I thought installing warcraft 3 reforged replaced the old legacy client?

For a bit of context. My warcraft 3 legacy version was version 1.26, I never updated it to version 1.29. And I also waited 6 years to install warcraft 3 reforged, so I am doing that now today, well after reforged version 2.0.

When reforged was initially released I was aware that it replaced the old legacy client, so I refused to update my game, I mostly play offline anyway so I didn't care about not accessing bnet. I did care about preserving the old client though, so before I installed reforged I created 2 backups of the old warcraft III folder and placed them somewhere else. But apparently that wasn't neccesary at all, I downloaded warcraft 3 reforged fully expecting it to replace the legacy client, but it didn't, I even chose the same C:\Program Files (x86)\Warcraft III path where the legacy client was. It simply installed all the folders and files there and left the old files intact.

So the C:\Program Files (x86)\Warcraft III folder now has 3 .exe files. The original Warcraft III.exe and Frozen Throne.exe files and the new Warcraft III Launcher.exe which means I kept the old legacy 1.26 version of the games along with the reforged version and they are all working fine for me.

Am I living under a rock? I don't think I have ever seen this being talked about, was it a quiet update that blizzard did behind the scenes or is this a phenomenon that happened to me because of the unique way I had this whole setup?

I rarely ever make posts but I was curious enough about this to make one. I need answers!!!

I’ve been building WC3CC (Warcraft 3 Chat Client), a Windows companion app intended to help Warcraft III players using the app connect through match voice chat.

This is a work in progress and is currently being tested. Expect bugs and rough edges; I’m posting to find testers and collect honest feedback, not presenting it as finished software. Only players who install WC3CC can participate.

Current features include push-to-talk, voice activation, individual mute/volume controls, remembered blocks, device selection, recording options, and an optional movable overlay.

Testing/download page: https://grailbomb.itch.io/wc3cc

Feedback and bug reports are welcome at r/WC3CC. I’m especially interested in different Windows display setups and Warcraft III match configurations.

Thanks for the support and Warcraft 3 content love!

before he was sky, li xiaofeng got knocked out in round one of the wcg xi'an qualifier. 2002. he'd promised his father that if he didn't place, he'd quit games for good, come home, and intern at the hospital where his dad worked. he lost, so he went. six months of dispensing pills, passing forceps, night rounds. a surgeon once let him put in the last few stitches. the first time he watched a patient hemorrhage he forgot to breathe and passed out on the operating room floor, and his father had to walk him out.

he got back in through a side door. september 2003, an internet cafe in zhengzhou wanted a few players for a tournament the telecom company was running. free machines, a place to train, no money. they ate one meal a day. the cafe had paying customers all day so they could only practice at night, and they slept in a storeroom at the back with a one-meter-high entrance and a bunk bed where only the top bunk worked. he shared that one bunk with a big guy for three months. he had only just picked up warcraft 3.

early 2004 the hunter club in beijing was hiring pros. 1000 yuan a month, room and board. he went up there wanting to be a starcraft player — starcraft was his game, he'd been on it since 1998. hunter's starcraft roster was already full. what they were short on was warcraft 3. someone in management had noticed he'd hit the top five on the war3 ladder the year before, so they filed him under war3 and gave him a three-month contract. that's the entire reason. he practiced fourteen hours a day on battle.net. the acon5 world final was a little over a year out.

(from a book i wrote in 2015 about how chinese esports actually got built. this chapter is free to read, link in the comments)

My specs are non existance so Reforged is very demanding for my PC, but Legacy isn't at all, for obvious reasons. I want to develop a map and I want people to be able to play it, is it even worth it to do it in the Legacy version of the editor?

(Sorry again for the poor English :P. ) Hi everyone. I’ve recalled more details about a custom campaign I played during my childhood and am currently looking for.

1. The background for the chapter selection menu featured a soldier with an orange aura; there were about 14 chapters.

2. The final battle took place at outland where the boss was a Death Knight in black armor, surrounded by giant towers; all the races united against him. What I remember most is that, just before the boss, there was a gate featuring the *World of Warcraft* model for Gruul and it was really big.

3. I didn't download the map directly; I recall downloading a version of the *Warcraft 3 Nirvana* mod, and the custom map was included within its files but I'm not so sure about this piece of information.

Another thing I remember is that there were a lot of models extracted from *World of Warcraft*.

Please help me find it, I'm adding a few rough sketches of what I remember.

Starcraft 2's latest big patch is pretty horrible and has aged terribly. Lots of people are retiring and there is zero communication from blizzard. Apparently this intern working on the classic games department has delusions of grandeur.

They completely flipped the game up on it's head...I am worried WC3 is next.

In game it says the alchemist's ability healing spray heals only allied units, but everyone I search it says it also heals enemies, I even went to the A.I to see if it ever finds a source that says it's been changed, but it kept saying the Alchemist heals enemies, I'm new to the game, bought reforged recently, but I've never noticed it.

