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Anonymous No.1677157 >>1678326 >>1678898 >>1697022 >>1719037 >>1807370 >>1841361 >>1855238
Sharon, I don't know why or how, but warcraft 3 is making a comeback
Anonymous No.1678228 >>1678296
isn't W3 retro at this point
Anonymous No.1678296
>>1678228
it is
Anonymous No.1678326
>>1677157 (OP)
its a good fucking game
and they dont make those anymore
also grubby is a sweetheart
Anonymous No.1678647
WTii debunked this
Anonymous No.1678898
>>1677157 (OP)
is that the game that people only play so they can play canned bread
Anonymous No.1680400 >>1684956 >>1696860 >>1744492 >>1775899
regorged permanently fucked the game and no amount of streamers will make me play a non-pirated version of it again
Anonymous No.1684956
>>1680400
im still playing.
Anonymous No.1696857
Found it recently. It's a fucking great game and it does seem like the scene is getting new life.

Really sad I didn't play this earlier, it's like Dota 2 but a stick shift instead of automatic.
Anonymous No.1696860 >>1744492 >>1781168 >>1782765 >>1868247
>>1680400
just turn off HD graphics and the game is the same
Anonymous No.1697022
>>1677157 (OP)
It's literally all thanks to grubby, and he's a cool enough dude that I'm alright with that.
Anonymous No.1699241
I'm getting rocked. 2W 16L.

Am I that retarded? Looking at my replays I crush the enemy early on but then just... flounder
Anonymous No.1705071
PTR updates are nuts. Night Elf is going to clobber every other race is the changes go through as proposed.
Anonymous No.1709106
New PTR changes are up

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/warcraft3/t/version-202-build-22726-ptr-patch-notes/35246
Anonymous No.1711286
someone host caterparty
Anonymous No.1715997 >>1716029 >>1726838
why is warcraft 3 beating out starcraft 2 and age of empires 2 in twitch.tv streams
Anonymous No.1716029
>>1715997
grub
Anonymous No.1719037 >>1721752
>>1677157 (OP)
loco is playing in the warcraft 3 turnament and is being coached by Grubby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-1UlKOf_XY&list=PLT0hfPWJS6_vOButCzq-K2JqmblYOyOWZ
Anonymous No.1721752
>>1719037
who
Anonymous No.1725794
Oh this thread is still up

War 3 is on sale if. you don't have a key to get Reforged without paying for it

it's been trending and finding games is really fast

if you've been curious to play base warcraft 3 now's the time to dive in
Anonymous No.1726838 >>1775899
>>1715997
Tyler1 sodapoppins began the trend, Grubby popularity exploded thanks to those two too. He should be extremely grateful.
Anonymous No.1734580 >>1738299 >>1745736
It took them 5 fucking years but the custom games are at least stable again
Anonymous No.1738299 >>1739013 >>1739204 >>1740011 >>1745736
>>1734580
>SC2 has THE best custom game engine
>You can monetize them
>F2P
>Nobody plays them
People don't want custom games they want nostalgia
Anonymous No.1739013
>>1738299
I want more direct strike custom tugowars and more tower defenses.
Anonymous No.1739204
>>1738299
custom games were a thing in an era where you couldn't make a game without being an industry insider

