Warcraft 3 Patch 1.24b Released

The update includes several World Editor tweaks, and can be had in four flavors:

Warcraft III
• Full Patch (English)
• 1.24 to 1.24b Incremental Update (English)
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
• 1.24 to 1.24b Incremental Update (English)

The full version of the Frozen Throne patch is expected shortly, so stay tuned.

A rundown of the various tweaks and changes can be found below in the patch notes:

PC WORLD EDITOR CHANGES

• Increased max map file size from 4 MB to 8 MB.
• Added the ability to store hashtable handles in a hashtable.
• Added GetSpellTargetX and GetSpellTargetY natives.
• Added a new base handle type "Agent" of which many types now extend from.
• Added a SaveAgentHandle native which can be used for saving most handle types.
• Added a JASS optimization dealing with global variable change events.

FIXES

• Fixed a few false positives caused by the "return bug" fix.
• Fixed a crash related to hashtable reference counting.
• "Shadowing" global variables with local variables no longer is possible.
• Fixed a type conversion dealing with operators (i.e. adding a handle with an integer).