If a game’s short URL (slug) is changed, does the old URL redirect to it, or are all of the game’s old links broken?

I don’t think this is possible, but I thought I’d ask to make sure.

Is it possible for admins (or anyone) to merge games, so all runs from one become associated with another instead, or to otherwise move runs from one game to another? It’s okay if the runs are orphaned and need to be manually cleaned up after.

Thanks

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/blizzard/t/warcraft-ii-remastered-patch-notes-101/52999

• Balance Changes:
  • Paladin:
    • Heal mana cost per HP healed: 6 → 5
    • Heal research time: 200 → 100 steps
    • Exorcism research time: 200 → 150 steps
  • Death Knight:
    • Death and Decay:
      • Mana cost per set of ‘rots’ created: 25 → 30
    • Raise the Dead:
      • Skeleton HP: 40 → 60
  • Mage:
    • Blizzard:
      • Range: 12 → 10
  • Ogre Mage
    • Bloodlust:
      • Duration: 1000 → 750
      • Mana cost per unit enchanted: 50 → 60
      • Double damage is now applied after armor reduction instead of before.
  • Dragon / Gryphon
    • Gold cost: 2500 → 2250
  • Archer / Axethrower:
    • Base piercing damage: 6 → 7
    • Upgrade Axes/ Arrows 1:
      • Damage increased: 1 → 2
      • Gold cost: 300 → 200
      • Lumber cost: 300 → 200
      • Research time: 200 → 150 steps
    • Upgrade Axes/ Arrows 2:
      • Damage Increased: 1 → 2
      • Gold cost: 900 → 600
      • Lumber cost: 500 → 300
      • Research time: 250 → 200 steps
    • Longbow / Lightaxe Upgrades:
      • Base piercing damage: 6 → 7
      • Gold cost: 2000 → 1000
      • Lumber cost: 0 → 300
      • Research time: 250 → 200 steps
    • Scouting Upgrades:
      • Gold cost: 1500 → 500
      • Lumber cost: 0 → 200
      • Research time: 250 → 150 steps
    • Ranger Marksmanship Upgrades:
      • Gold cost: 2500 → 1000
      • Research time: 250 → 200 steps
    • Berserker Regeneration Upgrades:
      • Gold cost: 3000 → 1000

We have added some categories for Alpha and Beta versions of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness. Each of them includes three Orc and three Human campaign levels, which are different than the levels included in the release versions.

The alpha version (a.k.a. "v1.2alpha", "magazine alpha") can be found at https://www.moddb.com/games/warcraft-ii/downloads/warcraft-ii-alpha-demo. It uses a very incomplete version of the game engine (with controls that are closer to WarCraft 1) with different mechanics including a 4th resource (ore, from mining rocks) and scanning to find oil reserves. It checks victory conditions much more often than the release version.

The beta version (a.k.a. "v1.20elc", "demo", "shareware") can be found at https://dosgames.com/game/warcraft-2-tides-of-darkness. It appears to be very similar to the release version.

There's another beta version ("v1.08sh") that can be found at https://www.moddb.com/games/warcraft-ii/downloads/warcraft-ii-demo, but we're not sure yet whether it's the same as the other beta or requires a separate category.

These may not run on modern computers directly. I've been able to run Alpha v1.2alpha in DOSBOX (an emulator), but I wasn't able to get Beta v1.08sh to work. DOSBOX allows you to adjust the CPU speed. Runs for the Alpha will be timed in milliseconds for now, due to the accelerated victory checking, until we figure out what resolution is required. (Maybe hundredths of a second?) I added a brief note about this to the rules, but we'll probably need to adjust these rules further once we have a better grasp on the differences.

We've added subcategories for every category (Full Game and Individual Levels) to create new leaderboards for WarCraft II: Remastered. The timing rules might change for Remastered, because the game checks victory conditions more often than classic (at least once per .66 seconds, possibly faster), but we haven't figured out what we want yet.

If you have opinions about how Remastered should be handled, you can either post here or join us in Discord where we're discussing the changes.

Assault/2CP map "Paris" was added in February.

https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/news/22904915 https://overwatch.fandom.com/wiki/Paris https://overwatch.gamepedia.com/Paris

Please try to use an emulator that is close to the performance the game would have had on some contemporary real hardware. Mini vMac running at 1x seems pretty close.("Mini vMac estimates execution time using a table of average number of cycles for each of the 65536 primary opcodes.")