Warcraft 3 melee games getting the spotlight is a Gaming is Healing moment, War3 is still a unique RTS after 23 years
Anonymous No.1740011
>>1738299
SC2's engine has way more potential, but at the same time it not only has to compete with WC3's nostalgia but also;
>Editor is far more complicated so while there's great stuff there's a lower volume of just random shit people come up with
>Hero system is some ass-backwards shit they had to force into the editor baseline whereas it always just werkz with WC3
>Fantasy stock assets >>> Sci-fi stock assets for random custom games (yeah sc2 has some now but basically nothing compared to WC3)
>Far smaller map making autist community, not helped because all of the initial drama around the SC2 EULA because Blizzard was still butthurt about dota
>Despite all its problems you can still get the WC3 engine to do most of what you want with enough custom scripts
>Despite actually being customizable the lighting in SC2 just looks bad for anything that's not standard SC2 gameplay, novice mapmakers are far too tempted to make everything covered in fucking bloom which is AIDS to look at
And finally
>Many custom game concepts are now actual genres in the industry so there's no shortage of competition, compounding SC2's issues compared to WC3
Anonymous No.1740528
>800 mrr shitter
>5 mins queue time
Is this normal?
Anonymous No.1740678 >>1741257 >>1749360
>Grubby playing Blizzard Dota and doing sponsored streams instead of playing WC3
>Tyler1 not playing on stream at all
>Peak times are full of literal whos and ESLs
>Total viewers can't even break 3k
Really looking like this game is dead again after all the influencers moved on.
Anonymous No.1741257 >>1741471 >>1741475
>>1740678
>check out the wc3 steams
>"oh happy, I sort of remember him"
>he wins basically everything with amazing micro
>pretty fun to watch
>suddenly he loses to a maphacking nelf who AP rushes him
>proceeds to queue and concede every match for the next 20m
I hope this guy isn't the best wc3 streamoid you can get these days, I'm already making due with Crota on youtube.
Anonymous No.1741471
>>1741257
>I hope this guy isn't the best wc3 streamoid you can get these days
if you like melee gameplay, the best are Grubby, knoff, starbuck. The best for variety is definitely WTii, he plays customs and some melee 1v1 (he is not at a pro level) but enjoyable enough.
Anonymous No.1741475
>>1741257
And Back2Warcraft if you like to watch high skill pro tournament games.
>happy
He is kinda the best w3 player of all times, but an absolute autist.
Anonymous No.1744492
>>1680400
Same
>>1696860
not when the transition eats your fucking CD key and now they want me to pay them 30 bucks to rebuy it with 30 gigs of bloatware and pointless story retcons jammed in.
Anonymous No.1745736 >>1745756
>>1738299
>>1734580
hallelujah
Anonymous No.1745756
>>1745736
we are so back.
Anonymous No.1745877 >>1750040
Did orcs always just run around with a homoblob of heroes + wyverns/batriders?
Anonymous No.1749360 >>1749365 >>1749654
>>1740678
idk, seems pretty popular to me

usually in the top 3
Anonymous No.1749365 >>1749374 >>1749654 >>1750055
>>1749360
Disingenuous faggot detected
Anonymous No.1749374 >>1749644
>>1749365
twitch viewers fluctuate, retard. War3 was at 10.4k. viewers a few days ago.

i should take a picture of AoE2 at 800 viewers as "proof" that no one plays AoE2
Anonymous No.1749644 >>1750040
>>1749374
>Delusional anon is outed as a disingenuous faggot and strawmans an imagepost as a claim of "proof"
Nobody was claiming proof of anything. Are all war3 fans as retarded as you?
Anonymous No.1749654
>>1749360
>>1749365
Real takeaway: sc2 lost
Anonymous No.1750040
>>1749644
>"lol game is dead"
>actually here's a screenshot showing it's regularly active
>NUH UH HUH UH YOU LYING FAG

don't play warcraft 3, you're not welcome

>>1745877
not every game but fast/mass wind riders is a thing. a lot of orcs go for raiders and then transition into spirit walkers/tauren
Anonymous No.1750055 >>1750064
>>1749365
>wows
>rts
>clash royale
>>>>rts
Anonymous No.1750064 >>1750079
>>1750055
it's pathetic when you see clash royale regularly mogs everything in the RTS category. 30k+ when some guy whos name i forget starts streaming. that shit is legit unwatchable spouting off nonsense from the chat
Anonymous No.1750079
>>1750064
I mean, I get its popularity, I don't begrudge its existence or anything, but it's not a fucking RTS. I know the name of the genre is vague as fuck that most things could "count" as an RTS but let's be real here.
It also seems like it's mostly played by mexicans, not the f2p mobile game I'd guess they were into.
Anonymous No.1751811 >>1752155
Any Warcraft 2 players? I only really want to do tides of darkness and beyond the dark portal once each, so which campaign should I do for them? It's hard to find out which the "canon" one is, since apparently for BtDP they're both canon but I can't get an answer for ToD
Also, as a bonus, is the seemingly high effort it takes to get a version of pre-reforged WC3 worth it? Or should I just deal with the remastered. Inplayed WC1 remastered, but with original graphics on, and I'm doing the same for 2.
Anonymous No.1752155 >>1754557
>>1751811
BDP both are cannon but in ToD only the Human Campaign is canon.

Second question, if you're just playing the Campaign for Warcraft 3 I would just get the original. If you're into Customs or Melee online games, Reforged is what most people are playing and is the only real option if you want to get into that scene.

