BG Defender
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- World of Warcraft
- 3,673 Monthly Downloads
- Supports: 6.0.3
- 191,367 Total Downloads
- Updated 12/16/2014
- Created 08/25/2007
- 354 Favorites
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- Release Type: Inactive
- License: All Rights Reserved
- Newest File: BG Defender 1.6.7
About BG Defender
BG Defender (Based on AB Defender) gives you a little movable window with buttons to announce the number of incoming enemies at the base you're defending in most battlegrounds. There are also buttons to call for help or announce the base you're defending is safe. BG Defender will automatically pop up when entering a battleground and close after you leave.
/bgd - to show/hide window
/bgd help - to show all commands
AB Defender was created by Riel Kil'Jaeden GER EU, based on FaraFrames by Farang.
BG Defender 1.6.7
Updated TOC for patch 6.0.3
BG Defender 1.6.6
Support for Silvershard Mines and Deepwind Gorge, only English locale for now.
Added the Alliance start zone in Twin Peaks, so now BG Defender should load for alliance players too.
BG Defender 1.6.5
Updated TOC for patch 5.4
BG Defender 1.6.4.1
Minor cleanups.
Doing late initialization of drop down menus. Eight or more menu items might cause taint issues,
trying to work around it by only initialize them if they are needed.
BG Defender 1.6.4
Updated the French translation. Thanks to cortan on Curse for the update.
Updated TOC for patch 5.2
BG Defender 1.6.3
Updated for patch 5.1
Added new INSTANCE_CHAT channel and removed the old BATTLEGROUND channel.
BG Defender 1.6.2
Fix for unable to post announcements even though in a battleground.
BG Defender 1.6.1
Found the bug that stopped message postings when the locale was changed.
BG Defender 1.6.0
Added feature to select locale used to format messages. By default it is the current client locale,
but it is possible to change to one of the known locales from the options menu. Thanks to ninjadall on
Curse for the suggestion.
Added French language translations. Thanks to phxsnt on Curse for the input.
Update to support 4.3 version :-) Thanks to Roxafina on Curse for the reminder.
BG Defender 1.5.10
Added contributed Chinese (zhCN and zhTW) language files
BG Defender 1.5.9
Added keybinding support to bind announcements to specified keys
BG Defender 1.5.8
Fixed error with Russian language file
BG Defender 1.5.7
Added Dragonmaw Stronghold as a PvP zone
Added contributed Russian (ruRU) language file
BG Defender 1.5.6
Added contributed Spanish (esMX) language file
Added ability to select Raid Warning for announcements from the options page
Added button on UI beside the option button to toggle frame being pinned or movable
m - frame is movable
p - frame is pinned to current location
clicking on the m or p toggles the movable state
BG Defender 1.5.5
Fixed bug not identifying The Battle for Gilneas zone properly
BG Defender 1.5.4
Fixed bug where correct saved variables were not being saved and reloaded
Updated German zone names for SOTA, TP and GIL
BG Defender 1.5.3
Added option to hide 'BGDefender' preface to announcement messages
Added support for Tol Bard, Battle of Gilneas and Twin Peaks
Note however German localization is not translated, so zones may not be detected
BG Defender 1.5.2 (Shoogi)
Added options frame to select announcement channels (/bgd options, or select "o" button on window)
- note: Blizzard limits how fast messages can be sent to General
- Allow seperate configuration for Battleground and World PVP Zone channels (Wintergrasp)
- Saving state of channels for each character
Improved status output
BG Defender 1.5.1
Added Wintergrasp support
Added Raid chatframe for output if in a raid instance (such as WG)
Fixed initialization to now recognize if you reload or log into the instance instead of zoning in
BG Defender 1.5.0
Reworked a fair bit of BG Defender (Shoogi)
- added support for L10N, but would need input on zone names
- removed changing of messages - a nice but not necessary feature
- added support for WoW 4.0.1
- fixed bugs (mousemoves, events, and others)
- changed status message to be informative and allow debugging
BG Defender 1.4.2
Added minimal Isle of conquest support (Shoogi @ Wyrmrest Accord)
BG Defender 1.4.1
Fixed Some Bugs in WSG updated for 3.0.2 patch
BG Defender 1.4
Changed entry in layoutcache.txt from, RIC5 to BGDefenderFrame
Toc Update
BG Defender 1.3
Updated .toc for 2.3.0 patch
BG Defender 1.2
BG Defender encompasses all the other defender mods into one small package.
To install just copy the BGDefender folder into your \World of Warctaft\Interface\Addons\ directory.
You will probably need to deactivate or uninstall WSG,AV,EoS or AB Defender if you have them installed.
