The Cow Level lives in HotS - Page 5

On March 23 2013 10:35 Goldfish wrote:


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Diablo I (people were making up rumors for the Cow level in D1 since you can click a cow in D1, then they actually added it in D2).

Also if you mean the actual cow level, it's D2 obviously >.>.

I bet most people already know... it's not that old.

(Besides all the cool kids were playing StarCraft instead of Diablo II anyway.)

I mean, of course most people won't know about the D1 Cow (in SC2 chat rooms). D1 Cow originated at the time when everyone liked to make up myths around games back in the day ("if you clicked the D1 cow 50 times, it will open the Secret Cow level!" and "if you find a phoenix down in the BW campaign, you can revive Tassadar!!1" and "Mega Man X can use the Hadoken if you die 5 times and get a Capsule in some level!" oh wait that last one was actually true). I bet if you asked this on DIII.net (now D3incgamers or something), everyone will immediately know. It's well known in the Diablo community, this is the SC community, so it's understandable if people don't know.

So yeah, cow level is EZ stuff (anyone who doesn't know about it, no worries). I mean, my friend (who played the original WC1, WC2, D1, D2, and basically every Blizzard game minus WoW) doesn't know that the cow level originated because of rumors to the D1 cow (he never visits internet forums, reads wiki, or anything, he just plays the game and goes with the flow, so it's understandable).

Now if anyone were a real hipster nerd, how did the cheat code "Operation CWAL" for StarCraft 1 originate?

(Since this is an SC forum after all.)

On March 23 2013 18:17 Mooneyes wrote:


Dont forget hellfire where you could argue the Cow level made its first actual apperance (i consider this the first itteration of a cow level though i definetly understand those who consider D2's itteration to be the first).

Warcraft2: Spam clicking a sheep will make it explode. Easter egg, most likely no direct corelation but as this was standard for games i can definatly see easter eggs as a base for the many cow rumors in D1.

Diablo1: Rumors about a cow level. Most likely because there was cows in the game and if i remember correctly interacting with one of them enough times would yield the dialogue "I said Moo.".

Hellfire 1997: quest from a person dressed as a cow with the quest reward "Bovine plate"

SC1 1998: Cheatcode "There is no cow level"

Diablo2: The cow level everyone remembers.

Operation CWAL was used plenty when i was young i was just so impatient. Since its origin was already answered i wont repeat it.

On March 23 2013 19:13 AC3 wrote:
It's been there since WOL guys hahah. Thought all of you had spam clicked the icon while browsing for a game.

On March 23 2013 19:05 Grovbolle wrote:

It works with all critters in WC3. There is even a campaign mission where you can kill 3 footmen disguised as sheeps before they change.