Abelhawk's Warcraft III Easter Eggs: Complete Edition

[@Abelhawk]

Thanks so much to everyone who has helped make this channel what it is over the past 6 years! I never expected to be able to delve so deep into the franchise I've loved since a kid, meet and collaborate actual developers from the game, and all while making money doing something I love. This was a massive labor of love and I hope you enjoy it! If you'd like to contribute to the channel, feel free to become a Member or give me some Super Thanks!

[@silverrakhsh34]

Thank you too abelhawk. Your easter egg and secret videos are usefull and funny at the same time! WC3 is one of my favorite games of all time and thanks to you I can enjoy every bit of it to the fullest!👍🙏

[@mohammadparsahalvaei4296]

Thank you milord🗿🗿🗿

[@michaelandreipalon359]

You're welcome, good sire. Now, to wait for more cookbook recipes... say, you into The Witcher, Abe?

[@Abelhawk]

A cookbook video is in the works now! Nope, beyond listening to the soundtrack, I haven't been into the Witcher.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Darn. Was expecting you to anticipated that upcoming cookbook of theirs.

[@purachinachinchin]

11:20 "You commited tax evasion, youre past redemption" *hammer to the spine*

[@ripedroxx]

i cannot believe it was 6 years ago time sure flies

[@xetanth87]

About the Goblin Laboratory: In RoC they weren't invulnerable. That was added in TFT. When editing the unit to remove the Reveal, they made it override the standard abilities, which meant overriding the invulnerability. This also happens with Grom, Tyrande and the Keepers. In RoC Heroes had inventories by default, but in TFT they turned the inventory into an ability. Since those heroes had their abilities changed for those maps, the newly added Inventory ability was also overriden. This happened when Blizzard decided to replace the MPQ files system with the CASC one

[@ElvenSpellmaker]

I wonder if the Lab not being invulnerable is a throw back tk WC2 where Gold Mines were also attackable albeit with high health. Maybe they made the Gold Mines invulnerable and forgot to change the Lab too.

[@MegaStarfactor]

The bridge repairing blew my mind xD

[@deciduous_reaper]

24:22 the main reason why I love using Banshees in vs CPU since you can basically make a Hybrid race of all 4 race by possessing the workers

[@MalevolentSpirit234]

"Hybrid?! Here, on Azeroth?!"

[@thatdodo8263]

​@@MalevolentSpirit234 impossible! Hybrid on Azeroth!? It is they who command the Burning Legion

[@jenovazincorporated2958]

​@@thatdodo8263 Amons reach is immense

[@akiraigarashi2874]

Undead are so fun. You can also send pretty much endless hordes of skeletons to soften the enemy before going for the kill.

[@sirvalhart7464]

I used to love playing the mission that introduced banshees since I'd possess the high elf workers and play with a whole other faction it was so fun

[@vaniellys]

- You're not alone at being very nitpicky about faction colors. - Reforged replaced the blue trolls with green trolls in the second human mission. - Reforged also fixed Shandris being an archer in NE mission 1.

[@jonsku6662]

-Reforged also fixed the trigger of the earthquakes damaging buildings whenever an obelisk was claimed (just 500 dmg to all of the buildings of the opposite team)

[@StarbucksThaCat]

We don't talk about reforged here...*shudders*

[@justnoob8141]

@@StarbucksThaCat I will and I want someone to actually complete the image of it so that I could play it

[@LordThomasPassion]

​@@StarbucksThaCat why do people hate it? It's fine.

[@highlordlaughterofcanada8685]

@@LordThomasPassion Because of the bugs it introduced and the new EULA about custom maps. Several Iconic levels that were "reforged" play worse than the original, such as The Culling, and many people weren't happy with many of the new models. And you can't un-Reforge you version of the game once you do so you're stuck with a buggier, worse version of warcraft 3 basically

[@LightrifyClips]

This video had me in absolute awe. The thought that I was able to find most of the gameplay easter eggs when I was a kid somehow makes me proud. Although, it makes sense as I typically like to explore as much as I am able to in every game that I play. I guess old habits die hard. Thank you for unlocking some core and beautiful memories, Abelhawk! Appreciate it!

