[mockery]

Here's an interesting new fan creation straight from the Battle.net forums. Somebody by the name of CloudWolf decided to help scratch their Diablo 3 playing itch by basing a modded Warcraft 3 map on the Diablo 3 gameplay footage video. And speaking of video, here's a video clip of it in action and I gotta say... it looks pretty impressive!

ldIMP-LddsY

Really nice eh? Definitely something worth installing if you own a copy of Warcraft 3. Here's a closer look at the character classes themselves:

You can play as any of the three currently known classes in Diablo 3, and CloudWolf promises to add in the other classes once Blizzard announces them.

One of the users recommended playing as the Witch Doctor since you can heal yourself, which comes in handy in single player mode. You can download the mod here. So who here is gonna break out their old copy of Warcraft 3 and give it a shot?

This post has been edited by mockery: 09 April 2009 - 09:09 PM

[Regret]

Doing it right now as we speak..I'm assuming we can go online and try it out on bnet too? And I wonder if its like those old Diablo 2 Act 1-2 WC3 save/load maps? Anyways, I'm trying it

[Genesis]

I think the malleability of that map editor and custom maps on Warcraft III is its one redeeming point... Looks like fun, I might download it

Did they include health/mana globes?

Is it only the 3 announced classes or did they fill it in with 2 others for the time being?

[alexiskool12345]

I found out about this map months ago, it's pretty damn good concidering how quickly it came out after Diablo 3's debut showing.

[Regret]

The mod is in beta right now and I believe it only includes the 3 announced classes and more will be added on when they are announced.

[pwnsickle]

I don't understand, is it diablo on a warcraft map?
Or a mix of the two games..?
can someone please clarify this for me

[dunhac82]

lol, looks pretty sweet; I'll have to try it out. Um...it's a WC3 mod..geez don't you bother to read? :P

[mockery]

Yep, it's a Warcraft 3 mod. If you own Warcraft 3, you just download the mod and install it and you'll be all set.

[Umpa65]

This is old :P there has already been a thread about this.

I played it and thought it was pretty darn cool!

It was really well made.

I got to the end on single player as the WD but could not get tyreal any lower than about 10%

[pwnsickle]

sorry, I don't have WC3 so I didn't know if it was something you could just download without it :P

[Pwnubis]

yes very nice.. actually multiple d3 maps have been made over at hiveworkshop.com...
they are interesting to play and see other ppls comprehension of how the game will be played out

[mockery]

For those who've already seen the mod... well, it's new to me (and Bashiok as well, as you can see from his response), so don't assume everybody else has seen it. If you ever come across something interesting like this that we haven't already posted a news thread about, I encourage you guys to send me (or any of the other staff members) a PM about it. If we think it's something news-worthy, we'll post it up on the homepage and credit you for the scoop! :)

[Blackwing]

That's really cool.

[snail19]

How do i install this? i downloaded it and got a .w3x file. All my files in my maps folders are Warcraft 3 senerio files...

[Umpa65]

snail19 said:

How do i install this? i downloaded it and got a .w3x file. All my files in my maps folders are Warcraft 3 senerio files...

you have to put it in your download folder in the map folder.

[XXLaw]

Sweet stuff, gotta try it out!

[Jigsaw]

I just borrowed WC3 to try this, looks just like Diablo 3

[dunhac82]

Ok having problems here...downloaded it, put it my map file and tried playing it from frozen throne...all it does it act like it is starting the game and then it just goes back to the custom game selection screen.

[sabreSKULL]

All this proves is that Diablo 3 is more like WarCraft than anything else. It just makes me even more mad...

[Kaanin]

HAHA! For all those complaining that Diablo 3 was looking too much like Wacraft this brings the fear to a while new level!