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MAJOR UPDATE

Despite Blizzard's patch notes not mentioning it, we have unexpected confirmation that the 8mb multiplayer limit for maps has been removed on Battle.net! Various Hive Workshop users have tested out maps over 8mb, including a specialized version Gaias Retalliation ORPG which is around 50mb. Map maker Zwiebelchen succeeded to host and play that map online in Battle.net. Other map makers and testers reported the same.

What does this mean? This means one of the biggest limits of WC3 modding has been taken off. There is so much more map makers and other types of modders can do now! This makes room for more creativity and higher quality content, along with more things to experience and improve in custom games online.

There are also some World Editor changes reported by some users, and you can discuss some of the specifics in this thread or throughout the forum.

UPDATE1: 131 MB seems to be the new limit!

The older, announcement news for this patch is below.

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https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/20752496109
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Battle.net players could be experiencing some downtime today.

[USER=1]@Ralle[/USER] and I are betting it's just a compatibility patch that continues off of 1.27a. This should not be the 'big patch' we are expecting with our talks with Blizzard. However, with any patch, we'll keep everyone updated with details on this thread if anything notable happens!

UPDATE1: Patch notes. So far, unspecified bug fixes and maintenance.
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/20752625996

UPDATE2: There are reports that the Northrend (Europe) realm is down or bugged at the moment. Azeroth (US East) seems to work, though.
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/20752465862?page=1

UPDATE3: The Battle.net realms appear to be working now. Reported quick fix: Patch on a different server than Northrend, then Northrend should be able to work.

UPDATE4: Northrend is undergoing official maintenance / downtime.

UPDATE5: Maintenance appears to be over.

null wrote:Hey, seen you on BNet forum, hive and now here. Thanks for the information, I helped by spreading around the news, hopefully you didn't mind.

StoPCampinGn00b wrote:Oh, absolutely. Thanks for sharing it.

It's really strange for Blizzard to not mention this in the patch notes, so I figured this would be the best way to get the word out.

null wrote:

StoPCampinGn00b wrote:Oh, absolutely. Thanks for sharing it.

It's really strange for Blizzard to not mention this in the patch notes, so I figured this would be the best way to get the word out.

It is indeed strange, I have been waiting months for the 8MB limit to be removed (never knew it would be, but had expectations of it), and I don't think I'm alone. However, I'm glad its gone now at least.

KoKa-KoJla wrote:Any Link to download warcraft with new patch? Because I am a pirate xd

bill7907 wrote:It's good that they have increased it.

I just wish IceFrog was still working on the WarCraft 3 Dota map ; it would have had a drastic impact on the map development.

Pretty useless for us at this point.

null wrote:

KoKa-KoJla wrote:Any Link to download warcraft with new patch? Because I am a pirate xd

https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/200684