[@jinmacaro6421]

B...l

[@ozthebeeman]

15:16 can we take a second and appreciate this piece of voice acting from arthas damn this is as good today as it was 20 years ago

[@JohnnyCasey]

Right. And I have to mention this un-confirmed rumors spreading among the people which is about the original actor for Arthas - Justin Gross - refused to work his role in WoW because Blizzard paid him so little for his work. From my knowledge, the only 'source' that backs this up is literally a random guy on the internet claiming that he sent an email to the actor himself and gotten the answer from him, without any kinds of photographic reference to back it up further. So if you were to be a function human being, you'd be wise not to believe that nonsense, unless you can confirm that rumor either by Blizzard or the actor himself. I had to bring this up, because a lot of people conveniently seem to believe in this rumor, just to give themselves an excuse to bash on Blizzard on last time.

[@KingLich451]

@@JohnnyCasey i remember justin himself saying he wouldnt mind voicing arthas again, but then again we may never know for sure. he has his own channel on youtubes

[@JohnnyCasey]

@@KingLich451 Yeah, and that's a different bit where it was him talking about "Will he do the voice for Reforged". rather than "Why was he switched out for Arthas' voice in WoW"

[@Spellweaver5]

@@KingLich451 can't someone just ask him publicly?

[@KingLich451]

@@Spellweaver5 prehaps his channel is still active, go check it

[@eagleeagle5739]

I'm so glad KZbin recommended you to me 😊

[@jordanpritchard5226]

Glory to Ablehawk and the Horde! Hey man, just wanna say that I love your videos and I enjoyed your playthrough of Reforged as well, hope you didnt push yourself too hard making this. Anyways, I hope this year for you will be great.

[@silverrakhsh34]

Yes, I'm so hyped up for this. I have no idea how long it is gonna be but I'll guess 3 hours!

[@immagonko4261]

I rewatch your videos from time to time and 1 big video helps a lot. Also I love to watch them before sleeping, they are really relaxing.

[@chiribaya8553]

I got the notifcation while i was at work and thought about this during the rest of the day amazing work

[@The-Green-Menace]

Little did the WC3 devs know having Sylvanas become the corrupted hero would be the biggest mistake in the history of Warcraft

[@GuckDaBaws]

Dw, she'll now do maw daylies (until they need her again to be the „morally ambiguous anti hero/villain while we fight the firster ones and the incarcerator in the darkness lands)

[@KingLich451]

Sylvanas did everything wrong.

[@aleksandarvil5718]

_'Morally Gray'_ Horde in a Nutshell

[@exudeku]

@@aleksandarvil5718 Horde 2: warcrime bogaloo

[@whisped8145]

Only after that one bad, narcissistic writer got a hold of her, writing her into a Mary Sue, and putting a self insert of himself into the story who is subservient to her heel and bootlicks it. Before that, she was amazing. But then, bad writing choices ruined Kerrigan as much as Sylvanas. Similarly the lackluster at best Knaak novels about the Well of Eternity ruined the pre-story to Warcraft. I could not believe how shallow, uninspired, uncreative and hamfisted those were.

[@whisped8145]

You forget about Jim Henson's "The Dinos", and the science-TV-show skit where the scientist always uses a little kid called Timmy to do the experiments who... tends to explode, and then uses the running-gag line of "We need another Timmy!" Timmys being used to triggers in this game are easily relatable to that: "We need another trigger, so we need another Timmy!" The undead Timmy also fits as a South Park reference at the same time.

[@Abelhawk]

That's probably a coincidence, but a funny one for sure!

[@Shelooksgood]

MY favourite KZbin series of all time in one video. I keep returning to these. Thank you so much for your great work!

[@Thevol40k]

This was such an enjoyable series back in the day, thank you again.