WC1 and WC2 are best played with the Remastered versions, with old or new graphics since BBI are actually cool devs and did a good job.
Anonymous No.1754557
>>1752155
Thank you anon. I've been doing human for ToD and so far it's great. Massive improvement of a game over Warcraft 1.
Anonymous No.1755489 >>1755602
why is it primarily Europeans that play this game. what makes it so unattractive to Americans?
Anonymous No.1755602
>>1755489
Amerimutts are souless animals, they are programmed to coomsoom the current slop even if it is shit.
Anonymous No.1764668
Holy playing undead is hard as fuck compared to human. everything is straightforward as human, but undead I have to jump through goofy ass hoops to make anything work.

When I get good at UD i'll be able to stomp everyone's shit effortlessly
Anonymous No.1771814
I'm getting better bit by bit. It feels really good when the games are neck and neck. Slugfests. Fucking love this game
Anonymous No.1771949 >>1772654 >>1772675
Playing W3. I've no interest in multiplayer. Should I just use the Classic graphics or are the Reforged ones okay. I kind of like the look of both. Should I do reforged with some things switched to classic or just play classic. I kinda like the new portraits in reforged since they look like the characters in WoW. For example I don't like thralls white eyes in the classic portrait.
Anonymous No.1772654
>>1771949
Reforged graphics are dogshit.

Only acceptable way to play with Reforged graphics if you REALLY want to IMO is to enable them but keep Units, Heroes, and Icons to Classic HD. You get the nicer environments and neat effects but playability and readability is not as impacted. Also Enable "Classic sounds" in the menu if you enable them, it keeps death sounds consistent.

You can enable Reforged portraits, but they look like dogshit and you should appreciate the old ones.

You should also man up and play online. Join and quit 10 games in a row and then play in the sand box with other shitters. Low level games actually fun since you're both bad.
Anonymous No.1772675
>>1771949
I like classic graphics but reforged spell effects, call me a fag but it just works.
Anonymous No.1772984 >>1773086
>Bought this game from the latest discount
>Start having fun
>Faces Blademaster
>Instant lose
How do you even beat this fag? I have reach a point that I 100% winrate against anything else but insta lose to this fag
Anonymous No.1773086 >>1773435
>>1772984
What race? Blademaster can be a menace but most that play him are one tricks and are easily dealt with
Anonymous No.1773435 >>1773674 >>1773677
>>1773086
I'm undead. I usually do the fast expand with anubarak, The wind walk harass is just brutall on maps i can't close my gold mine and clones are practically unbeatable to me by the time i know which is the real he will shuffle again and genocide by spiders
Anonymous No.1773674
>>1773435
Alright, so with Undead you will need to not get Sacrificial Skull and instead opt for a Dust of Appearance from your shop if it's Blademaster. It's a little trickier with Cryptlord because of a lack of healing.

Make a 6th acolyte after your 5th and bind it to a hotkey and chuck it to your enemy base to scout.

If you see no Barracks and a War Mill, you're going to get hard harassed by Blademaster because he's likely rushing Wind Riders. Knowing this, you get a Rod of Necromancy and Dust of Appearance. Take two green camps, and on your second green camp drop Dust of Appearance on yourself before last hitting the main creep as he's likely gonna try to steal the XP and item. Keep doing this on your next orange camp. Pop Rod of Necromancy on cooldown, this is important cause it's going to be what has him fuck off. Observe which clone does more damage and commit until he runs away. When he does, creep orange camps. If you really shoved him off, invade his side of the map for an orange camp. Make sure to Tech 2 ASAP and make a Graveyard for Gargoyles. Lich 2nd is pretty good but if you're feeling lazy Pit Lord 2nd for Howl will let your gargoyles sweep Wind Riders.

Sometimes you'll see Blademaster with headhunters, so park your scout near enemy altar at the start to confirm. Pull all your ghouls from your treeline and sick them on the enemy army when they arrive. You put two ghouls on the enemy hero and kite. Run around in circles if you have to. When a ghoul gets to around 40% health, get it back onto the tree line for lumber. Making a few extra ghouls is OK if you forgot your Graveyard for Fiends, but you have to invade and slap around the hero to kill their Healing Salve. Damage against Blademaster and Far Seer sticks. At this point if you fended them off, you can choose what to do.
Anonymous No.1773677
>>1773435
And: if this is about hitting your gold mine before anything else, make one nerubian tower when you suspect a Blademaster, and make a 4th ghoul at home. While you're away, keep creeping. You will have a level advantage over him. Invade his green camps.
Anonymous No.1775898 >>1776274 >>1779513
I finally made WR ratio 50 50 wth orcs on W3Champs!

