Secrets of the Depths

Alright, according to many people the patch has nearly ruined Battle.net. Due to some changes blizzard made to JASS editing or triggering ( Something along those lines ), those maps which contain JASS will no longer be able to be hosted.( In my opinion this is probably the cause... But no cause has been determined. ) "The map cannot be found" is what happens when you try to host. It seems like older versions of most maps seem to work.

Melee maps work fine, as they are simply made with the WC3 editor alone.

Although, there are a few useful upgrades, which seem to be great when looked at in a Map makers view.

Maximum map size was set to 8MB. ( You know what that means, an extra 4MB of stuff which can be added to SotDRP.
Also, apparently there were several upgrades to Jass and WC3 editing.

Discuss your thoughts on the patch.

I've already mentioned p1.24 several times in the forums.

Maps using the Return Bug (H2I) will not load. JASS has changed but not for the good or for the worse.
Map filesize cap is now 8MB but there's the problem with load time.
And no, Blizzard barely listened to our requests despite the best man of the JASS community (Vexorian) telling them about the problems of JASS. Some of those problems still exist right now. Even though people prepped for 1.24 in Westfall, maps turned out buggy as hell when it went live.

They might have changed JASS, but they did a terrible job on it.

Thats the reason I can't host certain games... So do you think they' ll fix it to go back to normal?

Load time is already a problem on most maps unless its something like Island Defense. ( Has like 10 second maximum load time )

Anyways i wouldnt mind spending extra time loading if there is an extra 4MB of space.

Uh no, they will not return the Return Bug (Har har, I think I'm only one who sees the funny in that)

JASS users will have to cope with the new hash. And the old maps that used H2I (Any map worthwhile in my opinion) will never work again if they are dead projects.

Well that sucks.

yup.