WC3 custom map Direct Strike is a ton of fun, but I get so unlucky!

WC3 custom map Direct Strike is a ton of fun, but I get so unlucky! (Game played on 25-September-2024)
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[@ryxapenduwosk8111]

"send money" "I twitch primed"

[@maxpower586]

"How are we losing this?" Your team got a newb xD I mean this guy: 10:38 xD

[@DonaldPulsar]

Personally, I find Tech Wars 2 to be the best version of the Tug of War mods we have. Way more counter-play available, and Unit variability, and there's more the player can do to have skill expression. But Direct Strike is a great place to start!

[@kirktown2046]

Agreed, Tech Wars 2 is my fav tug-o-war map, a little slow and some balance issues (did they ever fix zealot spam? good players going all in on top lane then selling everything to max out zealots was basically uncounterable), but tons of skill expression and fun unusual units.

[@DonaldPulsar]

@@kirktown2046 That's definitely counterable. If you're aware of your opponent's strategy, there's nearly always options to stop it. With a zealot spam rush, if we have stealth tech, the predators would make short work of them. Ravens with turrets would also buy you time. Science Vessels will AoE them since they're considered Biological I believe. Lurkers. TW2 has so many options.

[@kirktown2046]

@@DonaldPulsar Not sure if you've faced it executed by top players, fairly sure I'm one of the better tw2 players, but many stopped playing around pandemic cause it was not counterable... Predators lose for the cost and it comes online before cloak, you only can have maybe 2-3 ravens and 1 tech, if that. Armor cheese doesn't work cause of their high base DPS and 2 attacks... Meta became a giant all in on protoss lane because of this. All the things you'd think would counter it doesn't, even desperate micro with all 3 scvs and missile strikes doesn't counter it.

[@对对对-s7y]

Seems like castle fight

[@watermelon58]

My favorite custom game

[@Dancyspartan]

except you make formations which makes it not like castle fight.

[@LordOfCrabz]

Love seeing you try other game modes!

[@lucasrezende7411]

it was a pleasure play with you grubby, even if it's on direct strike

[@vacyIII]

Always wanted to see you playing THE most (recent) popular wc3 custom map! Almost no queue time on these

[@TheCharlie67]

Yes I love this custom map! Thanks for playing it Grubby!

[@arbuz135]

if you're interested, Hundredkg makes even DS tournaments thanks for the video!

[@ryanlee5336]

actually this looks like a better castle fight thats more balanced

[@rubbishopinions6468]

I'd like to see more of this. Very fun.

[@Dela3asensei]

Grubby got me addicted to this gamemode lol

[@TheLesoro]

I definitely take pleasure of this custom maps era!

[@z3yjIn]

Love the idea, was thinkin on mapin a map like that too, but now I just gonna download it and play :D

[@Khantia]

Grubby, you should really try out Castle Fight. It's similar in premise, but completely different in execution. Personally I think it's better than Direct Strike :P

[@wCristiAlexw]

Direct strike is better. Lmao

[@Khantia]

@@wCristiAlexw reasons why I like Castle Fight better: 1) Each "race" has fixed buildings/units. There is no randomness involved. You can't end up with terrible composition (as Grubby did recently), or with overpowered composition. 2) You can be a lot more proactive in the game, as your worker has a rescue strike, or can build a tower to defend, or you can buy an item that helps you defend, and you don't need to wait 2 minutes until it's your turn again. The game is constantly going on. 3) There's a much bigger variety of units (although you can't play with all of them in the same game) 4) There are "special buildings", which give it a lot of flavor. 5) It's designed a lot better, as units are made to counter each other. It may happen to some extent in DS too, but not nearly on the level of CF. 6) It may lack "heroes", but it has a lot of heroic units. And even the regular units have some interesting special abilities.

[@planetary-rendez-vous]

Waiting for castle fight ranked in w3c

[@watermelon58]

That would be awesome

[@wCristiAlexw]

@@planetary-rendez-vous just trolling, but thanks mby i will try it.

[@JayFive5]

14:11 bro wtf LMAO

[@JB-jm6lo]

need a full game of lotr risk ffa

[@misiekm9179]

I love custom maps playing by you, just fun no competetive aspect.

[@lolialf]

the way his whole army is set not being symetrical is bothering me so much xd

[@TomKrall]

folks still playing footman frenzy? used to be my favorite custom.

[@ryanlee5336]

the lich backswing cast animation ruins his dps so much lol

[@ryanlee5336]

this is just castle fight lol

[@ericshun3331]

grubby im glad you streamed this. but your stream has caused a massive influx of new players that has nearly made this unplayable for veterans 🤣. I'd love if you showed people the guide and maybe a lesson on never go 4 mines🙏

[@rompeanus1730]

holy nice map

[@froshen6240]

Does Legion TD still works in W3 remastered? I played a ton of it. Maybe Grubby played it too :D

[@vaskokarakov9465]

wow, I cant believe grubby is uploading second custom game video withing a week. I'm not into regular wc3 rts melee myself, but I really enjoy watching grubby's skills. Im more into custom games myself, and this one is actually one of my favourites. also there is option to choose classic mode, then you get to pick a race and can only use the racial heroes and tavern heroes and only the of the race. im not gonna bother doing any back seating, enjoy yourself grubby ps, on the tooltip you can see what abilties the unit starts with and which ones require upgrades cause its a bit different than melee, some units have some abilites already learned and can learn some t2 abilites at t1

[@danieltodorov3863]

More custom maps content pls grub

[@AlexM-mh7gw]

more of this!

[@levenundag9723]

Grubby can you do more of this?

