Update Log
2010-03-12	zMap patched to 1.24e (one day after Blizzard's patch) added build-time / food feature, look below for screenshots
2010-03	added a collection of useful video/instructions made by fellow zmappers at the bottom of this page; also, latest zMap has anti-crashhack to stop you from getting "fatal error" crash against Yeta's crashhackers
2010-01	zMap patched to 1.24d (two days after Blizzard patched Warcraft), Along with one new feature
2009-12	zMap patched to 1.24c (one day after Blizzard patched Warcraft)added videos of the Undying Phoenix Hack
2009-10	zMap reopen!
2009-06	Updates
2009-02	new author took over the zMap project
2008-11	followed by the recent bnet hacker ban, zMap safety status update, as well as few new features (at bottom of this page)
2008-09	added few new feature at bottom of this page
2008-08	zMap 1.22 (new feature at bottom, moved many extra screenshots to here)
2008-04	Review created

It is more expensive compare with other private maphacks, but in this particular case, as this review will show you, the higher price gives better quality.  zMap has a lot of powerful features that other MHs do not have, I have heard people calling zMap as a Warcraft “expansion pack”, interesting name but zMap really has some incredible features, as some of them are introduced with screenshots below.

　

Maphack: as a MH program, maphack is the basic feature of zMap.  Of course, it is undetectable, meaning safe to use it for ladder/tournament games.  Few points worth mentioning about zMap’s MH feature: you can see enemy’s ping on minimap, this is a very nice feature to have so you know where opponent’s attention is (by the way you can turn on/off of enemy pings).  Also you can change things like creep’s color on minimap.  It also shows grounded items on minimap.

　

Few of the very useful features belong to the "expansion pack" I love:

* Heroline: I can’t express enough how powerful this feature is.  The way I like to put it: if maphack gives you current information about the game, then the heroline gives you the future information about the game.  This feature is extremely handy in both ladder and dota games.  Basically, it shows on minimap the next action point (move or attack) of each hero/unit (you can turn on/off only showing enemy units or not).  I am going to attach few screenshots so you can see how this feature works.

　

Below shows when heroline is extremely useful---AS SOON AS blue ordered his hero to my base (it was Orc BladeMaster), I can see it on the minimap, and that gives me just enough time to upgrade my nerubian tower by the time BM gets to my base, very very imba.  If it's regular MH, you wouldn't know if the BM is going out for creeping or coming towards me, this feature gives you future information about the game.

 

　

　

Below is a screenshot during a dota game, I can see on map blue is on his way to bottom lane, and then I decided to jack him in the jungle (because I know exactly what path he will take)

**More screenshot/examples could be found here.

　

*     Player Selection: What does it mean? It means you can see which unit is each player selecting.  To make it easy to understand, when you give your control to your ally, you can see his selection (with dotted circle on the unit/building selected).  This feature basically makes you see ALL the selections of every player, without giving anyone control, and yes that includes enemy’s selection.  One of the handy way to use this feature is to detect MH, so if you opponent uses MH and select your alter at beginning of the game, you will see it and you know the situation better.  Also in dota games when you see yourself getting selected by enemy players, it might be good time to back off a little bit as they may be coming for you. 

Some screenshots:

This is a screenshot taken at beginning of a dota game, as you can see, pink is selecting top right house and teal is selecting top left house.

　

Below is a screenshot at enemy's base, this just to show you you can see enemy's selection perfectly too (note the dotted purp circle)

 

　

 * Player Resources: 

Just like the name implies, this shows you the race/name/gold/lumber/food of each player.  I found this feature very nice in FFA games, since in FFA sometime it's about how much gold investment do you have.  Knowing opponent's gold is very important in certain situation when the goldmine is about to run out.  (it also makes it a lot easier to type /stats NAME)

　

　

* Tie-Hack:  (tie-hack has been patched by Blizzard on server side, but you can still use it for one-time)

Yes zMap has tie-hack, it is very easy to use, only pressing one hotkey and that's it.  But remember it only works when BOTH of the AT players have zMap running.  Below is a screenshot when tie-hack is used.

　

Few other zMap features are very nice but I don't have screenshots for them or didn't learn to use them yet.

-auto mine (auto move miners onto gold mine at start of game, also moves ghoul onto wood) plus auto build workers  At beginning of each game, your work will automatically go mine, and the ghoul will automatically go lumber, even better, you can set the number of worker you want them to mine, and to set number of workers you want to build in your base, it's just crazy.....I remember when I first ran zmap to play ladder, I was like wtf, I thought I was looking at my opponent's screen when all the workers went to do their thing, LOL.  This feature is ideal for lazy people.

-auto-micro ( remove units below specified life % from combat )  this one is totally imba, everyone knows removing low HP units is the basic of micro during a fight, this feature will DO THAT FOR YOU, you get to choose exactly how much you want to move your unit back under certain %, such as 30% or 40%.  And you can choose the location on map where you want those units move to.

-auto pickup item with hero using a hotkey. My hotkey is Ctrl, very nice feature to have during creeping, whenever an item is dropped just hit Ctrl once and your hero will pick it up.  (I am not orc player but I can imagine this feature will be very useful for BM to ninja creep items)

-mass move unit types (1 click to move 150 copters for example)  Straightforward, you can move every unit you have to one point, since I play ladder and dota mostly,  I don't use this feature very often.  But I've tried it, it works.

-auto cast non-autocastable spells (like ensnare, web, shackles, possession, lightning shield, etc)  -ZoiD has made a video demonstrating this at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlfHIjzZLNU

-pause game hack (pause game for you and the opponent yet still be able to issue actions)  A lame feature, you can make the game to appear lag, while your opponent can't do anything but you can make commands, can totally drive your opponent crazy.
　

-see enemy cooldown, actual spells owned, etc  When you select enemy hero, you can see which spells they have chosen and what are the current cooldown, very useful feature for dota.

 

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