Warcraft III Easter Eggs: More Secrets in the Frozen Throne
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2024
- Abelhawk finishes his long, fulfilling journey as he finds the last stragglers of secrets he missed in the Frozen Throne campaigns. There may yet be a few out there somewhere for you to find yourself, but hopefully this series enlightened you to just how much work was put into this amazing game.
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0:00 - Warcraft III Easter Eggs: More Secrets in the Frozen Throne
0:05 - Terror of the Tides
0:44 - Curse of the Blood Elves
6:55 - Legacy of the Damned
10:12 - The Founding of Durotar
11:22 - Miscellaneous Secrets
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"This may not seem like much"
*proceeds to give Illidan Shadow Orb +10*
The campaign also saves Maev's items and stats from the Night Elf campaign, meaning that you can actually choose to nerf her to the ground during the tug of war mission by handing away all her items (and if they're given to Malfurion, cheekily give them to Illidan lol), and deliberately not obtaining stat tomes.
Hey Abelhawk, I know I've arrived late to the party but me and my brother found this pretty cool secret in ch3 from the blood elves (dungeons of dalaran): After the first fight between garithos' forces and the undead, go to the left, you will encounter a prison with 3 spiders/spiderlings. If you destroy the door, you'll see that the spiders won't attack you, they will actually run away to the nearest armor rack. If you let them reach it, they will become 3 spellbreakers for your army. It's kind of interesting to think how they were polymorphed in the first place since they are always immune to magic.
Love your videos man, cheers.
Maybe they were spiders who actually polimorphed themselves to become Spell Breakers?
@@NiCoNiCoNiCola That's a big brain move right there.
Xander Major What in the good Lord’s unholy cinnamon toast fuck?
I come mucg latet
Yes I remember that...most likely their armour gives them spell immunity and when it was removed they're just ordinary elves that can be polymorphed
Jacobs Reject is a Starcraft reference. There is a mission in the first Terran campaign called Jacobs Installation, taking place in the eponymous science complex, where Zerg were being studied by the Confederacy.
It parallels the Dalaran Reject, which relates to Kirin Tor's experiments.
Interesting... there definitely might be some connection there.
Or rather, that both are references to Trevor Jacobs.
Could possibly also be a reference to the psychological horror movie " _Jacob's Ladder_ " , seeing as both Jacob's Installation is full of alien creatures as is the Jacob's Reject a strange inhuman monstrosities.
sounds like a coincidence
@@Zeithri Jacob's Ladder itself is a Biblical reference.
The first quest in A Blaze of Glory mission, which requires you to sink Admiral Proudmoore's battleships, is called Seas of Blood, which is a Warcraft II reference. Seas of Blood is the name of Act 1 of the Horde campaign, its missions set around the invasion into Lordaeron from the Great Sea.
In the thralls vision cinematic, as they charge down hill if you look to the left between the rocks you see a figure moving like a hydralisk - it isn't smooth like a runner or a horse. It's almost static and snake-like. I'd say that is the Hydra in the cinematic
Yeah, definitely Hydralisk.
For anyone still trying to find the Hydralisk in the cinematic
When the Horde Warriors begin to charge down the hill, look at the right side at the catapult. A bit left of it you will soon see a strange walking snake-thingy. Congratulations, you found the Hydralisk
We need warcraft 4
Yeah i want warcraft 4
They could make it with all the assets they have from Hots. Every time I play HOTS I salivate at the thought of a Warcraft 3 remake with HOTS assets
or just another expansion
No, we need another warcraft 3, like something called warcraft 3 illidan's revenge.
:d only if wc3 custom maps would be playable in that another wc3 otherwise dota 1 and other fun maps will die
Abelhawk mate i think i've found the hydralisk in Thrall's vision. ua-cam.com/video/dfkiJXnSRM8/v-deo.html it's between 4:00-4:03(ofcourse play at 0.25 speed) on the right side when Thrall stops, i can see thin arms of hydralisk and how it's moves it's definetely a hydralisk. I dunno about the rest because i dont know for what to look in there(marines, protoss?). Tell me if you can see it now, and if you will add picture of it in next addendum :)
I saw it too, thank you. :D It goes really fast
This was so well done, the entire series was beautiful and quite hilarious! :D I now find even greater the greatest game I've ever played!! Thank you so much!
You're welcome! That was my goal, so I'm glad you appreciate it even more than before!
A real shame the series had to end :/
The series did because RTS was outdated, but the warcraft game and its fascinating lore lived on till today.