[@Tolmachev]

I'm waiting for you to play survival chaos

[@bobmarlej9106]

awesome map

[@ja3841]

Super cool mod

[@aurorasun-qs1pg]

Isn't it a starcraft 1 map first?

[@Bobsob]

Can you still play games like footman frenzy, tree tag and minerals?

[@Rugarus]

Yes, but ppl only join the most popular maps. If you host odd ball maps that aren't popular they take hours to fill.

[@PatrickGödde-x9e]

can someone tell me , if I can play this against AI ? and where to download it?

[@CapitanFarlic]

TE AMO PERRO 🤘🏾🖤

[@brennanreilly9475]

It's nexus wars but team

[@beefchalupa]

Grubbys still in 1v1 mode lol wasting money on items for his lich

[@Semicolon42]

Grubby casually ignoring all advice from teammates.

[@Avruko]

WTii collab when? :D

[@saimyintmyat9373]

Already done

[@catnip_addict_raccoon]

autobattle is one of my fav game genr, might buy w3 jsut to play it xD

[@JohnAndJohner]

You should own WC3 for all the custom games. I used to love Castle Fight, which is another autobattle-ish custom game.

[@СергейПастухов-э2м]

4 mines can't possibly be effective it is so long to pay off

[@jakublesiecki7153]

GG WP

[@47StormShadow]

is W3C champions only available in original graphics or can you play this mod with the new ones?

[@niclasrosin6652]

Both work I think

[@NeonBonesGuy]

Wow so much effort into this map, amazing what w3 players can do, do mappers get paid at least decently out of creating mods though? I'm really wondering

[@horsemumbler1]

No lol. Nobody's making money doing maps, custom or melee, for a game where tournament pizes that reach 4 digits are a big deal.

[@beef5able]

Modders do it for the love of the game

[@H25Invicta]

Fellas develop these map projects for years and don't make a dime. If you play a cool map it most likely exists because a cool guy thought it would be cool. Some map makers have patreons and whatnot for their projects, but these are rare cases and I wouldn't call it making money; just getting some of your pot noodles paid for.

[@NeonBonesGuy]

@@H25Invicta You need to put an accent on cool cuz god damn they really are cool

[@dima1353]

There is no "unlucky" here, you invested money as if you were playing Warcraft, but this is a pure red alert.

[@kirktown2046]

Hate this map in starcraft 2... It's the only thing anyone plays in arcade :( So many excellent maps that aren't played cause of DS. The originals DS maps on broodwar were much more micro intensive and crazy, these latest versions are slower and lack worker cheese/micro. Civilization Wars I think has a tighter balanced/gameplay experience for a very similar wc3 map concept.

[@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi]

Meh SC2s arcade is super shallow and bad

[@kirktown2046]

@@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi that's ridiculous, it has hundreds of deep complicated maps... But the interface is clunky and slow and nobody plays them.

[@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi]

@@kirktown2046 Indeed its ridiculous how much of a bad job Blizzard did with the editor in SC2, a real shame how bad arcade is there. I dont need a hundred barely functioning maps that might be deep, Warcraft 3 has a million deep and well working maps.

[@kirktown2046]

@@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi What are you smoking? Sc2 has some of most robust map editing tools of any product and tons of deep maps.

[@tabula_rosa]

people arent not playing other stuff because of direct strike, sc2 is just not as popular as it was 10 years ago.

[@DiaGall]

Moreeeee

[@attention_shopping]

lol never watch mecha but i assume they copied old castle fight

[@tothumn]

pretending to be bad ;D

[@genji7572]

First to like

[@Yuki-qv4fi]

1st

[@Andruccio]

i often get flamed for rushing 4 goldmines, but how is having more gold bad? i often argue with teammates and enemies. and when you prove them all wrong it's "lucky you had a good roll"

[@ShinigamiSamaH]

I'm no expert, but isn't it because the income upgrade take time to recoup, while it is more important to control mid so the whole team get boosted?

[@erlendlarsenholme7515]

@@ShinigamiSamaH I've not played this gamemode, but I've played a lot of similar RTS, auto-battlers etc., and in general investing in gold is only a good idea if your team can support the handicap of your lackluster contribution until you start ramping up. It's a high risk/medium reward, as it'll only actually pay out if your team doesn't fall behind, and aslong as you yourself don't fall behind in other aspects in w/e game/gamemode you're in. And even then it isn't a guranteed win, especially if a core mechanic is RNG.

[@ShinigamiSamaH]

@erlendlarsenholme7515 Yeah, in my limited experience playing this gamemode (mostly in SC2), my takeaway is to pay attention to the field to gauge the teams. Only rush income if your side is winning, and preferably only one person do it at a time. On the other hand, if your direct opponent has no units, likely playing greedy, mean you should start pumping out more stuff to overwhelm them.

[@MrFireBlaze]

you get gold for controlling mid and heroes getting xp can also snowball, by rushing 4gm you completely kill your tempo and can surrender an early tower and many minutes of crucial early mid control, marginalizing the gold lead you may finally get 10 minutes after investing

[@niclasrosin6652]

Mid control gives you gold. Going 4 mines let’s you lose mid and effectively loses your team 3 gold mines while giving the enemy team 3. 4 gold mines takes like 12+ minutes to be worth it so you are guaranteed to lose the early game.

[@ramtintashakkor7311]

you are TERRIBLE at this! items are useless

[@P.sherman45]

lol no views

[@vincentback6496]

Bro fell off

[@valitsemllaluokanavahyvaks3556]

wc3 most mainstream game in the world should have 5million views.