Timing is RTA from the frame when you click to confirm character creation to the frame where the victory condition appears.

Wikipedia claims that both versions of The Dungeon of Doom are identical in terms of gameplay, so I've lumped them into a single version. If there are actually relevant timing differences, they could be split apart.

Save scumming is the name of the game, unless someone dares to try establishing a deathless no-saves run category.

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/The_Dungeon_Revealed/Walkthrough

https://web.archive.org/web/20150408141707/http://www.sidhia.com/shrine.html

Mini vMac Emulator: https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/dnld_std.html

Classic Mac ROM: https://sites.google.com/site/minivmacapplicationsv6/disk-images-and-roms

Classic Mac OS: https://sites.google.com/site/minivmacapplicationsv6/systems-os

Mini vMac Disk Image with Dungeon of Doom: https://sites.google.com/site/minivmacapplicationsv6/games

The Dungeon of Doom: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/5469-the-dungeon-of-doom http://macintoshgarden.org/games/the-dungeon-of-doom

The Dungeon Revealed: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/5062-the-dungeon-revealed http://macintoshgarden.org/games/the-dungeon-revealed

A new escort map named "Rialto" has just been released.

Can it be added to the Level Leaderboard?

The time for the run https://www.speedrun.com/Overwatch/run/y6796x0m appears to have been typoed. The in-game time visible in the video, and included in its YouTube title, is 5:21. As a sanity-check, I measured its real time: 5:57.825.

However, the time listed here entered here was 3:21 (better than the theoretical best time).

EDIT: That's supposed to be "mis-timed", not "mix-timed".

Collecting links to potential existing speedrun videos that we could include:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvt9KhYEcgQteRAGcsluxUw/videos

I think Tides of Darkness could be a good game to speedrun, but there aren't many times up here now. It would be more fun with some targets and competition. To help get things rolling, I'd like to offer prizes to the best new verified IL (individual level) records posted for each level before the end of March. :-)

Prize scale:

• 5 USD each for the top new times in Orc 1-10 and Human 1-10.
• 10 USD each for the top new times in Orc 11-13 and Human 11-13.
• 20 USD each for the top new times in Orc 14 and Human 14.

So if you managed to set new record times for every level, and nobody could beat any of them before the end of March, you would be eligible for all 200 USD.

These must be new runs, recorded and posted after this thread and before the end of March 2018 (UTC), and they must be the top in their category (per the rules below).

There are currently no rules defined for the IL categories. However, for the purpose of these prizes I will apply the following rules:

• Fog of War must be enabled.
• Time is measured from the last frame before the level appears, to the first frame after the victory message appears.
• You're not allowed to save and reload in the middle of a level.
• The War2Combat client is allowed.
• If I get a record instead of you, nobody gets that prize. (But if we tie, it goes to you.)
• If nobody beats a previous record, nobody gets that prize.

Prizes will be delivered by PayPal.

Tips:

• Don't forget to set the game speed to fastest.
• You can enter the cheat/chat/debug code "tigerlily" to enable level jumping, and then just enter "orc 1", "human 12", etc., to jump to a level at any time. (I don't consider this is a cheat because it's just used to go to the level, and doesn't affect gameplay at all.)

Pardon if there's a different way I'm supposed to report these.

The run https://www.speedrun.com/Overwatch/run/y8qo1dny by @TheZombieMan16 is in the "PC" category, even though it's marked as being played on a PS4. It looks like a mis-click.

I noticed that there's an option to disable fog of war. I assume that you're not allowed to do that, but we don't seem to have any rules. Can we all agree to at least add one to prohibit that?

Another question is whether we want to allow save/resume mid-run for IL. I'd be inclined against it, but I know some RTS speedrunning communities allow it.

Potential rules:

• Fog of War must not be disabled.
• You must not save/reload during an IL run. (TO DO: What do we want to say for full-game runs?)
• We suggest you set the game speed to fastest, but it's not required.
• Runs are measured in real time from the first frame after the (first) level has loaded, to the first frame after the (last) victory message has appeared.

Any thoughts?