RTS outdated in 2003? Ya sure about that?
@Dr Boom wait... for real ? I thought about this, and now it actually seems very likely to happen !
@@centurion2812 Yes but you will have to pay for the new campaigns.. xD
@@chemzdaddy7379 most likely, we'll see
Where Wyverns Dare is also a play off of Iron Maiden's "Where Eagles Dare"
Which is also the name of a movie
The Zerg Hydralisk can be seen in thrall's vision coming over the hill at 11:33 just to the left of the rightmost standing stone. It then passes behind the stone and pops out to the right of it for a split second before other units overtake it. Too hard to see it in the low res version of the video but if you search up the HD version of this cinematic you can see it relatively clearly.
I broke down laughing @ the 5:49 UOD part
Holy shit.
Me too. :D
Something I haven't seen mentioned throughout the videos was the purpose of the founding of Durotar campaign. I had heard this was meant to be a little teaser for what World of Warcraft would be like, an RPG style game where the main focus was the solitary hero unit and how it tied in with major cities like Orgrimar. It was meant to encourage players to explore the "instances" of the map, or caves and portals in the WC3 map, and reward the player by giving them insane loot that would never be found in the campaign. Sure there were units given to the player because otherwise the campaign would be a little too hard, but still gave a feeling of a very primitive WoW and acted as a great teaser for what was to come.
Perhaps this pseudo-advertisement was how Tim Cambell was able to convince Blizzard to include the Orc campaign?
According to David Fried, it was mainly done in an RPG style because they wanted a more Diablo-like experience. It's definitely got aspects of WoW, but because it was isometric, top-down, etc., it was more of a call back than a call forward.
1:28 applies to the last mission as well - A symphony of frost and flame. If you're acolytes die without having a Necropolis a new one will spawn on the bottom left of the map.
Nice! That's good to know!
HOW EDIT CAMPAIN MISSION?
i think you can download them at the hiveworkshop and than you can open them in the world editor
You can use WinMPQ or MPQMaster and open the Warcraft III MPQ files, then extract the campaign maps. For the bonuc campaign in The Frozen Throne I think you needed a namelist or something, I forgout. You could also find them online I believe.
I just used an MPQ extractor to get the map files out of War3.mpq, War3x.mpq, and War3patch.mpq, and then opened them on the World Editor. And thus this series was born!
Day off from work + an unexpected Abelhawk upload, the gods are smiling upon me!
At 8:49 that looks a lot like a zerg hive and the eye just like the one of a cerebrate. What if without knowing it, the plague prevented the swarm from destroying Azeroth?
CVS is most likely the version control system used back then (CVS is an acronym for Concurrent Version System)
I agree. Considering the time WC3 was made, CVS was popular as a version control system. Other software developers will agree.
Linus Torvalds showed some really big hate for CVS :D luckily, today we have git.
Yep, agree with the above - developers writing notes about CVS almost definitely means Concurrent Versions system (a SCM / source code versioning system which was disliked by lots of developers back in the day )
Regarding Trevor Jabos - one WarCraft II orc cinematic had a floating barrel with the name "Jacobs brew" clearly visible on it. It's the clip with sinking ships and giant turtles seen after you raze Stromgarde.
And then StarCraft had the Jacobs Installation mission ;)
Thanks for taking time to find all these easter eggs! This series has been amazing from start to finish and I hope you can find something else so your channel can continue!
You missed one i think. The cave where drek thar sends you to kill thunder lizards, if you go there at a later time, even though you are not given any quests related to that( it starts blinking on the map right after you get Nazgrel alongside other areas related to your quests), you will find some really great items.
He did show the lumber mill u encounter plus there is an indication with thralls dialog saying that if rexxar was looking for drek thar he should go to thunder ridge.
Watched all of the easter eggs videos you made! Thank's a lot for making those, a true pleasure to watch !
Thank you for doing these. Warcraft III was my childhood. I spend so much time playing and mapping... This was an amazing throwback!
Watching all of these was a joy beyond reckoning. Please continue putting off various Blizzard pickings, and feel free to talk more about lore and story!
And along the way, mind if I ask you several questions?
Thank you for this series, amazing work.
also, something that I read on the WoWpedia website about the cinematic "Thrall's Vision": you can clearly see that Thrall isn't carrying the Doomhammer but rather an axe.. under the website's trivia section, it says that the axe might be the "Axe of Durotan", an item of importance in the cancelled RPG "Warcraft Adventures"
Marathoned trough all easter egg videos :D very nice!!