[@mitchmitting102]

Goddamn Abel, I find you every few years with new videos, I watch them, and miss WC3 again. I played this game since I was LITERALLY 5 years old, and goddamn, now I want to find a download for the original WC3

[@general_pugwash6548]

“For the Horde!”

[@lukej2756]

The madlad he's finally done it!

[@bartukovich7898]

WHAT!? You could repair bridge, im shocked, after playing the game since it came out for countless thousands of hours im shocked at my stupidity of never even trying🤣 Awesome video by the way!

[@Aztonio]

23:54 Whoa... That even sounds more canon that the Sourge paying goblins for a bit of traveling. In fact they just made bridges out of corpses... WoW Quel'Danas still doesn't make any sense though.

[@GuraiMockery]

1:17:39 To be fair, WoW changed so much in the terms of story and lore that a person who only occasionally gets a glance at it and only knows the story from the RTS series can get quite confused.

[@The-jy3yq]

What is this dragon hero from Warcraft 2 doing here and why is he so damn powerful? Huh, Warcraft 2 Hero Death Knight? Clever, but wasn't he killed or something between the Second War and the times of Naxxramas? Wha? Illidan? You're _alive?_ Ooh, this one Paladin hero dude from Warcraft 2! Ooh, another Paladin hero dude from Warcraft 2! And he's got a waifu that comes from the same mission! And they're sci-fi! Umm, why are these -Pandas- Pandarens a thing if they were a running(or I guess strolling) joke among the devs? Demons don't die? Neat, Archimonde didn't get his *one of the most notable Decino's fans* to kill him! Wait, Draenei...are not these freakish but cool doodos? Akama...reversed? Except...wasn't he?... ... ...Why are Undead in the Horde again?

[@GuraiMockery]

@@The-jy3yq Pretty much.

[@A_Simple_Neurose]

@@The-jy3yq I feel like WoW could've been way more interesting if it had three big factions instead of only two. The undead remnant should've been their own thing.

[@daddyfuse50]

@@The-jy3yq "why are undead in the horde again?" Lmao, literally the reason I never played WoW on release, while being a true Warcraft simp. In retrospect I kind of regret it because I'm sure I would've enjoyed early WoW, but eh.

[@Spellweaver5]

@@A_Simple_Neurose why even have the faction split at all, when Warcraft 3 was trying so hard to make a point that we have to unite to win.

[@ShadoSpartan44]

really nice job man, and great job adding more, some might think you're just combining all the episodes into one, but you went the extra mile to add in more and add extra stuff to look at to go along with what you were saying. It was worth the effort man, keep up the good work and hope to see you make more videos from other video games

[@tttc]

1:12:30 You only pointed it out for this map, and it might be obvious, but I'd like to mention that there are a few maps in wc3 that are pretty much copies of earlier starcraft maps, such as March of the Scourge -> Desperate Alliance The Spirits of Ashenvale -> The Kel-Morian Combine A Dark Covenant -> Fury of the Swarm King Arthas -> Eye for an Eye Dreadlord's Fall -> True Colours, which you mentioned there's also a few maps that just seem quite similiar but I can't say why. Like Where Wyverns Dare always reminded me of Ruins of Tarsonis.

[@GlantClassic]

Come on, the best game ever made. How can you not love WC3? :-) Really enjoyed this, amazing work!

[@HL2015-dan]

I used to watch this video 5 years ago by parts to see all easter eggs in wc3. Such good memories.

[@Pyromaniac_Akeks]

Can't wait to get home and chill so I can watch the full vid 💖🙏

[@robertlupa8273]

47:41 Even though it's just your voice pitched up, it still manages to sound vaguely convincing. Nice job! 1:13:05 This one's good too, for a different reason :P

[@michaelandreipalon359]

I concur on both.

[@GuyOnTheRiverStyx]

If any remember Tales of the Past, the WoW machinima. Arthas actually says "I'm so tired" at the end. Someone must have also been digging around and found that line and put it in as a nod. Would have never guessed that until now.