Damn its hard to enter this game
Anonymous No.1775899
>>1680400
They fixed a lot of things now
>>1726838
Lmao
Anonymous No.1776274 >>1776354
>>1775898
Grats man!

You're ahead of people who have spent 20+ years playing this game. Glad you're out there crushing.
Anonymous No.1776354 >>1776715
>>1776274
>You're ahead of people who have spent 20+ years playing this game.
didnt singsing hit 1700 mmr with only 2 weeks of gameplay?
Anonymous No.1776715 >>1776798
>>1776354
Yes

To be fair Singsing is a Dota 2 pro and if you've ever played Dota 2 before playing Warcraft 3 1v1 you'll get a massive sense of deja vu. A lot of heroes are identical, a lot of mechanics are similar, the feel of the game is the same.

If anything Warcraft III feels like Dota 3 lol. It's dota with armies
Anonymous No.1776798
>>1776715
I played a lot of HoN with no dota knowledge. Seeing dota 2 drop, seeing iconic WC3 heroes remade with modern graphics and HoN abilities mixed together in new heroes was such a fucking rush
Anonymous No.1777381 >>1778349 >>1779513
anons, lets play some custom maps together
Anonymous No.1778349 >>1778683
>>1777381
i'm down. we should do canned bread. uther party. or FFA's on random maps
Anonymous No.1778683
>>1778349
ok... should we coordinate?
Anonymous No.1779513 >>1780915
>>1775898
>wth orcs
baka
>>1777381
Problem with trying to organize WC3 games (kinda similar to DoW) is version autism. Some people will ONLY play reforged, others will ONLY play pre-reforged, with the potential for further autism sprinkled down the middle.
Anonymous No.1780915
>>1779513
most people play on Reforged now desu

only one person needs the latest version of the map
Anonymous No.1781168 >>1781255
>>1696860
hahaha no, is fucked to the core graphic or not
Anonymous No.1781255
>>1781168
works on my pc
Anonymous No.1781941 >>1783172
Ok I have cracked the code on how to actually enjoy watching Happy, you need to wait until he stops being a faggot farming noobs on bnet and actually plays on wc3champions.
Anonymous No.1782112 >>1783292 >>1863298
>Put so much time and effort learning undead
>1k mmr
>Learn Blade master harass in 3 days
>1.3k mmr
Is undead just not a good race for beginners/bad micro. I feel Blade master and Illidan are just way too imba. I usually go for anubarak fast expand and I know arthras+lich should be good but I can't make it work
Anonymous No.1782765 >>1783292
>>1696860
30 fucking gbs and shitty extra alt death sounds nobody asked for. Unplayable.
Anonymous No.1783172
>>1781941
>Ok I have cracked the code on how to actually enjoy watching Happy, you need to wait until he stops being a faggot farming noobs on bnet and actually plays on wc3champions.
i kekd
Anonymous No.1783292
>>1782765
The real crime is the removed voice lines.
>>1782112
1. Fast harass has always been one of the best strategies in human history, most people crumble to it.
2. Orc is gay.
Anonymous No.1784418 >>1863298
>hear how shit Reforged is
>installed old TFT to see how much better it is
>camera zoomed in all the way
>no real widescreen support
>hero levels don't show up
>no high refresh rate support
>no 5/5 gold worker marker

Reforged isn't that bad
Anonymous No.1784500 >>1784507 >>1784587
I bought this when it was on discount out of nostalgia and then I remember how cancer BM. Seriously who tf thought it was a good idea to have invi at level while having stupidly high base movespeed
Anonymous No.1784507
>>1784500
Never liked how the best orc hero was a fucking samurai expy and not a roided-out STR orc with an axe. A troll should've been the AGI hero.
Anonymous No.1784587 >>1785043
>>1784500
BM's are paper tigers man. They're annoying but if you knock out their salves after they run away they're free
Anonymous No.1785043 >>1785977
>>1784587
I know that in theory the guy creeping should outlevel the BM but its too fking cheesy desu
Anonymous No.1785977
>>1785043
yeah in a "difficulty to perform vs. effectiveness" ratio BM is kinda fucked. Every race has their version of that though. Dreadlord for UD counters BM hilariously and enables off meta play. Ghoul/dreadlords is a hero killer if you're aggressive enough
Anonymous No.1796425 >>1796615
>Reach 1600 mmr in w3champion
>Only played BM harass nothing else
This hero does not belong in this game. Literally the only one who could stand up to me is blind elf guy with manaburn. The rest kneels to me, they never stood a chance, I can run to their base before they kill a single creep while also buying circlet on the way,