WC3 is also my #1 game and will always be. hopefully RTS never dies !
Thank you for making this awesome series!
Love the little maps you made. Something so coochy about them, such love for the series :'>
Really good job. I loved all of those videos. Thank you for doing it.
Brilliant job, thank you so much for this!
Thank you very much for this series of videos, just finished watching them all in one go. Very interesting, and it highlighted some easter eggs and secrets I previously had no idea about. I also like the humour, references and the general style.
So glad you like it! I worked hard on it.
It shows!
Awesome work man realy loved these videos!
Legend said, the fans are still waiting for the Reforged version to look for that Zergling in the cinematics.
Well, Hydralisk. But yeah! I hope they keep it in.
10:31 damn, you didn't mention it exactly, but blows my mind that the first ep of the duratan campaign is a Dune reference (Iron Maiden's 'To Tame a Land' is literally a song about Frank Herbert's 'Dune')
So I found your other addendum 2 part video, now this...I think I'm about to go down a rabbit hole.
Some of these I knew, and I knew I'd missed some but WoW they put a lot in there.
Man … your videos trigger my Warcraft nostalgia so badly … Love em'
Glad youtube recommended your videos, love the work you did. I remember stumbling on some of them myself but didn't realize there are so many. Now I want to replay Warcraft 3 to see them all. I'm with you that we need proper Warcraft IV strategy.
Offtopic: your rant about colors reminded me how Rexxar having bow as signature weapon in Hearthstone really annoys me.
I don't think we took it for granted, I've always wanted them to remake it or make a new one. Just preordered the remaster today.
Thanks a lot for a wonderful series. Binge watched everything and it felt like reliving my childhood.
You're welcome! Bringing back memories and appreciation for the game was my goal. Check out my video on game models as well if you haven't yet!
I just did. They are all great. Thanks a lot for all the effort you put into making these videos and for bringing back some Warcraft 3 nostalgia :D
I see you mentioned 2 missions one named after the book and another after the song, but at least half of the mission names have their origins in pop culture ( Riders on the storm- the doors song, where wyverins dare- where eagles dare (1968 movie), brothers in blood - brothers in arms (dire straits song) these are just the ones i remembered, but there is a lot more similar cases. GJ dude this series was blast to watch!
Maybe the markings of Frostmourne represents the game creator's initials. Also, speaking about the Jaina and arthas lines in the Blood Elf campaign map, maybe they used the Roc campaign map for this level, and they just changds the tileset of it. Maybe they even had plans with Kargon Irony.
Also, if you look at the map file of A Symphony of frost and flame, you can see a funny disabled trigger called Crap we don't need. It used to be a special respawn for Illidan and his Naga, for hard mode. But they must have found it too much. If you look at the terrain of this map, you can clearly see that it is a bit unfinished, especially the south-east part. There shoould have been more creeps with special items, and things like that. But we will never found out the thruth. You should contact some game creators, and if they told you any secrets, you should include it in your video. :D Good luck.
6:05 when you and your friends are drunk as fuck
Great as usual, editing is just top notch. Will watch again. Watched it whole, you're the best.
-IGN (10/10)
didnt think i could love WC3 more after binging these secret videos. well played my dude
It's more an exploit than easter egg but you forgot Malfurion passing Illidan Gul'dan's shadow orb and claws of attack +12 across the southern cliffs in Night Elf 8 - Brothers in Blood, near the end of the mission. The items get carried through to the human campaign and make Illidan even stronger.
He did
Thanks that was awesome!
6:51 lmfao
pretty cool, thanks man!
In reign of chaos when illidan transforms into his metamorph he has a level ability of mass teleport that you can't get... (The level with the skull of guldan) (I'm aware I miss spelled it)
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thank you :D
At 0:35, i discovered this exploit during many playthroughs of the game on my own. It was so awesome finding that out without the internet. 😍
All the easter eggs videos were a ton of fun, so thanks for the hard work.
I was wondering if you've made a custom campaing in all your years playing wc3?
Not an actual campaign, but I've made tons and tons of crazy maps over the years. I'll probably showcase some of the more notable ones for you guys on this channel soon. :)
Cvs sucks prolly indeed was the versioning system being criticized. I think this commeng could be used to artificially 'bump' a version.
I mean he's not wrong. CVS *does* suck. But yeah it was probably something like that. Have to update a file somehow to make it recognize a change or something like that.
