

We will be watching here for general feedback, the Editor thread for mapmaker feedback, and the Balance & Map Pool thread for that topic (details below). We’ve also added some experimental modes like 24 player support for custom games. Join us in testing widescreen support, hero balance changes, and updates to Map Pools for 1’s, 2’s, 3’s, 4’s and Free-for-All. Warcraft III’s PTR is back and ready for your scrutiny.

Hail Warchiefs, Lichs, Commanders, and Keepers, Considering Warcraft 3 has lain dormant for so long, the sheer number of updates in this patch is impressive. They’ve added Widescreen Support, support for 24-player game modes, refreshed the map pool, rebalanced every race’s hero units, and upgraded the world editor. Grubby, for example, remains prominent in the Heroes of the Storm community as a streamer and shoutcaster.Īs for the patch, it’s a doozy. Though the glory days of Warcraft 3 are well in the past and most of these players have since retired from the scene, at least a few should still be familiar. Tech tree towers, follows a specific path of combinations to reach the ultimate tech tower of. Towers are grouped by tiers ranging from Tier 1 being the lowest, up to Tier 8 being the highest. The Invitational includes “Free-for-All, 4v4’s, and other friendly competitions” with a variety of Warcraft 3 personalities from the game’s history: Pumpkin TD is a random type TD where players construct random towers of random tiers that can be combined to form higher tier towers.

The Invitational coincides with a brand-new patch for Warcraft 3, now available on the PTR, which - more than 15 years since the game’s initial launch - includes an enormous number of balance changes. Instead, today Blizzard announced the Warcraft 3 Invitational to take place February 27 and February 28 on Twitch. While scuttlebutt about prominent Warcraft 3 community members being invited to Blizzard Entertainment fueled speculation about an imminent Warcraft 3 remaster, it turns out that isn’t the case - at least not yet.
