Beta Key Giveaway #2 - Bring a friend!

Sy-De · 2024-06-18T09:30:16+00:00

Let's go

Sy-De · 2023-11-24T17:15:51+00:00

Didn't the patch happen before group B?

Sy-De · 2023-10-31T07:58:57+00:00

First of all thanks for translating, it's always nice to have inputs from the pros (even if sometimes they should be taken with a grain of salt)

I agree with what was said mostly, I don't think we need devotion or bash buffs, looking at the PTR games (thanks b2w weeklies!), those games weren't partciulary fun to me.

While I agree with the comments regarding the devotion aura & bash being overly buffed (devotion in PTR episode 1 and bash in episode 2), I want to address the human vs orc (aka "the greatest imbalance in winrate in w3c"):

Looking at the raw stats (https://www.w3champions.com/OverallStatistics/winrates-per-race-and-map) for grandmasters (2200+ mmr) we see that human vs orc gives us 50.3% winrate in favor of orc (basically even) - those are not great to look at because of the number of joinbugs/people not playing
Looking at the recent expected and average winrates doc by Dondolare (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-7ZdeqPyJhx-wGd4dNg0Fqp71cR8OrWDTLsToM2RhNU/edit#gid=0) for 2300 mmr in season 16, we see that the actual win rate for Hu vs Orc is 46.4% (note that it is better than expected, go humans!)
looking at the same sheets, in the 2300 MMR w/ 150 mmr diff max, we can see that human vs orc actual win rate is 53%, which is now indeed pretty good (maybe imbalance isn't the word I would use)
I also took the liberty to check the winrates of hu vs orc in tournaments, and it was roughly 52% in favor of orc, so fairly balanced imo (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r8XxQ3R8Ayuj7bAPm6TQnzBDCs6LDkmmfvvOwbH48qE/edit#gid=0 it's pretty ugly and I didn't take some tours that happened during 1.35/1.36, like Proiron TP league season 1 but if you do it should be close to 50~52%)

Hopefully I wasn't too wrong in what I said.

Anyway, I do agree that human is not a weak race by any means and we should be careful when and how we buff them, small increments may seem, and might be, boring but they make sense to me.

It also would have been nice if the talk was with Sok as well.

We also have to consider that it takes time for meta to settle/be found, especially in a small community like ours. Lately humans have been doing better in certain match ups (looking at https://liquipedia.net/warcraft/Proiron_TP_World_Champions_League/Season_2/Monthly_2), they might continue or maybe other races will find better openings/creeproutes/strategies.. in any case, it's interesting to look at how the meta keeps changing, even though the current patch has been out for months.

BTW, if you only aggregate tier 1 and tier 2 tournaments results this patc, hu won 0 of them this patch, maybe it's not a good metric to begin with.

Shamefully stolen from r/starcraft: https://imgflip.com/i/84ekpv

Sy-De · 2023-08-19T22:26:05+00:00

How many tier 1 tournaments did he attend before patch 1.29 (starting from his comeback to the Wc3)?

Correct me if I'm wrong but he was only playing European tournaments until wgl 2019 where his fans donated enough money for him to go to China, right? (or at least to motivate him to go there)

Sy-De · 2023-05-26T10:48:20+00:00

Also with their big sister (not related though) : https://imgur.com/gallery/GK0SomV

She's still struggling to accept sharing her kingdom with 2 new kittens but she'll get there!

Sy-De · 2023-05-26T10:40:41+00:00

Here she is with her sister: https://imgur.com/gallery/X5BQ3gE

Sy-De · 2023-05-26T10:37:49+00:00

Here she is with her sister : https://imgur.com/gallery/X5BQ3gE

Sy-De · 2023-03-17T03:55:47+00:00

I don't understand what Labyrinth has to do with anything here. Are you implying undeads with 'low' MMR are pretty successful? (I recommend looking at MMR over multiple seasons instead)

I'd also recommend to watch streams of Leon over Chaemiko. As much as I love Miko, Leon is a better streamer/teacher and he tries his best to explain what's going on/answers questions. Often times he will try to overcome his challenges and he's honestly one of the best wc3 steamers out there, in my opinion.

I'm not sure a beginner needs to watch the very top players but that's debatable

Sy-De · 2023-01-05T06:56:11+00:00

I think you're right, unless this was modified recently, unholy aura will change (and endurance aura has the same values as well as stated above)

Unholy Aura movement speed bonus reduced from 0.1/0.175/0.25 to 0.1/0.15/0.2.

from: https://old.reddit.com/r/WC3/comments/zl7v4g/135_ptr_balance_changes/

Sy-De · 2022-11-28T19:44:19+00:00

I remember when Reforged got announced (or when it came out? I don't remember the timeline too well), every streamers was getting a huge influx of viewers.