[@aleksandarvil5718]

IKR

[@bonegrind508]

Hi there, i don't know if this was addressed before and i kept forgetting to mention it, but on Terror of the tides campaign, mission 6, you can also clear the trees by using an elder sasquatch which you buy from the last mercenary camp, it has force of nature. Even though the trees hiding the camp are on the long road and the mercenary camp in on the short one, just choose the long road for the carts while your units go to the camp, it's pretty close and it doesn't take long. Also thank you for your work on showing all these easter eggs!

[@Abelhawk]

Good catch there! That would definitely make it easier to reach them.

[@acolyte1951]

Thanks Abelhawk, your love for the game is shared !

[@vaniellys]

This is an amazing compilation of the original videos ! Thank you for your hard work !

[@burnedsmackdown4209]

Some these ULDs explain some lines InsaneMonster used in his Re-Reforged project

[@ExValeFor]

I'm wondering if the Jaina dying setpiece may instead have just been an introduction to resurrecting heroes at altars? Fried has... interesting input sometimes

[@highlordlaughterofcanada8685]

Except you already had an Altar back in mission 2 so that's not likely

[@busterbackster1]

​​@@highlordlaughterofcanada8685maybe you didn't in older versions, another one I was thinking was arthas resurrection might have worked on her at some point as a tutorial or that it worked on heels at some point, or maybe she wasn't a hero character

[@highlordlaughterofcanada8685]

@@busterbackster1 You were once going to have control of Uther and Arthas in mission two so no, I doubt you didn't have an altar at any point in that mission. Whatever the original purpose of Jaina dying and reviving was about, it likely had nothing to do with an ability or the altar. It was more than likely related to a cut quest if anything as Altars are just gameplay mechanics and not actually canonical lore, even back then.

[@noway9320]

every homestar runner reference you've put in your videos over the years makes me happy

[@mrlinushermansson]

The amount of love that went into creating this game still amazes me.

[@sebastianmalinowski6298]

I was so mesmerized by this story that I took the wrong subway going to work, now I'm late. Thanks a lot. Good work

[@SuryaBudimansyah]

Man it's so nostalgic to rewatch these WC3 easter eggs videos

[@akshaybharshankar4970]

3:20 I remember this line being used in the warcraft 3 demo game, in the level where you are tasked with destroying the human outpost. They probably only forgot to remove it from the main game.

[@akshaybharshankar4970]

Same also applies for the sentry wards and healing wards. They are available as items in the demo game. That also goes for the ULDs

[@t.jmaddog2188]

I had no idea there were more secrets to be found thank you for pointing them out.

[@codywhite6337]

Love your easter egg videos!

[@real2497]

No real trees was harmed during this video.

[@mattpajinag6286]

58:51 THANK YOU!!!!! I've been waiting for this in years

[@LounoirRecords]

"shrine of the uberfish" needs to be a custom campaign :D

[@soulie2001]

hearing the WC3 music shoots me back to 2006-2008, all i ddi was play custom maps after school. Would wake up at 4am. Still now, i remember those winter nights fondly..

[@IM4fLEX]

Staff of Negation is the single most OP item in WC3.

[@modernmoonlight7350]

YASSS! This was a blast!

[@imagoloop4029]

Everything good to you and the Abelhawl family

[@suyashdongre]

Thanks for creating this gem!

[@TheArkan6]

this is brilliant thank you for all your hard work

[@K9999-Nest]

man i had a blast watching this very good vid man

[@ffarkasm]

1:15:59 It is the other way around. A Song of Ice and Fire is not the first Game of Thrones novel, but Game of Thrones is the first Song of Ice and Fire novel. However, the title 'Game of Thrones' is more widely known because the HBO TV-series kept this name for the whole duration of the series because apparently they thought it sounded better.

[@Abelhawk]

Good point! You're absolutely right.

[@sekibankiplays3334]

About Peons in Path of the Damned mission - I think in early version of the game this thing wasn't implemented, so once you captured the Peon - you could build an entire technology of orcs... Or better say, Warcraft II orcs

[@The-jy3yq]

They're kind of Warcraft 2,5 orcs - there are only Ogre Magi(no unupgraded Ogres), no DKs and only one player has access to Dragons, but there are Raiders and Warlocks straight from...Warcraft 1? Also, they have heroes(only Blademasters and Farseers, but still), so that's another thing to be aware of

[@gartoll]

Do you mean Blackroll and Roll, too?

