Global Sometimes Air units can go through models of high towers. Low This reuqires tedious rework of pathing blockers in some missions.
16 Lost Chapter: Dragonqueen The goblin motor boat damage flames are disappearing when Zuluhed dismounts from it. Lowest Hard to identify the reason why it happens.
17 Global Cho'gall In-game text transmissions missing line breaks. Lowest
18 Global FPS drops in some cutscenes that have panorama view IMPOSSIBLE TO FIX The team didnt have the knowledge about some limitations, but we wanted to make some beautiful shots.
19 Global On the loading screen map can crash because of incorrect texture decompression.
Walkaround - restart the mission. IMPOSSIBLE TO FIX Blizzard Bug
20 Global When the Peon which carry resourse is switched to another Building Construction set, the resource he carry is lost. IMPOSSIBLE TO FIX The game engine limitations doesnt allow to fix this bug.
21 Global Units that don’t have Facial Animations:

Goblin Zeppelin

Gangrel

Fanatic

Twilight Peon

Cho'gall

IMPOSSIBLE TO FIX Those units are using soundkits of the beasts and mechanisms, whose sounds were replced in import manager. And they don’t have the needed facefx.

	Place - Scope	Bug	Priority for fix in next patches	Comment
1	Global	Sometimes Oil UI Warning messages can be played during cinematics	Medium	Need to investigate jass oil script and fix it.
2	Chapter Nine: Razing of Tyrs Hand	Enemy AI doesnt send troops via transports to attack player.	Medium
3	Chapter Eleven: Quel’Thalas	Troll camp AI might work weird. It has to be rewritten to JASS instead of GUI.	Medium
4	Chapter Ten: Stratholme	Mounted Gul’dan model has issues with facial animations. Probably need to rework model form scratch.	Medium
5	Chapter Ten: Stratholme	Enemy Naval AI is not attacking player	Medium	Require a lot of effort on investigating AI script and testing.
6	Global	Upon Loading Saved game, the custom wc2 music list is played over like second layer.	Medium
7	Global	Building and Unit models willbe updated in next pathces (pkb effects)	Medium	PKB effect were removed cuz it caused a lot of crashes before 1.36.1
8	Global	Some unit animations and models will be fixed and improved	Medium
9	Chapter 13: Tomb of Sargaras	Sometimes Rend Visual Aura Effect (BlackRoll and Roll) is not displayed .	Medium
10	Global	Gul’dan spell “Inferno” - summoned infernal need to be better balanced.	Low
11	Global	Cho'gall and Ogre-Magi Spell animation sometimes overlap and duplicate.	Low
12	Global	Facial Animations are not stable in the maps that have a lot of dialogues.	Low	The problem is that faceanim sometimes doesnt work for unknown reasons, and dev need to manually try another faceanim. Change and testing takes a lot of time.
13	Global	Items that need custom models: Mana potion earth elemental summoning token	Low
14	Global	Melee unit can attack enemy unit that is standing on the wall, no matter how big difference in Z axis is.	Low	Melee Attack in game enginge doesnt take into account Z axis. In order to fix this, the additional pathing blockers has to be palced. Tedious and time consuming work that could delay release for many weeks.
15	Global	Sometimes Air units can go through models of high towers.	Low	This reuqires tedious rework of pathing blockers in some missions.
16	Lost Chapter: Dragonqueen	The goblin motor boat damage flames are disappearing when Zuluhed dismounts from it.	Lowest	Hard to identify the reason why it happens.
17	Global	Cho'gall In-game text transmissions missing line breaks.	Lowest
18	Global	FPS drops in some cutscenes that have panorama view	IMPOSSIBLE TO FIX	The team didnt have the knowledge about some limitations, but we wanted to make some beautiful shots.
19	Global	On the loading screen map can crash because of incorrect texture decompression. Walkaround - restart the mission.	IMPOSSIBLE TO FIX	Blizzard Bug
20	Global	When the Peon which carry resourse is switched to another Building Construction set, the resource he carry is lost.	IMPOSSIBLE TO FIX	The game engine limitations doesnt allow to fix this bug.
21	Global	Units that don’t have Facial Animations: Goblin Zeppelin Gangrel Fanatic Twilight Peon Cho'gall	IMPOSSIBLE TO FIX	Those units are using soundkits of the beasts and mechanisms, whose sounds were replced in import manager. And they don’t have the needed facefx.

Credits

Click here for full credits list.

"Huge thank you to everyone who supported us, helped us, believed in us.
We hope this campaign was fun to play. Stay tuned for upcoming sequel
Chronicles of the Second War - Rise of the Alliance."
- LoreCraft Designs team

Translation / Dubbing

Changelog

Patch v1.04 25/Apr/2024)

Patch v1.03 29/Jan/2024)

Hotfix v1.02 11/Jan/2024)

Hotfix v1.01 09/Jan/2024)

Previous Version Savegames will not be loadable.
Acts now are visible for the first playthrough for the blocked players if they dont want to start from the begining.

