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As far as I understand, user Quantomas has the source code for version 3.0, not 3.1. And why hasn't he released anything else besides the improved AI? After all, minor changes, such as adding new hero specializations and fixing old ones, seem obvious. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Quantomas is doing what he enjoys. He writes theoretical Articles about AI in games and philosophizes. A patch corresponding to 3.05 (since he said he could independently update his AI to 3.1) has been available for about 10 years, according to various sources. Apparently, this guy simply reworked the existing code from top to bottom, did what he needed, and is now content. Just imagine what it's like to update a game alone. Even if you visually know how it should be, it will take a lot of time to understand how it works. If he has a complete source code, it will be a mess. It is possible that some of the code was rewritten from 3.0 to 3.1 (this is suggested, for example, by the appearance of certain scripting functions in 3.1 that could not theoretically be implemented in 3.0). And having only version 3.0, it is very difficult to rewrite the code so that it corresponds to the original. Moreover, he may not have the source code in the form that we think. After all, none of us worked at Nival and followed the internal development process. For him, his AI is a creation, an object of admiration, and your specializations are uninteresting to him.


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