5:07 I really don't think they could forget a hole mission what I think happened is that the skull gives him power but didn't change him into his demonic form the demonic form must have come from killing a demon just like we see in wow
Those Frostmours/Lich King models appeared because in those chapters, the Lich King was communicating with Arthas during the cutscenes
Yep! Pretty cool how they kept them hidden.
Kaels comment "is that it? Is that all the powers you can muster?" Is a regrence to Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. During the siege of Helms Deep Theoden sais the same thing about Saruman ;)
Illidan says much the same thing during your fight with him on the rooftop of Black Temple during the BC expansion, only he says "fury" instead XD
2:56 CVS likely refers to Computer vision syndrome, a condition that happens because of long uninterrupted periods of time staring at computer monitors. Considering the fact that these levels likely took days or months, the working conditions of game companies, which sometimes requires employees to slave away at computers without stopping and the fact that CVS causes headaches, blurred vision, neck pain, fatigue, eye strain, dry eyes, irritated eyes, double vision, vertigo/dizziness, polyopia, and difficulty refocusing the eyes, this comment is pretty much talking about this. And yes it sucks very much.
These videos are so comfy, Abelhawk! Since you mentioned you play DND - it be neat if you could look at the Warcraft Tabletop RPG booklets and review them! Otherwise I love your content!
That’s a great idea! Maybe I will. Thanks for enjoying my videos!
11:30 You can actually see it somewhat clearly in the higher-quality Reforged version of the cinematic. Look somewhere around the rock on the right. You should be able to notice _something_ moving like a Hydralisk.
You know, those two disabled triggers in Misconceptions might be handy.
Hello again. As for material for videos around Warcraft - Well all that's left now are Game files/ World editor trivia and secret stuff(&resources). As i said in commend under one of previous vids. Tough i dont know if you want to make another one(looking at comment section people really want to see another one). So stuff like names of non existing sound sets, hidden models(and comparison between ones hidden in RoC and TFT, mostly which are in which game). And other stuff like hidden effects, sounds etc.
Yep, I'm planning on at least two more bonus ones, but the campaign videos are done for good.
Hydralisk at 11:33, he moves between the two rock pillars on the left.
true, nice spoting
He is there, indeed, just a bit blurry.
Intelligent orc might have been Broxigar the Red who traveled in time to the war of the ancients and record of that was kept by high Elves when they were exiled by the night Elves.
Crazy how much I have forgotten about the game. I don't mean the easter eggs, but seeing all the cinematics and bits about the storyline, I realized that I remember hardly 1/3 of all the WC3 stuff. Most of the things I've learned about the lore I've learned through WoW, but it seems most of the Vanilla/TBC/WotLK lore was already there in WC3. Insane... Maybe I have to install WC3 again on my computer and play it.
CVS is a code versioning and source control system widely used by developers.
Wonderful stuff!
8:05 - Yeah, so is the modding community (though by now we've filled that hole a dozen times over...).
I caught the A Song Of Ice And Fire reference the first time you mentioned the title and it reminded me that I realised a while ago, that Warcraft in general in specifically WoW have a TON of ASOIAF references. Basically whole storylines seem to be based on ASOIAF. I talked about this with a fried a while ago and the longer we looked the more we found. Others might have found some of these way earlier but since I have known and played Warcraft and WoW since I was a child but only picked up ASOIAF after discovering GoT I didnt notice the similarities for years. Just some things that I remember from the top of my head:
-The Lich King with his undead forces in the north is similar to the Night King/Night's King (even his theorised Stark-lineage based on a comment from old nan would fit in with Arthas being of Human nobility and then becoming the Lich King)
-The Argent Dawn is made up of all kinds of humanoid races defending the southern kingdoms against the undead just as the Night's Watch
-Parts of the last point might have influenced other parts of Azeroth: There actually is a faction called 'the Night's Watch' in WoW in Duskwood and the big Wall sorrounding an protecting Gilneas is also reminiscent of 'The Wall' in ASOIAF
-I only know the name Tyrion/Tirion from two sources: The dwarf in ASOIAF (who visits the Wall and the Night's Watch) and the Paladin of WoW (who is around the Argent Dawn and later even leads them, as far as I recall)
-The stories of Warcraft's Elves and ASOIAFs Children of the Forest are not too different although this is consistent with many Elf depictions (usually a very old or THE oldest humoanoid race, magical, one with nature etc.)
-The Guardian, Medivh, who happens to be a human with elven-like abilities like turning into a raven(!) reminds me of Bloodraven/the three-eyed raven/crow being a human who seemingly helps the humans although his motives are not totally clear.
