At the same time, for other family members who didn’t want to reinstall the game and make a second copy like this, I had compatible SEMPQ applications and I remember giving them an EXE that would launch their Warcraft III installation into a custom mod with a modified main menu that would play the custom races, and then I joined their game using a non-EXE game client that simply had a modified “war3patch.mpq” that contained the same custom races.Įventually, I copied “C:/THE RACE MOD” to create “C:/THE RACE MOD - HEAVENS FALL” when I began to want to give our family mod a name. “C:/THE RACE MOD” was a copy of my Warcraft 3 installation that included a modified “war3patch.mpq” to allow me to play our custom races with family. So it was about this time that I began making many copies of the game. The modding that had caused me to reinstall was simply opening “war3patch.mpq” and adding my favorite custom models, which had created numerous issues. As I began developing the custom races, this was in a map called “Maps/Download/New Race Test Map Retera.w3x” and soon I created copies like “Maps/Download/New Race Test Map Retera 2.w3x” and I used this as the main staging point for my changes for a very long time.īut, we wanted to be able to play the custom races on any map file, so I began experimenting with SEMPQ technology and with modding the game client itself more deliberately. Each of these sub-folders had its own “Download” folder with all of the maps played socially with friends and family. So now, if I wanted to play really old maps, I could go to “Maps/FrozenThrone/Maps/dell_maps/” and if I wanted maps from the more recent era, I could go to “Maps/FrozenThrone/Maps” and if I wanted the latest and most relevant maps I could go to “Maps/”. At some point I had messed with my game too much, so I reinstalled the game and I placed the backup of my old Maps folder in “Maps/FrozenThrone/Maps”. This created an incentive for me to create many copies of the game installation, each with their modified MPQs and different lists of races. This XP computer lasted for a long time and then I started doing like you describe, adding custom races for my cousins/brothers for years. And in those same directories we had custom maps. So then if I wanted to play Warchasers, for example, I could go to “Maps/dell_maps/Scenario/(4)Warchasers.w3m” to play it, or also “Maps/Scenario/(4)Warchasers.w3m” to play it. These migrated into my new Warcraft III Maps folder on my new XP setup when we fixed everything in 2004-2005.
Some of the other family computers had copied folders like “dell_maps” on their desktop or Maps folder, or “test_dell”. We were able to restore some of the maps. So, in 2004 we had set me up with a new hard drive. Since then, in 2004, I did not mess around with worthless “map protection” file corruption tools. The only version of the map that continued to exist was protected, even from myself. In the following months, my computer hard drive died.
This went on for a while, until I created my first favorite big RPG map and I learned how to protect it with a map protector. Soon we had a family fleet of computers where each person could play Warcraft 3. It was too much fun, so each time the family bought a new better computer we kept the old ones.
Following the Season 3 Reloaded update, you can now apply your own Custom Mods to your weapons through the same menu.Okay, no offense Alec2cool but i did something similar and here’s how it went for me:Īs a kid, I had a dell Windows XP computer where we had Warcraft 3 as a family. Will Cold War have modded zombies?Ĭustom Mods have finally returned to Black Ops Cold War Zombies, but a bug is preventing the system to be used with Dual Wield pistols, and Treyarch have responded to the issue. Players can combine several blueprints into one, and by saving them, they create custom weapons that no other player has thought of. In a recent update, the feature has been updated with the Custom Mods option. Will Cold War have mods?Ĭall of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s Gunsmith offers several blueprints for players to use. Can you unlock weapons in private matches Cold War?Īs you’d expect, you can not gain XP or battle pass and weapon progression in a private match. With new maps, the main menu should now have an option to start the map right away. Load the map you want to play from the list that will show up. This will show all the mods correctly placed in your mods folder. Start World at War and in the main menu choose MODS. When that is done, press ~ on your keyboard to bring up the console. Enabling developer console and loading the map: In the main menu go to options/controls, then select Game options and from there enable your console. But if you are playing some older custom zombie maps you have to load the map trough console.