5. Lightweight -Best player to never win a title. I am maybe the only person who hold this opinion, but I believe him to be the BEST overall orc FFA player to ever play and his human was equally as good as his orc.
Not the only one Steppin, TomToast has the same opinion :P.
It's too bad you won't come back to FFA. I know you don't want to tarnish your reputation and all ;). I am sure you will be back for Reforged, right?
6. Seksi - Best random player to play, extremely long period as a dominate player, similar to LW he is one of a few who definitely deserves an FML title.
See? If you come back to we can both play an FML season together. Plus with modern matchmaking and the influx of new players, BNet ladder will be active and competitive again.
This all sounds awesome. I know there are mixed feelings with the new graphics and audio but for one, it's not finished yet; and two, we will have the ability to choose between the old and new graphics.
Most importantly, we won't lose any players because the game engine is staying exactly the same and there is cross compatibility between Classic and Reforged (you can match someone playing on Reforged if you are on Classic and vise versa).
Regardless of the graphical and audio overhaul, the most exciting part of this news to me is the exposure and attention that WC3 will be getting. Blizzard is now working on this game again full time. Patches, advertisements, adding it to the BNet launcher... all of these things will bring a bunch of new players to WC3 and we should have active times again... like 10+ years ago. Plus a modern system regarding the ladder, ELO, MMR, online tournaments, etc for WC3!!! Our favorite game! (at least mine).
I look forward to playing BNet FFA Ladder on Reforged. We don't know if it will be cross realm or global matchmaking yet but they alluded to that. Regardless, with the influx of new players the ladder should be active and competitive again. I miss playing arranged team 2v2, 3v3, 4v4 games and being able to find ladder games quickly and compete. Even the BNet tournaments were fun and should be even better with Reforged.
The bottom line is Warcraft III is one of our favorite games ever, and to me the best RTS of all time. In the day we live in where RTS games are all but gone - with the industry being taken over by money-grabbing genres like MOBAs and Battle Royale - it's amazing that WC3 is getting this attention and will be brought to the mainstream once again. To me, this is the best news we could hear as WC3 and FFA fans.
I disconnected in the first game, and they agreed to manner rehost after about 15 minutes. I am only on mobile right now but DV posted the replay in discord. In hindsight, I should have known to scout for human island so that is all on me. I think all of us had good and bad moments so In that regard it was a Good game. Though It Would’ve been nice to have some down-to-the-wire moments with hero Arena in a 4 way if the island had garnered attention. gg
Say what you want about the strength of this final cast, it is a cast that represents what FFA is nowadays.
Final (Game 1)
ena1337 qwest Gradient SomethingWicked
Map: Neon City
Ena is trying hard to become friends with the other finalists, and his strategy worked in the couple games he won this season. In reality, his mechanical skills (macro, army compositions) as well as his decision making and micro with large armies are weak. Still, I think he will win this game as Neon City is a nice Orc map and his style may not be punished until after he wins a game. I like Orc on this map with good items, not too much gold, and with the best micro player to face being an Undead.
Final (Game 2)
qwest Gradient SomethingWicked Lil Tic
Map: Mur'Gul Oasis
Great map choice! Mur'Gul has had some memorable FFA games. I think it will be tough for Gradient or Lil Tic to win on this map. SomethingWicked would be my 2nd choice here, but I like Qwest to win in this game using more aggression than normal and taking control of the middle mines and mana fountain.
Final (Game 3)
Gradient SomethingWicked Lil Tic ena1337
Map: Sanctuary LV
Oh god, Sanctuary again! At least Qwest isn't in this one. Many gold mines and places to hide makes this a map that I predict Gradi to win. There are almost Zero good items for the Blademaster here and ena may have a difficult time thinking FFA on this grand of scale. If not Gradient, I think SomethingWicked will take this one. SW showed he can win in the late stages of a game and his micro can be an advantage in this game.
Final (Game 4)
SomethingWicked Lil Tic ena1337 qwest
Map: Purity 2.0
This map looks really cool. I see Ena staying 50 food and being super greedy and ending up losing to SomethingWicked or Qwest. I think this will be the best game of the series since the map is smaller and there will be more action. I will take Qwest here for his 2nd victory of the series.
Final (Game 5)
Lil Tic ena1337 qwest Gradient
Map: Hurricane Isle
With both Ena and Gradient looking for their 2nd win to not give up the crown to Qwest, Lil Tic will win this game as human on a ridiculous map.
Really though, Sanctuary and Hurricane Isle in the FML Finals 4 way??
Qwest won't need to win but with two wins locked up already, he will have his incentives. Elf can win on this map... Orc can too... But I forsee a Gradi suicide on Ena once he feels like the orc has gone too far. Lil Tic will win as the Human should and ultimately Qwest will win the season. A shoutout to SomethingWicked as I haven't really seen you play and may be underestimated you here. Remember though, that may be a good thing :)
HOPEFULLY these games are not all super long and boring... but I won't hold my breath. It will be interesting nonetheless to see how it all plays out.
In what world does the human get ignored in FFA against 3 UDs? Well, he was underestimated and I didn't look for island. Strangely enough the other players found the island (Reinforcement?) but didn't say anything. Would of been a closer game if someone pointed that out... or i scouted it.
It was unfortunate I disc in the first game, I had an almost perfect start and spawns were good. Next game spawns were bad and I lost first big 100 food fight putting me behind in levels. After watching the replay, Reinforcement took advantage of his opportunity to grab 4 expos, amassing almost 40k gold but somehow lost most of it quickly. AJ had some questionable decisions to kill his units and could never really recover his economy/macro. Nice fighting though. I fought poorly vs AJ but fought better as the game went on. Not as well as I'd like to play here... losing heroes here and there and not scouting Lil Tic's island.
Side note: Some of these FML games are still good, but FML games now seem to always be base races, lots of peacing, sitting around. Even if everyone has mass gold it's usually a base race or something similar in the end. I think this evolution of FML games loses a lot of the fun for me and some others. Any advantage you may have in mechanical skill (micro, macro, creeping, army compositions, etc.) is kind of lost in this format because there isn't much of an advantage to playing well early... maybe it even hurts you more often. I think we yearn for a competitive ladder again because with ladder those mechanical skills are rewarded more appropriately and there isn't multiple "peace and hoard at 50" times through each game for every player.
I don't want to take anything away from Lil Tic though, he was smart and patient (and friendly) and executed his strategy to win the game. gg wp
Nice win, Lil Tic. Thx for rehost. Congrats on finals!
The focus in making this map was to avoid having too much gold, and also avoid it from being too big of a map. I believe these goals were accomplished. The first play test ended in just over 2 hours and all of the gold on the map was drained. Since then, I have increased the gold slightly as well as increasing the health of the trees (more lumber per tree) since players were running out of lumber. I've also added to the middle.
Most 24 Player Maps are simply too large with too much gold. The layout of this map is similar in a sense to Marketsquare where each player has their own semi-enclosed base with an opening in the front. The creeps will be familiar as I used creep camps from some of the best maps (Marketsquare, Twilight Ruins, Lost Temple, etc.)
The first play test turned out to be a nice game and it felt surprisingly balanced for the first iteration. This time around should be even better and there will be a good turnout of FML/FFA players in this game!
Lastly, we picked a time that would interfere with FML games as least as possible. There should only be 1 FML game running which starts an hour earlier this Saturday. Come join us and look for the game to be hosted approx. 30 minutes before 14 EST / 20 CET this Saturday, OCT 14.
There are also 10x Waygates around the map, each porting to the opposite side. These are around a center ring in the map, helping to reduce the effective size.
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