So on and so forth. I know there was a lot more, some things a little to obvious to be coincidences.
CVS could stand for "Capcom vs SNK", a fighting game released in 2000. CVS is the used abbreviation for the game.
Wow, that is a level of research =)
Man :D This must have taken you ages to make 10/10
6:51 guys chill hes good
warcraft 3 reforged is here so maybe this series can continue with that if there are any new secrets hopefully there are
I don't know if this has been brought up or not since I haven't read the comments section, but Kael'thas' ULD was re-used for Illidan during the encounter you have with him in The Black Temple in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade:
KAEL'THAS (ULD): Is that all you've got, demons? Is that all the power you can muster?"
ILLIDAN (TBC: The Black Temple): Is this it, mortals? Is THIS all the fury you can muster?"
Great Video as always Abelhawk! Would you kindly share the link to David Frieds UA-cam channel again, the window isn't clickable for me for some reason. Cheers!
ua-cam.com/users/Marakanis
Here you go. It looks like I need to optimize these videos for UA-cam’s new approach to annotations. :\
i have the novel and its AWESOME!
Oh ! I could be wrong but during Thrall's vision orc charge, look on a HD video of the intro, at the darker sillouhette standing right on top of the hill, slightly on the left in the background. I though it was a banner attached to some kind of pole swinging slightly in the wind but lookine attentively it might be the top a hydralisk with the rther dinstinct shape of its crest, standing and moving it's head, yeah.
If I ever make my own campaign, I'll _definitely_ put Kargin Ironknee somewhere as an Easter Egg. :)
EDIT: I just realised "Ironknee" might be a pun on "irony"
So nostalgia 😊
In undead mission Into shadow web caverns, i found some interesting thing. Near the starting point, next to the the gate broken by Sapphiron there is a boulder that can be broken like many other, it leads to a smaller room where there is nothing but a one lever. This lever is similar to others in that mission, but it cannot be clicked on, it's basically grayed out.
I assumed it's connected to the gate itself, and it becomes grayed out, and unclickable after gate gets broken by dragon.
But it was a nice little find.
That lever is used for rising the first platform if you don't want to use the Meat Wagon to shoot the lever that's next to some explosive barrels across the room. You can hit either one of those levers; they do the same thing.
Hi Abelhawk, can you do an Easter Egg hunt with the alternate timeline campaign?
In one of the Undean TFT campaign, maybe on the last one, there is a funny disabled trigger called Crap we don't need :D
Yes I too saw it as captain Americas helmet and in the mission where u stop illidan from 'destroying the roof of the world' the paladin that u rescue has 1.
that wotlk beginning scene so nostalgia
At 10:05 that chapter I don't remember if you menthoned it or not, but if you destroy the Naga's castle you will get an item aswell. (I don't remember the name, but it looks like a yellow shell, in DotA its name was Mekansm)
Edit: One word xD
what about the water elemental you fight in the Maiev's runner escort mission hidden behind the waterfall near the south Naga base ?
I hope all these skipped dialogue and deleted optional quests make it back into the game when reforged is released. It would be a cool thing to do
thanks you
6:54 vashj chill xD
You forgot that in dreadlord's fall you can actually possess Gilidos's peasant and build your own army.
in the level in warcraft rain of chaos called the ravages of the plague once you destroy the murloc hut you can get a lighting orb according to the strategy guide
Orc of legend is probably Broxigar.
3:20 They might used a Human Campaing Roc map for that level and they accidentaly left them in. :)
Abelhawk I was wondering since you say you make maps and such, do you actually have any available for download because I just love playing custom maps.
I actually don't yet, but I will be showing some of the maps that I've made on this channel sometime, and if people want to actually download and play them I'll probably provide a link. I've finished very few levels, however. Mostly my folder's just full of experimental trigger maps and unfinished ideas. If you want to watch some of the cinematics I've made, you can go on my channel and search for the videos with "WC3 ~" in front of their name.
Cool I'm looking forward to them if you do give us the link or make more maps. Also great job with your easter egg videos I loved all the references you put in there like cinemasins and Avatar: TLA and all your jokes were spot on too, keep making great vids man.
God these are amazing.
cant wait for new warcraft 3 rework after watching all these easter eggs :D
I wacthed most of this last night and fell asleep around 4:00 am and i woke up at 9:00 still i feel normal (a bit sleepy but that is normal) quil
11:37 - 11:39 mid-right, there is a space creature. "zarg"?!
awesome... time to play tft campaing!
Thanks
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