Odd

I was taking a look at old spells and found out that some of them have stopped working. As if the trigger was not there any more. Some time later I found out about Ice Nova not working either, but this one stops in the middle of the casting.

The maps I tested are unmodified released demo maps (that were tested intensively prior to release). All what I can account for would be:
- WINE (which would be very strange)
- The new patch.

So, I need people to verify if this spell works. Don't bother criticizing the code, it is a very old spell and it got its expected amount of wrong code. But it is very odd and if it is not WINE-related then this means some change in the patch does affect us.

Testing on 1.21b and I came up with the following.

-Didn't do any damage / slow anyone.
-Revanent wouldn't stop the channeling animation.

The correct result would be an actual nova of ice, did you see it? (I didn't)

I'll be certain to test this when I get home tomorrow morning.

I saw only the nova on the caster, didn't do any damage. He channeled it, I saw the weather and a nova on the caster. That's it. I could break the channel by moving the unit though.

Could it be something from CSCache?

What version are you using?

The nova, is a ring of ice and it is rather big.

I wouldn't call the nova big though :P



That's what it did for me when I tested on 1.21b, I'm on Windows XP. It didn't do any damage, I'm sorry but I forgot to hold down alt when I took the screenshot, but I can assure you the units weren't damaged at all.

It only created a frost nova effect beneath the revenant.

P.S. ~ The cheat I used was thedudeabides the cooldown was just long and I was too lazy to check if the Test Assistant had a Reset Cooldowns ability :P

Same ^

The nova was about a 256 area total.

What do you mean by that actually? It only created 1 single nova for me, beneath the revenant.

Ya, it was one nova, but the size was about a 256 size area in WC3

It was a regular sized nova for me though.. Unless, the regular nova's size is 256, but I believe it's around 128 units.

Please don't tell me no one has the older patch...


old screenshot of how it was supposed to be.

Yeah, doesn't look anything like that lol

It doesn't give that effect in 1.21b. I have 1.20c's patch in english, but someone would have to reinstall to test it. Link to a download of it for someone to use.

I have two different wc3 folders, one has 1.20e and the other which I use is 1.21b :P

I shall try this in 1.20e

EDIT: Tested and it doesn't work, it's just the same as what happened with 1.21b