[@The-jy3yq]

@@gartoll yeep

[@AHurdOfBronies_]

24:03 YOU COULD FUCKING DO THAT?!

[@johnathonkelley5234]

I don't remember ever seeing Kelen the Destroyer (blood mage) in any of the custom games.

[@Pierre-Jonqueres]

56:20 Nooooooo, he cuts the Cello's solo !!! The greatest part of this music :'( Awesome video, loves the diferent photos you took for dave

[@t00thman]

In an older patch, possessing a Peon in Black Rock & Roll DID work and let you build a Dragon Roost

[@zackaryshadowheart5629]

jaina dying in wc3 only further supports her really being a dreadlord.

[@Caveoculus]

One more thing to watch every year next to Lotr series

[@Immortalizz02]

Theres a couple Fairy rings on The spirits of Ashenvale aswell they have items and one of them even spawns Banshees

[@Fitzkrieg]

I feel old. I didn’t know they changed the Sea Witch from a ghost to a naga or the plethora of other changes

[@highlordlaughterofcanada8685]

It was to make it more in line with WoW lore, for better or worse

[@Jackstalkerfear]

Mayhaps Jaina dying was supposed to be like a mini tutorial for the player on learning how hero revival worked?

[@Stalene100]

I honestly wish they kept some of the more disturbing imagery in the game. It really sells the point of why those moments (like stratholme) are so brutal i love it.

[@jessesturgeon5327]

That bridge trick on Key to the Three Moons is amazing I wonder if you can do that in other missions

[@moh.syafrianabie8899]

Why tf I missed your video?! KZbin sucks! Love your video remake of all easter egg. Great job

[@KaikuPen]

I always wondered if “Strahnbrad“ was a reference to “Strong Bad” and it wasn’t till I played SC remastered that I noticed the Marine armor shop doodads are also called “Tracey’s armoury”

[@AlifyaNursukmaForicha]

I am confused throughout your explanation of the exodus of the horde because i remembered that i played the mission with all of these ULD and Ghost instead of Naga 😵

[@tenjenk]

Cant believe they hinted at the Jailer all the way back in Wc3 * *Wears pants of Immolation +5*

[@binberbi1981]

what

[@evilmurlock]

1:01:35 This is the map that created a whole ganre. Amazing.

[@ordelian7795]

No it's not. Aeon of Strife existed already before that.

[@FinalFinale]

43:28 Fitting considering how Archimonde thinks of mortals compared to the demonic race.

[@Halibel764]

If Timmy is named after Tim Campbell, it's strange that the little innocent Timmy met such a dark fate.

[@Mavidyatunes]

Where Wyverns dare is a reference to The Misfits song, Where Eagles Dare.

[@IS4Studio]

Epic!

[@leothewhiteranger]

Fun fact: The Pandaren were originally planned to be the Alliance Race added in The Burning Crusade, before someone pointed out that the Pandaren lacked any motivation to fight the Horde. Thus, the redesigned Draenei.

[@t0mbst0neyt]

I miss the days when Blizzard were like this, the amount of extra funny shit in each of their games from way back when shows the effort that went into them beyond just the superficial

[@ItzNovayt]

the date is on april 1st i dont trust this 👀

[@diegostach9563]

Same...

[@michaelandreipalon359]

You can trust it. That children's storybook he just released, on the other hand...

