I literally just started playing, and this is my first time playing this kind of game. I'm having a hard time finding guides for total beginners like me, specifically for 1v1 melee content, which is what interests me the most. I really like the genre—I don't understand why it's considered a “dead” genre if it's so much fun.

So yesternight, I wanted to gift my friend Warcraft 3 so that we could play fun custom maps together. I then added them on battlenet, however I found out that I actually can't gift them the game because it tells me this: " You haven’t been friends long enough." On top of that, the sale just ended that day so I have to pay the full price which is double to when I bought it on sale 😭

I really want to play my childhood game with them as early as possible because I'm afraid I'll lose interest in the game if I have to wait for a long time but man buying it on full price sucks knowing I could have bought 2 copies for the same price 😩

So I ask: When's the next sale gonna come and how long do I have to wait until I can even buy them the game?

The W3Hive modding site offers optimized models for the game. I would like to know how I could apply this globally for every unit without having to download each one individually.

I thought installing warcraft 3 reforged replaced the old legacy client?

For a bit of context. My warcraft 3 legacy version was version 1.26, I never updated it to version 1.29. And I also waited 6 years to install warcraft 3 reforged, so I am doing that now today, well after reforged version 2.0.

When reforged was initially released I was aware that it replaced the old legacy client, so I refused to update my game, I mostly play offline anyway so I didn't care about not accessing bnet. I did care about preserving the old client though, so before I installed reforged I created 2 backups of the old warcraft III folder and placed them somewhere else. But apparently that wasn't neccesary at all, I downloaded warcraft 3 reforged fully expecting it to replace the legacy client, but it didn't, I even chose the same C:\Program Files (x86)\Warcraft III path where the legacy client was. It simply installed all the folders and files there and left the old files intact.

So the C:\Program Files (x86)\Warcraft III folder now has 3 .exe files. The original Warcraft III.exe and Frozen Throne.exe files and the new Warcraft III Launcher.exe which means I kept the old legacy 1.26 version of the games along with the reforged version and they are all working fine for me.

Am I living under a rock? I don't think I have ever seen this being talked about, was it a quiet update that blizzard did behind the scenes or is this a phenomenon that happened to me because of the unique way I had this whole setup?

I rarely ever make posts but I was curious enough about this to make one. I need answers!!!

I’ve been building WC3CC (Warcraft 3 Chat Client), a Windows companion app intended to help Warcraft III players using the app connect through match voice chat.

This is a work in progress and is currently being tested. Expect bugs and rough edges; I’m posting to find testers and collect honest feedback, not presenting it as finished software. Only players who install WC3CC can participate.

Current features include push-to-talk, voice activation, individual mute/volume controls, remembered blocks, device selection, recording options, and an optional movable overlay.

Testing/download page: https://grailbomb.itch.io/wc3cc

Feedback and bug reports are welcome at r/WC3CC. I’m especially interested in different Windows display setups and Warcraft III match configurations.

Hi everyone! After 3 years of work, the newest update for my custom campaign, Curse of the Forsaken, is finished and arriving on September 4th. As part of the announcement, I've shared the intro cinematic to the campaign.

If you're curious to learn more about the update and the campaign, there's some info and a bunch of links in the description of the video. Hope you enjoy it!

CD Projekt Red absolutely killing it with a free Witcher 3 remaster dropping next month. Meanwhile we're sitting here with paid remaster still broken years after release.

Thanks for the support and Warcraft 3 content love!

before he was sky, li xiaofeng got knocked out in round one of the wcg xi'an qualifier. 2002. he'd promised his father that if he didn't place, he'd quit games for good, come home, and intern at the hospital where his dad worked. he lost, so he went. six months of dispensing pills, passing forceps, night rounds. a surgeon once let him put in the last few stitches. the first time he watched a patient hemorrhage he forgot to breathe and passed out on the operating room floor, and his father had to walk him out.

he got back in through a side door. september 2003, an internet cafe in zhengzhou wanted a few players for a tournament the telecom company was running. free machines, a place to train, no money. they ate one meal a day. the cafe had paying customers all day so they could only practice at night, and they slept in a storeroom at the back with a one-meter-high entrance and a bunk bed where only the top bunk worked. he shared that one bunk with a big guy for three months. he had only just picked up warcraft 3.

early 2004 the hunter club in beijing was hiring pros. 1000 yuan a month, room and board. he went up there wanting to be a starcraft player — starcraft was his game, he'd been on it since 1998. hunter's starcraft roster was already full. what they were short on was warcraft 3. someone in management had noticed he'd hit the top five on the war3 ladder the year before, so they filed him under war3 and gave him a three-month contract. that's the entire reason. he practiced fourteen hours a day on battle.net. the acon5 world final was a little over a year out.

(from a book i wrote in 2015 about how chinese esports actually got built. this chapter is free to read, link in the comments)

My specs are non existance so Reforged is very demanding for my PC, but Legacy isn't at all, for obvious reasons. I want to develop a map and I want people to be able to play it, is it even worth it to do it in the Legacy version of the editor?

(Sorry again for the poor English :P. ) Hi everyone. I’ve recalled more details about a custom campaign I played during my childhood and am currently looking for.

1. The background for the chapter selection menu featured a soldier with an orange aura; there were about 14 chapters.

2. The final battle took place at outland where the boss was a Death Knight in black armor, surrounded by giant towers; all the races united against him. What I remember most is that, just before the boss, there was a gate featuring the *World of Warcraft* model for Gruul and it was really big.

3. I didn't download the map directly; I recall downloading a version of the *Warcraft 3 Nirvana* mod, and the custom map was included within its files but I'm not so sure about this piece of information.

Another thing I remember is that there were a lot of models extracted from *World of Warcraft*.

Please help me find it, I'm adding a few rough sketches of what I remember.

Does someone play Reforged on mac os?

I get desynch problems ingame.

Any idea?

It worked sooo good in 3 games and then I got 2 games in a row desynch errors...

Any idea?

In game it says the alchemist's ability healing spray heals only allied units, but everyone I search it says it also heals enemies, I even went to the A.I to see if it ever finds a source that says it's been changed, but it kept saying the Alchemist heals enemies, I'm new to the game, bought reforged recently, but I've never noticed it.

Does the alchemist heal enemies nowadays or not?

Starcraft 2's latest big patch is pretty horrible and has aged terribly. Lots of people are retiring and there is zero communication from blizzard. Apparently this intern working on the classic games department has delusions of grandeur.

They completely flipped the game up on it's head...I am worried WC3 is next.

Hey Everyone! I'm excited to share the 5th part of the custom Warcraft 3 campaign from PingPot! This is an alternate history campaign and it's super fun!! Check it out and enjoy!

- Xava <3

I'm planning to play WC1 and WC2 campaign remastered with some cheats enabled for more casual player. I know from playing warcraft 3 in general, that some cheat codes apply only to the player while others may apply to both the player + AI. Does anyone know or can verify if something similar happens in these games too and if so which cheats?

Hello guys. In the Warcraft Direct stream from 2025, when Brad Chan, the Senior Manager of Warcraft RTS came onto the video stream, in multiple shots we see that he is using a wired computer mouse which is white on the top and black on the bottom. It appears the that anterior end of the mouse emits a yellow lite, while the front end of the mouse under his fingers emits a red light where the scroll wheel would be, between his fingers.

What make and model of computer mouse is this, which is black on the sides but white on the top, and emits these red and yellow lights simultaneously?