Campaign:

Updated Death Knight models and death sound.
Updated Zul'jin model in Zulaman mission.
All Doomhammer lines are revocied.
Broadside shot ability for ships - effective distance increased from 400 to 600, cooldown decreased from 60 seconds to 30 seconds. Tooltip added.
Voodoo doll item - scaling of item model doubled in object editor to make it more visible on drop.
Advanced Buildings Swithcer ability has new icons.
Updated Death Knight Voice kit.
Updated Forest Troll Voice Kit.
Updated Portrait for Chogall.
Updated Portrait for Troll Berserkers and Axethrowers.
Updated Portrait for Ogre and Ogre Magi.
Updated Portrait for DeathKnight.
Updated Portrait for Twilight Grunt.
Updated Portrait models for Elven Archer adn Elven Ranger.
Abilities for Alliance and the Horde - added specific animations that must be played by spellcasters in campaign object editor.
Updated Attack Animation for Elven Destroyer ship.
Updated Orc UI.

Asset Pack:

Team Color 20 (coal) now is more black than gray.
Team color 23 (Peanut) now is more yellow than default desaturated yellow.
Updated Diffuse and ORM textures for Gryphonrider

Mission 01:

Updated the sound for footman dialogue.

Mission 02:

Fixed the Mismatch between text and voice for troll village dialogue.
Fixed race condition with double launch of Durnholde cinematic.
Updated the sound for footman dialogue.

Mission 03:

Fixed bug with advanced peon getting +10 instead of +100 resource.
Fixed bug with Oil UI warnings played in the cinematic.

Mission 04:

Fixed bug with Oil UI warnings played in the cinematic.

Mission 05:

Fixed water plane doodad under the destroyed bridge in Dun Modr.
Fixed bug with Oil UI warnings played in the cinematic.

Mission 06S:

Dwarven ring item - scaling increased, tooltip added "Quest Item".
Totem of Wind item item - tooltip added "Quest Item".
Enchanted Gemstone item - tooltip added "Quest Item".
Goblin Key item - tooltip added "Quest Item".
Dragon Soul item - tooltips added "Quest Item" and "Requires consuming 3 souls of living creatures to gain charge".
Dragon Soul recharge amount bug - fixed.
Fixed bug when Alextrasza stucks on the Attack to Camp route.
Decreased the amount and level of lava Spawn in bossfight with Firelord on Hard.
Increased HP for Orastrasz.

Mission 07:

Fixed bug with Oil UI warnings played in the cinematic.
Fixed bug with swamp walking loop sound in the intro cinematic.
Fixed bug with Playing few music tracks in cinematic.
Lowered projectile impact Z for shark to 0 value.
Fixed silent UI sound "We have no Oil".

Mission 08:

Fixed bug with Oil UI warnings played in the cinematic.

Mission 08s:

Revoiced Kurdran.
Revoiced Lothar.

Mission 09:

Fixed bug with Oil UI warnings played in the cinematic.

Mission 10:

Fixed bug with Oil UI warnings played in the cinematic.
Fixed bug when Optional Quest Alliance base is failed after being completed.
Fixed bug with citizens attacking player without being enemy. (Now male citizens are neutral hostile, and player 9 Gray "Citizens" is true neutral to player.)

Mission 11:

Enemy Hero Teleport on death turned off, becasue it was braking AI scripts.

Mission 11s:

Added Chaos Attack to Zuljin in the last phase.
Revoiced Zuljin dialogue lines.
Revoiced Isenglof.
Decreased Zuljin revive time to 15 seconds.
Fixed bug where attack waves got stuck.

Mission 12:

Fixed bug with Oil UI warnings played in the cinematic.
Zuluhed uses new dragonmaw skin.

Mission 13:

Fixed Volume for Rakmar Dialogues.
Zuluhed uses new dragonmaw skin.

Mission 14:

Fixed bug with Oil UI warnings played in the cinematic.
Zuluhed uses new dragonmaw skin.

Previous Version Savegames will not be loadable.
Acts now are visible for the first playthrough for the blocked players if they dont want to start from the begining.

Campaign:

Chogall cinematic walk fix by Fugrim
Deathwing Pre-Wow remodeling by Handclaw (model) and Symphoneum (animations) + fixes by VictorZ (animations)
Goblin Zeppelin Portait floppy mouth animation fix by Malmgrev
Death Knight Death Coil Ability Drain Effect changed to Red Life Drain
Death Knight Armor type changed to Small
Death Knight HP increased from 400 to 600
Human Mage Armor type changed to Small
Human Mage HP increased from 400 to 600
Dragon armor increased from 0 to 2
Gryphon Rider Armor increased from 0 to 2
Goblin rockets item damage doubled

Mission 06S:

Fixed Alextrasza landing bug in Lost Chapter I: Dragonqueen
Decreased the amount of souls to charge the Dragonsoul from 5 to 3

Mission 10:

Teron Gorefiend superunit armor type changed to Small and life increased to 1000

Mission 4:

Naval AI upgrade level nerfed to 1 on Hard and training pause increased

Mission 5:

Naval AI upgrade level nerfed to 1 on Hard and training pause increased

Mission 7:

Removed second ballista from Stromgarde Attack Wave on Hard and Normal

Previous Version Savegames will not be loadable.
Acts now are visible for the first playthrough for the blocked players if they dont want to start from the begining.

