From the peak of Warcraft 3 to the current decline, I want to know why there are many players who have not become a battle race, such as the Naga clan that has designed a lot of units and even has a relatively complete technology system. And carefully taste the battle story, we can find that including the human race, orcs, night elves and undead, including the four existing battle races, the battle story appears, the number of soldiers is large, the scientific and technological system is still relatively perfect race, in fact, no less than 10, due to the high frequency of occurrence and the attention of the Naga race is only one of them. This time, let's take a closer look at why no less than 10 races appear in the battle story, but in the end only 4 races appear in the battle mode.
Which races appear in the battle story
The four commonly used battle races of the Terran Alliance, the Orc Tribe, the Night Elves and the Undead, are already very familiar to everyone as the protagonists of the small chapters in the battle story. In addition to these 4 races, there are many special races in the battle story, including the Blackstone Orcs, Dragons, Evil Orcs, High Elves, Fallen Elves, Fishmen, Naga, Deryni (Dalanel), Centaurs, Ogres, Kurtillas, and so on. There are many reasons why they do not appear in the battle mode, but the main factor is the following points.
The intensity is too high to make it easy for opponents to play
Since the content of the campaign itself is to promote the development of the story, the actual ability of many units has been magnified to a certain extent, and the combat effectiveness of the additional race units that exist as special units naturally far exceeds the current battle against the 4 races. Leaving aside the Kurtiras priests and Naga royal guards who need to appear in the middle and late stages, or have no buildings to produce, the Deryni clan, which has many permanent stealth units, can make opponents unable to play. After all, no one has the financial strength to start buying powder and sprinkling in the game, buying eyes everywhere.
There are many similar units, and there are even many overlaps
From the names of the races mentioned above, it is not difficult for us to see that the blackstone orcs, the evil orcs, the high elves, the fallen elves, and the Kurtilas races are themselves the branches of the current battle races orcs, night elves, and human races, but because of the difference in living environment and other conditions, there are some differences between their race units and the battle races. This also makes many of their units use the same model as some of the units in the commonly used 4 families. In a campaign story with only one player, it is easy to distinguish between the colors, but if you put them in battle mode, because different players themselves need to use colors to distinguish, the difficulty of distinguishing between the same units of these models will be greatly increased.
Here, perhaps some players will think of redoing the model to distinguish. But in the case of Blizzard at its early stages and peaks, this is actually a very difficult answer to choose. After all, at that time, Blizzard had already adopted a split model, allowing players to make up a series of operations such as brain screens, so that players could play the game "Warcraft 3" with a lower configuration computer. If the model is remade to allow more races to join the battle, the game's requirements for computer configuration will inevitably increase, not to mention, and will greatly increase the game investment, which is obviously something that Blizzard was reluctant to do at that time. Later, in the case of Blizzard, it was even less likely to have the time, energy, and resources to do these things.
The skill similarity is high, and it is difficult to reflect the racial characteristics
In addition to the many similarities in the units themselves, the hero and unit skill configurations in these special races also have a high degree of similarity with the common 4 races. Moreover, skills such as the Aura of Splendor and the Aura of Durability, which usually appear on heroes, often appear on the high-level units of these races. This leads directly to making it easier to create tactical systems around which these skills work. If this does happen, the native characteristics of all the battle races will become difficult to play.
The balance of the version is difficult to control, and the difference between strength and weakness is greatly improved
Players who like competitive games should know that the issue of version balance has always been a matter of concern for players. In the so many years since the release of Warcraft 3, although it has not been said which version of the race is so powerful that it is truly incomprehensible, almost every version has the strength and weakness of the race. However, Blizzard's reasonable use of restraint between different races has balanced this well. However, we must know that this balance is based on the fact that there are only 4 races in the battle, and if the number of races is increased to 5, 6 or even more, the balance of versions will be more difficult to control, and the difference between the strengths and weaknesses between the races will be greatly improved.
In this way, if you want to make the game relatively fair, Blizzard must invest more time, energy and money to maintain the game. Unfortunately, as a near-out game, Warcraft 3 can bring not much revenue to Blizzard, and spending so many resources to balance is obviously more than enough, not to mention that in previous years, due to Blizzard's self-care, there have been cases of stopping game updates and making the unfinished "remake" available early.