I don't want to say the controls are bad but I'm having a tough time playing.. not that it's a hard game, and I'm playing on the easy setting, but just the gameplay itself..

Maybe I overlooked this bit in the intro but how do I un-target an npc? like, I draw the box over the group of units I want to go fight something, but I've targeted a Grunt.. how do I tell him to stay home? or rather, how can I only target combat-npcs like farseers, headhunters etc.

These are my physical games. I personally love these old big boxes. The cover variants are super cool.

I love the new updated graphics and everything that 3.0.1 brings. It's not perfect, but it shows that the Warcraft 3 team is taking player feedback seriously, and I think as long time fans we should be happy with such quick reaction times. The game is in good hands.

I covered everything there is to know about the new patch - from updated terrain, to portrait animations, unit scaling and more. Always open for feedback!

Hey guys I am starting a new series where I ask pros/semi pros/really really good players to go over replays with me in which they describe what they are doing and why they are doing it. Basically to get into the mind of a player and their decision making. In the end I hope new and better players can learn something from each replay analysis.

First person up is narbu. He is a well known 2400 NE player. I did a second video with narbu/smurf as well which is also uploaded in the same playlist. The other game was NE vs NE and a weird one.

I hope to do more in the future. I need to let players get new replays with the new patch so there will be a small hiatus. Lemme know if there are things I can improve or if you have suggestions for people to do replay analysis with.

It seems to be the most anticipated RTS out there. Grubby did a review about two years ago. Has any of you guys played it recently? What do you think about it?

To me, it looks promising and I think it has a higher potential than Tempest Rising. Tempest Rising seems to lack a lot of things for what it takes to be a full blown RTS experience.

Gauging community interest for a WC3 replay viewer in isometric/diorama style. Could be a fun way to experience some legendary matches in new ways.

Worth a shot?

Hey everyone!

Every internet connection loses a packet now and then, even a good one. Busy Wi-Fi, a long route across the world, a hiccup at your provider, and a small piece of game data never arrives.

Until now, every lost packet made your game stop and wait for it. You saw that as a short freeze or stutter. Lose a few percent and you got dozens of them every minute. Players with 1–3% packet loss froze about 6 times as often as players with none.

Hence W3Champions is happy to announce a revolution in Warcraft III: The end of packet-loss induced lag spikes!

What changed

We have extensively simulated the different network conditions in our lab - but we have also run this in the background of your games within the past week and we were able to confirm our experiments. Your games now keep going even when you have packet loss and they're as smooth as if it never happened!

Lag spikes per minute (our network lab, 100 ms ping):

• 0.5% packet loss: 9 → 0
• 1% packet loss: 11 → 0
• 2% packet loss: 26 → 0
• 5% packet loss: 60 → 0

Cross-world games gain the most

The further you are from the server, the more packets get lost and the longer each one takes to come back. In our worst case, both players about 200 ms from the server with 5% loss, the game used to stutter about 70 times a minute. Now: zero.

What it doesn't fix

• High ping is still high ping. The game just won't stutter on top of it anymore.
• If your connection drops out for a few seconds, nothing can hide that.
• Some freezes come from the PC, not the network.

Still getting freezes? Send a Lag Report from the launcher by typing -lag in the game chat and reach out to us via Discord in ⁠#flo-discussion with the lag report id and a description. It really helps us.

How to get it

It's already live. Just keep your W3Champions launcher up to date.

GL HF!

W3Champions 1.6.23 has been released - fixing Mac and Windows for the new 3.0.1 patch!

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Thanks everyone!