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One year on from Warcraft 3's rocky launch, a third-party addon is delivering on the promise of Blizzard's problematic remaster

自从魔兽争霸3重置版的充满争议的发售到今天已经一年多了，一个第三方插件却给玩家带来了暴雪所承诺却没做到的重置版

Warcraft 3: Reforged's players have been in limbo since its release back in January 2020. Promises of multiplayer fixes and features have gone largely unfulfilled in that time, with developer updates halting in August 2020 and the original Reforged team being dismantled around the same time. It seems unlikely that Warcraft 3's multiplayer community will ever get the game they hoped Reforged would be.

自从2020年一月魔兽重置版发售以后，它的玩家就一直处在困境之中。之前所承诺的在线对战的功能当时基本没有实现，开发者的更新日志在8月份就停更了，甚至本来开发重置版的队伍也在差不多同一时间被解散。似乎，魔兽争霸3的玩家们永远也不会得到他们之前希望的魔兽争霸3重置版了。

Devoted players of the classic RTS weren't fond of the revival, which fell short of the version promised at BlizzCon in November 2018. The massively improved cinematic cutscenes were quietly done away with on the lead up to launch, leading to widespread backlash. But Reforged also retroactively removed features from the original game when Blizzard merged the two clients. This included player profiles, match history, ranked ladders for all five multiplayer modes, automated tournaments, clan support, and offline play.

热爱这个经典RTS游戏的玩家们对这个重置版非常不满意，对比于在2018年11月暴雪嘉年华上暴雪所承诺的版本，这个差别实在太大。之前所承诺的效果大为提升的过场动画，在发布之前就被悄悄的取消了，引起了玩家的普遍不满。而且由于暴雪合并了新旧两个版本的游戏，导致了老版本游戏中的功能被删除了。比如像玩家资料，对战历史，5种不同线上对战模式的天梯，自动联赛系统，战队系统，离线游戏模式，都被删除了。

But a group of passionate fans is taking it upon themselves to revitalize the RTS game's competitive scene by building their own ranked ladder that's hosting thousands of matches every day.

但一群热衷于这个游戏的粉丝们不愿意放弃，建立了他们自己的一个每天都有几千场游戏对战的天梯系统，重振了这个RTS游戏的职业对战环境。

“A few weeks before Reforged launched there was a PTR build, and that's when it became very clear to long-term Warcraft 3 players that many of the staple multiplayer features were not going to be shipped on launch,” CepheidUK, a member of the W3Champions (W3C) team, tells us.

“在重置版正式发布的几周前，曾经有一个PTR版本，就在那时，我们这些魔兽争霸3老粉丝就已经很清楚，之前很多经典的多人在线对战的功能，在发布的时候是不会有了。”

CepheidUK，W3Champions（W3C）开发组的一个成员，告诉我们。

In March 16, 2020, a developer known as Pad released the first iteration of W3C with a ranked 1v1 mode. “Pad has created a few things for Warcraft 3, which he refers to as the Warcraft 3 ABC,” CepheidUK explains. This includes W3Booster, the Reforged profile viewer, and W3Arena, which “was an emulated server that was very popular with the EU community in the early 2010s.”

在2020年3月15号，一个被大家成为Pad的程序员发布了W3C的第一个版本，里面包括了一个1v1的天梯系统。“Pad之前为魔兽争霸3开发过一些东西，他管那些东西叫做‘魔兽争霸3ABC'”，CepheidUK解释道。其中包括了W3Booster，重置版的玩家资料页面，和W3Arena，一个战网的私服，在2010年代前期的欧洲社区里面非常流行。

THESE VOLUNTEERS TREAT THEIR SERVER LIKE BLIZZARD SHOULD'VE TREATED THE COMMUNITY.

这些志愿者们对待这个服务器的态度，就像暴雪应该如何对待这个社区的玩家一样

When W3C first appeared it was as an update for W3Arena, but the foundations were more modern. Instead of entirely emulating the old server, Pad found a way to implement HTML elements directly into the Warcraft 3 Reforged UI. “It's effectively built with the same tech as Chromium. From there he could create matches using Blizzard's interface, and as a result was able to build a platform for matchmaking,” CepheidUK says.

W3C一开始的时候其实是W3Arena的一个更新版本，但是背后开发的代码更加现代化。与之前完全模拟老服务器不同的是，Pad找到了一个直接把HTML元素写入魔兽争霸3重置版界面的办法。“基本上就是用谷歌Chromium，所以他就可以用暴雪的界面建立游戏，使得他最后可以建成一个对战的平台，”CepheidUK 说。