>Human
Gaymage is squishy AF and loves to expand for more more harassment targets
Pala is not even a real hero at level 1
Only real threat is mountain king stun

>Orc
Almost always a battle of BM harassment other wise ez freewin

>Undead
Literally free win. None of their heroes are a threat ever. If they don't block off mines its worker genocide

>Elf
Demon hunter with mana burn is by far the hardest to deal with but his archers are free food, the other heroes are just jobbers

This hero is just ridiculous being able to harass with practically zero risk is not balance Its just unfair that one side gets to be easy predator while the other guy has to micro to not lose unit to something he can't even see, "but dust" Literally doesn't work with how fast he is. Not surprised washed up pro like grubby keeps whining about elf since only elf since its the only race who can really stand up to this abuse. I bought this game expecting decently balanced esport game but BM single handly ruin that
Anonymous No.1796615 >>1797008
>>1796425
>1600, you just got out of the mmr hell. The grind starts now. BM will not be able to carry your ass to 2k.
Anonymous No.1797008 >>1797493
>>1796615
the fact that it can carry you up to 1600 is insane. UD is struggle bus. 1600 is something crazy like top 18% of all players

NE needs a nerf. Grub just got bodied by Smurf all-in'ing and just went back to DS. REVERT LUMBER NERF
Anonymous No.1797493 >>1799769
>>1797008
Just don't play undead its the least noob friendly
>Need to know animal spawn + route
>Need to learn goldmine block for each map
>Ghouls being made of tissue paper
>Fiends being fat=less massable
The meta is DK + lich with their burst but that would too hard for noobs. CL is a great noob hero but jobs to any form of dispel. Pretty obvious UD was the last race blizzard made.
Anonymous No.1799769 >>1800741
>>1797493
I'm too stubborn to quit UD. It feels like everything I have sucks because DK at 3 and Lich at 1 is strong.

I have been having success if I just go fast fiends and stop fucking with ghouls at all. I hate ghouls, but I want to love them. They're so weak, you want them with frenzy and at least 2/2, but that's such an investment when Creature Attack upgrades scale more easily.

I would have to go Ghoul/Necro to be economic with upgrades, and I don't feel like Dreadlord most of the time
Anonymous No.1800741 >>1803462
>>1799769
Just go TeD build but open with instead CL.CL is amazing at creeping. Problem with dk+;lich is you are probably not getting much value from your burst if you aren't good at it, where other heroes just use abilities off cooldown and get huge value
Anonymous No.1802154 >>1803459
I'm still mad dark ranger is not an undead her. Who thought faglord was a good idea when you don't even use him in campaign
Anonymous No.1803459
>>1802154
I treat Dark Ranger like an Undead hero with DK first. Alchy and Firelord are cool though
Anonymous No.1803462 >>1803597
>>1800741
I have been playing with fast fiends and it's superior to ghouls. I'm 99% sure it's because I'm still new but god it's so much easier to pick fights with a good amount of fiends rather than deal with ghouls.
Anonymous No.1803597 >>1808368
>>1803462
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8hRXsLemdY
This is superior and doesn't kneel to early aggression, this allows you to creep ASAP with rod
Anonymous No.1807370 >>1807435
>>1677157 (OP)
>why or how
Grubby.
Anonymous No.1807435 >>1807491
>>1807370
The streamers have come and gone but at least we have a new generation of people who now play Warcraft 3.

The roots will heal in time.
Anonymous No.1807491
>>1807435
Yeah because of Grubby
Anonymous No.1808368
>>1803597
Been experimenting with this and...

I'm sold. This is a solid build. I prefer it over the "standard" Altar > Crypt opener.

Thanks!
Anonymous No.1811604 >>1811657 >>1815726
Warcraft 3 coming to game pass.

And it's going on sale at the end of the month too.

