Abelhawk's Warcraft III Easter Eggs: Complete Edition

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My magnum opus.
My channel first got discovered exactly 6 years ago when I stumbled upon some never-before-explored Easter eggs in my favorite PC RTS game. Since then, I've learned a lot about video editing, voiceover work, and game design, and have found and was shown many more Easter eggs to showcase. This is the result of all that work.
Thanks so much to all of my members, past and present, who gave me the motivation to keep working on stuff like this, as well as anyone else who gave encouraging and helpful comments. Special thanks to David Fried, who I am very grateful commented on my videos and became an invaluable source of information to both me and the Warcraft III community. And of course, a big thanks to all the Blizzard developers of the original pre-forged Warcraft III for making such a great game.
Click below for a playlist of the original series, which includes more jokes, technical Easter eggs, trivia on models and icons, and the origins of unit quotes:
• Abelhawk's Warcraft II...
Abelhawk's Warcraft III Easter Eggs (Complete Edition) - 0:00
Exodus of the Horde - 1:08
The Scourge of Lordaeron - 7:10
Path of the Damned - 18:46
The Invasion of Kalimdor - 26:12
Eternity's End - 35:13
Terror of the Tides - 45:50
Curse of the Blood Elves - 56:06
Legacy of the Damned - 1:06:10
The Founding of Durotar - 1:17:50
Thanks for watching! - 1:24:29
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@Abelhawk 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you milord🗿🗿🗿

@michaelandreipalon359 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Abelhawk 2 жыл бұрын

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

@michaelandreipalon359 2 жыл бұрын

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

@purachinachinchin 5 ай бұрын

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

@MegaStarfactor 2 жыл бұрын

The bridge repairing blew my mind xD

@xetanth87 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ripedroxx 2 жыл бұрын

i cannot believe it was 6 years ago time sure flies

@deciduous_reaper 2 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

"Hybrid?! Here, on Azeroth?!"

@thatdodo8263 Жыл бұрын

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

@jenovazincorporated2958 Жыл бұрын

@@thatdodo8263 Amons reach is immense

@akiraigarashi2874 Жыл бұрын

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

@sirvalhart7464 10 ай бұрын

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

@general_pugwash6548 2 жыл бұрын

“For the Horde!”

@vaniellys 2 жыл бұрын

- 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 2 жыл бұрын

-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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@justnoob8141 Жыл бұрын

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

@LordThomasPassion 9 ай бұрын

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

@highlordlaughterofcanada8685 9 ай бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

B...l

@The-Green-Menace 2 жыл бұрын

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

@GuckDaBaws 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

Sylvanas did everything wrong.

@aleksandarvil5718 2 жыл бұрын

_'Morally Gray'_ Horde in a Nutshell

@exudeku 2 жыл бұрын

@@aleksandarvil5718 Horde 2: warcrime bogaloo

@whisped8145 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ozthebeeman 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@KingLich451 2 жыл бұрын

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

@jordanpritchard5226 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@tttc 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@vaniellys 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Shelooksgood 2 жыл бұрын

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

@immagonko4261 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ShadoSpartan44 2 жыл бұрын

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

@real2497 2 жыл бұрын

No real trees was harmed during this video.

@eagleeagle5739 4 ай бұрын

I'm so glad KZfaq recommended you to me 😊

@lukej2756 2 жыл бұрын

The madlad he's finally done it!

@silverrakhsh34 2 жыл бұрын

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

@MuhammadAli-ul6hn 2 жыл бұрын

The time and effort you put in your videos is outstanding!!

@bartukovich7898 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@robertlupa8273 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

I concur on both.

@Thevol40k 2 жыл бұрын

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

@codywhite6337 2 жыл бұрын

Love your easter egg videos!

@GuraiMockery 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

@@The-jy3yq Pretty much.

@A_Simple_Neurose 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 Жыл бұрын

@@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 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@mitchmitting102 2 жыл бұрын

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

@suyashdongre Ай бұрын

Thanks for creating this gem!

@TheArkan6 7 ай бұрын

this is brilliant thank you for all your hard work

@who720 2 жыл бұрын

man i had a blast watching this very good vid man

@acolyte1951 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Abelhawk, your love for the game is shared !

@sebastianmalinowski6298 2 жыл бұрын

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

@noway9320 Жыл бұрын

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

@Pyromaniac_Akeks 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ExValeFor 2 жыл бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

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

@busterbackster1 7 ай бұрын

@@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 7 ай бұрын

@@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.

