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The latest patches for Blizzard's hit real-time strategy game, Warcraft III, and its expansion, Frozen Throne, are now available. As usual, these patches make a number of different bug fixes along with unit and map-balance changes. Here are some of the items modified in the patches:

Changes in The Frozen Throne version 1.12

MISCELLANEOUS FIXES
Cinematic sequences that were not playing within certain foreign language versions have been fixed.
Fixed problem that enabled you to save games that could not be loaded.
Fixed problem that enabled you to create a replay that could not be properly played back.

MAP FIXES
Rune of Rebirth has been removed from maps (6)GnollWood and (4)Floodplains1v1.
Gold mine positioning has been rebalanced and the starting location tree placement has been improved for the map (2)TwoRivers.
A Golem has been added to each of the Mercenary Camps within the map (4)Twisted Meadows.
Destructible rocks have been added to the upper and lower gold mine areas in (4)Avalanche.

CREEP FIXES
The creep version of Inner Fire has had its mana cost increased from 35 to 75.
The creep version of Raise Dead has had its cooldown increased from 5 to 12 seconds.
The creep version of Purge no longer stuns units.
The creep version of Abolish Magic has had its mana cost increased from 50 to 75.

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