Fellow gamers. How can we torpedo this and ensure Warcraft 3 multiplayer completely dies?
Anonymous No.1811657
>>1811604
>How can we torpedo this and ensure Warcraft 3 multiplayer completely dies?
just host games with racial slurs.
Anonymous No.1815726
>>1811604
>Fellow gamers. How can we torpedo this and ensure Warcraft 3 multiplayer completely dies?
Just spam cheese in ladder
Anonymous No.1818118 >>1818254
>UD v UD
>identical build orders
>identical armies
>i get outcrept anyway

fuck it feels bad but at least my games aren't blow outs anymore
Anonymous No.1818254
>>1818118
Just do creeplord ghoul rush bro
Anonymous No.1821222
>VPN error
>The game you attempted to join could not be found
>Error after closing the game
Why is this game so buggy? I'm losing intereste searched online for fixes and not a single one work
Anonymous No.1824993
New PTR!

>Bug fixes
>Tinker and Dark Ranger Buffs
>Pandaren nerfs
>3D Menus have been put in the game

Full Notes:

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/warcraft3/t/version-203-ptr-notes/36314/19
Anonymous No.1825557 >>1826104 >>1827605
>No BM nerf
>No DH nerf
Dead game
Anonymous No.1826104
>>1825557
>asking for BM to be nerfed

why
Anonymous No.1826919 >>1827109
The sad truth is it hasn't been the same since Reforged. I burned so many great hours in Custom Games and roleplaying maps. I remember Skype calls, before Discord; back-logging our canon and scheduling games in Kingdoms & Nations, Titan Land, Azeroth Wars, Dark Age of Warcraft, etc..

Hell I got a fuckin' smokeshow Iraqi-Syrian GF out of it all who wrote like a badass and fucked like an animal. Shit, there were tons of talented writers and world-builders in this little tiny-ass community.

Wherever you bunch of autists are at, I miss you guys. Never another RTS multiplayer experience like it.
Anonymous No.1827109 >>1828121 >>1832682
>>1826919
As much as I'm having fun with Warcraft melee PvP and encourage people to try it, this is true. The era in which this game thrived, specifically it's custom scene, will never be replicated in the same way you can't ever go back in time. The way games are now are better in some ways, worse in many others, but a lot of that has to do with us being in different stages of our lives.

I feel the balance of Warcraft PvP is actually quite good, and the game is more interesting for it. But the Custom Games scene being peak back in the day is mainly because we didn't have a lot of tools or kits or easy access to create games. It really was the gateway to be creative much in the same way Half Life modding back in the day was. When people froth at the mouth about Blizzard's shit policy regarding IP rights in Custom Games, it's like, you're missing the point. Custom Games aren't coming back to the way they were no mater what the policy says. Custom Games now pale in comparison to what they were. The tools are just to cumbersome compared to what we have now.

At the very least people are playing Warcraft melee now. Back in the day no one cared about it since customs stole the spotlight utterly.
Anonymous No.1827605 >>1827764
>>1825557
+1 BM should not be allowed to be permanently invisible while moving at max speed. DH manaburn is just unfun hero to play against
Anonymous No.1827764 >>1827786
>>1827605
There is nothing wrong with BM.

Responses against him are binary and can be stacked against him to make him useless.

BM is fine and only noobs cry about him. Get better.

>t. orc
Anonymous No.1827786 >>1827911
>>1827764
>reddit spacing
>orc faggot
Not surprising. BM threatening to kill your stuff while not being in any danger is not balance. The BM is playing at easy mode while his opponent has to micro better to not lose any unit
Anonymous No.1827911 >>1828306
>>1827786
put up two towers near your workers and you won't have to worry about him

elf is resistant to harass because of lumber bullshit at can harvest all over the map

ud can play goofy games with acolytes while bm worthlessly chases them around thanks to nerub tower

orc has burrows

human can just arcane tower and them militia to force a TP

BM harass past level 2 tops is wasting BM's time and is a signal for you to invade his shit and kill his barracks if he's head hunting or his burrows --> bestiary if he's doing wind rider rush

I can sympathize if he's doing annoying plays with staff, but BM on his own is not that overwhelming. Only thing about him that's annoying is that you HAVE to play around him and HAVE to specifically counter him
Anonymous No.1828121 >>1828155
>>1827109
Even with the actual game, the truth is it was so full of Sweats most of us never lasted longer than our first 2-3 tries at it.

