If I play a custom map in warcraft 3 online (such as dota), will I get a copy of that map?
I believe that's the way it used to work. I can't seem to find a safe-looking site to download the map from. It would also appear that the official forums were taken down some time ago. Its been years and years since I last played online (as in around 10 years ago), and I believe that if you played a custom map online, the game would save that map in your game for you to either play offline or host yourself. But I'm not sure that's 100% accurate, and besides blizzard appears to have started updating the game again, so its possible they may have changed that.
The reason I want to know this is so I can look up the items in dota 1. I can only find information online for dota 2, which isn't identical to dota 1. If I could get a map through the game that I can play offline, I could just open up the game offline and look at everything that way. As for playing that match, I was planning on playing a support so I could get away with not having to buy too many items. I don't want to sabotage everyone else's game to do this.
Best Answer
Before playing any map in warcraft 3, you will be in some kind of lobby. In that lobby every player has the (automatic) ability to download the map from the host (lobby creator). The download progress is indicated by a number in front of the player name counting up from 0 to 100 (%).
Every player needs to download the map for the host to be able to start the game. Once the map is downloaded, it will be located in your local game folder under custom maps (or something similar).
It is worth noting that many hosts are not happy with players downloading a commonly used map before the game, because it takes time, so it might not be easy to make the download. This might no longer be the case, but it used to be that way.
There are also some external lobbies such as garena, dotalicious, etc. Which sometimes modify the lobby in a way that changes from the original. My explanation above regards to the "normal" lobby that is included in warcraft 3 without modifications.
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