[@flu1839]

18:37 the un used dialogue is actually used in the Spanish version of the game and was translated

[@DKHZStudio]

So illidan did steal his famous speech from kealthas xD

[@pzalterias5154]

I began playing this game as a demo on my dad's laptop ! It was a revelation ! I still remember the Ghost, I was so afraid that she would destroy me before the 30 minutes that I never realized it was a naga now

[@mattpajinag6286]

I missed this channel

[@matias371]

37:00 The awakening of Stormrage, you can make a tree of life near to goblin shop and use a teleport directed to the ghoul area, and kill them so now you dont have time limit to finish that mission. You could try to kill undead base, but there is Tichondrius with his divine armor

[@drakekingblackheart5481]

50:45 pain

[@hristiyanangelov3610]

Huh I distinctly remember being able to possess the peons on Blackrock & Roll and being able to build Orc structures, pig farms included.

[@viktorkukov6649]

Literal KZbin gold.

[@diegoaguilar9762]

In the last night elves quest called, stormrage brothers, you forgot that for Malfurion's side, near some trees where his beloved Tyrande is, you can find healing wards hidden in the trees. You forgot a secret, champ.

[@egyiptomi9659]

Night elf last mission (Furion, Illidan) you can give the Shadow Orb to Illidan. Just sneak behind the downside undead base with Furion, cut down trees, and go really close to gap and drop the item.

[@magnath9134]

One tiny mistake, it's Warhammer 40k, not Warhammer fantasy, very insulting for it to be called fantasy

[@michaelandreipalon359]

That's what happens when those admittedly good Total War spinoff games are now way more popular than the mainline tabletop material.

[@XUndergroundRap]

Oldhammer > 40k

[@magnath9134]

@@XUndergroundRap ratio + get guassed + your mom's a genestealer + no chaos lords + flashlight for a gun + you're probably fr*nch

[@karljohan2300]

imagine if they actually made it so jaina was the undead secondary enemy instead of sylvanas

[@MaxerCola]

If you kill Tichondrius with whoseyourdaddy before getting skull, level will not be longer able to be finished

[@Dragunaw]

1:13:14 i gotta admit, my first thought was that it was a reference to the 4th mission of Starcraft which is called "The Jacobs Installation" which was a top secret place where the Confederates experimented on the zerg, hence the "reject" because it was a failed experiment.

[@peer263]

fantastic video. subbed

[@graetgaming4421]

In Warcraft 3 Reforged, on chapter one Enemies at the Gate the developers of the game fixed the issue where you can see Shandris's reforged modal instead of the Classic Night elf Archer modal they changed it in Classic Rain of Chaos.....

[@CrusaderGir]

I Remember building a wall of towers and buildings blocking the Warsong in "Cry of the Warsong" they'll eventually destroy your buildings to get through them

[@ffarkasm]

Damn, W3 campaign is honestly one of the biggest impact on my childhood. Here is the ranking of chapters based on my personal preference (Exodus of the Horde and Founding of Durotar are excluded due to their deviate characteristics.) From least favourite to favourite: 7. Eternity's End (RoC NE) 6. The Scourge of Lordaeron (RoC Hu) 5. Path of the Damned (Roc UD) 4. Curse of the Bloodelves (FT Hu) 3. The Invasion of Kalimdor (RoC Orc) 2. Terror of the Tides (FT NE) 1. Legacy of the Damned (FT UD)

[@darciel466]

I don't know if it was a bug but I know that in the blackrock & roll mission it was possible to destroy gold mines. I don't know how to make the mine destructible (maybe long gameplay or a bug when loading the mission).

[@Niar_Production_Official]

Really love your videos! :D I'm easter egg-er too! :D since I was kid! :D Btw. '' Iron Maiden - Where eagles dare '' (more) 'cause, they're fans of Iron Maiden for sure! :D

[@sylvannight6153]

39:15 I can explain this one. Those abilities are from a function added later in the editor’s history. (Reforged I believe?) If you use the unit in game, it’ll only have the spell immunity. My hunch is that parameter was going to be used for unit/ability skins (per the name given in the editor.) Older maps opened will have the abilities set to their default abilities for the base unit in the ability skin spot. (Hell before frozen throne, the editor had way less functionalities.)

[@ToniBingi]

Spent this entire video looking for the April Fool joke.

[@LiterallyMe459]

31:32 for some reason during my playthrough the lizards ai broke and he wouldn't move after eating a couple of trees.