It's gone and never coming back. Honestly at this stage of my life though I wish I'd spent my high school years investing in my community and a better life for myself in the future instead of recreating the Arathorian Empire in WC3 custom maps for the fifth time. But hey, it was a good time.

At least threads like this let us oldfags reminisce and feel like it wasn't a total waste.
Anonymous No.1828155 >>1828157 >>1829079
>>1828121
>Even with the actual game, the truth is it was so full of Sweats most of us never lasted longer than our first 2-3 tries at it.

I felt that way too back then. But coming back to it now, it's kind of silly to expect to win at a game as deep and dynamic as Warcraft PvP. I have been appreciating it a lot more, and I'm not good at it at all. So long as I get my wins I'm happy, and I wish more people would see how good the core game is.
Anonymous No.1828157
>>1828155
win at a game off the bat*
Anonymous No.1828306
>>1827911
>BM on his own is not that overwhelming. Only thing about him that's annoying is that you HAVE to play around him and HAVE to specifically counter him
Except BM is meta even in the highest level, this hero isn't just a noob stomper like many orc fags want you to believe.The fact that the solution is way harder than playing BM yourself + it doesn't result in an outright win is ridiculous, meanwhile BM can end the game right there and there how is that even remotely fair? If I stop a baneling bust in SC2 thats it I win, You stop BM's faggotry in this game? Congrats you can now play a fair game.Windwalk cd needs to start after he attack so he is actually taking risk, not like mirror image is bad as well.
Anonymous No.1829079 >>1829425
>>1828155
I definitely see it and don't deny it. It literally got that genre's formula to perfection. It truly is a flawless game but honestly Campaign and Custom Games will always be what I remember.
Anonymous No.1829425
>>1829079
Having played the Campaign recently, it's aged mostly well. Some missions are just a drag though. Peak are the Undead and Night Elf campaigns, and TFT is better than RoC as a whole package.

Core WC3 PvP isn't flawless but close to it. Night Elf needs better unit variety and a nerf to their lumber rate but a buff to a few of their building's lumber cost.
Orc is actually in a good spot.
Undead needs the most buffs, but in multiple tiny ways.
Human is pretty good as well, most balanced IMO.
The mechanical requirements to play Warcraft 3 aren't much higher than Dota 2, just surprised it isn't more popular considering it plays like a super-MOBA that doesn't have you carrying 4 teammates every game.
Anonymous No.1832682 >>1833723
Okay I held off on playing direct strike because it just looked like protect the lich king/nexus wars and I've already played those a billion times. But holy shit now that I've actually tried it I'm really fucking impressed. Another example of a custom game that would work perfectly as a mobile game if it doesn't exist already.
I don't disagree with people like >>1827109 that say WC3 custom games peaked because obviously that's true, we're not all in our teens anymore, etc. etc., but holy shit there's some real gems out these days with great effort in them. If only blizzard didn't bungle the fucking remaster it wouldn't feel like pulling teeth to get people on for them.
Anonymous No.1833652 >>1833755
So what's up with Bnet matchmaking alternating between utter pushovers and smurfs?
Anonymous No.1833723 >>1833755
>>1832682
Direct strike is trash its always an uphill battle of carrying your retards to the finish line while they refuse to build anything that makes sense, game would be billion times better as 1v1
Anonymous No.1833755
>>1833723
Can't you play it as a 1v1? I've only been trying it as 2v2s with friends in LAN and it works great there.
>>1833652
I feel like that's most games that don't have massive player populations for ranked.
Anonymous No.1834686
New PTR update.

Heavy armor is now 10% more resistant against piercing attacks.

More bug fixes.
Anonymous No.1837263 >>1837598
>"fuck this, i'm not paying for Reforged."
>log onto GameRanger
>max 20 brazilians and russians playing mongol lod and minidota

grim. do i just buy Reforged at this point to play.
Anonymous No.1837598
>>1837263
For $30 I can't say the quality of player gets any better but I guess you'd have better variety of custom games than that if that's really all they play.
Sorta on that note, does anyone have any idea why the Koreans just play that one fucking One Piece TD over and over and over?
Anonymous No.1838501 >>1840644
How is Spellforce 3 ?
Anonymous No.1840644
>>1838501
Honestly impressive, but the controls don't feel as smooth as a blizzard game to me. That, or I'm too much of an idiot to figure out how to turn on inverse drag scrolling
Anonymous No.1841361 >>1841947
>>1677157 (OP)
Fucking shill thread
Anonymous No.1841947
>>1841361
>"STOP PLAYING WARCRAFT 3"

no. i WILL get 1500 MMR and no one will stop me.
Anonymous No.1843608
>make ghouls
>fast 1 armor upgrade
>easy creeping, easy attacking

i've come around, ghouls are good they just require skill to use
Anonymous No.1846548
New PTR.