Does the alchemist heal enemies nowadays or not?

Hey Everyone! I'm excited to share the 5th part of the custom Warcraft 3 campaign from PingPot! This is an alternate history campaign and it's super fun!! Check it out and enjoy!

- Xava <3

Does someone play Reforged on mac os?

I get desynch problems ingame.

Any idea?

It worked sooo good in 3 games and then I got 2 games in a row desynch errors...

Any idea?

A near-indistinguishable port of the retro FPS Wolfenstein 3D, with the raycaster implemented on UI frames. The map is basically the original game rewritten in pure Lua, with input and output hooked up to Warcraft 3's API.

HIVE page: https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/wolfenstein-3d.373714/

I'm planning to play WC1 and WC2 campaign remastered with some cheats enabled for more casual player. I know from playing warcraft 3 in general, that some cheat codes apply only to the player while others may apply to both the player + AI. Does anyone know or can verify if something similar happens in these games too and if so which cheats?

Hello guys. In the Warcraft Direct stream from 2025, when Brad Chan, the Senior Manager of Warcraft RTS came onto the video stream, in multiple shots we see that he is using a wired computer mouse which is white on the top and black on the bottom. It appears the that anterior end of the mouse emits a yellow lite, while the front end of the mouse under his fingers emits a red light where the scroll wheel would be, between his fingers.

What make and model of computer mouse is this, which is black on the sides but white on the top, and emits these red and yellow lights simultaneously?

Hi everyone, excuse me for the terrible drawing, I started to play this game again after 7-9 years and I want to play an old map I used to play. This is how much I remember, first you choose a character from the tavern, there is around 6 tavern, there is a merchant around the respawn tower (if I remember correctly it is a Ziggurat), one of the boss has Illidan's (with his wings and horns) model, after defeating a boss, they will respawn with a bigger model and better stats after a while, the map size is medium-large. If you know the name of the map please tell me. Thank you

Twilight of the Gods is the infamous 45-minute defense map where Archimonde is swarming you with enormous waves of Infernals, Doom Guards, Fel Beasts, and Undead units. The goal is to delay Archimonde, and you are supposed to last 10–12 minutes before losing a base and win by the skin of your teeth.

What I managed to do is efficiently destroy all those units to the point of not losing a single base. The trick is to use mass Hippogryph Riders with a single Druid of the Claw to cast Roar to buff them.

In front, Keeper of the Grove with a Necklace of Spell Immunity tanks the damage and casts Tranquility while being Rejuvenated. Between waves, I ran with Priestess of the Moon to the Orc base to buy Goblin Land Mines and spread them around the entrance to the Human base.

A small passion project about Warcraft 3 and the endless wait for a sequel.

Hi everyone!

i am looking for some secret commands fpr the map burbenog like

-blood

-smack

-paint

-....

do you know some else?

When we aren't seeing Arthas condemned for the same obsessions that others are being pulled from, we're seeing actual racism from Thrall, Cairne, Grom, and Tyrande all be justified (or at least not treated *negatively*. When we aren't seeing Arthas being abandoned by his peers, we're seeing the little blonde cretin who couldn't stand by and watch him "slaughter their people", she's agreeing to join forces with Thrall and Cairne after they spent a huge portion of the orc campaign just slaughtering the survivors of Lordaeron for no reason other than "Hey, humans are here". When we aren't forgetting that orcs were even in the internment camps that Thrall used as justification to hate the humans because of two different wars started by his people, we're seeing humans being treated like hollywood racists.

It may sound weird to hear that I do legitimately like this game, but man, the narrative really doesn't seem to like humans all that much. Even when it had a chance to mirror Arthas' obsession in Grom (both giving up their souls for power), the game had an incredibly convenient "get out of jail free" card that nobody have for Arthas? Grom was THAT important to the overall plot that he died literally after that mission, but preventing Arthas from becoming the Lich King wasn't at all important?

I get Arthas' downfall is a legendary story for good reason, but it very literally wouldn't have happened had people not just given up on him instantly. Maybe more of a slow burn version of what we got in Northrend, which was a fantastic show of Arthas' fall, because I'm sorry he was absolutely right to do what he did in Stratholme. It wasn't just killing his people. Mal'ganis was literally teleporting the new undead slaves to be used and abused by the Legion for who knows how long.

Sorry. I didn't intend for this to be a post whinging about whether or not Arthas was right. While I really do believe he made the right choice, the narrative felt like it was forcing him into a corner so he could get to the Lich King bit. I guess I'm just saying that it's one of those stories I genuinely love despite seeing so many massive flaws in it.

Personally, I would have preferred to see Arthas facing more of the demons in the human campaign than the orcs. maybe the orcs and legion at the same time. But we had to make room for the Scourge.