@mattpajinag6286 2 жыл бұрын

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

@HL2015-dan Жыл бұрын

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

@burnedsmackdown4209 2 жыл бұрын

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

@modernmoonlight7350 2 жыл бұрын

YASSS! This was a blast!

@GlantClassic 7 ай бұрын

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

@t.jmaddog2188 Жыл бұрын

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

@SuryaBudimansyah Жыл бұрын

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

@bonegrind508 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Pierre-Jonqueres 2 жыл бұрын

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

@peer263 2 жыл бұрын

fantastic video. subbed

@BaggyB266 6 ай бұрын

awesome video^^

@LounoirRecords 2 жыл бұрын

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

@drakekingblackheart5481 2 жыл бұрын

50:45 pain

@akshaybharshankar4970 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@moh.syafrianabie8899 2 жыл бұрын

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

@IM4fLEX 2 жыл бұрын

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

@sekibankiplays3334 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

Do you mean Blackroll and Roll, too?

@The-jy3yq 2 жыл бұрын

@@gartoll yeep

@PostMortemix Жыл бұрын

Very nice.

@IS4Studio 2 жыл бұрын

Epic!

@ffarkasm 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

Good point! You're absolutely right.

@soulie2001 2 жыл бұрын

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..

@killaweedbro420 2 жыл бұрын

this game teaches one so much about games and life, i love it!!!!!! ULTIMATE CHESS!!!

@leothewhiteranger 6 ай бұрын

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.

@mrlinushermansson Жыл бұрын

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

@imagoloop4029 2 жыл бұрын

Everything good to you and the Abelhawl family

@gibbuttkins6117 2 жыл бұрын

This is pog

@Caveoculus 2 жыл бұрын

One more thing to watch every year next to Lotr series

@bluemym1nd 2 жыл бұрын

Missed this video :(

@sharpnelshots 2 жыл бұрын

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOODDDDDDDD

@jessesturgeon5327 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Mavidyatunes 2 жыл бұрын

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

@GuyOnTheRiverStyx 6 ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

IKR

@mattpajinag6286 2 жыл бұрын

I missed this channel

@zackaryshadowheart5629 Жыл бұрын

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

@flu1839 2 жыл бұрын

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

@tenjenk 2 жыл бұрын

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

@binberbi1981 Жыл бұрын

what

@aleksandarvil5718 2 жыл бұрын

So OP !!!

@t00thman 5 ай бұрын

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

@NecoLumi Жыл бұрын

Nice

@FinalFinale 2 жыл бұрын

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

@johnathonkelley5234 Жыл бұрын

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

@viktormalmgren203 2 жыл бұрын

What audacity values for the echo/delay effects did you use for the shrine of the überfish/shrine of the storm keeper? Thanks in advance and great video as always!

@carlitox2001 2 жыл бұрын

Is it possible to know what items the heroes have in the campaigns? Can you remember that? example of Uther, Tichondrius, Magtheridon- i repeat missions and i cant see them (items), can you help me?

@janoycresva919 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video too watch before playing through the campaigns !

@time4manmode945 Жыл бұрын

1:23 a hydralisk in the medieval time….shame there was not a Terran marine when the humans start charging

@jessesturgeon5327 Жыл бұрын

In Terror Of The Tides Mission 1, Rise Of The Naga is it possible to get to the wooded island on the east side of the map? I can see it using cheats but I haven't found a way to blink there yet. Are there any unused triggers or items at that island or is it just there for scenery?

@Chazzy 2 жыл бұрын

How nostalgic

@ItzNovayt 2 жыл бұрын

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

@diegostach9563 2 жыл бұрын

Same...

@michaelandreipalon359 2 жыл бұрын

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

@KaikuPen Жыл бұрын

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”

@Dragunaw 7 ай бұрын

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.

@nikogrill4231 Жыл бұрын

Yo abel, how can i play the exodus of the horde campaign like blizzard updated reforged and introduced the custom campaign mechanic onto the game and it isnt there.

@AlifyaNursukmaForicha Жыл бұрын

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 😵

@matias371 8 ай бұрын

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

@leoneltoroc8538 2 жыл бұрын

Warcraft III: Empire of D4DJ and Lordaeron

@viktorkukov6649 Жыл бұрын

Literal KZfaq gold.

@uzair_990 Жыл бұрын

did u forgot about the treasure room in ch7 invasion of kalimdor? or did u put it in other video?

@Fitzkrieg 2 жыл бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

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

@darciel466 4 ай бұрын

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).