Campaign:

Zeppelin price increased from 500 to 1000 gold
Zeppelin build time increased from 20 to 61
Zeppelin food cost increased from 1 to 4
Pillage rate nerfed

Mission 09:

Hold the line defeat condition changed to be more reliable
Autokiling zeppelins that reach cinematic area of Tyrs Hand

Mission 11S:

Decreased bounty for killing units

Previous Version Savegames will not be loadable.
Acts now are visible for the first playthrough for the blocked players if they dont want to start from the begining.

Mission 01:

Creeps nerfed
Fixed bug with signal fire completion after failing

Mission 02:

Creeps nerfed
Fixed sasquatch flying above the cave

Mission 03

Naval AI nerfed
Creeps nerfed

Mission 04:

Creeps nerfed
Fixed skin for Gilneas Battleship
Nerfed naval AI difficulty
Placed the fountain of health in the camp

Mission 5:

Extended beach for building naval buildings in north part
Creeps nerfed
Changed drop for jungle monster
Naval AI difficulty nerfed
Turned off Rain for better performance

Mission 6S:

Fix Alextrasza stuck when she goes back
Creeps nerfed

Mission 7:

Creeps nerfed

Mission 8:

Creeps nerfed

Misison 8S:

Creeps nerfed

Mission09:

Fixed instant defeat on the last quest Hold the Line
Creeps nerfed
Archmage is invulnerable now till he starts freezing the lake

Mission 10:

Reworked logic of Death Knight Cinematic launch (now no need to wait till all player units are killed near the cathdral)
Creeps nerfed

Mission 12:

Fixed Chogall running away in bossfight phase 2 and 3
Fixed Rend disappeared from cache (need to be tested starting form mission 9)

Previews

Contents

CSW campaign Tides of Darkness (Campaign)

Author: LoreCraftDesigns

Filename: CSW_Tides_Of_Darkness_EN.w3n

Required game: Warcraft 3

Recommended version: 1.36

Difficulty: Varies

Size: 1823.07 MB

Uploaded: Aug 23, 2021

Updated: Apr 25, 2024

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Reviews

Archian

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ZodiackTV

Level 4

Wednesday at 11:15 AM

#751

Hello. I have been enjoying this campaign I have been waiting for years, and it's super good, you all did an amazing job with cinematics, gameplay and all the secrets!

Although, I have to report a bug: in Chapter 9, after loading a save (I specifically reloaded a quicksave), after saving Maim's base, the Oil Tankers won't go from the Oil Platform to the Shipyard to deliver the oil, and the Deliver/Gather oil buttons don't work properly. I don't know what's causing it, but it can be a nuisance for people who want to perfect the mission but don't want any cargos to leave the map.

EDIT: upon further testing, the Tanker actually works, but only after I built the Oil Refinery. For some reason, it probably does not consider the Shipyard a valid patrol spot for the oil delivery path thingy, I don't know how to explain it

EDIT 2: After another reload, the Oil Refinery still works perfectly fine for Tankers, and Shipyard is still wonky

Last edited: Thursday at 10:05 AM

ZodiackTV

Level 4

Today at 10:44 AM

#752

Hello! It's me again, I found another weird bug: in Mission 11, after I upgraded my Ogres to Ogre Magi, the new ogres are still just Ogres. I put in queue Ogres while researching Ogre Magi training, maybe that's what messed with it?

I sent these Ogre Magi to help Zul'jin (same Ogres that you get at the beginning of the map)

and these are the ones at my base, built after those Ogre Magi.

EDIT: apparently it's just for queued production units that this bug occurs, 'cause after these screenshots I tried and managed to build more Magi.

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Action	Visual Clue
This campaign is available for those who have purchased a copy of "Warcraft III: Reforged": https://warcraft3.blizzard.com/ latest version 1.36.1
If you have the Demo version of CSW (circa 2020) installed - delete it and clean up the retail folder from its assets
Make sure your game settings are set HD reforged graphics
Download the campaign file
Put campaign file into C:/User/Documents/Warcraft3/Campaigns/ (Or make that folder yourself, if you never played a campaign before)
Download installer Asset Installer
Put installer into Warcraft 3 folder where Game Launcher.exe is placed
Download asset pack Asset Pack
Run CSW Installer.exe as Administrator
Click button “Load Resource” - pick the Asset Pack
Wait till the archive is unpacked
Reboot your PC
Launch "Wacraft III: Reforged" game
Go to “Single Player” → “Custom Campaign”
Play the game. Remember that Campaign works only in HD (Reforged graphics) game settings. The Campaign is not compatible with Quenching mod. If textures were not applied after installation of asset pack - reinstall assets one more time.

Hardware	Value
Operating System	Windows 10 64-bit (latest version)
Processor	Intel Core i7
Video	GTX 1080
Memory	32GB
Storage	3GB (for campaign files)