BG Defender localization for the German language completed (Thanks too Kazagore, Tomslayer and BenChavo with translations)
Thx,
Shaboo Frostmourne
P.S. If you would like to see BG Defender localized for another language just post the zone name for each battleground as it appears in WoW on http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/8921/
| File Name | Release Type | Game Version | Downloads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Defender 1.6.7 | Release | 6.0.3 | 11,726 | 12/16/2014 |
| BG Defender 1.6.6 | Release | 5.4.1 | 28,367 | 11/23/2013 |
| BG Defender 1.6.5 | Release | 5.4.0 | 10,704 | 10/08/2013 |
| BG Defender 1.6.4.1 | Beta | 5.2.0 | 535 | 03/27/2013 |
| BG Defender 1.6.4 | Release | 5.2.0 | 21,375 | 03/06/2013 |
| BG Defender 1.6.3 | Release | 5.1.0 | 15,911 | 11/29/2012 |
| BG Defender 1.6.2 | Release | 4.3 | 33,115 | 01/10/2012 |
| BG Defender 1.6.1 | Release | 4.3 | 3,324 | 01/08/2012 |
| BG Defender 1.6.0 | Release | 4.3 | 40 | 01/08/2012 |
| BG Defender 1.5.10 | Release | 4.2 | 19,099 | 07/13/2011 |
| BG Defender 1.5.9 | Release | 4.2 | 10,093 | 07/02/2011 |
| BG Defender 1.5.8 | Release | 4.2 | 3,892 | 06/29/2011 |
| BG Defender 1.5.7 | Release | 4.2 | 207 | 06/29/2011 |
| BG Defender 1.5.6 | Release | 4.0.6 | 9,510 | 03/31/2011 |
| BG Defender 1.5.5 | Release | 4.0.3a | 8,092 | 12/26/2010 |
| BG Defender 1.54 | Release | 4.0.3a | 149 | 12/26/2010 |
| BG Defender 1.53 | Release | 4.0.3a | 71 | 12/06/2010 |
| BG Defender | Release | 4.0.1 | 107 | 10/29/2010 |
| BG Defender 1.5.1 | Release | 4.0.1 | 42 | 10/16/2010 |
| BG Defender v1.4.1 | Release | 3.0.2 | 302 | 10/19/2008 |
| BG Defender v1.4 | Release | 2.4.0 | 131 | 03/26/2008 |
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Comments
Hi, is it possible to add in a function to broadcast how many enemys are there in an area as opposed to how many are coming (for a BG Scout)?
any chance to see a support for that BG that came with MOP ?
The only BG from MoP that isn't suppoted is Temple of Kotmogu. I don't think it's really that useful to be able to call incomming in that BG.
Thanks for the update
Hey, I really love this addon. However, I'm having a bit of a silly problem. I can't see the UI, and I can't find it anywhere! I've done /bgd show, and I checked /bgd status and it says UI is visible. I must have dragged it somewhere on my screen, but I've checked everywhere. All corners and edges, under my map and bars (I downloaded addons to move my map and bars just to check under them). I can't find it lol. Is there some way to reset the positiong of the UI? That'd be great. Thanks for any help!!!
EDIT: Uninstalling and reinstalling didn't work either. I'm stumped =\
The position of the frame is stored in the file "layout-local.txt", found in the WTF file tree. In that file search for "BGDefenderFrame", play around with the x and y values and it'll probably show up.
Thanks - this worked for me too. Settings that worked for me were:
Frame: BGDefenderFrame
FrameLevel: 1
Anchor: BOTTOMRIGHT
X: -169
Y: 266
W: 157
H: 56
Logout of your char first though otherwise the settings are overwritten.
Great, found it!! Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I noticed that on Alliance toons in Iceblood *Tower*, BGD reports help needed at Iceblood *Garrison*. A tiny but important distinction.
I tried to search the LUA files for "Ice", "Iceblood" or "Garrison" to see if I could fix a text string. Alas, that exhausted my technical skills.
I know it's not important, but if you have twenty minutes and want to chase down one tiny bug...
Yeah, you are correct. But there isn't a simple fix for it, the location comes directly from Blizzards API, from "GetSubZoneText" to be exact. As far as I can tell there is no subzone for the tower :(
I could use the same method as in Silvershard Mines and Deepwind Gorge but that isn't really a quick fix, it will take some work. I might look into doing that sometime in the future, but no promises.
That's okay: after about 1100 AV's (since the ach statistics started tracking such things), 3:1 alli:horde, I finally looked at the subzone name during an AV while I defended IBT... and the game calls it Iceblood Garrison. As near as I can tell, only DBM really calls it Iceblood Tower... and everyone who has run AV a zillion times, looking at DBM timers.
So, I'm wrong.
Sorry for the hassle. Thank you for the super-useful addon!
For some reason I crash everytime I exit a BG with BG Defender enabled. Even when it is the only addon I'm running, WoW crashes on exit for a BG. Anyone else having that problem?
It started last week sometime.
last night a couple guildies of mine were having that problem too
If you want BG Defender to have the look of ElvUI, and not crash, download the "ElvUI AddOnSkins" mod from the ElvUI Website; current version is 1.70. This addon mods tons of things to fit with ElvUI.
Yes. I am also having that problem. When I exit any BG, the screen freezes with the load bar for whatever zone I was in stuck on full. I then have to end the wow64.exe process. Started last week for me too.