NELF BUFFS.

WHEN WILL IT STOP WHEN WILL NIGHT ELF BE REIGNED IN
Anonymous No.1847385 >>1854058
There was a thread on /vst/ i think where did those anons go ? It was rather active
Anonymous No.1854058
>>1847385
It's difficult to talk about Warcraft 3 on /vst/ without it becoming a Reforged hate thread. I understand Reforged was utter dogshit at launch but it's better today and the game itself is 10/10.
Anonymous No.1855238 >>1855256 >>1855266 >>1855274 >>1855279 >>1855286 >>1855295 >>1855305 >>1855315 >>1855320
>>1677157 (OP)
lol look at this guys
at 2k and still no sign on stopping
Anonymous No.1855256 >>1855266
>>1855238
were at 4k now lol whats your record?
Anonymous No.1855266
>>1855238
>>1855256
were now at 5k ooooh
Anonymous No.1855274
>>1855238
6k baybee
Anonymous No.1855279
>>1855238
7k and still going oooh
Anonymous No.1855286
>>1855238
lol this tower combo is sooo OP
Anonymous No.1855295
>>1855238
just a bit more cmon
Anonymous No.1855305
>>1855238
10k max level ronald kills
a world record?
Anonymous No.1855315
>>1855238
Im ending it at 12k for now 'cause it just keeps going, I still have chores to do and I dont want it running in the background
maybe 12k isn't that big of a record idk
Anonymous No.1855320
>>1855238
last update: I'm up at 13k kills now but I just closed the game : |
Anonymous No.1859040 >>1859043 >>1859380
So guys is anybody here interested in playing some mp ? (dont worry i suck in pvp but we can also play some custom maps too) i have Reforger and 1.30.1 with w3connect.
Anonymous No.1859043
>>1859040
Forgot to add to play during the weekend or tomorrow (friday)
Anonymous No.1859380 >>1859700
>>1859040
You got a discord or something?
Anonymous No.1859700
>>1859380
>discord
HELL NAH i mainly use Steam and GOG or in this case Battlenet choose your poison
Anonymous No.1863298 >>1864242
>>1782112
Undead is just the worst race thats kept down by butt hurt retards. Remember when blizzard was going to buff ghouls HP so they didn't instantly lose to Mountain King or Tauren Chieftan or anything and people cried over and over until blizzard walked back on the buffs. Its actually insane that people think footmen getting an extra 80 HP, 2 Armor all for the big disadvantage of costing 15 more gold and having .5 less DPS is balanced. You literally need a T3 tech just to make your basic melee unit usable as UD and shit like abominations are also worthless.

Its a faction entirely held up by 1 OP unit and good heroes

>>1784418
They added all that in updates pre reforged without the extra 30 GB of bloat and bugs and the full price tag
Anonymous No.1864242
>>1863298
>Its a faction entirely held up by 1 OP unit
OS?
Anonymous No.1868145
Stop playing Reforged. Stop giving slop attention. Stop listening to shills, leave Warcraft 3 in our memories where it belongs.
Anonymous No.1868247 >>1868286 >>1880922
>>1696860
Except it took out the shadow and lighting that was already in the game, and demands I buy Reforged to have the 2002 graphics feature back.
Anonymous No.1868286 >>1876879
>>1868247
No, that's not the case. Old client can be played online via GameRanger and is fully intact.

There are plenty of russians and brazillians to play dbz custom games with.
Anonymous No.1876879
>>1868286
>There are plenty of russians and brazillians to play dbz custom games with.
Anonymous No.1876890 >>1885348
My patience has ended.
Anonymous No.1880922 >>1882945
>>1868247
is that true for regorged 2.0? i've been playing it on classic because i dont like the look of classic HD or reforged
Anonymous No.1882945
>>1880922
no, it's not true.

Classic SD is the game as it was, even on Reforged client
Anonymous No.1885348
>>1876890
The pact is sealed.