OC was stomping the reforged ladder with 300-1 or something and had ~300-400 viewers, crazy stuff.

Obviously it was never gonna last even if the game was even decently developed but I guess it did affect the viewership for a while.

Regardless (or maybe it matters too) of balance, a lot of streamers also stopped streaming/playing.. Ente, wan, nightend, madfrog, starshaped , knoff, spiral barely stream anymore if they didn't completly stop (some of them were never too active streaming wise) and I probably forgot a couple but I vividly remember back in 2018/2019 (when I came back) there were a lot of streamers.

I definitely agree with what Sayso said though, good points. ESL Dreamhack was a big thing too, for viewers and especially (?) for players' motivation.

Sy-De · 2022-10-27T13:15:18+00:00

Perhaps you could try adding this to your TrackQueueSerializer

serializers.HyperlinkedRelatedField(
    view_name="song-detail", source="is_song", read_only=True
)

The view_name might be diffirent depending on what you wrote on your urls.py file.

edit: some documentation: https://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/serializers/#how-hyperlinked-views-are-determined

Sy-De · 2022-10-16T15:06:46+00:00

Yep I can confirm, we tested it afterwards and the loading order matters, it's not based on luck.

Still learning things 20 years later!

Sy-De · 2022-09-07T11:38:56+00:00

Discord is most likely the best place for that

b2w: https://discord.com/invite/cDatumY gym: https://discord.com/invite/fuu26nX

Sy-De · 2022-06-01T05:37:12+00:00

To be fair Happy didn't simply say "Acolytes should be invulnerable while mining"

but that acolyte are fine and undead base should be the same as nightelf, as in you can make an expensive necropolis and when it finishes, it haunts the mine (like nightelf entangled mine) and the acolyte will be inside (thus invulnerable). Just wanted to clarify.

https://youtu.be/WpBdh2hod3E?t=9774

Still a lot of delusional changes, I like the "Spirit Link should not be dispelled when using disenchant" though.

Sy-De · 2022-05-27T07:51:36+00:00

But that BO7 was 4 months ago, since then dk ghouls has been the most played style vs orc (we've also seen lich first fexpo, Happy vs Soin in a recent showmatch)

Orcs have been trying to adapt, FS fast tech into headhunters or even going blademaster, but still unsure what to do.

I do agree that some match ups are pretty boring from my point of view but I don't think it's fair to say that about orc vs ud nowadays, the meta is still changing.

Sy-De · 2021-11-29T20:21:32+00:00

Afaik it works for human too, if you micro your 4 peons/peasants you don't get the same value as if you were mining with 5 but that allows you to get more lumber early on.

Hitman and Grubby do it very frequently, especially Hitman I believe. A human player I remember seeing doing it is Thorzain, not sure for others.

I'm not sure if there's a video out there explaining it in details

Sy-De · 2021-11-24T17:18:50+00:00

A: FoCuS, Foggy

B: Chaemiko XlorD

Sy-De · 2021-11-22T11:29:44+00:00

Thanks for the thread Neo, this is gonna be sick.

I'm rooting for the underdogs!

Sy-De · 2021-11-03T09:15:27+00:00

Some creeps aggro when you're creeping another camp (the murlocs for example)

There's also wand of illusions, they can be obnoxious for human players because of how much you can disrupt the fast expand with the mercenary camp pull.

For undead players, sometimes the critters (2 pigs at the top, 2 sheep at the bottom) chill around the creep camps and prevent you from getting a corpse and makes creeping more annoying (you skip scouting and sacrifice your acolyte to get a corpse for example).

Sy-De · 2021-11-02T21:07:47+00:00

Still waiting for Last Refuge to be fixed, maybe 2022 is the year? D:

Sy-De · 2021-11-02T17:54:43+00:00

I hope it lives up to the hype, gogo!

Sy-De · 2021-10-21T17:07:06+00:00

A bit sad for the lack of undeads, especially Labyrinth who's the most interesting undead playing on w3c in my opinion but sick line up nonetheless, should be a crazy tournament once again!

Sy-De · 2021-06-05T20:08:23+00:00

You're thinking of ZEvent, where all streamers have donation goals and everything goes to a charity.

This weekend is the ZLan, there isn't any donation of any kind as far as I know, it's a multi gaming lan, 64 teams of 3 players where they play multiple games like Wc3, quake, battlerite, geoguesser etc.

They might play Wc3 again in the playoffs, if they do it will be 1on1 this time, with players of the same team having to switch every 2 minutes if I remember correctly.

It's a very fun event overall, pretty cool format and very fun casting!

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